[lace] Knipling-Tonder 2013
I will be in Tonder too. Let me know when and where you will meet and I will do my best to turn up. Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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] Men making lace with beards in bags
Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: “Somewhere I read of some old men on the continent,(6 or 7 of them, I think.) who taught lacemaking at a lace School - and their beards were so long they had them tied up in little bags to keep them out of the way of the pins!” Do take a look at Tønder in Mrs. Palliser. It has been told that a man by the name of Steenbeck from Westphalia introduced lacemaking to Tønder in 1646, and he imported the old men to teach lace. Research has shown that Steenbeck was an entrepreneur and that he very successfully avoided paying tax as a citizen of Tønder for years. This story has been much discussed and ‘disproved’ by some, it looks as if it was first published in 1758. Westphalia was not a lace area. However, somebody says they have seen that the miners in the Erzgebirge made lace with their beards in bags. I don’t find it difficult to imagine that Steenbeck imported thread from Westphalia and old men from the Erzgebirge. The other point is the problem of the date. A lacemaker found a Gold Horn in 1639, and our King Christian IV bought lace in the area several times in 1619-20. However, ‘to introduce lacemaking’ has changed its meaning, for us it is the craft becoming known, but in the 18th cent. It meant establishing an industry, and Steenbeck might well be the first major lace dealer, thanks to his knowledge of business and the old men. Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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] another male lacemaker
Jean Jacques Rousseau made bobbin lace when he lived in Switzerland from 1762 to 1765. See: Gertrude Whiting: Swiss Lace Patterns. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 33 (1949). http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/nb49_lac.pdf Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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] le Pompe complete
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com wrote to Kim: … Many of the LePompe laces show a winkiepin or pin after 2 edge. But since I haven't seen the entirety of both published versions, I can't make a blanket statement… You can now see both volumes, actually the ones Mrs Palliser had seen at Bibl. Arsenale. They are online thanks to Bibliothèque nationale de France: http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=IFN-8622058I=1M=chemindefer The order of the pages are different, but it is the pages we know from the published versions. Vibeke In Copenhagen - 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] Fake Vermeer / placing pins
Years ago I bought 'Handmade Lace and Patterns' by Annette Feldman (1975). It is a strange book, while the history of lace chapter is traditional, all the patterns are restricted to crochet, knitting and tatting. At that time I collected pictures with paintings of lacemakers, making friends buying postcards at the Louvre and even getting photos from Eastern Germany. When I tried to buy a copy of the Vermeer Lacemaker in Annette Feldman's book I was told that it was made by a 'follower of Vermeer' and no picture was offered. Do take a look at the bobbins: The girl in the real painting is hiding the lower part, so the fake has some sorry small sticks, not at all like the Dutch bobbins. BTW when working Freehand Lace you are supposed to place the pins at the left side with your left hand and those at the right side with your right hand. Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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
[lace] Vermeer - women and domesticity
If you want to study Dutch domesticity at the Time of Vermeer, take a look at: Franits, Wayne E.: Paragons of virtue : women and domesticity in seventeenth-century Dutch art. Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN: 0521431298 Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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
[lace] Lace Festival in Lepoglava, Croatia
I have just come back from Croatia, where I enjoyed myself attending part of the Lace Festival in Lepoglava. This year it took place 22nd to 25th September, and it takes place at that time every year. Some of you might want to plan to attend future Festivals. You can see the program here: http://www.lepoglava-info.hr/festival-cipke/lepoglavalace.asp Pictures from the arrangement this year: http://www.lepoglava-info.hr/festival-cipke/novosti.asp?ID=151 http://www.lepoglava-info.hr/festival-cipke/novosti.asp?ID=150 Previous Festivals via: http://www.lepoglava-info.hr/festival-cipke/fotogalerija.asp Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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
[lace] thorns etc.
