On Jan 5, 2007, at 19:37, Alice Howell wrote:
We made this series of flower pictures/projects for
table decorations for conference last year. They had
to be freestanding for the center of the tables rather
than framed for hanging, as in the book.
We bent wire into a square just barely larger than the
lace (so the lace would fit inside the square), with
the wire ends overlapped at the center bottom and
turned down for a couple inches, about 2 inches apart.
The bases were wood, about 2-1/2 x 8 inches. Two
holes were drilled where the turned-down wires touched
the wood, and the wire ends inserted.
I brought a couple of wire frames -- one shaped like a cathedral window
with a "loopy flourish" at top, the other just rectangular with little
loopy "flourishes" at the bends -- from Prague, in '06. They are even
simpler than the ones Alice describes, in that there's no overlapping
of wires at the centre bottom. Instead, the wire frame has 3 sides
only, with the 4rth side being provided by the wood "stand". The wood
"stand" itself looks like a piece of moulding to me; one is a plain
half-round, the other is flat and has a routed "trough" in it. There
are holes drilled through each end of the piece of wood, to accept the
wire "frame".
The "frame" isn't even glued into the wood; just pushed in, so the
whole thing can be dis-assembled or adjusted, by pushing one end of the
"frame" deeper in than the other end). Very simple, very effective. The
lace can either hang freely from the top (if it's stiff enough) or be
"laced" to the "frame" with overcast stitches, as described by Alice.
I had hoped to get Richard Worthen (a, more-or-less, "local" supplier
of "lace-related things made of wod") to make some more -- for me and
for sale -- but he said he doesn't deal with metal, so I gave up the
pursuit of that idea.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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