Lorelei, Thank you so much for the long helpful post! I don't have my Santina Levy here and what I read was too long ago for my memory these days. Especially helpful is your comparison between the historian's viewpoint and the lacemaker's--one that I really hadn't thought about and yet is obviously part of my puzzle once it is pointed out.
Thank you again. Arachne is so great for getting info in a flash!! Nancy Nancy A. Neff Connecticut, USA ________________________________ From: Lorelei Halley [email protected] ....place the date around the middle .... Santina Levy does not speak of Flanders ground laces, but calls all the 18th century laces with gimp "Mechlin" and tells us that this lace (produced near Mechlin) could have had any one of several grounds, including Flanders, Mechlin, Binche snowballs & snowflakes, Valenciennes, Binche snowballs in half stitch, Paris ground. ....If you follow Ulrika Lohr, who thinks like a lacemaker and is therefore primarly interested in structure (what traditional form does a lacemaker have to be familiar with in order to reproduce this lace), one would call it "old Flanders". .... - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
