Re: [lace] Colour in lace

Yes I've heard that too Kathleen - Perhaps it was Nenia Lovesey who told us? Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message Subject : [lace] Colour in lace Some years ago I visited a village in southern Belgium which had specialised in making black Chantilly

[lace] Lia Looga

I met Lia at the OIDFA congress in Prague, she spoke very little English and tried to figure out how to use a public telehone and asked for my help. Since then we have been in touch . I have one of her books which I used several times. She was a wonderful lace maker and a wonderful person. May

[lace] Colour in lace

Some years ago I visited a village in southern Belgium which had specialised in making black Chantilly lace. It’s name escapes me. The lace we saw was fantastic, but we were told that there was little of it left, because the black dye used to colour the thread, (or maybe the process used)

RE: [lace] Color in lace

Dear Friends Dyes have not been known for fastness until recently I vividly recall that back in 1979 at an auction in Melbourne my friend bought a beautiful bright scarlet velvet dress from the 1860s. We placed it gently in the back of her car and by the time we got home to Belgrave (about 90

[lace] color in lace

The original jacket cover on Lace by Virginia Churchill Bath (published 1974) is of a fragment of colored lace flowers, identified in the book as from Italy, 19th century. The author once remarked to a group of us that she wondered why we were so awestruck when we saw the actual tiny piece

Re: [lace] Color in lace - Bath's book

Every so often, I write a book review for an old book that is still relevant and useful.  November 2016, I sent a review of Virginia Churchill Bath's 1974 LACE book to Arachne.  You can very easily locate it on the New England Lace Group's web site by selecting Book Reviews from the menu on the

Re: [lace] Color in lace

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:29 PM, wrote: > Linen shifts and shirts were the next to the skin layer, and were meant > to be washed, so white would have to be the color of choice. Remember that > in Germany clothes have been boiled in recent memory. How this explains >

Re: [lace] color in lace-Virginia Churchill Bath

At that time I was a member of embroidery guilds and needle lace was considered needle-work or embroidery. Cynthia On Apr 3, 2018, at 12:53 PM, DevonThein wrote: > published in 1974 by my side. (I am now > reading these books as historical documents of the 1970s lace

RE: [lace] Bath-changing style of contemporary Needlelace 1970s on

Cynthia makes an interesting observation, that in 1974 needle lace was considered needle-work or embroidery. Do you think it would be an accurate observation that the early contemporary needle lace books from the 1970s, such as Jill Nordfors’s Needle Lace and Needle Weaving and Bath’s book,

RE: [lace] color in lace-Virginia Churchill Bath

Thanks to Doris for her observation about the cover of Virginia Churchill Bath’s book. I have this book, published in 1974 by my side. (I am now reading these books as historical documents of the 1970s lace revival, whereas I first read them as contemporary “how to” books.) Does anyone know

Re: [lace] Color in lace

Hello arachnians, to the question why *black embroidery on shifts in Elizabethan times*: I read in several English, German and Spanish books that the black silk embroidery was introduced in England by the first wife of Henry VIII who happened to be a Spaniard (Katherine of Aragon). One of the

Re: [lace] RE: Earnshaw, Diaper

No I don't think diamond would be a preferred term, since diamonds can be any size. Diaper patterns are a very common term for weavers, and is understood as being a small repeating pattern, not even necessarily in diamond shape *Marianne* Marianne Gallant Vernon, BC Canada m...@shaw.ca

[lace] Re: Bath-changing style of contemporary Needlelace 1970s onwards

I think where Pat Earnshaw was concerned, it would have been through study - on a visit to London, I met up with Elaine Merritt and we attended one of Pat's Tuesday afternoon talks at the V Afterwards, we had tea with her in the museum's tea room. During our discussion I discovered that Pat

Re: [lace] Bath-changing style of contemporary Needlelace 1970s onwards

I’ve always understood that those patterns - very popular in medieval times - where there’s a matrix of diamond shapes, are called diaper patterns. So, a repeating shape, usually in a diamond form. I think the North American use of “diaper” for baby’s nappies comes from the traditional

[lace] RE: Earnshaw, Diaper

I find it staggering to learn that Pat Earnshaw didn’t make lace. Although I suppose it is possible that you could draw stitch diagrams from observation, the Merehurst Embroidery Skills book Needlelace has a great many photographs of the stitches and the processes which is part of its charm. Did

[lace] diaper an all-over pattern

Continuing from Adele's message, diaper (cloth) was woven with such a pattern built-in, for absorbency and so became the name for the cloth used for babies. In weaving terms, I believe it was called a 'rosepath' threading, cf. 'roseground' in lacemaking. For those interested, the word origin is

Re: [lace] RE: Earnshaw, Diaper

Weaver person here. A diaper pattern is a small pattern arranged in a half-drop repeat. A birdseye twill makes a nice diaper pattern. Hence in the US we had Birdseye diapers (nappies) which were woven in a birdseye twill. Cynthia On Apr 3, 2018, at 5:10 PM, DevonThein

[lace] colour in lace

Kathleen wrote: Some years ago I visited a village in southern Belgium which had specialised in making black Chantilly lace. It’s name escapes me. The lace we saw was fantastic, but we were told that there was little of it left, because the black dye used to colour the thread, (or maybe the

Re: [lace] Lia Looga

Although I did not know her personally, I also have a nice story to tell about her. When one of my daughters was an Erasmus student in Norway, in 2009, she visited Estonia, and bought one of Lia Looga's jewellery books for me! I did not even know there was lace in Estonia, but she found it out!

RE: [lace] Earnshaw, Diaper

Pat Earnshaw was a scientist, not a lacemaker. She did however make a huge contribution to the study of lace and how it was made and had a good eye for lace identification. Marie Laurie who wrote the only instruction book on Halas Lace, wrote to Pat correcting Pat’s notes on Halas Lace in her