In a message dated 9/1/05 11:13:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have run across a book in my library with a print date of 2002 in Denmark
by Brigit Poulsen titled LAY THE TABLE-WITH BOBBIN LACE. It has every
thing from table runners to napkins to placemats,etc,etc. The lace is
beautiful
and not only for the contest but I am going to do it for my own table. It has
been stuck on one of my book shelves and I am happy to have found it and
using it.
Thanks to Brigit and happy lacing to all you gentle Spiders.
Mary Derrick Southern Regional Director
or Jacksonville ,FL
Dear Lacemakers and IOLI Volunteer Officers Volunteer Directors,
Thank you, Mary!
Here, we have a problem of lack of informative printed material for a contest
that mainly involves U.S. or Canadian members of IOLI. These members are
most likely to have a second language of French or Spanish. Yet, the custom of
use of the lace table ribbons seems to be in Germany, Denmark, etc.
Interesting challenge!
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A couple weeks ago, Tess recommended Ursula Stadtke's hardback book
Nordische Tischbander or Nordiske Festremser or Nordiska Festremsor.
These
titles reflect the 3 languages of the book - German, Danish, Swedish. This was
published by Barbara Fay in Germany in 1997, ISBN 3-925184-77-5, and I paid $29
for the book in 2003 - exchange rate would make it more expensive now. (Van
Sciver offers at $35.) The cover photo is of a round table (white linen
tablecloth) with a blue table ribbon in the shape of an X. The ends drop
down at
the edge by one motif, with pointed ends decorated by woven blue ribbon bows.
I think it would be helpful to lacemakers to see a picture! Perhaps someone
with the book could put the picture of this cover on a web site?
An experienced lacemaker could adapt patterns - prickings - in this book for
use in the contest.. Some of the designs are quite fantastic. I am going to
try to type a shape of one of the table ribbons, but do not know what shape
they will be in when you receive them. Besides the X, there is the shape of
a
tick-tac-toe grid (a pencil and paper game played in U.S.):
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Another grid goes out so there are 3 vertical lace ribbons and 3 horizontal
lace ribbons based on the above idea to make a square, and there is one that is
shaped with rectangles to fit a long table, instead of a square one. *These
do not fit the Contest Rules*, but it gives an idea of how far some lacemakers
have developed the concept of table ribbons.
Intermediate to advanced lacemakers who do not need to read explanatory text
may enjoy a hardback book which has lovely table linens, published by
Deutscher Kloppelverband e.V., Germany. It is Spitzenmenu - Ein Kloppelbuch
fur
Tisch und Tafel, 2000, ISBN 3-934210-24-4, cost 74 Euros at the table of the
German lacemakers, in Prague, 2004. (Mail costs would be high, because it is
printed on glossy heavy paper and is 8 1/2 x 12). It was written by a group
of
lacemakers in Germany and is in German language. It covers many types of
table linens, and has a history section (it is most frustrating to be unable to
read the text) with reproductions of paintings, from Renaissance period
forward,
of banquets and table settings. Lots of interesting contemporary laces for
the table are offered. There is a pattern pack in the back, and some pricking
patterns within the text that could be adapted for the contest.
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I suggest you might try to borrow from InterLibrary Loan at your local
public library (which has the capability to borrow a book from any library in
the
U.S. - or beyond - which has it). The prickings in these books could be
easily adapted to length and width of Contest Rules. Ask your librarian for
assistance -- I have given the information you might need to order these for
viewing! This service is offered in many nations, perhaps by different names,
as I
wrote in a long memo about InterLibrary Loans about 5 years ago. This is the
same service that scholars in universities use. You may have to pay mailing
fees between the libraries. Usually, you are allowed to make copies of some
pages - for education purposes. This depends on the condition of the book.
Rare
books must be read in the local library; they cannot be taken out.
As a service, we have an IOLI lending library. It would be beneficial if
someone (Librarian? Contest Chairman?) close to the issue would go through the
library and find any books on the subject. Then, contest entrants need
reviews, which for speed could be put on the IOLI Web Site with the contest
guidelines.
These 3 books do not appear to be in the IOLI Library lists, though I may
have searched the wrong way. If there are funds budgeted to purchase books,
and
if the library receives a lot of requests to borrow books, perhaps someone
would do research as to which
