The Romance of the Lace Pillow - Thomas Wright

Publisher : Ruth Bean Publishers; 4th Revised edition (1 Sept. 1982)
ISBN-10 : 090358512X
ISBN-13 : 978-0903585125

The Romance of the Lace Pillow
Thomas Wright was a romantic and his book is unintentionally funny and well worth a read.
It covers the history of lacemaking and for anyone in the East Midlands, has information on the villages involved in the industry along with nursery rhymes based on the lace tells.  One, Two, buckle my shoe ...

What works well?

• Thomas Wright is a 'one-eyed' lace lover who wrote this book and does show favouritism towards certain things (for example, he dismisses Marlowe as a playwright due to his lace of references to lace and lacemaking).  This makes the book very entertaining.

Anything that we need to take into consideration?

• Written in 1919, the language can be a little archaic, but is worth the effort to read.
• This book is  available as a pdf to download