Devon and other Arachnids >From the archive I didn't see public answers on Devon's questions below. For >most I have no answer too. I can add a book from 1920 that lists 164 bobbin >grounds, some very odd ones: "A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors" by >Gertrude Whiting. From "Flanders lace" by Mary Niven I know that the modern >ground works slightly faster than the old version.
Besides that I see a tendency where grounds play the main role in lace art rather than fill the background for a motif. For example somewhere around the millennium change I participated in an LOKK workshop encouraging us to vary on Flanders grounds. Since then I'm fascinated by the idea of a computer tool to generate thread drawings for grounds to analyze the paths that threads take through the lace and help to decide how to use contrasting threads or tweak the stitches for the desired effect. Slowly I acquired more and more skills and went through various implementations. The current implementation is inspired by Veronika's research. The collections of examples is still growing with the help of an enthusiastic user. These examples are grouped, for example Veronika's grounds, reusing thread diagrams as pair diagrams but also traditional grounds such as Flanders and several of the Whiting grounds https://d-bl.github.io/GroundForge/help/index Jo > ... Ulrike Voelcker ... Uta Ulrich ... > Was ground designing a late 20th century practice that was being done mostly > in > Germany? Were other people in other countries making up grounds? Did Cook and > Stott make up grounds for their book? Do these ground differ in some way from > historical grounds? - 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/
