Hello Kathleen and Arachneans,
I agree with Majory Carter about trad. techniques and nowadays pattern. But on
the other hand there must be lace which fits in our time and our life and
that’s what I and a lot of other German lacemakers try to do. You can see a few
of my ideas in my photo album.
Brian - Your quilts are very interesting. I had no idea you made quilts. How
did you get from quilts to historical bobbins?
Lorelei
Hi all, You will know that I am not a lace maker, but in my patchwork hobby
life, we are experiencing the same slow evolution away from traditional
patchworking.
Dear Sharon,
If you want to see the obituary of a fascinating woman, here is the
link to the one that was written by Aurelia Loveman’s son.
https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg43510.html
She put on a lace show at the Walters Art Gallery in 1988 in
Baltimore. Later she was
This lecture lands right at the time period of my novel: 1985.
What a lucky find!
https://cdnmedia.handweaving.net/DigitalArchive/articles/la_na4.pdf
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Dear Arachnites
I found a fantastic online resource which appears to be much more current
that the Arizona State website. It has pdfs of the Old Lacers bulletin from
the 1960s.
There are 15 pages of goodies to look at.
Here is the URL:
https://handweaving.net/document-search/topic/104?page=0
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Go to page 16 for bio of Gertrude Biederman
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/periodicals/nol_6768.pdf
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Lace designed by Dagobert Peche
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18670485/
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18670483/
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Thank you Doris for drawing attention to this. I confess I have not
really examined the book very acutely since buying it new in 1973.
This blows my mind. I had been imagining that Gertrude Biederman was
cut in mold of others I knew in the era who were promoting
traditionalism in the form of
Kaethe Kliot's book ( pages210-211"Bobbin Lace Form by the Twisting of Cords")
credits Gertude Beiderman with the design of several laces which are actually
re-workings of designs by Dagobert Peche of the Wiener Werkstatte. In your
conversation with Jules, could you ask Jules why there is no