On the Arizona site you can find the book by Sophie Davydoff: 'La dentelle russe, histoire, technique, statistique' (Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1895). Look at plate A you will see thorns of wild pear used as pins in the Minsk area of Russia. In the OIDFA Bulletin 4/1999 p. 46 you can see a lacepillow from Dalecarlia in Sweden with 'pins' cut from wood. It is exceptional that such a primitive pillow has been preserved. Aino Linnove states that in Finland pins made of the backbones from fish or made of wood were used. In addition the dividing pins could be made of pig's teeth. Bodil Tornehave was more specific she stated that it is the backbones of perch that was used to make pins. Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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
[lace] re: Designing Flanders Lace
Deutscher Klöppelverband published in 2009 “Flandrische Spitze im Aufbruch”. It is a very thorough book and contains amongst others a very charming example of how to create a flanders lace from a picture of a row of elephants. Even if you cannot understand German you should find the book very useful and instructive. Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] lace in Textileforum
Textileforum 3/2010 was in my letterbox yesterday, it is so new that it is not yet on their homepage http://www.textileforum.com/ It is a special Lace issue: lots about modern lace and design. Besides 8 pages about machine lace and 2 pages about Oya. Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] re: Devons article
The IOLI Bulletin has also arrived in Copenhagen. I thoroughly enjoyed Devon's article. By some strange coincidence I have in this weekend been looking through a book by somebody, Emelie Metcalfe, who was at school with the Empress Eugenie. She did not find her that beautiful either! It is written by M.M. Kaye: The golden calm : an English lady's life in Moghul Delhi : reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley and by her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Webb Bower, 1980 ISBN: 0906671191 Vibeke in Copenhagen, where we are in for another snowstorm tomorrow - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Dillmont
The original French edition was issued in 1886, an English version is available online at: http://encyclopediaofneedlework.com/index.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/20776-h/20776-h.htm Ruth P. Hellmann has written about Therese de Dillmont in the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club vol 59 nos 12 1976: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/nb76_dil.pdf Her appendices 1 and 2 list the chapters in the 1886 and 1913 French editions respectively. Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Toender tallies
You can see other examples of leaves in (late) Tønder patterns: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html Hannover, Emil. Tønderske Kniplinger det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum Udstilling 1908 [Laces from Tønder, Denmark; Danish Museum of Applied Art Exhibit 1908], Lehmann Stages, 1911, 103 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Posted November 4, 2002. CD (HWDA11). CD (LDA01). SAMPLE PAGE. Part 1: File size 10.1 MB PDF. Part 2: File size 8.6 MB PDF. Part 3: File size 8.7 MB PDF. Part 3. I know that the old lady, who gave me her original edition of Hannover, would be very pleased for you all to enjoy it. It travelled over to Tess and back again some years ago. The book has been reprinted twice, but those editions could not be used for copyright reasons. Enjoy Vibeke in Copenhagen where the sun is shining but it is cold - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Toender Festival
Sue mentioned the next Tønder Lace Festival. It will take place 4th to 6th June 2010, see: http://www.kniplings-festival.dk/engelsk/default.htm About Tønder patterns, beware that Johanne Nyrop Larsen published patterns which everybody then believes to be Tønder patterns, but they were in fact Czech. She never specified her sources. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen, where we have sun and frost today - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 4
I decided to order Patterns of Fashion 4, when Rosemary Shepherd was so enthusiastic about it. I found that Amazon.co.uk offered it at half price at the moment, so even when they have to add our 25% Danish VAT, it is still very cheap, and I ordered a copy for a friend too. It has arrived and I am looking very much forward to reading it at the week-end, it will compensate for our miserable weather. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace through the Ages
