Bev wrote:
Hi everyone, and thank you Janice for the nice report - yes quiet list
- so... what's everyone else doing in lace?
Well, a week ago I finished the final piece I had on the go from the
Tonder class I took from Gunvor Jorgensen at the PNWC conference in
June. I've sewn the 3 sample
Kant Magazine number 3 from Brugge
Bev - is that the magazine that is published by LOKK? If not, who
publishes it? Enquiring minds want to know.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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I have googled and saw lots of pretty lace, a few bobbins and no
definitions on the size of the pins.
Generally Tonder uses very fine, long pins. I'm no Tonder expert, but I
feel the finer pins are better because you use very fine thread and you
often close your pins (ie, C-T-T, pin,
Hi Irene:
They look like they are having a great time despite being in a
torture
class. Does anyone remember this conference and class? I'm curious!
I was at that conference, too. I can't quite recall what I was taking,
though I remember being glad it wasn't Torchon Torture! (Though the
Hello everyone:
Just wanted to announce that the Richmond Area Lacemakers (near
Vancouver, BC, Canada) will be having a Lace Day on Sunday, November
19th. Normally I wouldn't bother the list with this news, but we do
want to get the word out to people in Seattle, Victoria, and other
places
I have been making leaves in the Brioude style for quite a while now.
However, I can't bring my right thumb over to pick up the bobbins.
I've been following this discussion in some bewilderment because I
could have sworn there weren't any instructions in my Cluny de Brioude
book that involve
Bev wrote:
...and may I say 'thankyou' to Jean for taking the time and trouble to
post detailed directions for making a leaf the Cluny de Brioude way.
I'd like to say thanks, too. I can finally envision it, and will give
it a try very soon. I did notice that in the instructions for the final
Here's my question: I've been cautioned that with this method there is
a
risk that the pricking might not stay exactly vertical but might
eventually work its way slightly diagonal.
Is this really a problem/risk? If so, how can I avoid it?
Hi Barbara:
I've made 2 lengths of 5 metres on a
Lenore wrote:
Wow! Can anyone tell me more about this little book? Any suggestions
as to where I could find the English translation?
Since Les dentelles aux fuseaux just means Bobbin Lace, I suppose
there could be two books with the same title, but in the foreword to
the translation of
We don't have a lot of fireworks around here this time of year but my
neighbours said it with pots and pans and their voices. Oh, and the odd
car horn. We do have four huge fireworks displays in the summer, put on
by different countries, and last year when one started with a giant
BANG at 10
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
Hi Everybody:
The prices Jean got from amazon.co.uk for the 50 Heirloom Buttons to
Make book show how you need to shop around when you're on the Internet.
I popped the title into http://www.abebooks.com and got three results,
one here in Canada for $32.95 (about 15 British pounds) and one
This subject came up a few years ago, and I think we concluded that
Anchor Liana is sold in North America as Opera, (by Coats and Clark
in Canada; I don't know if the same manufacturer is listed in the US)
Opera is widely available - it's even at my local Michael's.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
American English they use the French word 'paillettes' and in Canadian
English, we use the British 'spangles'?
I'd use paillettes for the large plastic sequins, particular the very
big ones with the holes off-centre, and I'd use spangles only for
metal-based sequins. (True spangles are made
Hello, everybody:
In many (if not most) countries the *intent* of the original law is also
considered before an action is deemed to be illegal.
For example, the law against reselling without the original cover would mean
that if your cover fell off or were somehow destroyed you were out of
I've never seen anything like them, but I'm wondering if they aren't
some kind of peg used in all-wood carpentry. You see some of them have
metal bits married in, and in shape they're more like commonly
available metal nails and pegs than they are like lace bobbins! Can't
think what the
Hi everybody:
I am trying to figure out what type(s) of lace would be appropriate for
an English lady's evening costume for the period 1796 - 1817. Does
anybody have any thoughts? I know blonde lace was popular but I don't
know how to make it and I don't have enough time to learn.
I am
, so we see that even the
not-so-terribly-grand might have relatives with connections all over
Europe. My story is that somebody could easily have relatives in
northern Europe who sent or brought over with them some presents of
lace.
