I'm now back home and would like to thank Devon and everyone else who
made suggestions of what are must sees in NYC.
I spent an afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art looking and
photographing some lovely laces. If any of you cannot get to NYC you can
view most of their lace collection online, details are not as good as
real life BUT it is a good way to spend a day or afternoon or whatever
the link is
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=*&what=Lace
While I was wondering around the Dutch masters on another day I spent at
the Museum, I found a painting entitled 'The Lacemaker' painted in 1656
and the artist was Nicolas Maes. Upon further investigation the museum
has another couple of Lacemaker paintings, one from Denmark and another
a copy by Dali of the famous "lacemaker'. Links are below, please check
out the styles of pillows and the bobbins used.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=Lacemaker
For those of you who are interested in woven tapestries a trip to the
Cloisters is a must. And the beauty of all this is that you can take
all the photos you want, for copyright reasons I am not sharing my
photos online.
The rest of the Met is also worthwhile but there are only so many hours
in a day and so many other places to visit.
All in all NYC and the environs was really worth the visit my initial
motivation was to visit my son and grandchildren. But I have now found a
new playground for me to play in.
Now to draft up some of the patterns from the photos.
I also managed a short trip to Boston, a friend of mine teaches at MIT
and asked me to bring my lace equipment and lace grids to talk to her
class. Well we had a ball, the class was essentially using Euclidean
Geometry as it can be applied to art and architecture. The students were
very enthusiastic about the lace I brought and of course my travelling
pillow. I described how different laces were made on different grids and
asked them to group my lace samples. They all judged that point ground
laces were done on a different grid to torchon and Flanders and were
intrigued with cluny style and how it was made. We may have a few
converts there!
Anna from a very wet Sydney
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