A friend and I are trying to puzzle out how best to work square
Valenciennes ground (the one in 19th century Valenciennes). There
seem to be plenty of variations for Valenciennes ground in Cook
Stott's Bobbin Lace Stitches and Michael Guisiana's Binche Lace but
none of them give us quite what
Jean
I have a small half collar, or perhaps it's a cuff, with square
Valenciennes ground that looks very much like that shown in Pat
Earnshaw's Bobbin Needle laces Identification Care, page 58.
Being curved it's difficult to say what the working angle is but it
appears to be 45 deg or
Hello Jean,
1. Angle of the ground - 45 degrees? 50 degrees? or something else?
I didn't find anything about it but I will mesure it.
2. What is the best way of working the plait crossing? There seem to be
several variations.
I remember that when I learned it we did the the round ground in
