This is the story of my incredibly resilient, great-great-grandmother from Bedfordshire, England who was part of a centuries-old tradition of making lace by hand.
Sources:
I’m pretty sure everything you’d ever want to know about lacemaking history is here:
https://laceincontext.com/tag/bedfordshire/
The Romance of the Lace Pillow, by Thomas Wright (it’s free!)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924014557122
The intro music is Stay Quiet by Monplaisir and the outro is Pine Apple Rag by Scott Joplin.
Thanks for listening!
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Danielle, I love your site! What an inspiration to so many who are thinking of tracing their own family lineage. Your photos and background stories give light to a long gone era x