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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 2219824, member: 13464&quot;]Wow! The overall view is spectacular! AND huge indeed!&nbsp; It explains those &quot;funky little diamonds&quot; that I couldn&#039;t visualize how they were used and I&#039;d never seen anything like it before! The shadowing effect is quite exceptional!</p><p><br /></p><p>My gut feeling is that it is Spanish...the design is bolder than Chantilly, which is usually more light and airy in design.&nbsp; Especially around the edge... the bold bell shape flowers!&nbsp; I&#039;m also guessing that we&#039;re looking at circa 1880-1900 as it is such an all over design. Size also points to Spanish mantilla... rectangular.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Most&quot; French Chantilly type pieces, especially in black, were circular, triangular, edgings, flounces, and capes rather than large rectangular pieces. French also seem&nbsp; to have &quot;focal&quot; points in large wearables; such as a veil or cape. If you go back and look at the black cape from yesterday&#039;s discussion; you can see a splashy fountain of flowers at center back bottom and top. This different than the &quot;all over&quot; design of the mantilla.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for softness... that strikes me as silk. The blonde piece that i posted in Lesson #6 which is silk... is whisper soft... you can&#039;t even feel it laying on your skin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Last - another observation: in the second photo - you can clearly see the &quot;added picot edge&quot;... you should be able to feel it also.</p><p><br /></p><p>Delightful piece! </p><p>I wish I was in a locale that turned up such goodies on a more regular basis...but alas!&nbsp; Thank you so for sharing!</p><p><br /></p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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