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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 10375869, member: 13464&quot;]You are quite welcome! My thoughts were that it was perhaps an earlier machine lace; where they hadn&#039;t quite refined techniques that made machine pieces more &quot;consistent&quot; - and that could amount to a machine not being set up properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>That makes more sense to me than a lacemaker... even a poor one. My reasoning is, that even though it is a narrow and a relatively simply styled piece, it is still a fairly complex pattern. It has a complex ground or netting, the outlines around the elements and even the shallow scallop - any lacemaker would have to be fairly skilled to even attempt it. And, I&#039;ll mention here, that picots are one of the first skills that a lacemaker learns! I just don&#039;t see any parts of it, which are worked &quot;cleanly enough&quot; (without inconsistencies), which would indicate that it was made by hand. So, therefore, process of elimination, led me to believe that it is indeed machine.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I truly love &quot;reading&quot; lace. It is fun to pick it &quot;visually&quot; apart and make deductions! Your example was a good challenge!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheerio,</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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