This book came to my attention after a tour with the City of Boston Archaeologist, Joe Bagley. He remembered that BU professor Mary Beaudry had talked about “finding” a bobbin in a dig in our New England region. It turns out this was a dig in Newbury MA, where Ipswich Lace production would have been underway. A chapter on lace production and historical context includes the photo of the bobbin fragment found in Newbury and some of the Ipswich lace story.
In addition, Beaudry references the probate record of Jane Partridge Gaines that includes “bonelass” and a “pinn coshen” which suggests she was making lace in the early colonial period of Puritan Massachusetts. It therefore localizes lacemaking in early Massachusetts.
This is a used and excellent copy of this book.
ISBN-13: 9780300110937
ISBN-10: 0300110936
Ships only in the US by Media Mail.
This book came to my attention after a tour with the City of Boston Archaeologist, Joe Bagley. He remembered that BU professor Mary Beaudry had talked about “finding” a bobbin in a dig in our New England region. It turns out this was a dig in Newbury MA, where Ipswich Lace production would have been underway. A chapter on lace production and historical context includes the photo of the bobbin fragment found in Newbury and some of the Ipswich lace story.
In addition, Beaudry references the probate record of Jane Partridge Gaines that includes “bonelass” and a “pinn coshen” which suggests she was making lace in the early colonial period of Puritan Massachusetts. It therefore localizes lacemaking in early Massachusetts.
This is a used and excellent copy of this book.
ISBN-13: 9780300110937
ISBN-10: 0300110936
Ships only in the US by Media Mail.
