Buckinghamshire Point lace

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From the Collection of Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch Briphil House 80 Gardenvale Road Gardenvale Gardenvale Victoria

Description: Bobbin lace insertion
Size: 29.0 x 2.0 cms
Object Registration: 98
Historical information: Use: Domestic. Household trimming
When Made: 19th century
Last updated: 10 Feb 2018 at 2:22PM

Machine made lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

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

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Flemish Lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Flemish lace edging attached to a piece of black fabric.

Historical information

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"

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Machine embroidered net

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Machine embroidered net lace. Wide band.

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Machine made lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

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

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Machine made lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

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

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Machine made lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

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

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Machine Filet

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

A length of individual square motifs

Historical information

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.

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Machine made lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Pink machine made lace edging.

Historical information

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

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Tape lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Tape lace edging. Incomplete. Machine made tapes with needle made fillings.

Historical information

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.

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Blonde

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Historical information

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

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Flemish or Honiton

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace motifs appliqued onto a machine made net. Edging.

Historical information

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 trimming

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Flemish lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Historical information

Very fine Flemish lace possibly from Antwerp. Fine lace used for costume trimming

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Brussels mixed lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace with needle made ground and fillings. Edging. Sample.

Historical information

A fine lace used as costume trimming.

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Rosaline lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Historical information

Bobbin made lace with needle made flower centres. Use: Costume trimming

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Valenciennes lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Historical information

Use: Fine lace used as costume trimming.

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Brussels mixed lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace motifs with needle made ground and fillings. Edging.

Historical information

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.

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Valenciennes lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Historical information

Very fine linen thread. Fine lace used for costume trimming

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Tape lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

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

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Honiton lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Lace modesty front. Bobbin lace motifs appliqued onto machine made net.

Historical information

Modesty front to be worn as a filler with a low cut blouse or dress.

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Maltese lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace edging

Historical information

Use: Costume trimming

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Buckinghamshire Point lace

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