I was in a high end store where there was a very nice lacy garment. I examined it carefully and deduced that the elaborate decorative ornaments on the front were chemical lace that looked just like Irish crochet. In fact, they were very good copies. So, I was explaining this to my companion when the sales lady came over and told me the garment was hand-crocheted. We returned to the garment together and I looked at it again. I then realized that, while the spectacular ornaments were machine made, the mesh that joined them together was hand crocheted. I had not been looking at the uninteresting part of the garment, thinking, in my ignorance that if you were going to have an expensive garment you would choose to have beautiful hand-made ornaments on a machine made background, not beautiful machine made ornaments on a non-descript handmade background. It was sort of a double crochet filet that filled out the uninteresting part of the garment. I realized that I had been wrong and that the garment actually was hand crocheted, in a sense. The sales lady sniffed and said to me, "Believe me, I would know." I almost retorted, "Believe me, I would know," except it was a humiliating moment for the Lace Study Editor of the International Old Lacers. I am not sure that the sales lady actually realized that the ornaments were machine made. However, it was still a rookie mistake on my part not to look more carefully. Just goes to show you that sometimes the lace police might be guilty of false arrest. Devon In a message dated 5/2/2011 11:08:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hmmmm.... maybe there *should* be lace police! If you report them, chances are nothing will happen, but on the off-chance that it *does*, then others (perhaps even those perennial ebay sellers!) may sit up and take note. Tell the authorities that you're doing it on behalf of Arachne, a world-wide group of lacemakers! Clay - 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
