Plate 91.
Figure 1 (at top). Knitted lace from a pillow case. A great deal of this kind of lace has been made in the United States for trimming underwear and bed linen. This specimen was made by Mrs. Wilson Tingley White, born April 15, 1838. She married at nineteen and lived in Cumberland, Rhode Island, until her husband’s death in 1918. This piece of lace she made in 1909. It is owned by her daughter, Mrs. Charles William Follett, of North Attleborough, Massachusetts, at whose home Mrs. White died December 25, 1923.
Figure 2. Lace made on a pillow with bobbins by a California Indian girl. Given to the Litchfield Historical Society by Miss Edith Beach.
Figure 3. Insertion from one of a pair of pillow-biers (the early name of pillow-cases). Once owned by Sarah Chedsey, born 1670, daughter of John Chedsey, deacon of First Congregational Church of New Haven, Connecticut, 1675–1688. The pillow-cases are marked S. C. She probably made both lace and pillow-cases, but there is no further proof than that they bore her initials and were cherished and handed down carefully through a series of Sarahs, as follows:
Sarah Chedsey, who married Samuel Alling;
Sarah Alling, who married David Punderson;
David Punderson, who married Thankful Todd;
Sarah Punderson, who married Zechariah Thompson;
Sarah Thompson, who married General John Hubbard (See Plate 20, Figure 2);
Sarah Thompson, who was a niece of Sarah Hubbard;
Sarah Thompson, who was a niece of Sarah E. Thompson;
Esther H. Thompson, who gave this lace to the Litchfield Historical Society.