On 6/20/07, Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
My main question here is in regard to the Valenciennes book. Will it
or will it not help and guide me in doing Binche lace? Whew, that was
a
lot!
My understanding is that historically, Valenciennes, Binche and
Flanders are cousins, all descended from Old Flanders. When you do Old
Flanders
Hi Again, everybody:
I just wanted to add a bit of clarification to my post - I said Binche
doesn't have much of a ground - that's because I look on individuals
peas/snowflakes as motifs, not as part of an overall ground. So what
some call snowflake ground I call filled with snowflake motifs,
Hi Everybody:
Yesterday as I became more relaxed with the stich, I began to wonder if the
order of
placing pins and twists makes a difference.
I've experimented with different sequences and I believe it does make a minute
difference in the lace, but that doesn't mean one sequence is
A few books with good beginner needlelace instructions:
Needlelace by Pat Earnshaw, in the Merehurst Embroidery Skills series.
Outlines and Stitches: A Guide to Design by Pat Earnshaw
Needle Lace: Techniques Inspiration by Jull Nordfors Clark
The Art of Lacemaking by Ann Collier
The Earnshaw
does anyone know of any lace pattern for a bat (flying variety, not
sporting)? Any size, any technique.
Hi Helen:
I have some books
I took some looks
I saw a cat
The cat was fat
But not a bat
And that was that
I saw more cats
I saw some hats
I saw some mats
But never bats
I saw no rats
I
A source we've found in Adelaide is the underfelt for underneath the
cotton cover of an ironing board - I know, some of you don't iron
anymore...
Hi Shirley:
Oh, we iron - but here in Canada they put a strange yellow synthetic
foam under the ironing board cover. In
Hi -
Does anybody know if the dates for the 2008 PNWLC have been set yet? I think
the Seattle group is hosting it, but there's nothing on their website and I'm
not sure who the contact person is. I'm trying to register for a course next
summer but I don't want it to conflict with the PNWLC if
Is anybody else getting a chuckle out of the fact that 1983 is now
vintage ?
I taught myself lacemaking in 1981, and the first bobbins I made look
very much like these. You could still get lots of large wooden beads in
the hobby stores (remember the wooden beaded curtains of the 1970s?)
and
While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my Dad's side, I found
census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire and all
the female members of the families (there were several groups) were
lacemakers! snipWhat I don't know is the type of lace that would
have been made in
Jenny wrote:
...1871 census shows very few Braybrooks in Keyston, Ancestry.co.uk
has the place name indexed as Keystone, and of the women I looked at
by that name I only found one 14yr. old girl as a lacemaker called
Braybrook. Other Braybrooks were spread around the area at this
census.
I've tried rayon for embroidery - EVIL thread! Wound up chucking the
project. Rayon is a silk substitute, very slippery. I suppose if
you've
used silk thread, maybe rayon would work in BL, but it won't have much
body.
Frankly if it was me, maybe I'd try a small sample piece, but probably
1) Winding bobbins
2) Final sewing together
3) Tallies (leaves, squares, triangles, any other type)
Hi Helen:
What's the most technically difficult for me is sewings in fine thread
- like Honiton.
But what I dislike the most is one of the easiest things in all bobbin
lace - Torchon fans.
These days, if I ever make lace for something like a hankie, I tend to
hem the hankie separately (either by machine or a rolled hem by hand)
and attach the lace by overcasting (by hand). It's not as pretty, but
I can tak the lace off easily.
I do this, too, for much the same reason. It's not
We seem to have several judges on the list - I wonder, what would be
your thoughts if you were faced with:
1. a superb original artistic vision and fantastic original design, in
either a simple lace well made, or a difficult lace not expertly made
or
2. A tour de force of technical skill in
Tamara wrote:
So here goes a question: What do you call a ground which is
constructed
as follows:
Whole Stitch (CTCT, or TCTC), Pin, Whole Stitch...
And Bev replied:
I call it CTCT, pin, CTCT ground ... ;)\
I'm with Bev. And I've had at least one teacher who also describes her
*Yellow* starched ruffs and bands? *Yellow* ruff (on Mrs Turner)?
