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Part/Sectional Laces:

Flemish/Milanese Tape

Tebbs' ART OF BOBBIN LACE, originally published 1908, shows several examples of what she variously called Milanese or Flemish lace.  But the clothwork is generally somewhat simpler than the really old Flemish and Milanese laces I've seen at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the shapes of the motifs are somewhat different, too.  And in the case of #175 below, the shape of the object  is something that never occurred in the old Flemish and Milanese tape laces.  That deep v shape fits with 1900 fashion.  The old laces always had a straight headside, not scalloped or indented.  Also see old Milanese.

55 ek			174 bn	bkmk

175 rh

349 bh This object also has a shape that never occurred in old Flemish or old Milanese tape laces.  This piece has discrete motifs rather than a continuous tape.

Cantu:  I don't know when this style developed, but it may deliberately echo Milanese, which often had little curly flower heads at the beginnings of tapes.  Compare Cantu to 17th century Antwerp laces.      See  Cantu by a living lacemaker.

Cantu bobbinlace	Milanese tape lace
188 mmp                     bkmk	147 ek  (for comparison purposes) probably 18th century

Rosaline was a deliberate revision of Duchesse, with the intent to make it faster.  The edge stitch on the motifs is simpler, and usually, there were not so great a variety of motifs.

61 lh    bkmk

Fine Bloomwork (Duchesse on a larger scale and simpler)   

178 lh	176 ek	390 nh

177 mfb	123 IT	98 lh	209 lh	208 lh

This group below is all coarse Duchesse on the scale of the fine bloomwork above, but all have a needle made ground.  The clothwork in both technique and style are similar to fine bloomwork, but the needle made ground is unusual.  I don't know its region of origin.  I've seen several examples of this kind but have not been able to pin down where it was made.

			bkmk
338 bh	166 bn

165 bn

What were they thinking!      180 rh

Tape Laces:

  Idrija: a mining town in Slovenia.

This regional style of tape lace often incorporates motifs reminiscent of part laces.  The tapes themselves tend to be very narrow and very dense, with the outer perimeter made more open.

293 jl	198 don		197 don

Russian     These below were made in Russia during the 20th century, brought to the U.S. by a recent immigrant.

732 lh		737 elena	736 elena
733 elena	734 elena

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