On 2/23/09 2:50 PM, "Alice Howell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree this is handmade lace. It's started with connected pairs. The leaf > tallies show all the variations that appear on tallies that are quickly made, > and left however they end up. (Probably like many of us do with our tallies. > <G>) I noticed that too. I guess it might be a piece that was to be later sold on the market(?). I try to get my tallies uniform, hence the slower lacemaker in me ;) > I would call this Torchon rather than Cluny, but that's a personal preference. > It doesn't have trails, and is a typical straight lace with roseground and > half stitch sections in a 45 degree grid. I figured it was a torchon type with the elements involved. > This would be a very good pattern for someone wanting to practice tallies. > There's about 500 of them in the piece of lace you have. Twice that length > would complete the 1000 many people try to make. That is funny that you took the time to count the tallies. I know I haven't reached my 1000 tallies yet, but this would help it along! Thank you Alice for this information. It is appreciated. -- Mark, aka Tatman Temporary blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/ email: [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