Yellow??? What gives here, does anyone know? Does Planche mean
gilt (metallic), or yellowed linen? And, if linen, how come it was
allowed to get yellow? This is the first time I've *ever* heard of
yellow lace and here he seems
How many yards were used to make a ruff?
Hi Elizabeth:
The pattern of a ruff was similar to a box pleat, if the edges of the
pleat were rounded instead of ironed flat. That would mean you'd need a
minimum of 3 times the outside measure of your ruff. So, if your neck
were 18 inches around
All the Carickmacross instructions say to wash the net after the thick
thread has been
stitched down and silk fabric does not wash well. Is it strictly
necessary to
wash the piece?
I'm wondering *why* they want you to wash it. Can't be for
pre-shrinkage, since you've already worked on it.
I believe that Lenka left someone
else in charge of her classes in Canada
That someone is Jay ... Rudolph? I think that's her last name. She
taught at IOLI in Montreal and I think at Ithaca. If anyone wants her
e-mail I can provide it. Just email me off list.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west
Hi:
It's not one of the options you suggested, but I'd make one long piece
and mitre it around the corners. It's historically true and there's no
way you're going to wind up having to fiddle the lace into a space to
large or too small for it (working on the theory that sometimes the
length
Now then do you hand sew or machine sew
your lace on to material.
I was told once that it is better to machine sew than have a loose
piece of
lace in your workbox but then while at Laceday last year we had
Biggins there
and she said she always machine sews hers.
I use small handstitches to
I would have thought that the 80 would have been
thicker than the 100 but it wasn't, am I then right in thinking that
the /2 or
/3 makes a lot of difference and it is that that gives you the
thickness not
the first number.
Hi Wendy:
Both numbers combine to give you the thickness. Here's
Hi:
One question - when you say it's old, how old do you mean? 1720? 1820?
1920? (I once had a customer tell me her book was very old indeed - her
grandmother gave it to her mother, her mother gave it to her, and now
her mother was gone ... I thought it had to be at least 1880, and when
she
Hi:
I'm sure the bobbins are stilettos, much used for Ayrshire Embroidery
which was so popular from the 1840s on into the 20th century. The
stilettos are used to start eyelet holes, then you embroider around the
inside of the hole which tends to pull it out of shape, and finally you
finish
I don't recall seeing any responses to this post - maybe everybody else
is flummoxed, too? I think it's part of a fishing rod - possibly you
stuck a reed on the spindle part to make a full-sized rod - but I'm
just going on my imagination and have no real knowledge.
I certainly can't think of
Hi Spiders:
A couple of things to add to this discussion.
Regarding bobbin weight: different woods have different weights and
wood that is old enough to have completely dried out can be
surprisingly light. So just because a wooden bobbin is big doesn't
necessarily mean it is any heavier than
When this subject came up in the past, someone reported that they made
a very large bolster pillow -- a long, wide cylinder -- to work on. I
don't remember what she used for the core .. perhaps something like
large popcorn canisters or a cardboard tube that flooring material was
wrapped on.
Judging from this website:
http://wmboothdraper.com/TapeLace/tapelace.htm
it seems to be a kind of twill tape with a chevron pattern, used for
binding the edges of uniforms, etc.
It doesn't seem to be something worth strutting about, and certainly
isn't what we would call lace.
Adele
North
Hi Spiders:
I can't see the newsagents stocking a German language magazine
It doesn't hurt to check - I was surprised to discover that my local
magazine store now carries all the Burda magazines in German (Anna,
Verena, Burda, Sandra ...) as well as other German needlework/sewing
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Laurie Waters
lswaters...@comcast.net wrote:
I give up. What is ebay item 120365023152?
It is described as a tire-fil. I googled tire-fil and came across
DMC's french website, which explains the matter - this is what we call
waste canvas embroidery - you get
Further to my last - this tool could be used in lacemaking if you're
making the kind of needle lace where you need to withdraw threads from
woven fabric before making lace using the threads you've left behind. I
can't quite remember the name of the lace just now - the Italians did
it early in
Have you somehow blocked the site on your computer?
