I bought the book when it was first published (and paid £10 for it). It
has the prickings, working diagrams, etc. for 5 fans designed by Ann
Keller. The fans vary in size from tiny to large and all have a modern
Celtic theme. I haven't tried making any of them (yet) but I think
they're
I needed to sort my books out, I found The Lace Directory published
By the England Lace School around 1989/90, it was published to
To raise funds for the John Bull Trophy in 1990.
Now I came to an advert for
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
They have a lace collection: costume, patterns.
Hello everyone
Just thought I would drop in to say. The Jubilee Lacegroup
Laceday. Will be held on 28th April .It will be held at the Hewitt School
Norwich. All welcome.
The school is disabled friendly, with signing for the deaf available.
So if you are in the area on that day. It
Just a thought, but maybe the company made laces as opposed to lace!?
Andrea Lamble
in a sunny but cold Cambridge - snowdrops, daffodils and crocuses all spied
on a local walk this afternoon.
From: C Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: C Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Arachne List
Thanks to Jeri and Tamara for their congratulations on getting my designs in
'Lace'. I thought the idea was good, but don't like the finished lace at
all. I was persuaded to submit it by others in my Monday lace group. Might
give others ideas on how they could do a better job.
Just goes to
In a message dated 2/3/07 8:39:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I just came across a listing on Amazon for a book on Irish bobbin lace
fans. I've included the title:
Craobh Nua: the First Collection of Irish Themed Bobbin Lace Fans
The link is:
Thank you, Noelene, for that suggestion! I've purchased a couple of pairs of
27 long shoelaces, and tried them out. They are wonderful!
It's a little scary seeing all those bobbins and threads jumbled together,
and kind of amazing when you untie the bow and straighten the shoelace to
see all the
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 07:19:17 +1100, you wrote:
No, not a magic thread.She says at Stage 5 :
My board has a Klöppelfläche of 60 x 60 cm. For this cover I must shift the
cushions more than once. I put a red thread by the initial loops, so that I
can regain her completely at the end better.
As I understand it, Innismacsaint lace is a type on Needlelace that looks
like the Venetian Gros Point - but the Irish lacemakers used many more
different filling stitches. However, It has the raised cordonette of the
Gros Point.
I have not been able to find out very much about it - just the
There was an article about it in OIDFA a few years ago. I believe it claimed
that the author was unable to find any existing examples since some had been
destroyed in the fire in Buckingham Palace. There are a couple of examples
of it in the Blackborne Collection at the Metropolitan Museum,
I have three pages of information on Innishmacsaint in a book Victorian
Needlework : techniques and design, Flora Klickmann (ed) ISBN 0 486 42154 6. It
gives you a pattern of a flounce that you could repeat if you wanted to, as
well as instructions that are enough for a person who was doing
Vis a vis your question about Scottish lace.
Well...also in the Blackborne Collection at the MMA is a single piece of
something called Hamilton Lace which is explained on pages 430 and 431 of the
Dover edition of Palliser. (The piece in our collection might well be
classified as torchon if
About 4 yrs. ago I did a search for Scottish lace info when I was asked by
the local Scottish Games people to demonstrate at the games. There was not
much to be found, although a University in Mississippi has some books on
Scottish hand crafts.
Hamilton Lace seems to be named for the
On Feb 4, 2007, at 21:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vis a vis your question about Scottish lace. [...]
One thing I can't figure out is why the Art Nouveau and the Craftsman
movement which produced Modernista lace in Spain, Aemilia Ars in Italy
and
the laces of the Weiner Werkstatte and the
Pitsligo I have heard of and am trying to track down now that I've been
reminded of it. The search I just did on Hamilton hasn't turned up any
pictures, but it has revealed that the Hamilton lace was popular and that
commoners and ladies alike made it. That died out, as things seem to, only to
be
I would still be interested in any further information on Scottish
laces.
Dear Spiders:
I do like books that were written before people felt the need to be
politically correct, and would state their opinion fearlessly -
In Chats on Old Lace and Needlework, Mrs. Lowes (circa 1907) states:
Because Morris and Ruskin and the rest of the head in the clouds
crowd
Let's not forget that it was not Ruskin who started Ruskin lace, it was
Marion Twelves, the housekeeper of one of his associates (Albert
Fleming), who helped develop a flax-spinning weaving industry, and
then developed
The Honiton revival, the impetus to protect and preserve Bucks Point, and the
finest of the Beds laces all derive in one way and another from the new designs
and the new enthusiasm for handwork exemplified by the Arts and Crafts
movement,
so the movement didn't so much create new laces in
My 2 references are -
http://www.irishlacemuseum.com/inishmacsaint.html
Also Plate 89 - page 132 in Lace from the V. A.Museum (I knew I had a
photo somewhere.!)
Regards from Liz in Hot, Hot Melbourne, Oz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the
There is a picture of 'Hamilton Lace' in Palliser 'A History of Lace' in the
section 'Lace Manufactures of Scotland' pg. 383 in my edition.
I did a blow up of it and began trying to recreate a pricking of it. I really
should get back to that again.
Lorri
- Original Message -
From:
20 matches
Mail list logo
