Hi Regina
Are you sure it's handmade lace on your crazy patchwork? Coarse
'torchon' lace, if it's a fairly simple pattern, typically with
spiders, may well be made on a Barmen machine. It has all the same
thread movements as BL but with no pins, it's all down to the
tensioning to get it looking right (as with Danish Freehand BL) but
with experience you can tell Barmen lace with no difficulty.
Actually it was a piece of Barmen lace (which I still have!) that first
got me interested in lacemaking. I was attending a general crafts
class about 30 years ago and one day I wore a cardigan which I had
trimmed with a length of cheap lace from the local market. The tutor,
who also taught BL, spotted it and said 'Oh! that's what we make in the
lace class!'. That was the first time that I realised that lace could
be made by hand as well as by some anonymous machine somewhere. I
signed up for her lace class that September.....
Brenda
It never occurred to me before that it was because (of course) a crazy
quilt is hand done, that that's why they made that assumption about
the lace.
I did buy a small crazy patch decorative piece - about 24" x 24" -
which does have hand made Torchon lace as a border - coarse thread,
but at my guild we all agreed it was hand done.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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