Dear all,
Many of you might have left for the Oidfa congress but I hope some of
you will be able to give some information on these Point de Paris
laces.
The small piece of lace is 30 cm x 45 cm
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4773131539_d4411736be_b.jpg
The large piece is 160 cm x 45 cm.
From the quality of the photo it's hard to make absolute comments as from
the lack of definition it could even be machine made lace VBG so I'll just
talk in general terms.
First I wonder why you think it is Point de Paris as distinct from another
Point Ground type lace? PdeP is usually a
Jacquie writes:
which side is the beginning and where does it end? Vertical? Horizontal?
Short end start, work the length of the piece, otherwise the hundreds of
pairs of bobbins would be thousands, even with the smaller piece. On the
smaller piece, which is the one with a slightly
You're quite right, Devon, I answered quickly before I went out this
morning, and the made-in-pieces bit got stuck in the recesses of my brain.
Another reason why it would be excellent if stevienixed would post some more,
much
better pictures of details.
The rest of my answers still stand
My two cents: I'm thinking these pieces are probably machine-made. They're
really very big (for the non-metric, the small is 12 x 18 and the large is
about 63 x 18) and the type of design makes me think they're later rather
than earlier.
The larger piece makes me wonder about monograms - the
In a message dated 7/4/2010 9:37:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
k...@wirelace.net writes:
Aurelia,
Have you tried looking in Ricci's Old Italian Lace? I don't have either
book in front of me, but Ricci and Tebbs were contemporaries, I believe.
You will find Old Italian Lace (volumes I and
Adele said:
My two cents: I'm thinking these pieces are probably machine-made.
They're really very big (for the non-metric, the small is 12 x 18 and the
large is about 63 x 18) and the type of design makes me think they're later
rather than earlier.
The larger piece makes me wonder about
Some of us weren';t fortunate enough to get to Japan. I';m working
madly to complete all my chores getting ready to host IOLI in 16 (!!!
yikes !!!) days.
I'm not the expert on these laces...the pictures are too small to show
the details. They could be either machine or handmade, from the
Just checking to see if everyone has gone to OIDFA or
what? It's awfully quiet.
bobbi
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On Jul 8, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Roberta S Donnelly wrote:
Just checking to see if everyone has gone to OIDFA or
what? It's awfully quiet.
bobbi
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