Subject: Re: [lace] Valenciennes de Gand, but not quite... My impression is that there were a variety of 'strange' laces, that don't fit nicely into any category in the late 19th century. They seem to have all sorts of mixed techniques and I wonder if they were part of the handmade lace industry's attempts to produce lace that hadn't / couldn't be copied by machine and so could command a better price. Something to think about anyway. Jean currently enjoying sunshine and snow in Italy ___________________________________
My Lace Teacher once told me any time you vary the rules from a particular type lace, it is no longer that type lace anymore. While some say rules are made to be broken... it is a fact that it takes very little change to give a lace a new name... Compare the various laces... some have very little differences... Look at Honiton and Withof laces. There are so many similarities. Susie Johnson Where it is raining this morning. Morris, IL. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
