RE: [lace] The Laughing Cavalier' Lace
I have always loved that painting since I was 11 years old and it hung on the wall of my classroom, I loved the lace even then although I did not know what it was at the time, just knew I loved his clothes. Funny that I should become a lacemaker later in life Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] cavalier
The cuff may be reticella "punto in aria", or possibly Genoese bobbin lace (the ultimate source of Cluny and Bedfordshire. Image is too small for confidence/ Lorelei - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] The Laughing Cavalier' Lace
I've just come across a website showing the famous portrait, "The Laughing Cavalier": http://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org:8080/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=64959 If you click on the photo a separate window opens, showing an enlargement in which you can see in detail the lace he is wearing on his cuff. It is so beautiful, and must be quite early, since the date of the picture is 1624. This means that, although it looks to me like 19th century Bedfordshire lace, it must be something else. Perhaps some sort of needlelace? Can anyone suggest what it might really have been? I'd love to know. The description of this artwork suggests that his costume is decorated with symbols of love; is it possible that the lace he is so carefully displaying to the artist also contained some similar meaning? By the way, I heard of the website because the painting forms part of an exhibition about fencing and fashion in the Renaissance, so there may be more pictures of interest to lacemakers. If anyone happens to be in London and visits the Wallace Collection, perhaps they'd tell us more about it? Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where we are having a little sunshine this morning, but the forecast is for even more rain. It seems that we have just survived the wettest April on record, and May is bidding fair to be similar, yet we are still officially in drought, so I suppose I shouldn't complain . . . ). - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] The Laughing Cavalier' Lace
I guess that Linda doesn't belong to either The Lace Guild or IOLI as the magazines produced by both these organisations have regular items about the early English laces and how to make them, and very interesting reading they are too. She is quite right that there is a similarity between many of these laces and Bedfordshire 9-pin edge as they are worked with plaits, but I suspect at a quick look that the Laughing Cavalier's lace is Reticella. If possible read Gil Dye's article on page 25 in the January copy of Lace which is about two very similar portraits of William Shakespeare (1610 and 1610-20). The main difference between the portraits is in the collars, one being bobbin lace and one needlemade Reticella, but to a non-lacemaker they are very alike, and in much the same style as the Cavalier's collar. Jacquie in Lincolnshire - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
