Re: [lace] Old French Chenille Blonde lace sample

[Diana Smith]

When I  think of chenille it immediately reminds me of the chenille table cloth 
used by me grandmother! 

Diana

> On 11 Aug 2017, at 18:42, Adele Shaak  wrote:
> 
> 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)

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Re: [lace] Old French Chenille Blonde lace sample

[Adele Shaak]

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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