Collectors, for what their opinion is worth, tend to assign the name Argentan
to laces with brides bouclée and also with a very solid clothwork, like this
recently sold piece on Ebay (see attached). Here, the hexagonal base is
completely covered with buttonhole stitches. But the technique was
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> On 30 May 2020, at 21:36, Devon Thein wrote:
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> Would one consider a piece of French needle lace with a Brides
> tortillee mesh to be Alencon or Argentan? Also, I don't really understand
> how it was made. With Alencon, you do needle lace stitches across a row,
> then you whip back. But in
Would one consider a piece of French needle lace with a Brides
tortillee mesh to be Alencon or Argentan? Also, I don't really understand
how it was made. With Alencon, you do needle lace stitches across a row,
then you whip back. But in the case of the Brides tortillee all the sides
are whipped.
