Antique lace collar

I acquired this lovely vintage lace collar from a sack of old lace given to me by a friend.  It was dingy, stained, and torn.  I soaked the lace in OxyClean which brightened it right up.
I stitched up most of the tears (although one is still showing here...I missed it. I had a vintage necklace of tightly strung small shell fragments, and I hand stitched the necklace to the edge of this lace making the shell necklace the new collar for this lace. It worked okay but when I wore it, the necklace rolled curling the lace necklace funny. So I took it apart and did something different.  Using my serger, I attached this pretty  pink chiffon ribbon onto lace neckline instead.   Then I added two absolutely beautiful pink rose vintage buttons for decoration! This turned out really nice.

The bottom of the lace looks crooked here, but it's not...just the way it was hanging on the model and the camera angle.