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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 4395132, member: 13464&quot;]Ok... Collar #2. A pleasing piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo #4. This collar is also considered a Bertha; due to size and shape. It is one of any number of names - but all based on mixing machine tape laces with hand applied fillings. Falling under a big umbrella called &quot;Battenberg&quot; they went by Princesse, Princess, Honiton, Duchesse and more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nearly the entire piece is fashioned with different kinds of openwork tapes... it is only the connecting bars, or fancywork stitches between the different types of tape that are hand applied.</p><p><br /></p><p>In photo #5. The center diamond shape next to the ruler is hand &quot;faggoting&quot;, another name for those fancy work stitches. The ovals that surround it are tape and that includes the four little &quot;wheat ears&quot; inside each oval. </p><p><br /></p><p>Fanning out from the ovals are straight across bars which connect to another decorative tape... this one looks a bit like a ladder with tape on each side and then a bar connects the two sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Past that - toward the right side of the photo; there are lots of ovals with busy work in the center; again tapes. But the square mesh that connects the &quot;ladder tape&quot; and the ovals are again, hand &quot;faggoting&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Age: I&#039;m giving this one a more modern date... maybe more like 1880-90. </p><p><br /></p><p>Overall... a very nice piece for what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>On to the next item...</p><p><br /></p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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