It could be very primitive crochet, or something else. There are certainly none of the usual crochet stitches (doubles, trebles etc), only chains. To my eye it looks like it has been worked horizontally (ie parallel to the skirt edges. Those two vertical lines are the top and bottom of the narrow strips and extra loops have been worked on the outside. I can't quite see what is going on with the edges though - I think there's chenille thread covering them, and there is some kind of wierd ruffly bit near the bottom of the petticoat which does not look like crochet at all.
Claire > Message: 10 > Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 18:20:59 -0700 (PDT) > From: Ann Catelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] crochet 18th C > To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > If it is mesh crochet, then the base chain has 5-6 chains between slip > stitches, and the loops are 9 sts long; second and third rows are slip > stitched to the fifth stitch in the previous row's loop. > > It is possible that chain stitch was stitched with a needle to make 5 > stitch at the base chain and 9 stitch loops, rather than slip stitching. > Or we could be witnessing the early use of actual crochet as a separate > craft, not just tambour embroidery. > > Ann in CT > > --- Lynn Downward wrote: > >> Wow, that looks exactly like a mesh crochet stitch. >> I would never have thought of it for something that early. >> Are we agreeing >> that since it's basically a chain stitch attached here >> and there, it's more >> than possible that this is really what we're looking at >> this early in the history of crochet? >> >> LynnD >> >> Katy Bishop wrote: >> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
