Lace: a history of

Lace; it's origins and history.


It's hard to believe but an innocuous doilie, now much derided by the fashion police would have been on a par with something like cocaine today but far more expensive. Much sought after and using any means to obtain it no matter how illegal. So smuggling was rife, resorting to putting lace in coffins alongside the corpses, even dismembering them to make more room for the lace. Aristo's weren't beyond a bit of muff-stuffing either – no changes there.