My first thought about Devon's lace was "that's Beveren lace." The lace does have large holes like Tonder, but it also has cloth stitch flowers with large central holes much like Beveren. Beveren lace also has a straight headside like Devon's lace. For those of you interested in large holes in Point Ground, In addition to Bobbi's book, there are five variations of point ground holes in Ulrike Voelcker's Grammar of Point Ground, p. 119.
In this lace, the two fillings in the large oval shapes (I could not clearly see the oval with the tallies) are very unusual. Beveren fillings generally include honeycomb and snowflakes. There is honeycomb in some of the smaller motifs but I couldn't find information on the fillings in the large ovals. I went through various filling and ground books with no luck. The four- and six-petal half-stitch flowers are also atypical of either Tonder or Beveren. The method of working the flower petals is more like French point ground laces. Bobbi - correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you see much half stitch in Tonder?? Like Bobbi, I also think this is a mixed-techniques lace. I think maybe they were making lace for one of the traditional caps worn in Holland, Belgium or France, and they designed the lace with a variety of techniques that they knew or wanted to try. (See the OIDFA study on Dutch Folk costumes that also documents Beveren lace techniques-Kant aan de mutsen van Zuid-Beveland) This is a very interesting piece of point ground lace. Jo Ann Jo Ann Eurell Palm Coast, FL Email: jeure...@hotmail.com<mailto:jeure...@hotmail.com> - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
