Hi Janice I think your book title translates on "Of (about) the fish crisis and (to do with) the golden age of lace" - quite a few laces were developed to give some income to fisherfolk at a time when the primary resource of fishing wasn't viable. Rosaline lace from the Netherlands comes to mind. Possibly the crochet technique was developed for the same reason - if they needed a quick lace that would sell; Rosaline too is quick to make if many people are working at motifs and others assembling the motfis into collars and cuffs for sale.
I also think that there was a variety of techniques used to make the characteristic head-coverings, depending on who designed them and where precisely they originated in Brittany. On Dec 26, 2007 1:01 PM, Janice Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My other lace gift was a French book on what looks like Irish Crochet. It > is all in French so I will have to use it for eye candy. The title is "De > la crise de la sardine a l'age d'or de la dentelle. Maybe I could get a > translation from someone. I was unaware that Irish crochet was made in > Brittainy but that is what it looks like from the book. There were also 3 > postcards enclosed in the gift with pictures of the headgear they wear in > Brittainy so now I am wondering if that headgear was actually crochet and > not bobbin lace as I always had imagined. Maybe a French Arachne can tell > me which lace is made there. > > > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
