RE: [lace] Piecework magazine/ Carrickmacross Lace
Hi Sherry I agree that the lace issue is worth having! BTW, The Wedding dress was not Carrickmacross lace, but the Carrickmacross technique of appliqué was used to transfer the machine made motifs in the lace to the tulle of the dress. Brenda posted this url last week which is a video clip of the making of the dress http://www.france24.com/en/20110514-fashion-Lace-Alexander-McQueen-Sarah-Bur ton-Wedding-Middleton Annette Meldrum, Wollongong Australia On Behalf Of Celtic Dream Weaver Subject: [lace] Piecework magazine/ Carrickmacross Lace I thought I would let you all know with the talk of the Royal Wedding dress (which I didn't think the lace looked like Carrickmacross to me) bring me to the May/June issue of "Piecework" magazine Years ago I took a lace class of Carrickmacross Lace with Mary Shields in Ithaca, N.Y. After that class Mary had said she would love to have a lace bobbin painted by me. In exchange she said she would design a Carrickmacross pattern for me that I could use to make a pin. Imagine my surprise when I got a pattern in the mail along with the material I needed to finish it along with fan sticks to frame my lace into and make a pin. Since seeing the article in the magazine it is making me think of making that pin. There is the letter "S" in the middle for my first name. This email was intended to share with you all about the Carrickmacross lace that was featured in "Piecework" magazine. Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/ Nata 616 - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Lefkara lace
Hello All! For those abroad, we are celebrating our national holiday of remembrance here in the US--Memorial Day--honoring our fallen soldiers. So before the picnic begins, I spent a few moments checking some of my favorite sites & ran across an article (& archives) on needlelace from Cyprus--Lefkara. www.needlenthread.com So many pretties & I wanted to share. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA sunny today after last evening's 1.5" of rain & hail - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Piecework & Surface Design Association
Hello Again! On my way to pick up printer ink cartridges, I stopped by Barnes & Noble to pick up the Piecework mag that Sherry mentioned--THANK YOU!! Carrickmacross is just part of the story in this issue. Whoooeee--there's an article on repairing an Orenburg lace shawl, an Orenburg scarf pattern, an article on Alencon plus a pattern with a bee, an article on Marian Anderson's bobbin lace coverlet & more. RUN, do not walk, to get a copy for yourself or contact your library! While I was there, another publication caught my eye--Spring 2011,Vol 35, No3 of Surface Design is devoted to LACE. I've never seen this mag before but a quick read of the editorial page made me buy it. Referring to the late Czech artist Luba Krecji & a citation in Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric (1972-Constantine/Larsen), her lace skills are described as combining structure & image so that "the drawing and web are the same". And "she had freed lace from the tradition of miniscule size and subservien ce to ornament and fashion. With rough-spun linen she expressed in a readable scale the excitement of the engineering aesthetic". What a manifesto! There's a blurb on Love Lace! at the Powerhouse Museum and articles on: 'Lace as a Structural Solution', gypsy lace, Dorie Millerson's needlelace (Toronto), wire lace & more. No patterns or how-tos but plenty of artful ideas for using traditional techniques in new ways. Take a walk on the wild side & take a look if you see one on the newstand. It is easily recognizable by the sort of upside-down-lampshade-shaped hat on the cover (Silvia Fedorova's Head Adornment 2009, wire twisted with nylon thread). What a curious Memorial Day this is turning out to be! Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] thorns etc.--fishbones
One last (perhaps) comment on the use of fishbones. I worked as a paleo-ichthyologist for several years, during which I made skeletons of various types of fishes, and handled the skeletons of many more. From this experience I offer the following observations: 1) The internal bones such as ribs would almost certainly be too soft or fragile to be used as pins, as well as not really pointed enough if they were sturdier such as from a large fish. 2) I think there may be a translation issue in the statement about pins from the "backbones" of fish. The backbones themselves are round disks. What is perhaps being refered to are the neural arches coming off the top of the backbone or vertebrae, but I would expect those to be too triangular and not sharp enough. 3) What might very well have been used, and might be the translation for what is being called backbones, are the bony rays in the spiny top front fin (the "dorsal fin") that runs along the back of spiny-rayed fishes, of which the perch is an excellent example. These bones are long, sharp, and sturdy. Some are straighter than others, and some are finer than others, but they are all much less fragile than the interior bones. As Alex has pointed out, this still doesn't address the question of whether fish bones were ever actually used as pins for lace, but I could easily imagine the spiny rays of perch being used along the edges of laces such as the Scandinavian laces that don't use pins in the interior of the lace. The only bones that could possibly have been used in any fashion, however, would be the bony spines from the fin along the top of a perch or similar fish. Nancy Connecticut, USA From: Vibeke Ervo To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Mon, May 23, 2011 9:30:24 AM Subject: [lace] thorns etc. On the Arizona site you can find the book by Sophie Davydoff: 'La dentelle russe, histoire, technique, statistique' (Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1895). Look at plate A you will see thorns of wild pear used as pins in the Minsk area of Russia. In the OIDFA Bulletin 4/1999 p. 46 you can see a lacepillow from Dalecarlia in Sweden with 'pins' cut from wood. It is exceptional that such a primitive pillow has been preserved. Aino Linnove states that in Finland pins made of the backbones from fish or made of wood were used. In addition the dividing pins could be made of pig's teeth. Bodil Tornehave was more specific she stated that it is the backbones of perch that was used to make pins. Vibeke in Copenhagen - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] thorns etc.--fishbones
Nancy; What about Sturgeon bones. Were they not plentiful in the European rivers? They habe a spiney back don't they? Lauren in Washinton state, where it is FINALLY sort of sunny! On 5/30/2011 1:43 PM, Nancy Neff wrote: One last (perhaps) comment on the use of fishbones. I worked as a paleo-ichthyologist for several years, during which I made skeletons of various types of fishes, and handled the skeletons of many more. From this experience I offer the following observations: 1) The internal bones such as ribs would almost certainly be too soft or fragile to be used as pins, as well as not really pointed enough if they were sturdier such as from a large fish. 2) I think there may be a translation issue in the statement about pins from the "backbones" of fish. The backbones themselves are round disks. What is perhaps being refered to are the neural arches coming off the top of the backbone or vertebrae, but I would expect those to be too triangular and not sharp enough. 3) What might very well have been used, and might be the translation for what is being called backbones, are the bony rays in the spiny top front fin (the "dorsal fin") that runs along the back of spiny-rayed fishes, of which the perch is an excellent example. These bones are long, sharp, and sturdy. Some are straighter than others, and some are finer than others, but they are all much less fragile than the interior bones. As Alex has pointed out, this still doesn't address the question of whether fish bones were ever actually used as pins for lace, but I could easily imagine the spiny rays of perch being used along the edges of laces such as the Scandinavian laces that don't use pins in the interior of the lace. The only bones that could possibly have been used in any fashion, however, would be the bony spines from the fin along the top of a perch or similar fish. Nancy Connecticut, USA - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Terminology help
I'm starting a motif for which I have only a pricking... no picture or diagram. The pricking has some word clues but I don't know the language. I'm sure 'paru' means pair. The other terms are: Polohod ... this might be half stitch Platno tocene tocenych Reticek ... this might be braid Does anyone recognize these lace terms? Alice in Oregon - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
