The most exhaustive work on the subject of (joining and ) mounting lace is "Het Lassen en Aannaaien van Kant" by Louise Allis-Viddeleer. There is also a translation by Ineke van den Kieboom. The work was done as part of her Teacher Training at Kantcentrum in Bruges, and my copy is quite dog-eared from much use.
Does anyone know if this is still in print? I don't think I've seen it with any of our vendors, but it's one of those "essentials" that, IMO, all good lacemakers should have! Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:16 AM Subject: [lace] Mounting lace on fabric > The second Elsie Luxton book has directions for sewing a Honiton lace motif > to fabric (ie handkerchief corner) and finishing the rest of the edge. > > As I looked for the book to give you its name I realised it's not there. I > must look in my "library book" to see which student has it, because whoever it > is its been gone for years rather than months or I'd have remembered it's not > here. > Anyway, it's the Honiton designs not techniques one, written by just Elsie > Luxton. > > Just be very aware that the first round of stitches is worked one way up over > the lace and reversed when used on the fabric edge. It does say this quite > clearly but I still managed to not reverse it. When I came to do the second > round I discovered that I wasn't able to make the finished off edge on the > fabric bit (ie over 3/4 of the edge!) and had to undo it all. It's still a UFO as > I got bored with it and cross with myself. > > Jacquie > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
