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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jivvy, post: 846607, member: 8184&quot;]I would like to email some of your pics to one of my Lace Heroes.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if she would respond, but with your permission, I will give it a shot.</p><p><br /></p><p>----</p><p><br /></p><p>I hadn&#039;t stopped studying your piece over the past several days and, since the beginning, I&#039;ve been bothered by the lack of a picot edge and the presence of the little &quot;tufts&quot; outlining this piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s why I was looking for a machine made piece to compare to, but since the other piece had the gimp,&nbsp; I, momentarily, thought we were home free, but then it started bothering me again.</p><p><br /></p><p>This page <a href="http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/collection/picot.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/collection/picot.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/collection/picot.htm</a> has some really good photos of machine made vs hand made bobbin lace edges.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think your piece best matches the first picture under machine made.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/collection/machine16.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the latest closeup... I&#039;ve seen occasional single thread loops (between the green lines below) in lace identified as Valenciennes, but that&#039;s a whole lot of single loops, plus, they&#039;re over a single thread and it troubles me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t 100% see what&#039;s going on in the mesh, but I do not like the parts I&#039;ve circled in purple... does not look braided to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of which brings me request to send pics to my lace hero.&nbsp; This piece is, in my experience, an odd subject for Valenciennes (even machine made) and that makes it interesting to me.&nbsp; Don&#039;t know if it will be interesting to a Lace Hero, but I&#039;d like to ask.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]195830[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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