On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:06, Jenny Brandis wrote:
This site http://www.marlamallett.com/default.htm has towards the
bottom
of the main page a link that states
Laces
A personal collection of antique needle lace, bobbin lace and other
handmade laces, with notes on their construction.
What a collection.
What a collection indeed (though, since they are preceded by a "all the
laces have been sold" caveat...)! A fascinating and very informative
site overal, including descriptions. Especially when compared to the
pieces we so often see on E-bay, which show more greed and ignorance
that appreciation of lace :)
One bit on the Needlepoint Lace Structures page caught my attention,
because it seemed to have some bearing on the glorious Point de Gaze
skirt we've been looking at the last couple od days. The 3rd item from
the bottom has the following comment:
[...]the entire collar is composed of tiny buttonhole stitches,
including the mesh ground. I have found only small pieces done
completely in Point de Gaze, because for shawls, stoles and wide
flounces, individual floral motifs were more often appliqued to
machine-made net to save labor.
That might account for:
The net is so even [...]
in Jane's message. Though, of course, one still couldn't - today - feed
all the lacemakers for the time it took to make the rest of it, on
$6000...
And I've been wondering about one piece on the Antique Bobbin Lace-2...
The first piece on that page - an 11.5" medallion (medallion? looks
like a doily to me, given the size <g>) - is identified as "Idria
Lace". The piece on the previous page (A.B.L. -1) does look like Idria,
and both, apparently, came from the same source. But this one doesn't
look like any Idria I've ever seen - more like Cantu or Roccoco (I can
never tell the difference, even though Cathy Belleville explained it
once), just made in fine thread.
What do the lace-historians on our list think?
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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