The beautiful piece of hair lace in the collection of Northampton Museums is
needle lace and is in varying shades of blonde and light brown - we were
lucky to be able to display it in the expo in 1999.
Some years ago someone asked if I could make a piece of lace from horse
hair. They supplied hair from a horses tail and I attempted what turned out
to be a very short piece of torchon!! It was very brittle - either from a
very old tail or a very old horse ;o)
Diana in Northants
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There's also a piece in the Northampton Museum and Margaret Tite has a
piece in her collection. They're both beautiful, especially since they
use blonde, brown, and black hair.
On 4 Nov 2008, at 23:26, Brian Lemin wrote:
When I was "studying" for a few days at the Luton Museum, the then
curator brought me a piece of human hair lace to see. It was a veil to
a hat. I never thought to photograph it, but it remains a fortunate
memory of mine.
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot
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