Re: [lace] Book Review - Introducing Bone Lace
Hi Jeri, Thank you for painting a wonderful picture of this book in your eloquent words. I'll be looking out for this book when our supplier returns from her overseas travels. Cheers, Shirley T. - Adelaide, South Australia where winter has come in with a bang and record breaking rains this month after a record breaking dry June. On 19-Jul-17 7:30 AM, jeria...@aol.com wrote: Introducing Bone Lace - A Beginner's Guide to Working Early Bobbin Lace By Gilian Dye Publisher Cleveden Press, 2017 44 pages, 79 images including samples, patterns, diagrams ISBN 078-0-9553223-7-2 "The fair maids that weave their threads with bones"? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book Review - Introducing Bone Lace
Introducing Bone Lace - A Beginner's Guide to Working Early Bobbin Lace By Gilian Dye Publisher Cleveden Press, 2017 44 pages, 79 images including samples, patterns, diagrams ISBN 078-0-9553223-7-2 "The fair maids that weave their threads with bones"? This book of helpful hints is like trying out for a role in a Shakespearean play. You are nervous. The director (Dye) recommends being very free in your approach - copying and adapting to suit your threads/lines and their proposed use, without relying on a rigid pattern/script or believing there is only one way of doing things. This is what early lacemakers seem to have done. Early substitutions for bobbins were made from bones of small animals and game birds - thus the name. Dye efficiently describes equipment and materials/scene and props - and has gone on to clearly show how to wind thread onto bobbins/use props, and proceeds to the business of basic moves/stage directions. Right away, you are introduced to 2-pair plaits and plait projects, which launches the beginner into a variety of plaits in a sampler. It is sort of like stage directions. Now that the "rehearsal" is over, one can get to the main performance. As in all her books, Dye simplifies what another author could make complicated. All elements that are tricky to understand are clearly explained (metal threads, spangles, bits and pieces seen in early portraits that have been deciphered by Dye and rendered in comprehensible directions). The booklet contains many special tips that Dye has generously shared with readers of Guild Magazines. To have put them in this booklet is a good idea, because so many who make lace may not be members of a very large guild. They would not have the benefit of these captured "pearls of knowledge" had they not been published in this format. This 44-page booklet can be easily tucked into your tote bag with lacemaking supplies, and hardly add weight. If you have been collecting all of Dye's 16th and 17th century instructional booklets about working early bobbin lace, you will want this one. The entire body of her work researching this period in lace development is a wonderful way to introduce a new lacemaker to the process, so they can add authentic lace elements to costumes of the period. The photo on the cover is of a gentleman who is a costumed guide at Hardwick Hall in England. The small edging of bone lace on the rim of his white ruff is an important element of his costume. Learn to make "bone lace", which requires a limited number of bobbin pairs, and you will discover delightful ways to use it in 21st century applications. To protect the various booklets in a crowded bookcase, you may wish to consider what this reviewer has done - put them in a clear plastic legal folder with tie from an office supply store - to hold them all neatly together. Should you benefit from a class with Dye, you can add all you collect from that experience as extra documentation. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Book review information/ was Reprints
Dear Book Collectors, Obviously, Guilds try to have books available for borrowing, and having as many as possible to choose from is very important to some members. Especially to authors and to scholars. It is of importance to know about obvious errors. I write just for Arachne and for The New England Lace Group. Guilds usually print less, because of the space limits of newsletters or bulletins published quarterly. Here is where something is being missed in this book review conversation: Books go on to be listed in Bibliographies of newer books. Some of us may want to read earlier books, regardless of positive or negative feedback. How do I, a sometimes reviewer for Arachne, manage from this point-of-view? If a book merits my donated time as a reviewer (they take quite a while to read and write about), you will see it on Arachne, it is saved in our archive, and a copy of my review is printed and put in my copy of the book. If a book is technical beyond my expertise, I leave it to others to review, make a copy of what they have to say, and put that in the book. If a book has obvious errors, and it is by a member of Arachne, I do not review it. I take out my orange editing pen and go to work with doing a private editing for future owners of my book. I am opposed to defacing books, but in the case of lace it is very possible that the number of people who will be knowledgeable about it 100 years from now will diminish. I choose to be of help to them, just as we all wish we had the benefit of lace