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Message:: [QUOTE="Northern Lights Lodge, post: 10376979, member: 13464"]Hi Joan,I did find a machine example which might be helpful. This piece appears to have nofront or back side... both sides look nearly identical. But the pattern has similarities to yours. [ATTACH=full]521981[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]521979[/ATTACH] In comparing your piece to this one, although they do have a similar ground, you'll note in the photo below, the yellow circles are around a garbled area in every repeat! The blue circle around the "ball", and the blue line under it along the "wave element", highlights the fact that it IS a fairly uniform outline, much more like you'd find in handmade lace. The small blue circles have that curious "loop" connection which appears in yours, and repeated in the same location along the piece. Lastly the black "Vee's", which in a very few locations, do more accurately mimic the in and out of the worker threads. My last notation which I didn't color code; but it is pretty clear, is the more uniform threads that go lengthwise through the piece, that the top has a very nicely mimicked "footing edge" which has a straight edge, with a narrow space and then two passive pairs which run parallel to the straight edge. This is quite similar to a handmade footing and, infact, VERY hard to tell hand from machine if that is your ownly clue! In the lower design "wave elements", it is "almost" clear, but there are garbles to the right and left, around the "eyes", where the threads may actually be stitched or knotted to fill the space without adding extra pairs.[ATTACH=full]521983[/ATTACH] So, I think this is a nice example of something from a lace machine that had either better programming, or had more precise stitches. It has more of what real handmade lace has, and less of what earlier(?) machine examples have... Loved this challenge! Hope you did too!Cheerio,Leslie[/QUOTE]

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