I too saw Queen at her pillow but to me the pillow seemed to be wrong. She looked to be working on a domed pillow, similar to the type we use today, instead of what I believe they used in the 18th century, a bolster pillow. Did they also use domed round or squarish pillows back then? The books I have on the history of lacemaking all seem to show lacemakers of the 18th Century sitting at bolster pillows.
Queenie's pins were all nice new shiny brass with quite a number of what looked like colourful strivers in amongst them. She was working with her pillow on the table rather than a pillow horse. It was good weather on the day we saw Queenie at her pillow so why wasn't she sitting outside at her pillow making use of the daylight instead of in her dingy cottage? Probably because she didn't have a pillow horse to put it on outside in the sunshine. Having said that I did enjoy the programme and look forward to the rest of the 10 episodes, hope we see more of Queenie and her lace pillow. I recently saw a historical programme about the English Civil War called Blood on our Hands. The programme was a documentary programme about the build up to the start of the civil war in England as was based on personal testimonies of every day people of the time. John Winthrop and his leaving Suffolk for the New World featured in the programme. Very interesting if you like English history as I do, though I am no expert on the subject. In the programme Brilliana Lady Harley was shown wearing a lace collar on her dress. The collar looked to be of the Beds or Cluny type but it was so crumpled it was hard to tell and it was only a couple of fleeting glimpses of the lace. It looked as though the collar had been washed and wrung out but never ironed, it was so badly scrunched up. I was itching to get my iron on the collar and see it in it's full glory. The collar looked as though it might be a good 2-3inches deep if properly ironed. What a pity the wardrobe mistresses for the programme didnt pay more attention to Lady Harley's costume and display her status to it's full effect by showing off her beautiful lace by giving it a good ironing. Lady Harley and her husband were Puritans so I am not at all sure that she would have worn a Lace collar, would it not be too frivolous for a puritan? Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
