I do a lot of needle lace, but have never "buffed" any of it; nor have either of my needle lace teachers (Nenia L and Cathy B) ever mentioned it. But I think that in the great days of Alen�on, when the work was split up into separate operations done by separate individuals, there was such a process. This is what Mrs. Palliser has to say about it: ". . . an ordinary pair of men's ruffles would be divided into ten pieces . . . a steel instrument, called aficot, is passed into each flower, to polish it, and remove any inequalities in its surface. The more primitive lobster's claw was used. . . for the same purpose." The worker who did this polishing was called the "aficoteuse."
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