Sorry ladies that it has been so long since this email question. I have
been in hospital and recouperating. The proceedure messed up my balance and
I couldn't even look at the computer screen. It has got better little by
little, still have to take care moving and turning. I couldn't touch my
lace for ages and so I have spent the last 4 or 5 days getting back into it,
doing a little project for my daughters stepdaughter and the second strip of
garter lace for my niece. One is nearly finished but the garter is bound to
take about another 3 or 4 weeks.
I have so little experience of Russian lace but I will tell you my thinking
and understanding of tallies and things. Tallies as far as I am aware are
square features, I have used them in bucks point. Leaves I have done in the
bedfordshire style of lace and some pieces which are a combination of
Roseground, some sort of other group, ws, hs or dieppe. the only Russian
piece I have done is the rocking horse and using 2 pairs of bobbins for each
of 4 leaves, doing a windmill crossing and then the other half of the leaves
to make a flower, or just seperate leaves depending on the pattern. After I
had done it my teacher explained the Russian way, doing each leave and going
up and then down using the same pair and sewing into the centre (I hope you
understand what I mean here).
Sue T Dorset UK
I did not realize Russian tallies are made differently to Beds. ones.
How do you make them 'differently'? Surely one thread weaving over and
under the other 3 threads is all the same. Some tallies have square
ends, and some have pointy ends, that's all!
I'll be curious to see Sue's explanation myself, because it's a puzzle to
me, too...
My own original response was: "the proportions are different: Beds
leaf-tallies are "skinnier", so they look longer, while the Russian ones
are "plumper", so they look shorter (square tallies would be the same, I
think. I can't, off-hand, remember seeing square tallies in Russian,
though).
But then I started checking, looking at photos of older laces, which were
made before the "globalization of the lace techniques". Laces made before
the lacemakers of Russian Tape had easy access to the pictures of Beds
lace and vice versa; pictures which might have influenced the lacemakers'
"eye" as to the -- aimed for -- "perfection" or "ideal"...
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