Thomas Lester Lace

Edging from the late nineteenth century in point de gaze style. The roses have a layer of petals worked separately with a gimp and attached with stab stitches onto the flower base leaving the petal edge free. The loose sections may originally have been stuffed with cotton wool or similar material. The gimp is made up of many soft thick threads bundled together and wound with a very fine silk thread. The gimp is only attached by the workers approximately every fourth row to avoid flattening it.

BML 68a