A lot of the needle lace on sale in Belgium is typically white fillings
with fairly dark ecru bars/'plaits' and cordonnet. The shop price of
this type of needle lace seems to be pitched between the price of
obviously needle lace and the real handmade BL, as is the Batternburg
type of tape lace which is machine braids joined together by hand.
I've always been led to believe that this 'point doe Venise' NL is
(handmade) in China/Asia.
However I'm wondering if it's possible that the fillings are machine
made; appropriate shapes cut from a large piece of NL fabric and then
assembled by hand. I have a nice table runner of this type of NL but I
don't want to destroy it by unpicking the cordonnets to find out how it
was made!
Brenda
On 2 Jan 2006, at 13:21, Clay Blackwell wrote:
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.
Brenda
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