"Malcolm Down (yes another clever male lacemaker) made that. He said to me at a PBLC meeting that he liked a challenge, and that "these women here are all so proud of their silly little bits of lace", which annoyed me no end. So I challenged him (not jokingly, as it says on the PBLC web site!) to make the cope in the book published by Springetts of "Fine Buckinghamshire Point Lace Patterns belonging to the Misses Sivewright and Pope", which he promptly did. The book just has the pricking, and the only picture of the finished lace is of the centre part of the cope labelled "Part of a Cope" on page 64 on Thomas Wright's "Romance of the Lace Pillow". Malcolm's finished lace can be seen on:
http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/pblc/cope.htm"; *** His comment is kind of amusing, and it is a wonderful piece of work. My query (and hope it isn't too rude) is, why isn't the grain of the mesh worked within each of the "medallions," symetrical to it's opposing medallion and yet within the medallion itself, and/or the grain parallel or perpendicular to the outer and inner edge? Perhaps I am just anal, and the technique is beyond me but with bobbin lace, one can accomodate these things? TIA, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