The OIDFA Bulletins contained such a series of patterns some years ago, as far as I remember they were designed by Pat Perryman and they were issued without instructions. I am at work so I cannot give you the numbers of the Bulletins, write privately to me if you need them. Vibeke In sunny Copenhagen Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:35:27 +0100 From: peter greenway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Lace through the Ages I wish to make my grandaughter a series of pictures showing dress through the ages - Stuart, Georgian, Regency etc made in Honiton or Milanese laces. Can anyone please help and let me know where I may obtain patterns and instructions. Many thanks Regards Margaret Greenway - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Finland and Sweden
Sally Schoenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the Swedish Lace Guild has a shop in Linkoping which is also within a daytrip of Stockholm. The shop moved from Linköping to Vadstena some years ago, it is likely to have limited opening hours at this time of the year. The shop in Nordiska Museet in Stockholm may have something of interest, and ordinary handicraft shops may have Swedish linen thread and bobbins. Many years ago I saw lace from Karelia at the National Museum in Helsinki, but the exhibition is likely to have changed several times since then. Vibeke in Copenhagen, where we get a little snow every day - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] OIDFA in Groningen
I will also be at the OIDFA Congress in Groningen and hope to meet many of you. Please don't choose Thursday evening for the Arachne meeting, I will be attending (my last) OIDFA Council meeting. I will be at the Linenkast course and staying at the University Guest House before going on the tour. I will try to arrange a meeting of the Freehand Lace research group. Looking forward to see you in person. Vibeke in Copenhagen where it is a glorious spring day - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] 1600 tallet
Hi All, I am having a wonderful time at the Tonder Festival, just checking mail at the Public Library. I want to mention the Nordic - and especially Swedish way of numbering the centuries. When we write 1600 tallet, it means 1600 years, so it is 17th century /Jahrhundert etc. In Denmark we used to write 17 Århundrede, but we now write 1600 tallet. Greetings Vibeke normally in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Exhibition in Stockholm
Lena Dahrén has asked me to forward this.Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen Below you find a text translated from Swedish about the very special exhibition of lace and freehand lace which starts in May. Here is a link to the homepage of the museum. Don't miss it, there are some nice pictures. http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/Publication.asp?publicationid=8566cat=148catNa me=utstallningar -- Lace exhibition at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. Lace is almost everywhere at the moment. From clothes to furnishing. The lace-designs can also be seen on products in other material. In the exhibition in shown the original, the technique and inspiration for new products. From ''citsch'' to art. Grandmother's laces are reused and formed to cakes or a ceiling-cloth - just a few examples of lace as inspiration for design. A special part of the exhibition is for the bobbin lace maker Kerstin Höglund. She has worked with the old tradition of bobbin freehand lace making from Ovanåker and Ore, two parishes in mid-Sweden. She is making coarse bobbin-laces for costume and furnishing. Beside her works is shown the width of bobbin lacemaking as an expression. The work which is seen-through where the light changes the pattern. She uses unexpected forms to use lace in a new way. The exhibition is open 11 May - 2 September 2007. Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Old Flanders Ground
I am sending separate mails about the contents of the Salzburger and Linnekast publications. Many of the old laces were based on Flanders Ground. You will find many reconstructions in recent publications. Out of 18 laces only a few are without Flanders Ground in: Erdmute Wesenberg: Alte flandrische Spitzen, Deutscher Klöppelverband e.V. 1998. I think it is out of print, but OIDFA has still (together with Linenkast 4): Masterpieces in blue, ISBN 3-923219-19-9 Where a few have Flanders Ground. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Salzburg Lace by Monika Thonhauser
There had been a cottage industry of Freehand Lace near Salzburg from the 17th century. Thanks to Monika Thonhauser we now know about it. She has published 6 collections of patterns in the Salzburg bobbin lace series. Not all the laces have been made freehand, though probably more than we think today. Only Folge 4 and 6 contains laces with Flanders Ground. While the titles are in German only the text is in German, English, French, and Dutch. The main title of each is 'Salzburger Klöppelspitzen Reihe Folge' and a number from 1 to 6. Here are the subtitels: Folge 1. 8 Breite Klöppelspitzen mit motiven aus der Salzburger Volkskunst. Tauriska Verlag Salzburg 1988. Folge 2. 16 Schmale Klöppelspitzen und Borten mit motiven aus der Salzburger Volkskunst. Tauriska Verlag Salzburg 1990. Folge 3. 8 Breite Klöppelspitzen mit volkstürmlichen motiven aus der Spitzensammlung von Margarethe Breuer. Tauriska Verlag Salzburg 1992. ISBN 3-901257-00-4 Folge 4. 9 Salzburger Zwirn-Klöppelspitzen nach flandrische Art. Tauriska Verlag Salzburg 1994. ISBN 3-901257-04-7 Folge 5. 8 Salzburger Zwirn-Klöppelspitzen mit Umrißfaden.Tauriska Verlag Salzburg 1998. ISBN 3-900550-03-2 Folge 6. 12 Salzburger Spitzenmuster nach Art der Alt-Flandrische Klöppelspitzen. Heimatkundliche Museum St. Gilgen 2001. ISBN 3-900550-05-0 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Contents of 'De Linnenkast' 1 to 4
