Nathalie I have Levey's book and looked at the cover. But from that it is impossible to tell if it is needle or bobbin, or what kind. The open transparency of the ground possibly suggests needle lace with a bar ground (large holes). Given the time period the other kind of transparent ground (point ground) is unlikely, and bobbin laces of that time did not use large areas of bar ground (although large areas of Flanders ground or Mechlin ground might be possible). Possibly it will be forever unknowable. A painting is not a photograph, however much attention the artist pays to accurate detail. Lorelei
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