But
Orange is a lovely colour to work on and not at all tiring to the eyes. It and
red are commonly used as the pricking colour in Spain, which is where I first
tried it, and I brought orange film back to the UK. Everyone of my students who
has tried it prefers it to blue or even the tra
For years I had to concentrate completely on my lace when making it, but now
that time is mostly over. I am taking a break from the altar cloth, with 60
inches done and 74 to go, but ended up with another tedious project, my flag
for the T shirt, which had inches of very wide plain linen stitch
David Hopkin, who gave a talk in Tartu a few months ago, about
lacemakers & their 'chants'
sent me a link to a short 13 minute documentary "Les dentellières de
Montusclat" made in 1978.
Enjoy,
Penelope in Tartu, Estonia
where I'll be going to Pärnu on Sunday for the Annual Estonian Lace Festival
When I curated a lace exhibit in a museum about 25 years ago, many things
were borrowed. One was a few prickings on a green leathery material from a
retired elderly gentleman who, with his wife, had run a lace shop that did
repairs in NYC (long closed) . The green was like DMC embroidery f
I like Ruth's discovery. I think the contrast placement not only gives a
pleasing background colour, but the extra layer is less harsh than if using
a buff-coloured paper to begin with.
It is good to have a choice, that we aren't limited to whatever background
colour for the pricking!
I love the
I was surprised recently when i experimented with green card and than
continued working on to an orange piece, to discover that the contrast was
so much better with white thread on orange than green (which I find better
than the normal blue). I had pinned the orange card on part way through
workin
While we're at it - I'll be in Barcelona for a few days starting next
Wednesday. Is there anything lace related that I should see there? My plans for
now are just to see the Gaudí buildings, go shopping and enjoy the catalan
food, which is probably worth the trip alone. But since there's such a
But
Orange is a lovely colour to work on and not at all tiring to the eyes. It and
red are commonly used as the pricking colour in Spain, which is where I first
tried it, and I brought orange film back to the UK. Everyone of my students
who has tried it prefers it to blue or even the tradit
I have always taken a copy of each pattern and made the pricking from that so
that I have a true pattern to refer to. These days, you often receive a
working diagram as well but when I started making lace back in the 80s, often
you just bought the pricking photocopied onto a piece of paper with