Flanders Ground marked with #. De Linnenkast, Eenwenoude kanten uit Noord-Nederland. OIDFA Nederland 1992. Hindelopen, 12 pairs, 8 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Poppedijne, 10 pairs, 16 pairs, 10 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden 't Knoopje, 22 pairs, Borg Verhildersum, Leens, 1601 Slinger, 29 pairs, private collection De Jonk, 26 pairs, private collection Gevleugeld, 28 pairs, private collection Zonnebloemen, 38 pairs, private collection Hartendief, 40 pairs, Borg Verhildersum, Leens Bollenveld, 28 pairs, 54 pairs, private collection Bloemkool, 34 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden # Rozetak, 48 pairs, private collection # Ontluikende lente, 28 pairs, 50 pairs, private collection # (note 2 different laces) Slangen, 36 pairs, 15 pairs, 29 pairs (see comment OIDFA Bulletin 1993/3 p.30), private collection De Linnenkast 2, Eenwenoude kanten uit Noord-Nederland. OIDFA Nederland 1994. Tierlantijntjes, 8 pairs, Menkemaborg, Uithuizen Tierlantijntjes, 8 pairs, Hidde Nijland Stichting, Hindeloopen Tierlantijntjes, 10 pairs, private collection Bloemenmand, 54 pairs Cyclamen, 40 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden # Tulipa, 32 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Elisabeth, 13 pairs, 20 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Zandloper, 20 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Lotus, 20 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (# no twists) Madeliefje, 40 pairs, Drents Museum, Assen Zeepaardje, 19 pairs, Drents Museum, Assen Anemone, 28 pairs, Menkemaborg, Uithuizen Waterkant, 21 pairs, 23 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Guirlande, 56 pairs, 18 pairs, private collection Nachtvlinder, 17 pairs, Museumboerderij Karstenshoeve, Ruinerwold Schakels, 30 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Frisia, 18 pairs, 20 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden De Linnenkast 3, Eenwenoude kanten uit Noord-Nederland. OIDFA Nederland 1998. Strooigoed, 10 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Strooigoed, 10 pairs, 6 pairs, Hidde Nijland Stichting, Hindeloopen Strooigoed, 6 pairs, Hidde Nijland Stichting, Hindeloopen Molenwieken, 16 pairs, Admiraliteitshuis, Dokkum, 1686 Goudse Pijpen, 22 pairs, 22 pairs, private collection # Goudse Pijpen, 22 pairs, Openluchtmuseum 't Hoogeland, Warffum # Tulpen, 28 pairs, Menkemaborg, Uithuizen Ramshoorn, 38 pairs, Borg Verhildersum, Leens Flora, 72 pairs, Drents Museum, Assen # Wybertjes, 23 pairs, private collection Noria, 23 pairs, private collection + Museum 't Hoogeland, Warffum Sneeuwpoppen, 20 pairs, Museum 't Hoogeland, Warffum Hartgrondig, 30 pairs, private collection Konijnen, 23 pairs, Admiraliteitshuis, Dokkum Intermezzo, 24 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 1630 Esdoorn, 40 pairs, private collection # Jonk, 26 pairs, private collection Druiventros, 32 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Vleermuis, 13 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Wirwar, 20 pairs, 36 pairs, private collection Bijen, 28 pairs, private collection Palmpaas, 35 pairs, private collection Klimroos, 36 pairs, Het Pasmanhuis, Ruinen Strooigoed, 3 / 4 pairs, Hidde Nijland Stichting, Hindeloopen De Linnenkast 4, Eenwenoude kanten uit Noord-Nederland. OIDFA Nederland 2002, ISBN 90-805530-3-4. Zilverschoon, 42 pairs, Museum 't Hoogeland, Warffum, 1830 Waterhoen, 46 pairs, Menkemaborg, Uithuizen Spinnenweb, 34 pairs, private collection Speerpunt, 12 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Omarming, 26 pairs, Kostuummuseum De Gouden Leeuw, Nordhoorn (# single) Klavertje vier, 26 + 1 pairs, Admiraliteitshuis, Dokkum, 1836 Knipkunst, 28 pairs, Groninger Museum Iohanna (embroidery), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, c. 1630 Fibula, 54 + 1 pairs, Museum 't Hoogeland, Warffum, 1736 (#motif) Ereprijs, 34 +2 pairs, private collection Eikels, 23 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Egelantier, 30 pairs, Groninger Museum Dennenboom, 59 pairs, private collection Akkerwinde, 37 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 1719 Fuchsia, 71 pairs, private collection # Geblokt, 12 pairs, Borg Verhildersum, Leens Hortensia, 36 pairs, Admiraliteitshuis, Dokkum, 1776 Bijenkorf, 13 pairs, Hidde Nijland Stichting, Hindeloopen Jongleur, 51 pairs, private collection # Kattenkop, 14 pairs, Hidde Nijland Stichting, Hindeloopen Om en om, 16 pairs, Groninger Museum Trias, 10 pairs, private collection Pioenroos, 66 pairs, private collection Ranonkel, 34 pairs, Groninger Museum Geruit, 16 pairs, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 1708 Trollen, 26 pairs, private collection Tierlantijntje, 8 pairs, private collection Wingerd, 30 pairs, private collection Mozaïk, 12 pairs, Borg Verhildersum, Leens, 1718 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] who was Fulvia Lewis
