Photoessay #2853 - Lace

This is the antique lace which has been used to trim wedding dresses in my family for four going on five generations.  I have it right now as I have offered it to Jessica (Danny's fiance) for her dress.  She thinks she would like it to go around her waist.  We tried it out and it falls beautifully.  I don't know that she's picked out her dress.  I'm just giving it to her as an option.

I have a picture on my living room of my great grandmother Delia who wore it on her dress.  I think that might be the first.  Maier Zunder would have had the money to purchase it.  He was an immigrant from Bavaria, came with nothing.  He married his brother's widow Regina and later his sister in law Mina at the request of Regina before she died.  He married Mina in New York City, I don't know why in 1879 but it wasn't a big wedding.  Delia, his youngest daughter married in 1894 in a big society style wedding.  Maier probably bought the lace (I think from France) the same time as the wedding fan.  All that to say that I think the lace was new in 1894.

The family story goes that she married late and not to the man she wanted.  She died at age 44 and only had one child.

But we have the lace.  Here stretched out on my dining room table and a detail shot.