Featured Looking for some clarification

Aloha,

Here are some pics of a few pieces inherited through family decades ago. I am not clear on how best to describe the types of work these are, or if any particularly stand out as unusual vs. common. It actually seems to me (as one with zero experience) some of these encompass two or more types of needlework.



Thanks for looking!

 

@Northern Lights Lodge

 

@808Beachbum,
Oh goodie - more goodies!!!
Photo #1 - Far left: yellow and white hand tatted edge - some hand embroidery - prob late 1920/1930's as Deco era pieces liked using black as a design element.
Center: A fun cross stitch piece - typical of 1920's designs -
Right top: Right Bottom and Center cross stitch ... all have Schleffli Lace (also called chemical lace) refer to Lace Lesson #6 "Different ways lace can be made"
Photo #2 and 3 - Machine embroidered eyelet lace... 30's - 40's era
Photo #4 and 5 - Pretty machine woven pieces with machine embroidery. These were made and sold by the yard, typically designed to be used on boudoir vanities... and cut to fit as the single piece. The designs were stylized to resemble bobbin laces; although not specifically any "type" of bobbin lace. Sort of Belgian in design.
Photo #6 - Hard to see the stitches so either another hand netted lace or perhaps hairpin lace. Both are techniques resulting in a similar construction when handmade.
Photo # 7 and 8 - Red white and blue ruffle doily! Hand crochet and very popular in the 1950's! Our neighbor "Ruby" had one on EVERY surface in her very formal living room (they had no children) but she watched me from time to time when I was 4. I was fascinated to watch the process of placing her freshly washed doily on an old piece of cotton sheeting, carefully spreading it out and then amply sprinkling it with her starch mixture and then after it had gone back in the fridge to get cold (I don't know why she got it cold) but she'd take it out - unroll it and painstakingly iron it into abrupt up and down ruffles!
Perhaps it is where my early interest in lace began??
Photo #9 - repeat of #1 showing your hand embroidered pieces with Schleffli lace.

So you really do have nice range of pieces throughout the decades. Probably the most unusual is the netted/hairpin piece...

I don't think any of them are worth any exceptional amount...but certainly worthy of caring for and using in your own home! Have fun starching that red, white and blue one! We'll want to see it if you give it a go!

Thanks for sharing!
Cheerio, Leslie

 

Wow, thanks for all the detailed info! 2, 3, 4, and 5 all are made with very fine thread, relative to all of the others. They are a little ragged, but I particularly like 4, as the colors are quite vibrant. I totally agree that 6 is the same type of work as the large hand netted lace from my earlier post. It's a little rough, but mostly wrinkled. Funny, now that you mention ironing the patriotic piece, I distinctly remember "helping" Mom when she would iron a bunch of these pieces after cleaning them, in preparation for the Holiday season. She only used a few during the rest of the year, but when company was coming for festive family meals, it was Showtime! (I had to help polish the silver too!) She would have a table runner or centerpiece doily on every table, and nearly every accessory had it's own separate doily. Dad's and her chairs would have one over the back as well. Those were the Good Old Days...
Mahalo for the info and the memories!

 

Lovely! It was truly my pleasure! Thanks for sharing your family traditions! Love it!
Cheerio!
Leslie