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Memorials of Old Devonshire

Note 26 — HONITON LACE. By Miss Alice Dryden.

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Mrs. Treadwin in her younger days saw some twenty-four men lace makers in Woodbury, one of whom had worked at his pillow so late as 1820. From being taught as boys, the sailors used to employ themselves in the winter making some of the coarse laces.

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