There's a cute rabbit for sale on Etsy. I believe she sells the patterns
too:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/51346158/the-little-white-rabbit?ref=sr_gallery_1ga_search_query=bobbin+lace+rabbitga_search_type=handmadega_page=order=includes%5B0%5D=tagsincludes%5B1%5D=titlefilter%5B0%5D=handmade
Sue
P.S. to the graphs. I don't think the peak at 1900 is quite in the right place
but there were some books in the early 1900s. I thinkperhaps the spread of the
peak should be wider.
Alex
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I'm afraid the scientific use is debatable. Much depends on projects
scanning books and offering the scans to google. So the books searched might
be very biased. And the bias might differ by period. After all it are just
about 4 percent of all books ever published. (I would like to know this
Don't take it too bad Brian. I once dared to suggest privately to an Ebay
seller that a 'handmade white Chantilly shawl' was actually machine made.
After formally banning me from his site, and after his wife repeatedly told
me to do something more productive with my life like trying prostitution,
Couldn't you have made a formal report to eBay about this person Laurie.
After all trying to sell machine made stuff and pass it off as handmade
probably amounts to fraud if it is done repeatedly. If it is a one-off thing
it could be called a 'mistake' but not if it is done all the time. There are
Doesn't surprise me that the wife of a person like this sees
prostitution as something productive.
Clay
On 12/18/2010 7:21 AM, Laurie Waters wrote:
Don't take it too bad Brian. I once dared to suggest privately to an Ebay
seller that a 'handmade white Chantilly shawl' was actually machine
What a happy holiday surprise! I just realized that the records of European
Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art have
appeared on the internet! If you will put in this tiny url
_http://tinyurl.com/2a6abo8_ (http://tinyurl.com/2a6abo8) you will be able to
see the
Unfortunately Ebay doesn't care. They will assist the police in a legitimate
investigation, but anything else is 'buyer beware'. They aren't in the
business of policing millions of transaction. I think in the beginning they
used to take things like this more seriously, but not now. And yes, I
Since you've had access to much of this collection for a long time, and
your cup runneth over, just imagine how those of us in the backwoods of
this country must feel!! Thanks so much for giving us a heads-up on
this, and let the MOMA know that they have just given the lace world an
I haven't been able to see the paper in Science discussing the database and the
methodology--bias in the selection of books scanned for example--but Science is
one of the 3 or 4 leading and peer-reviewed scientific journals in the world.
That doesn't mean that everything they publish is
MMA not MOMA. MOMA is Museum of Modern Art.
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On Dec 18, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Clay Blackwell
clayblackw...@comcast.net wrote:
Since you've had access to much of this collection for a long time,
and your cup runneth over, just imagine how those of us in the
backwoods of
It is also interesting to put in a smaller year range, and come up with more
detail eg
from 1860-1880
http://tinyurl.com/27ue576
from 1954- 1962
http://tinyurl.com/2c5chxn
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In those diagrams is machine-, needle-. bobbin- and pillow-lace mentioned.
Could somebody tell me the difference between bobbin- and pillow-lace.
Do they mean Teneriffe-lace? Or is pillow-lace the sum of needle- and
bobbin-lace? Both are made on a pillow, needle lace in another sort of pillow
Brian, are you looking for a historical bone bead, or a more recent one? I
think I have several dating from the 1980s or 90s. I can send photos if
this is what you want?
Margery.
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margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Hertfordshire, UK
Hi,
I have always thought as bobbin lace being pillow lace (can also called bone
lace). Needle lace, although it is mainly done on a pillow can also be done
in the hand which makes it so handy to take when you are travelling.
However, I am happy to keep an open mind as to what others have to
My understanding of the terms is the same as yours, Joepie. Also I think the
term pillow lace is more common in England than in the US--anyone: is that so?
Nancy
Connecticut--about to get snow but nothing like England has! (I hope)
From: J-D Hammett
I think it is important for us to differentiate between what *we* have
always thought, and what the writers of the particular books which were
searched thought! I'm curious how the search works too... is it
looking for word combinations that are exact, as in bobbin lace but
not lace bobbin?
Kloppelshop has quite a few bunnies on their Easter page. The website is at
http:www.kloppelshop.de
Hope you find what you're looking for.
Tammy
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I think there was an error in the address. I use http://www.kloeppelshop.de/
which has several bunnies under
Klöppelbriefe and then Ostern/Fruehling (Easter/Spring).
The dieresis (umlaut) 'ö' should resolve to 'oe' though pasting it does
often result in a single 'o'.
I won't include the Java
Nancy
What is really interesting about the word frequency graph is that the needle
lace spikes match the bobbin lace ones, but at a lower level. I suppose that
is an illustration of the relative interest in the two forms of lace. The
spikes at 1900 and 1960 are odd. The one just be fore 1980
I had never heard the term pillow lace in England where I learned bobbin
lace from 1988 to 1999. I first came across it when demonstrating bobbin
lace in the Chicago Botanic Gardens and was told quite firmly that I wasn't
making bobbin lace, but pillow lace! News to me!
Sue Babbs
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On 19/12/2010, at 6:07 AM, Pat T wrote:
I think there was an error in the address. I use http://www.kloeppelshop.de/
which has several bunnies under
Klöppelbriefe and then Ostern/Fruehling (Easter/Spring).
Thanks for that Pat, there was an error, but it certainly was an
interesting site -
You are welcome.
I really think we need to thank Tammy. I had the address stored and I
occasionally browse the site, but I had no idea about all the bunnies and
such.
Thank you Tammy, I really had never looked at the patterns, just the
supplies. Someone on one of the list or perhaps a
My Grandmother always called it Pillow lace , but she only made Bobbin lace.
I think 'Pillow lace' usually refers to 'Bobbin lace'.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy Festive
Season, and all the best for the New Year.
Liz in Melbourne - currently away on
I began bobbin lace in 1977 while living in England and heard many times
that in the old times it was known as pillow lace and bone lace. I was
also told that bone lace was because fish bones were used to support
the threads before pins were invented. I do have some reference to that
somewhere
Here is a cute bunny pattern
http://www.nytiknipling.dk/
click on download,
scroll down on page, look for Påskehaløj
Irene Whitham,
Surrey, BC Canad
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