I am making a tallit for a woman who inherited some beautiful linens from her Leeds born grandmother. Given that my apartment is the place where old linens go to live out their later years, I have seen lots of doilies over the years.
What I find intriguing about these doilies is how they are created with two layers of interconnected work.
This is clearly high level, high quality work.
I love those jonquil borders.
I am guessing that this is a form of bobbin lace, but I am happy to be corrected. I also know that various lace types were carefully classified in the golden age of lace making. unfortunately that knowledge is lost to me.
So do any of you have a sense of what this style of work is called, and secondly, any sense of when this work might have been made?
Both have discolored over the years and are now in their spa bath, hot water and Oxy-Clean.
There are more vintage goodies that will be incorporated into this tallit. I will share more as time goes on.
Hi Sarah, I recently met some Lace people when I did a talk about my garments at their yearly gathering.
ReplyDeleteThere is a local group, so I will ask the organiser to have a look here and see if she knows, or if she can send someone else to have a look.
They look amazing though! A lot of hard work!
Sandy
Thanks.. There are some crochet elements but then is that needle lace on top?? There is such a great sculptural/dimensional quality to the lace.. I knew someone in my universe would know!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah,
ReplyDeleteThe lady I asked says, "This looks to me like Crocheted Lace
There is a lot of Irish crochet and it is similar to this."
But she is also going to ask someone else who knows more about it.
I think the Irish Crochet lace is a bit of crochet and a bit of needle lace together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_lace Wikipedia says it is based on the detached buttonhole stitch.
Sandy