[lace] LACE HISTORY

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Yes, the Santina Levy book LACE is the best source for a complete history of 
lace and lacemaking. However, it is expensive , (if available). If you have 
access to any large Public Library, you might find it in the Reference Dept.  
Many libraries also have instruction books on lacemaking techniques, and many 
of these include short essays on the history of lace.  In addition, put "lace" 
in the Google search barof your computer  and you will find many websites with 
information.

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Re: [lace] IOLI Convention Get Together

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Kenn Van-Dieren sold the Arachne pins at one of our lace days. I had one
already, so did not buy one then.
> On 06/29/2022 9:17 AM Janice Blair  wrote:
>
>
> Someone many years ago arranged for an Arachne pin. It is an inch square
with
> a red circle on blue enamel and a spider and web over the square and at the
> bottom is LACE@ARACHNE.COM.  Wonder how many are out there
> Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com

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[lace] Alan Cole research

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson Library is a resource for some of 
Alan Cole's books , including  Dentelle d'Irlande, Ancient Needlepoint and  
Pillow Lace, Handmade Laces from the South Kensington Museum.  Information 
about appointments to use the reading room is available  online. 

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Re: [lace] IOLI Magazine

[DORIS O'NEILL]

I have received the Summer 2021 bulletin, Vol 41, number 4. I am in Illinois.
> On 07/21/2021 5:07 PM Janice Blair  wrote:
>
>
> Has everybody who is a member of IOLI received the last magazine, the
Summer
> edition. I know it is available online but I am a paid up member until
> December 2022 and would like to see my copy soon. My local mail service is
> dreadful so I never know if things have gone missing. Maybe there is a
postman
> somewhere who likes to look at lace magazines.
> It is ages since I had an Arachne digest so maybe this email will trigger
> one.
> Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com
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[lace] re: Lace Machines

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The book Lace Machines and Machine Laces by Pat Earnshaw is available on the 
ABEBooks.com  website at very reasonable prices. The book covers several types 
of lacemaking machines, with profuse illustrations comparing the machine laces 
with handmade laces. Published in 1986.

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[lace] Pierre Fouche

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The IOLI presentation Sunday morning was awesome...will the recording be 
available soon?

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[lace] Copenhagen Holes

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The Copenhagen Holes  look similar to the holes in  Torchon Lace Purse Pendants 
by Susanne Thompson.

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[lace] NYTimes article about Estonia

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The article is done in the Graphic style, and is a quick history of one 
person's recent visit to Estonia, might be of particular interest to OIFA 
members , since the next Needle and Bobbin conference is scheduled for Estonia 
in July.  Look for it in the 3-29-2020 issue of the Magazine section (The 
Voyages Issue), titled "Yearning to be Boring" , a visit to Estonia by 
Christoph Niemann. 

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[lace] convention photos

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Thanks so much for making the photos accessible. 

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[lace] Re:first convention message

[Doris]

Thanks, Janice Blair.

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[lace] lace machines

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Pat Earnshaw's book Lace Machines and Machine Laces ISBN 0 7134 4684 6  is a 
good source for information on many lacemaking machines.  

Doris O'Neill, Chicago Area

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[lace] Spider or whirlpool filling

[Doris]

RUSSIAN LACEMAKING by Bridget M.Cook page21 describes how to make a whirlpool 
filling with bobbins. Lace Express magazine 2/97 shows “How to make a spider” 
using bobbins :same filling. 
Doris O’Neill, Chicago area
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Re: [lace] Another review of "Lace, not Lace"

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Thank you so much for that link.

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Re: [lace] Lace, Not Lace

[Doris]

Wonderful pictures, THANK YOU.
Doris O’Neill, Chicago area.

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> On Oct 6, 2018, at 6:08 PM, Sue Babbs  wrote:
> 
> If you haven’t yet got to New Jersey to see the contemporary lace exhibit,
> which Devon has so carefully and successfully curated it is well worth the
> visit.
> 
> The Urchins are going to be there till 10/10 (extended dates).  However they
> do look as if they need a good wash – and, as I expected, the points of many
> of the motifs do not hold up.  I remember pointing this out as I worked on
> several #2 motifs, but being told that they had a plan to keep them in shape.
> Well, by the looks of things the plan was never executed!  Still they are
> dramatic from a distance.
> 
> I have posted more photos on the flickr site.  Sadly it was a grey day and the
> urchins would have looked better with blue skies!  They were also setting up
> for a marathon to run through Clinton, so the Urchins had lots of red tents
> for company!
> 
> 
> 
> Sue
> 
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[lace] the catalog

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Thank you for mentioning the availability of the catalog for the exhibit "LACE 
not lace". My copy arrived in yesterday's mail, and  is wonderful--almost 
compensates for not being able to visit the Museum. 