knowledge from 100 years ago. Each book in my library is part of something much larger - a fabulous resource for future lace and embroidery researchers. I have begun the huge task of finding a permanent home for this library. Preferably, a institute of higher learning or museum library. I am not financially wealthy, but wealthy in knowledge that needs safe-keeping. There is a book budget. But, sometimes I skip grocery shopping and meals so that a book may be purchased! Most books reviewed for you are purchased at retail prices. If a book is sent to me for an Arachne review, I do send the review to the author before you see it. That is a precaution to be sure I did not misunderstand something. One advantage of Arachne reviews is that they can be more than a paragraph or two in length (the norm in Guild bulletins). If something wonderful is not to be missed, or the book is exceptionally unique, I may choose to quote -- as an enticement to purchase. The book reviewed 2 years ago In Fine Style - The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion remains at the top of a pedestal of most beautiful and informative books! That is where books related-to-lace come into the picture, and why Arachne members received a review of it, some bought it, some made arrangements to see the exhibition in London. I knew it was not meant to be a national secret, and I was disappointed not to have learned about it from anyone in the UK prior to my purchasing it and writing 2 reviews - one for the book; one for the exhibition - so that double the usual information could be sent to you. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 1/12/2015 2:47:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, walker.b...@gmail.com writes: In answer, I don't see why an honest opinion can't be written on behalf of the author. Review copies aren't 'free' - they are given to groups in return for a positive review. If a book is so poor that it merits a negative review, then the copy should be returned to the author, not kept in the group's library. Never in all the many years that I've written reviews on lace books have I had to do this. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Mousie mousie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think I would slightly disagree with Bev on this point. Following the guidelines we are given, the reviews I've written for Lace have always been based on my honest opinion of the book, and not written on behalf of the author which would, I feel, be biased. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book review information/ was Reprints
Hello everyone Book reviews in our lace publications are an important link between the lacemaker and the lace book author. Accordingly, the person who reviews the book would write positive, objective remarks on behalf of the author, for the benefit of the reader. Most of us I think prefer to decide on a book purchase after examining it for real, not always possible! The book review is next best. When an author/publisher sends a book to be reviewed, contact and purchase details are part of the review in the lace organization's magazine, bulletin, or newsletter. If your group has indexed their magazine articles, book review details can be found this way. Alex wrote: I always send out review copies that are kept by the societies. It would be nice to know that they would keep my details on file and pass them on when requested. Perhaps they could be encouraged to compile lists by their members requesting information. And I agree. If your lace group doesn't have an index or reference for the book reviews, ask them. If contact details for a lace book author change, I'm sure a note to one's review list would be printed in the respective publications in their book review section. The book review helps a lace book author sell books, the lacemaker needs to know how to acquire them. We all win. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Mousie mousie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ...with the review copy giving contact details and the necessary permission? -- Bev in 8 deg. C., Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Youghal Irish Needle Lace - Book Review
Youghal Irish Needle Lace for Connoisseurs and Lacemakers By Elizabeth M. Kurella Self-published 2014, 158 pages, Soft Cover, $30 ISBN 978-0-9642871-5-0 Elizabeth Kurella skillfully presents a new book that will be of use to both lace connoisseurs and lacemakers. She explains the book title in her Introduction: One discovery I made many years ago on my first foray into a congress of lacemakers was that for some unknown reason lacemakers and lace collectors did not easily mix. Decades later I still do not understand why many collectors seem terrified of trying the process of lacemaking, and lacemakers fear finding things in the real world that don't match up with their expectations of whatever the 'rules' of lacemaking should have been. When we take time to think about this, learning the skills is useful in evaluating a piece of lace. And for the maker, having an understanding of traditional laces inherited, presented at auctions or sales, or to be studied in wonderful lace collections, has merit. In Elizabeth's 3-page Introduction, we are introduced to Youghal lace in a generous