I wouldn't get hung up on the "wavy braid," "waved braid," etc. versus
"rickrack" terms. I used "rickrack" because it is a term most people
recognize now and is used in the titles of many 20th-century booklets on
rickrack crochet.
The Victorians happily called a wide variety of shapes "wavy braid," or
just "fancy braid," from the mildly serpentine to the pointy. They
showed you a picture of the tatted-and-braid jabot, or whatever, you
were supposed to make and left it to you to either buy braid that looked
exactly like it or buy some other braid with somewhat different waves
and adapt the pattern to it as necessary.
Fashion terminology is often neither precise nor consistent.
Fran
Lavolta Press
http://www.lavoltapress.com
Mia Dappert wrote:
I'm not at home and can' look at my back issues, but....
Didn't Pieceworks magazine have an article on rick rack a while back?
(Huh...rick/rack/back)
I Seem to recal that it was a history of rick rack and I think they might have
addressed that rick rack/wavy braid difference and shewn at least an example of
the sewn together stuff.
But don't depend on my memory....
Mia in CHarlotte, NC, where they are making her actually work this week
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