Re: [lace] Bone lace

Not sure about this, but weren't tapestry weavers mostly men? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bone lace

It's just struck me, tapestry weavers could also be weaving their threads with bones, so are we sure this quote relates to lacemaking? Jane Partridge On 21 Feb 2018, at 23:48, DevonThein > wrote: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And

RE: [lace] Bone lace

While researching lace tells for St. Catherine’s Day, I came across, again, the similar usage in the Shakespearean quote: O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.— Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread

[lace] Bone lace

It's interesting that this question has come up now, as I was looking through some of the indexes on the Worcester (UK) Records Office website the other day (can't remember the exact url now, and I'm away from home at the preserved railway where I volunteer at the moment), going through the lists

[lace] 'Bone' lace - accurate terminology in Kihnu

In an exchange with Pene Piip, now living in Estonia, I received a book with patterns of Estonian Bobbin Lace by Eeva Talts, 2003, (IOLI has a copy she donated.) Lacemaking in Estonia has had its ups and downs. The tradition of bobbin lacemaking lapsed during the Soviet period, surviving mainly