Re: [lace] Belgian color code
Dear all I did Chantilly year 1 at the Kantcentrum in July this year, Lieve Pollet uses turquoise for pairs that are carried with the gimp in Chantilly. She did say it wasn't part of the official colour coding. It does make it clearer that the pairs aren't thrown out which it would appear if a line just stopped. I had no problem telling turquoise from blue or green, orange (cttt) from red (ctct) in the ground on this lace was a totally different story Susan -- Susan Roberts Sent from my iPhone Website: www.susanroberts.info > On 18 Sep 2017, at 22:04, jo wrote: > > Thanks fort this exhaustive list. Never heard of turquoise, seems to me it > could be hard to tell apart from green and blue, colors may present > themselves differently on another screens or another printers. What is a > turnover stitch in terms of ctp (cross/twist/pin) anyway? > > Jo > https://github.com/d-bl/GroundForge/wiki/ > > - > 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: Belgian color code
That’s, probably, because they're are familiar with the *Danish* colour code, which is a simplified version of BCC (no orange, brown, or turquoise). It does have the blue for plaits, but plaits are used less in the Danish laces. Greet, what’s turn-over stitch? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) > On Sep 18, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Adele Shaak wrote: > > Thank you, Greet, for the extended colour code. Most of the lacemakers I know > are familiar with the meanings for green, purple, red, and possibly yellow, > but most do not know the other ones. > - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] IOLI Magazines - a Review Flax
I am dragging DH to Belgium next year, and plan to show him the Flax and Lace Museum. I was there with my son Tom in 2009, and it knocked my socks off. I understand the museum has moved from out of town to central Kortrijk, so I'm sure the displays will not all be the same. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where the temperature is pleasant, shorts weather, no rain, but far too many clouds. And my Newfoundland dog has cancer, had a leg amputated, and now isn't eating. "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." Devon wrote: Regarding the one about the Flax >Museum. I know I took photos of this geneology and now I cannot find any of >the photos from that visit to the Flax museum, I do not even know if the >wonderful display is still up. I >looked at some photos of the Flax museum and it seems it may be in a different >building, or possibly remounted with newer museum techniques. Maybe someone in >the vicinity of Kortrijk could check it out. It was a great didactic display. >Devon > - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] Belgian color code
Thanks fort this exhaustive list. Never heard of turquoise, seems to me it could be hard to tell apart from green and blue, colors may present themselves differently on another screens or another printers. What is a turnover stitch in terms of ctp (cross/twist/pin) anyway? I started the discussion to apply logical colors in the web application I have published and still under further development. Like the black-and-white version there are other variations in other contexts. Susan Roberts wrote an article in lace and on her website about a multicolor and red/blue system. So it would be wise to have a legend along with published patterns. Allowing, even encouraging, unorthodox stitches and both open and closed stitches in GroundForge I usually have to decide on the colors based on the core of the stitch. Twist marks are a headache on their own and I'm working on more consistent colors. Both are the issues from a longer list I'm currently working on. Don't hold your breath but also don't let it stop you from playing and experimenting. Jo https://github.com/d-bl/GroundForge/wiki/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] IOLI Magazines - a Review
I am glad that people liked the article. Regarding the one about the Flax Museum. I know I took photos of this geneaology and now I canât find any of the photos from that visit to the Flax museum, although I have photos from other places that I visited on that same trip. It was about the time that I switched from film to digital, and yet I have digital of the other places. Very frustrating. I donât even know if the wonderful display is still up. I looked at some photos of the Flax museum and it seems it may be in a different building, or possibly remounted with newer museum techniques. Maybe someone in the vicinity of Kortrijk could check it out. It was a great didactic display. Devon - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Belgian color code
Thank you, Greet, for the extended colour code. Most of the lacemakers I know are familiar with the meanings for green, purple, red, and possibly yellow, but most do not know the other ones. Sometimes we have long discussions about it at my lace club. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > Green: half stitch > Purple: linen stitch > Red: double stitch > Yellow: gimp > Yellow in Cluny lace: Venetian plait > yellow leaf, square or triangle: tally > Orange: Dieppe stitch > Brown: twisted half stitch or enclosed pin stitch > Blue: plait > Turquoise: turn-over stitch > > In tulle laces, the ground can be drawn in green, orange and brown. This > depends on the kind of tulle lace. > ( texte Veerle Meersschaut) - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] IOLI Magazines - a Review
Speaking of The Bulletin and travel articles by Devon Thein, yesterday I was reading an issue from Spring 2005. The Article "Flax Madness" was just as entertaining as the recent article. In 2005, Devon described a trip to the Nationaal Vlas, Kant & Linnenmuseum in Belgium. The part that really got my attention was mention of a "Genealogy of Lace". She said, "It was a massive family tree of laces, starting on the bottom with reticella and passementerie. Ribbons flowed from these origins connecting other laces to them. They were aligned horizontally according to the year." I wonder if, what with modern technology, that chart has been translated to electronic format or published in some form so it is available to those who are unable to drop into the Linnenmuseum for a visit? I'm sure a lot of work went into creating it. It would be such a shame if it was lost. Jean Reardon Western Pennsylvania, USA - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] IOLI Magazines - a Review