and gracious manner. Youghal needle lace was developed in the mid-19th C., by which time machines were giving all hand-made laces a brutal level of competition, and hand-made needle laces made on the European Continent were at an advantage because they were well established. Many lace collectors have difficulty identifying laces, and so it is gratifying to have six pages devoted to this, with detailed photographs in the Elizabeth Kurella style we have come to appreciate in her previous books. Designs are important to the overall effect and success of lace. This new book features a large lace flounce owned by the author, worked from 19th C. designs by Sister Mary Regis of Youghal. Throughout, this collection of lovely designs are presented in line drawings, taken directly from this flounce. (For more about Sister Mary Regis and her designs, see the late Pat Earnshaw's two books Youghal and Other Irish Laces and Youghal Lace - the Craft and the Cream.) In a stroke of genius, Elizabeth arranged with the family of the late Irma Osterman to reprint her book Youghal - A Charming Irish Needle Lace, as an appendix. It consists of 29 pages of stitch instructions. The original Osterman book is out-of-print. There is a bit of history about Alan S. Cole (1846-1934) who published photographic research and scholarly reports about laces, with a focus on developing and promoting good design in Irish and English laces. Finally, this reviewer must share the information that this book was sent to the printer before a final proofreading, in order to be available for a special program being offered at The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, California, at the end of April 2014. Book ordering information: Write to _ekurella@gmail.com_ (mailto:ekure...@gmail.com) She will autograph your book, if requested. It will also be available from Lacis, the shop in San Francisco, and from The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale, CA. Jeri Ames in Maine, USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book review
Hi, Elena Dickson of Armenian knotted lace fame has lately released her third book. This URL will take you to the review by our lace guild Librarian, Lydia. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9n5KdrUcZ4SdlBUQk5lTHJmbzNQbUFwcW8yUWt3ZHZ1WHBV/edit?usp=sharing Elena can be contacted onelena.dick...@optusnet.com.au with reference to 'knotted lace' or 'lace' as the subject heading otherwise it might get lost in her 'in' box. Elena will have this book, along with others and her DVDs for sale at the 16th World OIDFA Congress here in Adelaide, in July this year. Cheers, Shirley T. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book Review: Interwoven Globe (Metropolitan Museum Exhibition)
Interwoven Globe - The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 Edited by Amelia Peck Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-19698-6 2013, 350 pp. Hardback You will recall that I announced the Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800 Exhibition on September 15, 2013. Since then, we had very nice reports of visits from Devon, Lyn, and Arlene. It was requested that I write a book review of the catalogue, but I found little to tie the 350-page catalogue to lace. (For Hispanic lace scholarship that relates to this time period and geography, look up Florence May in the Arachne archives.) Now, I am shelving the book, having made my way to the finish at a snail's pace. I think it important to voice a critical opinion, bearing in mind that I read and review a lot of books. This book consists of nine chapter essays by seven museum staff members and scholars, covering three centuries of history. The subject is vast, and the exhibition was very large. When this is to be the case, a very organized editor is required. The first 135 pages are devoted to History, a subject I love. However, reading was not made easier by the way the text is organized - with frequent references to Notes, and pages and pages of Notes at the back. One must try to balance a very heavy large art book and keep a finger at the ready to locate clarifications in the form of Notes. It would have been so much nicer if the Notes had been incorporated into the text. The second section of the book is the very nice Catalogue, with individual pieces in the exhibit featured in color and explained in substantial detail. The History (first) part of the book also sent the reader to these, creating quite a unique exercise of fingers fumbling over each other! This sort of thing discourages the non-genius. No wonder so many people dislike history. In this case, it has the suggestion of intellectual exclusivity. Yes! I am speaking up. Museum professionals should be mindful that readers want to absorb the contents of museum exhibitions and accompanying catalogues with ease. Their aim should be to educate in user-friendly ways, being aware that in 2014 nearly everyone likely to be interested in an exhibition subject is in information overload. No one has yet mentioned it, so in a separate memo, I will share what this book has to say about Frances Morris, who was very important to the establishment of the lace collection at The Metropolitan. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book review, in fine style...
