RE: [lace] *Witches' Work* - connection to Binche

[Nelleke Glansdorp]

Hello all

After weeks of hard work I finally caught up with the digests ;) and lo and
behold, there was a question waiting to be answered and I knew the answer.
This must be fait so I will answer this question ;)

I've never heard of witches work before but "point de fee"  and
"toveressewerk" sounded familiar. So I took out the syllabus from my cours on
Binch lace and there was indeed a chapter on this kind of Binch. It is the
name for Binch with a lot of square tallies in it. Those tallies are not part
of the ground but are an extra accent to the motive. This type of Binch is
said to be very rare especially in older laces.

I've seen more examples of this type of lace in other places as well. There is
a nice picture of a piece of Point de Fee in Ulrike Lohr's Schneeverweht und
durchgedreht on page 35.  It is called a very chaotic lace and I agree. Almost
all the examples of Point de Fee I have seen were quite chaotic and not really
beautifull in my oppinion. So I'll stick to the Flat Binch and drool over the
lace on page 94 wich needs approx. 200 bobbins. and is 15 centimeters wide.
But first I need more bobbins .

Greetings from Nelleke Glansdorp in Leiden, The Netherlands where the sun is
shining and light is just right for working on that Kortelahti pattern that is
blokking up my block pillow for just over a year now.

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RE: [lace] *Witches' Work* - connection to Binche

[Marcie Greer]

I appreciate and thank those who are delving into this subject on my
behalf!! After I posted my question a few weeks ago on Flanders corners,
Michael Giusiana's Flanders articles in LMi were brought to my
attention. I only own the last two issues, but there is a complete set
of LMi at the house where we have our Wednesday lace session and I
started plowing through them after the Flanders information. Of course
the wonderful Binche articles caught my eye but I didn't have time to do
more than skim through them. That was when I came across the term
Witches' Work and a hint that it was a lace that was on beyond Binche so
I asked the group if anyone knew what it was. Some one thought it might
be another name for Binche but no one really knew for sure. Being a
recent victim of "Binche fever" I was more than curious about a lace
that might be a step beyond Binche and I figured that there had to be
someone on arachne who knew what this lace was and probably a good many
lacemakers besides myself who would be interested in learning what it
is, if it is still being made, if anyone still teaches it and so forth.
I have been asking other lacemakers since that day and another response
I got was that Witches' Work was like Binche with a lot of tallies. 

Now I can go back through Jeri's references next Wednesday and read them
more closely. Thanks a bunch for weeding through the LMi back issues and
posting these to the forum.

Marcie

Original Post:
>>To the original person who inquired about *Witches' Work*:  There are
probably several of us who have spent a great deal of time trying to
find an answer for you.  Very often a question is short, and the answer
is not.  What is the purpose behind the request?

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