This week I am traveling in Belgium so there will be no new posts to
www.laceCurator.info until I get home next week.
I visited the Lace and Costume Museum Brussels in Monday.
Tuesday Bruges to the KantCentrum snd some special lace shops.
Today I'm off to the Borromeo Church to see Antwerp lace
Hi, Devon,
I bought some Filet net from Lacis, last year. They had free postage within
USA - so I had it sent to Helen, and then collected it when we visited.
There are different sizes of mesh - I usually use the 9 count. The net is
wider than normal dress fabric, but you buy it by the yard .
Hi Sue,
I don't know where the pattern is from, but I saw a piece of lace like this
at the Denver Art Museum. I have a (not so great) picture of the lace: the
hand is mostly cloth stitch (CTC) with index finger and thumb grasping part
of the lower edge of the frame and pulling it up. The othe
Years ago I saw this material for sale at Lacis in Berkeley, CA.
Otherwise
if you are looking for a source of the cotton, traditional knotted yardage go
to:
http://www.filetlace.net/
I've been a happy student and customer of
Filet Lace by the Sea for years.
Karen Bovard Sayre
The ShuttleSmith
Devon: I did find a supplier of silk 40 count gauze that might be suitable.
(although it is very fine)
http://www.stitchesnthings.com/detail.cfm?ID=35776
http://www.stitchersworkshop.com/largedetails.php?Product_ID=81&prodType=Fabr
ic
http://www.nordicneedle.com/ctgy/G28-00-00.html
Also there ar
Dear All
Just a quick reminder that this book is on sale at the Queen's
Gallery, and that In Fine Style finishes on 6 October - it has a section on
children and their clothes (very upper class only!!)
leonard...@yahoo.com
in an unseasonably warm London, stewing down the last of the blackberri
Hello All! Just a reminder--Textile Art Alliance in conjunction with Cleveland
Museum of Art is offering a Buratto/Filet lace workshop & lecture on the 1st
weekend in Nov. Info at: http://www.taacleveland.org/program.html The
teacher is Diane Daiker, a member of SCA, & she is providing mater
Dear spiders I do hope one you can help me. I am searching for a lace
pattern of a hand holding a piece of lace. I seem to remember the whole
thing was lace but I cannot remember where I saw it and I would like to do
the pattern if I can find it. Does anyone know of this design?
Sue M
Farnbo
Dear Devon,
Vima deMarchi Micheli is the Embroiderers' Guild of America teacher of
Italian needle-made techniques. She may have supplies. She shows examples in
her book I sent you a couple years ago - "Italian Needlework Treasures".
Jeanine Robertson of Canada is a member of Arachne, a
In a message dated 9/23/2013, 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk writes:
I am so excited because our lace group is going to Hampton Court next June
to visit The Royal School of Needlework; I think this book will be good
homework prior to our visit. Sue M Harvey, NorfolkU.K.
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Dear S
There is a young scholar studying Burato. She would like to try to make
some Burato. Does anyone know of a source for the fabric, which appears to be
something resembling a leno weave, or any information or instructions?
Devon
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