Just so David doesn't feel all alone - it doesn't work for me either. I
get a message telling me to try going to margorsson.com and search from
there, but when I do I can't find it.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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To
So, I
went into the archives, and lo and behold, after
waiting many hours for the archives to update,
the URL there shows up with the symbol.
http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/
Wow. I bow to your computer genius, Debbie. I clicked on the address,
selected Julian's message and then
I think it might be a darning egg.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west cost of Canada)
On Saturday, February 28, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
How about this for a lace bobbin?
http://tinyurl.com/crnjay
or search for item number 170306947189
The seller says I've been to watch the
Can I ask others what sort of size they usually have the cloth centre.
My bedfordshire one seems too tiny to me.
Hi Sue:
Usually people think of the overall size they want the hanky, and
subtract the width of the lace to find out the size of the middle bit.
This can result in a hanky
Hi All:
but was told no, it is schnee (rhymes with see in English). My
guess is that it is somewhere in between...??? I hate to
mispronounce things ))-: Of course, I'm sure there must be
regional differences in pronunciation in Germany just as there are in
the US
I learned Standard
I have a quick question:
I am thinking of doing some Chantilly. In the book I have, they used
250 unboiled silk for the ground and 2 threads of 120 boiled silk for
the gimp. I think their gimp looks a little bit too thin but I also
don't know what the size comparison is between these two
Hi:
With some laces, particularly simple designs where you are on a grid
system, it is quite possible for several people to independently design
the same thing. That is nothing more than coincidence and it is not
breaking the law. You don't have to worry about it. You don't have to
know
Hi:
S and Z refer to the direction of the twist in the finished thread. You
can tell the direction by the way the letters S and Z are written - it
refers to the direction of the central part of the letter. If you're
spinning raw fibre and your wheel is turning clockwise, the twists are
going
In the bookbinding world, parchment is well known as practically
indestructible. My local library has a parchment book from about 1340
that is still in very good condition. Dryness is one of the few things
that can make parchment brittle enough to snap. I think those old
lacemakers knew what
I think, in both cases, it was smoke smell rather than musty.
In the replies to this problem there seem to be people who've had
success and people who haven't, and I am wondering if it isn't the
people trying to get rid of smoke smell who are successful, and those
trying to get rid of a
Hi:
I seem to recall that there was an article in one of the magazines
about this crochet-work a couple of years ago, with the information
that the book was in the works. At the time there was a link to the
magazine's website, where I saw a fantastic crocheted creation based on
these
I hope someone can help me.
On p. 48 of Dentelles Normandes: La Blonde de Caen there is a quote
from a letter dated March, 1779. The writer is trying to persuade
someone to persuade the queen of France, Marie-Antoinette, to buy more
blonde lace. Apparently she prefers something called gaze,
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Based on the replies I've gotten so far, I'm going with the notion that
the letter refers to a needle lace appliqued to machine-made net, the
Brussels Needlepoint lace that according to my sources was the basis
for the 1860's resurrection called point de
I just listened to this - it was very interesting. I'll let Malvary
tell you about it, since I didn't hear it from the beginning.
Once the CBC gets the program up in a few days you'll be able to listen
to the program online, at
http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/ .
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
Bev wrote:
Perhaps they meant making lace by hand commercially. For their living.
Yes, that's exactly what they meant. And the report may have been
advertised as being about the last place in the world etc., etc.,
but the report includes information on the competition the Indians get
from
My two cents: I'm thinking these pieces are probably machine-made. They're
really very big (for the non-metric, the small is 12 x 18 and the large is
about 63 x 18) and the type of design makes me think they're later rather
than earlier.
The larger piece makes me wonder about monograms - the
Hi:
I have a little problem with any craft that involves cutting up
something that is not easily replaceable. In hindsight the destruction
can be terrible. For example, many very early books (even some
illuminated medieval manuscripts) were destroyed in the 19th century
because it was a
Hi Alice:
Ouch. So sorry this happened. The suggestion of contacting the manufacturer is
really good, because what you need to use to take it off depends on what glue
was used in the dots. I've found (trying to get sticky stuff off of old books)
that some things come off with rubbing alcohol,
I started out tying. When you're a beginner there are so many occasions when
your hitch undoes itself and your bobbin suddenly leaps off your pillow and
clatters onto the floor, and it helps so much if you can just haul it in again
on its little tether.
