If it is Bedfordshire, not Maltese or Cluny, then the earliest date is
likely to be 1852, as its development from Bucks came from inspiration
from these laces at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851, as
the designs were quicker to work and harder for the machines to copy.
Cluny can be very similar, and of course can be older. Check the way the
pairs go in and out of the trails to do the plaits and tallies - Beds
trails carry passive pairs that go in and out of the trail, keeping the
trail workers to work back and forth, but Cluny swaps the trail workers
into the plaits. The effect in Beds is to give a 3D look, similar to
raised Honiton, which it also attempted to copy. Maltese was then, I
believe, always worked in silk (unless Karen knows different?) as rayon
wasn't introduced in a stable form until the early 20th Century, but
doesn't always have the identifying cross motif.
In message <20131018144829.6022d1f...@mail1.panix.com>, David C COLLYER
<dccoll...@ncable.net.au> writes
I was wondering whether anyone could offer an age and place of origin
for such a piece. It could well have come out to Australia on the ship
in the mid 1800s for all the owner knows.
thanks
David in Ballarat, AUS
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Jane Partridge
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