I wonder if maybe the lighting improvements of our time will make neater
lace easier to do?
Sue T Dorset UK
I think that's true of BL too. If you take a piece of fine, old lace,
photograph and enlarge it and compare to similar but coarser, well made
modern lace you nearly always find that th
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> "Modern needlelacers are better needlelacers than the
> ones in the past."
Not all are better lacemaker, but they know to work a piece of lace and
finish it all by themselves. Untill beginning of 20th century, the
common lacemaker worked only one kind of stich and the pay differd for
each ki
Having done a etage at the Atelier National du Point d'Alencon in 1980, where
I made a 1" square piece of lace that took 40 hours to complete, let me say
that I disagree completely with the statement that needlelace made today with
bigger threads is easier. There were 5 weights of thread in my sam
Dear All,
I agree with both types from what I have seen in my
museum, but I wondered if it was just the level of
skill in my country area, where people were mainly
concerned with surviving the elements. The crochetting
and knitted lace though are amazing. (Also in line
with the country of origin o
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brenda
Paternoster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> you nearly always find that the modern stuff is neater -
>even allowing for the fact that the old lace may have been washed a
>number of times.
Is this possibly because not only can we see what we are doing, but we
h
I think that's true of BL too. If you take a piece of fine, old lace,
photograph and enlarge it and compare to similar but coarser, well made
modern lace you nearly always find that the modern stuff is neater -
even allowing for the fact that the old lace may have been washed a
number of times
I heard a comment recently that I wanted to put before
this group.
"Modern needlelacers are better needlelacers than the
ones in the past."
The reason was that we are using thread that is large
enough to see each stitch, so we strive to make the
stitches very precise, neat and uniform. The wor
