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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 2372274, member: 13464&quot;]Hi [USER=13823]@Curioser[/USER],</p><p>Sorry, just found these this afternoon. I&#039;ve been busy turning out a few things myself. I&#039;m so sorry about your flood! I hope you are able to salvage some things!</p><p>Ok...on to lace:</p><p>Photo #1. Top one - is machine &quot;Schleffli&quot; lace...</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bottom one - is indeed also hand done - probably Swiss?&nbsp; But made to&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; look like a Carrickmacross Irish &quot;organdie applied to netting&quot; style lace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo #2 and #3 - all are hand made bobbin lace! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Photo #2. The top one on the left and the bottom one are &quot;Torchon&quot; - the left being a very &quot;typical&quot; pattern; and the bottom one a much more complicated wider piece; and features LOTS of &quot;spiders&quot;. Torchon &quot;typically&quot; is very geometric in design.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one on the top right is a &quot;Bedsfordshire&quot; / &quot;Beds&quot; style bobbin lace. It features those &quot;openwork diamond&quot; patterns and the diamond and the fan has an outline cordonnet; typical of Bed&#039;s style laces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo #3. The upper is probably still classified as a &quot;Torchon lace&quot; although it does have that wavy tape (rather than geometric)... but the fans are truly Torchon.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lower one has the typical &quot;picket fence&quot; edge, very commonly found on Bedsfordshire/Beds laces and although a very simple design with only a few simple elements; is really very effective!&nbsp; It does sport just a tiny bit of cordonnet in the fancy serpentine bit around the 4 elongated tallies (that make the cross shape).</p><p><br /></p><p>All laces in these three photos share one thing in common. Non-mitered corners (meaning cut and sewn into a 90 degree corner).</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo #1 handkerchiefs were made on machines - to be handkerchiefs...(not yardage). </p><p>The Schleffli - embroidered onto cheesy fabric in the shape of a square and then dropped into acid to remove the cheesy fabric and then the lace, sewn onto the handkerchief fabric. The second; was all just embroidered in one piece and then sewn by machine onto the linen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Had the laces in photos #2&amp;3 been machine lace &quot;yardage&quot;; they probably would have been cut and sewn into 90 degree turns. Because they were designed to &quot;be&quot; handkerchiefs; the lace itself is designed to be mitered to turn the corner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lovely examples! They would probably all hand wash up ok. I like using woolite. Rinse well. And again. Don&#039;t scrub. I would probably put all in a lingerie bag for laundering. Then pat out water between towels. When they are damp dry; after removing water... I, myself, would lay them out on a glass (if possible) surface and finger press flat. If you REALLLLLLLLY want that &quot;picket fence&quot; or edge to pop.... then I&#039;d mark off squares on styrofoam or cardboard and pin the picot holes (or winkie pin holes)&nbsp; along the outside edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Winkie pin holes are along the edges of the fan; where as, they are more of just an enlarged hole - rather than a &quot;picot&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have fun! Hope that all helps!</p><p>Cheerio,</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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