~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gentle Spiders,
I just got my #1/2005 OIDFA Bulletin today. To quote from the Editorial:
"As usual, at the beginning of a new year, the cover has changed. This time, looking forward to the Congress in Athens in 2006, it shows the picture of a beautiful Greek purse"
The purse is, indeed, beautiful (if highly impractical <g>). But can anyone tell me what kind of lace it is? And how it's made?
Because it's 3-dimensional, and I'm currently obsessed with 3-D lace, especially in colour (which this is). IF it can be made with bobbins (and not too many of them), achieving the 3-D effect "on the go" (that is without having a huge pricking to make a small flower which will then be shaped - with needle and thread - after it's off the pillow)
Bits of it are quite obviously made with a needle, and a very clever idea too, using long stitches on the *right* side of the lace. Done in a different colour, they serve -simultaneously - as a way of attaching the lace to the background *and* adding some features to it (such as veining in leaves or extra colour on flowers). Ingenious!
But the rest I can't begin to figure out; some of it looks like BL half stitch, but not quite. Some of it looks like a diamond-shaped net (similiar to latter-day Valenciennes) which could be achieved with bobbins, but I can't figure out the joins. And never mind the stem cords - those look a bit like the crocheted cords for the Rumanian Point lace...
So... What is it? And will it be taught in Athens? If it's bobbin, and if it will be taught, then I may have to start re-thinking my plans for the summer of '06. I was going to pass on Athens (OIDFA) and go to Montreal (IOLI) instead, but...
-- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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