On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:16, Lorelei Halley wrote:
There is also the Ipswich lace production: local and homegrown, point
ground.
But I'm not sure what time period the Ipswich lacemakers were active.
I know
there is someone in arachne who does know.
The subtitle of Marta Cotterell Raffel's book on the subject of "The
Laces of Ipswich" is: "the art and economics of an early American
industry, 1750-1840", so we do know the dates. But, as far as I
remember (it's been a while since I read the book and my wretched
memory is like a sieve), the Ipswich lace -- despite its energetic
promotion by the local worthies -- never really "took" and its use
remained relatively local.
Also, it wasn't, sensu stricto, Point Ground. Most of it was black and
used either Kat Stitch or what's described as "Torchon with an extra
twist at the pinhole" (honeycomb *stitch*?) as ground, not the CTTT,
typical of Point Ground. Also, some of the laces were "groundless" and
I'd have a hard time categorising them. It's a similar story to that of
"Tonder Laces". When we think of "Tonder Laces", we think "Point
Ground, very fine, large Copenhagen holes". But, given that the laces
of the Tonder area were made over a long period of time, there's more
to them than that; they changed along with the demands of fashion and
taste.
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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