Polish lace

Today I have picked up the sewing project which had been interrupted on Monday and have completed the first of two identical curtains of Polish lace. They will take it in turns to be either my shower curtain, or the screen in front of my landlord's poorly-constructed built-in wardrobe.

The landlord's choice of shower curtain was quite pretty, but being made of something entirely unbreathable, has been gradually turning black.

The landlord's choice of front covering for the wardrobe is a cheap and nasty net which does not extend the full length of the aperture. I can only assume that it was once the window nets before he found the more attractive ones currently in place.

Polish lace is very similar in principle to broderie anglaise and there is something exactly like the latter widely used in Greece, though I imagine it goes by another name. 

The Polish lace differs from those in that the background and embroidery threads are not both matt white cotton. This stuff has an ivory background and a shimmery champagne-coloured embroidery thread. It also comes with a bucket-load of stick-on diamante which I have carefully unstuck and stored for more appropriate applications at some point in the future.