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From: jeria...@aol.com
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Subject: [lace] Gil Dye's new book The Isham Samples and Other Linen Edgings
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 3:54 PM
Again, I've seen no review of a new book by Gilian Dye - this one is The
Isham Samples and Other Linen Edgings - 16th 17th Century Lace - Book 2,
published by Cleveden Press, Nov. 2012, ISBN 978-0-9553223-4-1, 60 pages,
soft cover, amply illustrated in color and in black white.
Attention costumers, historians, SCA members, and those interested in
making laces seen in early portraits, garments and furnishings in museums!
The
narrow laces in this new book have been worked in linen, cotton or wool
and are taken from original sources - portraits and the few surviving laces
of this period. Gil Dye has photographed them and then done
reconstructions, each with a working diagram and a photo and pattern draft at
actual size.
The author postulates that 16th 17th C. lace makers worked most narrow
laces without a pricking or instructions, and gives helpful suggestions for
you to do likewise. Today, we call this free hand lace. She describes the
lock stitch that helps to control tension and minimizes the need for pins
- a very good solution to problems of copying very old laces using a
variety of thread sizes - without prickings. Very few pins would have been
used.
The title mentions Isham samples. These were five narrow lace samples
attached to a letter written by Elizabeth Isham about 1627 to her father.
This Elizabeth was born in 1608 or 1609, five-to-six years after the death of
Queen Elizabeth I. There is a nice little biography of Elizabeth, and a
photograph of the Isham jacket that is in the V A collection. It reminds
of the circa 1610-20 Margaret Laton jacket, though clearly not as lavish.
There is a pattern and instructions for the black and white lace edging on
the Isham jacket.
(The Fall 2012 issue of the IOLI's Bulletin has a 5-page article about
Isham laces, by Rosemary Shepherd, if more information is desired.)
Gil Dye has been writing useful books and lessons for lace makers since at
least 1979. There are 12 titles in my library, and that would not be all
of them. She is also a generous contributor to various lace guild
bulletins.
In recent years, she has set herself the challenge of writing books and
presenting patterns of the 16th and 17th centuries. The first was the
well-received 64-page Elizabethan Lace of 1995, which has been republished
by
Cleveden Press. In May 2012, I wrote a review of Gold and Silver Edgings
- 16th 17th Century Lace - Book 1. Search Gil Dye books in the
Arachne archives:
_http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html_
(http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html)
The current review is of the second in a series. The author is now
working samples for Book 3.
The following list of specialist lace book suppliers may be helpful:
England - Jo Firth, SMP, Roseground, and Claire's Lace
Germany - Barbara Fay
USA - Maria Provencher and Holly Van Sciver
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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