r/lace

And it's funky 😂

It was bundled up in a box in a barn with a bunch of quilting scraps, and I know it's not super old (elastic waist). But I feel like it was an attempt at an Edwardian era petticoat - please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm fairly certain that the bottom portion was sewn on after the skirt itself was complete. The fabrics are two different shades of white and there's a wonky notch on opposite sides of the bottom addition. But it has a few nice pin tucks and some really lovely knit lace. At first I thought it was crocheted, but the longer I look at it, I think it was knit?? Which is wild. It's so small.

I carefully snipped a bit of the generous seam allowance on the inside for a burn test and I'm pretty sure it's cotton. My plan is to clean it, and then shorten it from the top so I can wear it on the regular. I'd appreciate any suggestions for cleaning it - I'm thinking hand wash with laundry soap and hang to dry in the sun.

We’ve blocked square things, but never circular. Thank you! B

Hello I recently acquired these and really know nothing about lace items. I would like to hand wash them but I want to know the age first, any insight would be appreciated. Thank you :)

I recently bought this black lace table runner (or something) from an antique vendor. She told me it was from the early nineteen hundreds i am trying to find out what's material it is composed from (i would assume silk or cotton?). If you have any other information, please let me know, thank you!!!

*EDIT correct link updated!!

Hi everyone,

If you're like me and are sick of a lot of AI photos and reels showing up on your feed, Reel Museum is a free online archive of textiles and craft objects built throughout human history. (hope this isn't considered advertising as I want it to be a free historical resource for textiles and craft!)

I included a separate lace/Irish lace tab as it's just a particular area of interest to me so I shared with my lace groups and someone suggested I post here.

(I used open source information from the MET museum, Art Institute of Chicago and a number of European archives and museums to build this)

A few things you can do:

— browse and scroll through the collection

— click on a piece's link and it'll bring you to its original collection

— save pieces to your moodboard in the "curate" tab

— email a postcard of a piece to someone

It's really early stages so it's best loading on desktop!! and would love to hear feedback or suggestions if you have a poke around the site on desktop or mobile.

https://reelmuseum.com 

hi, just ripped the lace trim on the bottom of one of my favorite skirts :( anyone have any recommendations for a technique or kind of stitch or something i can try to use to fix it and not make it look horrible? i'm not very good at sewing but have hand stitched some small rips before but never with lace and it's in the front of the skirt so i want to try to make it look kind of ok, i just don't want to make it worse :( any recommendations are appreciated thanks