>I only know that Rauma was an important bobbin lace making area. I think the >lace was largely torchon with some guipure elements. I suspect Kortelahti's >work style derives from that tradition. I have a couple books of Rauma lace patterns but I don't have them right at hand. My memory of reading them is that Rauma lace is on the Torchon style. The thing I remember best is that they figured out that most edgings tend to pull up a bit on the footside and ruffle slightly on the headside. They wanted flat handkerchiefs with flat lace, so worked out a solution. Their corners are a few degrees off of 90 degrees. When the lace is forced to fit a 90 degree corner, it flattens out that extra bit of ruffle. Kortelahti's style is based on the Early 20th Century Dutch Lace development. When I got that book, I could see elements of the Kortelahti lace all through it. My guess is that she learned from someone who learned from the Dutch school. She adds some of her own tweeks to it. I have done lots of her lace, and some from the Dutch book. It's probably my favorite style of lace, though I do a bit of many kinds. Alice in Oregon -- where we are having (finally) a week of sunshine.
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