I did not know the UK had an endangered species list for crafts. Apparently #BobbinLace is now on it. Alas.
Very nice piece by TheLaceBee.
https://www.thelacebee.com/the-lace-notes/a-fragile-thread-why-bobbin-lacemaking-must-not-be-lost
I'm beginning to realise that there isn't a huge variety of shapes that you can have at the head edge of bobbin lace trim (or do you call them edgings?). The long, often narrow, repeated lace that you sew onto hems or other garment edges. Or onto pocket flaps, around handkerchiefs, that kind of thing.
Unless you go lots bigger but then I wouldn't know what to do with lengths of really wide lace.
I will practice some more for now but at some point I want to design my own patterns.
I enjoy watching the Lacemaker Diary YT videos, which are mainly in Italian. Like here the Punto Erba.
I swear I understand more and more of the often used terms the more I watch. Lo spillo is the pin. Il modello: the pattern. Tensione and motivo are self explanatory. And I used to know what le copie means but can't find it right now. Is it pairs of bobbins?
Such lovely work. Great tips too, just from watching.
This is my pink polyester thread that I also bought to see what it's like to work with. At first this was also coming loose on the bobbins, almost as badly as the linen thread (that unfortunately turned out to be waxed. I didn't know that when I bought it). Now that I worked on this project a while, the thread isn't unspooling as much as before. Maybe it soaked up some humidity, don't know.
I'm enjoying working this lace, it's so nice and calming.
Hehe, I think you can see that I started on the half that's on the right. I got better as I went along. I certainly pulled the weaver pair tighter on each turn. Also figured out that things got a bit easier with pulling the double twists at the end of each row tight, as if trying to get the twists up and past the pin. That worked well.
Good to see that I improve with practice.
@Giselle Waxed linen has great use for sewing, but it wouldn't be my choice for making lace.
I have bought some good "Londonderry linen" threads and someone recently told me that is the name of another brand sold elsewhere but I can't remember the other brandl.
It was recommended to me as a good linen.
This piece was in Londonderry linen after red silk I preferred was too soft to hold the shape.
I'm going to leave it at part of the motif, I'm not enjoying working with this stiff linen thread.
At least I've been able to practise my sewing in, that's great.
I need to look into tieing off, I pulled so hard at one knot that I broke the thread. I tried to fix it by winding the yarn from the same bobbin pair in and out and sewed it into the back of the nearest cloth stitch area.
It's all good practice.
I had high hopes of linen thread but I'm not liking this one.
I wonder if these bobbins are partly to blame: the area that you wind with thread is slightly tapered. So as soon as the entire barrel of wound thread slips up onto the thinner part of the spindle, it obviously sits looser.
The worse thing about this thread is that the finished lace (I unpinned a bit) feels like plastic! I'll try "washing" the whole piece once done but it's such hard work to work with. Maybe I could try to wet the thread, dry it, and then wind it onto bobbins?
This linen thread is terrible for bobbin lace, it is way too stiff. I have to yank at each bobbin to get the cloth stitch area to even out but the worst thing is that the thread wound onto the bobbins keeps loosening and eventually unspools. I even tried to twist the loop another time to keep the hitch on. Nothing helps.
I keep rewinding the bobbins as tightly as I can, even put the hitch on top of the wound thread, but nope. This is so frustrating.
The Lace Museum is having a lace marathon. Classes around the clock on one day (but all recorded and you'll have a year to watch the classes).
All kinds of lace covered! A nice intro to various styles.
#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting
https://the-lace-museum-shop.myshopify.com/products/register-for-night-and-day-a-lace-marathon
A friend asked me to show how I do the picots on my Ipswich lace. And I just got a new phone stand and wanted to try a video with it. So I tried. I was thwarted.
Cardinal Fortunato Frezza.
I'm leaning towards #bobbinLace here...?
If true, it's probably a full day per cross motif.
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
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?
#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.
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.
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.
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...
Lovely motif
Take a look! 
https://pin.it/76lkXOvQI
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.
