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Identification-History

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For discussions of lace history and lace identification. You can post a photo into a comment box for a lace you want to discuss. Bobblin lace history. About historic lace. Kinds of lace. Distinguish types of lace.

We can identify a piece of lace for you, but we need good detail. At least one photo with this kind of detail is necessary. Otherwise we are just guessing. A shot of the whole thing is useful because that shows us the style. Style gives us clues to date and possibly geographical origin. But we need the detail shot to tell us how it was made.

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Examples + Resources

PHOTOS

Bobbin lace antiquebobbinlace bobbinlace3 Needle lace needlelace2

http://www.laceforstudy.org.uk/

Descriptions of several styles of lace - https://www.jeanleader.net/lacestyles/index.html

To compare needle lace, tatting and crochet, Kathleen Minniti's sampler.

My antique lace boards on Pinterest

http://www.pinterest.com/lynxlacelady/bobbin-lace-antique/

http://www.pinterest.com/lynxlacelady/needle-lace-antique/

My collection of boards on Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/lynxlacelady/

Tatting tatting2 tatting3

Embroidery on tulle-needlerun Embroidery on tulle-tambour Carrickmacross

Filet lace filetlace2 filetlace3 filet lace4 Buratto

Sol lace sollace2 sol lace3

Knitted lace knittedlace2 Crochet lace Irish crochet lace IrishCrochet2

Chemical lace ChemicalLace2 chemical lace3 chemical lace4

See this for a technical explanation of the chemical lace process.

Barmen machine lace Raschel machine lace Leavers machine

machine1 (not sure what machine)

I don't know how this machine relates to the Barmen or Rascheel (or other machine)

Bobbin tape lace bobbin tape lace 2

Mixed tape lace-machinetape Romanian needlepoint lace

For recognizing Swedish bobbin lace: http://elsapetersonsspetsaffar.com/

RESOURCES TO START LEARNING HOW TO IDENTIFY LACE

http://laceioli.ning.com/group/identification-history/page/online-resources

http://laceioli.ning.com/group/identification-history/page/6475898:Page:1417

http://laceioli.ning.com/group/identification-history/page/specific-pages-in-lynxlace

IOLI.ORG'S RESOURCES

THE KOON COLLECTION

The Koon collection CD is a collection of images from the Eunice Sein Koon
Collection of Lace donated to IOLI by Ms. Koon. Ms. Koon was the editor of
Lace Craft Quarterly and a collector of lace. It is not related to the
Minnesota collection to the best of my knowledge. The CD is a series of
Powerpoint slides organized as the collection pieces are numbered. There
are approximately 100 pieces of various types of lace in the Koon
collection. Pictures from the CD could be copied and pasted into another
Powerpoint presentation, or the images could be used to request pieces of
lace from the collection for study by IOLI members. Policy for use of this
lace is described on p. 58 of the IOLI Member Handbook. -- Jo Ann Eurell

LACE STUDY BOX

The IOLI - Internation Organization of Lace, Inc. has a study box of lace fragments that members can borrow.

(I am searching for a link)

IOLI also has a lending library for members' use

http://www.internationalorganizationoflace.org/library1.html

http://laceioli.ning.com/group/international-organization-of-lace-inc/page/ioli-advanced-study-of-lace

A site with good photos of high quality antique laces: http://www.mendes.co.uk/antique.bobbin.lace.p.two.html ;

Discussion Forum

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Hi, Could you identify this lace for me?Continue

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Lace Identificatio 1 Reply

Hi everyone, i have a lovely 1920s dress made from the prettiest lace, i assume its machine made, but can someone tell me what tis style of lace is called? Thanks in advance !Continue

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Indexes for 'A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors' by Gertrude Whiting 9 Replies

Someone of IOLI told me about 'A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors' by Gertrude Whiting (1920). I can't find who, but thank you! This book has a LARGE number of grounds, with names, photo and…Continue

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Help with Needlepoint Lace ID 16 Replies

HI All,I have recently acquired this wonderful lace collar which I believe is a needle or needlepoint lace. Even though I have purchased 3 books on lace ID(which I love by the way) I often become…Continue

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Comment by Cindy Tiger on Saturday: Thanks a million guys! The Denver Art Museum is undergoing a massive rehab and all the lace is now packed away for the duration. I will put a note on this one that it needs to be looked at more carefully when it is available again. But I really appreciate your help!

Comment by Administrator on September 5, 2017 at 8:06pm: My knowledge of needle lace doesn't come anywhere near my bobbin lace expertise. But I think Devon is probably right about the shape of the current object suggesting a 19th century date for object as it currently exists, made up of older laces repurposed. Your own idea about using the shape to date the cap is a good one, but it does have the limitation that repurposeing can throw that off.

I also think Devon is right about some strips of the cap being denser than others -- the 2nd and 5th in particular look denser.

But as to the date of the original fragments used to cobble this object together, I haven't a clue.

An attempt at making a cap with lappets (without actual lappets). Can you locate joins on the reverse side?

Comment by Devon Thein on September 5, 2017 at 4:10pm: This is what I see. The strips marked A look like a different lace than the others. They have a more open mesh and also a strange buttonholed series of loops, which I have never seen before. I am not sure whether there are one or two additional kinds of strips.

Comment by Devon Thein on September 5, 2017 at 4:08pm

Comment by Cindy Tiger on September 5, 2017 at 3:54pm: I do agree that the lace is older. I am tentatively dating it 1690-1720 Venetian Rosepoint needlelace. I am working on this for a museum and they are interested in what era the lace would be worn. Hense my curiosity about the date of the cap.

It does not seem to be pieced together, but it may very possibly have been cut down and reshaped in that way. And the little edging added all around at that time. I have found one picture of a woman wearing a lace cap with a little ruffle at the back, c. 1800, but nothing with tails, and the picture I saw was a cloth cap and not a fancy lace one.

It is really pretty big (13") but I am now wondering if maybe it is one half of a purse, with the triangle "tails" at the top of the bag that flop over the strings that gather the purse closure. But that would make a really big purse for anyone pre-1800!

Comment by Carolina de la Guardia on September 5, 2017 at 2:55pm: I agree that it seems an old piece refashioned.
The style seems to me that it is a Venetian lace.

Comment by Karen Thompson on September 5, 2017 at 2:31pm: Agree that the lace looks older, and I think it looks like it was refashioned. If you look carefully under a magnifier, I think you will find that it is pieced together to make the old lace wearable as a fashionable headdress

Comment by Devon Thein on September 5, 2017 at 10:08am: It sort of reminds me of this from the Traditonal Bedfordshire lace, which would be about mid 19th century? The lace looks much older though. Of course, refashioning of older lace was extensively done in the 19th century.

Comment by Devon Thein on September 5, 2017 at 10:07am

Comment by Cindy Tiger on September 5, 2017 at 10:01am: I have a piece of lace I am trying to date. It is a needlelace cap of an unusual design and I am sure the shape of the cap will date it fairly specifically, but I am coming up blank with my search of costume and fashion designs. I have begun to doubt myself on this so much that I am willing to entertain the idea that it is not a cap at all, but I can't imagine what else it could be. It measures 13 3/4" top to bottom, and 13" across. The close-up picture I am including is the best resolution I could get. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.