'Middlemen in the Bedfordshire lace industry' in Worthington George Smith and Other Studies Presented to Joyce Godber
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- Author(s) Buck, Anne
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1978
- Pages pp31-58
- Publisher Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
- Place Published Bedford
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Intelligent and well referenced account of the lace industry in Bedfordshire and district covering the emergence of lace buyers, selling process, travelling lacemen, foreign competition, Lace Association, export trade, relationship of lace makers and lace buyers, decline of industry, etc. From 17th century