Subject: [lace] Bayeux Tapestry copy
Patricia wrote:
Who saw The Antiques roadshow tonight? A man had brought along his copy,
a
work in progress, of the B. tapestry. He saw little pieces of copies at a
reinactment event years ago and decided he could do it, too.
Hi Patricia
I saw it
I saw it too and was very impressed with what he'd done so far and his
dedication - two hours a day for the past fourteen years!
It should be added that it isn't the full height of the original - I'd say
about 15 inches (maybe a bit more), but very, very long. He bought a pieces
of material,
Dear All
In answer to your question Regina, yes men were lacemakers as well. As
regards the bobbin lace, I have read that they worked on the lace when they
had no work for themselves (they were probably farm labourers or the like)
or to help out their mothers, aunts, sisters, etc if there was a
I think our modern way of life, with anything to do with 'handicrafts'
being seen as a female preserve, has a lot to answer for!
Both boys and girls went to lace schools as children. When older, the
lads tended to take on agricultural labouring jobs that possibly paid
more, whilst the women
Thank you Jane. I knew that someone would have other information on the
role of men in the lacemaking industry.
Maureen
E Yorks UK
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Subject: [lace] Addendum 5
Dear Spiders
I have just caught up on a backlog of threads sent to me recently by several
of you lovely people and I have just added about three dozen new (and new-old)
threads to the list, so it's time for everyone
A great, g, g grandmother of my DH was down as a lacemaker on her marriage
banns but on all the later census was listed as an agricultural worker
although they had up to 12 children over the years. Her DH was an
agricultural worker always so do I assume that she brought up the children,
kept
Dear Friends,
This raises a question that has always puzzled me - does this truly mean
that the men themselves were lacemakers, or that they were employed in the
business of lace in the sense that they were middlemen who bought lace from
the women who were making it and then re-sold it?
Well
Dear Friends,
If anyone wants to know more about the emigrants, there is a website called
'The Australian Lacemakers of Calais' that will give far more information
that I have given here.
Gillian has written a marvelous book on this subject called: Well
Suited to the Colony
Gillian Kelly
I am sure that all who hold Lace and Lacemaking close to their heart will be
delighted to hear today's news
From The Lace Society via Gwen Comfort, the Membership Secretary
Subject: Heritage Crafts Association
Ladies
It is with great delight that I have to advise you that Angela won the
Marsh
I think that we should try to affix dates to our historical evidence. If I
understand Regina, she must be talking about male lacemaking between 1609
and 1674 when New Amsterdam ceased to exist under that name and became New
York. Several of the people who are citing the activities of family
Jean Jacques Rousseau made bobbin lace when he lived in Switzerland
from 1762 to 1765. See:
Gertrude Whiting: Swiss Lace Patterns. The Bulletin of the Needle and
Bobbin Club, Vol. 33 (1949).
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/nb49_lac.pdf
Vibeke in Copenhagen
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Alex
It doesn't go back quite that far. It was a Lace Guild convention workshop
with Bill Hornsby when each of us had a thread labelled as size 100 with
which we made a wrapping and he went on to explain why the results were all
rather different.
I do remember though in one of the guinea pig
David, did you know that you had ancestors that were Lacemakers before you
started to make lace , or did you start to make lace after you found out, just
wondered.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk
U.K.
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Sue Harvey 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
David, did you know that you had ancestors that were Lacemakers before you
started to make lace , or did you start to make lace *before* you found
out, just wondered.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk
U.K.
Yes, this is exciting news, Jean Mary. Guessing it was awarded on
Saturday, March 23, based on meeting registration form on Heritage Crafts web
site.
Does Angela have a surname? Asking because some of us know more than one
Angela in the international lace community.
Googling yielded
Jeri, Angela's surname is Brown and she is currently the Chairman of The Lace
Society. You can read more about her on their website at:
http://www.thelacesociety.org.uk/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=27Itemid=37
Dear all,
Fascinating topic. I speak with no authority other than Alex Stillwell told
me that a woman who was a lacemaker was in high demand as a wife because she
could bring in extra money. We must remember that for the lower classes it
was a hand to mouth existence, and so doing anything
This reply is for Regina, but all Arachne members will see how previous
experiences can influence present research methods, and perhaps help solve a
lace mystery.
Regina, I suggest you check the libraries of Historical Societies near your
home. Perhaps you saw the book in one of their
In my history research on lacemaking in the East Midlands there are numerous
mentions of men in the area making lace during the 18/19th centuries. The 1777
militia list includes a number of lace men, dealers and workers below the age
of 45years.
An article from the Northampton County
This lady was born in about 1816 and married in the late 1830s I think. Her
sister was also a lacemaker at that time and I am trying to remember if a
couple of their daughters were lacemakers. They lived not too far away
from honiton but of course because of Carol Mcfadgeons (sp) work and
I think the Lace schools taught boys as well as girls, and I seem to
remember the stories (Possibly in Thomas writes book The romance of the Lace
Pillow) that the schools charges 3 pence for girls to be taught, and 6 pence
for boys!!
Also he tells the wonderful story of the boy in Elstow who ran
Carolinadgg carolina...@aol.com wrote:
This put my mind to think about designing something in Witchstitch lace (
also called Hinojosa lace) I shared it with the list and this was the result:
Hi, Carolina
I remember this spider. It's really quite nice. It is abstract enough that I
can
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