Jeri - Although I do not have much time or patience to read whole books on
lace history, I do find your snippets of it extremely interesting - like a
book in a nutshell, and I am very grateful for the time you take to review
books for us.
Thanks a million,
Karen in Malta â
PS - hope this
To supplement the book review just sent to Arachne, Venice Needle Lace
Today, I have copied an article in the new May/June 2014 PieceWork issue,
and placed it in the book.
Invisible Lacemakers - The Needlework of Venetian Nuns, by Isabella
Campagnol, tells in two pages about Venetian nuns
In a message dated 7/4/2010 9:37:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
k...@wirelace.net writes:
Aurelia,
Have you tried looking in Ricci's Old Italian Lace? I don't have either
book in front of me, but Ricci and Tebbs were contemporaries, I believe.
You will find Old Italian Lace (volumes I and
Carolina
Thanks. I enjoyed visiting your website.
Lorelei
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Hi Tamara and everyone
In 2002, Accademia Merletti De Amicis published volume 1 of a projected 6
volume series (I haven't seen any more of them, though. Has anyone?).
None except the first, which I have, bought it from an ebay.it seller who
had some remaindered copies a few years ago. For
A short essay at the beginning of the book Twentieth Century Lace
,(Pfannschmidt) citing changes from old-style laces after WW1 made in Venice,
saysBobbin lace in the new style was made at Cantu...
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Hello Spiders!
In answer to Aurelia's query about the Tebb's instuctions for Venetian lace:
Many years ago, I was taught the Venetian lace flower by Pat Read, using
those same instructionsfor Aurelia and anyone else that may be
interested, I found that the instructions are interesting and
Aurelia
One more thing: if you go to the fioretombolo.net site and click on the Veneto
tab, the photos do show some Cantu-like laces.
Lorelei
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Aurelia Loveman
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:22 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Venetian lace
Dear spiders —— Help! I have been reading an ancient book, Tebbs' Art of
Bobbin Lace.
It's as different as can be from the contemporary
Aurelia
Today I was on the net for other reasons and came across this:
http://www.fioretombolo.net/Veneto.htm She is calling this the lace of
Veneto, but it looks to me like Cantu (what we would call Cantu) or something
similar.
Lorelei
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Dear spiders —— Help! I have been reading an ancient book, Tebbs' Art of
Bobbin Lace.
It's as different as can be from the contemporary publications that we use
nowadays.
Reading along in it, I came to a chapter on Venetian Lace. No explanation
given as to
what it is. I looked about in all my
Aurelia
I have the same book, and some of her names are quite peculiar. From the
plate that accompanies the opening page of the chapter on Venetian I think
that she is talking about what we would call Cantu. Long ago in going
through her book, I decided that these things she calls Guipure de
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