Hi Sue, How pretty! And what a good photo -- the details are quite clear when enlarged.
It is needle-run lace, embroidery on net. The net is machine-made, and the embroidery is also almost certainly done by machine although I wouldn't claim to be 100% sure unless I could see the back. It is a very nice one, which would lead me to date it to the late 1800s. As I say, it is a particularly nice example of this kind of lace -- a beautiful design and well executed. Best wishes, Nancy Connecticut, USA On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 14:29 sue <su...@enery8.plus.com> wrote: > Sue Babbs has offered to put the picture showing the whole lace on Flickr, > but here is the photo so you can check it out before that happens. > Interested in knowing as much as others can help us with. > Sue T > > Hi Sue, > > I'm happy to give it a shot if you want to email the photos to me. > > Cheers, > > Nancy > > Connecticut, USA > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 06:38 sue <su...@enery8.plus.com> wrote: > >> Hi lacemakers one and all. I hope you are all safe and well, many of the >> lacemakers I know will have been busy making lace in lockdown to keep >> themselves, busy, calm and comfortable. What a joy to be able to. >> My sister just sent me two images of a lace handkerchief that she bought >> during 1988 in the Kings Road London England, just before she got >> married, as >> her something old. She knows nothing about lace except it is beautiful. >> She >> recently took it out of where ever it has been laying for all these years >> and >> saying how much she loves it and how she is also beginning to appreciate >> the >> skill that goes in to making it. I offered to ask someone in this site if >> they can identify it for us. I have two photographs, the one that she has >> taken of it lying flat not folded and able to look at the really large >> image >> of the delicate lace and my thinking is that it looks more like needle >> lace on >> a mesh. >> Any offers to check it out for me would be greatly appreciated, but I am >> not >> able to get it on flickr. >> Sue T >> Dull Dorset UK >> >> - >> 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/ >> > - 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/
