Lorelei wrote: <<But what I could see in the 2nd group is the tapes changed width beyond what could be accounted for by fancy stitches inside the tape. And these usually also had motifs that started and ended. In other words they were actually part laces (sectional laces) rather than tape laces (braid laces). The museum labeled these part laces exactly the same as the pure Milanese or Flemish tape laces.>> There is a school of thought that the Milanese laces that start and stop a lot indicate a Flemish origin, while the ones that go up the side of one leaf and down the other side, never ending the tape are Italian in origin. I don't know whether anything in lace is actually that straight forward, but it is something to keep in mind. Devon
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