Achim I forgot to mention that the ground is in Cook & Stott's book of grounds on page 38, and they call it "Kat stitch", which is its name in the English lace tradtion. (Kat stitch sometimes appears as a ground or filling in Bucks point and other point ground laces.) The pricking in their book does match your pricking.
There is a ground which matches your lace sample photo, oriented the way yours is, but it is very rare. It occurs, apparently, in the French tradition, because I've seen it in materials from the LePuy school. I've never seen an actual piece of lace that uses it. Lorelei - 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
