Autograph Letter Signed "Evelyn Bradshaw", Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework, to a male member of the Wrench family of Nottingham (unnamed) about lacework.

Author: 
Evelyn Bradshaw, Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework
Evelyn Bradshaw, Principal of the Royal School of Art Needlework, ALS
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[Printed] Royal School of Art Needlework, Exhibition Road, SW, 21 June 1917
£85.00
SKU: 9432

Four pages, 12mo, good condition. She has made "enquiries about a lace cushion & find we have a good one with 2 doz bobbins & pins . . . & this I could let the girl you are interested in have for 8/6d . . . I was much interested to see the photographs of your old lace - & the wrist ruffles are very valuable . . . I would have pleasure in putting the pieces in a special case for you - & making a little Georgian Exhibition. I enclose a pattern of the finest thread I can obtain today, & trust it is what you are looking for." Enclosed: photographs of 2 lace ruffles, one page c.22 x 16cm, folded, pencil note on reverse, "Worn by Geo III wrist ruffles". From the Wrench family papers.