Thank you for that book review, Jeri. It sounds wonderful. Oh dear! Our $ has just dipped badly against the £, so it will have to be relegated to my wish list!! In fact the whole exhibition sounds fantastic. Fancy being able to see a collar, in the flesh so to speak, similar to those shown in the King Charles' painting. How wonderful to think that one has survived. Regards from Liz in freezing, wintery,Melbourne, Oz. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book Review: In Fine Style - Art of Tudor Stuart Fashion
In Fine Style - The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion by Anna Reynolds, curator of the exhibit in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace until October 6, 2013. Book published in 2013 by the Royal Collection Trust, 300 pages, Hardback, ISBN 978-1-905686-44-5. It would be nearly impossible to find and view this many portraits depicting lace as it was worn in this period of history all in one cohesive book. Here we have, for lace scholars, historians, and costumers, a wonderful resource in print form. The details are such that anyone unable to travel to London can have a wonderful walk-about with the erudite curator, in the comfort of home. The text is fascinating, and photo enlargements of details so precise that they provide wonderful design inspiration. Lots of lace, in context. The book jacket front is unusual in that flecks of gold shimmer off the surface. Depicted is a view of a 1614 painting of Anne of Denmark's cloth-of-gold gown. Some of the lace she is wearing in the full portrait is shown on the book jacket. She was the wife of King James the I and VI - son of Mary, Queen of Scots. This Queen Anne was related to Christian IV of Denmark 1577-1648 (of the 2001 2-volume set of books about his laces, Christian IV and Bobbin Lace by Katia Johansen). The jacket cover back shows a portrait of Mary of Modena circa 1675, wearing a riding habit that follows exactly the lines of a male wedding suit coat, which was worn by James II in 1673. The brown wool surface of this remarkable surviving suit is entirely covered in silver and silver-gilt embroidery, which appears to be intact, though tarnished. At the neck in portrait and reality, is a large needlelace cravat. One puzzling jewelry detail in paintings of this period has been (to this reviewer) the black stones set in gold and sewn on clothing. This is explained. They were diamonds! The way they were cut did not optimize their light-reflecting abilities, and settings with foil backs caused this dark effect. Therefore, the method of painting them resulted in black-looking stones. At the time, diamonds were favored for their hardness and luster, rather than their brilliance. With 60-plus portraits, sometimes accompanied by surviving rare costume elements, there are many more treats in the book. Some information that jumps at you off the pages are: the explanation of needle and bobbin laces p. 61, an analysis of painting styles, an excellent description of how textile effects were achieved by artists p.143, cloth-of-gold explanation p.149, the relationship between dyes and pigments p.161, bleaching methods and how starch was made and applied p. 217, lace-like designs on suits of armor p.228. The pages are paper, but this reviewer kept running fingertips over photographs, as if the textures could be felt! At the back, copious notes, costume glossary, and a bibliography that includes more books to order! This book is so packed with interesting details it was savored slowly, like the finest wine. Surely, the most beautiful book of the year. Exhibit details are at http://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/2203 Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book Review: Italian Needlework Treasures by Vima deMarchi Micheli
Dear Lace Friends, Sometimes, it is very difficult to get a book you want. It may be one that does not yet exist! I am forwarding a review just written for the next Quarterly Needle News publication that Ruth Kern Books in the U.S. sends to subscribers. This is a self-published book that is not generally available and has not been mentioned in lace publications (to my knowledge). A limited supply is available. (This is apparently the second printing; the first sold out with no publicity that I could find.) However, you can find a hidden review in the blogspot given at the bottom of my review. (Susan Hottle mentioned the blog spot in her Arachne memo of March 13th.) In the U.S., you can call 1-800-429-5075 and Ruth will call you back (she is usually not there to answer the phone). Or, go to _www.ruthkernbooks.com_ (http://www.ruthkernbooks.com/) or write to _RKern3@mindspring.com_ (mailto:rke...@mindspring.com)I have no commercial connection with Ruth. I can get books that were published overseas easily from her. Many times they are books I have not heard about anywhere else. She did not ask me to contact Arachne. I asked permission to send you this information, because there are lace people who would like this English-language book. Our lacemakers have their specialty book dealers. Ruth is the book dealer used by embroiderers, such as The Embroiderers' Guild of America and American Needlepoint Guild. Ruth's business in Phoenix Arizona is small, and she may take time getting back to you. Be patient. If you are overseas, you may contact me by e-mail. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center -- Italian Needlework Treasures by Vima deMarchi Micheli A large portion of the embroidery and lace community is not aware this book was self-published in 2011, because distribution has been limited. There has long been a need for a book â in English â about 19th and 20th C. Italian needlework treasures. This fills that need, and will help with identification of items in private needlework collections. The history of Italy as it relates to needlework, with which this book opens, sets the scene for development of embroidery, followed by lace, in an easy-to-understand summary of many centuries. Vima is a woman of many talents. In 2011, she celebrated 50 years as a needlework teacher. She is the teacher that delighted embroiderers seek when The Embroiderers' Guild of America and American Needlepoint Guild annual seminar courses are announced. Her specialty, for equally-delighted lacemakers, is the embroidery techniques that led to the development of needlelaces in the mid-15th Century. She was the featured speaker and a teacher at the 2004 International Old Lacers annual convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In addition, she has been on the faculties of two California universities. Vima is known for lovely needlework tours she leads to Italy two or three times a year. In 1993, she was unanimously elected to the International Lace Committee of Sansepolcro, Italy, as a lifetime member. In 1996, she curated an international exhibition of Italian laces and embroideries which traveled in the USA, Canada, and Italy. Now, we have a opportunity to acquire this 146-page, self-published book, with illustrated items from her collection and with items from other private collectors. Part history, part autobiography, part travel guide with a list of museums and shops, part vocabulary of Italian-to-English and English-to-Italian textile terminology, with a glossary, and lavishly illustrated in color. In this book there are two bibliographies â one for books in Italian, one for books in English. There has always been a shortage of books about Italian needlework written for English speakers. There is one important omission in the English list of books, for further study by scholars: Elisa Ricci's âOld Italian Laceâ in two over-sized volumes, published in 1913. Long out-of-print, they have been scanned, and may be found 2/3 of the way down the menu page at: _http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html_ (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html) Vima's students will remember that she often said she would write a book. This is it! Another review of this book can be found at: _h ttp://italian-needlework.blogspot.com/2011/08/italian-needlework-treasures.ht ml_ (http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com/2011/08/italian-needlework-treasures. html) Much more about Italian Needlework is at: _http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com_ (http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Lefkara lace book review
Hello All! Mary Corbet's www.needlenthread.com has another blurb about Lefkara lace today. This time she reviews the book by Androula Hadjiyiasemi, including some pics of the book itself. Someone replied that new copies of the book are available she posted the link. Perhaps IOLI or Lace Guild UK has the book if anyone wants to try before buying. It's scare at public libraries; only a few are listed on www.worldcat.org. Have fun, it's quite lovely stuff. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Book Review: Manuale del Puncetto Colorato (Manual of Coloured Puncetto Lace)
Finally posted my review of the book on coloured Puncetto. http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/book-review-manuale-del-puncetto-colorato/ Best wishes, Avital -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Book Review: A Scuola di Puncetto Valsesiano
Dear spiders, I posted my review of the basic Puncetto book, A Scuola di Puncetto Valsesiano: http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/book-review-a-scuola-di-puncetto-valsesiano/ Avital -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers
Whilst it may be possible with embroidery, provided one can tell where the starts and finishes were, to tell if the worker were left or right handed in some cases, (dependent on which way round the worker had worked of course I used to finish off sewing for my Mum... she was a 'rightie' and I'm a 'leftie') I would say that it would be impossible to tell on lace, the prickings are worked the same way by either a left or a right handed person. Agnes I are both working the same Bedfordshire piece, and if one gets stuck the other can sort it out if need be, and no-one could tell! After all, it's the manipulation of thread that makes the lace, not the fingers of the individual! Knitting would be virtually impossible to tell, however it would be possible with crochet or in some cases tatting, although the use of a knitting nancy could be the other way round What do others think? Sue in EY On 9 Aug 2010, at 23:57, Margery Allcock wrote: I'm intrigued. Will the lace or embroidery made by a left-handed worker be identifiable as such, once finished? And will this enable the maker to be more nearly identified? I'm imagining future textile experts saying well, this was made by a left-handed person in the early 21st century, and we know of only a few of those ... Margery. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers
