Re: [lace] Loehr's flowers

[Eva Von Der Bey]

Hello, Tamara, 

thanks for the wellcome home *smiling*

Re Loehr's flowers, best thing first:
Ice flowers and Art Noveau PG Flowers are not the same story!

Last december, U.L. showed some of those Mechlin prickings to us, and not
only the prickings, because some of the patterns were worked by participants
of this class I am as lucky as happy to join.
(Two weekends a year - the next two are already fixed - is this a regular
student? )

Marvelous, stunning - but Mechlin is hard work..
Nevertheless, with a good share of attention, concentration and patience, 
every lacemaker who is fond of these kind of lace and is familiar with the
one or other kind of Flanders lace, will find them a possible task, but
positivly a task.
Yes, and they are monochrome, designed for light colours on darker
background.

Somehow I remember they are ment to become a book, though I don't remember a
publishing date was mentioned. 
Ice Flowers certainly will be eye candy like Schneeverweht and
Schwarzarbeit and Jagd.. are, even if it's likely that you leave some
patterns unworked.

The idea for the PG flowers may have been developed while making the mechlin
patterns, but they are different in style.
They are really brandnew, dated 3/04.

In her usual quest for perfection, she developed some very special ways to
treat the coloured threads (gimp and workers which form the motives),
special beginnings and lots of magic with the help of lots of magic
threads. So I doubt these patterns will by available out of class. But this
is only my guess..

If you have the chance for this class, take it!

I'm very busy working my dicentra, and will do more! 
And this lace will end framed, decorating the walls of my new home!
(rented house in Haltern, with more space for the children and space for a
loom and pillow at the same time. and for guests, of course. we'll move in
August)

ooops, this was long. sorry..

Eva, from Haltern, Germany






 

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[lace] Loehr's flowers

[Tamara P. Duvall]

 On May 12, 2004, at 3:52, Eva Von Der Bey wrote:

So I'll try to be back as a regular visitor, at least lurking, an hope 
to become a resident of arachne town again.
Glad to have you back with us whenever you can mange

The weekend class I enjoyed was with Ulrike Loehr, we tried brandnew
patterns:
Art Noveau style flowers in PG lace! Wow!
The motives in silk of different colours on an in ecru background are
natural flowers, although their spirit is art noveau, they are 
clearly
recognizable.
Since you're a regular student of Loehr's, can you tell us what the 
story is on the *Mechlin* flowers? She showed us some prickings at 
the last IOLI Convention (summer '03, in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ) and 
said the book would be called Ice Flowers (playing on words as usual 
g) Being a great fan of Loehr's, I've been looking forward to that 
book. But, although the flowers there were also somewhat Art 
Nouveau-ish, I assumed they were going to be all white (since Ice 
flowers is what frost paints on the windowpanes in wintertime). And, 
what you've been test driving past weekend is in colour, *and* in PG, 
so it's not the same thing...

Or, has she decided to re-think the original idea? Am I now looking 
forward to *two* great new books, or still one?

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Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia,  USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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