{"id":157,"date":"2006-03-09T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-03-09T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T11:52:00","slug":"another-little-group-of-treasures-to-add-to-my-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Another little group of treasures to add to my collection&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/640\/DSC00149.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/320\/DSC00149.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I think it is probably a summer months thing, but it was pleasing to see maybe 40% of the <em><strong>antiques stall holders<\/strong><\/em> out in the <em><strong>Plaza Matriz<\/strong><\/em> on tuesday morning this week. A friend from Australia is visiting for several weeks, and we were wandering around the downtown leather and artesanal areas to help her get her eye in &#8211; on a pre-shopping survey if you like, of what&#8217;s currently on offer in floor rugs, leather jackets and bags. Leather goods are so lovely here and compared to Aus, much less expensive.<\/p>\n<p>So moving through from the <strong><em>Plaza Independencia<\/em><\/strong> to the <strong><em>Ciudad Vieja (Old City)<\/em><\/strong> round to corner we came to this array of antique stalls I had always presumed were only there on saturdays. I don&#8217;t go downtown and into the old city often during the week.<\/p>\n<p>The top two of these hand made lace inserts &#8211; no idea how old but I&#8217;m guessing early C20 &#8211; are on very fine linen, and were made to insert into fine table or bed linen. The lower one is all pattern darning on fine net or tulle, a lovely poppy design with each petal a different filling. It is the finest net darning I have ever seen, and would have been made as an insert into a fine silk blouse or dress is my guess, and from the style and the period when those things were in vogue, it could be anywhere from late 1890&#8217;s to early 1940&#8217;s. Whatever their ages, they are all a bit dingy, and photographed against a dark grey b\/g. <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is probably a summer months thing, but it was pleasing to see maybe 40% of the antiques stall holders out in the Plaza Matriz on tuesday morning this week. A friend from Australia is visiting for several weeks, and we were wandering around the downtown leather and artesanal areas to help her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-2x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}