Re: [lace] Finnish lace
Dear Susan I have not been to Finland but agree with Antjie's comment about traditional Finnish Lace. I have a book called "Ristnippu, Vanhoja raumalaisia tyllipitseja II" The narratve inside is in Finnish, English and German and the English says that it is the second in a series of books about traditional Finnish lace in the from the Rauma museum. There are 11 prickings inside, beautifully made for the pictures, and it appears to be a tulle lace, like Bucks Point, but made on a 45 degree grid. Maybe you should have 2 samples of lace for Finland, traditional and modern or most well-known so that you can include Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti's lace as well. Good luck with the project. Janis in South Africa where the summer weather is fabulous - -- Hello All! Today I'm seeking advice to find a small, reasonably simple pattern that is representative of traditional Finnish lace. I need to make a sample of Finnish lace for one of our library exhibits. Hopefully, it will bring back fond memories for Finnish Americans who are patrons of the library in this small Ohio town. Many thanks. Sincerely, Susan Hottle - 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/
[lace] lily lappet - pattern?
I spotted a lovely piece of lace on page 4 of the Honiton Lace book on âthe professorâs siteâ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/archive_032.pdf Does anyone know if there is a pattern or pricking available for this piece anywhere? Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com - 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/
[lace] Support pins etc.
I see no problem with using support pins if you need them and if they help you get your lace looking how you want it. I am sure the Ãld-timersâwould have used whatever they could to assist in making the lace. I also use coloured pens to mark my prickings before I put the contact on them. I find that helps, too â Who cares â no-one else sees the prickings, and if they do â so what?!!! (You all know I am rebellious and go âradicalâ every now and again!!! ) I worked a fairly dense Beds piece â with Overlapping 9 pin edge, and when I first looked at the pricking and tried to follow the lines of the plaits I could see where there might be a problem if I wasnât concentrating well, - so marked one âloopâ of the edge in black, and the overlapping one in red â and did that all around the pattern. It worked beautifully â I knew exactly where I was the whole time. The trails were marked in green, and I think the cloth stitch pattern bits were blue, -- whatever â it all helped me make the lace Enjoyably (which is the whole point!) When you have a forest of pins it is sometimes hard to see what is what, -- so get out the coloured pens and get some marks there before you start, so you can enjoy the journey. Who will ever know you marked the pricking first?!! - and anyone who finds out will most probably think you Very Sensible!!! Thank you for that book review on the new Korella book, Jeri. It looks like another great book. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz.. --where we had 35mm rain last evening (1â inches) - the first good rain for Ages! - 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/
Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas and Flanders
Getting the tension right in Flanders is a bit tricky. I never use support pins BUT I do tall my students when they tension they should pat their bobbins down rather than pulling them. You never pull the worker bobbins just keep them loose and allow the ring pair and ground to tension them. Julie I have some notes I can send you on this if you like Anna froma hot Sydney summer where the tamp out side at 9.30am is 33C and expected to get over 40 again!!! We have had 40C+ days at least twice a week since New Year! On 5/2/17 6:04 pm, Julie Shalack wrote: I just finished my third or fourth Flanders exercise without support pins and I am not really happy with the cloth areas. - 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/
[lace] Learning about Point de Gaze from Laurie Waters
Supplementing Elizabeth Kurella's new book - Point de Gaze - reviewed earlier today: Lace lovers might like to subscribe to the free Lace News at https://lacenews.net/ On the right there is a "Follow Blog"; enter your email address in space provided. Laurie Waters selects from a broad range of eBay offerings, and presents her informed observations. An excellent way to learn lace identification in small doses. Photos can be enlarged with a click. A week after the auction ends, click on a line that looks like http://tinyurl.com/j4klvae Sometimes a dealer sets a price, and there are no bids, or you will be able to see the final price realized. At the July 16-22 2017 International Organization of Lace, Inc. convention in Pennsylvania, Laurie Waters will be teaching: Introduction to the Belgian Needlelaces - Mixed in the mornings, and Lace History & Identification in the afternoons (both Beginner to Advanced). For details, select - 2017 IOLI Convention - in right column at: _www.internationalorganizationoflace.org_ (http://www.internationalorganizationoflace.org) Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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/
[lace] Review - Point de Gaze Brussels Needle Lace, by Elizabeth Kurella
Point de Gaze Brussels Needle Lace for Collectors and Lacemakers By Elizabeth M. Kurella, Self-published, 2017, 168 pages, Soft Cover, $30; ISBN 978-1-5323-2923-4 Use Subject line of this Review to find on eBay.Or, write to _www.lacemerchant.com_ (http://www.lacemerchant.com) address, which has not yet been updated to include a photo of this book. You may also find this review under Book Reviews at http://www.nelg.us/ , with a photo of cover. --- The first book of 2017 to arrive at the Lace and Embroidery Resource Center is one that will be welcomed by lace collectors and curators, historians, and costume experts. Did you ever wonder why more people do not know how to identify lace? Elizabeth Kurella's special brand of lace identification insight informs each book she has written. She counsels it is technique, not design, that provides the means of identifying specific types of lace, which leads to the assertion that as soon as a set of designs became popular, they were copied in whatever technique was available, including machine. To explain the title of this book: Brussels needle lace was a precursor to the Point de Gaze developed in about 1850, and manufactured until the early 1900s: a span of about 50 glorious years for this lace before machine-made laces finally won the lace "battle". Judging from current auction offerings, quite a lot of this stylish needle lace is still available. It is one of those laces that, at its finest, can (when closely studied) make one forget to breathe. To those who claim to be lace experts, it is of importance to have the ability to differentiate between Point de Gaze (Belgian) and other refined European laces, such as Alençon/Argentan/Point de France (French), and Burano/Point de Venise (Italian). It is doubtful most people have ever considered the variety of Point de Gaze laces produced. Kurella has separated Point de Gaze into liberally illustrated chapters: oRecognizing (and making) oClassic flat oWith layers of petals oWith special effects oNovelties oWith no mesh oBlends and hybrids oVery special oAppendix: Plauen Museum folio Photo captions generally include descriptions rather than simply names, because there was never a single authority that assigned names to types of lace. As with all laces, the ability to personally touch it with your fingers and study both sides of these laces under magnification adds exponentially to knowledge. If you love the genteel needle-made laces of the past, this book teaches a lot about how to view and enhance your appreciation of all of them - in addition to Point de Gaze - using a method of study that Kurella has developed for her lace identification books. A combination of design, techniques and skills converge to create the finest-of-the-fine. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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/
