[lace] Lace Revival of the 1970's
Yes Shirley T. and David, I remember the shop called The Lacemaker very well!! Goodness! It was about the only place you could get lacemaking supplies. It was very sad when it closed. Before that, though, I used to buy cones of linen thread at a little shop in the city where they kept it on a top shelf â and a very old man used to climb up a ladder to get it, - and we were always so afraid he would fall! I still have a couple of cones of it left â but in the finer threads â 100 and 120 I think. Hmm! I Must get it out and use it up!!! I believe it is Brockens thread. Then I discovered that Lace could be made with a cotton thread â and The Lacemaker opened, - and as that was Much nearer to my home, I always shopped there till it closed. Now we rely on suppliers who come to Guild Lace Days. Regards from Liz. In 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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Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message >From : catherinebar...@btinternet.com Date : 27/03/2018 - 18:14 (GMTDT) To : ec...@cix.co.uk, lace@arachne.com Subject : Fwd: [lace] Lace revival Original message >From : catherinebar...@btinternet.com Date : 27/03/2018 - 17:36 (GMTDT) To : ec...@cix.co.uk, lace@arachne.com Subject : Re: [lace] Lace revival I was also taught bobbin lace by Nenia Lovesey in the late 60's early 70's after having seen her demonstrating in a church hall in Crowthorne, Berks where I lived. I was fascinated and asked where I could learn, to which she replied "at the Berkshire craft Centre in Wokingam in what was the old Brewery". I enrolled and took to bobbin lace like a duck to water, just couldn't get enough of it! Nenia always told us to be beware as once we had caught the Lace Fever, there was no cure, and how right she was! I also learnt from the Swedish Knippling book with the accompany brown cards printed with the Torchon patterns and still have both book and patterns today. Nenia was invited to be Craft Co-ordinator at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell and asked me to take over the bobbin lace classes at the Wokingham Craft Centre. I said I couldn't possibly as I felt I had insufficient knowledge, but she insisted and said I would be okay, so I agreed. Once she had got South Hill Park Arts Centre up and running she asked me to teach bobbin lace there too, which once again I did. However, there were no qualifications that one could study for in those days and Nenia had also been asked to teach a City & Guilds Creative Textiles course at Windsor & Maidenhead College, which covered everything that made a textile, including both bobbin and needlelace. This was my chance to gain some sort of qualification, so jumped at the opportunity! When I signed up for the bobbin lace class in the late 60's my youngest child Suzanne had just started school, so with both of them at school I was able to have a couple of hours to myself to indulge in my new found hobby, but by the time I enrolled on the C & G course at Windsor, they were both teenagers, so some years had passed before I got to this stage! I knew nothing whatsoever about needlelace and had probably looked at many examples, assuming in my ignorance that they were bobbin lace - wrong! I excelled at needlework at school in the late 40's/early 50's and would have loved to have earned a living at it, but my teacher at school told my parents that it was hard work and poorly paid, so I had to drop the needlelwork and take the shorthand/typing class. Britain was still recovering from the war in the early 50's and no way would I have been able to earn a decent living by needlelwork! How I would have love to had been an apprentice at The Royal school of Needlelwork, so you can imagine how honoured felt when several decades later I was invited asked to teach needlelace the apprentices at the RSN which was then based at Princes Gate, London. I taught them one whole day a week for six weeks. Nenia was an incredible woman, a member of the World Crafts Council and there was nothing that she couldn't do. She taught us to spin, weave, card a fleece, work Irish crochet, knit, work Sans Blas, bobbin lace, needllace, Carrickmacross and so many other things, too many to mention! Today she would have been awarded an OBE for services to lacemaking but sadly she was never honoured with such a prestigious award, although more than well deserved. Most of us who make needlelace today, would not know how, had it not been for Nenia, as to the best of my knowledge she was the only person who knew how to make it! None of the other guilds in 1980 were remotely interested in needlelace, largely due to the fact that they knew nothing about it! As a result, Nenia and a small group of her students at the publication party for the launch of her first book 'Needlepoint Lace' published by B T Batsford in 1980, decided to form our own Guild, which ran until October 2017. However, as! not one single member came forward to join our committee at the AGM last year, the Guild of Needleace had no option but to fold! What a sad state of affairs and we really do owe it Nenia to continue the legacy she has left to us. Is there no one out there who makes beautiful fine white needlelace and who can pass on these techniques for the benefit of future generations? I have done my level best over several decades, travelling many thousands of miles both here in the UK and overseas to pass on my skills, but all I hear is "I couldn't possibly see to do such fine work" but I see beautiful fine white Honiton lace still being made, along with gorgeous Binche, Bucks etc so why is it so difficult to find a tutor to teach 'Traditional Needlelce" I wonder? N
Re: [lace] Lace revival - bobbins
If you have received my response to Kathleen's email more than once, please accept my sincere apologies. As a subscriber to Arachne myself. it as come through in my Spam folder rather than my mailbox P!ease would someone email me to acknowledge receipt if you have received it in your mailbox. Many thanks Catherine Barley UK Catherine Baey Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message >From : ec...@cix.co.uk Date : 27/03/2018 - 11:42 (GMTDT) To : lace@arachne.com Subject : [lace] Lace revival - bobbins Strange how this thread has revived so many memories! When I started making lace with Nena Lovesey in 1970, with my Belgian bobbins, she not only taught me to make lace, she taught me all sorts of things about lace. This continued with talks which she gave to emerging lace groups. So I learned about the East Midlands lace making area, and its industry, and about Honiton lace. I learned about English spangled bobbins. My husband, on a journey to London, passed through Woburn, and spotted an antique shop. He collected antique cameras, so went in to investigate, and found, not cameras but lace bobbins. He bought about 70 bobbins, very cheaply because there was as yet no demand for them. The owner was delighted that they would be used to make lace! On his way back he called into the shop again and the owner had dug out more bobbins, which he bought. So I started my collection of antique spangled bobbins, with about 120 including a few with inscriptions, and some bone ones. How lucky was I? Kathleen, in a brighter Berkshire. 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/
