Historic needlework books digital archive
September 25, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under crochet, lace, tatting
Several of my readers and I have been talking lately about NOT recycling needlework and craft magazines so that a valuable ethnilogical, anthropological, historic and sociological resource is not lost. (Besides, we just plain like old needlecraft magazines and books!)
First of all
check out the
lace behind
the bunny
tatting
shuttle….
It’s a fragment
of needle lace that
I bought 20 years
from a lace collector.
I am fascinated by fragments of interesting lace whenever I come upon them, as I feel that they are a valuable resource that have clues to the history of needlework.
Anyhow… check out the tiny flowers… aren’t they gorgeous? Bear with me… this gets a …read more
Lace making in the 19th C
September 19, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under lace
I have been in love with lace since I was a child. I began making lace when I was a little girl. One of my grandmother’s friends taught me how to make holes (on purpose!) in your knitting, and that was it for me….. addicted!
I’ve been making lace ever since. I started crocheting lace when I was a teenager, then learned how to tat in my 20’s. And, I’ve been knitting lace ever since I learned to put those holes where I wanted them!
But, that was lace making in the 20th C, and the title of this posting is about …read more
