Hello,
According to "Hispanic Lace and Lace-making" by Florence Lewis May,
published by The Hispanic Society of America, Pita lace is a type of lace
made in the Azores Islands, which are a Portuguese colony, and the fibre
comes from agave plants. There is also a mention of lace made with aloe
fibers, but I think that may not be the proper plant...
Sadly, the book doesn't mention whether the lace is bobbin lace, needle
lace, crochet or what.
On an interesting note, in the Philipines, lace was also made using
pineaple fibres...
Debora Lustgarten
At 01:53 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
Last night a fellow lacemaker was showing me a new addtion to her lace
collection. The little doily was labelled "pita lace". It was a most
beautiful airy little thing, like a delicate spider web. Neither of us has
ever heard of pita lace before, it really looked like a super-fine knitting.
where bobbin lace would have a half stitch trail this had what looked like
"perl stitch"..perhaps needle lace would have this? One feature was a
series of little bobbles made up of bundles of thread. I ssumed they were
made by winding the thread around a small tool, maybe a needle, and then
they had a couple more extra rounds to keep the shape. They were only about
an eighth of an inch across. Can anyone enlighten us on this particular
lace? Thanks Sharon on cold, frosty, slippery, Vancouver Island
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