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I came across a lovely piece of embroidered net:
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Since we were talking about Empress Maria-Theresia's lace dress a few months
ago, I thought you might like to know that I just put up the two stamps that
show the two portraits of her wearing this dress on Ebay. 130387569331
They are fairly hard to find. Also put up a bunch of other lace-related
Thank you to everyone who offered solutions to the use of this mystery
object:-
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This was found in my grandmother's things after she passed. She kept
it with her sewing stuff although that doesn't necessarily mean it's
sewing-related. An
Thank you very much for this information.
Clearly, shawls were worn regularly for a lot longer than I'd imagined.
Linda.
dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
The first photo which shows a very plain black shawl is dated circa
1885. The Diamond Jubilee, on which the shawl was presented by Queen
Victoria was
The first photo which shows a very plain black shawl is dated circa 1885.
The Diamond Jubilee, on which the shawl was presented by Queen Victoria was
in 1897. The white shawl or blanket, appears to be a simple garter stitch
knitted affair which does not resemble the shawl donated to the Smit
As I'd never heard of Harriet Tubman before this thread, I looked her up
on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
and noticed two photographs of her.
In the first she seems to be wearing a black shawl, and in another a
white shawl. Is it possible that these are the very shawls i
Yes, one person born to own an empire, one born not even owning herself. An
unlikely contact sealed with a gift of lace. Irresistible, at least to us.
Devon
In a message dated 4/30/2010 1:09:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
walker.b...@gmail.com writes:
Given copious free time, a reques
OK, so I looked at the shawl again. LOL
I could only see detail by getting the pic directly and in zooming in, you
really see the threads.
Half way between top and bottom, and one third in from the left, there are
three holes; two contained between the "medallions" and one within.
In the one wit
Given copious free time, a request from the Smithsonian to whomever holds
the Royal Records might be enlightening, surely a gift such as this will
have been noted somewhere at the source. That would be my approach, now that
I, too, have spent a lot of time musing on this.
So interesting - the shaw
I am limited in time, but in a quick google, I ran across this excerpt from
Piecework:
Queen Victoria's Shawl, A Chinese Export Embroidered Silk Masterpiece JA02:24.
Critchlow, Jo
Of course we all know "embroidered" can be used loosely, but "Chinese Export"
and "Silk" are intriguing, and I am not c
For some reason, I seem to have become obsessed with the Harriet Tubman
shawl, largely because it totally frustrates me that I cannot identify how it
is made. So, I am spending way too much time thinking about it, while not
doing things I ought to be doing.
Although it is not my practice to
Hi Jane et al,
+I think most general suppliers in the UK sell these bent pins and Lazy
Susans - and yes - they do make life a lot easier.
Carol - in Suffolk UK
'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.'
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