If you read the Royal School of Needlework's press release it does say they were 'influenced' by the techniques of Carrickmacross. Obviously as the press write up, these things get edited and you only need to lose a word or two to get a completely different meaning to a text.
However, I would be interested to get a closer look at the veil as I suspect the 'embroidered' flowers round the edge may well be close to the Carrickmacross techniques which is after all an embroidered lace. Regards Claire Kent, UK.. Claire Allen www.bonitocrafts.co.uk Crafty stuff I want to show off. On 2 May 2011, at 03:46, Karen Bovard <[email protected]> wrote: > I too was confused about what I had read about the dress and the terminology. > What I had read was talk about appliqueing motifs and they called it > Carrickmacross. Those two are not the same. An applique technique would be > like Princess Lace. Carrickmacross designs are worked directly onto net. > I will be teaching Carrickmacross Lace at the IOLI Convention this August in > Bethesda, Maryland. There are still openings in my class if anyone is > interested. > > ________________________________ > From: David C COLLYER > <[email protected]> > I think the bodice was in fact Chantilly (don't know > if it was hand-made or > not). The Carrickmacross flowers motifs may have been > lower down or even on the > veil. From what I've read these were indeed hand > appliqued and traditional > Carrickmacross consists of such motifs in organdie > appliqued on to net. > - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
