[lace] Lace Quote
I believe Needlelace as we know it today came into being because, before hand, it was worked in the spaces where threads from the fabric were withdrawn. When the garment was worn out â the needlelace was also thrown away, as it was part of the garment. Eventually they invented a way of making the lace separately from the garment, so it could be removed and used again on a different garment. Punto in Aria, and the needlelaces we know today came into being, due to this. Sounds sensible I hope everyone is staying safe from this wretched virus, and that 2021 will be a better year than this one has been. We are slowly coming out of a 6 month long lock-down. Compliments of the Season to all. Regards from Liz. L. Melbourne, Oz. - 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/
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Over the years I have collected a few quotations that contain references to "lace" from works of fiction. Here are two: " What is our Cosmos but a snowflake? What is it but a piece of lace? "Â >From â*/The Year of the Flood/*â by Margaret Atwood (1939-?). Â " âYour face is like lace!â, she said.âWhy do you say that?â Richard asked.âBecause itâs very decorative,âwas the reply." From â*/Hide My Eyes/*âby Margery Allingham (1904-1966). Happy Winter Solstice, Merry Christmas & Season's Greetings from Tartu, Estonia. Penelope PS There was some snow early last week, but now it has all gone. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus - 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/
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Re: [lace] Lace quote
I don’t know where my copy of Le Pompe is at the moment so I cannot check. It is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way does anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? Unless you have to make a lace trimmed dress, lace curtains, or similar? Lacemaking was useful in the areas and times of such things and lacemakers needed to make some money though I don’t think that is what it is trying to say. Am I missing something? Perhaps it is because most of my ancestry consists of country peasants whose lives would not have included any lace. Regards, Helen (on the west coast of mainland Canada). > *Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.* - 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] Lace quote
According to Radmilla (someone please supply her last name as I am drawing a blank), one of the Eastern European (Czech?) peasant laces was useful and needful. She said fabric was expensive or hard to come by, and any housewife or daughter could make lace. The lace was sewn to collars, cuffs, hems, etc. to protect the precious fabric from wear and tear. That really stuck in my mind, as it is so backwards to today's society. Robin P. On December 17, 2020, at 4:16 PM, H M Clarke wrote: >It is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way >does anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? >> *Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.* - 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/
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It is an interesting quote. Probably not useful, especially viewed with today’s more utilitarian eyes. Back then, of course, you lived with ornament in the clothing of the moneyed classes. I recall reading somewhere (can’t give you a citation, sorry) that one of the great things about early bobbin lace was that it was an embellishment that could be quickly applied, (compared to the previous embellishment, embroidery, which took a lot longer to apply to any particular garment) plus it was portable. If you’re finished with your blue velvet jerkin, the lace, which was only tacked on anyway, could be quickly removed in its entirety with its structure intact, and moved onto your next garment. You couldn’t do that with embroidery! Also, I’m thinking lace, and other fine embellishments, probably were more necessary than they are today. People flaunted their fortunes in dress, but also I seem to recall (again, no citation) reading that there were dress requirements at court. In an era when you held your vast estate (and income) at his/her majesty’s pleasure, having the monarch get pissed off at you for not following the dress code had a lot more repercussions than it does today. Adele (also on the west coast of Canada, but with more rain than Helen) > I don’t know where my copy of Le Pompe is at the moment so I cannot check. It > is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way > does anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? Unless you have to make a lace > trimmed dress, lace curtains, or similar? Lacemaking was useful in the areas > and times of such things and lacemakers needed to make some money though I > don’t think that is what it is trying to say. Am I missing something? Perhaps > it is because most of my ancestry consists of country peasants whose lives > would not have included any lace. > > Regards, Helen (on the west coast of mainland Canada). > >> *Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.* > > - - 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/
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Here are the various quotes I have collected over the years. From Wings of Fire by Charles Todd (copy write 1998), Takes place in England just after WW1 Inspector Ian Rutledge is rushing through a small village in the rain. âRutledge turned, crossed over to the nearest shop. In the small window fronting the road there was a collection of ribbons and laces behind a spill of colorful embroidery thread, packets of needles, and an array of handkerchiefs that reminded him of those heâd seen in Oliviaâs room. As he opened the door, a gust of wind and rain nearly jerked the knob out of his hand. Startled, a middle-aged woman looked up from a cushion of bobbins and threads and a half-finished lace collar on her lap. âCould I help you, sir?â she asked, trying hastily to get to her feet. âNo, sit down, Iâm too wet to come in. I need directions, thatâs all.â She sank back into her chair, somehow preventing the bobbins from rolling to every point of the compass. Then he saw that like the Belgian nuns heâd come across during the war, she had them pinned in place. âTo where?â âI once tried to make lace â which has been a great obsession of women â unsexy. And I achieved it.â Miuccia Prada âIt is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.â Mary Wilson Little A response from an English costumer was equally quotable. "Yes, but have you any idea how hard it is to get those holes to stick together!â âI consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin." Coco Chanel, April 29, 1939 âwhatever improves the lace and makes it more beautiful is right." Sister Judith âGreek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can." Dr. Samuel Johnson (of First English Dictionary Fame) âThe real good of a piece of lace, then, you will find, is that it should show, first, that the designer of it had a pretty fancy; next, that the maker of it had fine fingers; lastly, that the wearer of it has worthiness or dignity enough to obtain what is difficult to obtain, and common sense enough not to wear it on all occasions.â John Ruskin ââOut of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occasion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)â â Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford - 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 quote
*Lace is a work not only beautiful but useful and needful.* This is reputed to come from Le Pompe which I believe is the first patten book for bobbin lace, published in 1557 in Venice. I cannot confirm this because I do not have a reprint of the book. Many years ago I cross-stitched this saying on linen and then sewed lengths of lace below and framed it. Ruth Johnson Ottawa, Ontario, 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/
[lace] lace quote
I recently bought a First Day Program folder for the issue of the four lace stamps championed by the Great Lace Lace Group, largely because it had this great quote about lace at the top of the blurb. It is unattributed, but neat anyway: The skill that facets a diamond from stone merely uncovers latent beauty, but the lacemaker creates it from almost nothing. Just wanted to share (altho the thread misers like Susie might not consider it almost nothing :-)) 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
