Re: [lace] lace identification please
If you go to the link http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 then click on the photo of the lace to enlargeit, it is clearly labelled "Irish Lace, Hand finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames." The smaller writing underneath reads "The tradition of Embroidery and Lace Making in Ireland dates back to the early nineteenth century and different areas of the country developed their own particular styles. Our aim is to re-create some of the styles and effects of the Irish embroiderers of yesteryear. Our skills are traditional, but out techniques and materials are of today. We hope that our product, made for you with care and pride, will give you pleasure. By Grange Crafts, County Cork, Ireland." I take that to mean that it is in the style of traditional Irish lace (and it has the shamrock motif) but not made in the same way If you go to http://www.grangecraft.com/products.php?cat_id=22 you will see that they offer bookmarks, coasters and traycloth etc, all just different sized pieces cut from a large piece of lace fabric with a repeating pattern - which I think confirms that someone used scissors to snip the sections apart to make it hand finished! . On 8 Nov 2013, at 16:48, Sue wrote: > i wasn't thinking it was hand made so where did the hand finished come in. Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Irish lace
Thank you every one always interesting to hear you explain either just tiny bits about it or some in much more detail, Brilliant. I was never much interested in needle laces (although i did some embroidery in my 20s and 30s) I think its partly due to my strange eye sight, but have got more interested in looking and maybe trying one or two bits.Spurred on by your enthusiasm. Sue T Dorset UK I agree that it is chemical lace. Even the placemats under "Irish lace" are chemical lace. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Conservation, Interlocking stitches to create lacy textiles
Since some lacy textiles are made by very sophisticated embroidery machines, years ago I learned more about them during embroidery study in Europe. The trick is that every stitch fiber's needle must penetrate another stitch, or an item would fall apart when released from a backing material that holds the work together during manufacture. Pat Earnshaw's books "Lace Machines and Machine Laces" Volumes 1 and 2 (love the title), and her "How to Recognize Machine Laces" are most helpful for those who wish to learn more about machine-made laces. Lace guilds often have these research books in their lending libraries. In Vol. 2 on page 111 there is an explanation of how chemical lace developed in Switzerland. The main human force was Charles Wetter, who began experiments in 1879. Here is where lessons on lace conservation come into play. Silk was destroyed by chlorine bleach and/or caustic soda. Cotton was not. See the logic? Use a silk base, and embroider with 100 percent cotton! In developing the process, Wetter's lungs were damaged by the poisonous gas. No doubt other materials are used as base fabrics today. You will remember my frequent admonitions not to use bleaches when washing lace. Some of you have written about laces that disappeared in the washing process. Perhaps the lace threads had silk content Even a little silk combined with cotton would have weakened the lace if one decided to wash in chlorine bleach. Many of you are using modern threads spun of combinations of fibers. Keep this warning in mind when selecting threads. Read my Arachne conservation memos for the impact of bleaches of different chemicals that could inter-act and turn laces a terrible acid yellow, and you'll settle for a nice ecru or creamy colored lace that can be achieved by simply soaking in distilled water and a little Orvus soap. This soak can lighten textiles that were dipped in tea. http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html Alternative method of making lacy textiles: A coarse-woven white fabric that is sold by the yard (I've forgotten the commercial name of it) on which one may embroider by hand or sewing machine (favored by artists and modern stitchers). It looks somewhat like highly-starched cheesecloth. I bought some in England in the 1970s. Again, your stitch fibers must lock into one another. And, if I remember correctly, in this case you put the finished product on an ironing board wrong-side-up, and press with a hot iron. The backing crumbles and falls away from the stitching. A bit messy. But, a safe product for work done at home or in a private embroidery studio. No dangerous chemicals are involved. Please print this information and save in your lace conservation binder. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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/
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace poppies
Hi David, Sue is going to send you a copy, and she may have already done so. I get the digest so am always late with items. I had lost my file and she kindly sent me a copy. It was designed for the IOLI convention way back in 2008, so probably 2007. I may have it filed in my old convention folders rather than my lace designs. Sue is more organized than me. :-) Janice >Sue, I think this might be a pricking I need, as I don't have one yet. Tell how Janice. thanks David in Ballarat, AUS Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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/
[lace] Irish lace
I agree that it is chemical lace. Even the placemats under "Irish lace" are chemical lace. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
I have to say i wasn't thinking it was hand made so where did the hand finished come in. Thank you for clearing that one up. They are pretty though and of course friends see lace and think of me:-) Nice of them. It's definitely chemical lace, but I suppose that snipping the motifs apart using scissors would make it "hand finished". Sent from Brenda's iPad It looks very much like Chemical Lace to me and certainly not hand made! - 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/
RE: [lace] lace identification please
I couldn't get the web site to enlarge the photos of the coasters from the thumbnails, but it does look like Carickmacross lace. Carickmacross is an Irish lace embroidered on tulle. It is fast and easy and is worked on a pad of cloth held in the hand so can be carried anywhere. It also had endless stitch possibilities. You can see it on lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/CarrickmacrossID.html I'm sure there are some instructions in the web and some of the instruction booklets are inexpensive. Diane Z Lubec, Maine, USA - 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/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
It's definitely chemical lace, but I suppose that snipping the motifs apart using scissors would make it "hand finished". Sent from Brenda's iPad > It looks very much like Chemical Lace to me and certainly not hand made! - 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/
[lace] North Cheshire Lacemakers Lace Day Nov. 9 (England)
