David
Thank you for the scan of the Beds lace. I'm afraid I still think it is
machine made. http://barmenlace.com/downloads/rehage-catalogue.pdf This
is a 1 mb catalogue from a Barmen machine lace manufacturer that I found on
line. I tried to isolate just one page, but couldn't. However if you look
at the Barmen cloth stitch, you will see that it has the same vertical
ridges that occur in your sample.. The thread paths in your sample are easy
to follow, and that often distinguishes hand made lace. But Barmen machine
does a pretty good job of copying the thread movements. It is the tallies
and the cloth stitch that give it away, I think. An interesting discussion,
nonetheless.
Lorelei
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