[lace] Re: Margaretenspitze
Dear Janis and All, just yesterday I got the new edition of the book from Lotte Heinemann about Margaretenspitze. There are a few new details, the pictures ar in color and the book has now a spiral that it lays flat when open. Those who are interested write privately to me and I give you the addresses. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Re: Margaretenspitzen is in South Africa! - 2
Dear Jeri I am sending this to Arachne as well as personally as it has quite a bit of lace content. (I hope it will be OK Avital, to keep the previous posts in). My friend Luise has worked the samples in the magazine but it has only whetted her appetite to know more. She is like that! Feel free to send the museum info to Devon Thien. She may be able to apply some pressure through the connection of museums to at least preserve correctly all the âcolonialâ artefacts. We do have some very good new museums like the Apartheid museum and many apartheid era sites like the Mandela House and Lilliesleaf farm are being turned into museums. It is the older history that is at risk. The War Museum in Bloemfontein commemorates the Anglo/Boer War and the concentration camps. It has been closed this year for a major refurbishment and is due to re-open next March, for the centenary of the Womenâs monument which is in the grounds of the museum. We can only wait and see if it has been changed at all when it reopens. I must tell you though that 2013 has been designated âThe year of Laceâ by the museum in honour of the Koppies Lace School and Emily Hobhouse. Thanks to the tremendous amount of work in organising it by our chairman Louis Oosthuizen, our guild, The Witwatersrand Lace Guild, is now making a large lace banner to be presented next March at the centenary celebrations. As nobody else volunteered, I have been delegated to make the monument itself in lace. It is a tall obelisk with 2 women and a dead child at the base and lower levels at each side depicting war scenes. It is quite a challenge. I have done the obelisk and plinth and am now taking a few deep breaths before tackling the female figures in Withof techniques. Other members are making individual flowers of the veld to surround it. I will send more information as it unfolds nearer to the time. Greetings from Janis Subject: Re: Margaretenspitzen is in South Africa! - 2 Dear Janis, Marji is a close friend of Tess Parrish here in Maine. Therefore, we have had information about Margaretenspitzen for quite some time. One member of the Lacemakers of Maine has been experimenting with it since early this year. She is not very experienced in the needlearts, but has had success. So, your friend should be able to work from the magazine. Yes, a book is in the works, but I do not want to add pressure to the matter of Marji's publishing that, so did not mention it. It seems that you are going through what Eastern Europe experienced in the 20th C. It is most unfortunate. I hope that your lace organization can request special access to the lace collection, or maybe even have some say in where it is housed in the future so that it can be accessed and studied. I am familiar with the history of South Africa. Mary Gostelow of England wrote a very informative book, published in 1976, Embroidery South Africa which included the history of the Boers. My library also has 2 books on whitework embroidery by Hetsie vanWyk of South Africa, from the 1970's. Very difficult to obtain at the time, but even back then I was a persistent book collector. Would you mind if I sent the museum information to Devon Thein? She works as a volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I think they would be interested in what is happening in South African museums. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 8/22/2012 4:28:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za writes: Hello Jeri Thank you for taking the trouble to write to me about the Piecework magazine. Actually, my friend Luise who is wanting to learn more about Margaretenspetzen was sent a copy of the article by a friend of hers and gave a copy to me. She has emailed to Maji Suhm and I believe that there will shortly be a book about it. I then remembered that Dora was trying to promote it some years back and sent me a knotted Fox in our bookmark exchange. I had it for quite a time but then gave it to my grandson as he took a fancy to it. I stick mainly to bobbin lace but Luise is crazy about all the more obscure types of lace and other crafts. Wish I could have gone to Caen too but I am saving hard to go to the next congress in Adelaide as I can visit my son and grandchildren in Melbourne on the same trip. In South Africa, we lacemakers are quite a close knit âfamilyâ as we have a government that is not interested in anything that is âEurocentricâ. Our president even gave a speech very recently, saying that we should âdecolonialise our museumsâ! I was at the Johannesburg Art Gallery recently and all the Dutch old masters have disappeared (hopefully in correct storage) as well as the lace collection. All have been replaced by African art. We are having a lace convention in Bloemfontein in October though, in honour of Emily Hobhouse. She started the first lace school in South Africa and did a lot of good works to help the destitute Boer
