At 02:48 14/12/2005, you wrote:
Could you show a picture of it?
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..............
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.)
Sorry, not right now. I am very, very busy, and don't have time to
search through the lace box. I am pretty sure it is Victorian though
if that helps.
Suzi
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