This thread prompted me to pull out my copy of the OIDFA PG Lace Study. Among other things, it's a very visual presentation of information (I happen to like that more than verbal, where lace is concerned...) and I was struck with the fact that the vast majority of PG laces (including Downton) have their footside on the left, while only Bucks, Malmesbury, and Pecna Cipka (Tamara?) have it on the right. So those of us who are trained from an English perspective are learning the "exception", rather than the rule.
I have been working with T�nder lace for some time now, and it has the footside on the left. I have a feeling that it would feel peculiar to go to Bucks again after all this time!! And the footside is the easy part!! I can't imagine how my picots would look on the left!! But Devon's question had to do with determining how a lace was made, once it is no longer on the pillow. I would imagine that the only way would be to find those tell-tale (but hard to see...) places where threads were joined... adding in, throwing out... all done on the "back" side. So theoretically, the knots (if there were any...) or "bridges" would only be visible on the back. "Eyelashes" could be seen from either side, I imagine. Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Eng. footside on left? > I wonder if there is any way to tell from a piece of lace if it was made with > the footside on the right or on the left. I would think this would be > particularly hard with the Bucks type laces that these were. > In a private e-mal someone has told me that Downton lace was made with the > foot side on the left. > Devon > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
