Hello Mark and everyone. THank you for sharing this excellent find. The laces would be 'Cluny technique' rather than Torchon ;) I don't see the photos well on my screen, I can't confirm that they are hand made. They look machine made, although duplicable by hand if a person wanted to. Leaves or leaf tallies can be machine made.
Eighteen cents a yard doesn't sound like much does it. Compare to the price of bread or eggs of the era though, it is probably in line. If the laces are machine made they wouldn't cost much to make. I have some lace lengths made in France on vintage (1902) machinery, still in production. Today's price, $1 a metre. If you have the opportunity to purchase it, there is an excellent How-to for Cluny Lace published by Deutscher Kloeppelverband (it is in 4 languages, including English), with an approach for children (of all ages <g>). You would see many of the elements in the sample book, in the new patterns in this instruction book. Hope you are ok from the fall, it isn't funny if one gets hurt. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Mark, aka Tatman <[email protected]>wrote: > Merchants sample booklet. It is titled "Imported Cluny Laces" by Brookside > Manufacturing Corporation, 114 East 32nd Street, New Yor 16, NY. There is > no copyright date to indicate its age. I am assuming the early part of the > 20th C. The booklet is 13 inches tall and made of blue card stock of > separate pieces that are bound with darker blue cloth strips. Each folded > card section is 13 inches tall by 14 inches wide. Most of the samples look > to be torchon technique. But from I gather it is handmade lace not > manufactured machine lace. I can see in the samples some mistakes and also > there are some leaf tallies. As I understand that feature is hard to > duplicate(??). Correct me if I am wrong! Each sample has a color and > number. Take special note of the price per yard. YIKES! > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
