Spiders,
I happened to be in Springfield, Illinois yesterday
for work and talked my boss into an hour's visit to
the brand new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum. (We spent an hour in the museum and an hour
in the gift shop!) An hour isn't nearly enough, but
we zipped through a
The
only other dress with lace was from the 1870s or 1880s
and was definitely machine lace. Does anyone know
when chemical lace started because that's what it
looked like.
According to Pat Earnshaw, In the late 1880s... the Schiffli began to
emerge as a formidable power.
The Schiffli is the
On May 15, 2006, at 13:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
I think that you may find that you have to focus on couturier clothes
of the
past if you want to link them with bobbin lace and even this is not
particularly straight forward since the lace was often distinctly
separate from the