Dear All, I have been asked about Fulvia Lewis. I have her book and know that her lace was actioned recently. That is all I know, but my friend is sure that I can get some facts through Arachne. Help me, please. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace and angling
When I was looking for something else in the Online Britannica I also had a go at 'bobbin lace' and found this reference to Early history of fishing. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen --- The first rudimentary reel had consisted of a wooden spool with a metal ring that fitted over the angler's thumb. By 1770 a rod with guides for the line along its length and a reel was in common use. The first true reel was a geared multiplying reel attached under the rod, in which one turn of the handle moved the spool through several revolutions. Never popular in Great Britain, such reels became the prototype of the bait-casting reel as devised by two Kentucky watchmakers in the early 1800s. The predominant British reel was called the Nottingham reel, based on the wooden lace bobbin devised in that ancient lacemaking town. It was a wide-drum, ungeared, very free-running reel, ideal for allowing line and bait or lure to float downstream with the current and suitable for casting lures for predatory fish in various kinds of sea fishing. It was influential on the design of fly-fishing reels. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] London
When you are in the Greenwich area do also try to see Ranger's House in Blackheath, with the Suffolk Collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean paintings with lots of lace. Greeting Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Languages
Now we are discussing languages, I do think it is the right time for me to tell you, the explanation lacemakers - who have not English as their first language - give for dropping Arachne. It takes too long time to read. I do tell them that they should just go on to the next posting every time they don't understand what it is all about, because of slang, abbreviations etc. So when you write something 'smart', do think about your readers, they are not all of them living round the corner. BTW all Scandinavian language bobbin lace makers are welcome in the Danish group, run by Knipling i Danmark. You will get information about joining by sending an empty mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] OIDFA 2006 Athens
I am sure you all appreciate, that at the moment this information is not final and some of it may change. It is also as far as I remember from the information given to the council members at the meeting in Glyfada outside Athens 20-22 May 2005. The organisers had planned that OIDFA's Congress should be the biggest event in Athens in May 2006, that was before Greece won the European Song Contest. However, it will take place 18/20 May 2006, so Athens should be ready for us afterwards. There were 3 courses after the council meeting: Cretean Bobbin lace, Finger lace (macramé), and Bibilla. The courses next year will very likely also take place at the Congo Palace Hotel in Glyfada 22-25 May 2006, the above 3 course will be repeated and there will be 2 more, I can only remember that one will be Minor Asia Embroidery (both sides right :-). The congress will take place 26-28 May 2006 in the centre of Athens. The dinner will be Friday 26 May at the Gulf Club. Instead of a bus trip we will visit Create and Chios. It is hoped that it will be on a 4 day cruise and not by plane. If you register for the conference you are allowed to bring friends on the cruise ! Museums with lace in store will display it, and the exhibitions will open ahead of the congress. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] KTN's Tonder book
I asked Karen Thompson about her translation of KTN's book, she sent me this to forward to Arachne. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen --- All four of Karen Trend Nissen´s books have been translated to English by Karen Thompson. They can be ordered from Karen Trend Nissen or directly from Karen Thompson. The translations do not have any illustrations, so they are a supplement to, not a substitution for Karen Trend Nissen´s excellent books. The cost is US $12.95 plus postage per translation. Discount for 4 or more copies. Write or e-mail for details. To order directly from Karen Thompson, send check or money order in US (or Danish) funds to: Karen Thompson 1901A Lydia Ct Urbana, IL 61802-9424, USA Phone: 1+217-365-0463 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] currency symbols/ abbreviations
