Broken to the trade: French lacemakers' tools as sources of pride and pain
Thousands of women worked as lacemakers in nineteenth-century France on a ‘putting-out’ basis. Their tools—pillow, bobbins, pins—were cheap or easy to make, but held emotional and symbolic connotations, both for lacemakers and for the connoisseurs and philanthropists who protected the trade from mec...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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