[lace] Lappets

[lizlace]

Alice – I remember you wearing lappets at one (or 2) of the IOLI
conventions.  I seem to remember you had a different one from your collection,
each day!  Everyone was looking out for you to see what you were wearing that
day – lace-wise!!
Next Convention I went to, I wore my Beds Dress Cap (featured on the cover of
Barbara Underwood’s, Beds Lace book!)  I did mine in navy polycotton – I)
I have white hair, so a white lace cap would not show up – navy shows up
well!!!, and 2) Polycotton, although rotten to work with, at least never
creases, - so I can haul it out of my bag, or suitcase, and it is ‘ready to
wear”!!!
I then made a mauve cap working from the same outline/shape, but in Knotted
lace!  The 3 tails at the back were a challenge for me – so it was a good
learning piece!!!
I must bring them along – if we can organize our trip over there again this
year!

I worked the neck tie from Mincroff & Marriage book and it always gets nice
remarks, and last year I saw it made in pale colours – multi-coloured, and
it was Stunning.  A lot is the shape of the ends – I think it may have
originally been lappet ends.

Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, where we have been having a heat wave.

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Re: [lace] lappets

[Sue Babbs]

She is spectacular, Janice!  Well done!! I remember conversing with Holly 
about that birth sac and what she was going to do with the design when she 
worked on it -   a plant was our favoured suggestion.


I've added her to your album in Flickr

I look forward to seeing the ostrich in due course.

Sue

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[lace] lappets

[Janice Blair]

I am working on my second adaptation of a lappet from the book about Thomas
Lester. I have managed to put a photo on Flickr in the Photo Stream. I thought
I was putting it in my album but it did not show up there. Maybe Sue can move
it for me. :-) Anyway, take a look. Holly Van Sciver did the pricking for it
from photos from the book as there are no prickings provided. Thankfully she
changed the baby giraffe birth sac that was between the giraffes legs into a
leaf and vine design.  The piece is close to 14 inches tall and I doubt I
would ever wear it on my head. It did win the Best of the Lace Division last
summer at the San Diego County Fair.  
I am currently working on another adaptation of one of the ostrich lappets in
the same book. This one is bigger and wider. At the widest part I had on over
400 bobbins if you count all the gimp bobbins as well. I worked both pieces in
Egyptian 80/2 and enlarged them to 125% so that I could see what I was
doing.This one has a double plaited ground with lots of rolled tallies. I will
post a photo when it is finished.It will take ages to cut all the thrown back
threads and remove the pins. I hope to put it in the display at convention
this summer if it looks good enough. 
I should ask my daughter to put it on my revamped website. Just looked and
realized it was not there. 
Janice 

Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com

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Re: [lace] 2017 IOLI convention registration

[Sue Babbs]

Decisions made and form in the mail.  Now, what can I do while my fingers 
are crossed for my first choices? Hee! hee!


Sue

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[lace] Flanders/Mechlin

[Lorelei Halley]

Leonard and Devon

I have said these things before, but this seems a good time to repeat. There
is a lot of confusion about how to use the terms "Flanders lace" and Mechlin
lace. From my study of laces at the Art Institute of Chicago, and from
Santina Levey's LACE, I have learned that during the 18th century continuous
straight laces with gimp were produced in Flanders and the town of Mechlin.
(And continuous straight laces were made in the same area and the towns of
Binche and Valenciennes, but without gimp. ) All these laces, with and
without gimp, might use any one of several different grounds - 5 hole,
Paris, small and large snowflakes. All had complex clothwork, where 2 pairs
entered at each pin, unlike that later point ground laces and torchon, which
have only 1 pair entering at each pin. Towards the end of that century the
complex grounds tended to disappear and Mechlin ground became much more
common. It continued to be used by preference into the early decades of the
19th century. All the complex grounds disappeared.  Then laces, using
designs much like the Mechlin laces, appeared, using point ground. And point
ground laces were made throughout the remainder of the 19th century, in
virtually all lace making areas in the world. Then towards the end of the
19th century, in an effort to revitalize the lace industry, various teachers
and lace merchants began to explore the older laces and tried to reproduce
them, but in simplified form. What we now know as Valenciennes ground became
fairly common during this late period. And the old Flanders with 5 hole
ground was re-examined and became what we now call Flanders. (But a question
remains in my mind about what degree of simplification was also made
standard in these new Flanders laces. Certainly expert designers and
historians such as Erdmute Wesenberg and Ulrike Voelker are diagramming some
of the most complex.)

 

My own understanding of lace history has derived from my personal study at
the museum, and through books I have read. But I readily acknowledge that it
does not come through contact and discussion with other lace historians and
collectors. I think part of the terminology problem is that collectors have
a different set of terminology than what makes sense to lace
makers/designers who are also historians.

 

The solution to the terminology problem that I usually use is one based on
description of how the lace is constructed, the techniques used, the
structure of the lace.

 

I would be interested to know who (what class of lace aficionados) uses the
term Turnhout, and just exactly what structure/technique set they use it
for. I seem to recall hearing it applied to a Paris ground lace, but I could
be mistaken about that.

 

Lorelei Halley

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Re: [lace] 2017 Lace Guild Calendar

[Clare Lewis]

I just got a response from Janice, unfortunately she did not take any
photos of the work in progress.

Now, who can we persuade to make the Flander's rose and take a WIP photo?


On 6 February 2017 at 16:13, Celtic Dream Weaver  wrote:

>  I just got my Lace Guild Calendar and it has some wonderful lace design
> with
> Patterns. When I opened the Calendar was ...wait for it...a "DRAGON'
> pattern
> designed by Jan Gardiner. I love dragons...and here is another dragon
> pattern
> for me to make. "Happy" the dragon sure made me happy. There is also a
> beautiful Snow Drop Bucks Point pattern. There is also a beautiful
> Carrickmacross deisgn by Ann Day that is just so wonderful. This will be
> on my
> to make list.Then for the Flanders Lover in you there is a really
> pretty
> Flower pattern designed by Janice Gardiner which takes 179 of bobbins. I
> would
> have loved to see her pillow with all those bobbins stacked up. Sara Ruks
> has
> a cute bird design that is really cute.  Janet Peer has a beautiful Honiton
> pattern that is a design of pumpkins. The design is so beautifully
> designed.   Anyhow these are just some of the wonderful designs that I
> found
> inside the calendar. I am so glad I got it. There is also a cute needlework
> "package" design too that would make a wonder Christmas Tree ornament or a
> gift tag on a present. The calendar made me smile all over. Wind To Thy
> Wings,SherryNew York, US of
> Americacelticdreamweave@yahoo.comhttp://celticdreamweaver.
> com/http://celticdr
> eamweave.blogspot.com/Nata 616
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[lace] 2017 IOLI convention registration

[Adele Shaak]

Hi Everybody:

I think Anita meant to say that Feb 15th is the opening day for registration
for the IOLI conference in July, which is near Philadelphia, very close to
Valley Forge.

I sent my registration in last Monday!

Adele

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[lace] 2017 IOLI convention registration

[Anita Hansen]

I don't think I've seen this mentioned on Arachne yet.  Opening day 
registration for Arachne is February 15 this year. Postmarks on or before this 
date will count as "first day". I sent mine in last week and have already 
received an email that it was received. (Thanks for that little bit of a peace 
of mind!)
Unfortunately the most recent issue of the bulletin which (finally) hit 
mailboxes does not include the convention information and registration 
materials. They can be found online on the IOLI wbsite 
https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/
Hope to seem many familiar and new faces this summer in Pennsylvania!
Anita Hansen
Doris Southard Lace Guild
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
IOLI Supply Chair


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