Hi Everybody: Alice, I think you may be thinking of Janya Sugunnasil? She got the commission for the fabulous coloured silk bobbin lace fan with the gold sticks, but sheâs in Thailand, not India. (I have changed the Subject line to reflect this).
You can see the fan and read an online post about it here: https://hilarycadigan.com/tag/bobbin-lace-fan/ <https://hilarycadigan.com/tag/bobbin-lace-fan/> Adele waiting for spring in West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > On Mar 12, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Janis Savage <thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za <mailto:thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za>> wrote: > > I can almost remember seeing a picture of this fan on a facebook page some > years ago. It was absolutely stunning. I don't know if I could find this > picture again. Maybe someone else can find this picture. I did share it with > friends at the time on my facebook page. > > Janis in South Africa > > <We did have an Indian lacemaker, Sulachona, on Arachne some years ago. I > don't know if she is still around? > A few years back, Sulachona visited our lace group while touring the USA. > She had samples of the lace figures her ladies were making. She was > designing and assembling a lace fan for a patron. She had a group of ladies > employed to make the lace. They made multiple copies of each little section > of the fan so the best one could be used. We saw some of the (reject) > samples -- tiny vignettes of people, houses, elephants, etc. They used silk > thread -- single strands, each on its own bobbin. They would hand twist the > strands together as desired. They could use different colors together, or > use just 2 strands, or 3 or 4 -- to get different effects. > > I wonder what the fan looked like when finished. The drawing of it was > intriguing. Haven't heard anything about the fan or Sulachona since then. > Alice in Oregon -- where we had one day of almost dry yesterday. I look > forward to spring and summer. - 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/
