On Saturday, Dec 13, 2003, at 18:22 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the special lace study day arranged by Devon Thein at The Ratti
Center,
Metropolitan Museum, there was a microscope set up, focused on a piece
of lace.
A camera sent a magnified image to a computer screen set on the
There's a discussion of this subject on pages 26 and 27 of The Art and
Craft of Old Lace by Freiherr Alfred ven Henneberg. It is called The
Fineness of the Thread, and is written with the same smitten, passionate
devotion with which this man wrote everything. Well worth looking up, both
for the
On Wednesday, Dec 10, 2003, at 07:48 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Devon) wrote:
which they analyzed thread from many of their pieces of 17th century
lace and
found many different blends of linen and cotton and some of silk. A
paper was
published [...]
[...] she suggests that the thread may
