It looks like a rayon chemical lace, where the embroidery is done on cloth then the cloth is eaten away by chemicals leaving the embroidered lace pattern. Chemical lace techniques achieved very good imitations of handmade lace styles in the 19th century.
I can't place what type of lace this style is trying to replicate, if any, but the feel is late 19th early 20th century to me, with a crochet or tatted feel. One of my favorite lace identification books is Guide to lace and Linens by Elizabeth M. Kurella, isbn 0-930625-89-7 (1989). It is very well organized, with lots of pictures, and has sections on stitches, parts of lace and names. And also anything by Pat Earnshaw. Katy On 4/2/06, Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what kind of lace this is? > > www.reddawn.net/temp/lace.jpg > > > I looked in my book on the history of lace, but all the pictures started > to look alike to me. :( > > > > Dawn > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