Then I found out what a pain it is to
It is a while since I have done any wire lace but I was lucky enough to have
a
class with Lenka Suchenak.
By the way, Lenka's URL is http://www.lenkas.com (click on the image to go into
the site)
She has some great photos on her website, and on some of the very close-up ones
you can
Hi Dianne:
I went through this a few years ago. I saw the pumpkin-seed tallies and liked
them, too, and now I make them all the time. The thread path is, of course, the
same as with any other way of making tallies; it is only the method that
creates the distinctive look.
Set Up: threads: 1 2
Hi Tess and other concerned lacemakers:
Not to worry, the man doesn't make lace 23 hours a day. He makes it until 11pm
or midnight. The French use the 24-hour clock, and so he says 23 hours
instead of 11 pm
The announcer refers to the whole series of programs as travaux a l'aiguilles
because
Thanks for the link, Bev - very interesting history of ballroom dancing. Nearer
the top of the page is a picture of people dancing the minuet, and that
reminded me.
At the last meeting of the local Austen Society group, we had a review of Mr.
King's rules of conduct for (if I remember
I am going with a netting shuttle even though I can not find a similar one in
any of my books.
There's a nice picture of someone using a similar shuttle here:
http://jpgmag.com/photos/284194
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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Hi Nancy:
Statistical analysis isn't my thing, but I do have some thoughts:
- Only a small number of people buy single topic lace-making books, but when
bobbin lace is included in a book with a wider-ranging content - take Weldon's
Encyclopedia of Needlework, for instance; or de Dillmont's, -
Hi Everybody:
If you're wondering: there is a handy paper weight converter at this link:
http://www.paper-papers.com/paper-weights.html
The system in use in North America measures the weight of (usually) 500 sheets
of paper - so obviously exactly the same paper will weigh a different amount if
Hi Everybody:
There is one kind of fabric which we in the UK call calico, and I believe in
the US it is called muslin.
There is another kind of fabric, whose US name I don't know; in the UK we
call it muslin; it is made with finer threads (so finer) woven further
apart (so coarser) than
Hi Everybody:
An elderly lacemaker told me this story back in 1981. She was interviewed by a
reporter for a special interest article on her lacemaking and had her biggest
work-in-progress on display, a Beds piece with hundreds of bobbins attached.
The pillow had to be moved for a photo, and
Hi Everybody:
Probably Westwood - Helena B-C. wears Westwood a lot. She loves to look
dramatic and rather odd and Westwood is just the designer for that. Yes, those
are Torchon spiders, wildly enlarged and photo-transfered, on the sleeves. Very
appropriate for H B-C's personality, I think!
Hi:
It's just so nice to see lace being used, isn't it. Mila Kunis and Scarlett
Johanson also wore lace dresses. Possibly some others did, but there are good
photos of these dresses on the BBC website at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12593168 I like that they also
have good
I see the lace pattern is embroidered onto the background fabric in metallic
thread with Swarovski crystals. Interesting - that might be something fun to do
with the line drawings from Le Pompe.
According to the currency converter, GBP595 is CDN$945. Let me see, if I made
one purse a week -
Hi Everybody:
Alex - looking forward to that book of yours!
Haven't seen this Lace News thing so am only following the discussion in
ignorance, but I have two thoughts and one bit of new information:
1. Are we sure that the lace being labelled Regency means it was made in the
Regency? I'm not
I would thoroughly dampen the lace, then pin the pricking onto a pillow or a
piece of styrofoam, or the ironing board if it would fit, cover the pricking
with plastic and then pin the lace back into the original pinholes. It's
easiest if you pin a bit on one side and then a bit on the opposite
Hi Everybody:
Are you sure you want to store your bobbins in with these--off-gassing
all
Here (from this website:
http://www.newsletter.kaijewels.com/silver-tarnish.htm) is a description of
the tarnish-resist tabs:
Companies like 3M also make anti-tarnish strips that need to placed near
Well, the worth of anything can be defined at what people will pay for it. If
somebody pays $275 for the book, then I guess that's what it's worth, but it
would be a surprise to me.
