Re: [lace] Re: Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-17 Thread Dmt11home
<> According to Pat Earnshaw, "In the late 1880s... the Schiffli began to emerge as a formidable power." The Schiffli is the embroidery machine I usually associate with chemical lace. This also corresponded to a fashion for wearing heavy Venetian laces which were especially suited to being

Re: [lace] Re: Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-17 Thread Diane Williams
Spiders, I happened to be in Springfield, Illinois yesterday for work and talked my boss into an hour's visit to the brand new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. (We spent an hour in the museum and an hour in the gift shop!) An hour isn't nearly enough, but we zipped through a spec

[lace] Re: Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-15 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 15, 2006, at 13:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote: I think that you may find that you have to focus on couturier clothes of the past if you want to link them with bobbin lace and even this is not particularly straight forward since the lace was often distinctly separate from the dre