Devon, I propose that they are the two major forms of handmade, historically important lace, forms with which the general public is not familiar and doesn't know how to make, even in very general terms. Other than that, I agree with the implication of your question -- they don't share anything except what they share by virtue of being forms of lace.
But needle lace and bobbin lace deserve to be treated together, in a show such as yours for example, because of the first point above, and because they are functionally similar enough (in spite of fundamental structural differences) that they can be combined harmoniously (Duchesse with Point de Gaze inserts, for a historical example). Nancy Connecticut, USA On Mar 31, 2018 13:43, "DevonThein" wrote: ... Now I have the intellectual problem that the only thing that bobbin and needle lace had in common were that they were once made in white and looked very similar at that time, converging ... Now that they are not made in white, what do they have in common? - 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/
