Many lace bobbins have a story to tell and these five are
all concerned with love and romance. You can envisage a young man giving his girlfriend
a bobbin inscribed ‘Love give me a kiss’ or even ‘Kiss me quick my lovely
darling’. But you wonder what has upset the romance when you see ‘Love don’t be
falces [false}’ inscribed on a bobbin. And ‘Wright [write] my altard [altered]
true love’ brings to mind images of a lacemaker working at her pillow and
expecting a letter from her boyfriend in the army or navy, which never comes.
Let’s hope she eventually received a love letter from her absent true love. And
what about the lacemaker who declares ‘I wants a husband’ – let’s hope she wasn’t
disappointed when she found one!
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