Re: [lace] Lace quote

[Kim Davis]

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Re: [lace] Lace quote

[H M Clarke]

I don’t know where my copy of Le Pompe is at the moment so I cannot check. It 
is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way does 
anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? Unless you have to make a lace 
trimmed dress, lace curtains, or similar? Lacemaking was useful in the areas 
and times of such things and lacemakers needed to make some money though I 
don’t think that is what it is trying to say. Am I missing something? Perhaps 
it is because most of my ancestry consists of country peasants whose lives 
would not have included any lace. 

Regards, Helen (on the west coast of mainland Canada). 

> *Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.*

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Re: [lace] Lace quote

[Robin K Panza]

According to Radmilla (someone please supply her last name as I am drawing a 
blank), one of the Eastern European (Czech?) peasant laces was useful and 
needful.  She said fabric was expensive or hard to come by, and any housewife 
or daughter could make lace.  The lace was sewn to collars, cuffs, hems, etc. 
to protect the precious fabric from wear and tear.  That really stuck in my 
mind, as it is so backwards to today's society.

Robin P.


On December 17, 2020, at 4:16 PM, H M Clarke  wrote:

>It is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way 
>does anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? 

>> *Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.*

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Re: [lace] Lace quote

[Adele Shaak]

It is an interesting quote. Probably not useful, especially viewed with today’s 
more utilitarian eyes. 

Back then, of course, you lived with ornament in the clothing of the moneyed 
classes. I recall reading somewhere (can’t give you a citation, sorry) that one 
of the great things about early bobbin lace was that it was an embellishment 
that could be quickly applied, (compared to the previous embellishment, 
embroidery, which took a lot longer to apply to any particular garment) plus it 
was portable. If you’re finished with your blue velvet jerkin, the lace, which 
was only tacked on anyway, could be quickly removed in its entirety with its 
structure intact, and moved onto your next garment. You couldn’t do that with 
embroidery! 

Also, I’m thinking lace, and other fine embellishments, probably were more 
necessary than they are today. People flaunted their fortunes in dress, but 
also I seem to recall (again, no citation) reading that there were dress 
requirements at court. In an era when you held your vast estate (and income) at 
his/her majesty’s pleasure, having the monarch get pissed off at you for not 
following the dress code had a lot more repercussions than it does today. 

Adele (also on the west coast of Canada, but with more rain than Helen)


> I don’t know where my copy of Le Pompe is at the moment so I cannot check. It 
> is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way 
> does anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? Unless you have to make a lace 
> trimmed dress, lace curtains, or similar? Lacemaking was useful in the areas 
> and times of such things and lacemakers needed to make some money though I 
> don’t think that is what it is trying to say. Am I missing something? Perhaps 
> it is because most of my ancestry consists of country peasants whose lives 
> would not have included any lace. 
> 
> Regards, Helen (on the west coast of mainland Canada). 
> 
>> *Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.*
> 
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[lace] Happy Christmas greetings

[Elizabeth Ligeti]

Just a line to wish everyone the Compliments of the Season. (depending on your
beliefs, and being Politically Correct!)
Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it.

I Love that quote, Elena, “a ship is sooner rigged by far, than a
gentlewoman made ready.”  

We are supposed to be in summer, here in Melbourne, Oz, but it is a chilly,
grey, damp day today. We need the rain, so are not complaining, but I actually
needed a windcheater top on when we went shopping this morning. I wore my
Shuttlebirds one that I bought last year – navy blue, with white snowflakes
printed all over the front!!! Well, one can Dream of white Christmases!!
I am busy tatting, and have made a few Split ring snowflakes mounted in fine
wire bangles, and they have been welcomed to hang on Xmas trees around here!!
The Blue Ice thread from Handy Hands, size 340 seems to work up nicely and
then the Snowflake size seems to fit the bangle. Karen Bovard’s patterns, of
course. They work up so well.

Regards from Liz. L.

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[lace] Patterns on my site

[Gon Homburg]

Dear Arachnids,

A few year ago I published every week an edging or an insertion on my site.
After 100 patterns we stopped this.
Now I decided to publish again new patterns. Not weekly because I cannot
manage that on my own. I will try to do this on a regular basis probably once
a month.
The first pattern is published today on https://www.kloskant.com/patronen.html

I wish you all a merry Christmas and a creative 2021.

Gon Homburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Re: [lace] Lace quote

[lbuyred]

Here are the various quotes I have collected over the years.

From Wings of
Fire by Charles Todd (copy write 1998), Takes place in
England just after WW1
Inspector Ian Rutledge is rushing through a small village in the
rain.
“Rutledge turned, crossed over to the nearest shop. In the small
window
fronting the road there was a collection of ribbons and laces
behind a spill
of colorful embroidery thread, packets of needles, and
an array of
handkerchiefs that reminded him of those he’d seen in
Olivia’s room. As he
opened the door, a gust of wind and rain nearly
jerked the knob out of his
hand. 

 Startled, a middle-aged woman looked up from a cushion of bobbins
and threads and a half-finished lace collar on her lap. “Could I
help you,
sir?” she asked, trying hastily to get to her feet. 

 “No, sit down,
I’m too wet to come in. I need directions,
that’s all.” 

