Hello Helen and everyone
The neat join called "lassen" is really effective. I followed the
instruction in the Book of Flanders by Niven; equipment required is one
very short, very fine needle, a pair of finely-pointed scissors, and a
joining thread that exactly matches the shade of the lace
"I would like to share with you a link to the digital exhibition about lace
identification.
https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-digital-exhibition/index.php/lace-identification-7-examples
The research was done by Olga Ieromina and Lisa Dilitz in the Textile
Research Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. "
Thank you Olga—what a helpful online article! It’s lovely to showcase objects
in the TRC collection—even better with a tutorial. This was my first visit to
your website so thanks for the link. I enjoyed the embroidered postcards as
well. Sincerely, Susan Hottle USA
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When I blow up the photos to be able to see the path of the thread as it
whipped around bars in the net, it looks to me like the thread used for the
join is the same thread that was used to make the lace. It's certainly not
significantly finer.
Nancy
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:05 PM Devon Thein
Adele,
I'm thinking that a lassen technique might have developed when flat corners
meant one no longer had the gathers at the corners in which to hide the
seam. That's why I've asked in my last post if the seam is indeed in a
gathered part in handerkerchiefs with gathered corners. In
I put up on laceioli.ning the phtos of 63.196.17. Also, I did find some
lassen. One is dated about 1800, which I am somewhat doubtful about. The
other is joined lappets dated early 19th century. But, I would expect that
if they were joined it was somewhat later than the date of the lappets,
since
My understanding is that lassen is used when the end of a pattern overlaps the
beginning; and the patterns therefore match. This would have nothing to do with
corners; it would be done in the one place in the lace piece where the end
overlapped the beginning. So, if you were making a hankie
Devon,
Quite a few of the handkerchiefs that were donated by the Duchesse de
Richelieu, in memory of the Princess Alice of Monaco, in 1963, were of
interest, largely because I couldn't see an obvious join in most of them.
Several had flat corners: e.g., 63.196.17. In the ones with gathered
Hi Helen,
After reading your email, I was curious enough to look on line and there
appears to be a course at the Kantcentrum
"Lassen en innaaien van kant"
G**gle translates the course description as:
Welding and sewing in lace
We end one side. Welding and sewing is the complete finishing of
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Funny you should ask. I was looking at one of the binche handkerchiefs from
Princess Alice of Monaco, 63.196.6. The joins are in the corners and they
do not use lassen, although they are very skillfully done. I have posted
photos of the four corners on
I guess I have to confess that I believed a source and shouldn't have, or I
totally misunderstood her: Pam Nottingham was emphatic that she and her
students were the first to design flat corners for edging handkerchiefs, in
the mid-twentieth C. She must have meant only Bucks because I've just
Hi everyone,
I would like to share with you a link to the digital exhibition about lace
identification.
The exhibition shows 7 pairs of laces where one is handmade and another is
machine made. Each pair has description of differences and main
distinguishing points. Also the research is
I have few older handkerchiefs so I'm like Devon -- I can't say for sure,
but I think in the ones I have that have gathered corners, there's a quite
visible join. (They are in storage but I will try to dig them out soon.) I
do know that the flat corners are a recent development (i.e., starting in
Lassen is a technique for joining fine lace. It is done with very fine thread
which is used to wrap small bundles invisibly.
Corner work is continuous. It doesn't require the finer thread.
I'm frustrated that I can't remember more! I also can't find my copy of "Het
Lassen", which covers
Add this to the list of things I should be looking for when I look at lace
in the museum! This is something I never thought of before. I had a quick
look through my photos and I couldn't find an example of lassen, although I
have been taught how to do the technique in several classes. It would be
Hi,
Since the list is silent, I would like to ask an historical question. I will
state here that I have asked the question before years ago but didn’t get a
satisfactory answer so here I go again ...
For lassen (I think that is the word), where the ends of lace are overlapped
and (almost)
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