|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
LACE-MAKING IN THE MIDLANDS PAST AND PRESENT -- CONTENTS PAGE I.
PROGRESS OF LACE-MAKING IN EUROPE . . I IV. LACE SCHOOLS . 30 VI.
DECLINE OF THE LACE INDUSTRY . 45 VII. REVIVAL OF THE LACE INDUSTRY
. 53 VIII. THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF LACE- MAKING AT THE
PRESENT TIME . 61 LIST ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. PAGE At Work .
Frontispiece I. Cut-Work or Greek Lace, Sixteenth Century . 2 2.
Torchon Edging and Braid . 4 3. Italian Lace with Continuous Braid
closely connected with Sewings. Photograph from South Kensington
Museum . 6 4. Seventeenth-Century Italian Lace. Photograph from
South Kensington Museum 7 5. Continuous Braid Pattern, with
Fillings and Plaited Net. Photograph from South Kensington Museum
10 6. Dutch Lace. Braid and ground worked in one across the pattern
. . 12 7. Catherine of Aragon Lace . 19 8. Lace made for Princess
Royal when an Infant . 27 g. Draught for Parchment used for making
Lace at the Exhibition of 185 I . 28 10 11. English Designs for
Point Ground, earlier part of nineteenth century 42 J 12. Maltese
Lace made in the Midlands . 46 13. Lace now made at Paulers Pury 59
14. Modern Lace made at East Haddon after old Italian Style . 67
IS. Lace in Italian Style, made by C. C. Channer . . 68 16. Design
for Lace Fan, by M. E. Roberts . 79 LACE-MAKING IN THE MIDLANDS
SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF LACE-MAKING IN EUROPE THE history of
lace-making is the history of an art. A piece of lace is an
artistic composition expressed in twisted thread, just as a piece
of wood-carving is the expression of the artists idea in chiselled
wood. Lace is not, like embroidery, an ornamented fabric it is
itself ornament. It is not the application of art toa craft the
whole pattern is the fabric, andthe fabric is the pattern. It is
this peculiarity that distinguishes lace from needlework and . from
woven-work. - The art is a comparatively modern one. No trace of it
can be found on ancient monuments or in early records the term old
lace is B IN-.TB . .. .X LL, 6 .. L n 2fL..3i MIDLANDS a relative
term, for before the sixteenth century nothing that we should call
lace existed. It was about the close of the seventeenth century
that lace reached perhaps its highest point as a vehicle for the
expression of artistic ideas. About the middle of the sixteenth
century pattern - books began to be published, and it was the
effort to carry out the ideas of the designers of patterns which
perfected the craft of lace-making. In form, in line, in
composition, the patterns belonging to the best periods of
lace-making are among the most perfect works that artistic design
can show. Without good design lace becomes worthless rubbish, like
a picture without drawing. In seeking to discover the origin of the
art we find two distinct but equally important sources. The first
is the ornamentation of linen by means of drawn-thread work and
cut-work the second is the twisting of threads into narrow ornamen-
tal braids, known as lace or purling. Drawn-thread work, at least
in its simpler forms, is familiar to most people. When very fine
and elaborate it has much the same effect as a closely-worked piece
of lace. Cut-work, or Greek lace as it is sometimes called, is less
familiar. It is formed by cutting out in linen patterns, usually
geometrical, and then closely button - holing over the threads
which remain.
|
|