When I think of chenille it immediately reminds me of the chenille table cloth used by me grandmother!
Diana > On 11 Aug 2017, at 18:42, Adele Shaak <ash...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > This is an interesting lace - thank you for putting up the photo. I agree > with you that it is a nice little design. It doesn’t look like what I would > expect from the description in Caulfield’s Dictionary of Needlework - the > pattern isn’t poor, it’s not geometrical, and not filled with thick stitches. > It does look like the lacemaker has just substituted a chenille thread for > the usual smooth gimp - if a smooth gimp were used then it would look to me > very like the samples in the Ipswich lace book. > > Adele > West Vancouver, BC > (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/