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Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message >From : catherinebar...@btinternet.com Date : 27/03/2018 - 17:36 (GMTDT) To : ec...@cix.co.uk, lace@arachne.com Subject : Re: [lace] Lace revival I was also taught bobbin lace by Nenia Lovesey in the late 60's early 70's after having seen her demonstrating in a church hall in Crowthorne, Berks where I lived. I was fascinated and asked where I could learn, to which she replied "at the Berkshire craft Centre in Wokingam in what was the old Brewery". I enrolled and took to bobbin lace like a duck to water, just couldn't get enough of it! Nenia always told us to be beware as once we had caught the Lace Fever, there was no cure, and how right she was! I also learnt from the Swedish Knippling book with the accompany brown cards printed with the Torchon patterns and still have both book and patterns today. Nenia was invited to be Craft Co-ordinator at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell and asked me to take over the bobbin lace classes at the Wokingham Craft Centre. I said I couldn't possibly as I felt I had insufficient knowledge, but she insisted and said I would be okay, so I agreed. Once she had got South Hill Park Arts Centre up and running she asked me to teach bobbin lace there too, which once again I did. However, there were no qualifications that one could study for in those days and Nenia had also been asked to teach a City & Guilds Creative Textiles course at Windsor & Maidenhead College, which covered everything that made a textile, including both bobbin and needlelace. This was my chance to gain some sort of qualification, so jumped at the opportunity! When I signed up for the bobbin lace class in the late 60's my youngest child Suzanne had just started school, so with both of them at school I was able to have a couple of hours to myself to indulge in my new found hobby, but by the time I enrolled on the C & G course at Windsor, they were both teenagers, so some years had passed before I got to this stage! I knew nothing whatsoever about needlelace and had probably looked at many examples, assuming in my ignorance that they were bobbin lace - wrong! I excelled at needlework at school in the late 40's/early 50's and would have loved to have earned a living at it, but my teacher at school told my parents that it was hard work and poorly paid, so I had to drop the needlelwork and take the shorthand/typing class. Britain was still recovering from the war in the early 50's and no way would I have been able to earn a decent living by needlelwork! How I would have love to had been an apprentice at The Royal school of Needlelwork, so you can imagine how honoured felt when several decades later I was invited asked to teach needlelace the apprentices at the RSN which was then based at Princes Gate, London. I taught them one whole day a week for six weeks. Nenia was an incredible woman, a member of the World Crafts Council and there was nothing that she couldn't do. She taught us to spin, weave, card a fleece, work Irish crochet, knit, work Sans Blas, bobbin lace, needllace, Carrickmacross and so many other things, too many to mention! Today she would have been awarded an OBE for services to lacemaking but sadly she was never honoured with such a prestigious award, although more than well deserved. Most of us who make needlelace today, would not know how, had it not been for Nenia, as to the best of my knowledge she was the only person who knew how to make it! None of the other guilds in 1980 were remotely interested in needlelace, largely due to the fact that they knew nothing about it! As a result, Nenia and a small group of her students at the publication party for the launch of her first book 'Needlepoint Lace' published by B T Batsford in 1980, decided to form our own Guild, which ran until October 2017. However, as! not one single member came forward to join our committee at the AGM last year, the Guild of Needleace had no option but to fold! What a sad state of affairs and we really do owe it Nenia to continue the legacy she has left to us. Is there no one out there who makes beautiful fine white needlelace and who can pass on these techniques for the benefit of future generations? I have done my level best over several decades, travelling many thousands of miles both here in the UK and overseas to pass on my skills, but all I hear is "I couldn't possibly see to do such fine work" but I see beautiful fine white Honiton lace still being made, along with gorgeous Binche, Bucks etc so why is it so difficult to find a tutor to teach 'Traditional Needlelce" I wonder? Nenia wrote a book 'Reflections on Lace' for her grandchildren, published again by B T Batsford in 1988 (now out of print of course), but f you can get hold of a
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Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com Original message >From : catherinebar...@btinternet.com Date : 27/03/2018 - 17:36 (GMTDT) To : ec...@cix.co.uk, lace@arachne.com Subject : Re: [lace] Lace revival I was also taught bobbin lace by Nenia Lovesey in the late 60's early 70's after having seen her demonstrating in a church hall in Crowthorne, Berks where I lived. I was fascinated and asked where I could learn, to which she replied "at the Berkshire craft Centre in Wokingam in what was the old Brewery". I enrolled and took to bobbin lace like a duck to water, just couldn't get enough of it! Nenia always told us to be beware as once we had caught the Lace Fever, there was no cure, and how right she was! I also learnt from the Swedish Knippling book with the accompany brown cards printed with the Torchon patterns and still have both book and patterns today. Nenia was invited to be Craft Co-ordinator at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell and asked me to take over the bobbin lace classes at the Wokingham Craft Centre. I said I couldn't possibly as I felt I had insufficient knowledge, but she insisted and said I would be okay, so I agreed. Once she had got South Hill Park Arts Centre up and running she asked me to teach bobbin lace there too, which once again I did. However, there were no qualifications that one could study for in those days and Nenia had also been asked to teach a City & Guilds Creative Textiles course at Windsor & Maidenhead College, which covered everything that made a textile, including both bobbin and needlelace. This was my chance to gain some sort of qualification, so jumped at the opportunity! When I signed up for the bobbin lace class in the late 60's my youngest child Suzanne had just started school, so with both of them at school I was able to have a couple of hours to myself to indulge in my new found hobby, but by the time I enrolled on the C & G course at Windsor, they were both teenagers, so some years had passed before I got to this stage! I knew nothing whatsoever about needlelace and had probably looked at many examples, assuming in my ignorance that they were bobbin lace - wrong! I excelled at needlework at school in the late 40's/early 50's and would have loved to have earned a living at it, but my teacher at school told my parents that it was hard work and poorly paid, so I had to drop the needlelwork and take the shorthand/typing class. Britain was still recovering from the war in the early 50's and no way would I have been able to earn a decent living by needlelwork! How I would have love to had been an apprentice at The Royal school of Needlelwork, so you can imagine how honoured felt when several decades later I was invited asked to teach needlelace the apprentices at the RSN which was then based at Princes Gate, London. I taught them one whole day a week for six weeks. Nenia was an incredible woman, a member of the World Crafts Council and there was nothing that she couldn't do. She taught us to spin, weave, card a fleece, work Irish crochet, knit, work Sans Blas, bobbin lace, needllace, Carrickmacross and so many other things, too many to mention! Today she would have been awarded an OBE for services to lacemaking but sadly she was never honoured with such a prestigious award, although more than well deserved. Most of us who make needlelace today, would not know how, had it not been for Nenia, as to the best of my knowledge she was the only person who knew how to make it! None of the other guilds in 1980 were remotely interested in needlelace, largely due to the fact that they knew nothing about it! As a result, Nenia and a small group of her students at the publication party for the launch of her first book 'Needlepoint Lace' published by B T Batsford in 1980, decided to form our own Guild, which ran until October 2017. However, as! not one single member came forward to join our committee at the AGM last year, the Guild of Needleace had no option but to fold! What a sad state of affairs and we really do owe it Nenia to continue the legacy she has left to us. Is there no one out there who makes beautiful fine white needlelace and who can pass on these techniques for the benefit of future generations? I have done my level best over several decades, travelling many thousands of miles both here in the UK and overseas to pass on my skills, but all I hear is "I couldn't possibly see to do such fine work" but I see beautiful fine white Honiton lace still being made, along with gorgeous Binche, Bucks etc so why is it so difficult to find a tutor to teach 'Traditional Needlelce" I wonder? Nenia wrote a book 'Reflections on Lace' for her grandchildren, published again by B T Batsford in 1988 (now out of print of course), but f you can get hold of a
RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s
Lyn feels that there was very little official fostering of crafts in the US, as opposed to England, and I think she may be right. Most of these crafts are not considered heritage items in the US. (Maybe quilting is.) One thing that is mentioned in Andrea Plumâs article was that there were a lot of pretty colored publications. Maybe we were reading these publications in the US. Several people have mentioned womenâs magazines, and Golden Hands. Andrea Plum also says that âthe 1970s craft revival can also be linked to changes in fine art ideology at this time. Contemporary art in the twentieth century was largely defined by the rise of conceptualism, which gave precedence to ideas over making. The art historian Edward Lucie-Smith provided a critical context for the craft revival in his text. The Story of Craft (1980) arguing that the renewed interest in craft was a result of changes in fine at: âthere began to appear a hunger for physical virtuosity in the handing of materials, something which many artists were no longer happy to provide.ââ This also resonates a bit with what people have been saying, for instance Adeleâs observation that people were sick of the 1960s aesthetic. Devon Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: lynrbai...@supernet.com Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:08 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s There is a big difference between either side of the Pond. On the Eastern side there was frequently a relative who made lace. One knew of its existence, usually. It was around. You might have had to look for it, but it was there. In the United States, certainly, one didn't know what it was. No one did it. That being said, I'm sure someone did it, but so few as to be the exception to the rule. As travel across the Pond became more common with ordinary people, exposure increased, and at least two Americans learned the basics in England and brought the enthusiasm home. I have heard that Holly would sit on a corner in downtown Ithaca making lace. The other difference is that it appears that on the Eastern side, crafts, especially traditional ones practiced in the area were fostered officially. There is very, very little of that in the US. When I'm sitting making lace in America, people ask what I am doing, unless they are Canadian. I will never forget working on my travel pillow at Heathrow and a young woman ask me what kind of lace I was making. That's the difference. "My email sends out an automatic message Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - 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/
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and an article about Nenia and her amazing achievements (page 130/131) all praising her for her hard work and dedication to reviving so many of the old crafts that were in danger of dying out, mainly due to the war years! The same thing is about to happen if we don't endeavour to keep the various forms of lacemaking alive; difficult I know in this modern world, which is so very different from the one that most of us grew up in. There is so much fascinating history/information in her book, even talking about how as a child she used to sit under the table in London where the Tebbs sisters wer! e teaching lace! Catherine Barley Henley-on-Thames, UK Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com ----Original message >From : ec...@cix.co.uk Date : 27/03/2018 - 09:32 (GMTDT) To : lace@arachne.com Subject : [lace] Lace revival I started to make bobbin lace in 1970. Nena Lovesey started me off with a simple pillow, some Belgian bobbins, and excellent basic instruction! I loved it! When she thought I was able enough, she introduced me to the Swedish Knipplerscan books. There were two paperback books of patterns, starting with the simplest and gradually increasing the complexity. Nena believed that the two wars had split families up, and moved them apart, so that grandparents were no longer able to pass on craft skills to grandchildren. So she instigated the opening of a craft centre, and collected as many crafts people as she could to pass on their skills to another generation. This included “male” crafts as well as “female” ones. I think she had a big influence on lace, in this area of the UK at least, where she taught and encouraged so many lace makers. Kathleen In a wet and chilly Berkshire UK 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/
[lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s
There is a big difference between either side of the Pond. On the Eastern side there was frequently a relative who made lace. One knew of its existence, usually. It was around. You might have had to look for it, but it was there. In the United States, certainly, one didn't know what it was. No one did it. That being said, I'm sure someone did it, but so few as to be the exception to the rule. As travel across the Pond became more common with ordinary people, exposure increased, and at least two Americans learned the basics in England and brought the enthusiasm home. I have heard that Holly would sit on a corner in downtown Ithaca making lace. The other difference is that it appears that on the Eastern side, crafts, especially traditional ones practiced in the area were fostered officially. There is very, very little of that in the US. When I'm sitting making lace in America, people ask what I am doing, unless they are Canadian. I will never forget working on my travel pillow at Heathrow and a young woman ask me what kind of lace I was making. That's the difference. "My email sends out an automatic message Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - 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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Certainly the craft centre which Nena Lovesey ran received advice from the CAC, but I don’t think they supplied funding, although they may have done. The committee which was formed to oversee the centre was chaired by my husband, and I know he was in correspondence with the CAD, but the centre was independent of them. The committee did all the manual work involved in getting the premises ready! 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/
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after my memory it was 1987 the year I spent several months in NY. Ilske > Am 26.03.2018 um 20:16 schrieb Cynce Williams : > > There was also the US bobbin lace stamp (well 4 stamps) organized by Mary > McPeak. > > Bu I cant remember what year1980s sometime. > > Cynthia - 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 Revival
You would think that someone had written about the Craft revival of the 1970s, but when I search for this topic, only one article comes up, by Andrea Peach called Crafting Revivals? An investigation into the craft revival of the 1970s: can contemporary comparisons be drawn? She has made it available to everyone at this site: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/2695 It is a very short article and I encourage everyone to read it. She writes: Craft in Britain flourished during the 1970s largely due to the activities of the Crafts Advisory Committee (CAC) now the Crafts Council, which was established in 1970. The CAC was a state backed, central organization charged specifically with shaping a new identity for Britainâs crafts. Its remit included raising the professional status of crafts, and promoting the craftsman as âartistââ¦. The CAC facilitated and nurtured craft through the allocation of grants and loans, the commissioning and patronage of work, the organization of exhibitions, publications and publicity, as well as the running of conservation projects and training. It was responsible for the creation of Crafts magazine in 1973, which is still in circulation. Crafts was visually exciting in comparison to other art magazines of the time, containing large colour photographs and profiles of makers involved with âthe new craftsâ. No one has mentioned the Crafts Advisory Committee, and yet so many of our descriptions of how we got started include going to some class that someone had organized. Was it the Crafts Advisory Committee that was funding these? I am not sure how this applies to what was happening in the US, although clearly we benefited from a ripple effect. 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/
