Featured doilies: are they worth keeping?

yep i rounded them up like a sheep dog

 

@daveydempsey just found my dad's listing of some japanese currency, 1941. not sure if they are those banana currency. got to find them but will take a while

is it a popular collector's item these days? not many people kept them because most of us were so poor during those years.

 

so you still want me to go look for it?
dad's list said: 2x1cent, 2x5cent, 12x10cent, 3x10dollars.

 

I am new at this, so I hope you receive my reply. Your doilies in photo seven and eight are done by what is known as tatting. I know it is very difficult to do. To me they are certainly lovely. You could think about framing them.

 

We see you.

 

I have tons of what I call "soft" antiques from my mother and aunts. Afraid I have them all over the house, much to spartan hubby's dismay. Tough. I have to live with his 24/7 sports TV, he has to live with my doilys and anti-macassars.

I use powdered Oxy-Clean, but not too much. Warm - not too hot -water soak, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary. The crocheted, tatted, embroidered parts will be more delicate than the base linen. If you can put out in the sun, that's the best because it will help bleach. My mother swore by washing our sheets and towels and drying them outside all year long. They'd come in stiff as a board in the winter and she'd put them on wooden drying racks in the kitchen and the smell was better than the most expensive perfume.

 

Bev....I couldn't agree with you more!

I still hang my wash....all year too unless the snow is too deep.

 

tq
reply received and noted

 

we got lots of sun over here though it has been a tad cloudy these few days