The Lace-makers: A Versatile Skill
During the Second World War, machinists and others who worked in the lace factories were deployed to areas around England to help manufacture parachutes. The lace-makers’ skills in cutting, sewing and finishing curtains were now used to fashion reams of silk, later nylon, into the umbrella-like chutes that would drop me…
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