[lace] Lace revival - bobbins
Strange how this thread has revived so many memories! When I started making lace with Nena Lovesey in 1970, with my Belgian bobbins, she not only taught me to make lace, she taught me all sorts of things about lace. This continued with talks which she gave to emerging lace groups. So I learned about the East Midlands lace making area, and its industry, and about Honiton lace. I learned about English spangled bobbins. My husband, on a journey to London, passed through Woburn, and spotted an antique shop. He collected antique cameras, so went in to investigate, and found, not cameras but lace bobbins. He bought about 70 bobbins, very cheaply because there was as yet no demand for them. The owner was delighted that they would be used to make lace! On his way back he called into the shop again and the owner had dug out more bobbins, which he bought. So I started my collection of antique spangled bobbins, with about 120 including a few with inscriptions, and some bone ones. How lucky was I? Kathleen, in a brighter Berkshire. 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/
[lace] Lace Revival
I first became aware of bobbin lace in 1975. It had been a bad time for me having had two miscarriages in the first half of the year and I had a strong urge to do something creative; if I couldnât make another baby then it would have to be something else. That August, to commemorate the Battle of Britain, a local department shop had a huge panel of lace displayed in a window with planes, parachutes etc. One of a limited edition made after WW2 and which Carol Quarini has recently used one in conjunction with her study of lace curtains - see the Lace Guild page on Facebook. I remember standing looking at it for ages - well as long as the 3 year old would allow. I knew it wasnât knitted or crocheted, or a form of regular weaving but I couldnât work out how it was made. I had been going to an Adult Education class making soft toys, sunglasses case etc and on one occasion Iâd worn a cardigan trimmed with a bit of lace which I now know was Barmen machine made. The teacher had looked at it and said âdid you make that?â and my response was "of course not, I bought it in the market!â âWell it looks the same as what we make in the lace class." So, I joined the lacemaking class and by the end of the first year Iâd made a couple of hankie edgings, an edging for my daughterâs dress and a couple of small mats - and I was very pregnant with the twins which meant lacemaking went onto the back burner for a year or so. I went back to classes in the late 1970s and things had really changed. Instead of using white thread or white thread or if you were really good it could be black thread, everyone was using a different colour! So I started making a dark grey coloured mat with pink gimps (and I used crochet thread for the gimp!). The teacher thought that the change had come about because by then the UK had joined the common market it was easier to get coloured thread, but Iâm sure that that wasnât the reason. Itâs always been possible to get coloured Sylko sewing machine thread here, even if she didnât approve of using it, ie it wasnât an âaccredited lace threadâ. I think it was much more to do with the start of the Lace Guild and the sharing of ideas. The other change that happened in the late 70s was the availability of bobbins. During my first year of learning to make lace most of my bobbins had come via the teacher, mostly whatever old ones she could get hold of or nasty plastic ones with rough edges. When I went back I asked if she had *any* bobbins that I could buy and the reply was âyes, would you like some of these? or these? or these?â. My teacher was Vera Rigney, who had learned bobbin lace in the 1950s from a Mrs Helen Hoppe ,who had in turn learned from her mother Mrs Helen Ainger. Mrs Ainger was the teacher for The Cobham Laceworkers Associationâ founded in 1910 by the then Countess of Darnley, whoâs family seat was Cobham. Helen Aingerâs mother, Jane Dillow, had moved to Cobham in Kent from Buckinghamshire where she had been part of the, by then, struggling cottage lacemaking industry. Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - 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 revival
Hi Arachnids The discussion about how lace spread is most interesting. In England the handcrafts followed during and immediately after WW2 were knitting and dressmaking, only those that were useful. Also only products that were useful were available, know as utility. I remember my parents getting a table and chairs that were very plain. During the 1950s life was settling down, increasingly there became time for leisure and my mother returned to crochet and embroidery, a way of getting a little beauty into a world that had been strictly utilitarian for so long. During the 1960s there was a flowering of many crafts, possibly a reaction to the deprivations of war. My introduction to lace was the little Dryad book by Lacemaking, Bucks point ground by Channer pub. 1953 that I purchased in a department store in 1963. I made a pillow, my father bought my first bobbins and pins in the Needlewoman shop in London and made me a pricker, copying the one in the book shaping a dark green plastic bell push and a brass dart. Regrettably it was stolen. Best wishes to all 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] Lace revival
I started to make bobbin lace in 1970. Nena Lovesey started me off with a simple pillow, some Belgian bobbins, and excellent basic instruction! I loved it! When she thought I was able enough, she introduced me to the Swedish Knipplerscan books. There were two paperback books of patterns, starting with the simplest and gradually increasing the complexity. As I remember, there were few instructions, just the pattern and a picture of the finished lace. I had no more formal instruction from Nena, and I just worked these Torchon patterns for quite a while. Then I found the Maidment book, Mincoff and Marriage, Doreen Wright’s book and then Pam Nottingham’s. And the rest is history - for me at least - my favourite occupation. Nena believed that the two wars had split families up, and moved them apart, so that grandparents were no longer able to pass on craft skills to grandchildren. So she instigated the opening of a craft centre, and collected as many crafts people as she could to pass on their skills to another generation. This included “male” crafts as well as “female” ones. I think she had a big influence on lace, in this area of the UK at least, where she taught and encouraged so many lace makers. The 1970’s saw lace classes start, and therefore the production of pillows, bobbins, pins etc. when there was a market for them - and then of course lace days, the Lace Guild, the Lace Society, and the realisation that there was a large lacemaking community in the UK as well as in Europe. Kathleen In a wet and chilly Berkshire UK 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/
[lace] Lace Revival
My earliest books were the 1970s version of the Margaret Maidment book, Louisa Tebbs book (by the same publisher), and the little Amy Dawson book. Then we got the Pam Notting hamâs mixed laces book, and Pam Robinsons book, and so on. I found some classes here in an outer suburb of Melbourne in 1977, just after a trip back to England where I bought the Miss Channers book, and a few plastic bobbins, as I had decided to learn lacemaking while on the trip. I had done one small 9 pin edge with my Grandmother when I was about 19 but had not followed it up. Suddenly I decided to have another go , and with my early teenaged daughter who was also interested we got started â I went to class, then came home and taught her!! (well, she had to go to school every day so could not come to Lacemaking with me!) â and we are both still making lace!!! Kant Magazines were available â but not in English. And the Australian Lace Guild was just starting up â and is still going strong!! Regards from Liz. - 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 Revival of the 1970s
