12 MARCH 1859, Page 10

THE LACE TRADE.

The prevailing fashion favouring the use of lace has considerably stimulated the Honiton trade. The high art bestowed upon this lace in design and care in manufacture, over that brought to bear upon the lace made in the Buckingham district, has placed it the first of all produc- tions of the lace pillow in England, and it is only to be regretted that the same attention in producing the article is not considered as needful by the manufacturers in Buckinghamshire as in Devon, the capabilities of both classes of lace makers being the same.

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