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rugessnome) wrote2024-01-02 01:07 am
rugessnome) wrote2024-01-02 01:07 am
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bobbin lace (mostly) links
thanks in part to some activity on r/BobbinLace, I have been looking at some bobbin lace stuff tonight, and I stumbled across a few things of interest:
*completely irrelevantly to everybody, they count Kentucky in the "Northern USA" region (basically the so-called midwest), by which I feel semi-vindicated for ridiculous reasons. (It is my opinion that insofar as it fits in with other states Kentucky is largely either (southern) Midwest--in common with its neighbors across the Ohio River-- or Appalachian in character, depending on where you are in it, and not as southern as a many people like to claim. If you count Missouri as Midwest, Kentucky should be in there too.)
- blog post on making a bolster pillow out of straw (this also made me realize that ...straw is something I could potentially order from Tractor Supply, for both pillow making purposes, and gardening purposes--for which case I have been vexed for some time about how to actually obtain straw when I thought it might be the best mulch for my situation...)
- and from the same person, on making block pillow segments out of industrial felt (this might be a source? Though still kinda pricey)
- and a type of Italian tape lace, Cantù...?
- (this roller pillow lace kit, listed at Mielke's, might offer inspiration for a possible bolster pillow stand design)
- reminder that Snowgoose, Van Sciver, and Lacis are major bobbin lace (and often to some extent other laces) suppliers in the US; Mielke's also carries a few things (and netting needles and gauges. Although so far as I know 50% of the netting-interested people in my circle is not in the US.)
- a bobbin lace terminology translator, via Jo Edkins' really pretty helpful site
- (while I'm at this stuff, The Lace Museum's Virtual Classes in various techniques, which I wish I felt more prepared to take; IOLI doesn't have a lot of online info in my experience (at least without membership?), but they might be a way to find local lace people*. And their convention this year is in Nashville, TN)
- (aside from IOLI's library, the Embroiderers' Guilde of America also has some lace books in their library (...also a membership thing.)
- here are a few more random lace pillow results of varying relevance (not sure how much I trust current search engines to reliably turn them up again)
- (and a page about a Vermeer painting of bobbin lace, and a random history of some bobbin laces from archive.org)
- not about bobbin lace--
- blogger from those first two pillow making posts offers an inspiring collection of [mostly others'] nalbinding projects (btw I use the form "nalbinding" but just because I felt like picking one and being somewhat consistent; I do not assert that it is better than others for any reason beyond being one of the easier forms to input on a strictly English keyboard)
- and one of the (somewhat lacy) projects showcased in said post--looks like this other blogger may have many more posts on the topic
- (...also from that post, Online Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers)
*completely irrelevantly to everybody, they count Kentucky in the "Northern USA" region (basically the so-called midwest), by which I feel semi-vindicated for ridiculous reasons. (It is my opinion that insofar as it fits in with other states Kentucky is largely either (southern) Midwest--in common with its neighbors across the Ohio River-- or Appalachian in character, depending on where you are in it, and not as southern as a many people like to claim. If you count Missouri as Midwest, Kentucky should be in there too.)
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(Hee, netting! I am contemplating gauges or at least using plastic not cardboard; amusingly I've decided a needle isn't worth it, at least for now, since I'm using short lengths of string...)