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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 2028453, member: 13464&quot;]Hello to all, </p><p>Hope you had a good weekend!</p><p>Continuing on... I had the opportunity to show you these two identical patterns. </p><p><br /></p><p>Reflecting upon what we&#039;ve discussed,&nbsp; and applying what you have learned from previous lessons re: &quot;general appearance&quot;, following thread paths, construction of the &quot;footing edge&quot; (straight edge) and picots... what can you determine from these two &quot;same pattern&quot; laces?</p><p><br /></p><p>I apologize that the bottom photo is a bit blurry. It &quot;looks&quot; clear till I get it posted! Grr!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]248622[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]248623[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]248624[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have an additional machine vs. hand &quot;similar pattern&quot; case study below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]248628[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]248629[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]248632[/ATTACH] </p><p>When studying these two patterns. They are similar; yet not identical. </p><p>They both have an &quot;open footing edge&quot; (not solid and cloth like).</p><p>They both have a &quot;picket fence&quot; style scalloped edge.</p><p>They both feature a 6 petal motif. </p><p>They both have &quot;more or less&quot; a triangular solid/cloth like shape between the footing edge and the petal motif.</p><p>They both have a picot edge.</p><p>You can generally follow the thread path in both pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>They both look very &quot;messy&quot;. So what is going on?</p><p>The top piece has a classic machine made look to it. Even through the threads may actually be woven; the tension is a bit off for handmade.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the bottom lace photo...with my big finger in it. The lace is not well made. Stitches are irregularly spaced. This may be the result of a poor pattern; and/or the result of an inexperienced lace maker.&nbsp; You should be able to see several threads coming out of the body of the lace in several places. These are tell tale. These threads are the ends of &quot;new&quot; threads or the ends of &quot;old&quot; threads which have not been woven in yet to be hidden... or the end of a broken thread that hasn&#039;t been hidden yet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These are just good study pieces to realize the difference between hand and machine made pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Till next time.</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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