Dear Sharon, Yes, I have read this as well. Actually when I was researching my article on English lace history for the Met timeline I came across several early 19th-century references to lacemakers as being opium addicts whose children rarely made it out of childhood. This was of course when machines had begun to take their jobs. Heartbreaking.
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