This runner certainly has all the appearance of being needle lace. I don't think that is the question, however.
Some time ago, a friend of mine bought a stunning needle lace tablecloth. Later, she and her husband were in Belgium, and she took the tablecloth with her and showed it to an antique lace expert there. To her dismay, she was told that the cloth had been machine made. I have seen the cloth, and to my eye, it looks handmade (and while I'm not an expert, I do have "some" knowledge of these things). But the expert was able to discern subtle signs that it was machine made. I'm inclined to believe that this runner is another example of machine made "needle" lace. So the real question when you find what appears to be needle lace on eBay is not whether it's needle lace, but whether it's handmade or machine made. Which then suggests that if you love a piece, prepare to spend what you would if it were machine made... then you won't be disappointed. Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Original Message] > From: suzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 1/1/2006 10:53:03 PM > Subject: Re: [lace] ebay item: but is it crochet? > > i think its needle lace. it is too thin to be crochet. each crochet > stitch it much thicker than this even if all they did was slip stitch > crochet would still be double lipped with a center and much thicker > than needle lace stitches. > > the style of lace design is needle lace. most crochet doesn't use a > style of ground but it does have a netting with picots. the picots in > this piece of lace have lines where you can see they are wrapped around > a piece of string as opposed to crochet where they just use a few chain > stitches and then the spip stitch to form their picots. > > all of the stitches used are needle lace stitches. i don't think its a > crochet imitation of needle lace, its the real thing. > > --- Jean Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This looks like needlelace to me too. I see that the sale has ended. > > > > Was that early? > > Jean in Cleveland U.K. and feeling cold at 26F > > On 28 Dec 2005, at 22:06, bevw wrote: > > > > > Here's an interesting table runner: > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? > > > ViewItem&item=7376694345&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:71 > > > > > > or at tiny: > > > http://tinyurl.com/9ygfq > > > from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > > - > 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]
