[lace] Honiton with rectangles

[Susan]

Adele, thank you so much for posting!  I was having trouble imagining the 
collar from your description so it was kind of your friend to send photos to 
share.  Love the bird, thistle & shamrocks (??).  Does your friend ever wear 
her collar?  It is stunning & would look very chic indeed on a light weight 
cashmere sweater, perhaps with a cameo.  It's too pretty to be trapped in a 
drawer!  She's a lucky lady.  Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 
USA 

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Re: [lace] Honiton With Rectangles?

[Karen ZM]

Thanks for sharing this (and posting the link so I can get to it easily).
Definitely an interesting piece, though the pivoted bars are unusual.

May I appeal to anyone sharing photos on Arachne to post a link to them. It
makes life so much easier. Mm..I may need to take this last request
back - on going to the end of the original message to delete it, I noticed
the link to Flickr. I don't usually notice all that, but because the cursor
on my iPad would not obey, I looked at it for longer than usual. If I had a
tail, I think I would tuck it between my legs right now 😕

Regards to all,
Karen in Malta.

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Re: [lace] Honiton With Rectangles?

[Jean Leader]

On 16 May 2016, at 21:57, Adele Shaak  wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago I posted a question (below) about a Honiton collar, and
> didn’t hear from anyone. 

Hi Adele,

I think it is probably Honiton - the flowers including the thistle are typical 
as are the leaves with raised work. I’ve never seen quite such a regular ground 
of picoted bars before but maybe someone was trying to be a bit different! The 
bird looked familiar and that’s because there’s a very similar one in a Honiton 
flounce in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

Jean in Glasgow where rain is forecast for tomorrow after a week of sunshine

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[lace] Honiton With Rectangles?

[Adele Shaak]

While the list is quiet, I would like to ask a question. 

A member of my lace club brought a beautiful lace collar into our last club 
meeting. It is an heirloom, coming from her family in the English Midlands, and 
is 100 years old, if not older. The lace is very finely made - beautifully made 
- in a sophisticated design of flowers and birds in very fine white cotton, 
with extensive raised and rolled work. Given the provenance, I would say it 
might be a very well-made, well-designed Honiton. Or it might be Duchesse. 

But this beautiful lace has a feature that I have not seen before and cannot 
find in any of my books. The flowers and leaves are held together with fine 
braids, but they don’t zig-zag back and forth in the usual way. Instead, the 
picoted braids make a background pattern of rectangles, about 1 cm x .8 cm or 
so. Has anybody ever seen anything like this?

I’m sorry I didn’t have a camera with me at the meeting, so I cannot post a 
picture, but I’m hoping someone might be able to recognize it from my 
description.

Adele
West Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)

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