Quite a few years ago (25 or more!) my daughter Helen and I were demonstrating
Lacemaking at a local âCraft Happeningâ, and an elderly gentleman came by,
and stopped and had a good look at the lace on display, and watched us
working. Then, when we spoke to him, we found out he had come to
Hi Sue,
I was reading your long email about your trials and tribulations and how you
were in the doldrums of lace making that some of us fall into at different
times. I was sorry to hear of your losses in the family and send you my
condolences, and Ihope your nephew recovers successfully from
I was a programmer/designer for 42 years mostly at AT and Bell Labs
and I watched the bobbin lace my mother did (she was a pre-med grad) for
years - she started in 1976 - but I didn't start lace myself until a
little over 2 years ago when I found a local group and started with
them. I was a
Janine Montupet The Lacemaker from 1988 is a fictional story of a needle lace
maker in the 17th century. I remember enjoying reading this book years ago,
thinking that since the author also has written book(s) on lace identification,
I remember thinking that it probably was fairly accurate. At
On Mon, 28 May 2018 at 9:10 PM, Sue wrote:
> Wow Karen, (not something I often say). Incredible and it sounds
> absolutely
> fantastic. I just wish we could see pictures of the finished dress and
> veil
> and also the Mother of both brides in her outfits.
>
Between you and me (donât tell
Wow Karen, (not something I often say). Incredible and it sounds absolutely
fantastic. I just wish we could see pictures of the finished dress and veil
and also the Mother of both brides in her outfits.
I havenât deleted any of Karens email just in case the rest of Arachne
havenât read this.
As we often recommend - take care of your textiles (including laces) so they
do not require professional conservation/restoration.
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News has come that this very unique 15 foot x 12 foot 1951 textile, designed
by and made under the direction of Constance Howard, is undergoing
conservation.Â
Hi, all,
For your reading pleasure, here are some titles of books I've come across that
have more than a brief mention of lace. Apologies for any titles that have
been mentioned previously.
ALBERT,SUSAN WITTIG Queen Anneâs Lace
BARTLETT,ELAINE A crafty killing
BLUNT,WILFRID Sebastiano:
For the past two years, I have been working only wedding lace.
I have had my youngest daughterâs âall or nothingâ lace veil on the
pillow,
after about two other years of planning strategy and drawing the pattern.
This was to be a 1.15 metre diameter circular piece worked in bands for
In 2016, after some encouragement from another lace maker and gifts of the
large enough gold coloured rings to allow them to fit I set about making a
lace suncatcher with bobbin lace and beads for my sister who was at that time
diagnosed with a nasty cancer. Once I sent hers and she obviously
Needle lace too, especially Halas lace where the tiny fish motif, a triad I
think it is, is the "clue" or identifier of the lace. The only way to sign
bobbin lace easily that I can think of is to make a deliberate mistake,
such as put leaves where there aren't any in the design. Forced at best
It has been a while since I read it, but I found Monica Ferris's book
disappointing in terms of lacemaking. I remember thinking that she had
obviously researched this to the point of visiting a bobbin lacemaker
and watching what she did, and writing down how the lacemaker
described it. I thought
Iâm not a computer programmer, just a computer user, but Iâve used drawing
programs to manipulate straight grid laces (torchon) into curved shapes since
the mid 1980s - IIRC it was 1984 when I first played around like that.
For some early examples of what I could do, and the hardware/software
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