On Sun, 06 May 2007, Barbara wrote:
I've never heard the term bobbinet lace. A Google search yields sparse
information, but I gather it's a machine-made lace. Can you give any
additional details?
"Bobbinet" goes back to the very early days of machine-made lace. The
machines could mimick the cross+twist of bobbins to produce a good replica
of point ground net, but they couldn't (to begin with) do the patterns which
had to be added by hand. This fitted in well with the fashions of the
time, (about 1810 - think Jane Austen) for light, filmy materials with a
minimum of decoration.
and Karen asked:
What do you mean by "chemical lace"?
"Chemical Lace" is produced by machine embroidery onto a backing fabric
which is then dissolved away by a chemical process - a bit like the
water-soluble fabrics we have today. It dates from the 1880s and typically
is a crunchy, guipure-like lace, suitable for the bolder fashions of the
late 19th century. It sometimes imitated Irish crochet, which was at the
height of fashion at about the same time.
Bridget, in Watford, England, where a wet bank holiday has given me the
chance to catch up on emails and make a start on mounting the Beds edging
that I finished a couple of weeks ago.
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