I guess that Linda doesn't belong to either The Lace Guild or IOLI as the magazines produced by both these organisations have regular items about the early English laces and how to make them, and very interesting reading they are too. She is quite right that there is a similarity between many of these laces and Bedfordshire 9-pin edge as they are worked with plaits, but I suspect at a quick look that the Laughing Cavalier's lace is Reticella. If possible read Gil Dye's article on page 25 in the January copy of Lace which is about two very similar portraits of William Shakespeare (1610 and 1610-20). The main difference between the portraits is in the collars, one being bobbin lace and one needlemade Reticella, but to a non-lacemaker they are very alike, and in much the same style as the Cavalier's collar. Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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