Gentle Spiders,
In Nüw Modelbuch, there are several patterns which use a motif, made
with 4 pairs (usually two plaits feeding into it). The motif looks very
much like like a single "rose" of the Flanders Ground or modern
Roseground (5 holes, the central one being slightly larger than the 4
corner ones).
The mysterious RM, who put the pattern book together in 1561, seems to
have names for various motifs (whether they were her names for them or
traditional, she doesn't say) -- there are "stars" and "cushions" and
"chess" and (I think) "dice" and other such descriptive and imaginative
names. The names aren't always consistent -- sometimes the same element
is named one thing and sometimes another. But they're all interesting.
Unfortunately, Claire Burkhard, who had made some of the patterns
available to us (Faszinierendes Klöppeln), wasn't any more consistent
than RM; sometimes she translated the pattern's name and sometimes she
didn't :) In the case of the litle "roses", she didn't... :(
Now comes my problem. My German is pretty much non-existent; I had a
little bit of it, 40 yrs ago, and it has all "rusted through" due to
non-use (my Russian, which used to be fluent is not much better at this
point, for the same reason). But, even 40 yrs ago, I was never taught
the "old alphabet"... I cannot even decipher some of the letters in the
Nüw Modelbuch, which means I cannot "translate" them well enough to
even consult my (addmitedly very small -- college edition) modern
dictionary.
I'm hoping one of our German members will be able to help me; I know we
learnt old Polish script and print in school and I expect the same had
been true also for German natives learning their mother tongue. If I
could send someone scans of the the word (in several contexts; it seems
to be spelt differently depending on whether it starts with a capital
or lower-case letter), perhaps you could tell me what its modern
eqivalent is? I could then check the dictionary...
Of course, if you could actually *translate the word* for me, I'd be
doubly grateful; like I said... my dictionary is very small...
Yours, hoping,
T
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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