"The lace design was hand-engineered (appliquéd) using the Carrickmacross lace-making technique, which originated in Ireland in the 1820s. Individual flowers have been hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered onto ivory silk tulle...."
That's a contradiction of terms! Carrickmacross is fine lawn fabric appliqued to tulle (or other net), not lace appliqued to tulle. In the next paragraph it says: "Hand-cut English lace and French Chantilly lace has been used throughout the bodice and skirt, and has been used for the underskirt trim. With laces coming from different sources, much care was taken to ensure that each flower was the same colour." Followed by: "French Chantilly lace was combined with English Cluny lace to be hand-worked in the Irish Carrickmacross needlework tradition." True Chantilly is French but Cluny isn't English, it's French! Until we get to see proper close-up photos of the dress it's impossible to say what sort of lace was used for the applique. On the other hand I'm pretty certain that some of the choir boys (the ones dressed like mini beefeaters) were wearing Barmen machine lace jabots. Either two straight insertions stitched together or maybe they just omitted to take out the 'lacer' thread which holds two sections together! Brenda On 29 Apr 2011, at 20:23, <[email protected]> wrote: > Also a nice article at http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
