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Part/Sectional Laces:

Duchesse:                       bk mk

		Several lacemakers are discernable after a close study of this piece.  Not all the double layer leaves are made the same.  Some are crude, some elegant.  A highly skilled expert would not stoop to making sloppy lace, as some of the repeats are.	Duchesse was a direct outgrowth of 18th century Brussels.  It just became somewhat simpler and a little larger in scale.
335 bh	212 lh	169 lh	167 lh	123 IT

	These are bobbin made motifs appliqued onto machine made net.  This type only appeared during the 19th century when machine made net became available.
320 jl

 See also Duchesse by living lacemakers.   See also fine bloomwork, Rosaline,  and Withof which developed out of Duchesse.

Honiton:            bk mk

First Half of 19th century       See also Bath Brussels and Honiton by living lacemakers.  Honiton, like Duchesse, is a direct outgrowth of 18th century part laces. 

		The existence of machine made net, invented around 1780 and readily available by the mid 19th century, spurred the creation of this mixed form where hand made motifs were appliquéd onto a machine made net ground.  The scale of the handwork is quite fine.
760 lh	47 ek

Mid century    

53 ek	51 ek	48 ek	49 ek	50 ek

Late: the Best Honiton Could Produce.  The best Honiton often had great attempts at realistic depiction of natural plant forms.  The folded over leaves are an example of this.  Duchesse usually stayed with stylized motifs, a great variety of flower shapes, but they are always generic flowers, not recognizable species.  When I first saw this piece the needle made rings threw me off and I thought it might be Duchesse.  Duchesse frequently has needle made parts added, but this is rare in Honiton.  Honiton prefers to add complex bobbin made fillings instead, as in 760 and 47 above.

45 ek

Very Late: Slugs & Snails Honiton

54 ek	52 ek

Tape Laces:

Russian:

96 ek

Idrija

	I think this may be Idrija because laces from that district tended to have a very narrow and very dense tape with no openwork edge on the tape.  The Russian piece  above does have an open edge in the tape itself.
346 bh

Czech

422 nh	421 nh

413 nh	409nh	408 nh

See also very early tape lace, Milanese tape lace, revival era Milanese, and tape laces by living lacemakers

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