> probably made in Eastern Europe or Asia - but 1980s not 1880s! > > If you click on the home page link: > http://www.dollsandlace.com/cgi-bin/dalshop.pl?cat=AntiqueLace&view=cat > you'll see some more "antique" lace on sale, with some very suspect > descriptions. > With the exception of this one, the doilies, and the knitting, > tatting > and crochet it all looks like fairly modern machine made lace to me. > > As one would expect with yardage lace. > can you make picots on a machine? it is the only one advertised that i saw as hand made, so the rest are machine made. it doesn't look at all like bedfordshire. i have never seen, although i wouldn't know for sure, square tallies with the center being not filled in in beds lace. it might be cluny.
from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]