today, too warm for me.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:34:34 -0400
From: Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [lace] re: lace on ebay
I don't seem to be able to see the close-up pictures that some of the rest of
you can see... very strange, but then nothing about the internet
Oh yes - I only tried enlarging the top image!
But I agree with Jane, it'd bobbin lace but looks to be in pristine condition,
so perhaps not antique. Still very nice.
Brenda
On 30 Jun 2010, at 10:52, Jane Partridge wrote:
In message 9295e8f2-a41e-4236-9a59-763f370d1...@appleshack.com,
Dear Arachne members,
Just a short introduction, since this is my first
contribution to Arachne.
My name is Joke Sinclair. The strange, funny, first
name is the result of my Dutch parents and upbringing. They never anticipated
me marrying a Scot and moving to Britain.
About the lace on Ebay.
I don't seem to be able to see the close-up pictures that some of the
rest of you can see... very strange, but then nothing about the
internet surprises me any more.
Clay
Joke Sinclair wrote...
I don't have the expertise to tell its age, although if you look at
the enlargement of
In a message dated 30/06/2010 19:33:11 GMT Daylight Time,
jokep...@btinternet.com writes:
you can see that the lace was worked as a straight piece and then
expertly sewn together at the corner
Unless the final join was at the corner, and the other three are join free.
I did look at it, and
In a message dated 30/06/2010 22:49:18 GMT Daylight Time,
laceandb...@aol.com writes:
I didn't look at other photos to see if there were signs of joins there
too.
I meant to say, I didn't look at other *corners* to see if there were signs
of joins there too.
Oooops.
Jacquie, still in
I have now gone back to the listing, copied the ebay ID #, and then gone
directly to ebay to see the handkerchief. And yes, then I got the
close-ups, which really stunned me!! It is a beautiful piece of
Flanders (I concur with whoever said that...), and I suspect it is late
19th century at
Clay, I'm glad to hear your comments about the age of the lace. (With regard
to type, yes--Flanders to lacemakers, Mechlin to historians, per Lorelei's
explanation. Not Binche in any case.)
Because the crenullated footside seemed
rather Art Deco to me, I wondered if it might have been made right
On Jan 30, 2004, at 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lynn in W.VA) wrote:
I wonder if I will ever be able to do something like that.
As this kind of lace -- and in that kind of quantity -- used to be
produced by several lacemakers (one to make motif A, one to make motif
B, etc, plus another one or two
