Bedfordshire lace
Bedfordshire lace was a type of bobbin lace characteristic of Bedfordshire, with flowing lines and picots.
Lace-makers from Flanders settled in Bedfordshire as early as the 16th-century. By the mid-18th-century Newport Pagnell was a centre of Bedfordshire lace production.[1]
References
- ^ John Fleming; Hugh Honour (1977). "Bedfordshire lace". The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. Allen Lane. p. 70.
External links
- Lacemaking in Bedfordshire - Introduction
- A Brief History of Bedfordshire Lace
- David Ross, Bedfordshire History - Lace Making, britainexpress.com
- Examples of Bedfordshire lace at the Cowper and Newton Museum
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