[lace] The Digital Exhibition - Lace Identification: 7 examples
Hi everyone, Thank you for your feedback and encouraging words! I am glad that this work is of interest to you. As noticed by Susan, the TRC has many other textile related digital exhibitions. Also there is always some exhibition or activity in the premises. So if you happen to be somewhere near Leiden, you are always welcome to visit the center. Regarding Phil's question about lace machines there is a good book written by Pat Earnshaw which we have used during the research: "Lace Machines and Machine Laces". It consists of two volumes. The first one is a comprehensive guide about lace machines and the second is addition to the first volume and describes the latest technologies that appeared between the years those two volumes were published. A brief overview of lace machines development can be also found in other Pa Earnshaw's books: "Identification of Lace" and "How to Recognize Machine Laces" Best wishes, Olga - 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] Honiton? Beds?
Hi Devon et al., Yes, it's a straight lace so not Honiton. I think it's late 19th C and probably German because it looks like the bobbin lace I've seen in several reprints of late 19th / early 20th C German pattern books. I've blathered on on the ning site some more about it, and also why it's definitely not Honiton, so I won't repeat that here -- unless there is interest from anyone without access to the ning site? Let me know. Nancy Connecticut, USA On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:11 PM Adele Shaak wrote: > Iâm not sure, but Iâd say it was Beds because it not only doesnât have > raised & rolled work, it also doesnât have the coarse thread that I connect > with Honiton lace. Also it looks to me like it is made all-in-one - the > motifs and the ground made at the same time. > - 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] Lassen
Thank you to everyone who participated in the lassen discussion. It brought up more questions than answers but that is what historical topics tend to do. I do hope that some of our silent majority also found it interesting. If anyone has anything further to add then do please pipe up. Or if it has triggered your own questions then why not put it to the rest for their thoughts. For now, I am going to consider the error of my ways and battle on with a hot, dry, summer. Regards, Helen. - 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] Honiton? Beds?
I’m not sure, but I’d say it was Beds because it not only doesn’t have raised & rolled work, it also doesn’t have the coarse thread that I connect with Honiton lace. Also it looks to me like it is made all-in-one - the motifs and the ground made at the same time. Adele > On Jun 18, 2019, at 8:05 AM, Devon Thein wrote: > > Now that I am looking at the piece that is described as coming from > Honiton, I am wondering if the technique is actually Bedfordshire. What do > you think? > 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] Honiton? Beds?
Hello Devon, Sorry, but I cannot see the pictures you say you put in the laceioli identification site. Can you please put a link to go directly to your discussion. Thank you !!! What you ask and the answers given by the members are very welcome and interesting. Maria Greil a German living in Spain El mar., 18 jun. 2019 a las 17:10, Devon Thein () escribió: > Now that I am looking at the piece that is described as coming from > Honiton, I am wondering if the technique is actually Bedfordshire. What do > you think? > 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/ > - 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] Honiton? Beds?
Now that I am looking at the piece that is described as coming from Honiton, I am wondering if the technique is actually Bedfordshire. What do you think? 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/
[lace] Honiton?
There is a piece in the Met collection that is identified as coming from Honiton. I am trying to put technique information into the catalog. But I don't know how to characterize this piece. I just put photos on the laceioli.ning identification site. The number is 48.187.645. The background is unusual, and may remind one of some Honiton fillings. However, there is no raised or rolled work. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? What do you think? Was work like this done in Honiton? If so, what would we call it? By the way, the pieces is a handkerchief with a join that does not go through the corner. 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/
[lace] Bucks corners (was Lassen)
Dear Nancy I suspect there is a misunderstanding. In her 'The Technique of Bucks Point Lace' p.75 Pam Nottingham states that: 'In the past very few patterns had corners as lace was worked by the length round a pillow. most of the corners for the narrow, traditional edgings have been designed within the last 30 years [writing in 1981] to satisfy the demands of the modern lacemaker.' She is referring just to those narrow edgings which would have been bought by the yard and mounted round a handkerchief with a gathered frill to get round the corner. The method devised to make worked corners on them is the familiar methods of using a mirror and hoping for the best, using a mirror and adjusting to be workable, using a mirror and adjusting to look good, or the asymmetrical corner, which when successful works well and looks good, but is far harder to do! this makes more sense for the modern lacemaker who does not in general make yard after yard but would make just sufficient and make it to measure the handkerchief. P. 136 of the book has a superb 19 century made handkerchief, but a much wider border. Anne Buck's 'Thomas Lester, his Lace and the East Midlands Industry 1820-1905' has many show handkerchiefs with wide borders and elaborate corners, mainly Beds, but some Bucks, including on p.26 a partly worked draft, showing how designers worked then. It has a central reverse and symmetrical corner. The pattern features are drawn, and look as though a mechanical method was used to produce symmetry - tracing paper no doubt. The designer has written 'Honey Comb' and 'pt' where they are to be used, and has constructed geometrically the honeycomb and point ground on one side only, leaving the other for later, presumably, but put the markings for tallies in the ground, and for mayflowers (cloth stitch squares) in the honeycomb - not always in the right places for the latter! leonard...@yahoo.com In London, less said about the weather the better Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:25:32 -0400 From: "N.A. Neff" Subject: Re: [lace] Lassen question 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 surveyed handkerchiefs in the Met's on-line catalog, and there are lots of flat corners from the 19th C but in other types of lace. I saw only a couple of joins, but the pictures aren't detailed enough to tell whether there are joins hidden in the gathered part around a corner. - 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/
