Re: [lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Lorri Ferguson]

This has really been and interesting thread.  Hurrah for Arachne

Lorri



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Subject: [lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

Dear Janice, Lorri and others,
Thank you for all the interest. Hopefully this thread will help shed more
light on a very important part of American handmade lace history.

Janice writes: "One thing I did notice though was that the Smithsonian lace
had a left footside whereas most English lace to my knowledge have a right
hand footside.  Maybe Karen can explain why the change of side if the lady
who produced the lace originally came from England
."

Elizabeth Lord Lakeman was born in Ipswich, MA in 1767 and moved to
Hallowell, Maine upon marriage. She worked one of the original Ipswich lace
patterns as a young woman living in Ipswich, MA. It is now in the
Smithsonian collection, where you can see it at:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_645070
[http://americanhistory.si.edu/sites/all/themes/nmah2014/images/nmah-print.jp
g]<http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_645070>

Ipswich Bobbin Lace Pattern From Late 1700's | National
...<http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_645070>
americanhistory.si.edu
Description The Ipswich lace industry used patterns such as this linen
pasteboard pricking in the late 1700's. The pattern corresponds to one of the
black silk lace ...




or

as the last object

by searching Smithsonian lace collection
.
 It corresponds to one of the samples from 1789-1790 at the Library of
Congress
(number 9)
.  Later in her life she made the white point ground lace
that is
left on her Ipswich pillow when she died at the age of 94.

At this point we do not know where the first lace teacher in Ipswich, MA
came from or when, but since about 600 lace makers made lace in Ipswich, MA
in 1790, lacemaking had been practiced
there

for a long time. Most likely the original teacher came from the
c
ontinent or the Downton area as the footside is on the left.

Lorri writes:
"
If the bolster was situated opposite of the photo, wouldn't the foot side be

on the right.
"
 The bobbins are no longer attached, but the direction is still clear from
the finished lace in the back and the broken threads from the bobbins in
the front of the pins. This and all the Ipswich, MA samples have the
footside at the left.

Karen - in sunny and cold Delaware, USA


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Re: [lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Doris]

Foot side on the LEFT...Rafael’s book suggests Ipswich workers might have been 
influenced initially by immigrants from Europe, and continued to use left foot 
side thereafter. Page 70,”...Lakeman (d.1862)continued to make lace in the way 
she had learned it as a girl, though women in England were working with the 
foot side on the right by 1862.

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> On Dec 10, 2017, at 10:50 PM, Janice Blair  wrote:
> 
> Went back for another look and noticed that the pillow is shown from the back
> and the lace being worked on the pillow has the footside on the right. The
> pricking was probably also photographed upside down.Sorry for the
> confusion.Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com
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[lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Karen Thompson]

Dear Janice, Lorri and others,
Thank you for all the interest. Hopefully this thread will help shed more
light on a very important part of American handmade lace history.

Janice writes: "One thing I did notice though was that the Smithsonian lace
had a left footside whereas most English lace to my knowledge have a right
hand footside.  Maybe Karen can explain why the change of side if the lady
who produced the lace originally came from England
​."

Elizabeth Lord Lakeman was born in Ipswich​, MA in 1767 and moved to
Hallowell, Maine upon marriage. She worked one of the original Ipswich lace
patterns as a young woman living in Ipswich, MA. It is now in the
Smithsonian collection, where you can see it at:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_645070
​
or

as the last object
​ ​
by searching Smithsonian lace collection
​.​
 It corresponds to one of the samples from 1789-1790 at the Library of
Congress
​ (number 9)​
.  Later in her life she made the white point ground lace
​ that is​
left on her Ipswich pillow when she died at the age of 94.
​
At this point we do not know where the first lace teacher in Ipswich, MA
came from or when, but since about 600 lace makers made lace in Ipswich, MA
in 1790, lacem​aking had been practiced
there
​ ​
for a long time. Most likely the original teacher came from the
​c
ontinent or the Downton area as the footside is on the left.
​
Lorri writes:
"
If the bolster was situated opposite of the photo, wouldn't the foot side be
​
on the right.
​"​
 The bobbins are no longer attached, but the direction is still clear from
the finished lace in the back and the broken threads from the bobbins in
the front of the pins. This and all the Ipswich, MA samples have the
footside at the left.

Karen - in sunny and cold Delaware, USA ​
 ​

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[lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Janice Blair]

Went back for another look and noticed that the pillow is shown from the back
and the lace being worked on the pillow has the footside on the right. The
pricking was probably also photographed upside down.Sorry for the
confusion.Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com

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Re: [lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Lorri Ferguson]

If the bolster was situated opposite of the photo, wouldn't the foot side be
on the right.


Lorri Ferguson

Renton, WA,

 USA



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Subject: [lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

When checking out the link to the bolster pillow at the Smithsonian, it
reminded me of the Plum Pudding pattern in A Visual Introduction to
Buckspoint
Lace by Geraldine Stott, which I think was the first lace book I ever
purchased back in 1994. I also think I got the last copy not the stand that
day.  On checking, I see that the Plum Pudding has a larger gimp circle with
a cloth stitch center block and more ground that the one on the bolster
pillow.
One thing I did notice though was that the Smithsonian lace had a
left footside whereas most English lace to my knowledge have a right hand
footside.  Maybe Karen can explain why the change of side if the lady who
produced the lace originally came from England.Janice Janice Blair Murrieta,
CA, jblace.com

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[lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Janice Blair]

When checking out the link to the bolster pillow at the Smithsonian, it
reminded me of the Plum Pudding pattern in A Visual Introduction to Buckspoint
Lace by Geraldine Stott, which I think was the first lace book I ever
purchased back in 1994. I also think I got the last copy not the stand that
day.  On checking, I see that the Plum Pudding has a larger gimp circle with
a cloth stitch center block and more ground that the one on the bolster
pillow.
One thing I did notice though was that the Smithsonian lace had a
left footside whereas most English lace to my knowledge have a right hand
footside.  Maybe Karen can explain why the change of side if the lady who
produced the lace originally came from England.Janice Janice Blair Murrieta,
CA, jblace.com

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[lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

[Karen Thompson]

Hi Susan,
The white lace on the Smithsonian Ipswich pillow is a simple point ground
lace made about 70 years after the Ipswich lace industry.  Moreover, as
Adele pointed out, the Ipswich lace makers made white linen laces in the
late 1700s. We don't have samples, so we don't know what kind it was. The
lace on the pillow is made with cotton thread, which was not commonly used
for lace until the 1830s after gassing (burning off the fuzz of spun cotton
thread) became common. This was well after the Ipswich lace industry had
lost out to machine made laces.
-Karen

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