On 12 Oct 2005, at 06:15, bevw wrote:
If it's _antique_ (1890ties), I'll eat whatever's necessary (don't
have
many hats)... :) Looks very much like Eeva-Lisa Kortelahti, but I
can't
It looks like Bedfordshire - IMO and feeling cynical, not handmade,
looking at the 'spiders' for instance.
Doesn't say Kortelahti to me, but not typical Bedfordshire either;
The "per yard" price is, to me, "a red flag for the bull" - how much
_hand made_ lace is there - left, from 150+yrs ago - to be sold as
yardage today?
maybe not from 150 +, but from 100 years, quite a bit, among
collectors.
probably made in Eastern Europe or Asia - but 1980s not 1880s!
If you click on the home page link:
http://www.dollsandlace.com/cgi-bin/dalshop.pl?cat=AntiqueLace&view=cat
you'll see some more "antique" lace on sale, with some very suspect
descriptions.
With the exception of this one, the doilies, and the knitting, tatting
and crochet it all looks like fairly modern machine made lace to me.
As one would expect with yardage lace.
The interesting one though is the "new item" Net Lace/Metallic Gold
which is described as antique 'lace' which has stored quite well over
the decades. If it really is antique then all that gold really is gold
then it's a bargain at $25 per foot, but if the gold is really
metalised polyester......
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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