I remember attending a Towns Womens Guild in November 1970 in Lichfield, Staffs where we had a talk on bobbin lace with a demonstration on a board using probably, skipping ropes with wooden handles for the thread and bobbins. I was one of those who thought it looked too difficult and being heavily pregnant with our son, had no time for a new hobby, plus I was doing wood carving at the evening school at the time. I think the idea stayed in my brain until I visited the UK in 1994 and saw a pillow kit in a craft shop. So there must have been a local guild in the Lichfield area. 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/
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My father may have (embraced the melting pot and he sure as heck wanted to be sure I never visited the “old country” as second and third cousins were going back to marry extended family members. Sicilian chain migration??) but his father never really spoke English into the early 1990s. My German grandmother was much more like your grandma although it was because she was expected to translate the outside world to the family b Sent from my iPhone and if I'm driving please excuse Siri derived typos. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Kim Davis wrote: > > My observation is that before the 60s America fully embraced the melting > pot model. My own Grandmother, for example, was not allowed to learn > Norwegian. She was the first in her family born in the US, but expected > to only know English. Preserving heritage from European countries was seen > by many as a rejection of being American. After the hippie movement, this > attitude began to change. I think there was some desperation to regain > what was lost by many people. I also agree with the other factors you are > looking at. None of these social shifts happened in isolation. > > Kim > > - > 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/
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Also in the 1950’s I was a Girl Scout Library aide and found *Bobbins of Belgium.* Don’t remember the author. The stories of post WWI Belgium were horrifying but they were trying to make lace an economic craft in the ’20’s. Cynthia - 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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My observation is that before the 60s America fully embraced the melting pot model. My own Grandmother, for example, was not allowed to learn Norwegian. She was the first in her family born in the US, but expected to only know English. Preserving heritage from European countries was seen by many as a rejection of being American. After the hippie movement, this attitude began to change. I think there was some desperation to regain what was lost by many people. I also agree with the other factors you are looking at. None of these social shifts happened in isolation. Kim - 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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Lyn I did talk with Doris Southard many years ago and she told me that she first heard of bobbin lace from an article in a women's magazine. (I don't remember which one -- one of the grocery store kind.) She had been a weaver and did many other textile crafts, but she was essentially "self-taught". I also learned from her book. And earlier, from her correspondence lessons. Lorelei Subject: Fw: RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s >From: lynrbai...@supernet.com >Then there's Doris Southard in Iowa, whose book was published in the '70's. >Don't know how or why she learned lace, but maybe it's in her book. It's the >one I used to actually learn. The only such book in any library I looked in, >and I am a library person. - 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 revival of the 1970s
Very interesting stories in this topic. This is my own version. While in high school in Denmark, I saw my mother making bobbin lace. I think she learned it as a young girl in the 1910s. In the 1960s adult education classes were offered in communities in Denmark, and she finally had a little spare time. In 1974, after I had settled in Indiana in the US, I realized I had not seen anybody make bobbin lace here. So when my parents visited us I asked her to show me. She sent me Sina Kielberg’s book and soon after I found Doris Southard’s book. Working on my own from these books, I made very slow progress, especially because one was cross twist and the other twist cross. Very confusing for a total beginner. In the late 1970s a few friends and our children asked me to teach them, so barely one step ahead of them we made progress. We started the Lafayette Lacers. Guess this fits in with learning in Europe or from European teacher. -Karen - 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 Revival of the 1970s - Bath's book and Golden Hands
The Virginia Bath LACE book and also Golden Hands have been mentioned today.  Not long ago, I reviewed both on Arachne.  The reviews are easier to read on the New England Lace Group's home page at www.nelg.us  Select Book Reviews from the menu on the Left.  When there are no new books I wish to review, the past offers possibilities.  It is magical that though I did not anticipate Devon's new topic on Arachne, there are recent book reviews available.  Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center  In a message dated 3/26/2018 2:36:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, cyncewilli...@sbcglobal.net writes:  And there was Virginia Churchill Bath�s book *Lace*. She was from the Chicago Art Institute.  C On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:36 PM, DevonThein wrote: > Adele makes the interesting point that it was not until the 1970s that it > began to be possible to buy books published by mainstream publishers about how to make bobbin lace. - 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 Revival of the 1970s - mystery book probably...
Yes! You are correct. It was Knyppling. I couldnât remember what it was, even though I picked up a copy at an estate sale fairly recently. Devon - 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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Jo raises some interesting insights. One thing she mentions is the crafts to leisure aspect. Originally there seemed to be an ethos that one was practicing a âuseful craftâ. For instance, you made a quilt because you needed a bed covering, or a doily because every well kept house required doilies. At a certain point, I think that the concept that you were doing this as a âchoreâ gave way to the idea that it was a leisure activity that was fun, and might even be a mode of artistic expression. Mass production really took the steam out of any argument that you were doing this sort of thing because it was a housekeeping requirement. I still recall that there was a time when people made their own clothes to save money. But, when I touched base with a friend who taught sewing about ten years ago she confirmed that it was impossible to make a garment for as little money as you could buy one, and that most of her sewing clients made their own clothes because they had unusual requirements, often religious in nature. Jo mentions that women typically left their jobs to have families in the 1950s and by the 1970s they had empty nests. When I first went to lace meetings in the 1970s, they occurred on weekdays, running from 10 in the morning until about 2:30 in the afternoon, because that is when the kids came home. Later, in the 1980s and 90s with more women in the work place, this schedule began to be problematical. But attempts to have lace meetings on the weekends and weekday evenings didnât work too well either because women simply had less leisure time. Devon - 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 Revival of the 1970s - mystery book probably...