 She sank
back into her chair, somehow preventing the bobbins from
rolling to every
point of the compass. Then he saw that like the
Belgian nuns he’d come
across during the war, she had them pinned in
place. “To where?” 

“I
once tried to make lace – which has been a great obsession of
women –
unsexy. And I achieved it.”  

Miuccia Prada 

“It is difficult to see
why lace should be so expensive; it is
mostly holes.” 

Mary Wilson Little
A response from an English costumer was equally quotable.  

"Yes, but have
you any idea how hard it is to get those holes to
stick together!” 

“I
consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of
the fantasy
of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable
designs which the
branches and leaves of trees embroider across the
sky, and I do not think that
any invention of the human spirit could
have a more graceful or precise
origin."  

 Coco Chanel, April 29, 1939 

“whatever improves the lace and
makes it more beautiful is right." 


Sister Judith 

“Greek, sir, is like
lace; every man gets as much of it as he can."
 

Dr. Samuel Johnson (of
First English Dictionary Fame) 

“The real good of a piece of lace, then,
you will find, is that it
should show, first, that the designer of it had a
pretty fancy; next,
that the maker of it had fine fingers; lastly, that the
wearer of it
has worthiness or dignity enough to obtain what is difficult to
obtain, and common sense enough not to wear it on all occasions.” 

John
Ruskin 

““Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional
emergency! This is no occasion for sport- there is lace at stake!"
(Ms.
Pole)”  

― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

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[lace] Lace quote

[Earl & Ruth Johnson]

*Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.*

This is reputed to come from Le Pompe which I believe is the first patten
book for bobbin lace, published in 1557 in Venice.  I cannot confirm this
because I do not have a reprint of the book.

Many years ago I cross-stitched this saying on linen and then sewed lengths
of lace below and framed it.

Ruth Johnson
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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re: [lace] Christmas lace

[jviking @sover.net]

Hi Sue and All, I too got out all the wonderful lace from previous 
exchanges. All are fabulous! I put them on the Christmas tree and they look 
wonderful and bring so many Arachne memories to mind.
  
 One I am curious about. I think it came from Alice in Oregon. It's BL and 
looks like a small circle until you pull the hanging thread. Then it 
stretches into a curlicue! I wonder if it was made in layers with pattern 
repeats on top of each other I don't make BL so I can't really figure it 
out.
  
 Anyway, Happy Holidays to all! I'm enjoying a calm December even outside 
my home. Also, I'm feeling heartened that a vaccine is out!
  
 Love, to you all, Jane in Vermont, USA where we got 17" (43 cm) of 
snow...
 jvik...@sover.net
  
  
  


 From: "sue" 
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 4:28 PM
To: "Arachne" 
Subject: [lace] Christmas lace   
Hi arachnids,
I hope everyone I hope each of you are keeping well in this crazy year and
preparing for Christmas however you are going to spend it this year.

I put up my red curtain the other day and spent a while pinning lace 
items,
including lots from various people in this group over the years, as well 
as
lots of pieces I have made to add to it. It brings you all to mind at this
time, so, happy Christmas, hope it is peaceful, calm and the best we can 
all
do in this crazy time and hope that we can step into next year with better 
to
come.
So I raise a toast to you all, here???s to friends and absent friends and
life.
Sue Turnbull
Dorset UK

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[lace] Christmas lace

[sue]

Hi arachnids,
I hope everyone I hope each of you are keeping well in this crazy year and
preparing for Christmas however you are going to spend it this year.

I put up my red curtain the other day and spent a while pinning lace items,
including lots from various people in this group over the years, as well as
lots of pieces I have made to add to it.  It brings you all to mind at this
time, so, happy Christmas, hope it is peaceful, calm and the best we can all
do in this crazy time and hope that we can step into next year with better to
come.
So I raise a toast to you all, here’s to friends and absent friends and
life.
Sue Turnbull
Dorset UK

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[lace] Favorite quotes about lace

[Elena Kanagy-Loux]

Dear Arachnids,

I hope you're all staying warm and cozy today (it's snowy here on the east
coast)!

As always I've been doing research on lace of the Tudor period for a
variety of projects and I've been compiling some favorite quotes (just for
fun!). Here are some well-known favorites from the period that you've
probably read:

Phillip Stubbes on the topic of lace ruffs in 1583:
“They trick up these cartwheels of the devil’s [chariot] of pride,
leading
the direct way to the dungeon of hell.”

Thomas Fuller, 1662
"Let [lace] not be condemned for a superfluous wearing; for it doth neither
hide not heat, seeing it doth adorn... Lace [costs] nothing save a little
thread descanted upon by art and industry."

Thomas Tomkis on ladies getting dressed, 1607

“There is such doing with their looking glasses, pinning, unpinning,
setting, unsetting, formings and conforming, painting blue veins and
cheeks; such a stir with sticks and combs… puffs, ruffs, cuffs, muffs… a
ship is sooner rigged by far, than a gentlewoman made ready.”


I wish there were more quotes on what women of the period thought about
lace! Anyway, if you have any favorite quotes about lace, contemporary or
historical, I'd love to hear them. :)


Best Wishes, Elena

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