The different computer systems use different representations for special characters. When you move data from one system to another, you never know what is happening with these characters. E.g. my surname is spelt with an o with a slash and I have had labels spelt with the Japanese currency signs (in Europe not in Japan), 1/2 etc. It is quite possible that two systems will use the same representasion for our basic currency symbol. Consequently, you may put a pound symbol into one system and get a dollar sign out of the other. The banks use standard abbreviations, I will recommend using the same, e.g. USD and GBP. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Looking for reproduction 1630 lace
You can get a pattern for a lace from the right time. When the Dutch East India Company's Batavia went down near Australia in 1629, she contained both lace and bobbins. Get hold of: Shepherd, Rosemary: The Batavia Lace + Pattern OIDFA Bulletin 1/1994 pp.4-9 (reprint of 'Australian Lace' Vol 14 no 2, Summer 1992 pp. 8-11 + correction Autumn 1993). Greetings Vibeke in Cold Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Book about Swedish lacemaking
Dear All, I am writing a review of a very interesting and charming new book, so I thought you might want to hear about it too. Att dikta en spets, Om knyppling i Sverige (Composing one's lace, about lacemaking in Sweden), Editor Kristina Malmberg, ISBN 91-86425-58-7, 104 pages (28 EUR from Barbara Fay), Swedish text with English summaries. Local experts have each written a chapter about the lace in their area. Scania, Blekinge, Småland, Dalecarlia, and Hälsingland were all freehand lace areas though the later is mainly known for lace worked on standard prickings. Swedes had inhabited some Estonian islands since the 13th century, they returned to Sweden under WW2 and brought their freehand lace tradition back with them. Only in one county, Ångermanland, was a special lace tradition introduced around 1913, the book contains a pattern of the most characteristic of the laces. The book's other pattern is 'St. Bridget's Rose', number two in the 2003 competition to the honour of St. Bridget, it is part of the long chapter about Vadstena lace. Sweden has had a lace industry around Vadstena, the lace was worked on patterns. In addition the book contains illustrations of the work of lace artists. The cover is a very charming painting from 1887 by Karl Nordström of his sister at her lacepillow. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Lace tools in 16th century
While you find 17th century lacepillows on paintings you have to go to engravings to find the few 16th century examples. Lacemaking as we know it was getting established at that time. The lacepillows are of very different forms, suggesting that the tools used for different older types of plaiting were still used. Tamara told about the two lacemakers to be found on the cover of: Tornehave, Bodil: Danske Frihåndskniplinger. Notabene, Copenhagen 1987. ISBN 87-7490-291-1. Nüw Modelbuch was published in 1561 and you can find the whole facsimile in: Burkhard, Claire: Faszinierendes Klöppeln Nüw Modelbuch 1561. Paul Haupt, Bern 1986. ISBN 3-258-03610-1 Some of the forerunners of lacepillows can be seen in Mrs. Palliser on page 91 Fig. 43 and page 110 Fig. 50. If you look at M. Dreger's Entwicklungs-Geschichte der Spitze (on the Professor's site), you can see another strange lacepillow on Abb. 21, it should be from about 1587. There is a much more normal lacepillow in a Flemish book by Martine Bruggeman. Tamara will you share the photo you recently took of the engraving by Jan Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius? It should be from the 3rd quarter of the 16th century. These are the examples I have, has anybody any more? Stretching the 16th century a few years, there is actually an example I have found. Take a look at page 22 of the OIDFA Bulletin 1993/4. In 1603 Alessandro Allori painted an Annunciation, where the Virgin Mary had put her lacepillow aside. Her bobbins were the 'flute' bobbins of the low-warp loom. The lacepillow is a bolster type in a basket. Greetings Vibeke in cold and dark Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re: monstertegning
