I worked one repeat of the Batavia lace last year, if you were going to do it, I would recommend enlarging the pricking and doing the bigger size. As you don't want to even think about how long that little piece took!
I cut it off, and put it into my SCA notebook for events. Nancyanne NJ USA > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:16:46 +0900 > From: Jenny Brandis > Subject: [lace] SCA lace > > Hi Tamara > > In 1629 the Dutch East India company ship, the 'Batavia' was sunk off > the coast of Western Australia. In 1994 the OIDFA published work by > Rosemary Shepherd and E. Spee-Van Oost on the lace found on the > wreck but I do not get that publication so am not sure what it says. > > Late last year I wrote to the WA Museum requesting a scanned copy of > the 4 page pamphlet they made about the lace, including the pricking > by Rosemary Shepherd and they very kindly emailed me a copy. It is > over 800kb in size and as I can not remember if you are on broadband > or not I have put it on my website at > www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace/downloads/batavialace.pdf so that you > can take a look at it. Would it fall into the right era for SCA - > seeing as it was wrecked in 1629? > > > > Jenny Brandis > Kununurra, Western Australia > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.html > > - - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:39:13 -0500 > From: Debora Lustgarten > Subject: Re: [lace] SCA lace > > Hi Jenny, > I'm going to chime in and say that in my SCA Kingdom, an "end of period" > date of 1650 is acceptable, so this lace would qualify as "period" for > me. Regardless, I'm very grateful for the article and the working pattern! > Thank you! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
