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So I often dig through the doilies and napkins at the local secondhand shops, but this time I hit jackpot. Look at these hand stitched needlelace doilies! They are small, and very fine, only about 10-12cm across.
There were also two little outliers in the same bag - one crochet one (again, incredibly fine work, this is a small piece) and one that looks like it's in (Armenian?) needlelace in thread so fine the thing floats when you drop it.
I buy these little treasures to cut up and use in my embroidery. But I can't. Not with these. They are such superb work.
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I HAVE POLLS!!!
Also please reblog!
#blue talks#polls#fibercraft#needlecraft#this will be fun#should i tag with everything?#sprang#tunisian crochet#loom knitting#needlelace#bobbin lace#nalebinding#crewel work#hardanger embroidery#idk how to even do all these myself
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Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilemuseum St. Gallen
This well-illustrated book edited by Emma Cormack and Michele Majer accompanied an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center gallery and was named best art book of 2022 by the New York Times. It is a serious study in multiple chapters by various authors covering the rise of lace as an industry in early modern Europe, going through the centuries and the different traditions and countries, up to the modern era. If you are interested in the development of lace, you will find it fascinating. It is being sold at a substantial discount online when I last checked.
Here you see a woodcut from 1556 that offers up a pattern for lace; then a needle-lace and bobbin-lace collar which may be date from 1600 and or 1880, which is the most intriguing dating; a portrait from the chapter on how lace showed up--stiff and regal--in Spanish portraits in the 16th and 17th; lastly bobbin-lace coverlet from Brussels which has palm trees as well as the more common flora.
The exhibition can still accessed online here and it offers many images as well as some video of lace-making: https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/threadsofpower/
#threadsofpower#lace#historyoflace#fashionhistory#costumehistory#dresshistory#lacecollars#bobbinlace#needlelace#vintagelace#bardgraduatecenter#emmacormack#michelemajer
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Hi Folks! I'm fundraising for The Kimball-Jenkins school of art, here in Concord NH (LOVELY People) I"m livestreaming lacemaking on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/robert.dorr.77
and my donation page is here, https://www.nhgives.org/p2p/316356/robert-dorr
Everything starts at 5, and ends when I run out of steam.
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I did not know this artwork lived inside of me! And now I feel like I live inside of it? Like my whole life is a funny little piece of lace. #needlelace #needletatting #crochetlace #detachedbuttonholestitch #chainsandpicots https://www.instagram.com/p/CHG1fhzpCjC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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made a sea bunny :3
#fishcatart#textiles#embroidery#technically needlelace#this was done exclusively with a needle lmao#sea bunny#sea slug#'tis a creature :3#this was originally gonna be an isopod but i made them too wide :(#so slug time it is <3
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if you're looking for a fiber related research topic, have you heard of armenian needlelace?
Sorry this is so cool???
I need to try that one day!
Can someone remember me in 2 weeks or so 🤣
@roboticchibitan i believe this could be of interest for you
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How to get started doing Armenian Needlelace for beginners
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Hello friends, happy 2024! And with that, we begin our lace rot along!
We thought it would be a good idea to start with Armenian needle lace, since it is the style that requires the least amount of supplies it should be convenient to pick up. All you need is a blunt needle and some thick thread (and scissors). It is also an interesting technique to start with because it seems* to share similarities with many of the other lace styles we plan to try (needle lace, netting for lacis, macrame). *(I say "seems" because I never done any of these, but based on tutorials they all look wonderfully interconnected, and I can't wait to find out!)
Here is video 1 of 8 of a beginner tutorial for Armenian needle lace. Let's all work through this tutorial series together and post our progress as we go. Follow along at your own speed, this is a very casual lace along if you haven't already gathered. For those who like to have more of a timeline (me), we are thinking of spending approximately one month on each type of lace, plus or minus a couple weeks depending on how the group feels.
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The creator of this tutorial has a ton of other resources too, here's a playlist of all 59 of her lace videos including all videos in the beginner series
Happy lacing!!!!!