Dear Madge and Others, The book is: Busch,Ebba: Mønstertegning til kniplinger et øvelseshæfte fra 1700-tallet. Nationalmuseet, København, 1980, ISBN 87-480-0308-5 (144 s.) The title is in English: Pattern drawing for lace, an exercise book from the 18th century. The book contains: Pages 1 to 25 Danish text. Pages 27 to 136 workbook sketches for lace motifs. Pages 137 to 141 English summary, which Pat Earnshaw declared to be excellent. Page 142 List of illustrations. Pages 143 to 145 Notes and references When Hans Friederichsen made the drawings in the exercise book in the 1770's they were old fashioned. This is an interesting book with the wrong title. Those wanting to learn how to make lace patterns found it useless and those interested in lace history did not look at it. The book was reduced to clear around 1985, I used as many as I could lay hand on as presents. I do remember that I gave some to libraries, the library at the Kantcentrum may have been one of them. The author Ebba Busch was writing on a Doctors Thesis in the 1960-70's. It often takes a lifetime to complete a Danish Doctors Thesis and her health broke down. She wrote several articles (only in Danish), but the final work never came. She had been out of touch for decades when she died a very short time ago. I do hope this answers your question. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Miss Channer's Mat (long)
Sorry to go on about this but those without access may want the following facts, those living near Copenhagen, Denmark are welcome to see my copy of the pattern. One of the very first lace books I got was Lacemaking, Point Ground by C.C. Channer revised by M. Waller, the Dryad Press Leicester, 1966. It was a present from my Aunt living in England. It starts with a picture of MAT FOR TRAY Worked by Mrs. Dixon, Clapham, Beds. Design C.C. Channer, I have always looked upon the pattern as part of the discussion about what we are allowed to do to the Point Ground Laces to keep them alive. BTW at the exhibition at the library in Nottingham at the time of the OIDFA congress there was a beautiful copy of the mat worked as 'true' Bucks. When I years later bought In the Cause of English Lace, I also bought the supplement. It is made up of two parts, a pattern and a piece of heavy paper double the size of the patter and folded in half (all the measurements are approx.). The brown pricking cardboard is 39 cm x 27 cm, with the pattern 33 cm x 22 cm. and the text (c) 1991 Ruth Bean Publishers Pricking adapted by Patricia Bury from an earlier copy in her collection The front of the paper has black background and a photo of the mat 34 cm x 22 cm and the text: Miss Channer's Lace Mat Supplement to In the Cause of English Lace by Anne Buck published 1991 by Ruth Bean Publishers Carlton, Bedford MK34 7LP England The back is blank. The middle contains an enlarged picture 42 cm x 25 cm and a sample of less than 10 cm. It is in actual size and clearly worked in thinner thread than the original. The upper left corner contains the text: Miss Channer's Lace Mat Original design by Catherine C. Channer, worked by Mrs. Dixon of Clapham, Bedford c. 1926. Now in the collection of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. The adapted pricking, sample lace and note, by Patricia Bury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, 1991. The text in the right side starts: This pattern is for all lacemakers looking for a chance to use every bobbin they own or to buy more! The sample alone required 186 pairs and about 250 pairs will be needed to complete the mat. ? Looking at Arachne this past week a lot of lacemakers would like to take up the challenge. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Doreen Wright's book
If you are putting notes in your copy of Doreen Wright's Bobbin Lace Making you may also want to note that most of the Tønder laces are not Danish but Czech. They are from (accents removed): Smolkova, Marie A. Bibova, Regina: Krajky a krajkarstvi lidu slovanskeho v cechach, na morave, ve slezsku a uh. slovensku, Prague 1908. Johanne Nyrop-Larsen took all the laces for her book Knipling efter Tegning from that collection except one, no 11 Windmill sails is indeed a Tønder Lace. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] bones, thorns etc.
PINS The book by Sophie Davydoff 'La dentelle russe, histoire, technique, statistique'( Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1895) is now available online thanks to Tess and the Professor. If you look at plate A you will see thorns of wild pear used as pins in the Minsk area of Russia. If you look at page 46 of the OIDFA Bulletin 4/1999 you will see a lacepillow from Dalecarlia in Sweden with pins cut from wood. It is exceptional that such a primitive pillow has been preserved. Aino Linnove states that in Finland pins of fish backbones and wood were used. The dividing pins could be made of pig's teeth. Bodil Tornehave is more specific she states that it is the backbones of perch you use to make pins. BOBBINS Bones used as bobbins is shown on page 155 of Androula Hadjiyiasemi's 'Lefkara Lace Embroidery' (Nicosia, 1987,reprinted 1999 ISBN 9963-7643-1-2). A friend of mine made a lacepillow with knuckles from sheep's feet as bobbins, it looked very convincing, but her dog ate the bones before she had made a photo. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
