Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Rochelle Sutherland
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, 9 August, 2007 4:52:37 PM Subject: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace? Gentle Spiders, On my Campaign for Modern Lace Site at the Arachne Webshots, _http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK_ (http://home-and

RE: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Patricia Dowden
ent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:53 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace? Gentle Spiders, On my Campaign for Modern Lace Site at the Arachne Webshots, _http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK_ (http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/al

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 8/9/2007 1:24:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do they define "guipure" nowadays? As a kind of tape? Or what? Ah terminology again. Well, I don' t know how they define guipure, but I use it to mean decorative elements connected with bars, rat

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Ilske Thomsen
The mesh with the medieval woman looks a bit irregular what means handmade. In the other piece the mesh is more regular. the bird in front of the woman is not a peacock in my opion. lso the flowers looks more than thistles than poppies. and the open one in middle could be a lot of others. In th

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Devon -- How do they define "guipure" nowadays? As a kind of tape? Or what? Aurelia I have checked my books about Aemilia Ars, and although there are many peacocks, the work seems mostly to be of a guipure type, and absent these large areas of painstaking needle made mesh. - To unsubscr

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Dmt11home
I feel that there is sufficient lack of uniformity in the mesh that tulle is not being used, but rather handmade needle mesh. This is particularly clear in the mesh which has double stitches and such in it. But the plain mesh is also does not appear to be machine made to me. I have the photoc

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread David in Ballarat
Dear Devon, On my Campaign for Modern Lace Site at the Arachne Webshots, _http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK_ (http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK) Without a very close look it was hard to tell. My first thought was needle lace appliqued on to net.

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, I saw a lot of Hrdlicka design but not all and in my opinion those two collars aren't from him. There excist also a lot of Jugendstil designs from the Compagnie Bruxelles and Ars Aemilia in Bologna as well as from Hungarian and other designers in Europe. in that time. In my shel

[lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-08 Thread Dmt11home
Gentle Spiders, On my Campaign for Modern Lace Site at the Arachne Webshots, _http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK_ (http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK) there have been two new pictures posted. They are the second and third pictures on that album,