> > "Modern needlelacers are better needlelacers than the > ones in the past."
Not all are better lacemaker, but they know to work a piece of lace and finish it all by themselves. Untill beginning of 20th century, the common lacemaker worked only one kind of stich and the pay differd for each kind of stich. The gaze point was best paid, and if you try to work point de gaze over some period and nothing else your stich is improving pretty fast, myself find it more easy to work point de gaze in a fine thread than in a coarse one. And we should never forget, that for centuries those lacemakers had a dreadfull amount of retirement at around the age of 30 because the strain on their eyes blinded them. > > > The reason was that we are using thread that is large > enough to see each stitch, so we strive to make the > stitches very precise, neat and uniform. The workers > who made lace with the very tiny thread in the past > could not see the individual stitches and thus did not > make them as neatly. It was the masses of stitches in > a cluster that was seen. I saw a piece made in the conservatoire de dentelle at Alencon. Now they work mostly for the gouvernement of France and they dont teach. As much as I understood the explanations they are conserving the tradition of fabrication of their needlelace, still the fabrication is a secret well guarded. This piece was made in linnen so fine you could barely see a stich, looking with a magnifier, those stiches were so regular inimaginable Alix fom Luxembourg - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
