At 14:03 13/12/2005, you wrote:
Hi
I have not seen many real mens shirt on displays and things, so my
knolledge i know is from studying portraits.
Most of the lace i have seen used, has ben white lace, that has the
same colour as the white linen. A Blonde Lace was .........well
blonde in colour, and i think it is rarely used for mens shirts. I
have read somewhere, that Blonde Lace was Marie Antoinettes
favourite lace, but i think it was used for trimmings on dresses..............
Bjarne
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mia Dappert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Re: blonde lace question
This is for anyone18c and lace oriented folks, but I'm addressing
it to Bjarne as he is most familiar with the high style
Has anyone seen blonde used on men's 18c shirts. I'm talking
about the silk lace, very fine and beautiful, sometimes in an off
white color. The exhibit I was at at the Mint Museum in
Charlotte, NC had a late-ish 1700s black velvet mens suit and they
had it displayed with some reproduction blonde frills/ruffles at
the wrists and neck. I would have gone with a very fine white
linnen myself (that $40+ a yard stuff that I can't find here in North Carolina)
"Type of bobbin lace made in the 18th and 19th centuries from raw
silk, which was usually a pale straw colour, but later black or
white. It was very popular as a dress trimming, especially in the
early 19th century, and some embroideries on the dresses of that time
are worked i a pale straw coloured silk which resembles blonde."
"The Needleworker's Dictionary" by Pamela Clabburn
Suzi
(I have some black blonde, as well as the straw coloured sort.)
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