I have replied Lorelei privately, anyway in Arachne mail archives, can
be found information about Hinojosa lace also called Witch Stitch Lace.
If you like to know more about it, and take a glance to the 3 books I
have self published, you will find it on my web:
http://www.carolgallego.com
I got in touch with Hinojosa Lace thanks to Carolina's pattern books. I
didn't know Carolina then, and met her through Arachne. That was many years
ago.. perhaps 10? Carolina learned to make this type of lace from one of the
few women that still knew how to make it in those times. Because this
A dear friend of mine and one of the daughters of my bobbin lace teacher
sent me a photo of a lacemaker from Bruges, Belgium. I got permission to
share it with you. Here is the picture:
http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/Lacemaker-Brugges.jpg
Isn't she a cute character??
And here is my
It is an excellent snapshot, and kind of you and your friend to share
it with us.
She is must have been pretty in her youth. She is elegant in her late
years - and not needing glasses or perhaps couldn't afford them, and
she sits at the door in good light - we could weave a pleasant story
for her.
Thank you Antje, for a very insightful and detailed explanation about
Hinojosa lace.
Isabel Wear
Realtor
Sutton Group - West Coast
7547 Cambie Street
Vancouver, BC V6P 3H6
Mobile: 604-377-3475
E-mail: isabel.w...@shaw.ca
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For me, anyway - if used to sight-reading music, and touch-typing,
pre-pricking to learn the pattern seems time-consuming when one could
be doing the lace and pricking all of a go.
It is nice we have choices :)
I touch type and
When I was in Brugge last fall, I saw a younger (but not *much* younger)
woman sitting in a doorway just as this woman was, making lace on a
similar pillow. In Brugge, it seems that time has stood still in some
respects!
Clay
On 4/6/2011 11:23 AM, Tatman wrote:
mom told me that she or
Dear Spiders,
Here is a place where handmade lace is being made and listed for sale.
Any idea what kind of lace it is, and from where the pattern comes from? Looks
like it's made in silk. Any of you English Spiders consulted or contributed to
the effort? Andrea Galer, who designed
They look nice, don't they? The sleeves are spot tulle, which I
think is machine made, and the cuffs I'd guess are torchon, and yes,
made in silk (the description says so, and it looks to be true).
I wonder, is there just one set on offer, or if they get loads of
orders will they have to get
The sleeve edging lace appears to be strips sewn together. The headside strip
is torchon, the wide inner section is probably torchon, but one of the narrow
strips may be Beds (hard to tell, photo not close enough). The lace made at
that time would have been, most likely, point ground or Mechlin
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