BASIC BEGINNER LEVEL LACE IDENTIFICATION

This one is very elementary for those just starting:

http://reviews.ebay.com/Handmade-Lace-Identification-A-Primer?ugid=10000000000767476   (Not too good for needle laces)

Basic and elementary:    http://lynxlace.com/kindsoflace.html

Side by side comparisons:   http://lynxlace.com/compare.html 

Special lace terms:  http://lynxlace.com/laceterminology.html 

Elizabeth Kurella's new website   http://www.lacecurator.info/

INTRODUCTION TO LACE HISTORY IN GENERAL

Jean Leader -  http://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Identifying-Handmade-lace.pdf 

https://www.laceguild.org/craft/index.html

https://www.laceguild.org/craft/history.html   Be sure to look at the individual countries.    by Jean Leader, very well done, good pictures to illustrate.

https://www.laceguild.org/craft/tapelace.html

http://www.devonlaceteachers.co.uk/devon-laces.html 

Words used in the 18th c to describe elements of costume - https://people.csail.mit.edu/sfelshin/revwar/glossary.html

IDENTIFYING THE VARIETIES

Lorelei Halley's pinterest page:  https://www.pinterest.com/lynxlacelady/  You need a pinterest account to see my boards, but joining is free. I have a board for each type of lace.

Rosemary Shepherd's article: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/research/classification.pdf

http://www.marlamallett.com/lace.htm 

Many photos, varieties of bobbin lace:   http://lynxlace.com   There are pages also for each major kind of lace.

A good way to learn to identify laces is to look at lots of photos of high quality antique laces.  http://lacenews.net/  has a section on "ebay alerts" with photos and descriptions of current offerings.  I have found the best way to see detail shots is to click on the photo, wait till the ebay page comes up, click on "enlarge".

http://www.laceforstudy.org.uk/  Many of the photos show very fine detail.  The site has a search function, so you can ask for photos of just Chantilly, for instance, or Duchesse.

http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/identification/bobbin.html 

LePompe 1559: You can now see both volumes, actually the ones Mrs Palliser had seen at Bibl. Arsenale. The order of the pages are different, but it is the pages we know from the published versions. They are online thanks to Bibliothèque nationale de France:

http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=IFN-8622058&I=1&M=chemindefer
posted on arachne today by Vibeke Ervo.

http://www.embroiderersguildwa.org.au/ 

Elizabeth Kurella's article on handmade Valenciennes  http://www.lacecurator.info/collecting-lace/val-handmade.pdf 

A site on Italian laces, not sure about historical reliability, possibly useful  http://www.fioretombolo.net/      It is oriented in a direction from our usual, and that itself is useful, for perspective.

MACHINE VERSUS HANDMADE

This one attempts to distinguish machine and hand made laces:

http://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk/Lace%20Booklet.pdf 

For comparison purposes, a modern manufacturer of Barmen laces, with catalog:

http://barmenlace.com/english/our-laces/index.html  In their catalog look at pages 3 and 7.    

A modern manufacturer of chemical lace:  http://www.lacego.com/lace/solubility/   lace1    lace2    

Modern manufacturer of raschel machine lace:  http://www.lacego.com/lace/raschel/  example1   example2     example3     example4    example5        

Leavers machine:

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS WITH LACE PHOTOS

Victoria & Albert     http://www.vam.ac.uk/ 

http://antike-textilien.de/page1/page5/page5.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?&deptids=12&what=Lace&pg=1 

National Museum of American History  http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/lace-collection 

http://www.clevelandart.org/collections/collection%20online.aspx?type=refresh&sliderpos=2&searchoption=1 

Cleveland bobbin lace

Cleveland needle lace

Cleveland filet lace  

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/category/37?filters=has_image%3Atrue 

http://dig.henryart.org/textiles/textiles/structures/ 

http://museomerletto.visitmuve.it/it/attivita/per-tutti/concorso/foto-partecipanti/    

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=gold+bobbin+lace&searchNameID=&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&searchDeptID=&accessionID=&page=1