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The art of lace-making is being kept alive at Honiton in East Devon, where the lace industry once employed hundreds of people. Centuries after Honiton lace became famous, young people in the town are ...

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...

Dorothy Morgan of Forney (from left), Marilyn Waisanen of Dallas and Stacy Tackett of Richardson work on lace projects during the Dallas Lace Society’s weekly meeting. Vernon Bryant - Staff ...

Only few people know the thrill of seeing their artwork on a U.S. postage stamp. Trenna Ruffner, a bobbin lace maker who lives in Grosse Pointe Park, happens to be among that relatively small number ...

The making of lace is one of those things that almost defies belief. The eyesight, the patience and the steady hands that are required almost seem beyond the ken of mere mortals, and the results can ...

Samples of lace made in Ipswich, Massachusetts, were obtained in the course of the first U.S. Census, in 1789, and stored among the papers of Alexander Hamilton, who had been charged with taking the ...

KONIAKOW, Poland — Wiesława Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her family as part of a long tradition in their little mountain ...