[lace] lace identification please
A friend brought me this item just as its shown in the link below. It is Irish lace and needle work rather than other lace work. I wonder if one of you experienced spiders would pin it down to whatever type you believe it to be. It mentions embroiderers and also that it is Hand Finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames (so does that mean pure embroidery? http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 Sue T Dorset 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 identification please
Those of us who have sewing machines which can embroider in hoops can produce this kind of "lace". Lots of designs available on the web, some free and some very intricate. Instead of fabric, water soluble stabilizer is used, load the design into the machine, press 'go' and disappear to do something else while the machine produces the "lace" and then remove it from the machine and hoop and dissolve away the backing. The "hand" part whether making or finishing is setting everything up and dissolving away the stablizer before pressing. - 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 identification please
I believe this is a form if machine lace called "chemical lace". It was embroidered by machine on a fabric which was then dissolved away by chemicals. Clay Sent from my iPad > On Nov 8, 2013, at 8:51 AM, "Sue" wrote: > > > I wonder if one of you experienced spiders would pin it down to whatever type > you believe it to be. It mentions embroiderers and also that it is Hand > Finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames (so does that mean pure > embroidery? > > http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 > > Sue T > Dorset 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/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com -- Subject: [lace] lace identification please A friend brought me this item just as its shown in the link below. It is Irish lace and needle work rather than other lace work. > http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 Hi Sue It looks very much like Chemical Lace to me and certainly not hand made! What do others think it is? Catherine Barley 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/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
This is a sort of chemical lace - embroidery as they made in Vogtland, Erzgebirge and in Switzerland. Ilske - 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 identification please
It's definitely chemical lace, but I suppose that snipping the motifs apart using scissors would make it "hand finished". Sent from Brenda's iPad > It looks very much like Chemical Lace to me and certainly not hand made! - 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 identification please
I couldn't get the web site to enlarge the photos of the coasters from the thumbnails, but it does look like Carickmacross lace. Carickmacross is an Irish lace embroidered on tulle. It is fast and easy and is worked on a pad of cloth held in the hand so can be carried anywhere. It also had endless stitch possibilities. You can see it on lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/CarrickmacrossID.html I'm sure there are some instructions in the web and some of the instruction booklets are inexpensive. Diane Z Lubec, Maine, 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace identification please
I have to say i wasn't thinking it was hand made so where did the hand finished come in. Thank you for clearing that one up. They are pretty though and of course friends see lace and think of me:-) Nice of them. It's definitely chemical lace, but I suppose that snipping the motifs apart using scissors would make it "hand finished". Sent from Brenda's iPad It looks very much like Chemical Lace to me and certainly not hand made! - 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 identification please
If you go to the link http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 then click on the photo of the lace to enlargeit, it is clearly labelled "Irish Lace, Hand finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames." The smaller writing underneath reads "The tradition of Embroidery and Lace Making in Ireland dates back to the early nineteenth century and different areas of the country developed their own particular styles. Our aim is to re-create some of the styles and effects of the Irish embroiderers of yesteryear. Our skills are traditional, but out techniques and materials are of today. We hope that our product, made for you with care and pride, will give you pleasure. By Grange Crafts, County Cork, Ireland." I take that to mean that it is in the style of traditional Irish lace (and it has the shamrock motif) but not made in the same way If you go to http://www.grangecraft.com/products.php?cat_id=22 you will see that they offer bookmarks, coasters and traycloth etc, all just different sized pieces cut from a large piece of lace fabric with a repeating pattern - which I think confirms that someone used scissors to snip the sections apart to make it hand finished! . On 8 Nov 2013, at 16:48, Sue wrote: > i wasn't thinking it was hand made so where did the hand finished come in. Brenda in Allhallows 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 identification please (2)
And forgot to add that you also hand finish by snipping off any stray threads from your finished machine embroidery. - 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 identification please (3)
I don't use my machine to replace bobbin lacemaking - it's nothing like it. But it is useful if you just want a "quick" bit of decoration on something. I put "quick" in inverted commas because it isn't in sewing machine terms - probably 30 minutes up to an hour to complete a design. But if it's one colour, you can go and do something else. Because I havent got a dedicated sewing machine space, I haven't done any for a while, but I use my lace pillow cover cloth to try out designs to see if I like them. So far it's got an embroidered picture of my last dog, Poole Bobbin Lace logo (4 different attempts), a bolster pillow with lace and bobbins and a piece of lace with two spangled bobbins hanging from it - the last two were bought designs. Saves throwing away what the machine has done as well as brightening up a plain cover cloth, which I throw over the pillow when not working on it. - 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 identification please
Thank you Brenda, really interesting. Sue T If you go to the link http://www.grangecraft.com/product_info.php?prod_id=29 then click on the photo of the lace to enlargeit, it is clearly labelled "Irish Lace, Hand finished lace made on traditional embroidery frames." The smaller writing underneath reads "The tradition of Embroidery and Lace Making in Ireland dates back to the early nineteenth century and different areas of the country developed their own particular styles. Our aim is to re-create some of the styles and effects of the Irish embroiderers of yesteryear. Our skills are traditional, but out techniques and materials are of today. We hope that our product, made for you with care and pride, will give you pleasure. By Grange Crafts, County Cork, Ireland." I take that to mean that it is in the style of traditional Irish lace (and it has the shamrock motif) but not made in the same way If you go to http://www.grangecraft.com/products.php?cat_id=22 you will see that they offer bookmarks, coasters and traycloth etc, all just different sized pieces cut from a large piece of lace fabric with a repeating pattern - which I think confirms that someone used scissors to snip the sections apart to make it hand finished! . On 8 Nov 2013, at 16:48, Sue wrote: i wasn't thinking it was hand made so where did the hand finished come in. Brenda in Allhallows 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/
