Sue Historically the Italian bobbin laces are Genoese (the source for Cluny), a braid/plait based straight lace, Milanese tape lace and simpler peasant tape laces. Modern Italian lace seems to be 90% tape lace of the kind which uses a constant number of bobbins (no adding or removing pairs). The LePompe laces are somewhat similar to the Genoese laces I have seen at a museum, although the Genoese laces were mostly edgings, while the LePompe are mostly for laying on top of the fabric. This link will take you to picasa photos that have the words merletti tombolo attached. Also do a google image search on those same words. That will give you an idea of current Italian lace. Lorelei
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