Hi Arachnids I am interested in the prickings that Elizabeth Ligeti wrote about. Even though I examined most of the prickings at Luton Museum when I was researching Bucks I did not see one that did not have the ground fully pricked. Making ground without pinning it is certainly one of our folk memories, but without the evidence I suspected that the practice was rare. No lace worker would go to the expense of having someone prick all the ground if she was not going to use the holes, nor would she have gone to the trouble of pricking all the holes herself.
Does anyone know about any prickings like these? Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
