Re: [lace] Interesting Lace Find!

[Patty Dowden]

There are telltale signs of this being barmen lace.  The spiders have 
2 extra pairs running through the middle because spiders get wiggly 
at the middle spot without that support.  The half stitch looks like 
lazy cloth stitch and only leans a bit instead of actually having 3 
axis'. The tallies are very skinny and the ends don't have much 
shape.  These traits are all due to the limited amount of motion that 
each bobbin can travel laterally and can't travel at all above the 
plane where the lace is made; unlike lace made by a lacemaker, who 
can leverage the thread any amount they wish in any direction to 
achieve the look they want.  So while barmen lace can copy the 
crosses and twists, it can't perfectly reproduce the tensioning that 
is so important to handmade laces. 

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