Re: [lace] Margaretenspitze
Dear Ilske, Please let us know which language the book was published in. The one from Marji will be in English. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 8/23/2012 3:25:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ilske.l.thom...@t-online.de writes: Dear Janis and All, just yesterday I got the new edition of the book from Lotte Heinemann about Margaretenspitze. There are a few new details, the pictures are in color and the book has now a spiral that it lays flat when open. Those who are interested write privately to me and I give you the addresses. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Announcement: Gems of European Lace, Met. Mus. of Art
If you can't get to the Met before the display closes, you can go to the Met's website, click the collections button, then put lace into the search field and bring up all sorts of lovely items. I found a piece of needle lace (probably Amelia Ars) that is not on display, but the resolution is so great that I can use it for my documentation in the future. Branwyn On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Avital spind...@gmail.com wrote: I'm posting this announcement on behalf of an Arachne who can't do it herself because she is a volunteer at the Met and therefore not permitted to advertise the exhibit. Further details are available on the Met's site: http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2012/european-lace or you can request a press release (PDF file) from Devon ( dmt11h...@aol.com). Avital Gems of European Lace, ca. 16001920 July 24, 2012January 13, 2013 The lace collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the finest in the country. On view in this exhibition are a variety of styles and techniques spanning a period of more than three hundred years. Handmade lace falls into two basic technical categories: needle and bobbin. Needle lace is built up from a single thread that is worked in a variety of looping, or buttonhole, stitches. Bobbin lace originated in braiding; it is woven from multiple threads, which are organized on individual bobbins. Beyond these two basic categories, lace terminology can be quite confusing. Many of the terms used today were developed by nineteenthcentury dealers who wished to distinguish historical lace styles for the purpose of describing them to customers. The majority of these terms derive from the name of the town or region where each style was first made. Depictions of lacemaking in genre paintings of the seventeenth century, as well as the numerous portraits of fashionably dressed men and women wearing lace accessories, demonstrate the importance of this fabric. The best-quality lace was extremely expensive due to the time-consuming and painstaking process of transforming fine linen thread into such intricate openwork structures. Rather surprisingly, the seventeenth-century English clergyman Thomas Fuller defended the wearing of lace and the nascent English lacemaking industry, writing that it cost nothing save a little thread descanted on by art and industry, and saveth some thousands of pounds yearly, formerly sent over to fetch lace from Flanders. In the late nineteenth century American women began to recycle antique lace for use in fashion. As a result, many women began to collect and study lace, taking an interest not only in its artistry and complexity of construction but also in the historical and cultural contexts in which it was made and used. Particularly prized among collectors were pieces associated with a royal provenance, to the extent that many such histories were invented for the profit of dealers. In large part, this collection reflects the interest of these women who became serious collectors and who graciously donated their collections to the Museum. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent -- Per pale argent and purpure, two phoenixes counterchanged sable and argent each rising from flames proper. It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength. - May Sarton Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.- Albert Einstein Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Trident Edge
I asked a few days ago about a Trident edge. Well, yesterday I was looking through some IOLI Bulletins - looking for something else, - and came a cross a series of articles on Figurative Reticella bobbin lace by Susan Lambiris - and there, beautifully worked and diagrammed was exactly what I was looking for! As I have already started the piece, and worked the trident how I thought it must be worked - similar to a piece in the little blue Cluny book by Rutgers, - I am very happy to fine I am correct, and that is how Susan shows to work these spikes. So - I haven't reinvented the wheel after all! But it is a nice feeling to find I am on the right track. Thank you to those who offered advice when I initially asked. Regards from Liz in cold, grey, damp and dismal Melbourne, Oz lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
