Nancy You raise an interesting question. Personally I don't think there is only one good answer. I think it is a complicated equation. A large piece with perfect workmanship and no tears or rips should not be cut up. A two foot edging strip with serious damage on several repeats may be more useful as a teaching tool to explain the development of lace structure, and cut up, it would be useful. It also depends, I think, on how rare the piece is, its age, its condition, the degree of complexity in the workmanship. A yard long piece of Cluny with a normal and perfectly standard design is no particular tragedy cut up. A piece of Binche dating from 1690 cut up is a tragedy, but, used to decorate a sofa pillow, is a crime. So, I would say it is a complex calculation of several factors: age, condition, workmanship, rarity of type, rarity of the kind of object, quality of the design. Lorelei Halley
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