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Description: | Handkerchief, fine white cottons square with Bedfordshire. Lace forms a scalloped edge with larger design including wheat ears, at corners, where the square has been cut away. Paper label sewn to one corner with printed picture of lace-maker and the words "Home-made lace - this lace is made at home by the village women in the same way as it used to be done in Queen Catherine of Aragon's time - when tradition says introduced the industry into England in 1500." Written in pencil "Crescent Design".
Size: 18 x 17.5 + 3 cm lace. | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 536 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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