I am working on my second adaptation of a lappet from the book about Thomas Lester. I have managed to put a photo on Flickr in the Photo Stream. I thought I was putting it in my album but it did not show up there. Maybe Sue can move it for me. :-) Anyway, take a look. Holly Van Sciver did the pricking for it from photos from the book as there are no prickings provided. Thankfully she changed the baby giraffe birth sac that was between the giraffes legs into a leaf and vine design.  The piece is close to 14 inches tall and I doubt I would ever wear it on my head. It did win the Best of the Lace Division last summer at the San Diego County Fair.  I am currently working on another adaptation of one of the ostrich lappets in the same book. This one is bigger and wider. At the widest part I had on over 400 bobbins if you count all the gimp bobbins as well. I worked both pieces in Egyptian 80/2 and enlarged them to 125% so that I could see what I was doing.This one has a double plaited ground with lots of rolled tallies. I will post a photo when it is finished.It will take ages to cut all the thrown back threads and remove the pins. I hope to put it in the display at convention this summer if it looks good enough. I should ask my daughter to put it on my revamped website. Just looked and realized it was not there. JaniceÂ
<A larger problem that I see is that many of the best lappets required the fine thread that is no longer available to make them in their historical proportions. An attempt to recreate an antique lappet with the thread of today might turn into more of a wall hanging, or curtain, possibly a toga if it were to be worn. While Alice feels that it is the patterns that should be preserved, and they are very pretty, perhaps lappet wearers of the 21st century would prefer different themes than floral. Maybe they would like lappets with themes of social commentary, or even abstract lappets. Perhaps this would be a good topic for a lace contest. The Lappet of Tomorrow. Devon>Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
