I must say I prefer the lace with corners to considering cutting lace, <g>,
and for my current purposes I will be doing this method, but I have made
some lace yardage to edge things, in the way you describe and it worked
well.
I have phoned and found my local fabric shops sells some cotton lawn, I
expect I will be trying to make my own hanky. Unless I come across
something else that will work for my purpose.
Thank you all for the great help and insight. I know you have been here
before and thank you for sharing your thoughts with me and others.
Sue T
Bobbin Lace and Glass engravings
http://www.hurwitzend.co.uk
We touched on the subject of lace on hankies, and had reference to edging
a hanky with store bought lace. Since we had new people on the List who
have not seen the previous discussions in the past, I wanted to review a
couple things about lace on hankies from previous discussions.
Lace can be made for hankies in two different ways. One is the four
cornered square of lace that will like mostly flat when sewn to fabric.
This is very common now when we know we want a hanky and have more time to
make it exactly as we want it.
The other method is to make a long straight edging, then gather the lace
around the corners of the hanky. (Our archives will have our extension
discussions and directions for doing this.) This hanky may not lie
completely flat when done, but does not take specially designed corners.
This was the way lace was put on hankies way in the past when the lace was
made one place, and sewn to the fabric by a different person. The
lacemaker did not know the destination of her lace when she was making it,
so much yardage was made, then adapted to the desired use by the
purchaser.
Yes, the lace yardage could have been cut to make mitered corners but fine
handmade lace was seldom cut any more than absolutely necessary. Lace was
re-used, and I would guess that one long piece was much more usable than
four short pieces.
Alice in Oregon -- had a lovely day but two rain fronts are due tomorrow.
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