[lace] Lace Guild AGM and Fringe
While I was cutting up vegetables for my soup maker which Iâve just plugged in, I remembered that tomorrow is the do-not-mail before date for The Lace Guild and AGM. If you donât have Lace 164 yet (I donât) you can download the forms from the internet (I did) and choose your course and get ready to send it in tomorrow. The Fringe and dinner are being held in Widnes and the AGM in the same location as the Haydock (not just Lace) Fair at Haydock Park Racecourse. Iâm looking forward to going to Widnes again as my maternal grandparents were born there. It used to be in Lancashire, but now finds itself in Cheshire. Hope to have a look around the churchyards and such while we are there. Malvary in Ottawa where it is snowing (again) big fluffy flakes. Hope it stops soon as I have to go visiting at the hospital when Iâve finished my soup. - 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/
Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas
Hi Everybody: I have a feeling that historically, lacemakers didn’t tension quite as much as we do. When I was learning Mechlin ground, for example, I was advised to just tension after the first CTC and then not to worry so much at the end of the ground stitch. That worked better than all the tensioning I had been doing. In cloth stitch areas, it’s amazing how things pull themselves into shape a row or two later, without me being that concerned with tension. Of course if there are great loops in my work I do tension them out, but I find I can usually not tension as much as I used to, and it makes no difference. There are lots of times when you don’t need support pins because the passive pair that has just been picked up as a worker can be tensioned while holding down the pair next to it. So, if you pick up a passive pair on the left of the cloth area, and work it across to the right, when you tension it you just make sure you hold down the passive pair that was just to the right of where it was originally. That pair, held down, will prevent you from pulling the cloth stitch area out of shape. And then sometimes there’s no pair to tension against, or for some other reason you want to use a support pin. If you get to the end of the row and you see the support pin wasn’t in the right place, move it. You don’t need to undo your work, just pick your pin up and budge it over a bit. There will always be a little hole in the lace from the support pin, but when you finish the lace and it gets dampened, you can fiddle with the little hole then if it really bothers you. Hope this helps. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) - 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/
Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas
I use support pins in Binche Lace primarily at take-ins and take-outs, especially where the work is in half-stitch. Without the support pin, the worker thread tends to pull the passives away from the edge, leaving an undesirable hole. I use the finest insect pins I can find, and put a dot of red nail polish on the heads of the these pins so that once I have gotten beyond that area I can take them out. I also learned about support pins from Ulrike, way back when I had only been making Lace for about a year! Clay > On Feb 5, 2017, at 2:04 AM, Julie Shalack wrote: > > I just finished my third or fourth Flanders exercise without support pins and > I am not really happy with the cloth areas. I also remember years ago Ulrike > Voelker being very emphatic about using support pins in Mechlin cloth. - 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/
Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas
Julie, Maybe you can analyze the working diagram, figure out where the support pin should go, then add a smaller hole to your pricking in the right place relative to the existing pin holes. I think Ulrike thinks it no problem because 1) she has very experienced lacemakers making the lace for the illustrations in her books, for whom adding support pins is probably no problem, and 2) she's brilliant and adding pins that aren't on the pricking is definitely no problem for her. I think she'd say to add the pin hole to the pricking if that's better for you. Nancy Connecticut, USA Julie Shalack wrote: ... It doesn't sound at all fun to me to put pins in freehand. I don't > understand why Voelker thinks it is no problem. ... > > - 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/
RE: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas
Managed to interpret Susan Roberts' description by drawing it and placed the image on my blog: https://kantelier.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/bincheflanders-tension-solutions/ Thank you, it makes perfect sense to me. I'll also prepare my insect pins with nail polish, hope they don't bend too much. Jo - 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/
[lace] Binche
Hi Arachnids Re: Subject: Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas At the risk of being called lace police there is no need to use support pins, Lace police are those who dictate and insist that their way is the correct one and the only one that should be used. I like to try all the techniques I come across and then use the one that is best for me. By giving us the benefit of your experience we gain more understanding of how we can make lace and so choose the technique that fits the situation and our individual way of working. I will definitely try this one. Thank you Susan for sharing your experience of making Binche. 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/
Re: [lace] Finnish lace
Hello, I am a fan of Korthelati's designs, but if you want a traditional Finnish lace, I would say that Korthelati is not the best option, as she is still alive and making lace. I mean, she makes a contemporary and very personal lace, not traditional lace. A few years ago I went to Finland, and visited the museum in Rauma. In the article I wrote then you can find out a bit more about the lace you can see in the museum, which is Cluny type and Point Ground. http://mi-pequeno-taller-eng.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Lace%20trips Enjoy reading the article! Have a nice Sunday!! Antje , in Spain www.vueltaycruz.es - 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/
