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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 2333448, member: 13464&quot;]More thoughts! I&#039;m really intrigued now!&nbsp; If I wasn&#039;t before!&nbsp; This is VERY interesting!&nbsp; The close up really brings much more into focus - as it were!&nbsp; #1.. yes, these tapes are hand whipped together... you can see the tiny diagonal single thread stitches at 1.&nbsp; Number #2!&nbsp; WoW! I have never seen this with a Battenburg/Battenberg style lace! I was pretty sure that the adorable little &quot;bubble bridges were hand done; but I rather think this feature clinches it!&nbsp;&nbsp; **The large &quot;C&quot; shape padded feature is really more of a &quot;gros point&quot; lace element.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how it would have been created in this setting; but - ultimately, many threads would have had to be laid out (neatly, uniformly, &quot;tightly&quot; in this &quot;C&quot; shape and then &quot;buttonhole stitches&quot; laid down over the entire &quot;C&quot;....at the same time taking time out to create the little bubble star in the center of the &quot;C&quot;.)... There is NO way that that &quot;C&quot; was &quot;cut and pasted&quot; into the center of that flower!&nbsp; It has &quot;got&quot; to be handworked as the design was executed!&nbsp; #3. Yes, these narrow machine tapes with little picots on the edges were&quot; cut and sewn on, and then spanning the opening, sewn down on the next tape, spanned over to the next tape, sewn and then after reaching the last tape...sewn and cut. #4... the blurry thing on the right. I was trying to highlight the buttonhole stitches along the edges of the decorative tapes. I have never seen this on a Battenberg/Battenburg tape - however, I&#039;m inclined to believe that the tapes were produced with that buttonhole stitch edge...as it seems like it would have been too time consuming to buttonhole stitch yards and yards of that decorative tape.&nbsp; Although possible, I believe that part to be machine produced.&nbsp; #5. Those darling little bubbles!&nbsp; The fact that they &quot;operate&quot; as hand made bars... ie&quot; leaving one bar, attaching to a tape, working back to the center three way join and then returning to the original bar on the left...absolutely truly clinches it for me that these darling little bubbles are hand made! I am ENCHANTED by them! The fact that the bars are &quot;twisted&quot; - indicate to me that the bars and the &quot;bubbles&quot; were &quot;built&quot; by needle rather than crochet hook. But as I said; I&#039;m GOING to experiment and see what i can come up with... they are just TOOOOO cute!</p><p><br /></p><p>**I&#039;m examining the close up of the 4 petal flower with the &quot;C&quot; shape petals... I may have to rethink that &quot;C&#039; feature!&nbsp; It is possible that the &quot;C&quot; shape feature and the 4 petal flower are indeed actually a machine made &quot;chenille&quot;.... I&#039;m doing further research! </p><p><br /></p><p>A fascinated Leslie!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]260216[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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