I have sent Nancy and Lorelei some photos that I took that I can only share privately for study purposes. (Anyone else?) They show rather elaborate tally grounds such as I associate with Honiton. This falls into the category of something I never thought about before. But, when did tally grounds, by which I mean lots of square tallies, in a ground like arrangement with other stitches, first start to appear? Can we put a date on it? It is sort of hard to tell from Levey if, for instance, the Benediction Veil dated 1716 in plate 318 might have tally grounds, because like these pieces, they appear to be square, like five hole grounds in an overall picture. To Nancyâs point that point dâAngleterre applies to two different laces in different eras, it is sort of the case with Brussels bobbin lace as well. I was reading the introduction to the 2004 book by Claire Browne about lace in the V & A in order to observe her use of terminology and, although she is trying to adopt the âBrussels bobbin laceâ nomenclature for âpoint dâAngleterreâ at one point she has to start differentiating between the Brussels part lace and the Brussels application lace when comparing it to a different lace. One problem is that they made everything in Brussels. In fact you might call Duchesse Brussels bobbin lace. Devon
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