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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 10157594, member: 13464&quot;]Hi @Linnie and all,</p><p>As usual... I&#039;m late to the party!</p><p><br /></p><p>All your examples have &quot;hemstitching&quot; - a little needle edging that separates the hem from the body of the work. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not certain without seeing the opposite sides; but, photo #1 looks like it is the back side of &quot;shadow&quot; embroidery, with embroidered 5 petal flowers and leaves. The open area is &quot;drawn&quot; work; where as, they certain bunch vertical threads, and bunch horizontal threads, and work a new thread around the bunches to keep them &quot;open&quot; (a squarish looking coarse net). </p><p><br /></p><p>The second photo also looks like &quot;shadow&quot; embroider, except that it looks like they did the &quot;shadow work&quot; from the top side, but the heavy outline embroidery around the open areas are on this side. Leading me to think that they did the shadow work AND the embroidery on the proper side on the first piece. And for some reason, did the shadow work on the top in the second piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both photo #1 and 2, the pieces appear to be hand worked.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is to the use of this second piece being 24&quot; x 45&quot; was that it was a bed pillow cover. They didn&#039;t like to have their &quot;slept upon, wrinkled pillowcases show and didn&#039;t want to launder daily. So a &quot;pillow cover&quot; like this may have been, was removed before retiring, carefully laid aside, and then reapplied over the wrinkled pillow when the bed was remade in the morning.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third photo, looks to me like embroidery with &quot;eyelets&quot;. Basically &quot;whitework&quot;... white embroidery with eyelets. Although this photo doesn&#039;t show any needle lace fillings, it is probably close to Ayrshire whitework. It is probably handworked also.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li><b>Ayrshire</b><br /> A 19th century Scottish technique that uses satin stitch, eyelets, and needle lace fillings. It&#039;s traditionally used on christening gowns and handkerchiefs.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>Your 4th piece: I can&#039;t see it clearly and up close enough to be certain; but my guess is that it is a machine made lace insertion. Bedskirt looks like a fine guess and it has a Scandinavian feel to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cool pieces, thanks for sharing!</p><p>Cheerio,</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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