For those who love hand made lace.
Freehand bobbin laces are a group of peasant laces made in various countries in Europe. What they have in common is that pins were only used along the 2 outer edges, and careful tension control made the threads follow their proper path. Some of the localities for these laces are Sweden, northwestern Italy and southeastern France. Scania, Queyras, Maurienne are some of the varieties.
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Gon Homburg has just started posting a group of Miklailov lace patterns. She says they were originally worked with pinholes only along the 2 edges. I guess that makes them freehand laces. I had always thought of them as torchon. Any ideas?
Freehand lace in Croatia. photo by Igor Beros, from Lepoglava lace festival. Looks like an antique pillow. Date unknown.
These are great resources, Lorelei! Thank you!
Grounds are not all based on pairs moving diagonally. It can be pairs moving diagonally crossed vertically or hoizontally by single pairs.
Sometimes it is 2 pairs moving diagonally, crossed by another 2 pairs moving diagonally in the other direction.
Sometimes it is 2 or 4 pairs in vertical stacks, crossed horizontally or diagonally. Sometimes it is 2 pairs in vertical stacks, connected to each other in alternate rows, crossed by horizontal pairs.
See the other discussion in http://laceioli.ning.com/group/designing-bobbin-lace/forum/topics/g...
Thanks Devon.
I put a link to Lena Dahren's dissertation on early gold and silver bobbin laces on the Barbara Fay Verlag website in the "resources" section of the Early Lace Group. Lena says that Barbara Fay is the only dealer who carries it.
Devon, I found something similar to the holed trail in the book Handleiding Voor De Vrouwelijke Handwerken book from http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/hw11.pdf but I don't know Dutch and Google Translate is iffy. I roughed out a translation of the pertinent section but haven't had a chance to try it yet.
Lorelei - actually, I only used one pin under the flowerhead, and only utilized it once. I was not familiar with the idea of using the same pin multiple times. The pinned windmill was on the "upstroke" going into the flowerhead, and when I came out I just tensioned very carefully between the pair coming out of the pin and the pair that had been making the flower. It didn't look on the pricking like there was enough space to use a second pin, and while I think I tried going back to the same pin to see if I could make that work, it just seemed to make the lace "clumpy" at that point, so I abandoned that track.
I think it is safe to say that the bars may have been made in different ways, since the lacemakers, like ourselves, were having to interpret what was in the pattern book. However, from looking closely at 20.186.91 and also 20.186.117, it appears that these bars may have been interpretted by some lacemakers as in the following diagram. The very different quality of the linen thread and the way it puffs up makes the bars look more substantial than my drawing. (Wish I was better at drawing these diagrams.)
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