I acquired several yards of antique lace carefully wrapped and preserved..it had a note attached about the lace. It was purchased at ZCMI (Utah store) in 1900 by the Manti town dressmaker. It is an interesting black cotton lace with silver metallic threads. I tried beading a bit of lace but pretty brittle. So I backed the lace with black satin ribbon for support and pulled out my MOP ring beads. I used a head pin and some beads to turn the rings into "buckles" and this allowed me to gently weave the ribbon/lace through the "buckles" for decoration. I added a couple large hole crystal beads to decorate the bottom "tails" a bit .
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