Historically, it was considered proper to have subjects mainly facing right,
unless there was a cluster within a scene. Here the sower (and dog) and
gleaner are facing right, which would subsidize the SWM theory.
Best,
Susan Reishus
The larger piece makes me wonder about monograms - the monogram
Some of us weren';t fortunate enough to get to Japan. I';m working
madly to complete all my chores getting ready to host IOLI in 16 (!!!
yikes !!!) days.
I'm not the expert on these laces...the pictures are too small to show
the details. They could be either machine or handmade, from the little
My two cents: I'm thinking these pieces are probably machine-made. They're
really very big (for the non-metric, the small is 12" x 18" and the large is
about 63" x 18") and the type of design makes me think they're later rather
than earlier.
The larger piece makes me wonder about monograms - th
You're quite right, Devon, I answered quickly before I went out this
morning, and the made-in-pieces bit got stuck in the recesses of my brain.
Another reason why it would be excellent if stevienixed would post some more,
much
better pictures of details.
The rest of my answers still stand tho
Jacquie writes:
<< which side is the beginning and where does it end? Vertical? Horizontal?
Short end start, work the length of the piece, otherwise the hundreds of
pairs of bobbins would be thousands, even with the smaller piece. On the
smaller piece, which is the one with a slightly be
>From the quality of the photo it's hard to make absolute comments as from
the lack of definition it could even be machine made lace so I'll just
talk in general terms.
First I wonder why you think it is Point de Paris as distinct from another
Point Ground type lace? PdeP is usually a narrow
