Many years ago I was lucky enough to have Devon Thein arrange for me and another lacemaker to tour the archived lace at the Met. It was absolutely fantastic to see lace made hundreds of years ago.
When I lived in the Bronx, one of my favorite places to visit was the Cloisters. I loved going to see the Unicorn Tapestries they have. So glad you enjoyed your visit to NY. Helene Ulrich formerly from the Bronx, New York Currently in Loris, South Carolina On 5/3/15, Anna Binnie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
