At 14:44 21/10/2005, you wrote:
My favorite example of ric-rac is the decoration on Bia's dress
(daughter of Cosimo I Medici, Eleanora's step-daughter) in the
portrait by Bronzino. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/b/bronzino/1/bia.jpg
Beth Matney
Great image - that's exactly what I think of as "ric rac" and what's
more, I can buy stuff like that in a shop in the centre of London!
Thanks so much - a very useful piece of research.
Suzi
>Could someone explain what "ric-rac" is? It doesn't seem to be what I
>understand. I have several cards of ric-rac braid I got in a sale, and
>would use it to sew on to a garment for decoration. It was a very popular
>trim in the mid 50's if I remember right - that's the 1950's! But ric-rac
>involving crochet is a total mystery to me. Yet another example of two
>countries separated by the same language?
Go here:
http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa082600.htm
This article doesn't go back as far as the early 1800s, from where I saw my
earliest example of this stuff, but read it and learn what Fran wants to do
without crochet.
CarolynKayta Barrows
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