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[lace] Bruges blog

[Doris]

Thanks for the reference, the entries brought back many good memories of the 
lace tour Elfa Taylor organized to Bruges in1991.  Our group even watched the 
Holy Blood Procession mentioned 

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[lace] books and lace

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The little book of patterns is MAKING LACE WITH LITTLE GREY RABBIT by Dorothy 
K. Cox. Mostly edgings in torchon, Beds, Bucks,Russian tape plus a couple of 
small mats, all short projectswith instuctions, easy to make.

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Re: [lace] Beiderman and Kliot

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Kaethe Kliot's book ( pages210-211"Bobbin Lace Form by the Twisting of Cords") 
credits Gertude Beiderman with the design of several  laces which are actually 
re-workings of designs by Dagobert Peche of the Wiener Werkstatte. In your 
conversation with Jules, could you ask Jules why there is no mention of the 
original designer?
> On May 16, 2018 at 2:14 PM Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I will ask Jules Kliot if he remembers conversations with Beiderman
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[lace] color in lace

[DORIS O'NEILL]

The original jacket cover on Lace by Virginia Churchill Bath (published 1974) 
is of a fragment of colored  lace flowers, identified in the book as from 
Italy, 19th century.   The author once remarked to a group of us that she 
wondered why we were so awestruck when we saw the actual  tiny piece in the 
Chicago Art Institute's collection. but, of course, it was because at that time 
we had not done lace in colors ourselves.   

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[lace] Lace not lace

[Doris]

An article about fiber art in last Sunday’s NYTimes Style Magazine titled”A 
SINGLE THREAD” cited many artists and textile techniques —knitting, weaving, 
crochet,embroidery etc.-but was disappointing in that there was no mention of 
lace and lace artists.
Doris O’Neill, Chicago Area
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[lace] no messages

[DORIS O'NEILL]

I have received no messages from Arachne for the last week.  Have any been sent?

Doris O'Neill, Chicago area

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Re: [lace] Schneeberger Lace

[DORIS O'NEILL]

In the introduction to her book of  original patterns for Schneeberger lace 
(2004), Lia Baumeister gives  a short history of Schneeberger Lace: it  
developed around 1915 in Schneeberg in Erzgebirge Germany, evolved from  
Austria (Vienna) lace. The outside characteristic plait was added in 1935. More 
details about its development by Professor Johannes Lorenz , Lina Dehlang and a 
pattern book by Gussi von Rheden are noted. 

> Anna in a very hot and humid Sydney
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Re: [lace] Sad News - Any Nobel Slegers

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Thanks you for the notice about Anny Noben-Slegers.  I continue to marvel over 
her pattern "Pride of Africa",such a loving and lively depiction of the Big 
Cats. A wonderful way to remember her.

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Re: [lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Doris]

Foot side on the LEFT...Rafael’s book suggests Ipswich workers might have been 
influenced initially by immigrants from Europe, and continued to use left foot 
side thereafter. Page 70,”...Lakeman (d.1862)continued to make lace in the way 
she had learned it as a girl, though women in England were working with the 
foot side on the right by 1862.

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> On Dec 10, 2017, at 10:50 PM, Janice Blair  wrote:
> 
> Went back for another look and noticed that the pillow is shown from the back
> and the lace being worked on the pillow has the footside on the right. The
> pricking was probably also photographed upside down.Sorry for the
> confusion.Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com
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[lace] re: lace exhibit in Wisconsin

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Which town? which museum?

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[lace] RE: OIDFA newsletter and General Assembly stand flower request

[DORIS O'NEILL]

I will make a forget-me-not for Alaska,  if no one else has volunteered for 
that flower.  When are the flowers due?

Doris O'Neill, Chicago area 

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[lace] re: rosaline lace

[DORIS O'NEILL]

There is also an excellent book by Vera Cockuyt, who taught Rosaline at
an IOLI convention in the past. (Available on the website 
www.vansciverbobbinlace.com )

Doris O'Neill, Chicago area. 

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[lace] IOLI Convention photos

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Thank you for sharing your convention pictures on flickr: wonderful,  
especially for those of us who could not be there. 

