Re: [lace] Article about "The Lacemaker by Tord Boontje"
Here's a link to information about the company that made Quaker lace: http://www.workshopoftheworld.com/kensington/quaker_lace.html On 7/22/2010 9:27 AM, Tatman wrote: An interesting article about an artist that presents their work mostly with raffia and twine and does some lacemaking techniques using it. It is a nontraditional use of lacemaking techniques. Some of the examples are not lace techniques at all. Just bunched up or twisted in a fashion. The mannequin is quite funny :) Here is the article: http://tinyurl.com/37zkeb9 Part of the article had me puzzled: (snip) "Called The Lacemaker, the collection was created for the Design Centre at Philadelphia University in response to their collection of Quaker lace." (unsnip) Quaker lace Don't know this term and wondered where its origin came from. Please let me know more about this type if any of you know the research about it. The article doesn't give any footnotes. Thanks, - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Article about "The Lacemaker by Tord Boontje"
Quaker Lace was the name of a company that made machine made lace in Philadelphia. It used to be a major industry in Philadelphia comprising several blocks of factories. Go to ebay and type in Quaker Lace and you will see a lot of examples of it. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Article about "The Lacemaker by Tord Boontje"
An interesting article about an artist that presents their work mostly with raffia and twine and does some lacemaking techniques using it. It is a nontraditional use of lacemaking techniques. Some of the examples are not lace techniques at all. Just bunched up or twisted in a fashion. The mannequin is quite funny :) Here is the article: http://tinyurl.com/37zkeb9 Part of the article had me puzzled: (snip) "Called The Lacemaker, the collection was created for the Design Centre at Philadelphia University in response to their collection of Quaker lace." (unsnip) Quaker lace Don't know this term and wondered where its origin came from. Please let me know more about this type if any of you know the research about it. The article doesn't give any footnotes. Thanks, -- Mark, aka Tatman website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: tat...@tat-man.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
