Hi All Just when I thought we'd heard the last about the word 'vintage' applied to lace I saw the following advert headed 'vintage finds - lace doillies' in our university small ads emails yesterday afternoon:
Hand crafted Lace doilies in a dark Linen colour for craft or display approx 8 1 Large, 3 medium and 1 small £4 the lot There was a picture, but it was so small that you couldn't see anything clearly except that they are round and appear to have individual round motifs as a border. I thought that they were, perhaps, crochet and I emailed the seller to ask what technique they were done in. This is the reply that I got: Not sure really but guess lace making rather than crochet because they are fine thread rather than crochet cotton/wool, I did email back and point out that there are a number of different sorts of hand made lace. Now I'm really curious as to what she's selling, she obviously knows nothing about lace. She's not at work until Monday, and I hope she'll let me have a look at them then. I shall keep you posted. Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's raining (nothing new there then) but we aren't as badly hit as other parts of the UK - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
