Help identifying lace
 

PLease could you help me identify what type of lace this is...http://www.quiltingboard.com/webkit-...hment.aspx.jpg

[ATTACH=CONFIG]327192[/ATTACH] PLease could you help identify what type of lace this is. I would be most grateful

I can't tell what kind it is, but I can tell you it's not tatted lace. Hope someone can help you.

perhaps bobbin lace, but it looks machined to me.


I could be very wrong, but I did bobbin lace for years until my eyes realized quilting would be easier.

The way the motifs are connected looks like machine made lace. It's very pretty.

Is it Battenburg lace?

Looks like Battenbug to me.

At first I thought, it looks machine made to me. But on second thought I am not sure.

It may be Brussels lace. http://thetextileblog.blogspot.com/2...sels-lace.html

I don't know what kind of lace that is, but I don't think it is Battenburg. Now I'm curious. It looks like it is machine made not hand made.
Sue

search for a Yahoo group related to lace and post the question.

Definitely not Battenburg which is a tape lace. I would have to see the motifs in person, but the sparse filling stitches with the infrequent picots imply that it is handmade. Those are definitely needle lace, but the flowers and leave are eithe machine made or if handmade, they are bobbin lace. Check and see if the filled in areas are evenly woven or irregular. Even would be machine made and irregular is probably bobbin. (there is also a difference at the edges but I can't explain it well in writing). The net it is attached to is also old-- possibly cotton-- nylon net isn't shaped like that.

A lovely piece if lave! Thank you for sharing!

It is a very preet lace

beautiful lace ... I'd say it's machine created...Lovely

Thank you to all for your interesting responses. Jamie - your message makes complete sense. I found that the embroidery is irregular which to me would imply that it is needle lace? What period do you think this could be and do you think that its originates from Brussels? I shall post some more photographs. Thanks for your help

[ATTACH=CONFIG]327837[/ATTACH] a more detailed image of the lace