On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 03:48 AM, Devon wrote:
I wonder if there is any way to tell from a piece of lace if it was made withMany years ago a lacemaking friend, who had learned her lacemaking from an elderly relative, said that she had been told that Bucks lace *does* have a right and a wrong side. The right side is face up as it is worked and the gimps are more prominent on the right side. So if you have a design which has gimps which start and finish so that you can determine the direction in which it was worked *and* if the lace hasn't been washed to reduce the prominence of the gimps on the right side, then theoretically you can determine on which side the foot edge was made.
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.
Brenda
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