Hi All, My fascination with the stitches used in Needle Lace has fueled my recent book buying spree. I also have been pouring over "Needlelace" by Pat Earnshaw ISBN #1-85391-158-5 which someone else mentioned as a good NL book. I got my copy from Holly Van Sciver (I think) a few years ago for $23.00. That's the one I got before taking a class in classic NL. I got it because it has lots and lots of different stitches diagramed. Now of course I want all the NL books <G>.
In my recent spree I got "Needlelace in Photographs" by Cynthia Voysey (the dust jacket has one ISBN number and the book has another with "cased" after it so I'm not including it). Both books have fantastic photographs of Argentella lace and I am in love! I'm not going to make any but it knocks my socks off (I'm gobsmacked) <G>. Here's the best picture I could find on the 'net, it's not as pretty as in the books: http://www.marquise.de/en/themes/spitze/index.shtml go to the bottom of the page and there is a picture of Argentella lace. It's really gobbed up with stitches like nothing I've ever seen before! However in looking at Santina Levey's "Lace A History" I see that BLers making Mechlin and Valenciennes sometimes put a lot of Partridge's Eye stitches in and it gives a similar look. No plain ground here! No "simple elegance"! I think it touches the part of me that came out I was making a soft sculpture dragon covered in red lame (accent over the "e") it looked too plain and I sprinkled red sequins (stars, large and small circles) over the whole thing. "Nothing succeeds like excess" Oscar Wilde? Andy Warhol? Jane in Vermont, USA where it's in the 60sF and the grass is getting greener. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
