Hi
I agree I don't want any of my lace or anything in the coffin, it would be a
waste and maybe, in the future, someone will look at it with the fondness we
look at old lace now.
Maureen E Yorks UK (where it is a lovely sunny morning.)
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I think a lot depends upon whether you decide to be buried or cremated.
If buried, lace in your coffin - especially if it is wire lace - could
tell a future archaeologist that you were a lacemaker... or leave them
puzzling, just as the sprang found in the Egyptian tombs has!
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I think that if you are going to be buried and have lace in your coffin
there should be an explanation as to why and hope that it can be read in the
future.
Maureen
E Yorks
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Liz
I think that you are going to have to leave any not 'good pieces' in an
envelope or something. I rather suspect that, unless they are lacemakers
themselves, they may not know which is good and which is not.
Maureen
E Yorks
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Alex, I have one of those Hankies.
I was given is as a hankie!I have since been told it was to cover the
face of the dead. I don't know much about the tradition, but it sounds
about right.
However, I have given strict instructions that neither it, nor any other
lace is to be put in my
In fact, I am now wondering
if they are not handkerchiefs...If not handkerchiefs, could they be challice
veils? Often mistaken for handkerchiefs, they are used in the Catholic church
to cover the communion cup. Typically they have a rounded centre, rather than
square, of very fine material with
Dear Arachnids
I have not looked at the pictures of the 'handkerchiefs' but Joan Tyler-Smith
showed me some square handkerchief-like items with circular centres and wide
lace edgings, many of them silk, and she explained they were made to cover the
face of someone who had died. Does anyone know
