This is an interesting lace - thank you for putting up the photo. I agree with
you that it is a nice little design. It doesn’t look like what I would expect
from the description in Caulfield’s Dictionary of Needlework - the pattern
isn’t poor, it’s not geometrical, and not filled with thick stitches. It does
look like the lacemaker has just substituted a chenille thread for the usual
smooth gimp - if a smooth gimp were used then it would look to me very like the
samples in the Ipswich lace book.
Adele
West Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
>
> If anyone is interested I have added a second picture to my flickr page of
> another sample from the same collection.
> On the reverse the lace is identified as 'Old French Chenille Blonde'.
> According to Caulfield's Dictionary of Needlework Chenille Lace is "A
> peculiar kind of Lace made during the eighteenth century in France. The
> ground of this lace was silk honeycomb Reseau; the patterns were poor, and
> chiefly geometrical, filled with thick stitches, and outlined with fine white
> Chenille." Actually I think it is quite a nice little design. I seem to
> recall it is mentioned in the book by Mrs Palliser but my copy escapes me at
> the moment.
>
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