What about if it's only "influenced by traditional Carrickmacross lace" as per the Royal School of Needlework's press release about the lace used on a certain wedding dress for which the designer "sourced a series of lace motifs"?
Brenda On 3 May 2011, at 20:43, Nancy Neff wrote: > There > are lace equivalents, I think, such as Carrickmacross and Battenberg. I've > had > people tell me that they don't consider either "real lace", the first > because it > is "basically embroidery" and the second because it uses > machine-made tapes. > But both require handwork to achieve the results, and > skilled handwork if the > results are going to be pleasing, and the results are > certainly lace if one uses > any of several definitions--e.g., holes with > threads around them, textiles with > a pattern of holes in them, etc. Perhaps > Carrickmacross on machine-made net is > not lace but guipure Carrickmacross is? Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
