Featured Before I sell this cheap ... machine made or handmade lace.. and does the pattern have a name?

I'm a quilter, not a vintage textiles dealer. I'm 90% sure this is machine made, but just in case... better ask first. It's been sitting in my house for years. The card it's on may be original and may not, but I doubt it means much since the label is all but scratched away. No idea if it's 1920 or 1960 either, although if feels earlier rather than later to me. I tried for a better shot. but will need pins and a board to get the lace to behave.

We just had a lace junkie pop up on the board ... sooo @Northern Lights Lodge ? Live or Memorex?

 

LOL... Lace Junkie! I think that is the first time I've been called that! I expect that "fits"!
I would say it is "earlier' rather than later; but yes, machine made lace. I "would" like to see a flatter photo of it if possible. But, only for my own interest... The card looks interesting...damaged?

Leslie

 

Pretty well thrashed. I'll have a go at it tomorrow if I have a minute during the Mother's Day festivities. Such as they'll be.

 

No worries! Enjoy your day! Leslie

 

My sister is here planting stuff with my niece. Mom's cooking latkes. My "child", all 8 pounds and gray fur of her, is hiding in the basement. (she saw my niece's little dog and freaked) So...I took pictures. The card is a bent-up mess that seems to have stained the lace; acid in paper products will do that eventually.

 

Thanks for the additional pics! Sounds like you are having a busy Mother's Day! No, I can't say that the lace has a name - persay. It has no clear elements which would place it in one category or another. Yes, the acid does discolor such things - too bad the label is trashed....looks like almost on purpose. I see that it does give an old phone number...just for the record France had 10,000 phone subscribers by 1890! The lace is a pleasant pattern; and but, by the pattern, I would hazard a guess that it is circa 1920-30.

Leslie

 

Thanks. That's about what I was thinking. I've seen similar on old lingerie from the period. (the stuff that survives because no one could stand wearing it.)