That's interesting. We don't have a bobbin lace tradition in Israel, so I wonder
why he thought it was Israeli? Unless it had Miriam Gidron's name on it (or
mine) or it was purchased in Israel, that seems rather unlikely. Could you post
the URL again sometime? I'd like to take a look at it.
here is his name and email address, and i can even forward the email he
sent me if you like. i'll post it on lace after i'm done :
James Robison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Avital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's interesting. We don't have a bobbin lace tradition in Israel,
so I wonder
why he
It looks more French to me. Doesn't quite have the feel of beds. I
don't see any gimps, and those look like pomegranates, which I'm not
sure I've seen too much of in beds lace. The footside isn't a common
English one either. And if it was English, I don't think they'd have
done rolled tallies
At 08:35 AM 10/13/2005, you wrote:
It looks more French to me. Doesn't quite have the feel of beds.
It does sort of have a Kortelahti look to it, but that wasn't my first
thought.
I have my doubts about it being handmade though the pattern is very
interesting. I've seen some machine lace
i wrote the seller and he said that he felt it was handmade because of
the inconsistant thread tention. he also said it had isrealy (isrealie
?) origins, and the seller told him it was hand made, but she has been
wrong before.
i thought you were going to guess it by the descrition you were
oops, to suzy, sent this to you privately and meant to include the lace list:
This is like the story of the 6 blind philosphers trying to identify
by feel a particular strange beast (it was an elephant) - so many
interesting opinions. I sent the link of the picture of the lace to a
collector pal
here is his name and email address: James Robison
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and he says he works with this women often, so
maybe you can get more information than what i got.
i'm not arguing where it came from because i wouldn't know one type of
bobbin lace from another for the most part, but if this is
On Oct 13, 2005, at 23:48, bevw wrote:
Maybe someone in Israel used to have this lace, but they bought it in
Europe ~
They'd have had to, since Israel as an independent country (and using
that name) is under 60 yrs old... In 1905 - the earliest date for the
lace to be judged antique there
