Here’s the end of last night’s post which was written by Tricia. Rather than fight with the blog program to put in more pictures, I decided to save two for tonight.

 

The last thread to show you is the silk wrapped purls. This is when a copper wire is wrapped with a silk thread so no wire is shown. Then the wrapped wire is spun around a needle to make a spring, otherwise known as a ‘purl’. In Joanna’s piece, there were silk wrapped purls all over it. But in this picture, a special version is shown. In this version a silver gilt strip is wrapped over the silk before the ’spring’ is made. Amazing. Everyone enjoyed seeing the piece so much. We thank Joanna for being so generous with her private collection and love of this period of embroidery!

 

Jill’s back:

Work on figuring out the bobbin lace portion of our project is underway – we’re still doing the research and development piece, the stuff that we did for the embroidery way back in December and January. I’ll soon have a couple of posts dedicated to what we’re thinking about, and please be assured I’ll share everything. I’m pretty good with the documenting. In the mean while, if you have a copy of Le Pompe 1559 (the 1983 Levey & Payne edition) to hand, check out Pattern 19F, Book 1 on page 106-7; pricking on page 127. That’s the one I’m seriously considering right now.