Devon's search for information on Point de Venise highlights the difficulty of trusting sources of information. I have been reading a book by Kay Staniland 'In Royal Fashion' looking for info. on Victoria's Coronation Dress. In the course of it I came across the note, " Much of the lace, like Queen Victoria's wedding lace was made using fine white linen thread . . ."
This brought me up short. I knew the Honiton motifs were mounted on machine made cotton net, but had assumed the lace was cotton as well. I dug out my copy of the booklet on the wedding dress and lace written by Santina Levey and Kay Staniland. Here it says "The applied Honiton bobbin lace is worked with fine cotton thread and is of a high standard technically." The book by Elsie Luxton and Yusai Fukuyama 'Royal Honiton Lace' agrees with this. Who is right? I believe that K. Staniland is the costume expert while Santina is the Lace expert. Could this be a mistake on the part of the costume book makers and checker?
It certainly highlights the need to check more than one source for information.
On a related topic I am now trying to find out when cotton began to replace linen in such laces as Hontion. I have Earnshaws 'Threads of Lace' and will see what she says when I have time to trawl through it.
Jean in Cleveland U.K.
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