RE: [lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-14 Thread suzy
here is his name and email address, and i can even forward the email he sent me if you like. i'll post it on lace after i'm done : James Robison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Avital <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's interesting. We don't have a bobbin lace tradition in Israel, > so I wonder > why he

RE: [lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-14 Thread Avital
That's interesting. We don't have a bobbin lace tradition in Israel, so I wonder why he thought it was Israeli? Unless it had Miriam Gidron's name on it (or mine) or it was purchased in Israel, that seems rather unlikely. Could you post the URL again sometime? I'd like to take a look at it. Thanks.

[lace] Re: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Oct 13, 2005, at 23:48, bevw wrote: Maybe someone in Israel used to have this lace, but they bought it in Europe ~ They'd have had to, since Israel as an independent country (and using that name) is under 60 yrs old... In 1905 - the earliest date for the lace to be judged "antique" there

Re: [lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-13 Thread suzy
here is his name and email address: "James Robison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and he says he works with this women often, so maybe you can get more information than what i got. i'm not arguing where it came from because i wouldn't know one type of bobbin lace from another for the most part, but if this

[lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-13 Thread bevw
oops, to suzy, sent this to you privately and meant to include the lace list: This is like the story of the 6 blind philosphers trying to identify by feel a particular strange beast (it was an elephant) - so many interesting opinions. I sent the link of the picture of the lace to a collector pal o

Re: [lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-13 Thread suzy
i wrote the seller and he said that he felt it was handmade because of the inconsistant thread tention. he also said it had isrealy (isrealie ?) origins, and the seller told him it was hand made, but she has been wrong before. i thought you were going to guess it by the descrition you were giving

Re: [lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-13 Thread Alice Howell
At 08:35 AM 10/13/2005, you wrote: It looks more French to me. Doesn't quite have the feel of beds. It does sort of have a Kortelahti look to it, but that wasn't my first thought. I have my doubts about it being handmade though the pattern is very interesting. I've seen some machine lace tha

[lace] RE: antique bobbin lace

2005-10-13 Thread Helen Bell
It looks more French to me. Doesn't quite have the feel of beds. I don't see any gimps, and those look like pomegranates, which I'm not sure I've seen too much of in beds lace. The footside isn't a common English one either. And if it was English, I don't think they'd have done rolled tallies o