What a wonderful collection of lace and lacemakers.It looks as if
everyone is having a lovely time. So nice to see such a lot of support for
lacemaking.
Maureen
E Yorks UK
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As a picture is worth a thousand words, here it is a link to a Spanish
lace supplier, who sells all type of pillows, now used in Spain:
http://www.boixet.com/index.php?cPath=22language=en
The traditional one is the straw long vertical bolster pillow, it is
intended to work straight long
Thanks to Carolina for the new set of wonderful lace day pictures!
In picture 50 there are some very interesting open spiders. Does
anyone know how to make them?
Could we get either a blow by blow explanation or a line diagram
showing the movement of the pairs for them?
Thanks a million!
Hi Debora,
The top half of the open spider is done as normalweave the pairs on one
side through all the pairs on the other side.
The bottom half is divided. Separate the pairs into two sections at the middle
pin (where the middle pin would be if you use one). Set one section aside.
The
Hello all those interested in Spanish lace,
Sorry for not having got in touch before. But I have a good excuse: I have
been at the Diada of Arenys, and afterwards took a few days off at the
Mediterranean coast.
As Carolina has already told you, in Spain there are now so many lace
meetings, that
Alice
I would call #141 a Cluny lace. I looked at it as close up as the software
allowed, and even the braids entering and leaving the cloth trail are
positioned so that those trails could be worked in the Cluny manner. To a
large extent Bedordshire is distinguished by a STYLE but there also are
Lyn
I've noticed that a lot of the Spanish lacemakers are using patterns by this
ROKA. When I look over the shoulder of the lacemaker at these lace days (so
to speak) I often see orange pricking card with the Roka name printed on it.
The patterns are mostly torchon, Cluny type, floral laces based
I am glad to hear that many of you enjoy looking at the photos I find. That
makes it worth continuing that small effort to post the links. Mostly they
come from picasa, which has a large number of spanish speaking lacemakers, but
also other European countries represented. Another resource for