Re: Bookcases to Bobbins" talk on Nov. 9th. A notice of this lace day came in from Lace News, and the speaker is given as Graham Hundson. Sounds like a topic of interest, so I'm asking if someone attending would write a paragraph or more about the talk for us, or obtain something he may have written about the talk for the program organizer and send that to Arachne. Many thanks. Jeri Ames in Maine USA - 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/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
This is a sort of chemical lace - embroidery as they made in Vogtland, Erzgebirge and in Switzerland. Ilske - 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/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com -- Subject: [lace] lace identification please A friend brought me this item just as its shown in the link below. It is Irish lace and needle work rather than other lace work. > http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 Hi Sue It looks very much like Chemical Lace to me and certainly not hand made! What do others think it is? Catherine Barley 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] more on books
Reference the Lace Guild , they also have second hand books on all types of lace, well worth looking at if you are seeking a particular book. Sue M Harvey Norfolk U.K. Sent from my iPad > - 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/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
I believe this is a form if machine lace called "chemical lace". It was embroidered by machine on a fabric which was then dissolved away by chemicals. Clay Sent from my iPad > On Nov 8, 2013, at 8:51 AM, "Sue" wrote: > > > I wonder if one of you experienced spiders would pin it down to whatever type > you believe it to be. It mentions embroiderers and also that it is Hand > Finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames (so does that mean pure > embroidery? > > http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 > > Sue T > Dorset 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] lace identification please
A friend brought me this item just as its shown in the link below. It is Irish lace and needle work rather than other lace work. I wonder if one of you experienced spiders would pin it down to whatever type you believe it to be. It mentions embroiderers and also that it is Hand Finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames (so does that mean pure embroidery? http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 Sue T Dorset 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] sad news
Sister Judith .her lace, Withof, will live on. Thank you, Anneke, for sharing this sad news with the world. Sr Judith was an amazing person who led an incredible life as Anneke has chronicled in her biography. She was truly gifted as a teacher, lacemaker and designer. Her designs and techniques have provided inspiration to thousands of lacemakers. She had the ability to teach you to "think lace". I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to meet her and to study with her. Anneke is right - she will live on through the legacy of her Withof lace. It is a gift she has left to all of us. Susie Johnson in southwest Pennsylvania, USA --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com - 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/
Re: [lace] Lace poppies
Sue, I think this might be a pricking I need, as I don't have one yet. Tell how Janice. thanks David in Ballarat, AUS The other day I pinned my lace poppy to my coat in advance of remembrance sunday and has already been admired by a couple of ladies working in our local shops. Just thought I would say thank you again to Janice Blair for her gift of the pattern so we could make them and I continue to wear it every year as well as putting money in tins obviously. I wonder how many others still wear their lace poppy. Sue T - 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/
[lace] What kind of lace is it? Interwoven Globe at the NY Metropolitan
The Interwoven Globe exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is amazing. I was there on Wednesday, November 6. It’s a 6 hour round trip train ride from my home. We were fascinated. If you go, don’t plan on doing much else at the museum, you’ll be museumed out when you’re done. We spent at least 3 hours at the exhibit, and it’s dense. But absolutely fascinating. I have the catalog, which is great if you can’t get there, but seeing the exhibit is much, much better, as many times you can get very close, and see the stitched repairs, or other little things, or the whole thing, which makes a great impact. Or see the connections among what is in a particular room. If you can go, do so, you won’t regret it. It’s on until January 5, 2014. Don’t forget that the admission prices/donations/fees are suggestions, and not required. You can pay less or more, as your heart desires. The lace of # 80 in the catalog is not in the exhibit, sad to say. BUT, there is lace there. Trimmings on 2 dresses, # 82 in the catalog, which only shows the back, and # 83 in the catalog, which shows the lace, but not up close. The lace in both is definitely part of the original, as the lace in both is decorated with the trim of the dress fabric. Pictures are not allowed, so I had to wait until not attendants were around, used no flash, and I couldn’t get very close. Now I realize I should have used zoom, but I didn’t. So what you see is what you get. Both dresses and the trim are similar, but one (# 83) has lace that looks distinctly like a trellis pattern, and I have never seen lace like it. It almost looks like a chain stitch, but it is not embroidered. The lace on the top of the stomacher is gathered, and I have no idea what it is. The lace on # 82 looks much more like lace but I have not seen its like, but that’s not saying much. While the fabric for both was manufactured 1735-40, #82 was actually made in 1770. Apparently # 83 was made in 1740. I have uploaded the pictures onto flickr, they are both in my folder as well. I hope they can be magnified on your computer, so you can have a good look at it. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where it is colder this morning, 34F 1C, but brightly sunny. They're talking snow for next week. - 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/
Re: [lace] more on books
Hi Sharon and Spiders All, Another good source of reviews is the Lace Guild's publication, Lace - their books are reviewed by lacemakers - members of the Lace Guild usually - so are sometimes a bit later than those on the blurb on the covers, but I trust them implicitly. It isn't only bobbin lace that is treviewed either - knitted, tatted etc all get their fair share, and I do consider the subs to the Lace Guild money *very* well spent! Carol - in North Norfolk UK. 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' From: Rick & Sharon Whiteley To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 18:53 Subject: [lace] more on books It is for this reason that we are grateful for the few reviews posted on Arachne. - 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/ - 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/
