straw-plait

• “The prison consists of three distinct portions: one allotted for carrying on the bread and linen departments: a second for the detention of female criminals before conviction, or for short terms of imprisonment; and in this various light manufactures, such as the making of baskets, straw-plait, and the red phosphorus-match boxes, are carried on: the third is an hospital and house of detention for the prostitutes of the capital.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.

• “Aloe-thread was then used for lace-making, as it is now in Florence for sewing straw-plait.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866

• “The straw-plait industry was introduced in the reign of George I., and formerly gave employment to a large number of the population.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “In the following July (1811) the West Norfolks proceeded to Colchester via Norfolk, after fifteen months of prison duty and straw-plait destroying. {13b} Captain Borrow betook himself to East Dereham again to seek for likely recruits.”

  The Life of George Borrow

• “Tring was formerly a considerable centre of the straw-plait industry, which is still pursued to a less extent.”

  Hertfordshire

• “Borrow's description of the hardships of the prisoners has been called in question by a later writer, Arthur Brown, [24] who denies the story of bad food and 'straw-plait hunts,' and charges Borrow with recklessness of statement.”

  George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends

• “Luton perform much more difficult feats in weaving straw-plait for bonnets than any bird accomplishes.”

  Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

• “A large standing-screen, of fine straw-plait work, in elegant devices, partitioned off one part of the room; and on the opposite side, as mere ornaments, were placed a number of brass grapnels and small models of cows, made in iron for his amusement by the Arabs at Kufro.”

  The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

• “And then, those visits, or rather ruthless inroads, called in the slang of the place "straw-plait hunts," when in pursuit of”

  Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest

• “As if a woman's eyes couldn't see through straw-plait! ”

  Vittoria — Complete

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