Hi everyone
In Pat Earnshaws book 'Needlelace' (Merehurst) on page 30, the chapter about
Point de France The first chapter is about lace from Venice which was 'made
with such fine thread that 6,000 of its buttonhole stitches occupied a space
only 2.5cm (1") square.'
I remembered this quote because I had been reading up on Point de France. I
have started catalogueing a box of needlelace from the RKS collection and top
of the box was some pieces of Point de France (XXVII century).
Regards
Dianne Derbyshire
Preston (where it's raining)
>I know that I have seen it stated somewhere that there are either 1000, or
>10,000 or some such large number of stitches in an inch of Venetian Gros Point.
>Does anyone recall which is the correct number and/or what book this
>information is in?
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