That's exactly what I feel about laces especialy what is called Guipure-lace.
When I visited Binche about 5 years ago a fsaw in the museum there (it is not a lace museum it is about Carneval but very interesting) an article from M. Risselin- Steenebrugen, when I am not wrong about the name, in which she explained why Binche-lace is called so. They found on such a binche- Carneval-dress at the bottom of the trousers such a piece of lace and so gave the whole group this name. Unfortenatly they haven't another sheet of this and because it was in a box they couldn't make a copie for me.
I learn all this Flemish laces (Valenciennes, Flandres, Point de Paris and Binche) by Annemarie Verbeke and that means not only the practical side, but before the designing of them all. And then you see how they have become their special face during the time. And the highest one is Binche which has nearly all elements in it but no grid any more. And how it come from a lace who look a bit wild till the Point de Fee.
I am sorry but I think my english isn't well enough to explain all the details. But as more laces you could examine the more you see how it has changed during the time. And on Lorelei's site you find also good examples.
Greetings from a still grey but dry Hamburg in Germany
Ilske
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