Dear Lorelei Cucumber tallies were used quite frequently in 19th century Bucks point. It is used, for example, as a filling with columns of cloth stitch on the scarf illustrated on the front of "Art, Trade or Mystery" published by the Lace Guild (now out of print, I fear). The scarf is owned by the Guild and thought to be the work of the Midland Lace Association. Northampton Museum has the pricking, which is on the back cover. The Bucks point motifs applied to machine net illustrated on page 46 seems to have them used as leaves/petals in a filling in the flower centre, but it's difficult to see, and quite frankly the lace shows why people turned to fully machine made... On the other hand, on page 8 there is a photo of 18th century E Midlands lace with torchon ground with a daisy filling using leaf tallies. I suspect that point ground workers then just used patterns chosen because someone liked them, and worked them as best they could, using fillings they liked or found easy, and happily took inspiration (copied) anything from anywhere they liked the look of! Rather as David seems to do... quite right too! Especially with such marvellous results.
With thanks to David for sharing it, and Julian for broadcasting it.. [email protected] > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:23:49 -0600 > From: "Lorelei Halley" > Subject: [lace] David's lace > > David > A beautiful piece. the design is interesting. I wouldn't expect leaf tallies > and cucumber tallies in English Bucks point. But they have slipped into the > Danish version. Very interesting. Has anyone else seen this combination of > elements in other Toender pieces? > Lorelei > > - - - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
