RE: [lace] Lacemaking group wanted

[Jo]

http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/Map/
lists a honiton tutor in Wellington, she might know more

Jo

 Does anyone know of a lacemaking group in the Tiverton UK 
 area that I might be able to join?

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[lace] lace bedspread

[Sue]

Check out item no: 120564598612 on Ebay – a double bedspread measuring 68” x
89” surely it cannot be handmade for the £14.99 starting price,  it is
advertised as bobbin lace.



Sue M Harvey

Norfolk UK

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Re: [lace] lace bedspread

[lacelady]

 I would say that it is handmade bobbin lace.  It looks like it was made
in sections and then sewn together.  Some of the sewing threads have
loosened.  It's not the normal pattern for Chinese lace.  I'm guessing it
was made in Europe.

This is all guessing...but it may have been made by a group of people
during one of the attempts to reinstate bobbin lace as a commercial
entity.

It's surely worth more than the starting price.  The seller is probably
hoping the price will go up with bidding.  And the seller could be
someone who inherited the bedspread and just wants to dispose of it. 
There would probably have been more information in the description if the
seller knew much about lace.

Alice in Oregon ... taking a quick look while trying to avoid doing
housework on a gray day.

May 4, 2010 02:36:24 PM, 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:

  Check out item no: 120564598612 on Ebay – a double bedspread
  measuring 68” x
  89” surely it cannot be handmade for the £14.99 starting price,
  it is
  advertised as bobbin lace.
  Sue M Harvey
  Norfolk UK

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Re: [lace] lace bedspread

[robinlace]

 Sue 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Check out item no: 120564598612 on Ebay – a double bedspread measuring 68” x
89” surely it cannot be handmade for the £14.99 starting price,  it is
advertised as bobbin lace.

It's bobbin lace but it could easily be machine-made, looking at the closeup of 
the tally-petals of the sunflowers.  When you compare the number of threads 
in the diamonds (closeups 3  4) to the size of the diamonds on the whole 
spread (closeup 1), the thread must be quite coarse.

It could also be Chinese; those look the the typical Chinese butterflies in one 
of the rounds.

While it sounds like I'm putting it down, I'm quite impressed in what you'd get 
if you got this bedspread at the starting price.  It's got to be worth a lot 
more.

just my 2 cents,
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
robinl...@socal.rr.com

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