Study and collect Honiton English bobbin lace because it is fun, and because learning to recognize and judge Honiton is an affordable way to become a connoisseur of all vintage lace. The Honiton lace industry produced many interesting, whimsical, and one-of-a kind pieces for collectors to enjoy, wear, and study. This Connoisseur’s Guide to Honiton Lace has 64 pages of black-and-white photographs, about 150 in all, showing how to recognize Honiton, how to separate it from other laces, how to tell handmade from machine. A special features include a gallery of handkerchiefs, collars, veils, fans, flounces and edgings, lappets, fragments, and motifs with a critique and price information for "The Critical Collector," including some interesting surprises from past auctions. Format is 7 x 8 1/2 inches; soft cover Table of Contents Sample pageNineteenth century actress pictured in the late 1800s in an ensemble of Honiton lace. Sample pageDetailed photos compare typical Honiton filling stitches with typical Belgian lace fillings. Even though both Honiton and Brussels laces, especially Duchesse, sometimes include similar floral motifs, details like the fillings almost always are different.