The Interwoven Globe exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
is amazing. I was there on Wednesday, November 6. It’s a 6 hour round trip
train ride from my home. We were fascinated. If you go, don’t plan on
doing much else at the museum, you’ll be museumed out when you’re done.
Lorelei wrote: At that time period Genoa was making bobbin lace, similar in
style to reticello. And some of those leaf shapes and triangles in the painting
seem to have 3 raised ridges in them, not 2. For needlelace you would expect 2
ridges. But for bobbin lace one would expect 3 ridges.
That certainly does look like reticella. The painter did an amazing job of
depicting the lace. It almost looks photographic. One could actually copy
the lace. But if you plan to make a ruff, plan on spending a lifetime to
finish it!The central part could be either reticello worked as
One more thing I could say. At that time period Genoa was making bobbin lace,
similar in style to reticello. And some of those leaf shapes and triangles in
the painting seem to have 3 raised ridges in them, not 2. For needlelace you
would expect 2 ridges. But for bobbin lace one would expect 3
I, too, would call that gorgeous lace Reticella.
On first inspection - as the size it came up first , I thought the central
panel on the Ruff was the same as on the dress, but when enlarged I could
see that the central panels are different, but the edges appear to be the
same.
It is SO clear
Hello Liz and everyone
Excellent to bring this up. This is a painterly trick, 'painting negative
space' - one way to deal with the illusion, to show a three-dimensional
object on a flat piece of paper! For the painter who doesn't make lace, it
is probably easier to paint the holes, than to try to
Yesterday Beloved and I went to the Cleveland Museum of Art. They have been
remodeling for the past few years and little by little are opening new
sections,
and revamping their displys. As we wandered the galleries I looked for
pictures
with lace in them. Unfortunately, a lot of the
I will stick my neck out and say that I think it looks like Reticella too.
What does everyone else think?
Liz R, Raleigh, NC
Witchy Woman wytchy...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I did find one picture with beautiful lace...Portrait of a Woman by
Cornelis
Janssen van Ceulen, painted in 1619. I
I would agree as the two main laces of that period were reticle la and punto in
aria (which I think predictive text has just changed the name of again but it's
late and I'm too tired to fight).
So, I'd say Reticella.
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
On 7 Apr 2013, at 23:59, lbuy...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Dear Peg,
We are to get your weather tomorrow. We have plans to weed the strawberry
patch. Not fun, but needed. I think you should make the lace near the
picture whether you know the name or not. I love to make lace in beautiful
places. By a lake, in view of a mountain, by a river, in a
I was looking at the picture. I suspect one could copy the lace from what
is in the picture, although I don't know enough about needlelace to be sure.
If the artist was so concerned with the lace that he paints it so
exquisitely, it must have been important not only to him, but to his subject
I am almost 100% sure it's reticello and punto in aria.
All of the elements are very much in keeping with the time, and the
patterns of the late 1500's to early 1600's. And now, you've got me
thinking I might do this for a friend, rather than the pattern I was going
to do for a partlet. It's a
I was recently very fortunate to receive a huge addition to my odd bobbin
collection :) Among all the lovely bobbins was one that has four heads.
Whilst perusing http://www.tombolodisegni.it/ I noticed in the bobbin
collection one that looked just like mine. Can anyone tell me how this
bobbin
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