Alex
What you say does not really conflict with what I said. I think it is a
confirmation. Part of our problem is that when we say the word "Mechlin"
most lace makers think of the lace with Mechlin ground. I think that whether
the stack of half stitches has 3, 4 or 6 half stitches is not really
im
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Lorelei
From: Bev Walker [mailto:walker.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 9:25 PM
To: Lorelei Halley
Cc: Alex Stillwell ; Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] RE: Mechlin
Hello Lorelei, Alex and Lace list
Speaking of Mechlin, by coincidence I noticed this lace in the latest auction
at
Hello Lorelei, Alex and Lace list
Speaking of Mechlin, by coincidence I noticed this lace in the latest
auction at Kerry Taylor:
http://kerrytaylorauctions.com/one-item/?id=383&sub=%20&auctionid=439
Interesting that its time-frame is given as circa 1760. I suppose that date
is what the previous
Alex
Of the books you list, I only have Levey and Palliser. Palliser was trying to
be scholarly, but wasnât really very good. She does not link laces to
external sources to verify dates, but just goes by what other lace writers
have said. Levey is the one who is a real historian. She uses the ol
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 Tamara P Duvall wrote:
In Prague, in one of the exhibits, I saw a totally modern
piece - huge, in comparison to "old Mechlin" - where the ice ground
was used to delineate "glass panes" in a picture of a (cathedral?)
window. The "downstrokes" might have been elongated a bit (a
On Mar 24, 2005, at 15:38, Laurie Hughes wrote:
I took Ulrike Voelker's (nee Loehr) (NOTE: The new name has NO UMLAUT,
YAY!)
To date, I've seen about 5 different spellings of the new name; can't
wait to see her (in Denver) and ask what the correct one is and how
it's pronounced It's like (years
I can never resist Julie's postings; I adore her sense of humour... :)
I know I have the book, I know I have the book... *There* it is...
On Mar 16, 2005, at 22:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie) wrote:
In Section 1, Thienpondt does not define the stitches.
Linen stitch is a standard name, I assume i
