Speaking from a design standpoint, I really like the way those figures that are
outlined in braid and then filled in with half stitch add scattered opaque
spots to the lace. Looking at the picture of the whole piece, they really do
look like snowflakes!
Adele
West Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
> On May 22, 2020, at 3:04 AM, Jean Leader wrote:
>
> Well, if you look at Joseph Seguin’s La Dentelle (avaiable on the Arizona
> site) Plate XXXVI you might call it Guipure Façon Angleterre, or Guipure
> Anglaise.They both have the same coiled ground and one of them also has
> cucumber tallies.
>
> Allhallows Museum Honiton has two flounces with this coiled ground which
> Santina Levey reckoned were English therefore Honiton late 17th C. They are
> illustrated in John Yallop’s ‘The History of the Honiton Lace Industry’ (the
> book is his PhD thesis and he was the honorary curator at AllHallows). The
> Glasgow Museums lace collection also has two pieces with this coiled ground,
> one of which is very similar to one of the Honiton pieces. Back in 1993 John
> Yallop told me that the use of the coiled ground is associated with Flanders
> around 1700 but it may be found at much later dates in Eastern Europe.
>
> Jean in grey Glasgow
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