I sent this yesterday, but it never showed up among the emails. Must have been something wrong at the server. So I'm repeating it. " Natalie While most early lace was cream colored linen (as close to white as they could get without chlorine bleach), some of the earliest laces were metallic threads. These were narrow strips of paper gold or silver plated and wrapped around a silk core in the manner of a helix. These laces were the passamenteries -- laces intended to be applliqued onto the surface of a dark velvet or brocade garment. Many of these laces would have a structure like the braided/plaited laces of LePompe, but there were also many with a torchon-like structure, made of these metallic threads. I have seen several from the 1600s in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and there are examples in Santina Levey as well.
The white thread laces started as decorations on the undergarments -- linen underwear -- the edges of which were intended to be visible, and were made of linen also. Lorelei Halley" - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
