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Laurie Waters Female Los Alamos, NM United States

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Interview with Clay Blackwell

I’ve just posted an interview on LaceNews with Clay Blackwell on the “Lace at Sweet Briar” status. See http://tinyurl.com/l7u94zt.Laurie Waters…Continue

Started Mar 11, 2015

"The Art of Lace" Symposium at Waddesdon Manor, Sept 13, 2014

“The Art of Lace: Historic and Contemporary Materials, Techniques and Display” will be held at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, UK on September 13, 2014 from 10:30 to 15:30. This symposium is…Continue

Started Jul 8, 2014

"The Lace Trail" at the National Portrait Gallery in London
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I just posted an in-depth interview with Dutch artist Sophie Ploeg who won the prestigious BP Travel Award for portraiture http://tinyurl.com/mobdhwr.Her…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Lorelei Halley Administrator Jun 26, 2014.

Interview with Julia Evseeva, director of the Vologda Lace Museum
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With the 2nd International Lace Festival “Vita Lace” in Vologda starting on June 26th, I just posted an interview with the Vologda Lace Museum director, Julia Evseeva on LaceNews (…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Lorelei Halley Administrator Jun 24, 2014.

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Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"I have to get the pieces out of storage to get better photos - working on it."

Sep 10, 2020

Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"And in the first piece, you can see the initials S M in one of the flowers. See if you can find them :-)"

Sep 8, 2020

Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"By the way, t he third piece down in the photos I just posted I bought from the Pat Earnshaw estate. It's 15.5cm wide by 550 cm long! It has a definite scrolling repeat which is hard to pick out, and you can only guess at the flowers. I'm…"

Sep 8, 2020

Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"I think the piece was reworked probably in the 19th century, and the border might have been added then. . But I'd have to look at the edges to be sure, to see if they are cut. And if maybe there's some piecing going on. Normally I…"

Sep 8, 2020

Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"This is one of my favorite needlelaces and I have a lot of it in my collection. The cloth is done in a knotted stitch, which is still perfectly understandable as a needlelace stitch. You can find it in Gros Point too. (There's nothing you…"

Sep 8, 2020

Lorelei Halley Administrator replied to Laurie Waters's discussion Strange mesh in the group Identification-History

"In this doctored photo the red ring shows one ground crossing. It appears to be a cloth stitch. So the ground would be worked ttctc Very strange. The shapes of the motifs suggest Mechlin, but this is not Mechlin. The…"

Jun 26, 2020

Laurie Waters replied to Laurie Waters's discussion Strange mesh in the group Identification-History

"That's definitely it. And not Mechlin - the mesh is going in the wrong direction. Russian... interesting. I'll get out my Russian books."

Jun 21, 2020

Devon Thein replied to Laurie Waters's discussion Strange mesh in the group Identification-History

"This looks like the piece I pictured in a post in the Identification-History group on Jan. 17, 2019, p. 16 if you go back in the pages discussion. Our info said it was Russian and also Mechlin. I think it is a case of doing the motions of point…"

Jun 21, 2020

Laurie Waters added a discussion to the group Identification-History

Strange mesh

Does anyone recognize this lace? My first thought was Lille, but the design is a little off, more like 19th c Valenciennes. Maybe Valenciennes with a round-hole mesh? But Val isn't known for the gimp. I don't really recognize the mesh - any ideas?LaurieSee More

Jun 21, 2020

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Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"Regarding Genoa knock-offs, look carefully at the Sansepolcro industry, they did a lot of that kind of work. Heather Toomer and I are translating the book "Ginna Marcelli e il Merletto di Sansepolcro' published 1996, based on a few things…"

May 25, 2020

Laurie Waters replied to Laurie Elliott's discussion Lacemaking history in the group Identification-History

"See my LaceNews posts on English tokens…"

May 13, 2020

Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"Talk to Frieda Sorber about this, she's the expert on early Nederlands laces."

