I do not know if folk lore ever becomes fact. I do not think the evidence in
terms that we accept in modern days really exists.
I have become very pragmatic about things these days and I seem to think that
the hand me down stories have an element of truth in them, but there seems no
real
Hi Liz
I have compiled a database/spreadsheet of articles (of interest to me) from
my lace magazines.
It has five fields - the name of the mag, the year, its issue/page number,
subject/title of the article and author/source. So I can put a subject or
word in 'find' and know which issue I'm
Gil Dye said Not yet found any fish bones that work well as pins, on the
other hand I
have successfully used rabbit and game bird bones as bobbins - but that's
another story.
I would Love to hear that story!! :)
I have used half a clothes peg (the sort with the metal spring in between
Dear Liz,
Can you get your hands on The Lace Guild (England) bulletin #141, January
2011?
There is a 2-page article on pages 12-13 by Maureen Barber Z Twist or S
Twist: Ladies Weaving with Bones that tells a little bit of Gil Dye's
adventures with bones, which she related while teaching
.The Lace Guild (England) bulletin #141, January 2011?
Gosh! I must have read that article in my sleep! I have the UK Lace - #5 -
74, then a gap and all since #103!
I will re read it. Gracious!!, I don't know how that slipped my memory.
Thank you for reminding me of it Jeri.
I will Read,
Your lateral thinking is quite original and worthy of serious consideration
until it is disproven. Like many things in lace history we are not really
sure about the truth of the matter.
At one time I had a pretty full paper on the history of pins but goodness
knows where it is now!
Suffice to
time if carefully used.
Clay
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Your lateral thinking is quite original and worthy of
serious consideration
until it is disproven. Like many
.
Carolyn
Carolyn Hastings
Stow, MA USA
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Good morning All,
On the subject
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adopted the bones of fish, which,
pared and cut into regular lengths,
I wonder then, whether the pins were fashioned from the long back bones
of suitable fish rather than being from the ribs or fin bones that we
immediately
Hi everyone
Further to the discussion of what was used before metal pins - I wonder
if many pinning devices were necessary - freehand laces don't pin between
edges, fillings can be made without pins, plaited laces, do they need many
pins? If fish bones and thorns were employed - would this be
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From Lace and Bobbins, T.L.Huetson 1973
The making of pillow lace requires the use of pins, and when
the art of
making lace was brought to England these were
(snip)
. . . suitable bones (and I think thorns as well); from what I can remember
without much success. Perhaps they are now reading this and can recall the
results better than I can.
Jacquie
Fishbones are 'not in my experience',
but thorns ? Yes, indeed, the 'right'
ones are long - the one
snip...His bibliography includes Thomas Wright and Palliser, neither
of which I
have, so I can't follow it back
Quote from Palliser (reproduction of 4th ed published in 1911 - she died
in 1878) (pp294) Lace now seems to be called indifferently purle,
passamayne or bone-work... The origin of this
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