Hi arachnids,
I hope everyone I hope each of you are keeping well in this crazy year and
preparing for Christmas however you are going to spend it this year.
I put up my red curtain the other day and spent a while pinning lace items,
including lots from various people in this group over the
Dear Arachnids,
I hope you're all staying warm and cozy today (it's snowy here on the east
coast)!
As always I've been doing research on lace of the Tudor period for a
variety of projects and I've been compiling some favorite quotes (just for
fun!). Here are some well-known favorites from the
Here are the various quotes I have collected over the years.
From Wings of
Fire by Charles Todd (copy write 1998), Takes place in
England just after WW1
Inspector Ian Rutledge is rushing through a small village in the
rain.
âRutledge turned, crossed over to the nearest shop. In the
Just a line to wish everyone the Compliments of the Season. (depending on your
beliefs, and being Politically Correct!)
Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it.
I Love that quote, Elena, âa ship is sooner rigged by far, than a
gentlewoman made ready.â
We are supposed to be in
*Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.*
This is reputed to come from Le Pompe which I believe is the first patten
book for bobbin lace, published in 1557 in Venice. I cannot confirm this
because I do not have a reprint of the book.
Many years ago I cross-stitched this saying
Hi Sue and All, I too got out all the wonderful lace from previous
exchanges. All are fabulous! I put them on the Christmas tree and they look
wonderful and bring so many Arachne memories to mind.
One I am curious about. I think it came from Alice in Oregon. It's BL and
looks like a small
Dear Arachnids,
A few year ago I published every week an edging or an insertion on my site.
After 100 patterns we stopped this.
Now I decided to publish again new patterns. Not weekly because I cannot
manage that on my own. I will try to do this on a regular basis probably once
a month.
The first
It is an interesting quote. Probably not useful, especially viewed with today’s
more utilitarian eyes.
Back then, of course, you lived with ornament in the clothing of the moneyed
classes. I recall reading somewhere (can’t give you a citation, sorry) that one
of the great things about early
I don’t know where my copy of Le Pompe is at the moment so I cannot check. It
is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way does
anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? Unless you have to make a lace
trimmed dress, lace curtains, or similar? Lacemaking was useful
According to Radmilla (someone please supply her last name as I am drawing a
blank), one of the Eastern European (Czech?) peasant laces was useful and
needful. She said fabric was expensive or hard to come by, and any housewife
or daughter could make lace. The lace was sewn to collars, cuffs,
Zuman
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