May 13, 2020

Laurie Waters left a comment for Lorelei Halley Administrator

"Thanks Lorelei! I definitely need to write a book. Been intending to for years. Laurie"

Apr 13, 2020

Lorelei Halley Administrator left a comment for Laurie Waters

"Laurie I greatly enjoyed your article in the current issue of the IOLI Bulletin. You are addding a great deal of detail to public knowledge about the specifics of needle lace making. I hope you are thinking about archiving your series of articles in…"

Apr 13, 2020

Laurie Waters commented on Lorelei Halley Administrator's group Identification-History

"The reason the Burano mesh is square looking has to do with the way it is made. This is a pillow-made needlelace, rather than the handheld laces of Alencon and Belgium. In Burano a thread is passed across the pattern and pulled tight. The twisted…"

Apr 5, 2020

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What is your primary lace interest? Check more than one.: lace maker, collector, lace historian

Photo sharing site with photos of your work, if you have one (picasa,flickr,photobucket,etc): http://www.youtube.com/user/lacenews

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LaceNews has started yet another activity - and it's not just a standard lace links page - http://pinterest.com/LaceNews/boards/. I'm using Pinterest to identify internet sites, each with a photo, web pointer, and brief description. After only 4 days of working with this I have 29 'boards', or topic categories, and 309 pins representing individual web sites. More are coming every day. Pinterest account holders (a free service) can also…

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At 7:18pm on April 13, 2020, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Laurie

I greatly enjoyed your article in the current issue of the IOLI Bulletin. You are addding a great deal of detail to public knowledge about the specifics of needle lace making. I hope you are thinking about archiving your series of articles in some fashion. This, possibly, as pdf files. The readership of the Bulletin is too small an audience for what you are doing. Your hard work deserves more exposure.

https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs.html

At 2:20pm on August 3, 2014, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Laurie

Please check out the current DISCUSSION in our BOBBIN MADE TAPE LACE group about Polish bobbin lace. She lists several videos on the subject. I though you might want to add them to your playlists, if you don't have them already.

http://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobbin-made-tape-laces-braid-laces/forum/topics/polish-tape-lace-of-bobowa-and-zakopane?commentId=6475898%3AComment%3A37818&xg_source=activity&groupId=6475898%3AGroup%3A27

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At 11:05pm on November 20, 2013, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Laurie

It is worth doing. Your boards are very useful.

At 7:21pm on November 20, 2013, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Oops. I just discovered you already have Aurifil on your pinterest board. And thnks about the AIC also. I missed that one too.

At 5:56pm on November 16, 2013, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Laurie

I did not see the Art Institute of Chicago among your American lace museums on your pinterest board. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/category/14 They do have a substantial lace collection - over 1000 piece. They are not usually on exhibit, but can be viewed in private apointments. I don't know what the current rules and conditions are. But they are definitely worth seeing. Lots of 16th and 17th century pieces. Genoese, Milanese and Flemish tapes laces are what i concentrated on. You might want to add it.

At 3:50pm on September 28, 2013, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Laurie: I was just looking at the lacenews pinterest pages. You have a page for ravelry groups, but there is one you left out. It is an Irish crochet group, separate from Maire Treanor. It is very active, with lots of resources collected. Take a look, I think you will want to add it.

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/irish-crochet-lovers

At 7:38pm on July 1, 2012, Karisse A. Moore said…: Hi, I have a son who lives in Los Alamos. The next time I am up there we could get together and talk lace. I get the feeling I am going to be a lone lacer down here. I do hope to go to any classes they offer in Albuquerque. It is 4 hours drive one way from here to there so I don't think I am going to do it every month.

At 6:18pm on June 30, 2012, Karisse A. Moore said…: Hi, I am a lace maker from Texas. I belong to the Austin Lacemakers and IOLI. I just moved to Silver City, NM and am wondering what lace goes on in NM or around Silver City? i would love to have some company. Karisse A. Moore

At 2:14pm on January 21, 2012, Lorelei Halley Administrator said…: Laurie

Welcome. Please read all the NOTES, which explain our policies, and how the software works. Join whatever groups interest you. Post some photos of your lace. If you have any questions, contact me and I'll try to help.
Lorelei aka "ioli"