[lace] Right side? Wrong side?

[Aurelia Loveman]

I am making a piece of appliqu� lace (motifs in needlelace; 
background net in bobbin lace), and am wondering why one so often 
hears that this lace should be done wrong side up (f.i., Ann 
Collier's beautiful, wonderful book "Colour in Lace,: p. 34). Working 
wrong side up, one would baste the motifs in place, and then begin to 
work the net, doing sewings whenever one met up with a basted-down 
motif, and carrying the working threads over the back of the motif. 
Yes, one could do that; and that appears to be the method used in 
much of the antique lace that I study at the BMA. But why couldn't 
one work right side up? Baste the motifs down, right side up, on top 
of an already-finished piece of net, and then buttonhole them down in 
place.

In fact, I have done a number of fans in just that way; but keep 
wondering what am I missing?	--	Aurelia

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