A light weight lace used for costume trimmingBobbin lace flouncing

Use - Domestic household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic - household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace insertion

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging.

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace insertion

Bobbin lace insertion

Use: Costume trimmingBobbin lace edging

Modesty front to be worn as a filler with a low cut blouse or dress.Lace modesty front. Bobbin lace motifs appliqued onto machine made net.

Home made or hobby lacePocket flap. Machine made tapes with needle made fillings. A narrow piece of machine Valenciennes has been added to the top edge.

Very fine linen thread. Fine lace used for costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Although this piece was probably made between 1870 and 1900 the motif designs are copying 18th Century designs. Would have been used as costume trimming.Bobbin lace motifs with needle made ground and fillings. Edging.

Use: Fine lace used as costume trimming.Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Bobbin made lace with needle made flower centres. Use: Costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

A fine lace used as costume trimming.Bobbin lace with needle made ground and fillings. Edging. Sample.

Very fine Flemish lace possibly from Antwerp. Fine lace used for costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Valuable old lace was often salvaged to be used again. Here motifs have been reclaimed from an earlier 18th Century lace (probably damaged) and appliqued onto machine made cotton net probably early in the 19th Century. The original motifs are either Flemish or Honiton. Use: as a costume trimmingBobbin lace motifs appliqued onto a machine made net. Edging.

A very light and delicate lace for costume trimming. Probably hand made but could be machine made.Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Tape lace in the making. The lace is incomplete and still attached to the backing cloth. It is shaped - possibly as an edging for a tray cloth. Home made or hobby lace.Tape lace edging. Incomplete. Machine made tapes with needle made fillings.

This piece of machine made lace was probably made on a Levers machine (invented 1813)Pink machine made lace edging.

Machine made lace. Probably made on a Levers machine using jacquard apparatus to make a series of individual square motifs. These were probably destined to be cut apart and used as applique pieces on some other textile.A length of individual square motifs of machine made Filet lace

Machine made "Chemical" lace motif. Cotton thread embroidered onto a base fabric which is later dissolved away.

Machine made lace "Chemical" oval lace motif. Cotton thread embroidered onto a base fabric which is later dissolved away.

Machine made "Chemical" lace edging. Cotton thread embroidered onto a base fabric which is later dissolved away.

Machine embroidered net lace. Wide band.

This lace is similar in appearance to Genoese collar laces but the thread is much finer and the lace softer. At the time it would have been an expensive fashionable lace trimming. This particular piece was borrowed and used as an illustration in Pat Earnshaw's book "The identification of Lace"Flemish lace edging attached to a piece of black fabric.

Machine made muslin applique Fichu. Muslin appliqued onto machine made net using machine chain stitch.

Flouncing - costume trim.Embroidered net. Flounce of machine made net with floral design worked in chain stitch. Could possibly be handmade but is more likely to be machine made.

Flouncing - costume trimmingCarrickmacross flounce - muslin applique on machine made net. Handmade including some embroidered net fillings and some guipure sections. The inclusion of embroidered flowers is rather unusual.