Alice, Yes, I think you are correct, my Dictionary of Lace by Pat Earnshaw says:- Battenburg, a form of renaissance lace, giving the appearance of a floppy edging made up of big loops of tape caught together by 'spiders' or by tenuously twisted braids. It was used for the borders of afternoon teacloths around 1900 and was a favourite pastime in the USA.
Sue M. Harvey Norfolk UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark, aka Tatman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Battenberg Lace > At 06:33 AM 9/20/2004, you wrote: > >Hello, I hope that you can help me. I have been trying to find out when > >Battenberg Lace came to America. I am in a Civil War Re-enactment group > >and would like a parasol made of Battenberg Lace, but not sure if it was in > >America in 1860. > > > I think the answer is No. The book :Battenberg and Other Tape laces", > printed by Butterick Publishing in 1988 is a reprint of "Modern Lace > Making" by Sara Hadley in 1901. > > Sara starts out by saying" Modern lace as illustrated throughout this book > is of recent origin....." Butterick adds a note that this form of lace > was from the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth > century. From this I conclude that the Battenberg form of lace was > developed well after the 1860's. The printer says that Sara herself > developed the Royal Battenberg style of lace. > > Sorry, but the parasol of Battenberg would not be 'period' to the Civil War. > > Alice in Oregon > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
