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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 4516081, member: 13464&quot;]Hi Marco! What pretties!</p><p>All are machine made laces.</p><p>1 and 2 are Schliffli or &quot;Chemical&quot; lace.&nbsp; Made machine embroidery design on a fine fabric background and then drop the piece in a chemical bath which eats the fabric and leaves the embroidery.</p><p>3, 4, 7 and 8 are what I like to generally call &quot;petticoat lace&quot;. This is a fine machine made lace, usually fairly narrow, which often imitates &quot;hand bobbin Valciennes lace&quot;. Usually a floral design. The strips are used alone as in photo 3, or sewn together to make something wider as in 4, 7 and 8. This kind of lace was often used on undergarments and nightwear Turn-of-the-Century. 8 was used with plain netting and the lace trim insets and also layered over the netting.... could have been the top for a little boudoir pillow. It has a little too much netting for a handkerchief.</p><p>5 is your most modern piece; fairly common for the last 20 years to be sold as a &quot;wedding handkerchief&quot; at bridal salons.</p><p>6. Although the photo doesn&#039;t show this clearly... what a daffy down delight this one is! I love the couple in the design! This is probably Turn-of-the-Century (give or take a few years) and fairly unusual! This would be marvelous, framed with a colored background!</p><p>and lastly 9. These cute little handkerchiefs were made for export and tourist items from a number of places over the decades - Switzerland, Philippines, Japan. China and others. Sometimes hand embroidered (very hard to tell from the front); but usually machine made. They are pretty and delicate with a multitude of pretty designs usually featuring something floral and worked on a very fine batiste or linen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall a very pretty lot!</p><p>Enjoy your finds!</p><p>Cheerio,</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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