Hi Arachnids,
These booklets by Gillian Dye are very useful if you are into re-enactment.
She has done a lot of research not only into the actual laces, but also into
the way people worked them in the early years. No prickings as we know them,
but just some lines or as the free-hand lace is still done in some areas
with just a striped fabric on the pillow. Even if you are not into doing
these older plaited laces it is worth reading the booklets -there are four
in all- just for interest. I have actually done a couple of the simpler
ones, but cheated a little by using proper vellum (calfskin) to make a
pricking for working on to demonstrate these early laces at a medieval fair.
Sorry I did not comment before, but I was doing other things over the
weekend.
I have no connection with the booklets other than enjoying them.
Happy lace making,
Joepie, East Sussex, UK (where yet more rain is expected) :-(
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When there was no mail last Friday, Nov. 1, I posted the "Surface
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Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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