Hi Jenny and All
Lovely to have you back on the list Jenny.
Like Jenny I spent yesterday at a Spanaish Lace Day. A coachload of
lacemakers from Garrucha and Antas travelled to Olula del Rio for
their Lace Day. It was a small affair, as Lace Days go, with only
about 200 lacemakers.
There was a nice exhibition of lace made by the local ladies and 5
stalls selling lacmeking goodies. We had a busy morning (after they´d
fed us a huge sticky bun for breakfast), I´d turned one of Eve Mortons
Xmas bangles into a pendant and it caused lots of comments. I had
another one on my pillow and they were facinated with both my Midland
bobbins and how was working it.
Before lunch we were entertained by the children from the local dance
school. Lots of traditional flamenco dancing which was lovely. There
was a huge raffle and we finished the day off with a huge lunch.
The venue was unusual, a sort of 3 sided barn with a stage at one end.
I assume it is normally used for the many Spanish fiestas that we have
in this area.
Nice day, very, very hot and we were all pleased to get back into the
air conditioned coach for the journey home.
Pam Mattioli
In very hot southern Spain
Quoting Jenny De Angelis <[email protected]>:
Hello everyone,
I have just re.subscribed to the lace list after a few years break.
Today, 11th Sept. is Catalunya day, the region in which we live in
Spain. It is the major F iesta for the whole region, made up of the
four provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona and Lerida in he
North Eastern corner of Spain.
We have just had a lace exhibition in the town where I live on the coast.
On display there were some very nice pieces of lace. Some of the
lace fans were absolutely gorgeous.
The lace exhibition began on 21st August in our exhibition hall and
us lace makers from the town took it in turns to spend a morning or
afternoon at the exhibition on a rota basis. It ends today 11th
Sept. This morning we also held our annual lace making day on the
sea front under the palm trees where lace makers from other towns
had been invited to take part too, which is the normal thing. There
must have been a good 500 lace makers at their pillows and some
ladies making needle lace.
I was at the exhibition this morning, taking my turn to keep an eye
on things, and quite a large number of people came in to view the
pieces, chat about the pieces and take photos. I had a quick visit
to the sea front to see the lace making going and to see the stalls
selling threads & patterns etc.
I have a few pieces of lace, in the exhibition, that I have made
over the years. I also added my latest effort, some flowers which I
finished in June this year.
The flowers I made were from the wedding bouquet pattern produced about 1984
by the Itchen Valley lacemakers in England. I had a copy of this
pattern for years but had only ever made one rose just to see how it
would turn out. I never had the courage nor patience to make the
whole bouquetful. But back in 2006 I was going through my patterns
and books and realised I could not find the bouquet pattern. I
asked on this list if anyone had a copy of the pattern they didn't
want or if anyone knew where I could get another copy to buy. I was
in luck. An English lady, called Hazel, at the time living in
Holland on a canal boat, contacted me to say she had a copy that she
would never use and so sent it to me in exchange for some of the
Finca lace making thread sold here.
I still never got on and made the flowers I just couldn't pluck up
the courage to begin such a project. But when I was told about the
exhibition to be held here and the theme was to be nature and colour
I thought now is my chance to get on and make a few of those flowers
from the bouquet. I had no intention of making the whole thing but
just a few of each flower for a small posy. I made the 3 roses as
per the original bouquet and began on the hyacinths, the stephanitos
and the lily of the valley. Bit by bit the thing grew and kept
growing until I had made, not only 3 roses, but 21 stephanotis, 14
hyacinths, and 25 lily of the valley as well as 8 rose leaves to
scatter through the arrangement. I had made the whole lot as per the
original bouquet after all.
As I don't have any brides that need a bouquet I decided to turn the
whole lot into a long table centre which is also more convenient as
it sits very comfortably on the shelf in my glass cabinet away from
the dust.
I used silk thread bought on line from England I began making the
petals at the end of last December and finished at the end of June
this year. But during that 6 months I had to wait a week here and
there for more threads to arrive in the post as I kept running out.
I also had many times when I could not face another evening making
petals and wondered why I had ever started the project. I mostly
only worked for about 4 hours or so in the evenings, which time I
always think of a my time after dinner is finished and the dishes
are washed. In all I must have worked for between 4 & 5 months of
evenings and the occasional afternoon. Once I had completed all the
flowers and put them on stems. I then could not get up enough nerve
to make my arrangement. I have never made a bouquet of any kind
before and I found it daunting to attempt. But I managed in the end
and I think it turned out well.
The pattern was produced in the days before computers and digital
cameras and only has rough sketches of how the bouquet was put
together so not a lot to go by. Hazel who sent the pattern to me
also sent a coloured photo of the bouquet so that I could what to
aim at.
Yesterday the local TV station here showed a piece on the exhibition
and the pieces on display, my flowers were shown about 3 times in
all and were spoken about, which was very nice. I have taken some
photos but I don't have a web page to put them so can't show them to
you in that way. If anyone would like to see a photo I can send
them a copy as an attachment to their address so contact me if you
like, but be warned the photo of the whole thing is quite a large
file.
I would very much like to contact Hazel who sent me the pattern back
in 2006 to thank her once more and perhaps show her my version of
the flowers. If she is still subscribed to this list perhaps she
would contact me.
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
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