West Germany Choker Lace and Faux Pearls and Angel Skin?

I bought this years ago at a thrift. It has a stiff loose woven lace with these faux pearls and flat pink glass beads. Marked Western Germany. Age? Are these pinkies called angel skin?
Also its tweaked and I wonder if there is a way to make the lace all lay flat? Thank you

 

Hi Shiloh,
Wait for the joolies but I think angel skin was a description of pink coral. I have flattened lace like that by a quick blast of steam from an iron and laying and pressing it by hand.
greg

 

This lace feels like it was dipped in some sort of plastic? Maybe it IS a plastic? Yes, you awakened my memory, angelskin IS a coral.

 

West Germany is after 1949 till re-unification.

 

Thank you Af....I have had lots of W Germany jewelry and this is the first one I ever had that had Western writen out?

OK call me a liar, I just went through some junk jewelry and found another piece marked Western Germany,LOL, I am losing my mind

Anyway the leaf necklace is marked made Germany, both have the lightest metal I ever saw in jewelry?I thought plastic until I bit them. Could they be an aluminum maybe?

 

I've had quite a bit of mid 20th century German jewelry made of aluminum, usually with a pale gold anodized finish. The first necklace looks familiar to me, somewhere in the back of my head seem to recall them being made of gathered millinery tubular crin/horsehair - if that's the material, it should be nylon or some other synthetic material, heat is probably the only thing that will straighten it out, but be very careful because it can melt...

~Cheryl

 

Thank you Cheryl, I will try a blow dryer,first I will use T pins and shape the necklace on a craft board. I know its not horse hair so its probably what you said,millinery crin.

 

Heh - didn't mean to imply that it was 'horsehair', it's just sometimes called that rather than 'crin'.

~Cheryl

 

LOL, well I know diddly about most jewelry so I thought maybe it looked like horsehair in my pics.

 

"Crin" as in the material our "crinolines" used to be made of years (many decades/ a half-century) ago??????

Whoa doggies, were those things "scratchy" if you had to sit in them in church or otherwise (and doubly scratchy if it was a steaming hot day, although by the time you had worn a crinoline for 5 or 6 hours the humidity "limped" it up and you were once again as comfortable as you could be without being in your "play clothes.").

 

LOL, sounds awful. I did look it up and read that there was a bit of horsehair mixed with cotton or linen thread.

When I was in grammar school I remember the petticoats and they were scratchy if I didnt wear a soft one underneath,I also remember the skinny baloons that went around the bottom to make them flair. I think my Mom put me in 5 petticoats one May Day. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

 

Hated petticoats too - scratchy and hard to sit in!

Crinoline is a fabric - crin or horsehair is more like a braid, was originally made with horsehair, but would have most likely been nylon in the mid 20th century, believe it's usually polyester now...

~Cheryl

 

This may sound morbid to some but I think horsey folks do the same. When I lose a horse I cut off their tails. I have a box with their tails,a pair of shoes and even some baby teeth I would find in the feeders.