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- Auction – DENTELLE LINGE DE MAISON BRODERIE BLANCHE EVENTAILS – March 23,@2022 lacenews.net/2022/03/19/auc… 10 months ago
- Breaking News! Onsite 2023 OIDFA Congress in Hamburg cancelled lacenews.net/2022/02/12/bre… 12 months ago
- Auction: Lace –@linge, dentelles, tissus, mode (sur le thème de la), vintage, bagages et accessoires de mode lacenews.net/2021/10/24/auc… 1 year ago
- @Witney_Antiques This is a very typical Italian Gros Point needlelace made around 1680. 1 year ago
- Doily Free Zone: Lace in the 21st Century – June 12-13,@2021 lacenews.net/2021/05/17/doi… 1 year ago
- Auction: Lace – House Linen –@Embroidery lacenews.net/2021/05/15/auc… 1 year ago
- Breaking News! OIDFA Estonia Congress Cancelled lacenews.net/2021/04/28/bre… 1 year ago
- Auction: Haute Couture Luxe Vintage – Dentelles et linge de maison – November 27,@2020 lacenews.net/2020/11/23/auc… 2 years ago
- Breaking News! 2021 IOLI Convention Rescheduled to 2023 lacenews.net/2020/10/31/bre… 2 years ago
- Auction: DENTELLE – LINGE DE MAISON – BRODERIE BLANCHE – Tuesday, October 13,@2020 lacenews.net/2020/10/11/auc… 2 years ago
- 2020 I.O.L.I. Iso-LACE-tion Lace Contest Un-Conventional Rules lacenews.net/2020/05/28/202… 2 years ago
- The IOLI convention will be rescheduled for 2022. Word on the street is that the proposed date will be July 17-23, 2022. 2 years ago
- Breaking News! 2020 IOLI convention in Mesa, Arizona has been cancelled. lacenews.net/2020/05/03/bre… 2 years ago
- @Marketplace Does the 90 day delay in tax payment apply to state taxes also? Are the direct checks to be received… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 years ago
- Auction: Linge, Dentelles, Tissus – Friday, March 13,@2020 lacenews.net/2020/03/08/auc… 2 years ago
- Auction: Dentelles, luxe, vintage, haute couture – Wednesday, October 9,@2019 lacenews.net/2019/10/01/auc… 3 years ago
- Claude just sent a better pointer to the English version of Saturday's lace auction catalog - just updated the post. 3 years ago
- Auction: Dentelles de collection du XVIe au XXe siècle, linge de maison – Saturday, June 22,@2019 lacenews.net/2019/06/19/auc… 3 years ago
- Interesting update on the Breaking News veil post - see tinyurl.com/ycjvnray 4 years ago
- The veil was won by the Alençon museum. 4 years ago
Category Archives: About the featured lace
Lace of the Month: Belgian Pillow Maker – February 2016
I’m reviving the “Lace of the Month” feature, and starting out with something rather unusual. Whenever I don’t have enough money to buy lace, I buy postcards. I have a lot of postcards. The example I have chosen for February … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month – Punto Antico Aquilano – February 2012
This remarkable point ground lace is an alb flounce, and comes with two matching cuffs. They might also be used to decorated a dress. We recently mounted the set on a linen alb to get an overall impression, although the … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month – Tatting – August 2011
I am one month off on the Featured Lace writeups – I still have to do July’s important 18thc Belgian needlelace post. The delay is attributable to the Los Alamos fire, and also to time spent developing the LaceNews Channel … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: “Sedan” – June 2011
The Commune and Arrondissement of Sedan in the Ardennes Department, and Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, is located only 10 kilometers from the Belgian border. Not too far from Arras. Note, that is a long way from Alençon and Argentan. But … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: Milanese – May 2011
The Northern Italian bobbinlaces that developed in centers such as Milan and Genoa are always a bit difficult. I don’t say this in regard to technique. Patricia Read and her student Lucy Kincaid’s carefully researched book “Milanese Lace, An Introduction” … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: Spanish Blonde – April 2011
Since I recently did a piece on the Educational Silk Museum of Como which makes silk bobbinlaces a specialty, I thought it would be appropriate to select a piece of blonde lace for the April feature. This impressive flounce is … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: Regency Point – March 2011
April 4, 2011 – some revisions May 22, 2015 – added two more ‘gimpless’ examples, and one more ‘Regency’ example. I’m much indebted to the authors of “A Regency Collection, Part One, A Very English Lace” for help on this … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: Reticella – February 2011
The lace for February is a Reticella border with Punto in Aria points, 55″ x 8-1/2″. The 15 large points alternate with 14 smaller ones, and there are three smaller points up the left side. Many such laces retain the … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: Bucks – January 2011
A striking floral Buckinghamshire design, 5″ wide. How does one tell Bucks point ground lace from all the other CTTT laces? Here are a few clues mentioned in literature, although drawing generalities too broadly can be dangerous. Local variations are … Continue reading
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Lace of the Month: Point d’Alençon – December 2010
The inspiration for this month’s featured lace comes from an email I received from lacemaker Carolyn Wetzel regarding discussions on the Needlelace Talk forum – my thanks to her and the list participants for pointing this out. On November 16, … Continue reading
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