In a message dated 1/1/2004 8:57:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, perhaps, the George Washington panel is something that had been made along the same lines? "Special", but "curtains" nevertheless? I am not going to pretend that I understood what Mr. Mason was saying when he made the remark about the Pusher machine being used as a Lace Curtain machine. However, I dimly recall reading that the lace curtain machine makes a lace where many of the threads run at parallel to the selvidge and other threads sort of wind back and forth between these threads giving almost the right angle effect of filet. The Pusher machine, I thought, was distinguished because the threads could "traverse", that is run diagonally as is done in hand made lace. So when he said it was a Pusher machine being used as a lace curtain machine, it blew my mind. Actually the George Washington is a very fine piece, not like a curtain at all. It is about a foot in size, in fine black thread, and has very detailed and delicate shading looking like a very fine portrait carefully colored into very fine graph paper, entirely composed of tiny squares of varying density. I can't recall whether the edges were cut or it was individually threaded up. But Mr. Mason called for a ruler and insisted on calculating the threads per inch, which was an unusually large number if I surmise correctly. I think the Battle of Britain is a lace curtain machine product. Nottingham is known particularly for the Lace Curtain Machine-although again, it is by no means confined to curtains. I think a lot of tablecloths are made using this process as well as other things. Devon
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