Dear Devon,  Perhaps the book to which you refer was Knyppling, 1964, published (in Swedish) by LTs Forlag in collaboration with the Swedish Lace-Making Association.  Author was Sally Johanson.  It was re-published with the title of Traditional Lace Making in 1974 in the U.S. in English by Van Nostrand Reinhold; translators were E. and T.W. Summers.  ISBN: 0-442-30037-9.  Sally Johanson was one of the founders of OIDFA, and one of its first Presidents.  Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center  In a message dated 3/26/2018 1:36:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, devonth...@gmail.com writes: when I took bobbin lace in the 1970s I asked my teacher if there was a book I could use and the only one she could offer was in a Scandinavian language. Although she felt it was better than nothing because of the photos, I was not really smart enough to be able to take advantage of it.  Devon - 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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My belief is that as it was featured in Golden Hands which I think was published in UK in 1969 and the older Lacemakers were asked to do more teaching. The WI used to have craft classes I think. Boredom with commercially made items and a desire to learn, plus a little more money for hobbies? Or people had progressed from knitting to crochet and wanted to try something else? Not sure when you got it in USA but sure Jeri can answer. Maureen - 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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Also, Spring Fling happened annually for many years, then every other year for many more. Last year was the kast full-fledged version, however. On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:52 PM H M Clarke wrote: > Speaking from my familyâs perspective, my grandmother learnt as a child in > the 1910s. This was at some local girlsâ club in Suffolk. Then she married > and had a family (obviously!) and lace was put away. When she was sadly > widowed in the early 1960s she went back to making lace. She showed my > sisters the rudiments of making lace in the 1970s (I was considered too > young - or too difficult?) which she had never done with her daughters. > > Iâm wondering whether others of her generation were similarly finding time > in retirement to return to lace in the 1960s and 70s thereby kickstarting > another revival? > > Helen who originally lived in lacemaking areas in England before learning > to make it in Canada! > > > On Mar 26, 2018, at 07:59, DevonThein wrote: > > > > I am attempting to write a catalog for the Lace, not Lace: Contemporary > Fiber > > Art from Lacemaking Techniques. > > The exhibit will include the work of Ros Hills, Lieve Jerger, and Jill > > Nordfors Clark who I consider to have begun their activity during the > lace > > revival of the 1970s. If I were to try to establish a context for what > was > > happening in lace at that time, what are the most important things that I > > would touch on? > > > > - > 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/ > -- Martha Krieg Michigan benedict...@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/
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Maybe a chicken-and-egg thing? The books inspire the students who provide the market for more books ⦠but what triggered the interest in the 70s in the first place - Iâd bet on a backlash from the super-modern 60s. Thereâs only so much bright yellow and lime green Fortrel a body can take. I remember mini-dresses giving way to midi-dresses and long romantic dresses fostered by TV shows like Poldark and that Trollope thing that went on and on that Iâve forgotten the name of. In the US, âLittle House on the Praireâ as I think somebody has already mentioned. The back-to-the-land movement, the energy crisis. Long romantic flowing dresses, full sleeves and cuffs that were just the place for a bit of lace. And then the publishers start looking around for other books on the same topic, and to re-print old books that have lost their copyright, and so on. By the way, I took a quick look at Margaret Maidmentâs book on ABE Books - it was originally published in 1931 by Pitman & Sons, then in the 50s in the USA by Charles Branford, and then starting in the 70s by a host of different companies (Paul Minet, Batsford, plus others) and today itâs available through a large number of POD houses. It looks like it might have been out of copyright by the 70s, though that seems a little early. Adele > On Mar 26, 2018, at 11:05 AM, DevonThein wrote: > > << Shortly after I started in England in 1971 I bought a copy of Maidment > Bobbin Lace Work printed in 1971. >> > > So interesting to see this cluster of books being published and republished in > the 1970s. But why? - 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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Speaking from my family’s perspective, my grandmother learnt as a child in the 1910s. This was at some local girls’ club in Suffolk. Then she married and had a family (obviously!) and lace was put away. When she was sadly widowed in the early 1960s she went back to making lace. She showed my sisters the rudiments of making lace in the 1970s (I was considered too young - or too difficult?) which she had never done with her daughters. I’m wondering whether others of her generation were similarly finding time in retirement to return to lace in the 1960s and 70s thereby kickstarting another revival? Helen who originally lived in lacemaking areas in England before learning to make it in Canada! > On Mar 26, 2018, at 07:59, DevonThein wrote: > > I am attempting to write a catalog for the Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber > Art from Lacemaking Techniques. > The exhibit will include the work of Ros Hills, Lieve Jerger, and Jill > Nordfors Clark who I consider to have begun their activity during the lace > revival of the 1970s. If I were to try to establish a context for what was > happening in lace at that time, what are the most important things that I > would touch on? > - 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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You will find Mary McPeek who was influential together with Trenna Ruffner in getting Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux published with her English translation. GLLGI recently published a compilation of Mary McPeekâs lesson plans and prickings together with photographs of the pieces worked. Mary taught for many years and her students and grandstudents carry on. Www.gllgi.org On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:46 PM Cynce Williams wrote: > There were four ladies whose patterns were published but I canât remember > them all. IIRC Mary McPeak was one and so was Trenna Rufner. Lovely ladies > and lovely lace. The Great Lakes Lace group had a seminar and several > European teachers came over. Exciting times. > > C > > On Mar 26, 2018, at 1:26 PM, DevonThein wrote: > > > Yes! Thanks. I just looked it up. 1987. I think Trenna Rufner was also > > involved in the lace postage stamps. > > Devon > > > > - > > 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/ > -- Martha Krieg Michigan benedict...@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/
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There were four ladies whose patterns were published but I can’t remember them all. IIRC Mary McPeak was one and so was Trenna Rufner. Lovely ladies and lovely lace. The Great Lakes Lace group had a seminar and several European teachers came over. Exciting times. C On Mar 26, 2018, at 1:26 PM, DevonThein wrote: > Yes! Thanks. I just looked it up. 1987. I think Trenna Rufner was also > involved in the lace postage stamps. > Devon > > - > 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/
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I dont know for sure, but she had lots of Tonder lace in her book. I think she also had a pattern by Mary McPeak. C On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:37 PM, DevonThein wrote: > Where did Doris Southard learn to make lace, or how? - 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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And there was Virginia Churchill Baths book *Lace*. She was from the Chicago Art Institute. C On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:36 PM, DevonThein wrote: > Adele makes the interesting point that it wasnt until the 1970s that it > began to be possible to buy books published by mainstream publishers about how > to make bobbin lace. - 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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Thanks for mentioning the Torchon Lace Company and the Princess lace pillow. I would relate this to the early 20th century lacemaking ideas which included trying to make lace for money, rather than leisure. Examples include the Sybil Carter missions and Italian Lace School (cut work). But, surely there must have been people left over from these attempts who were still around in the 1970s. These movements have parallels in Europe such as the Industrie Feminilli. Devon - 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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Yes! Thanks. I just looked it up. 1987. I think Trenna Rufner was also involved in the lace postage stamps. Devon - 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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St Louis had the Torchon Lace company. They sold bobbins, the Princess lace pillow and booklets of patterns. We found them in 1904 sources but couldnt find any other information about them. The Princess pillow was in the Missouri Historical Society collection. Cynthia On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:13 PM, DevonThein wrote: > One correspondent believes that post war immigration of Europeans to the US > was a factor in the development of lacemaking here. - 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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I learned in 1981. Missed a class and learned several grounds from the DMC book. Also found bobbin lace in the Readers Digest handwork book. Crown and Triangle from Doris Southards book was originally from Family Circle (or was it Womans Day?) One of those grocery store magazines. Cynthia On Mar 26, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Maureen wrote: - 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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I consulted my notes which consist of a few writeups of Doris over the years. She actually wrote on a 2005 Arachne thread âHow I Started lacemakingâ https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg14763.html She was an avid weaver and knitter when she first discovered bobbin lace in 1950âs Womanâs Day magazine article. After teaching herself, she then demonstrated and taught lace classes locally before eventually being asked to do articles and finally a book. I have a few articles on her from past IOLI Bulletins (including Sept 1970, Jan 1978, Spring 2009, summer 2006, and spring 2012) if you would like me to scan and send you a pdf. Anita On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:37 PM, DevonThein mailto:devonth...