An Antique Lace and Tapestry Keepsake

 

 Remember me showing you this image in my last post

where I was pulling out some of my most precious

pieces of antique lace as well as some vintage tapestry fabric?

Well

I have turned some of them into this sweet

keepsake!

 

 Some of these laces pieces have been in my collection

 

 for quite a long time and some other pieces

I have recently purchased from

Terri at www.etsy.com/shop/junqueseeker

(You just never know what little vintage or antique 

pieces you're going to come across there!!!).

The tapestry fabric comes from some recycled purses.

 

 

 I wanted to create something kind of special with these little

fragments of old cotton lace

which a lace lover would be able to treasure

 

 as a keepsake in itself.

 

 This image shows the original press studs which

were on this piece - possibly a child's 

or a doll's dress

and

the broderie anglais on the front 

has been so beautifully hand embroidered

with tiny flowers with very fine

cotton thread.

Every piece of lace has been dyed by me -

even the soft cotton lining.

  

It truly is a special and delicate

piece to treasure and it is available in my Etsy shop.

(Sold!)

♥♥♥ ♥♥♥

My new journal "TheDream of Dance"

is almost finished

but

 

unfortunately with the fading of the day and

 the light here at present

 with heavy clouds

and misty rain

doesn't really do any justice to my photographs

 

 

 so I've decided to show them possibly

in my next post.

Sorry about that folks!!!

 

See my shadow in the foreground?

Anyway you can certainly know what it is all about

from these images!

"It will cost you nothing to dream

and everything not to". 

Thanks for your most appreciated visits!

 xox Suzy