Doris O'Neill, Chicago area

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[lace] re:LACE SCULPTURE , correction

[DORIS O'NEILL]

two misspellings in the original message. Website is
http://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/current

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[lace] THREAD SCUPTURE

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 34. The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth , TX has
commissioned a large-scale, site-specific installation of more than 80 miles
of fine multicolored thread by artist Gabriel Dawe. It is now on display in
the multi-storied atrium of the building.  A video  of the sculpture with
comments by the artist can be accessed
athttp://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/current .   The sculpture can be
viewed from many vantage points: the light of the atrium is a necessary part
of the changing impressions , I have been told by the friend who brought it to
my attention.

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[lace] THREAD SCUPTURE

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 34. The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth , TX has
commissioned a large-scale, site-specific installation of more than 80 miles
of fine multicolored thread by artist Gabriel Dawe. It is now on display in
the multi-storied atrium of the building.  A video  of the sculpture with
comments by the artist can be accessed
athttp://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/current .   The sculpture can be
viewed from many vantage points: the light of the atrium is a necessary part
of the changing impressions , I have been told by the friend who brought it to
my attention.

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[lace] carbon-dating lace

[DORIS O'NEILL]

Thanks for your OIDFA article explaining the process of dating lace.

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[lace] Mom's obituary and arrangemetns

[Doris Southard]

http://www.dahlfuneralhome.com/obit/obitlist.php


 


Doris A. Southard 

Print-Friendly
http://www.dahlfuneralhome.com/obit/printfriendly.php?obitid=1615 


 

 

SERVICE:  10:30 am Tuesday, January 3, 2011, at Stout Gospel Hall, Stout,
Iowa

VISITATION:  4-7:00 pm Monday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home, and one
hour before the service at the Gospel Hall

MEMORIALS:  A memorial fund will be established

 

Doris A. Southard, 91, of Cedar Falls, died Thursday, December 29, 2011, at
Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo.  She was born September 2, 1920 in
Clarksville, Iowa, the daughter of Fred and Frieda (Freese) Kramer.  Doris
married Talmage Southard on May 19, 1941 in Waterloo, Iowa.  He preceded her
in death on August 3, 2005.  Doris attended Clarksville School and brailed
for the blind for over forty years at the Iowa School for the Blind.  She
also resurrected the Belgian art of lace making, authoring the instruction
manual Lessons in Bobbin Lace Making.  Doris taught students worldwide via
correspondence and travelled the country for speaking engagements for many
years. 

Survivors include her son, Ron (Carole) Southard, of Buena Vista, Colorado;
her former daughter-in-law, Lynda Southard, of Aplington; four
grandchildren, Bridgett (Clyde) Johnson of West Bend, Iowa, Kim (John) Koch
of Aplington, Mitch (Tracey Rideout) Southard of Austin, Texas and Heather
(Chad) Pruisner of Parkersburg, Iowa; eight great grandchildren, and a
brother, Carl (Valgean) Kramer, of Brooklyn, New York.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, husband and two brothers, Alfred
and Edward Kramer.

Services will be 10:30 am Tuesday, January 3, 2011, at Stout Gospel Hall,
Stout, Iowa, with burial at Butler Center Cemetery near Allison, Iowa.
Visitation will be 4-7:00 pm Monday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home in
Cedar Falls, and one hour before the service at the Gospel Hall.  A memorial
fund will be established.  Online condolences may be left at
http://www.dahlfuneralhome.com/../memorial.htm www.DahlFuneralHome.com.  

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[lace] Thank you!

[Doris Southard]

I have been surprised to see my book mentioned

on Arachne lately.  There is such a wealth of lace books now I am

astonished that anyone would still use mine.  It is hard probably for

 younger lacemakers to imagine what it was like

 when I was looking for help to learn bobbin lace.  I had learned to 

crochet, knit, tat and sew my own clothes all from books.

I had been a handweaver for some time and I did attend classes

for help with weaving.  But when I looked for answers about bobbin

lace  they were hard to come by.  Now one only has to choose

 among a host of available books.

 

I can no longer make lace myself - I have only a fumbly grip

between thumb and forefinger which  makes is very hard to set pins.

But I am constantly pleased to hear what is going on in the lace world

A few old lace friends keep in touch and then there is Arachne!  It is 

a totally different world from the time when I was eagerly looking

for answers.  I am so pleased to have been a part of it.

 

Doris Southard

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[lace] IOLI bulletin

[Doris O'Neill]

Devon Thein's article , written with such a nice sense of humor, is a
particularly  good piece.  --- Doris  O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.

