While you find 17th century lacepillows on paintings you have to go to engravings to find the few 16th century examples.
Lacemaking as we know it was getting established at that time. The lacepillows are of very different forms, suggesting that the tools used for different older types of plaiting were still used. Tamara told about the two lacemakers to be found on the cover of: Tornehave, Bodil: Danske Frih�ndskniplinger. Notabene, Copenhagen 1987. ISBN 87-7490-291-1. "N�w Modelbuch" was published in 1561 and you can find the whole facsimile in: Burkhard, Claire: Faszinierendes Kl�ppeln "N�w Modelbuch" 1561. Paul Haupt, Bern 1986. ISBN 3-258-03610-1 Some of the forerunners of lacepillows can be seen in Mrs. Palliser on page 91 Fig. 43 and page 110 Fig. 50. If you look at M. Dreger's Entwicklungs-Geschichte der Spitze (on the Professor's site), you can see another strange lacepillow on Abb. 21, it should be from about 1587. There is a much more normal lacepillow in a Flemish book by Martine Bruggeman. Tamara will you share the photo you recently took of the engraving by Jan Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius? It should be from the 3rd quarter of the 16th century. These are the examples I have, has anybody any more? Stretching the 16th century a few years, there is actually an example I have found. Take a look at page 22 of the OIDFA Bulletin 1993/4. In 1603 Alessandro Allori painted an Annunciation, where the Virgin Mary had put her lacepillow aside. Her bobbins were the 'flute' bobbins of the low-warp loom. The lacepillow is a bolster type in a basket. Greetings Vibeke in cold and dark Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
