Talk:Carrickmacross lace

Proposal to modify reference to Carrickmacross lace and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress

As a lacemaker I maintain that the following statement is incorrect:

"The appliques on the wedding dress of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge were worked in the method of Carrickmacross lace."

As is documented at http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/articles/weddinglace.html, the appliques were machine-made lace, produced in France. There is no way that machine lace can be said to be worked in the method of any sort of hand-made lace. The only things the two have in common are:

1. That lace (in the case of the dress) or fabric (in the case of Carrickmacross lace) is attached to machine-made net.

2. That scissors are used: to cut out motifs from the machine made lace (in the case of the dress) and to cut away excess fabric (in the case of Carrickmacross lace).

See http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/collection/carrickmacross.html for a more detailed explanation of Carrickmacross lace, with illustrations.

I therefore think that the paragraph containing this should be removed but welcome discussion of this before I proceed.

Socialambulator (talk) 22:13, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation request

Please clarify the sense of 'muslin' intended here. This term refers to (at least) two quite different fabrics. In the US, 'muslin' means what I'd call 'calico' (in the UK). In the UK, 'muslin' means what they call 'cheesecloth' in the US (but sometimes it now means calico just to confuse things). I have no idea what the term usually means in Ireland or which fabric is intended here. --86.5.88.131 (talk) 01:48, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

I've added a wikilink pointing to the muslin article, which has a hatnote redirecting readers to calico for the word's usage in American English.--Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) ({{ping}} me!) 10:44, 16 April 2022 (UTC)