Yes, I see what you're saying, and I agree, especially with bobbin lace and knitting. I was thinking of hemstitching, blanket stitching, buttonholing; and then needle lace. Where with each stitch you can see where it came from. In which direction it was worked, really. Margery. = margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Hertfordshire, UK = -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Sue Duckles Sent: Tuesday 10 August 2010 08:02 To: Margery Allcock Cc: jeria...@aol.com; lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers Whilst it may be possible with embroidery, provided one can tell where the starts and finishes were, to tell if the worker were left or right handed in some cases, (dependent on which way round the worker had worked of course I used to finish off sewing for my Mum... she was a 'rightie' and I'm a 'leftie') I would say that it would be impossible to tell on lace, the prickings are worked the same way by either a left or a right handed person. Agnes I are both working the same Bedfordshire piece, and if one gets stuck the other can sort it out if need be, and no-one could tell! After all, it's the manipulation of thread that makes the lace, not the fingers of the individual! Knitting would be virtually impossible to tell, however it would be possible with crochet or in some cases tatting, although the use of a knitting nancy could be the other way round What do others think? Sue in EY On 9 Aug 2010, at 23:57, Margery Allcock wrote: I'm intrigued. Will the lace or embroidery made by a left-handed worker be identifiable as such, once finished? And will this enable the maker to be more nearly identified? I'm imagining future textile experts saying well, this was made by a left-handed person in the early 21st century, and we know of only a few of those ... Margery. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers
Yvette Stanton's The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion - A Step-by-Step Stitch Dictionary, published by Vetty Creations in 2010, 978-0-9757677-3-3, PB. My copy came from Ruth Kern Books in the U.S., priced $29.(U.S. Amazon for $23.) This new book from Australia may be helpful to those who are left-handed. This will go on the embroidery side of my library -- but some of the stitches are used in needle-made laces or lacy embroidery, and edgings for items to which you may attach lace, such as: Buttonhole fillings with return and fancy buttonhole fillings (needlelace) Buttonhole bars and buttonhole with picot (Venetian picots) Eyelets Four-sided stitch (pulled-work) Hedebo stitch Hem stitching Holbein stitch (blackwork which mimics lace applied to linen) Needlewoven bars Plaited braid stitch (the gold metal coils seen on Elizabethan jackets) Trellis stitch (a detached needlelace filling stitch that appears as silk flower petals on Elizabethan jackets) There are many other basic and fancy stitches. Some Arachnids have not had stitching lessons in school, and need a resource book. This is very well illustrated, in color. From author's website, I learned there is a right-handed version. And other books on whitework. _www.vettycreations.com.au_ (http://www.vettycreations.com.au) Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers
I'm intrigued. Will the lace or embroidery made by a left-handed worker be identifiable as such, once finished? And will this enable the maker to be more nearly identified? I'm imagining future textile experts saying well, this was made by a left-handed person in the early 21st century, and we know of only a few of those ... Margery. = margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Hertfordshire, UK = -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of jeria...@aol.com Sent: Monday 09 August 2010 18:46 To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Book Review for Left-handed Stitchers Yvette Stanton's The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion - A Step-by-Step Stitch Dictionary, published by Vetty Creations in 2010, 978-0-9757677-3-3, PB. My copy came from Ruth Kern Books in the U.S., priced $29. (U.S. Amazon for $23.) This new book from Australia may be helpful to those who are left-handed. This will go on the embroidery side of my library -- but some of the stitches are used in needle-made laces or lacy embroidery, and edgings for items to which you may attach lace, such as: Buttonhole fillings with return and fancy buttonhole fillings (needlelace) Buttonhole bars and buttonhole with picot (Venetian picots) Eyelets Four-sided stitch (pulled-work) Hedebo stitch Hem stitching Holbein stitch (blackwork which mimics lace applied to linen) Needlewoven bars Plaited braid stitch (the gold metal coils seen on Elizabethan jackets) Trellis stitch (a detached needlelace filling stitch that appears as silk flower petals on Elizabethan jackets) There are many other basic and fancy stitches. Some Arachnids have not had stitching lessons in school, and need a resource book. This is very well illustrated, in color. From author's website, I learned there is a right-handed version. And other books on whitework. _www.vettycreations.com.au_ (http://www.vettycreations.com.au) Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Book Review - Fans from the Royal House of Orange-Nassau
