A Devonshire lace-maker
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A Devonshire lace-maker
Lace-making was a typical cottage industry and could be carried out independently by women in their homes. The woman in the picture sits by the hearth in a cottage with a bolster-style pillow firmly stuffed with straw on her lap. She is interweaving bobbins in order to produce the lace. Lace-makers earned comparatively good wages, but only by working up to twelve hours a day, and consequently suffering poor health
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© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
1878 Bobbins Bolster Carried Cottage Devonshire Earned Firmly Good Health Hearth Homes Hours Lace Maker Makers Order Pillow Poor Produce Sits Straw Stuffed Suffering Twelve Typical Wages
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