Nathalie The reason nobody is giving you a straight answer about the thickness of thread used at that time is that we have no equivalent available at present. Laces of the era of your photo would have been made in super fine linen. (Those colored cream or black would have been silk.) Linen that fine no longer exists. Modern thread manufacturers can't produce anything finer than 140/2 linen, and they can't do that every year. Most of the time 100/2 or 120/2 linen is the finest available. And these are far thicker than the threads used in 1800. When modern lacemakers try to make copies of those kinds of laces, they substitute very fine silks. Cottons that fine break too easily. You might look at Egyptian cotton 140 or finer, or 210 silk. But I don't understand what is behind your question. Are you trying to understand the scale of what you see in the photo? The piece in the photo you referred us to would be about 4 inches wide (based on other pieces of that type that I have handled).
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