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[lace] How I started lacemaking

[Doris Southard]

In my early teens I ws enchanted with crochet and knitting - learned both of 
them mostly from old and inadequate how-to directions.  My mother knew a little 
about crochet but that was all the other help I had..  Then in 1950 (I think) 
an article on bobbin lacemaking appeared in Woman's Day magazine, (I think it 
cost 5 cents at that time) complete with suggestions about making a pillow and 
using small plastic clothes pins for bobbins.  No longer available, these were 
small straight  clothes pins - not the clip kind - and I think made for 
lingerie laundry.  Fine beginners bobbins.
The first pattern I made was probably the most advanced in the article and I 
was hooked permanently.  I got some lessons-by-mail from Marguerite Brooks, 
bought the very few books that were available from Robn and Russ in Oregon.  I 
had been a weaver for years and so knew about Robin and Russ.  It was ten years 
before I ever saw another person making lace and she was a middle aged lady of 
Danish descent who had learned bobbin lace while on a visit to Denmark.   

Doris Southard in Iowa

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[lace] Katrina help

[Doris O'Neill]

The United Way of Central Louisiana created the Central Louisiana Katrina
Response Fund on Thursday, September 1, 2005. The purpose of the fund is
to respond to the crisis occasioned in central Louisiana by Hurricane
Katrina. All money donated to the Central Louisiana Katrina Response Fund
will be used to provide assistance to relief efforts in the central
Louisiana parishes.   The website is www.uwcl.org Many school-age
evacuees have been welcomed into the local schools, which are pressed to
provide supplies for them.

(I do not subscribe to lace-chat, where I suppose this message should
more properly be sent.)

--- Doris  O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] EarthLink: The #1
provider of the Real Internet.

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[lace] Honiton, enlarged

[Doris O'Neill]

Honiton patterns originally sized for 180/2 cotton (as, for instance, in
Susanne Thompson's books), can be worked in DMC Broder Machine (Retors
D'Alsace) 150 cotton (with gimp size 40 sewing thread)  if the pattern is
increased by 50%:  that is, set the copier to 150%.   Colored threads
equivalent to that DMC thread should work as well. --- Doris  O'Neill---
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[lace] Natesh rayon thread

[Doris O'Neill]

I used the Natesh to do a bobbin tape lace project which called for 40/2
linen, and it worked very well.   I liked Aardvaark, too:  has it really
been gone that long? --- Doris  O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[lace] Hoover birthplace

[Doris Southard]

The birthplace of Herbert Hoover is at 
West Branch, Iowa, east of Cedar Rapids.  And the museum nearby is the Hoover 
Library, I think.  It is many years since I was there but they had a large 
collection of the embellished flour sacks from that WW I era.  Also there was a 
round table which had (under glass) a magnificent round lace piece displayed.  
I'm sure it was bobbin lace.  When I was there I was in my early experimental 
years of lacemaking.and was duly impressed.

Doris Southard in Iowa

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[lace] RE Bookmark tails

[Doris Southard]

My favorite way to deal with bookmark tails is with a macrame knot.  A little 
hard to describe without diagrams but I'll try.

Use one pair of threads from each side of the tassel - hereafter referred to as 
passives - to make knots around the passives.  Lay the knotting pair from the 
left side to the right over all the passives leaving a sizeable loop at the 
left.
Now bring the knotting pair on the right down over the knotting pair that came 
from the left., then bring it under all the passive pairs and up through the 
loop you left at the beginning.  Pull both knotting pairs to make a smooth knot 
around the passives.

Now starting from the right side,  lay the right-hand knotting pair over the 
passives to the left leaving a loop at the right.  Lay the left-hand knotting 
pair down over the pair that came from the right, then  down under the passives 
and up thru the loop left  at the right side.  Again pull up and tension to 
make a smooth knot .

Continue alternatng left and right knots  for as long as you want.  Usually 
only a quarter inch or a bit more is necessary.  And that's it.  No other knot 
or fastening is needed.  It is smooth and good-looking and secure.

Doris in Iowa

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[lace] Noelene Lafferty's hankie

[Doris O'Neill]

Noelene--Thanks for posting the Cooma Kiss hankie, which I have
half-finished.  My bride-to-be Granddaughter wants a partly blue
hankie: it is easy to introduce  a blue weaver in the clothstitch diamond
which will also become the edgefan weaver (with a cheat tc pin tc on
the final stitch of the diamond).  The pattern is quick to make, and very
lovely--thanks again --- Doris  O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[lace] Christina pillow

[Doris Southard]

When I first heard about Christina lace pillows. early in my lacemaking 
experience, they cost about $80.  That was just as out-of-reach then as $1000 
is for most people now.  For years I thought about them and wished ... but was 
also pretty happy with what equipment I had and had fun making lace.

