Could you show a picture of it?
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From: "Suzi Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: blonde lace question
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"
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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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