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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;buyjunksellantiques, post: 64107, member: 658&quot;]Oh, oh, oh .... I know, I know, I know .... &lt;giggle&gt; These are arm chair arm and back rest head covers! They were also used as trivets on a tea table and fireplace mantle &quot;doilies&quot;! And They are crocheted, and they used &quot;crocheted&quot; cotton to make these. They used a crochet hook about as tiny as a fish hook to crochet these lovelies. Making these &quot;doilies&quot; was not for the impatient crochet crafter; it took weeks to master the tension gauge in the &quot;seasoned&quot; crochet-er&#039;s hands for the size of the piece to keep it uniform. I buy these whenever I find them. I&#039;ve never paid more than $20 for one and that one was exquisitely detailed.</p><p>Folks who Crochet, Knit, Tat, Quilt and Embroider have discovered their crafts are labors of love because they are never paid their worth. They do it because they are genetically programmed to. I swear it&#039;s true. I&#039;m a master quilter (which means nothing more than I have bragging rights to other quilters &lt;grinning&gt;); I should know.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two fail safe ways to accurately find out what the fibers in a piece is. One ... taste it, two ... burn it. &lt;laughing&gt; Take a teeny tiny snip off of the fringe and put it on a glass plate and use a bic lighter to burn it. If it smells like burning grass or plant material, it&#039;s linen. If it smells like singed fabric, it&#039;s cotton. Or, these could be wool, and wool smells like burned or singed hair. If it&#039;s got a polyester base to it (then it would be from the 1970&#039;s), it&#039;ll ball up when it&#039;s burned and it will have a chemical odor. Hope this helps.</p><p>JoAnn as always ... I buy junk and sell antiques[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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