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    Posted 2 years ago

    raven3766
    (202 items)

    I am interested in linens, mainly table linens. I find them so detailed and beautiful; so you will go on this journey with me. I don't quite know what I'm looking at, but I do know what I like. I don't think they are very old, but they are very pretty.

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 2 years ago
      Might be Saba lace.
    2. RichmondLori RichmondLori, 2 years ago
      I think the first one is older than the other 2, my thought is that the use of cherubs/angels age the linen somewhat - but I also am no expert.

      all three are very nice and in good shape, nice journey.
    3. raven3766 raven3766, 2 years ago
      Thank you Blunderbuss2 and RichmondLori, any all information is welcomed and appreciated.
    4. keramikos, 2 years ago
      raven3766, They're lovely, but I'm afraid I can't quite tell the method(s) by which they were made, because of the lack of resolution in your photos.

      Right now, I'm tempted to say "woven" for all three.
    5. keramikos, 2 years ago
      On the third one, I'd say it's definitely woven.
    6. keramikos, 2 years ago
      Some history on lacemaking:

      https://schweitzerlinen.com/blog/lace-a-sumptuous-history-1600s-1900s/

      One of the lacemaking tidbits I remember reading in the last decade or so had to do with politics and religion. I can't find the exact details again that I'm looking for, but this is close enough:

      *snip*

      At the expulsion of the Huguenots (or Walloons as they were then known) from the latter country, many of whom represented the artisan class of France, a number of the dispersing refugees fled into the Palatinate. Here, in so far as was possible, they either reestablished their former trades or adopted those of the protecting country.

      *snip*

      https://greennet.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/sa3_lac3.pdf

      What I'd originally read was that for a generation, the French had to import their own famous Alençon lace from abroad, because nobody left in France knew how to make it.

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