-This is a small roller pillow so the amount that stays pinned is 1.5 " at
most. I did use a wooden roller for the finished lace & still managed to make
a ruffle!
1.5" circumference?! That's 1/2" diameter! You know, you can push the pins
down and leave them in till they come up on the
Several months ago, we held a brief Arachne discussion of lace making in
Brittany. The technique is Picot Bigouden & it is a crocheted lace that was
developed from Irish crochet during the period of the sardine famine. Check
the Arachne archives for book & online references. There are some mo
Thank you Adele, Alice & Gon! These are great ideas to help avoid a gathered
footside. I just knew there had to be some clever techniques that I hadn't
thought of. My roller is only about 3" in diameter so I don't have a lot of
space to work with before I must turn the roll. Of course this i
Ireland doesnât have any tradition of bobbin lace - but they do have some
wonderful needle laces ; Youghal, Carric-ma-Cross, Limerickâ¦.
Scotland doesnât have any tradition of bobbin lace, but the Shetland Isles
(norse rather than Celtic) have lovely knitted lace. Also Ayrshire work which
is
Sally
I did a google search on fontage, and here are some photos of the historical
version, possibly the antique version of the Brittany headdress??
Lorelei
https://www.google.com/search?q=fontage&espv=2&biw=556&bih=715&tbm=isch&tbo=
u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv-feR8LnLAhXCGh4KHT1kD50Q7Ak
Sally
I don't know exactly what the lace making tradition in Brittany is. But I
have seen some recent posts online of traditional headgear for women,
somewhat like the fontage (frontage??) If you look through this album of
people wearing lace, you will find about 4 or 5 photos. The lace headdresse
Dear Sally,
Do you belong to any local lace guild? Do they have a lending library, or
helpful local members
It is amazing that you cannot find information. Have you looked at the
IOLI website's library listings? Books are available for borrowing, which is
one of the valuable benefi
Well, I've seen pictures of beautiful traditional lace coifs in
Brittany, and with Galicia alone, you have an enormous bobbin lace
industry. And, yes, it has very strong Celtic roots!
Best of luck,
Debora Lustgarten
At 04:29 PM 3/11/2016, you wrote:
Hello all,
In 2 months I will be demonstra
Hello all,
In 2 months I will be demonstrating bobbin lace at a Celtic Festival. Most
of the festival involves music and dance, but the organizers wanted some
fiber arts too, so here I go.
I'd like to find some information about bobbin lace specifically in the
Celtic nations (officially: Ireland,
While I agree with Alice that changing the passive for a worker occasionally
might help to stop gathering, this is only possible if the lace is all one
colour. Often a different colour passive is used on the footside (perhaps
to match a fan worker), and in these cases it isn't possible to chang
I need to modify my description of using a change stitch to trade passive and
worker threads. Doing CTTC will change both sets of threads. I like to
change only one at a time when preventing passive threads from being able to
ruffle.. When doing CTC, add a second twist to only the left OR right
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