Re: [lace] Needle Lace Revival
Such refreshing news I'm now reading about tutors who teach Traditional needlelace! It warms my heart, as I felt I had failed, having spent over 30 years trying to pass on the legacy that Nenia Lovesey left to us all. It would be a disaster if Traditional Needlelace disappeared into obscurity like so many other skills have done, Modern technology is wonderful but children seem to be no longer taught them at school as there is no time apparently but they would rather spend their time sitting at computers, game boys, x boxes etc (whatever they are)! Catherine Barley UK Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message >From : l...@binnie.id.au Date : 27/03/2018 - 23:53 (GMTDT) To : devonth...@gmail.com, lace@arachne.com Subject : Re: [lace] Needle Lace Revival Margaret Stephens, here in Australia, is very much an expert and teacher in needle lcae. her classes at both the Embroiders' Guild and the Lace guild are booked out. She has even written 2 how to books one on Retecella and one on Amelia Ars. Both show the traditional and modern colour. Anna from a warm Sydney Autumn morning - 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/ - 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: RE: [lace] Needle Lace revival
I have her book and attended her class at the OIDFA Conference in Caen 2012. An excellent tutor! Catherine Barley UK Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com -- Subject : RE: [lace] Needle Lace revival 😊 Also, don't forget Brigitte Delesques Dépalle, who wrote by far the best manual on needlelace and still teaches. She and I were students together at Alençon. -Original Message- From: Devon Thein Subject: Re: [lace] Needle Lace revival Oops. Sorry, Madame Laurie. Can’t wait to see your articles. Everyone save your lobster claws. Needle lace lives! Devon Sent from my iPad - 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/ - 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] Needle Lace Revival
Such good news Anna, where can I see some of her work? Happy Lacemaking Catherine Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message-- Subject : Re: [lace] Needle Lace Revival Margaret Stephens, here in Australia, is very much an expert and teacher in needle lcae. her classes at both the Embroiders' Guild and the Lace guild are booked out. She has even written 2 how to books one on Retecella and one on Amelia Ars. Both show the traditional and modern colo - 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] Needle Lace Revival
I have looked at Penny Nickels work and agree it is very impressive and can recognise the influence of my Snow Queen panel, but for some reason my panel does not seem to come into the category of 'Contemporary Fibre Art' - I wonder why? I know people are visiting my website by the number of hits it gets on a regular basis and clearly they learn something from the detailed progressive images that I have shown there, but my work seems to all be classified as 'living in the past' recreating old fashioned traditional techniques. Perhaps the skills that have taken me over forty years to perfect are the problem, and maybe if I were to incorporate some irregular tension in my work, it may be viewed as more 'avant- garde'. Clearly we all learn from the old traditional techniques so it is essential that they continue to be practised, otherwise they will disappear into obscurity. I wish you and all your exhibitors the greatest success with your exhibition. Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message >From : devonth...@gmail.com Subject : [lace] Needle Lace Revival In the US, Carolyn Wetzel is investing a tremendous amount of time, effort and money to become a needle lace teacher with expertise in Aemelia Ars, Alencon and Frisado de Valladolid. She is a real asset in perpetuating needle lace. I think it is imperative to give some recognition to, and to exhibit, youngish needle lace artists. With no encouragement, they will stop doing needle lace art and go on to do something that is better understood and appreciated. My exhibit Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques has several young(ish) needle lacemakers in it. One is Penny Nickels. She has a blogspot called Donkeywolf http://donkeywolf.blogspot.com/ where you can see two works that will be in the show. - 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] Revival
