Karen: I have heard that color-coded working diagrams were developed in
Belgium in
the 1930s
> Marianne Stang: may I make a little correction? The color code was invented
in Bruges in 1911/12.
> The lace school had more than 70 students, so it became necessary to solve
this problem. That's why
Oh, yes, Iâd forgotten to say that Joepie. We were given the pricking to
replicate and use â either by drawing it out on graph paper and trueing it
up or by taking a rubbing of it or pricking through it.
Sue
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Elena, and other friends,
I have heard that color-coded working diagrams were developed in Belgium in
the 1930s. Before that a numbering system was used by some authors, with
lengthy explanations for each number corresponding to the hole in the
pricking.
Frieda Lipperheide, 1898, Das
Hi fellow Arachnids,
Much the same for me as for Sue. We also had to draw out, prick and mark out
our prickings before we were to wind the bobbins. However, it does take longer
and I find that especially younger lacemakers have neither the time nor the
inclination to learn/work this way. I must
Elena,
as far as I know it’s somewhere in 20th century that diagrams started perhaps
at the time like color code.
In some regions in former time the lacemaker had little pieces of the original
lace they had to work.
When you see old prickings thick paper or sometimes leather it’s not easy to
The teacher was very flexible and taught many different laces in one group.
She had binders of samples of all sorts of laces which she had made let us
look through till we saw a design that appealed and then we were off.
We were started on Torchon (and I love the variety of stitches available in
Thanks for your answer Sue! I'm wondering what kind of lace you were
learning predominantly? I could see this being easier perhaps for certain
laces than others?
Personally I learned while traveling so I studied bobbin lace with multiple
teachers across Europe, which allowed me to cobble together
When I learned in England (1988 onwards), you were given the pricking, the
training to interpret the pricking, and if you were lucky sight of the
finished lace. The main advantage of this is that you are not dependent on
diagrams (and not constantly looking from lace to diagram) and you learn
Liz R brings up the point about how historically, lacemakers did not have
the benefit of detailed diagrams and would have had to keep the designs in
their head, even for complex lace like Binche. Devon and I were just
talking about this the other day at the Yale lace event and it was boggling
our
