I agree this is handmade lace. It's started with connected pairs. The leaf tallies show all the variations that appear on tallies that are quickly made, and left however they end up. (Probably like many of us do with our tallies. <G>)
I would call this Torchon rather than Cluny, but that's a personal preference. It doesn't have trails, and is a typical straight lace with roseground and half stitch sections in a 45 degree grid. This would be a very good pattern for someone wanting to practice tallies. There's about 500 of them in the piece of lace you have. Twice that length would complete the 1000 many people try to make. It's also interesting to note that a pair was left out of the start and there's an open space in the first row of daisies. The missing pair was slipped in there so the rest of the lace has a full set of threads. This is something I've done when I didn't want to reverse lace. Good eye, and good buy. Hope it washes up really well for you. Alice in Oregon -- cool and rainy. Little Binche pattern now about 80 percent done. ----- Original Message ---- From: "Mark, aka Tatman" <tatmant...@gmail.com> To: Lace list <lace@arachne.com>; "bobbinl...@yahoogroups.com" <bobbinl...@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:05:11 PM Subject: [lace] Rescued piece of lace Dear lacers, While we were out shopping for last minute props and costumes for the HS musical this past weekend, we were at a flea market and I always hastely glance for any lace paraphenalia. I managed to rescue this cluny lace insertion. It measures 52 inches long and 3 and 3/4th inches wide. I believe it is handmade because the leaf tallies are pointed on both ends(unlike barmen machine lace as referenced to me from a previous post) and you can see where the starter pins were and the lacemaker had tied the thread ends together in knots on the other end. It desparately needs a good washing! If you know of the pattern or think it might be some other type of lace, please let me know. Below are some closeups of the lace: http://tinyurl.com/ba55hc http://tinyurl.com/bacf84 http://tinyurl.com/bmac4y You can also see my post of it on my blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com -- Mark, aka Tatman Temporary blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/ email: tatmant...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
