Re: [lace] dates for bucks point

[Gabriele Patzner]

> Am 12.12.2017 um 10:49 schrieb Alex Stillwell :
>
> Thank you all for looking up possible dates for Bucks point. Your replies
are
> fascinating. All seem to indicate that the point ground laces developed the
> very end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, i.e. when lace
> came back into fashion post French Revolution.

I found the remark, that “point de raccroc”, which to my knowledge is the
stitch to join point ground strips, was invented around 1780 by a worker of
Vaux sur Aure. (“Dentelle de Normandie / Normandy Lace” by Florence
Quinette).

The booklet “Tønder Kniplinger” by Meta Tønder gives 1800 - 1850 as
production date for danish point ground lace.

“A History of Hand-Made Lace” by M.F. Jackson claims that lace using fond
simple, was already made in Lille as early as 1582. I was a bit baffled, but
read for yourself:

https://books.google.de/books?id=ErINAwAAQBAJ=PA176=PA176=arras+lac
e=bl=LZFPLIL-wb=_s3pCNwNJkL4hjjOG8XtCoLXe2k=de=X=0ah
UKEwi4lp2_oITYAhUIL1AKHS1hA5MQ6AEIYDAM#v=onepage=arras%20lace=false


or: https://tinyurl.com/ybj6ezgj 

Gabriele

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[lace] dates for bucks point

[Alex Stillwell]

Thank you all for looking up possible dates for Bucks point. Your replies are
fascinating. All seem to indicate that the point ground laces developed the
very end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, i.e. when lace
came back into fashion post French Revolution.

This and the discussion about using elastic bands on bobbins are what Arachne
is about, i.e. sharing information with like-minded friends. Incidentally the
tradition of not sharing prickings and patterns stems from the original
commercial aspect. Dealers would strongly discourage their lace workers from
passing on patterns as they had paid a designer to produce them and did not
want someone else profiting from them.

Blow the dust

alex

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