In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bridget Marrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >(though it is worrying >to learn that the designer for Elizabeth: the Golden Age has ordered "lace and >tatting")
I can't remember which of the National Trust houses we were visiting at the time, but I can remember looking very closely at the lace depicted as an edging around the ruff and sleeves of one of the Elizabethan or thereabouts portraits of one of the ladies of the house - it looked much more like picoted rings of tatting than either needle or bobbin lace. (I do make all three). Unless you are going to get close up shots from which it would be possible to tell the difference, or have the level of budget necessary to spend lots of money on authenticity, then I think tatting could be substituted for theatrical use, and at least it keeps the makers in work. Although history points to tatting being developed from knotting in the 18/19th Century, there is nothing to say that it might not have been made earlier and not recorded. Maybe we need to look at the Elizabethan/Stuart portraits closer. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
