[lace] Heart or head? Napolionic PoW bobbins?

2020-05-30 Thread Brian Lemin
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254607849251 Recently my bobbin partner alerted me to the above bobbin sale on eBay. Her heart was asking the question if this could be a bobbin made by the Napoleonic PoWs? I looked at it and entertained similar thoughts, but then i retrieved  some articles from my

[lace] RE: Brides Tortillee

2020-05-30 Thread Laurie Waters
Collectors, for what their opinion is worth, tend to assign the name Argentan to laces with brides bouclée and also with a very solid clothwork, like this recently sold piece on Ebay (see attached). Here, the hexagonal base is completely covered with buttonhole stitches. But the technique was done

Re: [lace] Brides Tortillee

2020-05-30 Thread Jean Leader
> > On 30 May 2020, at 21:36, Devon Thein wrote: > > Would one consider a piece of French needle lace with a Brides > tortillee mesh to be Alencon or Argentan? Also, I don't really understand > how it was made. With Alencon, you do needle lace stitches across a row, > then you whip back. But in

[lace] Brides Tortillee

2020-05-30 Thread Devon Thein
Would one consider a piece of French needle lace with a Brides tortillee mesh to be Alencon or Argentan? Also, I don't really understand how it was made. With Alencon, you do needle lace stitches across a row, then you whip back. But in the case of the Brides tortillee all the sides are whipped. Is