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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 1472363, member: 13464&quot;]Hi everyone, </p><p>Sorry I&#039;m late to the party... but it is certainly a machine made lace. </p><p><br /></p><p>With machine made lace it is very hard to pin a specific name like &quot;Valenciennes&quot; to the piece, as machine made lace designers didn&#039;t have to stick to any style in particular to create the lace. Although specific lace characteristics are sometimes found in a piece (perhaps a certain Honiton style flower) it is also possible to find a completely different lace characteristic (like perhaps a Chantilly style leaf) in the same piece. Hence: difficult to really pin down a form. Quite often; machine made lace is just labelled by the machine which made it - ie: Leavers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your sweet piece is made to look like a bobbin lace and probably manufactured circa 1900-1910. As you might be able to note on the 3rd original photo of the piece; the side edges are &quot;cut&quot; (perhaps the top and bottom too - hard to tell); this indicates that it was made in a long strip and each panel would have been cut off. Very cute piece! </p><p><br /></p><p>Handmade Valenciennes lace is &quot;very fine&quot; - gossamer.&nbsp; Made with very fine threads. Although it was produced in wider pieces occasionally; it seems most handmade Val lace is quite narrow and was often a edging or insertion rather than a wide &quot;flounce&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that clarifies some things. </p><p>Leslie at the Northern Lights Lodge[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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