First...I think the picture is delightful, and probably would have
bought it myself, if I saw it in a shop.
However..I don't think she's doing bobbin lace. The formation and angle
of her right hand looks like she's holding a sewing needle. The left
hand has a gap between the thumb and first fin
Hi Mark and everyone
Just some comments on your painting find - the portrait itself looks like it
might have been done after the 'sitting' from a sketch made on the spot. I
can't imagine the artist did the oils in the moment, but who knows. Maybe
the setting was the lacemaker in her living room in
In a message dated 6/11/2010 12:49:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lacel...@verizon.net writes:
What is the signature? It looks like more letters than the name
Oberhellmann has. It's hard to see in the little picture I have to look
at.
I am also confused about the signature. It looks like th
I took a close up view of the signature. I suppose the "O" could be a first
initial and then "Berhellmann". But did a search and came up with nothing
of a surname like that. I did find "Berkellmann" as a surname. All my
findings are German in origin.
So the signature could read "O. Berkellmann
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Admittedly they are printed in a mixture of upper and lower case, but the
first two letters are actually bigger than the others.
To confuse matters more, I googled O. Berhellmann and got a hit on
Oberhellmann, so that is the name of someone who was once involved in a court
case
in Misso
I am familiar with some of the Hudson River School painters. Hated art
history class at the time(this coming from an art major). But helps with
knowledge now that I don't have a school bill and not working toward a
degree. Learning is fun now! HAH
Wouldn't that be a nice cash cow to have this pa
I have been going through some thread belonging to a member of our guild who is
no longer able to make lace. I have come across a couple of spools of linen
with no name or size that I recognise. They are on orange cardboard tubes. At
one end it says "Vlas-Lin-Linen" and the other end has "20
Thank you all for the clarification(s)! Now I know why I thought I remembered
the hot pin test from Antiques Roadshow! Probably to distinguish between ivory
& vegetable ivory. I'll admit to more than a few bad sectors on my personal
hard drive. ;-) Susan in Erie PA
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Mark, the pillow in your picture looks like an old Belgian one, from the
back. My lace teacher has a similar one she got in Belgium. The angle is
right too. With her
I have been given a photo copy of some pages of a beginning Torchon book. The
Chapter titles seem to be:
1. Color Key, 2. Color Key Samples, 3. Edgings, 4. Insertions, 5.
Corners, 6. Book Marks, 7. Medallions
The book has at least 127 pages, and is about 8.5 x 11 inches (the photo
cop
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