Posted 2 years ago
Lynndy
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I love the beautiful, delicate look of lace, all of my windows have lace curtains, on the back of my couch and loveseat and anywhere else I can get away with putting it.
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Posted 2 years ago
Lynndy
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I love the beautiful, delicate look of lace, all of my windows have lace curtains, on the back of my couch and loveseat and anywhere else I can get away with putting it.
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My mother used to have similar window shades. We recently bought and sold a huge lot of lace pieces for our etsy store...think one lady bought almost all of it...almost 100 pieces. Think she sews them into blankets?
Hi, Lynndy. :-)
I also love lace. I used to make a bit of it myself, having been taught to crochet by my grandmother who was a real crochet meisterin.
Your lace curtains appear to have been machine-made, using a technique called "darning."
Here is a post of an industrial Singer darning machine:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/310394-antique-singer-sewing-machine-with-table
Your antimacassar on the back of the couch looks like it was hand-made using a crochet technique called motifs. The artisan would work the small circular pieces individually, and then join them together via more crochet work and possibly some sewing into the main body of the rectangular piece.
The piece was finished with a crocheted border of semi-circles and what looks like a final row of picot stitch.
At least, that's what it looks like to me. The resolution of the image isn't quite sharp enough for me to be sure. };-)
dav2no1, Dunno about your lace buyer.
Possibly they're going to repurpose them into some larger piece. Or they're just a lace lover. Or they're gonna resell them. };-)
Ya know, I took another look at your curtains, and I don't think the "darning" process applies. They don't really look like filet crochet which is what lace darning mimics.
Here are some videos of lace-making machines in action. This one has no narration, but starting at about the two minute mark, you get a good close-up of the pattern being woven:
Machine-Made Lace | How It's Made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBkxHOM59I
This one is good:
Lace Making (1940-1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rS83gJuvo
Some lace history:
https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/lace-sumptuous-history
While I was noodling around for lace-making videos, I found videos by somebody who uses treadle sewing machines to make lace and embroidery:
Making Lace-Vintage Straight Stitch Treadle Sewing Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9GKwTx6yaQ
In this video, they show how to set up a VSM (using a Singer Red Eye model 66 no less!) for free motion embroidery:
Embroidery preparing your machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v-ngtCmGAc