Elena,
It crosses my mind that we should probably report to arachne that you
will be teaching a bobbin lace class at the House of Wax Bar in
Brooklyn on July 28th. The event which is likely to be of interest,
although not exclusively so, to the Goth and Lolita community will be
followed by a
Devon
I am convinced that the motive behind the prevalence of point ground in the
19th c was speed of working. So much that went on during that time was aimed at
speeding up the process, to compete with machine lace (a hopeless prospect).
Even the clothwork was simplified.
Lorelei
Subject:
The description Devon gives of her lace reporting activities was
interesting. I am doing much the same thing, collecting information form the
20 odd facebook lace groups that I belong to and posting the best parts to
laceioli and needlelacetalk. Interesting photos are posted to my pinterest
pages.
Thank you Devon for that wonderful explanation!
I apologize that I didn’t share the “Lace Unveiled” event with Arachne sooner,
I had included it on all of our social media platforms and in the BLG email
newsletter- if anyone would like to subscribe to that, please let me know! In
the future I
>From the perspective of conservation/restoration of lace and textiles:
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Until aerosol dispensers were developed, starching requirements for very open
lace grounds today would have been very difficult. Perhaps it could have been
done with a paint or pastry brush, but it would have been messy.
I'll send you the instructions in a separate email
Sue
suebabbs...@gmail.com
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the reason the „new“ grounds we try to create, I am speaking of those
lacemakers I am working together since several years in different seminaries, s
because we use too big grids for to fine threads. Therefore you need starching
otherwise there is no stability except we use wool or plastic
Hello Arachneans,
could somebody please help or tell me how to load up photos. I forgot how it
works.
Thanks.
Ilske
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I meant "cross, twist, twist, twist" for point ground.
Also, I meant late 20th and early 21st century, instead of late 19th
and early 20th century for the rise of grounds that require starching.
I plead a sense of disorientation from using a new mail program. I
hope these are transmitting ok.
Alex makes some interesting points in her post about grounds. The fact
that we no longer have the finest of threads which enabled the
elaborate quatrefoil grounds of the early 18th century is a shame.
But, they are very much of the aesthetic of that era. i am not sure
why simple grounds like point
Jeri writes: The above is an illustration of how one of you might take
over some lace news reporting, so I can cut back.
I would like to reassure Jeri that in fact Elena and I do a great deal
of lace news reporting, but it is invisible to those people without
facebook or instagram. Some years ago
Hi Arachnids
I also got interested in exploring grounds and tried many of them. Then I made
a Bucks point bookmark, an earlier version of the one in my geometrical Bucks
book and it was a shock to the system. If you get a chance to see the updated
version in my book p150 follow it up by reading
I too will not be changing the habits of a lifetime. It also infuriates me how
the pronunciation of so many words have now been changed by putting the
emphasis on a different part of the word. Even news readers on TV do I! Are
all these changes age related do you think?
Catherine Barley
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