Devon,
Have you seen the book, "Gekloeppelte Reticella?" As the name
implies, they are using bobbin lace to imitate Reticella needle lace. The
patterns are nothing like this one, they are very
geometric and imitate Reticella. The book does, however, use tallies in
this exact manner. As Pierre points out, it has the look of the le Pompe
patterns which we always wonder about since cloth stitch tapes were not
known at that time. I suspect this is how the pieces were created, but
have never seen any proof. Unfortunately, this thread looks like revival
era thread, so I am not sure how helpful it is. But, if they were copying
an old lace directly, it would make a lot of sense. I have not yet had
time to research this train of study, but it is on my short list. My
suspicion is that if there are extant pieces, they are likely misidentified
as needle lace.
There is also the overlap that this type of work was done in metal
threads, again in German areas. I have an individual pattern, but would
need to lay my hands on it if you are interested. it is in my large stack
of things I am researching, not in a neatly filed place as it should be.
It hits that perhaps exciting/ perhaps annoying but always interesting
bridge where passaments done in other technique overlap and possibly evolve
into bobbin lace.
Kim
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