Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp

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**Autoerotic Defenestration** @danielaKay@mastodon.cloud · 7h *

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Autoerotic Defenestration @danielaKay@mastodon.cloud

Cardinal Fortunato Frezza.

I'm leaning towards #bobbinLace here...?

If true, it's probably a full day per cross motif.

#lace #lacemaking #cardinal

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**Autoerotic Defenestration** @danielaKay@mastodon.cloud · 7h *

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Autoerotic Defenestration @danielaKay@mastodon.cloud

Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão.

OMG. There's element of tape-lace in it, which could be either bobbin lace or crochet (aka Bruges lace). Also, the pixel-art looking lace could be filet crochet again.

So, different crochet techniques? Which would point to hand-made...

If it is hand-made, we're looking at *hundreds* of hours here O.O

#lace #lacemaking #cardinal

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**Autoerotic Defenestration** @danielaKay@mastodon.cloud · 8h *

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Autoerotic Defenestration @danielaKay@mastodon.cloud

Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa.

Could this be bobbin lace?
It is possible to machine-produce some types of bobbin lace, but this looks so elaborate, I'm kinda leaning towards hand-made.

If it's hand-made bobbin lace, I'd say half a day or a full day per oval motif?

#lace #lacemaking #cardinal

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · 1d

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

#WIPWednesday is all about our #IpswichLace event this coming Saturday!

Event details: https://nelg.us/Weaving-threads-of-lace-history

The museum will let me sell my Ipswich lace jewelry (necklaces and pins) so I'm doing the final details. I am also bringing Karen Thompson's books for her if you wanted to see them before buying. They are hard to find in person.

#GatherFiberSymposium has had so many great events this month that I absolutely could not keep up with them.

A velvet beige jewelry tray with small bins for items. There are five columns across and six rows down. The upper half is mostly oval and round brooches with Ipswich lace (black or white) on the surface and a glass with a color behind it.

The bottom two rows are the necklaces with square or rectangular pendants but the same basic thing. Lace applied to the glass surface and a color underneath.

Karen Thompson (doyenne of Ipswich Lace) has a new book with "Jewelry Patterns Inspired by Historic American Ipswich Lace".

The cover has earrings and pendants in various colors and some with beads.

Karen Thompson's original book of the Ipswich lace patterns based on the Library of Congress samples that she had access to as a volunteer with the Smithsonian. She examined each of the 18th century samples in detail and recreated the patterns from them. So they are entirely authentic to that period. But with modern diagrams!

#IpswichMA #BobbinLace #Lace

**Giselle** @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk · 5d

Giselle @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk

Ah ha!
Here's the technique for inserting a bead in the middle of the lace ground (instead of a pin) or at an edge (between pins). Good to know.

https://youtu.be/_JdAKDwEEVQ?si=_bcf4jgp8Cfa-Onz

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#BobbinLace

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**Giselle** @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk · 5d

Giselle @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk

And here's the link to the very useful video by Louise West:

https://youtu.be/jKEZie0f2nA?si=r75LLIPhJpkUdC2s

Good thing she uses blue thread on the lazy Susan, makes it easy to see.

You can use a column of beads instead of leafs or tallies, or anywhere you like where you can attach the loop through the beads to another bit in your lace. Like this kind of zigzag design element here.

#BobbinLace

**Giselle** @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk · 5d

Giselle @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk

So pretty! Bobbin lace with beads. Presumably you string the beads on the thread first before winding them on bobbins, but what do I know...

#BobbinLace

Lovely motif

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**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

For #WIPWednesday I have so much demonstration lace under way for #Rev250 that I needed to make myself another pin box. Yes, I have about 5 pin boxes already, but for different sized pins. I need them all...

These are Altoids boxes dressed up for events. All #IpswichLace related stuff.

A small cardboard box of Bohin's brass pins that are the size used for reproduction lace. But the cardboard box is not ideal for transport to our events and leaving out on your lace work table.

On the left is my first pin box. It has an ad from 1797 that I printed to highlight the Ipswich lace mentioned, on a yellowish parchment-like paper. I also pasted a small piece of black lace down the front, and 4 tiny bobbin-looking pieces of toothpick tops tied with thread. A red ribbon runs around the edge of the upcycled tin like a frame for the newspaper.

