Lace by Sheila A Mason BA FRSA

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Published sources: Books

Blackner, John, The History of Nottingham (Nottingham: Sutton, 1815)

Clark, W.A. Graham, Lace Industry in England and France (Washington: Department of Commerce and Labor, 1909)

Ferguson fils, S., Histoire du Tulle et des Dentelles Mecaniques en Angleterre et en France (Paris: Lacroix, 1862)

Pat Earnshaw, Lace Machines and Machine Laces (Guildford: Gorse Publications, 1995) 2 volumes

Pat Earnshaw, How to recognise Machine Laces (Guildford: Gorse Publications, 1995)

Felkin, William, A History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures (London: Longman, Green, 1867)

Henson, Gravenor, Henson’s History of the Framework Knitters, (Newton Abbot: David & Charles reprints, 1970)

Mason,  Sheila A,  Nottingham Lace: 1760s – 1950s, (Ilkeston, Cluny Lace, revised 2010)

Mason, Sheila A, The History of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters, (Leicester, WCFWK, 2000)

Palliser, Mrs Bury, History of Lace, reprint of 4th ed of 1911 (New York: Dover Publications, 1984)

Pollard, Ernest, Pollards of Beeston: A century of lace making (Cranbrook, Kent: Ladoga, 2006)

Reisfeld A, The History of Warp Knit Arts and Trades (The American Society of Knitting Technologies, 1999)

Bill Rowe, The Battle of Britain in Lace, (Rowe, Kent, Revised edition 2011))

Published Sources:  Journals

Hosiery Trade Journal: W. Rainsford Evans, “Raschel in the Nottingham Lace Industry” (December, 1973,) pp. 111-13

Journal of the Textile Institute: James L. Litchfield, “Machine-made lace industry with particular reference to Empire Trade,” 15 no. 5 (1924), pp. 438-42

Nottingham Industrial Archaeology Society Journal: Geoffrey Oldfield, “The Lace Market”, 8 (1983) 3-7, 9 (1983 & 1984), pp. 13-17, 4-6, 11 (1985), pp 4-5:  Sheila A Mason, “Machine-made lace in Beeston, Part I”, 10 (1984, pp 2-9, Part II, 10 (1985) pp 1-19

Textile Recorder: “British Lace Industry”, (15 May 1923), pp78-81

Transactions of the Thoroton Society: Sheila A. Mason, “Tobacco and Lace: the Growth of John Player and sons, 1881-1903,” 85 (1981) pp 102-10

Official Documents – Government

Board of Trade,  Safeguarding Industries, Report of Lace and Embroidery Committee (London, HMSO, 1925

Board of Trade, Working Party Reports: Lace (London, HMSO, 1947)

Official Documents – Local

Arbitration in the Lace Curtain Trade: Case heard before Henry Crompton... April 11&12 1877

Nottingham Lace Trades Arbitration Proceedings and Award of G R Askwith, Esq., (Nottingham, Forman, 1905)