Book drawing for a new book:
Reconstructing Old Lace - Experiences from a Workshop by Heike
Beckers-Hartl, Maria Kilian and Claudia Schuster. English translation by
Eva von der Bey, with a bit of assistance from me.
The book has just been published in time for the Deutsche Kloeppelverband
Kongress in April. Retail price 20 Euros.
For anyone new, arachne drawings happen from time to time when members have
something to offer. Anyone who wants to enter please send me personally an
email with Book Drawing in the title by Saturday 18 February. I will use
automatic filtering to sort the entries so any emails with the wrong subject
or to the list instead of to me personally will not be entered. I will draw
a winner at random on Sunday 19 February and the authors will send the
winner the book. Entries welcome from anywhere in the world.
The book is about how to create a pricking from a piece of old lace. This
process needs some experience. There are some example recreated prickings
at the end of the book, but the main purpose of the book is to help in
constructing your own pricking.
The book contents are:
Preliminary Steps
Tools
Preparing the lace
Photocopies
Preparation for drawing
Reconstruction of patterns with continuous lace
First drawing
Transition between repeats
Further adjustment of the repeat
Finished technical drawing
Drawing the pricking
Features of the reconstruction of symmetrical patterns
Constructing a corner
Symmetrical corner
Corner in continuous lace
Fitting straight lace to curved shapes
Constructing a circle
Constructing an oval
Examples
Torchon (1)
Torchon (2)
Machine lace (1)
Machine lace (2)
Guipure
Bedfordshire
Valenciennes
Flanders (1)
Flanders (2)
Mechelin (detail)
Appendix
Polar graph paper
Ovals
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