Adele, I'm thinking that a lassen technique might have developed when flat corners meant one no longer had the gathers at the corners in which to hide the seam. That's why I've asked in my last post if the seam is indeed in a gathered part in handerkerchiefs with gathered corners. In handkerchiefs with flat corners, I was trying to date the ones with drafted corners by what I had understood from Pam Nottingham (but I'm convinced now that she was talking only about point ground laces), because if the development of lassen occurred because drafted corners took away the place to hide the seam, dating drafted corners would tell us whether lassen was a recent development or not.
So you are quite correct that lassen is whipping together an overlapped section with matching pattern, but when and why lassen was developed might have something to do with the occurrence of flat corners instead of gathered corners. That's the association I see. Nancy Connecticut, USA On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 6:44 PM Adele Shaak <ash...@shaw.ca> wrote: > My understanding is that lassen is used when the end of a pattern overlaps > the beginning; and the patterns therefore match. This would have nothing to > do with corners; it would be done in the one place in the lace piece where > the end overlapped the beginning. So, if you were making a hankie that had > drafted corners, you would work all the way around the pattern and then an > inch or two past where you started so you can overlap and lassen it > together. > ... - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