Hi Arachnids I have found the latest discussion on the revival of lace fascinating and would like to add the following. When I started teaching lacemaking in 1973 prickings were almost impossible to find. My motherâs friend knew of someone who had made lace and gave me her address. I visited her and was allowed to borrow the prickings and copy them, at the time the best way was to take rubbings. When I returned them she told me her lacemaking story. Maria had gone to Olney during WWII with a group of evacuee children and was teaching at the local primary school. She saw the writing on one of the buildings that stated Olney was the centre of lacemaking and was interested. When she asked her class of 7 year olds if someoneâs mother could teach her to make lace she was puzzled by the reaction, she had committed a social solecism and could not understand it. Later on in the week one of the boys slid a bobbin into her hand and said his mother would be happy to see her. It turned out that to admit that your mother made lace was to admit that your grandmother was uneducated and could not read, so lacemakers kept quiet about it. Fortunately Maria had the chance to make lace and after the austerity of the war the pleasure of making and looking at crafts changed the attitude. Like everything else, crafts go through fashions in what is popular and having gone through a revival it waned in popularity. However, I have had more new lacemakers coming to my classes in the last two years than in the previous 10. Added to that, we now have many excellent books available for wishing to learn in the future so do not despair. Blow the dust 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/
[lace] Blue lace flower
For the gardeners amongst us the magazine Gardens Illustrated now on sale in the Uk comes with a free pack of seeds of Trachymene Coerulea ‘Blue lace flower’. Diana in a very wet miserable Northamptonshire - 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] Needle lace revival
If you watch a 17 minute interview with Maggie Hensel-Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsO5wICsojY conducted by Angharad Rixon, proprietor of Textile Support and the genius behind The Doily Free Zone, you will see that she credits a class with Margaret Stephens with setting her off on her lace journey. I am featuring a series of three pieces of Maggieâs depicting unexceptional moments in the show Lace, not Lace, in New Jersey. These are based on the style of historic punto in aria such as the Judith and Holofernes lace in the Metropolitan Museum. Maggie is now making another series of works dealing with issues of the status of women. She has begun to incorporate, very cautiously, some color in the work. Her piece â Tripped up and strung up on a never ending stream of comments from strange menâ is probably best viewed on her Instagram account. But, it incorporates little male figures that reference ones often found in Italian needle lace. So, in fact, young artists are learning the skills from traditionalists who preserve and teach them. In addition to that, although my sample is very small, I think that the new needle lacers may start out with larger, irregular stitches, impressionistically applied. But, as they develop, they tend to seek out more sophisticated techniques, looking at Catherineâs work and others, and to incorporate them, and also to improve their technique and regularize the tension. But, an interesting situation that I am encountering is that people who are not in the lace world already are more readily attracted to large pieces, and ones with irregular stitching because they can see what is happening in them. When there are exquisite small pieces that use the techniques perfectly and in a sophisticated way, members of the public tend to blank out and not even think about how the piece is made. Thus it becomes less interesting. It is sort of a situation where say, you are a person who has enjoyed seeing huge Roman mosaics, and then you see very small miniature Byzantine mosaics. You say, âWow, this is like a huge beautiful mosaic, but someone had the skill to make it minuteâ. Instead, in the lace world, you say about a large piece made in cord, or rope, âthis is fascinating in the way the threads move in and out in a complex fashion.â But when you see a small complex, intricate piece where you can barely see the threads moving in an out in complicated patterns, you say, âthis is like lace trim from the five and dimeâ. Challengesâ¦In a way, the public needs to learn about the techniques used in a simple way, before they can appreciate their use in a more complex way. Devon Sent from Mail for Windows 10 - 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] Magnifying glasses without weight on your nose
We wrote about this just a couple weeks ago. Â I use a needlework shop for orders. Â The H*** with making Am*z*n or craft chains wealthier, even if the prices are less. Â We must keep our privately-owned lace and embroidery suppliers in business. Â There are very few left. Â They truly understand our needs and give personal service. Â The magnifier I prefer has gone missing. Â Have ordered what I want, and am in waiting mode. Â This home/studio/library is crammed with too much related to lace and embroidery. Â I have been unpacking boxes and sending things to the town dump, shredding, taking things to consignment shop, and filing or shelving the rest for two Winters now. Â A huge undertaking. Â The magnifiers that are on order are attached to what I call a hairband with a hinge near the ears. Â They come with more than one strength of magnifier. Â They flip down when needed, even over eyeglasses or sunglasses (if you demonstrate