It is my feeling that it is time to admit that the amount of effort required to complete this piece of lace and to afix it to an antique tray cloth that has waited for 25 years to be trimmed is excessive. Clearly this is some kind of exercise in sentiment with huge emotional content, not the mere production of a tray cloth. I think that you should buy a shadow box and then artfully arrange the lace, with or without the tray cloth, in the box so that the best parts are prominently displayed and the worst parts are concealed somewhere in the rear. Careful arranging, possibly in casual folds (held in place with a few stitches if necessary) could obscure the difference in size between the sides. You could have a nice card in the box, possibly done in calligraphy, describing any salient facts about the piece, such as the 25 years it took to produce and the fact that it was completed by a different person than the one who started it. Maybe you could even put a couple of the bobbins used to produce it in the box. If it were me, I would enjoy looking at it in the box more than I would enjoy using a tray cloth. After all, if the cloth has to be laundered all the picots will have to be pinned out again. Devon lazy as ever
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