[lace] Joining ends of a crown, Inga-Lisa Olsson's Knypplerskan Vol. 3

[Jeri Ames]

Dear Sally,
 
Thanks for providing the Swedish book source of your project.  I found a
typed list (perhaps prepared as early as the 1950's) inserted in this book
with additional advice for the lace maker - in English - from the "Forlag: A/B
E.HOLMQVISTS EFTR. Arlov Sweden".  Please bear in mind this was long before a
lot of conservation, restoration and cleaning advice was modified from old
methods to new.  Also, today's threads may have different properties.  Even
so, I think others might like to print this to insert in their copies of the
book series, so am sending for all to use: 
 
Advice:
 
1. Put pillow on a low table.  Elbow-high is sufficient.
2. Place the pins straight down in the pattern, otherwise the pattern can be
damaged.
3. When lace making, never use anything but linen thread.
4. Stretch the threads during the work so the lace will be firm and smooth.
5. How to in a simple way begin and end a lace is described in lace No. 4 D.
6. The linen on which the laces are to be put must be correct size for the
laces.  It ought to be thin, loose linen for laces that are made with thin
threads, thicker and more compact linen for thicker laces.
7. Never use colored linen for handmade laces.
8. The hems ought to be thin, i.e. 4-7 mm.
9. If embroidery is wanted, this ought to be simple in design and preferably
be sewed with linen thread in the same color as the lace and linen fabric.
10. Small clothes and table centers can easily be chemically cleaned, which
you can do yourself.
11. When washed in water, the lace must be carefully washed and rinsed and
then dried lying stretched to its original size.  Then it must be pressed
with caution with cloth between the pressing iron and the lace.
12. Remember that the lace is liable to shrink more than the linen fabric.
 
Lace mentioned in 5 above, No. 4 D, is in Vol. 1.  If you need a translation,
please let me know.  As to the crown, Vol. 1 says that the yellow metal
ring is delivered with the pattern, and the price includes that additional
cost.  I have no catalog with prices and ordering information. 
 
Translations are given for each lace in Vol. 3.  Included here is only the
one for the lace crown:
 
Lace number 49 K and 50 K.
29 pairs of bobbins.  Thread number 40/3 or metal thread of corresponding
thickness.  The bridal crown is mounted on a yellow metal ring, which is
added to the pattern.  If the bridal crown is to be white, the ring must be
covered with white cotton ribbons.  The bridal crown is starched with spray
starch, meant for hard-starching.  
The bridal crown with 5 points is 9,5 cm in diameter and 6,5 cm high = 50 K.
The bridal crown with 7 points is 13,5 cm in diameter and 6,5 cm high = 49 K.
 
I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the above dimensions, but have typed as
shown in this old translation.  There are very narrow ribbons used today for
ribbon embroidery that might be suitable for covering the metal ring without
being bulky.
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

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RE: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

[DevonThein]

Is there some reason why you wouldn’t just finish it normally and sew it
together with a needle?
Devon

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Re: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

[Clay Blackwell]

I have found that setting up "magic threads" in the beginning allows you to 
make a very clean and nearly invisible join at the end.

Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA

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> On Oct 18, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Sally Jenkins  wrote:
> 
> The joins will be mostly cloth stitch areas.
> 
> The picture of the finished crown can be seen in Knypplerskan by Inga-Lisa
> Olsson, Vol. 3.
> 
> Thanks for taking an interest!
> Sally

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Re: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

[Sally Jenkins]

The joins will be mostly cloth stitch areas.

The picture of the finished crown can be seen in Knypplerskan by Inga-Lisa
Olsson, Vol. 3.

Thanks for taking an interest!
Sally

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:24 PM, J Reardon  wrote:

> It might help us to know what stitches you will be using at the beginning
> and end, the areas that will join. Is it cloth stitch or an open work
> pattern?
> Jean Reardon, Pennsylvania
>

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Re: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

[J Reardon]

It might help us to know what stitches you will be using at the beginning and 
end, the areas that will join. Is it cloth stitch or an open work pattern?
Jean Reardon, Pennsylvania 

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Re: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

[Lorri Ferguson]

If you were to make a bolster pillow of the correct diameter, you could do it
all around the bolster and the beginning would still be 'pinned in place'.
Measure the length of the pricking and make a bolster to fit it.


Lorri



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Subject: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

Greetings all,

I will soon be starting to make a Swedish wedding crown, but thought I'd
better know how to finish it before I begin. It's about 28 pairs or so and
I think I'll work it on a block pillow. This means I'll have to unpin the
beginning at some point. Once I've reached the end, I have to curve the
lace, essentially a broad flat ribbon, into a loop, and fasten the end to
the beginning. I'm not quite sure how best to do this. All suggestions are
welcome.

Thank you,
Sally in gorgeous-fall-weather western Oregon

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[lace] Joining ends of a crown

[Sally Jenkins]

Greetings all,

I will soon be starting to make a Swedish wedding crown, but thought I'd
better know how to finish it before I begin. It's about 28 pairs or so and
I think I'll work it on a block pillow. This means I'll have to unpin the
beginning at some point. Once I've reached the end, I have to curve the
lace, essentially a broad flat ribbon, into a loop, and fasten the end to
the beginning. I'm not quite sure how best to do this. All suggestions are
welcome.

Thank you,
Sally in gorgeous-fall-weather western Oregon

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