Talk:Flanders lace

joedkins: A better scan of the "Winkie pin footside - Triangles" on your website would more clearly reveal the 1 versus 2 pair per pin difference. I need a photograph with better light of my Flanders example. But for now it is better than having only an image of another type of lace. Jo Pol (talk) 19:56, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

talk Nice picture of Flemish lace! I couldn't find any photo on Flanders lace at all. My "authorities" disagreed - Earnshaw said that Flemish lace was merely lace made in Flanders. But I have a book on how to make Flanders lace (it's also a reference) and that says that Flemish lace had to have five-hole ground (which I call rose ground). I give the quote in the article. But all the examples of old Flemish lace I could find did NOT have five-hole ground. Which was why I put in a picture of five-hole ground, even though it is NOT Flemish lace. I have now removed it as your picture is great. I altered the text underneath to mention the five-hole ground. I hope this is OK. If not, I don't mind if you change it back again! I described the business about two pairs at the edge at 2 pair per pin, and single pair at Point ground, with close-ups of lace which (I hope) show the different techniques. I don't think we want to describe this in every example of lace in either group, as it would be very repetitive. I made these separate articles rather than being part of the Mesh grounded bobbin lace article because I thought that there were rather technical points to describe - continuous, mesh ground, single pair at edge, double pair at edge, and splitting into different articles made it easier, I hope. Tell me if you disagree! Joedkins (talk) 23:53, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Carolus: Somewhere the link from lace types to this article got broken though it seems to be fixed again, though Torchon is now broken. In my experience as a bobbin lace maker "Point de" is used for needle laces, where this article is about bobbin lace. Jo Pol (talk) 08:31, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

NO "Point de" is stil used here in Belgium for all traditional old laces: Point de Malines [1], Point de Lille, Point de Hongrie, point de Neige, Point d'esprit, etc...see [The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles

Door Phyllis G. Tortora,Ingrid Johnson https://books.google.be/books?id=LTYfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA469&lpg=PA469&dq=%22point+de+Valenciennes%22&source=bl&ots=NwSyzayPqf&sig=0VU-fmC3sRN2_UyIXcvQEvEsUf8&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiThJflrfPQAhUHDMAKHQPSD3QQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=%22point%20de%20Valenciennes%22&f=false] Carolus (talk) 09:25, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My excuse about my remark on the broken links, forgot the lace type of the actual page isn't linked in the template.

I think here we should rather follow English conventions than Dutch or French. Also I'd rather see it referenced by a book specialized in lace, rather than textile in general. Perhaps the discussion should move to or be referenced by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lace_types_by_name My Dutch translation of Pat Earnshaw doesn't prefix Binche nor Valenciences with "Point de" but indeed it prefixes Paris so it's not very consistent. Perhaps try to get members involved from http://www.arachne.com/lace/list_instructions.html and/or http://laceioli.ning.com for an in-depth discussion and more references.

Jo Pol (talk) 12:04, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you do not follow the opinion of someone from Belgium concerning Belgian historic laces, then do not waste my time please. Carolus (talk) 16:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]