âHi Vickie, In response to your question:
â â- â I have a construction question about the second piece on the first page of â â the war laces section. It's a table runner titled "Tribute to Ardoye". â-â The embroidered emblems surrounded by lace ground on the border of this â piece appear to have button hole stitch edges. â-â Would they have been appliquéd using a buttonhole stitch onto a large area â of ground after the lace was complete or would the ground have been sewn onto â the buttonhole stitches as the lace border was made? The embroidered emblems on the Tribute to Ardoye War Lace are embroidered âon woven âfabric with satin stitch and French knots. No buttonhole stitches are used. The outside of each emblem is bordered with tightly spaced satin stitches. The ground is made to fit, not carrying behind the emblems. The back of each emblem has a 1/16th inch wide (about 1.5 mm) tightly woven(?) ring, possibly made with bobbin lace, to which the ground and emblems are whip-stitched. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces -Karen in Washington, DCâ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