On the right is my second pin box. It has a cyanotype of a lace pricking I found in an old book, which is the pinholes for lace but on the back of it was a schooner image. I also included Lucy Gallup Eldridge whose 3 tiered lace shawl inspires me. It a 1795 portrait in the Connecticut History Museum. But postage-stamp sized for this. There are 2 pieces of lace on this. The black one on the bottom is hard to see, it's under the green ribbon frame. A white linen piece is in the upper left corner.

Inside both pin boxes there is more cyanotype that fills the lid, but this time they are a piece of lace I used to make the image. And each one has a small silhouette image from the 18th century, postage-stamp size.

On the left box is a pink one with 2 people. These are the Bakers. In their house was a grammar and lace school run by Mary Baker.

On the right box is Joseph Dana. His report to Alexander Hamilton in the Library of Congress is why we know about the Ipswich lace industry today.

A photo of the second pin box in process is easier to show the lace I used. The white linen is uncut and rests on the left top corner. The black lace lines the bottom edge.

The upper box was my first one that was done, but since I had the glue out I added some red highlight sparkles later.

#BobbinLace

**Giselle** @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 6 *

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Giselle @Giselle@mastodon.me.uk

I really want to buy a pillow/bolster for bobbin lace making, but they are awfully expensive. Shouldn't be too difficult to make myself but I don't think I have the needed materials. Must put my thinking hat on and decide what I need and where to get that from.

#BobbinLace #klöppeln

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**Auris** @auris@mas.to · Apr 6

Apr 6

Auris @auris@mas.to

we went to the yearly lace exhibition in Göllersdorf today. This time lace from the czech Republic was the main theme. More on my blog in the next couple of weeks. #BobbinLace

different kind of Bobbin Lace on a gray background

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Apr 6

Apr 6

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

I was at this #GatherFiberSymposium event yesterday, and we all yearned to be at the protest. But I will say that hanging with artists was really good for my soul. Artists are taking no shit.

Anyway: so many great events coming this month if you like textile arts. And our #IpswichLace event made the #Boston Globe today.

https://www.gatherfibersymposium.com

A photograph of a page of the Boston Globe today, Sunday April 6. It is the story about Fiber Arts and the upcoming month of Gather Fiber Symposium events. There are several images of artworks, including a hanging lumpy but soft installation, wild collages, a basket of words on thin strips of fabric, and a cool almost fungal looking multi-fabric tube structure. Also a photo of my Ipswich lace shawl.

#BobbinLace #TextileHistory

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Apr 4

Apr 4

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

The #GatherFiberSymposium got noticed by the local media! We were psyched that they invited our lace group in to their month of fiber art celebrations. There are a ton of great events going on.

More details from The Boston Globe (or search archive.youknow for an unpaywalled version).

#BobbinLace #Textiles #knitting #sewing #crafts #makers #TextileHistory

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/arts/gather-2025-fiber-textile-art-symposium-greater-boston/

The Boston Globe · Apr 3Gather 2025 explores fiber arts in Greater BostonBy Cate McQuaid

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

TIL: Dora Richter, a lacemaker, was a trans woman that wisely escaped Germany and fled to Czechoslovakia where she lived for many years making lace!

I missed it on #TransDayofVisibility because I don't go to Insta much, but Elena Kanagy-Loux has such amazing lace history knowledge. I am glad to know her story.

#BobbinLace

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH4L1bdSqAF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

InstagramElena Kanagy-Loux on Instagram: "Multiple articles about Dora have been published in the last year, and she has a growing Wikipedia page, but be sure to check out @lilielbe Lili Elbe library, the original source for the discovery of her survival: https://lili-elbe.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Richter https://www.them.us/story/dora-richter-first-trans-woman-to-receive-gender-affirming-surgery #TransDayofVisibility #WomensHistoryMonth"15K likes, 93 comments - erenanaomi on March 31, 2025: "Multiple articles about Dora have been published in the last year, and she has a growing Wikipedia page, but be sure to check out @lilielbe Lili Elbe library, the original source for the discovery of her survival: https://lili-elbe.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Richter https://www.them.us/story/dora-richter-first-trans-woman-to-receive-gender-affirming-surgery #TransDayofVisibility #WomensHistoryMonth".

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

For #WIPWednesday I can finally show you a thing I did. It's done now, but we couldn't share the info before our lace competition.

This is #Motif1 of #RockportMA in fiber form.

The competition was a particular "red thread" to use. I went to Rockport one day and was struck by this famous red fishing shack, and that's how we got here.