Thanks to Liz in Australia for commenting on delivery of two very late IOLI Bulletins.  The second, the Summer 2017 IOLI Bulletin, features the new editor's work.  Thank you to Prabha Ramakrishnan.  Your editorship is much appreciated here in my lace research center.  The cover features a fancy work bag embellished with tatting.  I really liked the inside front cover that showed  photos from each article in the bulletin.  There is a lot of color in this issue, and it is printed on quality paper making photos a joy to examine under magnification.  The issue has a Battenberg lace heart pattern from Loretta Holzberger, a Cantu lace heart pattern from Lia Baumeister-Jonker, and a beginner bobbin lace heart pattern developed for a Young Lacemaker Program sponsored by the Minnesota Lace Society.  Any of these would make up into a nice Christmas lace Arachne card.  The last will be so quickly completed that a lace maker might like to make several to tie onto gifts and be used later as a small decoration.  Any of these can be tied around a button or sewn to a garment when you go out to demonstrate lace making.  Wear lace, please.  Jean Leader has provided a bobbin lace pattern to decorate the neckline of a dress.  This reminded of a class Devon and I attended at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in NYC decades ago, before Devon began to volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum and when I was still making lace.  The class was about how to make a collar to fit an existing dress, and was taught by the late Radmilla Zuman.  We often ask you to wear lace, as Liz in Australia does.  Why not use this idea to make lace to decorate something as simple as a tee shirt?  True treasures for me are always information that adds to documented lace history.  Devon has very masterfully described a Lace Study tour of Spain, where she and 9 traveling companions pursued a rare gold lace called Frisado de Valladolid.  So far, only 24 examples from about 3 centuries ago have been identified and documented.  Perhaps more will surface now that Frisado has become a focus of new study.  This fascinating 9 page article is amply illustrated with color photos.  It is followed by a lovely 3 page article about a two week lace tour of Sicily that Gil Dye took with a small group of retired academics and their wives.  Liz described the Randy Houtz tatting article.  There are additional subjects to single out for mention...  An article about lace stamp collecting, and an article about Mary Eliza Fitch who was an early 20th century American designer of tatting and crochet patterns.  The cover illustration comes from her design for a fancy work bag.  Ladies used to carry small in-progress fancy work in such bags when they visited each other.  Fancy needlework tools and thimbles some people collect today were developed for these leisurely social occasions.  There is a comprehensive bibliography, or search Mary Eliza Fitch tatting and crochet for more information and patterns.  If this Summer 2017 issue is an indication of what is to come from Prabha, then the Editorship is in very good hands.  There are lace lovers whose only connection to IOLI is the quarterly bulletin.  Hopefully, this will encourage them to renew membership and to share lace within their local communities.   Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center   - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Belgian color code
> Nancy wrote > > I agree with Antje. Thanks for posting the extended list of color codes, > Greet. The Belgian color code is pure genius, and has been so informative > for me while reading working diagrams of the Flemish laces. It's one of the > best innovations in lace-making in the last century! (Can you tell? I like > it. :-) > Personally for I always use the black and white code of torchon and tule. This code was developed by Henk Hardeman for the Dutch Lace Education in a time that colored copies were very expensive. In this the simple torchon ground is simply drawn are diagonal lines with dots on the crossings. I like that because the diagonal lines show the path the pairs are going. In the color code the green lines are going around the dot and don’t follow the path of the pairs. But surely the simple is the code you are familiar with. Happy lacing, Gon Homburg from a at this moment sunny Amsterdam, the Netherlands - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Belgian color code
I agree with Antje. Thanks for posting the extended list of color codes, Greet. The Belgian color code is pure genius, and has been so informative for me while reading working diagrams of the Flemish laces. It's one of the best innovations in lace-making in the last century! (Can you tell? I like it. :-) Nancy, usually in Connecticut USA, but right now in Milan leaving for my gelato fix, before the first meeting the Lace Tour of Italy group in the lobby at 15:00! - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Belgian color code
Thank you vey much for your information. I am a fond follower of the Belgian colour code and think that it is a great invention. Knowing how to read it, we can understand many books and try many techniques we do not know, because the colours of the lines show us all! It is also very useful to take notes of what we are doing, or to explain others how to work this and that. Greetings from the centre of Spain. Antje González www.vueltaycruz.es - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Belgian color code
Dear Arachne friends, Maybe this will help too: Before the invention of the color code, learning lace making was a slow process. Thanks to the Bruges color code, this goes a lot faster. The color code was developed shortly before the first world war in the Bruges lace school and belonged to the lesson program. Ever since the rise of the making bobbin lace as a leisure activity in the sixties of the last century, the color code has gradually conquered much of Europe. On the work schedule, which indicates the wire run, the crosses of the pairs are indicated in a color that determines what kind of stitch should be made. This has made learning lace making much simpler. Anyone who has learned to read fluently the color code lacemaking during the base year, can afterwards in a quick way learn a new kind of lace. Each stitch, gimp, plait or tally has his own color. The lace maker only must follow the work schedule and, thanks to the colors, knows what to do. This is the color code used in Belgium and in a large part of Europe. Green: half stitch Purple: linen stitch Red: double stitch Yellow: gimp Yellow in Cluny lace: Venetian plait yellow leaf, square or triangle: tally Orange: Dieppe stitch Brown: twisted half stitch or enclosed pin stitch Blue: plait Turquoise: turn-over stitch In tulle laces, the ground can be drawn in green, orange and brown. This depends on the kind of tulle lace. ( texte Veerle Meersschaut) Happy lacemaking. Greet Rome Brugge2018 vzw www.worldlacecongressbrugge2018.be - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
