Hi Jane ! Lucky You!! Any chance you can scan it and post it on the Arachne photo site so we can see it?
Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA ---- Jane Viking Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ============= Hi All, I was in a shop yesterday trying to find a price on an antique thing for DH. I spotted a bit of lace for $20.50. I studied it the best I could in the dim light to make sure it was handmade. I'd forgotten that you can just look at the back and see if it's been sewed onto commercially made net. It sure looked like Point de Gaze to me! That's a needle made lace for our newbies. The guy rings it up and I find out it's on sale and the total cost was $13.04USD. It's 36" (91.5 cm I think) long and 2" (5cm) wide. It's a lovely graceful design with a double layer on the edge roses and tons of teeny tiny couronnes!! I've been studying it under a magnifier and I can tell there were at least two lace makers working on it. If I'm not mistaken yardage was often made by more than one lace maker. The couronnes (buttonholed rings) on five repeats have bigger openings in the center than the other seven repeats. Both lace makers were very consistent! Of course, you can only see the difference under magnification. It's got a number of repairs and some wear but I'm quite thrilled with it! I can even see the basting threads on the back of some of the motifs. I gather they got sewed into the lace and it was too hard to pull them out. And if you're making yardage as your livelihood you wouldn't take the time. It also has a commercially made edge attached that I've seen on other pieces of edging. I think that is what was sewn to the garment. I think a lot of PdG was made around 1900 because it was very popular. I don't know if this is from then but it could be. Oh, I know why else I was writing. The final cost therefore is a little over $1.00 USD for 3" x 2" (7.5 cm x 5cm) of lace. I'm hoping the original lace makers made better wages than that! Jane in Vermont, USA hoping I can send this. The computer or the server or something in between is acting very odd tonight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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]
