Lorelei,
Yes, this was what I had meant, although the other answers were
also helpful. I am coming at this from the point of view of the early
laces, and I am looking at how it evolved. I am interested in the why
part of it. The problem of the curling up edge is one possibility.
Another possibility is the exchange of workers. Yet another
possibility is how the actual stitches came out of plaiting. I have
a piece of lace that was made during the revival period which has a
pin under 4 edge, and I am looking back to see if this was true in
others as well. I suspect it came out of the plaiting techniques used
at that time. The article I am writing about it should be out in the
fall in the Bulletin. If anyone has any thoughts before then, please
drop me an email.
Thanks, Kim
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Lorelei Halley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kim
> If you are asking a seriously historical question, then my answer is a little
> different. I have seen that edge in some of the oldest laces that I've seen
> in the museum (Art Institute of Chicago). Many of the LePompe laces show a
> winkiepin or "pin after 2" edge. But since I haven't seen the entirety of
> both published versions, I can't make a blanket statement. My impression is
> that the pin after 4 edge was discovered fairly early, by the 17th century at
> least, to solve the problem of a curling-up-edge.
> Lorelei
>
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