Hi
there are two books about La guipure du Puy . here's one on amazon
http://www.amazon.fr/Guipure-du-Puy-Mick-Fouriscot/dp/2841671550
now of course you know that Mick Fouriscot isn't a lace maker and is the
editor of the book .
guipure has no ground , only head and foot.
it is usually made of silk ... and silk is known to disintegrate with
age ,especially if it has been submitted to light .I remember seeing a
19th century dress made of Chantilly lace that couldn't be renovated for
that reason .
dom from Paris
Brenda Paternoster a écrit :
Hello Mark
I agree with others that the first one
http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/BLgallery/Rescued_Beds_tally_lace.jpg
looks to be Bedfordshire - I won't say Beds-Maltese because it's not
geometrical enough.
The second one
http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/BLgallery/Rescued_Beds_scallop_lace.jpg
is Le Puy.
I have several bits of plaited black BL in my collection. Some time ago I
spent a lot of time with Pat Earnshaw's and other books to properly ID them,
and tI have listed all but the narrowest piece as Le Puy; partly because of the
black colour partly because of the distinctive trails and sometimes lots of
leaf shaped tallies and mainly because of the elaborate plaited grounds ie
Guipure. In style they are all not dissimilar to your piece.
According to Earnshaw a lot of black 'Le Puy' was made in France in the second half of the 19th century, and a lot of Le Puy/Clunytype of plaited laces were also made in England at the same time, some indistinguishable from the French.
The lace school at Le Puy re-opened in the 1970s under Mick Fouriscot and I
believe they teach a variety of styles of BL. There are a number of pattern
books co-written by various people with Mme Fouriscot for various types of BL.
Brenda in Allhallows
paternos...@appleshack.com
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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