I have to regard with mixed feelings the fate of these "lacemakers" who were expelled from France and then encouraged to go to Australia. These were people who did not sit at the lace pillow plying bobbins, or making a fabric composed of buttonhole stitches. Instead these are the people who displaced the people who performed the activity that we enjoy. Are we not loyal to the memory of the hand lacemakers, the actual Luddites, who rose up in Nottingham to destroy the lacemaking machines? Devon
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