On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our local library has two bound volumes of an Italian filet netting > magazine from the 1920s. Lovely magazine, great photos, lots of charts. One of > the photographs is of little boxes made from this lace. The lace (in these > cases an insertion that appears to be about 1 1/2-2 inches wide) is wrapped around > a wire box frame. There is a hinged "lid" on which a round or oblong doily > piece of lace is fastened. Does anyone know if these frames are still being > made? I can imagine lots of creative things to do with them!
I've been working with filet lace alot lately and I think I can picture what you are talking about. The filet lace books that I have read show the lace worked on a frame made of metal that the netting is stretched on so that the pattern darning can be worked. I would bet alot of money that those frames are not still available (commercially) at least here in the US. What I am envisioning from your description of the box is a variant of this working frame that has been fashioned into a box by several pieces/sides. I too would be interested in knowing anything anyone knows about filet lace or tools. It is *very* obscure in the US. I've been starting to teach it here in the US. Karen Bovard (The ShuttleSmith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omaha, NE - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
