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Posted 3 years ago
raven3766
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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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Might be Saba lace.
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.
Thank you Blunderbuss2 and RichmondLori, any all information is welcomed and appreciated.
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.
On the third one, I'd say it's definitely woven.
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.