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

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

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

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

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

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

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 can’t 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

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

[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

[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 Duvall

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,