Janus: Lace pattern book and album of tracings

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.6011-6088	Cambridgeshire: Inclosure and Turnpike Trust Papers
MS Add.6089-6090	Lace pattern book and album of tracings
MS Add.6091	Catalogue of Ancient British Coins
MS Add.6092	Histon, Cambridgeshire: Terrier
MS Add.6093	Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury: Letters to Michael Aynsworth
MS Add.6094-6144	George Chawner: Papers
MS Add.61	Gyorgy Enyedi: Explicationes locorum veteris e novi tetimenti ex quibus trinitatis dogma stabiliri solet
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Lace pattern book and album of tracings

Title	Lace pattern book and album of tracings
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.6089-6090
Creator	Trevor family of Tingrith, Bedfordshire
Covering Dates	1820–1825 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	2 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Bequeathed by E. Atkinson, 1915.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Lace pattern book and album of tracings, MS Add.6089-6090

Index Terms

Lace

Lace Manufacture

Manuscripts/MS Add.6089-6090 contains:

MS Add.6089

Lace Pattern Book. The patterns are drawn on odd sheets of paper, mainly pasted into the volume, but with some loose at the end. Several of the patterns are on letters or circulars addressed to the Trevor family of Tingrith, Bedfordshire. According to the V.C.H., Bedfordshire, III, p. 435, there was formerly a 'small industry of lace and straw plait' in Tingrith, suggesting that the patterns may have been in local use. They do not appear to be lacemakers' working patterns, but tracings from existing pieces of lace, and are possibly a lady's collection rather than a lacemaker's collection. Fos 16-20r and 21v-24 are blank.
1 volume.

1825

MS Add.6090

Album of Tracings. A series of tracings from printed books on Etruscan vases and other illustrated sources, with inscriptions, 48 folios. Inside the front cover: 'The Misses Trevor. Tingrith. 1820'. Fos 7-48 are blank.
1 volume.

1820