books.google.es - In its lace making heyday in the late eighteenth century, Ipswich, Massachusetts boasted 600 lace makers in a town of only 601 households. George Washington himself, a lace afficionado, paid a visit to Ipswich in 1789 to support its extraordinary domestic textile industry. While most research on lace...http://books.google.es/books/about/The_Laces_of_Ipswich.html?id=taavyQa65oAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Laces of Ipswich
