Hi everyone,
Thank you for your feedback and encouraging words!
I am glad that this work is of interest to you.
As noticed by Susan, the TRC has many other textile related digital
exhibitions. Also there is always some exhibition or activity in the
premises. So if you happen to be somewhere near
Hi Devon et al.,
Yes, it's a straight lace so not Honiton. I think it's late 19th C and
probably German because it looks like the bobbin lace I've seen in several
reprints of late 19th / early 20th C German pattern books.
I've blathered on on the ning site some more about it, and also why it's
Thank you to everyone who participated in the lassen discussion. It brought up
more questions than answers but that is what historical topics tend to do. I do
hope that some of our silent majority also found it interesting.
If anyone has anything further to add then do please pipe up. Or if it
I’m not sure, but I’d say it was Beds because it not only doesn’t have raised &
rolled work, it also doesn’t have the coarse thread that I connect with Honiton
lace. Also it looks to me like it is made all-in-one - the motifs and the
ground made at the same time.
Adele
> On Jun 18, 2019, at
Hello Devon,
Sorry, but I cannot see the pictures you say you put in the laceioli
identification site. Can you please put a link to go directly to your
discussion. Thank you !!!
What you ask and the answers given by the members are very welcome and
interesting.
Maria Greil
a German living in Spain
Now that I am looking at the piece that is described as coming from
Honiton, I am wondering if the technique is actually Bedfordshire. What do
you think?
Devon
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There is a piece in the Met collection that is identified as coming from
Honiton. I am trying to put technique information into the catalog. But I
don't know how to characterize this piece. I just put photos on the
laceioli.ning identification site. The number is 48.187.645. The background
is
Dear Nancy
I suspect there is a misunderstanding. In her 'The Technique of Bucks Point
Lace' p.75 Pam Nottingham states that: 'In the past very few patterns had
corners as lace was worked by the length round a pillow. most of the corners
for the narrow, traditional edgings have been designed