Then in recent years I came up with a very simple alternative  I don't even 
know now if I adapted someone else's idea or if it is all my own!  I cut a 
circle about 18 across from quilted fabric,  with a hole in the middle about 
5 across.  Sew this to a backing of heavy plastic of the same size and shape 
and cover all raw edges with bias tape.  This goes over your lace on the 
pillow, plastic side down.  The bobbins fan out to lie on the quilted fabric.  
As you need to move large numbers of bobbns aside, you just turn the donut, 
without disturbing the placement of the bobbins.  I like the feel of the 
quilted fabric under my hands as I work and the quilting helps a lot to keep 
bobbins from rolling.  It works for me and I no longer yearn for a Christina 
pillow at all.  This device is NOT meant to keep threads from catching on pin 
heads.  I use another piece of heavy plastic with a small hole in the middle  
directly over the pattern and the pins for 
that.  

Doris Southard in Iowa

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[lace] Vieux Flandre

[Doris O'Neill]

Lia Baumeister's Lace Identification book also distinguishes between
Vieux Flandre  (Old Flemish Lace) and a so-called Vieux Flandre made in
Belgium.  This  19th century version has a motif made with braids(they
can be made with bobbin lace or they can be machine made) and they are
put together with needle lace stitches.  This is not the same as the 17th
century Vieux Flandre , which has the following characteristics:made with
continuous threads motifs mainly clothstitches lines in the motif are
made by twisting the runners or the passive pairs no coarse thread
background is short irregular plaits.  In later laces, a regular ground,
as that became more fashionable.  This book Lace History and Lace
Identification  is available for loan from the IOLI Library. ---
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[lace] Dagobert Peche: one more thing

[Doris O'Neill]

The discussion of the lace of Dagobert Peche reminded me of the first
time I had seen a reproduction of a work by him.  About ten years ago I
did volunteer work at the local library's Used Book Sale.  I noticed a
novel which had, on its dust-jacket, an image described as Back of nude
female figure with garlands of leaves, 1924 by Dagobert Peche.  I bought
the book, xeroxed the dust jacket and read this difficult book, expecting
to find a reference to lacemaking somewhere in the text.  There was
none.  It was baffling.  So I re-donated the book to the book sale, but
kept the xerox.  Recently, while researching the origins of contemporary
lacemaking at the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago, I saw
my picture again, this time in a book showing fabric, lace and
wallpaper designs by Dagobert Peche.  So--back to the suburban library,
which had one copy of the book, titled The Restorationist ,by Joyce
Elbrecht.nbs p; I borrowed it and read it again, hoping to find what I
had missed previously (I DO NOT RECOMMEND this book, whose structure and
plot are unusual in the extreme).The difference is, I originally saw the
lace simply as lace, a figure intertwined with leaves, surrounded by an
unusual lacy ground.  The book's author saw it as an ILLUSTRATION.The
author character (psycheme) presents herself as part of the book's plot:
(p.10):  This is the plan:As if installing a full-length glass, I'll
stand here like this, wholly exposed for your inspection. let you see off
and on precisely where I am and what I'm all about...And (p. 152) 
Pressed against the glass wall...I squint into the darkness outside...My
arms reach up and my fingernails scratch the glass as if I wish to climb
out...Tree branches darken your table...--- Doris  O'Neill---
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[lace] Milca Eremiasova book

[Doris O'Neill]

The IOLI library now has the book titled Milca Eremiasova:  The Language
of Lace.  Many color photos of this Czech designer's work, plus short
essays on her life.  In English, Czech, German.  IOLI library # H-118.
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[lace] Vamberk website

[Doris O'Neill]

The material concerning Milca Eremiasova's lace on this website is
essentially contained in a recently published book Milca Eremiasova:The
Language of Lace.   I purchased this book through Lacy Susan:  It was
reviewed in a recent issue of Lace, the magazine of the English Lace
Guild.   Website and book are wonderful.  Thanks so much, Avril, for
noting the website. --- Doris  O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[lace] Witches stitch

[Doris O'Neill]

Kathleen Campbell of Great Lakes Group researched bruja stitch and
published patterns using it in the group's newsletter.   She gave
permission for our LACE group to do a workshop using her basic pattern.
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[lace] apology

[Doris O'Neill]

I am sorry if any arachneans had e-mails 'bounced' from this address
anytime in the last three days.  My mailbox problem is now corrected. 
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