Hello Leonard
..........and page 30 shows the lovely Paisley Pear lace (from Northampton
Museums collection) with the Pear outlined with tallies.
I would like to add my compliments to David on a beautiful piece of work - I
love the photograph of work in progress which shows you have 'everything' to
hand - telephone, remote control - ah a dedicated lacemaker ;o)
Regards
Diana in Northamptonshire
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard Bazar" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 5:58 PM
Subject: [lace] David's Toender and point ground leaves and cucumbers
Dear Lorelei
Cucumber tallies were used quite frequently in 19th century Bucks point.
It is used, for example, as a filling with columns of cloth stitch on the
scarf illustrated on the front of "Art, Trade or Mystery" published by the
Lace Guild (now out of print, I fear). The scarf is owned by the Guild and
thought to be the work of the Midland Lace Association. Northampton Museum
has the pricking, which is on the back cover. The Bucks point motifs
applied to machine net illustrated on page 46 seems to have them used as
leaves/petals in a filling in the flower centre, but it's difficult to
see, and quite frankly the lace shows why people turned to fully machine
made... On the other hand, on page 8 there is a photo of 18th century E
Midlands lace with torchon ground with a daisy filling using leaf tallies.
I suspect that point ground workers then just used patterns chosen because
someone liked them, and worked them as best they could, using fillings
they
liked or found easy, and happily took inspiration (copied) anything from
anywhere they liked the look of! Rather as David seems to do... quite
right too! Especially with such marvellous results.
With thanks to David for sharing it, and Julian for broadcasting it..
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:23:49 -0600
From: "Lorelei Halley"
Subject: [lace] David's lace
David
A beautiful piece. the design is interesting. I wouldn't expect leaf
tallies
and cucumber tallies in English Bucks point. But they have slipped into
the
Danish version. Very interesting. Has anyone else seen this combination
of
elements in other Toender pieces?
Lorelei
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