outdoors). Â You can walk around if you are a teacher and sit down at a student's pillow to demonstrate or retro-lace. Â You can flip them up if you want to leave your lace to make a cup of tea, or whatever. Â Â What is most desirable is that they add no pressure or weight to your nose. Â As we get older and skin gets thinner and slower to heal, this is important. Â When you adjust them up or down, your fingers are not picking up makeup from your face that can be transferred to your bobbins or thread, which might happen with magnifiers attached to eye glasses. Â This is a CONSERVATION lesson! Â Also, the plastic frames make them lightweight when added to your lace pillow's tote bag. Â Â Â Will share the product information when received, early in April. Â 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/
Re: [lace] Magnifying glasses without weight on your nose
I have probably one of every magnifier there was ever made. the easiest is the clip-on, flip-up and down ones. the draw back is no extra lighting. i do agree that the pressure on the nose is definitely a consideration for us older lacers. i have yellow lenses that are also magnified which are great for outdoor work and demonstrating - or even reading. these also take care of your eyes when on the computer too much. but we are fortunate that there are so many different ones that everyone should be able to find the right one for themselves. so glad everyone has shared a preference so that the younger lacers as they are in need will have an education and know they should be able to find just the right one for themselves. i checked out several sources to see if there was one out there i had not tried yet. great topic. Hugs, Lin and the Mali [image: http://www.amazing-animations.com/animations/goodmorning15.gif] On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Jeri Ames wrote: > We wrote about this just a couple weeks ago. > > I use a needlework shop for orders. The H*** with making Am*z*n or craft > chains wealthier, even if the prices are less. We must keep our > privately-owned lace and embroidery suppliers in business. There are very > few left. They truly understand our needs and give personal service. > > The magnifier I prefer has gone missing. Have ordered what I want, and am > in waiting mode. This home/studio/library is crammed with too much related > to lace and embroidery. I have been unpacking boxes and sending things to > the town dump, shredding, taking things to consignment shop, and filing or > shelving the rest for two Winters now. A huge undertaking. > > The magnifiers that are on order are attached to what I call a hairband > with a hinge near the ears. They come with more than one strength of > magnifier. They flip down when needed, even over eyeglasses or sunglasses > (if you demonstrate outdoors). You can walk around if you are a teacher > and sit down at a student's pillow to demonstrate or retro-lace. You can > flip them up if you want to leave your lace to make a cup of tea, or > whatever. > > What is most desirable is that they add no pressure or weight to your > nose. As we get older and skin gets thinner and slower to heal, this is > important. When you adjust them up or down, your fingers are not picking > up makeup from your face that can be transferred to your bobbins or thread, > which might happen with magnifiers attached to eye glasses. This is a > CONSERVATION lesson! Also, the plastic frames make them lightweight when > added to your lace pillow's tote bag. > > Will share the product information when received, early in April. > > 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] Magnifiers
Sue, The ones I use are K1C2 Magni-Clips Magnifiers 2.50 Magnification and can be found on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/K1C2-Magni-Clips-Magnifiers-2-50-Magnification/dp/B000FUB59U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522271212&sr=8-2&keywords=magni-clips+magnifiers I like them because I can look over them or flip them up when not needed. Also you can move them away from your glasses to get the focus just right for you. I have several pairs of different magnification sizes. Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.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] Margaret Stephens
Here are some of Margaret's photos, from needlelacetalk. http://needlelacetalk.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=08a ktr41n729u Lorelei - 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] Magnifying glasses
I love MagEyes because they can be worn with or without regular glasses and they're very comfortable. https://www.amazon.com/MagEyes-Magnifier-5-7-Lenses/dp/B000WUY8NS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522295703&sr=8-1&keywords=mageyes They come in several magnifications ($2, 4, 5, 7). I prefer #7 for fine work. Before I had laser surgery to correct my vision, I wore them over my regular glasses. Now I wear them over my reading glasses or without glasses. Regards, Avital - 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/
