RE: [lace] Bucks Prickings

2017-12-05 Thread Annette Meldrum
Hi ladies, As you requested more information, I checked my notes, and this is what I recorded. Spanish Blonde prickings, known to be over 100 years old. They are designed for a triangular mantilla, with the borders heavily worked and the ground worked in strips with flowers at intervals. Pins

Re: [lace] Bucks Prickings

2017-12-05 Thread Elena Kanagy-Loux
Hi everyone, I hope I’m understanding this correctly. When I studied Spanish Blonde at the Lace association in Barcelona in 2015, the same thing was explained to me about pinning only on either side of the tulle. I also did not prick the pattern. I did however use a pin in every stitch of

Re: [lace] Bucks Prickings

2017-12-05 Thread Maria Greil
Hello Annette, What you write about Spanish blonde has made me very curious. Would you mind telling us a little bit more about the 'very old prickings' an English speaking Spanish lace historian gave you for the Gild collection? As much as you tell (and Antje already found out and perfectly