In a message dated 7/12/06 12:05:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> He looks to me as though he is working a strange form of Tenerife lace, you > > place the pins in the pad and then wind the thread around them, I think you > then sew over and under those threads to hold them in place and create the > design, something like that though I have never worked tenerife lace. > Sandra Stilwell, who is an expert at Tenerife lace, taught me to make > bobbin lace at classes in Essex. in the early 1980s. She used to bring > pieces of Tenerife to the classes at times and I believe she wrote a book or > > two on the subject. > For anyone interested: Alexandra Stillwell "The Technique of Teneriffe Lace" Publisher - Branford in Watertown, Mass. USA ISBN 08231-5056-9 1980 2 other books by this British author: "Cassell Illustrated Dictionary of Lacemaking" 0-304-34145-2 1996 "Drafting Torchon Lace Patterns" Dryad 0-8521-9627X 1986 Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace & Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
