Spangled Lace for a Coif
I just finished a length of silk bobbin lace with metallic spangles/oes/paillettes, which I intend to apply to a coif. The pattern is a simple one from the 16th century pattern book, Nuw Modelbuch.
- Silk Bobbin Lace for a Coif
Well, let me start by saying that I am no athority and a relatively new lace maker myself. I have also read that traditional footsides are not period. I think the difference may be in what is modernly thought of as a standard footside, which looks pretty much the same on any peice of modern lace. Some period laces had one straight edge, some had two, some didn’t have any at all. I’m not aware of any that had a modern style footside, though. I just don’t think that they thought of the structure of their lacemaking in the same way as is common today.
I’ve heard that the Le Pompe and Nuw Modlebook laces didn’t have footsides, but I notice that yours does have “an edge to sew on with” and I’ve noticed fairly typical footsides on the photos of period lace in Ricci’s excellent book. Do you have some better information on that?