I did not win this year, but I love these challenges. The other entries: https://nelg.us/page-1857737

The #MBTA red line was Chefs-kiss!

A photograph I took of the red fishing shack in Rockport MA. It is a plain thing with sort of a red barn look, with a gray roof, but the side of it is covered with lobster buoys in various colors. They hang all over the back part of the shack.

There is also a large Christmas wreath near the front of the building beneath a window.

It's on a rocky granite wharf with poles to tie your boats to. It is low tide in this photo and the lower part of the wharf is a little greenish and darker with some seaweeds.

My completed entry for our lace competition. It has the wharf and poles made from burlap and toothpicks. The shack is complete and the threads all trimmed away. The chimney was added with a few brown beads on the roof point.

It's on a blue fabric backing and attached to an "artist trading card" which is the required size of our pieces for our competition.

#BobbinLace

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Mar 27

Mar 27

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

Got some new lace books at our lace retreat. It's increasingly important to hear from people who have had the actual books in their hands for these kinds of things now.

They are cute and small pieces in Rosaline, Duchesse, and Honiton.

Two paperback lace books on a lace mat. A pink book on the left has feathers and a flamingo and a rooster on it. Some lace is pure white others are vibrantly colored threads. This book is:
Elfi Krüger
Federleicht | Light as a Feather
Federn und Vögel in Den Techniken Rosaline, Honiton und Duchesse

The blue book on the right has a starfish, guppy, kingfisher, school of fish, dolphin, lotus, and a seashell. This book is:
Elfi Krüger
Rund Ums Wasser | All About Water
Maritime Motive in Den Techniken Rosaline, Honiton und Duchesse

#BobbinLace

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**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Mar 24 *

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mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

@auris Oh, I like #MilaneseLace. It's so flexible and you can do such neat designs.

My first Milanese was this hummingbird. And then we did a colorful moon. It can be more interesting.

A hummingbird made of lace. It is a lace style that you can form into all kinds of shapes. It starts on the left with a beak, a wider head, then a body, then turns up to make the back and then finally a wing folds up at the top.

It's mostly olive green, with a pink chin and belly serpentine shape, and also some gold flashes of some threads in the pattern. Probably 4 inches from head to tail.

A blue crescent moon in Milanese lace. It has some parts that are mostly a royal blue, some parts with green in the middle, and it has a few beads in the center part too. Some arrowhead looking motifs, some W shaped threads, some are more tightly woven.

Some gold threads travel along the work as well.

It's about the size of a small banana.

#BobbinLace

**Auris** @auris@mas.to · Mar 24

Mar 24

Auris @auris@mas.to

new bobbin lace class and we are doing milan lace. 2h of progress on the snake. Tbh it's not really my thing. I like airy, tulle lace and milan lace looks so rough. #BobbinLace

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

Heh. Just back from lace retreat. As librarian, my job is to haul the books. I was laughing at having 500 years of lace history in my trunk on the #EV board.

Someone described this as "tetris level" packing. I guess it is.

Lacemakers have transferable skills.

My blue gray Subaru Solterra getting its first Level 3 charge at an EV charger in Rhode Island. My trunk is open and shows a bunch of plastic bins full of books and a few stray books that are too big for the boxes around.

Sky is blue, trees are still bare in late March. It is an Electrify America charging station and my car is hooked to the charger.

Our lace library consists of about 500-600 lace books. Some are just pamphlets or small books, they aren't all big hardcovers. But here is the full set of books in plastic bins across the large stage at our retreat location. Most bins are stacked double because there's not enough room on the stage to have them all out. Some of the bigger bins are too heavy for that and are just single height.

These were all in the back of my car.

#BobbinLace #ElectricVehicles #Needlelace

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

Today someone came to reddit asking for a Lace ID, which happens a lot.

I loved that it was identified by the #Catalan independence pin sitting nearby!

Protest happens in many ways. #BobbinLace

https://redd.it/1jfkq0p

**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Mar 19

Mar 19

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

#WIPWednesday: I have continued to work on that reproduction lace. I think the size is right now, but I don't have a measurement of the original.

This is 90/2 linen thread, but the thread is slubby and I'm not keen on it. Would like a nicer thread and will try to find better ones at the upcoming lace retreat.

(Embroidered baby cap just for scale of cap size for reference. Not my work, donated to our lace group.)

Original lace: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/69291/infants-cap

#BobbinLace

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