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Learning Needle Lace
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got the outside portion of the cordonnet laid! already dreading weaving all the ends in 🫠
#needle lace#lace making#crafts#fiber art#textile art#chrochet#doily#handmade#tatting#art#fashion history#palmette-lotus chain
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A little finished lace!
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Pattern prepped and ready for me to start laying the cordonnet down!
#needle lace#lace making#crafts#fiber art#textile art#chrochet#doily#handmade#tatting#art#fashion history#palmette-lotus chain
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Gaza Forever by Sarah Fitzgerald
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Gros Point de Venise lace, 1651-1675. Textilmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
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making doilies is a useless hobby because i have all these pretty things and not enough flat surfaces to put them on
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started this cape in Dec of 2020 and finally got it done!! it's reversible but I did forgot to get a vid with the houndstooths side out.. oops!
#sewing#butterick b4419#cape#homemade#fiber art#textile art#vintage fashion#crafts#handmade#not lace
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Finally finished another bit of filet lace after one billion years sjjsks not sure how clear it is but it’s a shadow puppet dog :)
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After doing some measuring, I found max height the lace could be for the choker was 2 inches. I scaled my reference image down to 2 inches, traced it, and then decided to do a quick test run to see if my thread would even let me go this small.
I knew the answer was almost certainly no, and that if by some miracle it would work, it would have to be done on a single line of cordonnet thread and have no filling stitches.
Standard needle lace practice is to double the cordonnet thread to make it easier to interlock different pieces of the cordonnet and give it that traditional thick outline look.
I had concerns about my cordonnet turning out thicker than I wanted in my last project and managed to do a continuous line of single cordonnet successfully. However, I think in this piece being able to interlock the cordette is going to be really important.
While I was able to roughly buttonhole some of it, it was not at the scale I wanted. The thread looked too bulky compared to the size of the design. At this scale, I would need a smaller thread size. I don't want to buy a new thread, don't have anything smaller on hand, and am not confident enough in my skill set yet to take on anything smaller than size 20, so a choker is out of the options.
I still love the choker idea, but it's not realistic for my current materials or skill level. When I use more of my 20 thread and become more confident in my skill set, I will likely come back to this.
For now, I am going to use the palmette-lotus chain to make a doily. Unlike my original post stated, I do think I will be including the outer framing bits as I did in this tracing.
#needle lace#lace making#crafts#fiber art#textile art#chrochet#doily#handmade#tatting#art#fashion history#palmette-lotus chain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagetta_lagetto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filet_lace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_de_Venise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutwork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_lace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macram%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_knitting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocheted_lace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin_lace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_lace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_needlelace
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New project time!! I finished my bachelor's (yay!) so now I have some more free time that I can use to get a lace project rolling. Here's the idea:
An adaptation of black figure palmette-lotus chain from amphora neck designs. I specifically like the chain design by the Antimenes Painter (and his circle).
pic 1 | pic 2 | pic 3
I think the design can be easily adapted into a needle lace design. The symmetry and use of circular shapes feel similar to a variety of needle lace pieces I have run across. I still am not 100% sure what I will use this pattern to make. I am debating between a doily, collar, choker, or bracelet:
Doily: Basically what I have made in the past. It would consist of a singular oval. It's been a hot minute since I have actually worked on a piece of lace, so something familiar to ease myself back in might be best. I would likely leave off the bits between the ovals, but could do them if I wanted.
Collar: a lace collar is a bucket list make for me and I think this design would be beautiful as one. However, it would be a very large piece and would require me to do some joining, which I have never done before. Being a bit out of practice makes me hesitant to take this on.
Choker: Much like the collar this is a project that may entail joining and would also be relatively large. Smaller than a full collar, but still larger than I have done before. I also think the shape of a choker mimics the neck of amphora jars more closely than a collar.
Bracelet: This would be the smallest option that may require joining, I could likely get away with just 2 ovals. However, it is the least appealing to me since I am very picky about how bracelets feel when I wear them and I have an suspicion that I wouldn't end up wearing it ever.
#while making the sketches i learned that the new windows paint doesn't let selections to be rotated?? swore you could in the old one#needle lace#palmette-lotus chain#lace making#fiber art#textile art#ancient pottery#greek pottery
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Here’s a list of all the needle lace books I have, and why I have them:
The Lace Guild’s “Needlelace: Basic Technical Information” and “Needlelace: Intermediate Technical Information”
I bought this because it was an accessible entry point (I believe it was around $20CAD for one and this was 2020) and I really, really wanted to get Catherine Barley’s and Pat Earnshaw’s needlelace books as soon as possible. When I Earnshaw’s book first, I bought these nearly immediately after because those books are definitely written for people who already understand the basics.
I bought this because some of the stitches I was most interested in didn’t end up being in the “Basic” technical book.
Because of the cover, this is known as “The Strawberry Book” according to Mary Corbet in her Needle ‘n Thread” review of this book. You can read it on her blog, for a professional embroiderer’s perspective on it. I bought it because it contains a segment on point de gaze, one of the main lace stitching traditions (although it’s v young) I’m interested in, and because it goes over ways to accomplish traditional lace throughout. It’s printed on demand, so it costs a bit and you have to make an email order, but I’ve never once regretted making the purchase.
I bought this one first because it’s out of print and I saw someone with a copy I could afford. Thank goodness I did, because until this year, it was very difficult to get hands on a copy being sold for less than $100. Mine isn’t in the best condition (I think it took some water damage), so I was hoping to procure another copy in better condition. When I bought this, I could make heads nor tails of the content within, which pushed me to get the The Lace Guild books. I am often thankful to have this book, and every time it goes missing in my crafting mess, I go near feral looking for it.
This is the last book I purchased. When I first got into needle lace, I didn’t realize I was interested in punto in aria or reticella or aemilia ars or whatever you like to call it (I will explain the overlap in a future post, because these technically all mean different things), but then I realized the potential it had as decor. And then I realized I’m bougie enough to want a HUGE ruff. I had difficulty finding a book about the subject that was both in English (I wanted to start with something I could read fluently) and focused on geometrical lace and not… later punto in aria and had written instructions. So when I saw this from Margaret Stephens, I scooped it up IMMEDIATELY.
These are all the books I’m going to be reviewing in more detailed and dedicated posts, but please let me know if there are any others I should consider buying and writing reviews on.
#learning guides#needle lace#lace making#fiber art#need to get myself that last one asap#thank you for sharing :)
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I MADE A THING
homegrown cotton -> homespun & plied thread -> a little piece of lace :)
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Annnd done!!! Lighting in my room is Horrific as always, but I actually really like how it turned out :)
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Lace-making, (textile course - lecturer Sophie Taeuber-Arp), KGSZ, Fachschule für Sticken, Zürich, 1919 [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich] Alice Frey-Amsler.
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I've never met a doily before that looks so much better the further you view it from but this guy really likes to be seen from half way across the room at a 45 degree angle.
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Just relized I never posted the finished thing, so here it is off the backing, washed, and starched! Very happy with how it came out
#needle lace#lace making#crafts#fiber art#textile art#crochet#doily#handmade#tatting#art#fashion history#Needle-made laces p51
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