On the other hand, I am personally committed to learning to attach lace by hand (that's my obsessive choice. ;)). It seems absurd to have spent ten years learning to make exquisite lace as it was made in the 17th - 18th centuries, and then blow off the finishing. It takes me the better part of a year to complete Binche lace for a handkerchief, and to spend a week getting the mounting right is not too much to expect. > Clay
I suspect that in the 17th - 18th centuries the lace was mounted on the handkerchief / garment by someone completely different from the lacemaker.
We know that lace was bought by the yard by lace dealers and each step of the needle-lace process was undertaken by a different person. We are now trying to learn every step in the process, whereas then people worked with their strongest skills to earn as much money as they could (which wasn't much).
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