Thanks Adele! Since I don’t know much about point ground, your excellent
analogy is very comforting. Funny that you should mention Tonder as I saw other
features that were suspiciously similar to “gimp fingers”. Sheesh! Time to
move on & enjoy the patterns that speak to me. It will be a
Arguably, a bigger differentiator is what year you are talking about.
Sometimes motifs are big, sometimes motifs are small depending on the fashion.
They were all trying to create what was fashionable at that time rather than
something that looked distinctly like the lace of the town.
But, if
I always think it’s a little like cooking: Seven people make Irish Stew. This
one cuts her carrots crosswise into buttons, that one quarters her carrots and
cuts them into chunks. Everybody’s potatoes look a little different. This one
leaves out one ingredient. That one likes to put in plenty
What differentiates one from another?! To prepare for some lace study visits, I
am making samples of Bucks, Devon Trolly, Downton & Malmesbury plus a few items
from the Luton Museum lace dealer’s pattern book. As I was leafing thru several
books, I stopped dead in my tracks. Some patterns
