#needlepoint lace

[lacewise]

Okay so the full version of this meme is indefinitely postponed because I can not find, for the life of me, my earliest lace projects but here’s what I have so far:

And here is the link to that video series: https://youtu.be/bNxdoB9dpkI?si=RH_DxQk-mq7VR34Q

[lacewise-projects]

Doing something for fun and for profit (hopefully)

repost from the lace community

[groverarms]

My most prized possession:

Needlepoint by my great great grandmother circa 1850 in Scotland. I'd stare at it for hours as a child and make up stories about the people in it. Now it hangs in my TV room with the rest of her textile art.

[salroka]

Do we think Harding's mom embroidered her shirt? Or do we think our girl did it herself?

[onlinesweetheart]

<3

[fossore]

Every time I go to the lace craft store I look at the bobbin lace section and wish a little

[sleepgarden]

thought I’d try asking here- other than eBay/Etsy are there any sites you guys like that have antique and vintage sewing supplies? Specifically lace, trims, and ribbons! if there are specific shops you recommend from eBay/Etsy though I’d love to see that too!

[knittingmagscans]

Needlecraft for Today March/April 1982

Page 38 – Back cover

[rversince]

Heaven

[pkmn-lillie]

its the gap moe for me

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Antique Dresden Lace German Porcelain Lady Figurine 6.5Hx5.5Wx4D Exceptional ebay Stamps and Beyond

[lacewise]

I have some free time… Let’s go over aemilia ars vs punto in aria vs reticella/reticello.

Important disclaimer: I am not a formally trained fashion historian and people REALLY don’t like to discuss this nomenclature, because it’s weird. I did what I could.

Okay, so, reticella was the direct precursor to needle lace (well… so was nalbinding, knotted lace, and netting, but different research topic for different day) and is a form of cutwork (carefully removing threads in fabric and then replacing them with decorative stitching instead) that got more and more ornamental and eventually evolved into punto in aria (first unknotted needle lace) which is entirely made by hand. However… sometimes, ‘punto in aria’ is used to refer specifically to non-geometric punto in aria designs (otherwise clumped together as ‘later’ punto in aria) that generally have more support, but still no true ground. When people are making that distinction, true needle lace that is solely geometric is also referred to as ‘reticella’. ‘Reticello’ is just a spelling variation on ‘reticella’ but I have seen it both ways.

While it’s possible to find some form of geometric needle lace/reticella/‘early’ punto in aria being made at most periods after the 17th century, the method was lost several times and had to be relearned (rich people are cheap, the upper middle class isn’t much better). (Needle lace regularly went in and out of fashion and the styles changed regularly based on region.) The only time geometrical needle lace really made a resurgence in fashionable circles was late into the 19th century, when the method was learned and distributed once again.

Because it was often worked in cotton, whereas the original was worked in linen (yes it was because of sharecropping and enslavement) and no one could be *absolutely sure* it was worked the same way as the original (and to sell to people as both ‘new’ and ‘traditional’) it was (re)named aemilia ars. Aemilia Ars was name of the Italian society that repopularized this style. The patterns they used are often later punto in aria designs (the ones that are less geometrical). So that’s why this needle lace can go by several names, based on my research and understanding.

I have no idea if working it in linen (which I do) or silk changes the nomenclature. (I don’t think so, but this is already confusing.) I’ve seen it several different ways and I don’t think there is a set definition anymore, but feel free to correct me if you know more!

And that’s how a wide swath of needle lace and cutwork embroidery is considered the same (unless it isn’t).

(It’s one of the few subsets of needle lace that isn’t named after where the tradition and stitches originated.)

[lacewise-projects]

I am so excited for how this is turning out! I’m also really excited to take more risks with the cordonnet!

There’s a new stitch I’ve been loving as a border but it doesn’t work with embroidery floss—the ply is loose, so the thread will unply and knot and I will have to cut it out. I’m really excited to use it in other projects so I can show it off though!

I *loved* the look of the maroon thread but it doesn’t show up well on camera and the variegated thread looks *much, much* better as the border than I expected!

I might post some initial sketches of the project I got it for so people can see how I envisioned the final product

I sped up this process for financial reasons but those actually cleared up naturally so I think I’m going to design a final product for this and go back to working on my other long-term projects if people aren’t interested in this (and that’s fine, also). I was really planning to do this in tandem with the project it’s leftover from and I’m glad to experiment and share results.

I’ll be updating on this as well as well as posting progress reports on my long-term projects soon!

Partial repost from lace community and BlueSky

Also I tried a method to make the cordonnet look more messy (was going for tufted yarn) but I’m not sure I like it

[mountainfucker69]

@ whoever is styling armand next season. for your consideration

(the lace is from this 17th century venetian needlepoint that i found by chance while looking for public domain patterns)

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[fromankyra]

you can tell it's summertime cause i'm starting to get highly normal about lace again