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Geraldton Historical Society inc. > Records

Intricate Lacemaker

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Women once used lacemakers such as this one to fashion wonderfully intricate lace as fashion extras or doilies. With infinite patience and steady hands they’d transform yarn or thread into material works of art.

It makes you wonder what hands once worked upon this particular lace maker, and what laceworks they produced.

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cwa-org-195-Item1

Geraldton Historical Society inc.

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