When I saw the listing I looked up the title on www.abebooks.com, I found four
copies, all listed between $213
Hi All:
It is the RSN (Royal School of Needlework) press release that described the
Carrickmacross technique, and I guess they know what they're talking about.
I wonder, though, if there is some confusion between the lace used on the veil
and the lace used on the dress, which don't look like
However, if the price of the item was based on it being hand-made, and
it wasn't, for sure I would make a fuss :)
I agree. Some people will still think it must be hand-made because the label
says so, but some people will think anything.
Years ago I saw a beautiful wool sweater that was
Hi Everybody:
Are there any working diagrams for the patterns in the book or, is it mostly
just a book of prickings with a
picture of the finished lace
I got my book on Friday and was agreeably surprised by how nice it is, and how
big (it's A4 size, about 8-1/4 x 12 - somehow I was
When I wrote about the effect of dyes on thread fibers, I expected to start
a discussion, and have been successful. I know you both (and many
others) have much experience, with threads and dyes.
Hi Everybody:
I haven't noticed this in embroidery cottons, but I can speak about wool. I
http://www.weissgallery.com/catalogue/weiss25years.htm
Hi Everybody:
This morning an old friend called me up. She is getting rid of her lace books,
and wanted to give hers to me, knowing I would keep what I wanted and find a
good home for the rest. I nipped up and came away with 3 small boxes
Hi David:
For those of you who recently purchased this book, I'm talking about the
pricking on p27. If you look at the centres of the larger flowers you will
see some short lines radiating out from it. I am wondering whether perhaps
they are meant to be raised tallies, or just short
Hi David:
For those of you who recently purchased this book, I'm talking about the
pricking on p27. If you look at the centres of the larger flowers you will
see some short lines radiating out from it. I am wondering whether perhaps
they are meant to be raised tallies, or just short
Hi Everybody:
chip carving became so popular in later Victorian times as a great many
ladies-of-leisure took it up as a hobby.
Now there is a thought ... Lace maker ladies carving their own bobbins?
MMM!
I just thought to mention - although many women have no doubt whittled their
Quandary:- should I remove this paint or might it be original? If not
original should I leave it as part of the bobbins' history? ...
I don't think you're doing anything wrong by trying to make the bobbin look
better to you, whether the paint is original or not - after all your opinion
and
Hi Everybody:
Jacquie wrote:
Somewhere along the progession of this discussion there seems to have crept
in a slight inference that speed equals inferior work. snip for most
people who work fast, it is because they are handling
the bobbins efficiently and moving their fingers faster.
Hi Clay:
Thanks for the reminder about the webshots page. I admit, if people just post a
message saying I put some shots up I don't immediately know where the shots
are - on the Arachne Webshots page? On the person's own page? Somewhere else? -
and I mentally set it aside as something I'll
Hi Clay:
I think that gown is lovely, too. But I think it's a printed fabric. If you
zoom in and look down at the sides of the dress where the dress hits the floor,
you can see that there is a sheer black fabric overlay, and the lace is on
that. I think it's printed in gold on a black organza
I found the designer - Carolina Herrera, (in the pre-fall 2011 collection)
and have found several articles describing this as chantecaille lace.
I've never heard of chantecaille lace, and cannot find a definition for the
word chantecaille in either French or English online dictionaries. Has
Oh, and there's a much better picture of it at Vogue:
http://www.vogue.com.au/fashion+shows/galleries/pre+fall+2011+carolina+herrera,11953
Now I'm also thinking it's embroidered. You can clearly see thin lines of gold
thread between some of the tallies and here and there in the motifs, and the
Hi Everybody:
My thoughts:
You need a top quality thread to make lace, because the thread must be strong
as well as very thin. Linen thread was the normal one to use because having a
long staple length (the individual fibres run the height of the plant stalk) it
could be spun very thin and
101 - 200 of 471 matches
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