Jeri wrote:
<If Newbies are curious about this subject, Lori (Lacefairy) has sent me
the
link below to the Poole Bobbin Lace Circle's web site, which has a picture
of
a completed mat. Just click on address and you'll go direct. Several
members of the Poole Bobbin Lace Circle are on Arachne, I believe.>
Indeed there are members of Poole Bobbin Lace Circle on Arachne - Liz Pass,
Eve Morton, Beryl Millard and myself, to name just four.
Malcolm Down (yes another clever male lacemaker) made that. He said to me at
a PBLC meeting that he liked a challenge, and that "these women here are all
so proud of their silly little bits of lace", which annoyed me no end. So I
challenged him (not jokingly, as it says on the PBLC web site!) to make the
cope in the book published by Springetts of "Fine Buckinghamshire Point Lace
Patterns belonging to the Misses Sivewright and Pope", which he promptly
did. The book just has the pricking, and the only picture of the finished
lace is of the centre part of the cope labelled "Part of a Cope" on page 64
on Thomas Wright's "Romance of the Lace Pillow". Malcolm's finished lace can
be seen on:
http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/pblc/cope.htm
so perhaps some of us do make "silly little bits of lace".
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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