Karen (and anybody who has pull at the museum): Does the museum have the accession data on file? It would probably help to find out what year the museum acquired it, who from, etc.
One intriguing thing I've found in the last few days (on eBay) is a series of patterns for filet crochet lace panels, published in 1914 and based on the Bayeux tapestry. I'm just basing my thoughts on human behaviour - but if we see a pattern to reproduce something so complicated in a wide-spread common home technique like filet crochet, then it's likely that thing was in the news within the preceding few years. I wonder if there was some kind of Bayeux Tapestry anniversary or something, because it would be natural for some great atelier to have made such a panel for a big event. I have a couple of big books on the Bayeux Tapestry but sadly all my books are packed until my home is sold. So that is where I would start with any investigation - you would think something like the production of this huge piece of needlelace would have hit the newspapers *somewhere* (possibly in Bayeux? Possibly in French?). Hope this helps. Adele getting back to my packing in North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2012-09-22, at 5:13 AM, Karen Thompson wrote: > I am still looking for answers to the who, when, where and why about > the Bayeux Tapestry in needle lace. Now my blog is posted on the > Smithsonian website: > > http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/ > > -Karen on the sunny warm coast of the Atlantic in Delaware this week end - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