Dear Lace Fan Lovers, Before Christmas, here is a book that you may want to put on your gift list: A Touch of Dutch - Fans from the Royal House of Orange-Nassau By Helene Alexander (The Fan Museum, London) and Fransje Hovinga-van Eijsden A fan exhibit catalogue Pub. Feb. 2008 by The Fan Museum Paper cover, size approx. 8 x 6, 176 pp. Cost in July 2008, in The Netherlands, was 15 euros On the lace tour, we stopped at a lovely historic property. It had a separate building featuring exhibit space, which was devoted to lace - new lace. Memorable was the display of red lace hats. In one area was a portrait of Queen Emma, mother of Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962). Portraits of Queen Emma have always appealed to me because she is always wearing lace! There was a member of museum staff available, so I privately inquired about the portrait. He told me she was much loved, and she changed her laces three times a day! I tucked away that tidbit of information to share some day on Arachne. In the gift shop, I found this book. Since anything published by The Fan Museum, has been of interest to me, and to some of the Arachnes, and since I've not seen a review in any of the lace organizations' bulletins, I want to share this little gem of a book featuring fans that has not received much attention. Book features 68 fans; a nice percentage are lace; others hand-painted, feathers, and hard surfaces. Fan sticks beautifully carved, guards of mother-of-pearl, ivory, tortoiseshell, horn, ebony. _www.fan-museum.org_ (http://www.fan-museum.org/) Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center **Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown0001) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Book review Please
Has anyone bought the book 52 designs from Cecil Higgins Museum? If so, can you please give a book review? I have the 3 previous books from there that came out a few years ago - patterns of Lester lace, and pictures in a large folio, etc. What is this latest book like? Is it all Lester Lace, or are there other types of lace featured? Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, where it is cold after yesterday which was a day of gales, downed trees, power outages, etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fillings from Hunnia Lace Book Review - long
Fillings from Hunnia Lace Anna Ruhle - Gizella Fay, Aladarne ISBN: 2-35032-022-7, 2006, 95 pages, Hardcover Published by L'Inedite (France) www.editionslinedite.com Please note that the cover lace Dance of the Brownies is privately owned, and not represented by a pattern in the book! The author, Anna Ruhle, was born in Hungary. She relocated to Germany in 1948, eventually settling in Dresden. In 1998 and 2000, she joined with Ildiko Onodi-Szabo, Sandorne (granddaughter of Gizella Fay, Aladame) to produce two lace booklets Hunnia I and Hunnia II. These are in the Hungarian language. Now, with the support of several European lace experts, a comprehensive new hardback book with all-new Hunnia lace material has been published in France, in German/English/French with a Hungarian translation available separately. In the early years of lacemaking in Hungary, patterns came from Germany. The creator of Hunnia lace was Gizella Fay, Aladarne (1871-1944). She turned her drawings of flowers into bobbin lace, and following the 1906 tulip movement in Hungary she made a top (blouse) for herself of bobbin lace with tulip motifs. This lace top went to London for an exhibition in 1909. She then turned many folk art motifs into bobbin lace. When it became a commercial venture, the name Hunnia lace was given to it. In 1949 three kinds of Hungarian lace, Pannonia (bobbin), Hunnia (bobbin), and Halas (needle) were united under the auspices of the association for household industries (people making lace for sale). Though there was much turmoil in Hungary in the 20th C., this type of lace survived. For this book it has been reconstructed from old lace pieces or photographs. The book is basically divided into two sections. 1. Flowers and a peacock design. These are individual motifs, which can be worked together to create a larger lace, in a technique that somewhat resembles Milanese lace. On the first page of each design there is a photograph and a materials list (thread and # bobbins), on the facing page are step-by-step written instructions with small illustrations below to illustrate important features. The following two pages have pricking (s), often facing in two directions, and an enlarged working diagram and enlarged drawings of details. 2. 100 fillings, plus two symbols pages and prickings, that you can copy and use for trying your own ideas and making motifs that differ from those shown in section 1. The delightful designs of Hunnia lace evoke the Hungarian culture, and provide a new creative challenge for lacemakers.. Suppliers: http://www.editionslinedite.com http://www.barbara.fay.de Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - where it is believed the history of women, as reflected in their lace and embroidery creations, should be preserved! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Book review
Hi Diane You had a very lucky find there I have a copy of that book which retailed in the U.K. at £36.00. It really is a lovely book with excellent photography. Diana Smith in Northamptonshire, U.K. - Original Message - From: Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:27 PM Subject: [lace] Book review I found the following book in our local consignment/thrift shop on Sunday afternoon. Paid a mere $9.75 for this very large, hardcover book with LOTS of beautiful color photos. Lace History and Fashion by Anne Kraatz It's a very nice book and talks by century about types of lace and how they were made, beginning with the 16th and going through the 20th. I believe it was originally published in French because there is a note at the beginning that Pat Earnshaw translated it to English. At the end of each century section, it recaps the types of lace and what each region was doing. There are quite a few photos of art to connect the lace to the fashions of the time. In one section, there is a marvelous photo of a piece of polychrome lace. And, the ground is black thread! In my polychrome class at the IOLI this summer, Pompi said that the ground was traditionally white or off-white. It makes me sad to think of all those polychrome samples and pieces that were lost. The emphasis in the book is on Italian, French and other continental laces. I was overjoyed with my find, and was happy to forego the purchase of the 1950s hand-crank card shuffler once I saw this book on the shelf! I have reached the bottom of my polychrome piece from class and am debating how to through out pairs, so I hope to have a photo for the webshots next week. Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galena Illinois USA __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Book review
I found the following book in our local consignment/thrift shop on Sunday afternoon. Paid a mere $9.75 for this very large, hardcover book with LOTS of beautiful color photos. Lace History and Fashion by Anne Kraatz It's a very nice book and talks by century about types of lace and how they were made, beginning with the 16th and going through the 20th. I believe it was originally published in French because there is a note at the beginning that Pat Earnshaw translated it to English. At the end of each century section, it recaps the types of lace and what each region was doing. There are quite a few photos of art to connect the lace to the fashions of the time. In one section, there is a marvelous photo of a piece of polychrome lace. And, the ground is black thread! In my polychrome class at the IOLI this summer, Pompi said that the ground was traditionally white or off-white. It makes me sad to think of all those polychrome samples and pieces that were lost. The emphasis in the book is on Italian, French and other continental laces. I was overjoyed with my find, and was happy to forego the purchase of the 1950s hand-crank card shuffler once I saw this book on the shelf! I have reached the bottom of my polychrome piece from class and am debating how to through out pairs, so I hope to have a photo for the webshots next week. Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galena Illinois USA __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Book review
. . . and not only is Cynthia Voysey a marvelous photographer, but she is a fabulous lacemaker, and her needlelaces are a wonder to behold, they are so beautiful. I have pictures of a couple of them from a workshop that I took with her years (and years and years) ago. I should e-mail her, shouldn't I, and tell her that Arachnes are reacquainting themselves with her.Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Book review request
Hi All, I saw a book in Holly Van Sciver's catalogue that she was out of in Ithaca. It's called Lace and the Emerald Isle by Alan Brown who wrote Take the Children. Does anybody have this book? From the title it sounds like it covers the laces of Ireland but I'd love to hear more. Thanks for any help, Jane in Vermont, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Romanian Point Lace - book review
Dear Lacemakers, Romanian Point Lace by Angela Thompson and Kathleen Waller, Batsford, 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8832-8, $27 (U.S.), $42 (Canada), 18 pounds (U.K.), has arrived in Maine USA! That means it is probably available everywhere. It is distributed in the U.S./Canada by Sterling. Angela is an Arachne. Her travel tales are much enjoyed and her needlework expertise much consulted. Kathleen Waller is sister to the late Margaret Hamer, about whom we read earlier this year on Arachne. They have produced a 144-page hardcover book of substance on the subject of Romanian Point Lace. This lace has not received much publishing attention. Other books on the subject are a set of spiral-bound paperbacks self-published by Sylvia Murariu. And then, there was the cover-featured butterfly in the January/February 2001 (Lace) issue of the American magazine PieceWork. Other published coverage of this type of lace has been quite limited. Romanian Point Lace is made using crochet and needlelace techniques. It is assembled in the manner of tape laces, but the tape element in this case is a crocheted cord - flexible on curves and with no end to turn under. The end is simply unraveled back to the point where the end of the outline design is couched down on background fabric. The result is appealing and graceful -- no gathers or folds. Once the outline is in place, open spaces are in-filled with a variety of needlelace fillings and decorative additions (rings, bullion knot grapes, joining bars). The result is a very textured and graphic lace. The hand-drawn illustrations of techniques and the many color photographs are very clear. Angela provides a history of the lace, and tells of her experiences exploring/researching (through travel). The instructions for making the samples in the book (by Angela and Kathleen) are clear. Photographs of private collections are an important element, for they illustrate the endless variety possible. For butterfly lovers - there are some patterns! My favorite is an angel for which the design inspiration was a bobbin lace angel from the Vologda region of Russia. There are appliques, ornaments, mats and a tea cosy to be made, plus ideas for developing your own original designs. This is a lovely book. Congratulations to the authors. Thanks to the publisher. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
