Alex's view seems to concur with most of the replies on this subject -
I certainly agree.
However, I think that this moving towards machine mounting is part of
the changing nature of (bobbin) lacemaking. Traditionally, lace made
for sale was made by one person (or several in the case of sectional
laces) and then a different person, with good sewing skills, did the
mounting; they just didn't have access to sewing machines. As
lacemaking moved towards being a leisure activity people still put the
'traditional' value onto the mounting of that lace. Handmade lace
itself has moved on a lot in the last couple of decades with a lot more
colour and non-traditional threads being used and more and more people
are realising that they can make a better job of machine mounting their
lace than they can hand stitching it to fabric. All part of lace
evolution.
Brenda
On 21 Jun 2008, at 09:52, Alex Stillwell wrote:
Traditionally lace should be hand sewn to fabric but I would rather
see a
piece well mounted using machine sewing than one spoilt by being badly
mounted
by hand.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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