At 04:04 AM 1/29/2009, Avital wrote:
It looks like South American/Mexican drawn work to me. Is that
possible? Is Alex Stillwell on lace chat? She would probably know.
Avital
I don't think the pulled thread work has enough distinctive points to
identify it by locale. It's pretty generic drawn thread
embroidery. This is the sort of work that Ramona (in the novel
Ramona about a Spanish girl who fell in love with an Indian man and
married him) made her living with. This kind of needle work as
plentiful during the mid 1800s.
Patty
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tamara P Duvall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:39, Lois Mackin wrote:
>
>> I would like to know if anyone can identify the design. Is it American? Is
>> it Polish? Is it Lithuanian? Can anyone suggest a date?
>
> Probably not Polish. I don't know much about Polish embroidery but,
> according to the book I have (Polski haft ludowy -- Polish Folk
Embroidery),
> what little of pulled-thread embroidery there was, seemed to have been done
> in the western and central parts of Poland, not in the eastern part. And it
> was mostly floral, rather than geometric, the way your piece is.
>
> But I can't say for certain-sure; negative evidence is always less
> illuminating than positive evidence. It's not in the book, but does it mean
> it wasn't made, or that none srvived (the book deals with costumes, rather
> than home furnishings), or that the author didn't come accross
any examples?
> --
> Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
> Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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