@gmail.com>> wrote: Where did Doris Southard learn to make lace, or how? Devon - 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 Revival of the 1970s
Lyn made a comment, that perhaps only I got, that she thought that the Back to Earth movement had a lot to do with it. She discounts the Bi-Centennial. However, there was a huge call for crafters during the Bi-Centennial. I participated in the making of a quilt to commemorate Rockland Country (New York History) and demonstrated at the re-enactment of the Battle of Stony Point. However the Back to Earth movement was very present as well. I still have Alicia Bay Lauralâs book Living on Earth, and Native American Funk and Flash. Not that long ago I saw both of these tomes at an exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design, along with examples from a contest (that I remembered) that was sponsored by Levi Strauss and that involved embroidering blue jeans. The quality of the embroidery was spectacular, and so vibrant. In fact, there was a garment by Jill Nordfors Clark in this exhibit, actually connecting one of our American needle lace artists with this movement. I was in heaven. It was quite amazing to see someone collect these artifacts, many still in my âlace roomâ as part of an historical phenomenon. (Feeling old.) In fact, I embroidered my own denim shirt with animals and war medals when I was a teenager, sort of like Native American Funk and Flash, and my daughter has claimed it. 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/
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There was also the US bobbin lace stamp (well 4 stamps) organized by Mary McPeak. Bu I cant remember what year1980s sometime. Cynthia On Mar 26, 2018, at 9:59 AM, DevonThein wrote: > > I began to make lace in 1971, but I was not a very objective observer of what > was going on and how it fit into any kind of historical context. > What do people think accounted for and contributed to the surge of interest in > lace in 1970s? What should be included? - 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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Just chiming in to say this is all very interesting and I look forward to reading this all more carefully later! Best, Elena - 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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<< Shortly after I started in England in 1971 I bought a copy of Maidment Bobbin Lace Work printed in 1971. >> So interesting to see this cluster of books being published and republished in the 1970s. But why? Devon - 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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I too started in the 1970's as a teenager. Saw a demo on a local nostalgic summer fair. Being crafty I wanted too try. Found a few books in the local library, the local craft store happened to have bobbins in stock, improvised a pillow and got hooked. Those days some crafty Dutch magazines published courses or patterns but I did not have a subscription. In 1978s the LOKK was founded. Mainly by woman from an era that expelled them from the working class as soon as they married and then got an empty nest in the 1970's. What also might be of influence was household chores becoming less elaborate with for example washing machines resulting in more leisure time. 1914 http://www.kantklosschoolwijdenes.nl/ 1954 https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/About/aboutus.html 1982 https://www.oidfa.com/org.html.en 1983 http://www.deutscher-kloeppelverband.de/index.php/wir-ueber-uns http://www.bkoobd.be http://www.laceguild.org Comparing these dates, the 1970 seems to mark a transition from "nuttige handwerken" (1) to crafts and leisure. (1): an old fashioned Dutch expression for knitting/darning socks and similar skills. At my primary school the girls still were taught these "nuttige handwerken" while the boys... 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] Lace Revival of the 1970s
One other factor in the 1970's is that airfare to Europe was getting cheaper. In 1960 when my parents and I took a ship ten days each way, to Europe, that trip cost as much as airfare to the same destination. In 1974, my husband and I took a month trip to Europe and did an illegal charter flight to Europe, which was much cheaper. I would imagine that more Americans were traveling to Europe, and being exposed to lace. It is interesting to note how one individual could inspire lacemaking in her geographic area. That should still be a lesson to us. Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - 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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Shortly after I started in England in 1971 I bought a copy of Maidment Bobbin Lace Work printed in 1971. Maureen E Yorks UK - 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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Where did Doris Southard learn to make lace, or how? Devon - 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 Revival of the 1970s
Adele makes the interesting point that it wasnât until the 1970s that it began to be possible to buy books published by mainstream publishers about how to make bobbin lace. She observes that her lace club actually started in 1955 but had huge impediments due to the lack of instruction and books. The IOLI also dates from the 1950s. However, when I took bobbin lace in the 1970s I asked my teacher if there was a book I could use and the only one she could offer was in a Scandinavian language. Although she felt it was better than nothing because of the photos, I was not really smart enough to be able to take advantage of it. Then Kaethe Kliot published her book in 1973 which was a very mind expanding book providing a lot of inspiration, although, again on my part, I really couldnât learn from it. But the photos of her making a lace pillow, and her contemporary lace showed what was possible. Also, I enjoyed the photos from the early twentieth century with lots of bobbins and more traditional patterns. Another source material for me was the Anchor Manual given to me by the mother of a friend, my copy dating from 1970. Alas this was another book that I tried, but failed to learn from. Nothing really worked for me except the individual instruction that came with materials, tools and patterns. Obtaining the materials and tools was a major factor then. Fortunately Gunvorâs mother ran a lace supply business in Tonder, so we never wanted for these. I donât think I could ever have taught myself from a book. It was hard enough learning without having to overcome the obstacles involved in getting bobbins. 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/
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Devon, Doris Southard, an Iowa farm wife, was teaching bobbin lace in the 1970’s. Her book “Bobbin Lacemaking” has a 1977 copyright. Anita Hansen Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 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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Sorry, I forgot to crop. Maureen > - 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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And I should, of course, mention needlelace as Nenia Lovesey wrote her first book in the late 1970s, she signed my copy at a lace day in Essex in 1982. Although I didn't try needlelace until after then. Maureen e Yorks UK. > On 26 Mar 2018, at 17:42, Maureen wrote: > > I too started lacemaking in The early 70s but I had seen it in Golden Hands > and found a local handicraft group that were putting a class on. Well I was > going for embroidery classes at the time, but moved over to the lace class, > supposedly for one term but which continued for a lot longer, to learn lace. > Then the County Adult Education classes, I think, started in the mid 70s but > also Doreen Wright wrote a book on lacemaking and the Lace guild was started > in 1976. Suppliers then found that people wanted bobbins, I bought my first > ones from Doreen Fudge who was at Luton Museum, and then lace days started > which I believe encouraged more Lacemakers, which encouraged more classes. I > was also a member of IOLI about 1974 and only didn't rejoin when the Lace > Guild started. I started to teach lacemaking when the local teacher had a > waiting list but didn't have enough hours or days in The week to start > another class, but that was about 1980 I think. And it was very much a cas! e ! > of being one step ahead of the students at the time because there were gaps > in the beginning laces I had somehow skipped! > > Incidentally I learnt to knit whilst in primary school, was taught > dressmaking at school and by my mother in law, and taught myself to crochet > in 1970 as I wanted to crochet myself a dress. Suffice to say it was started > at the top and very short! > > Maureen Bromley > E Yorks UK > > - > 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/
[lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s
People are contacting me privately with observations which are very interesting. One correspondent believes that post war immigration of Europeans to the US was a factor in the development of lacemaking here. This is an interesting observation because there were a number of people who were major figures in the 1970s who had learned lace in Europe. My teacher, Gunvor Jorgensen, learned lace in Tonder, Denmark. It took me a while to realize that she had not learned this as some kind of a folk progression leading directly from the 17th century, but rather as part of a late 19th, early 20th century government initiative to re-introduce this important heritage craft to Tonder. Kathe Kliot was a German refugee who was very instrumental in the California lace movement. Radmila Zuman was from Czecholoslovakia. In addition to the immigrants, Americans were learning the craft in Europe possibly during military or other job postings. In fact, it would have been rather hard to learn the craft in the US from someone who had learned it in the US in the 1970s, although it would not be the case now. 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/
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>From: lynrbai...@supernet.com >Sent: Mar 26, 2018 9:51 AM >To: Devon Thein >Subject: RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s > >Dear Devon, read your email the first time I woke up at 6. Now 9:20 and my >coffee is brewing. Decadent hours. I was thinking about lacemaking in the >US, and possibilities as to why it became 'popular' in the '70's. I think one >reason is the refugees after WWII brought it with them. And don't forget >Susan Wenzel took lace classes while her husband was stationed in England. I >don't know about California, where lace is amazingly popular, but I bet there >was some kind of impetus. I know that a lady named Betty, last name unknown, >a lacemaking British transplant to Atlant, GA was a driving force in that >area. Then there's Doris Southard in Iowa, whose book was published in the >'70's. Don't know how or why she learned lace, but maybe it's in her book. >It's the one I used to actually learn. The only such book in any library I >looked in, and I am a library person. I don't think the Bicentennial had much >to do with it. But I do think the back-to-the-earth movement would ha! ve a big part. Anyhow, that's my two cents. lrb > >"My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, >please ignore it. I read your emails." Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, presently in the Phoenix, Arizona valley, where the weather is boring. Sunny, warm, dry, light breeze, shorts and sandals weather every day. - 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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Hi Devon: The lace club I belong to (Vancouver Lace Club) started in 1955 but it was slow going at first because the ladies could only get instruction from a lacemaker who lived up the coast and only visited Vancouver once a year, to demonstrate lace at the Pacific National Exhibition. She would bring patterns with her and show the ladies how to make them. Books on lacemaking were rare. Finding a new book on lacemaking - any book at all - was a cause for celebration. Threads and bobbins were ordered from Theo Brejaart in Rotterdam - in this era before credit cards you had to be really determined to learn and to get your supplies. Books: Doreen Wright: 1971 âBobbin Lace Making" Pam Nottingham: 1976 âTechnique of Bobbin Lace" Doris Southard: 1977 âBobbin Lace Making Elsie Luxton: 1979 âThe Technique of Honiton Lace" They were published by big publishers whose books your local bookstore could order. Once youâre into lacemaking, you find all the other avenues but only these larger publishers got their books into the libraries where the general public could find them - it was the picture on the cover of âTechnique of Bobbin Laceâ that drew me to lacemaking in 1982. I had never heard of it before, and never seen any handmade lace. Earlier books that showed lacemaking techniques were very basic (Th. de Dillmont) and were also difficult for people, like many North Americans, who needed to get all their knowledge and instruction from the book. In the early books the author tended to think that the student had seen bobbin lace before and just needed a bit more information. Hope somewhere in all this is a nugget you can use. Adele Shaak > Sue, your observation about taking a class in an adult school in England is > interesting. I think there was more of that in Great Britain than in the US at > the time. But, Holly van Sciver took an adult school class in England while > there for a college semester abroad. Eventually she was a large spur to the US > movement by sharing her skills through teaching, bobbin making, and vending, > so arguably the adult schools of England were instrumental in the development > of the lace movement in the US. > Devon - 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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I too started lacemaking in The early 70s but I had seen it in Golden Hands and found a local handicraft group that were putting a class on. Well I was going for embroidery classes at the time, but moved over to the lace class, supposedly for one term but which continued for a lot longer, to learn lace. Then the County Adult Education classes, I think, started in the mid 70s but also Doreen Wright wrote a book on lacemaking and the Lace guild was started in 1976. Suppliers then found that people wanted bobbins, I bought my first ones from Doreen Fudge who was at Luton Museum, and then lace days started which I believe encouraged more Lacemakers, which encouraged more classes. I was also a member of IOLI about 1974 and only didn't rejoin when the Lace Guild started. I started to teach lacemaking when the local teacher had a waiting list but didn't have enough hours or days in The week to start another class, but that was about 1980 I think. And it was very much a case ! of being one step ahead of the students at the time because there were gaps in the beginning laces I had somehow skipped! Incidentally I learnt to knit whilst in primary school, was taught dressmaking at school and by my mother in law, and taught myself to crochet in 1970 as I wanted to crochet myself a dress. Suffice to say it was started at the top and very short! Maureen Bromley E Yorks UK - 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 Revival of the 1970s
Sue, your observation about taking a class in an adult school in England is interesting. I think there was more of that in Great Britain than in the US at the time. But, Holly van Sciver took an adult school class in England while there for a college semester abroad. Eventually she was a large spur to the US movement by sharing her skills through teaching, bobbin making, and vending, so arguably the adult schools of England were instrumental in the development of the lace movement in the US. 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] Lace Revival of the 1970s
Sue, your observation about taking a class in an adult school in England is interesting. I think there was more of that in Great Britain than in the US at the time. But, Holly van Sciver took an adult school class in England while there for a college semester abroad. Eventually she was a large spur to the US movement by sharing her skills through teaching, bobbin making, and vending, so arguably the adult schools of England were instrumental in the development of the lace movement in the US. 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/
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I too started making lace in the 70s my interest was sparked purely by the chance sighting of lace making classes starting at our local night school and at the fact that I liked anything " crafty" after the first lesson I was well and truly "hooked" Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK 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/
[lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s
I am attempting to write a catalog for the Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques. The exhibit will include the work of Ros Hills, Lieve Jerger, and Jill Nordfors Clark who I consider to have begun their activity during the lace revival of the 1970s. If I were to try to establish a context for what was happening in lace at that time, what are the most important things that I would touch on? Off the top of my head: Last remnants of the lace collecting boom of the 1920s and the early 20th century lace craft industry revivals. Kathe Kliot and Lacis Robin Lewis Wild and the large Tennessee Valley piece The Bi-Centennial in the US, and its interest in Colonial Crafts A generalized craft revival due to a variety of social and economic aspects, such as a rejection of consumerism, the hippie movement, embroidered jeans, macramé, string art. The lace show at the Cooper-Hewitt, which was actually in the early 1980s. I began to make lace in 1971, but I was not a very objective observer of what was going on and how it fit into any kind of historical context. What do people think accounted for and contributed to the surge of interest in lace in 1970s? What should be included? 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/