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Three stitched organisms, 2020: embroidery on felt, embroidery on organza, hand stitched needlelace.
After a creature drawn by Ernst Haeckel: https://www.flickr.com/photos/origomi/1061960989/
#embroidery#textiles#i made it myself#hand embroidery#needlelace#textile art#ernst haeckel#fibre art
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Time for another traditional embroidery mend! This time, we're trying out the Puncetto Valsesiano stitch, which, after I finished this up, I've found, is an entire style of needlelace! For this patch, though, we just did stitch after stitch after stitch, no fancy patterning. (I might do fancy patterning later, to be fair! been reading up on things, and I've got a few smaller repairs to make that would suit it quite nicely!)
One row of stitches in, and I was thinking, oh this can't be so bad! this is actually quite soothing, all these repetitive actions, and with such a delightful, knitting-like texture!
This many stitches in, and sure, I'm still having a good time, but mostly, I'm finding out how much thread this takes! Poor razz, @razzmatazic, I thought this was going to be a simple, small patch, so I borrowed her thread to work on this one! You can't quite tell in this shot, but I'm actually about to run out of thread!
After likely much, much more fuss than was strictly necessary, including accidentally picking a slightly different color of floss because of some mislabeled strands, noticing I'd dropped enough stitches to need to throw some extra ceylon stitching in a gap, and a probably pretty noticable shift in texture because of single vs. double threading, we've got ourselves a patch that, even despite its shortcomings, I really dig the look of!
Unfortunately, I didn't make this patch wide enough generally, so I've got a few more holes that'll be getting filled by a big 'ol sashiko patch that's going to layer overtop the puncetto, eventually! Stay tuned, I'm just as curious as you are as to how that'll look.
#solarpunk#slow fashion#sewing#embroidery#mending#visible mending#textile art#solarpunk fashion#fiber art#lace#puncetto valsesiano#queue.queue#a thousand words#nesterian lifestylings#sproutleboople#I actually really did enjoy doing this#it just ate up so much thread for so little payoff!#tee bee aech if I did some actual lacelike structures with this I'd be much more interested in using it#but it doesn't quite work for patching holes in the crotch area of pants lmao#I really should stick to sashiko in that area generally#it wears much better in comparison to the embroidery I've done previously which just introduces new wear patterns that I'll then have to me#*then have to mend#anyway once again check the alt text#I like to add fun flavor!
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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.
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#needlelace #freestylelace https://www.instagram.com/p/CG8ep_DJYtV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Here is one of the more beautiful examples of Turkish needle lace (oya lace) that I have seen in a while. I think it is quite complicated, but wow, what a lovely finish, right?
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Trying to rest off a fever today. I had a think about what skills I wanted to learn that I could incorporate with my cosplay sewing, and I'm actually thinking about picking up lacemaking (needlelace for isolated appliques, bobbin lace for custom trims), tablet weaving (for various custom trims and long, narrow belting bits), goldwork, beadwork and embroidery.
I currently do knitting and crochet, on top of cross stitch and general sewing, so I think that on the sewing side of cosplay I'm looking at building a more specialized than average repertoire of skills, but I do intend to pick up other adjacent skills (wig work and sewing wefts, leatherwork, and also more advanced foamwork) and up my 3D printing game a bit.
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Learn how to do the Honeycomb needlelace design pattern. Armenian needle lace is one of the rarest, richest, and simplest arts, and you can enjoy it with a single needle and some thread.
In this video series, I teach a start-to-finish tutorial for creating Armenian Needlelace, which is the beautiful art of Armenian needlework. This art, also known as point lace, iğne oyası (Igne Oyasi in Turkish), Nazareth Lace, Bebilla, and Knotted Lace, is centuries old. I learned this art growing up in a Lebanon orphanage when I was a little girl.
I hope to continue sharing this art with you all. Thank you so much for your support!
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