Editing Lace (section)

=== America ===
American colonists of both British and Dutch origins strove to acquire lace accessories such as caps, ruffs, and other neckwear, and handkerchiefs. American women who afford lace textiles were also able to afford aprons and dresses trimmed with the technique or made only from lace. Because of sumptuary laws, such as one in Massachusetts in 1634, American citizens were not allowed to own or make their lace textiles. Sumptuary laws prevented spending on extravagance and luxury and classified who could own or make lace.  This indicates that lace was being made in that colony at the time.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Weissman|first=Judith Reiter|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29315818|title=Labors of love : America's textiles and needlework, 1650-1930|date=1994|publisher=Wings Books|others=Wendy Lavitt|isbn=0-517-10136-X|location=New York|oclc=29315818}}</ref>{{Rp|187–189}} Lacemaking was being taught in boarding schools by the mid 1700s, and newspaper advertisements starting in the early 1700s offered to teach the technique.{{Rp|192}}<ref name=":4" /> Also in the 18th century, [[Ipswich, Massachusetts|Ipswich]], Massachusetts had become the only place in America known for producing handmade lace. By 1790, women in Ipswich, who were primarily from the [[Midlands|British Midlands]], were making 42,000 yards of silk bobbin lace intended for trimmings.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|189–190}} [[George Washington]] reportedly purchased [[Ipswich lace|Ipswich Lace]] on a trip to the region in 1789.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Philbrick |first=Nathaniel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237806867 |title=Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy |date=2021 |isbn=978-0-525-56217-7 |location=[New York, New York] |oclc=1237806867}}</ref> Machines to make lace began to be smuggled into the country in the early 1800s, as England did not permit these machines to be exported. The first lacemaking factory opened in [[Medway, Massachusetts]] in 1818. Ipswich had its own in 1824. The women there moved from making bobbin lace to decorating the machine-made net lace with darning and tambour stitches, creating what is known as [[Limerick lace]].<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|190}}

Lace was still much in demand in the 19th century. Lace trimmings on dresses, at seams, pockets, and collars were very popular. The lace being made in the United States was based on European patterns. By the turn of the 20th century, needlework and other magazines included lace patterns of a range of types.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|195}}

In North America in the 19th century, [[missionaries]] spread the knowledge of lace making to the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribes.<ref>{{cite web|date=1 August 2013|title=Indian Lace|url=http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/IndianLace.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801221656/http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/IndianLace.html|archive-date=1 August 2013}}</ref> [[Sibyl Carter]], an Episcopalian missionary, began to teach lacemaking to [[Ojibwe|Ojibwa]] women in Minnesota in 1890. Classes were being held for members of many tribes throughout the US by the first decade of the 1900s<ref name=":4" /> St. [[John Francis Regis]] guided many women out of prostitution by establishing them in the lace making and [[embroidery]] trade, which is why he became the [[Patron Saint]] of lace making.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Society of Jesus Celebrates Feast of St. John Francis Regis, SJ|url=http://jesuits.org/news-detail?tn=news-20160615021646|access-date=2017-05-08|website=jesuits.org|archive-date=27 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627152046/http://jesuits.org/news-detail?tn=news-20160615021646|url-status=dead}}</ref>