Hello Carolina and everyone I am glad you wrote about the Spanish laces, and the macramé.
The Renaissance would not have happened without a paradigm shift; similarly bobbin lacemaking existed when there was a way of thinking to make it, and a reason to use it. I have a theory that if one wants to learn how people think, of a particular culture, learn exactly how they crafted things. Through lacemaking, in each regional way to make lace, there are clues to the mind operative. The origins of lace...one can research costume, employment (viz. the guilds that made the clothing), trade and commerce (yes, the business deals), custom from folkways as well as royalty and the priesthood, teaching methods or in another way, learning methods (out of books? not as we do today - but not necessarily word-of-mouth, people could read actions, and learn by doing). And by 'lace' we are talking about the dentellated textile, not the cord that laces up a garment - or both? I was working an insertion from one of the folders De Linnenkast,and it occurred to me when examining the pattern and its complicated repeat of what seemed to be pathways all over the place, that the person who designed it probably didn't read - at least in the sense of looking across a line from left to right. They must have had the skill to see in different directions at once. Fascinating. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:09 AM, C. de la Guardia <carolina...@aol.com>wrote: > > It is sure that before Le Pompe, other laces were worked in Italy as it was > in Spain, and business deal help to spread all sort of crafts between > different European countries: Italy, Spain, France, Antwerp, Germany, etc. > > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
