ria...@aol.com; Arachne <lace@arachne.com>; Laurie Waters
<lswaters...@comcast.net>
Subject: [lace] Dating Mechlin...
Jeri,
Laurie Waters reported at IOLI that she paid the $500 or so to have a
snippet of some lace radiocarbon-dated last year, with the latest, most
precise techno
Jeri,
Laurie Waters reported at IOLI that she paid the $500 or so to have a
snippet of some lace radiocarbon-dated last year, with the latest, most
precise technology. The lace was thought to be 16th or 17th century. The
radiocarbon dating came out with a range that included the putative date,
"Repairs in vertical stacks, with a suspicious similar distance between the
stacks?" I have a Point de Gaze lappet cap (more recent at about 150
years), where there are difficult-to-see snags positioned opposite each other
when it is placed on my head. These snags are right where earrings
