Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net; . ely adhered to. I hope in a future series to speak more of this and to givesome illustrations of fine old examples. The small square of bobbin net seen in Illustration 9 was C 33 Lacis made for me by an expert laceworker with bobbins on acushion, and it took her ten hours steady work to produce it. It is made with a very finethread and would gonaturally much quickerwere coarser thread used,as in this case fewer bob-bins would be required. This kind of net wasalso made on a hand-loom, and it might interestweavers to reproduce it
Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net; . ely adhered to. I hope in a future series to speak more of this and to givesome illustrations of fine old examples. The small square of bobbin net seen in Illustration 9 was C 33 Lacis made for me by an expert laceworker with bobbins on acushion, and it took her ten hours steady work to produce it. It is made with a very finethread and would gonaturally much quickerwere coarser thread used,as in this case fewer bob-bins would be required. This kind of net wasalso made on a hand-loom, and it might interestweavers to reproduce it inthis way. In Illustrations 10 andi i we have examples ofLacis worked upon thisbobbin or woven the former the reseauis made in yellow silk, andthe quaint dancing figuresand the birds are darned inPoint de Reprise in whiteflax thread. This is earlyseventeenth-century work. The border No. i i isworked in thread, the de-signs of figures offering sacrifices being outlined with redsilk. This, like No. 10, is Italian work, but is late sixteenth-century. 34. tion 9 —Bobbin Net Lacis Through the courtesy of the authorities of the RoyalScottish Museum, Edinburgh, I am enabled to give the twoillustrations, Nos. 12 and 13, from the original pieces in their
Size: 1111px × 2248px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectlaceandlacemaking
