[lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-27 Thread Alex Stillwell
Re: Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:43:03 -0500 From: Elena Kanagy-Loux Subject: [lace] Question about early English lace Hello all! I am researching the development of the lace industry at the moment, Hi Elena I have a some references you might find interesting, I’ll send them directly to you

Re: [lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-24 Thread Elena Kanagy-Loux
Thank you Laurie, and thank you everyone for your responses! Seems I had a right to be suspicious. Best, Elena - 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.flic

Re: [lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-23 Thread Laurie Waters
See the piece I wrote on LaceNews a few years ago, at https://lacenews.net/2011/08/24/music-the-bonelace-weavers-song/ It is Part 1, because I actually interviewed Roy Harris about this, and will write up my notes in a second article soon. Laurie ___

RE: [lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-22 Thread Lorelei Halley
mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Elena Kanagy-Loux Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:43 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Question about early English lace Hello all! I am researching the development of the lace industry at the moment, and I have a fairly extensive bibliog

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2018-02-22 Thread Sue Harvey
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Re: [lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-22 Thread Sue Harvey
Thank you Brenda for that, I found out about many things concerning the Queens wardrobe it made fascinating reading also made me very curious to know more I shall be looking into that . Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK Sent from my iPad > On 21 Feb 2018, at 21:57, Brenda Paternoster > wrote: >

Re: [lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-21 Thread Brenda Paternoster
What Thomas Wright actually wrote is ‘ "…bone-lace it is named, because first made with bone (since wooden) bobbins.” In the wardrobe accounts of Queen Elizabeth’s day the terms “bone lace” (which was made with a fine thread) and “bobbin lace” (which was made with a coarser thread)

[lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-21 Thread Elena Kanagy-Loux
Hello all! I am researching the development of the lace industry at the moment, and I have a fairly extensive bibliography, but there is one reference that I have only seen in one place. In Thomas Wright’s “Romance of the Lace Pillow,” on page 8 he makes a distinction between bone lace as bein

Re: [lace] Question about early English lace

2018-02-21 Thread Kim Davis
Elena, I would take this with a grain of salt. Some of the inventories that actually mention bone lace are likely to have been metal laces, which were certainly not "fine" in terms of diameter of the thread. Kim In Thomas Wright’s “Romance of the Lace Pillow,” on page 8 he makes a >