Comments on: Productive Lace Meeting http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/03/productive-lace-meeting/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Susan Lambiris http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/03/productive-lace-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Susan Lambiris Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:37:03 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=345#comment-1252 I'd love to know more about how the spangles will be manufactured, and what shape they are going to be. A group of people interested in reconstructing similar laces (including Gil Dye from England!) are puzzling over the teardrop shapes of spangles in various pieces, and wondering how they would have been made. Modern spangles are apparently made by flattening small cross-sections of rolled metal, or possibly coils of wire, and it's hard to see how anything teardrop-shaped could be made using such methods. Hang in there and get those spangles right--it would be a shame to work so hard on developing accurate threads and wires for the embroidery but use something inappropriate for the lace, even though the lace is less eye-catching than the embroidery. I think all us lacemakers would agree on that! I’d love to know more about how the spangles will be manufactured, and what shape they are going to be. A group of people interested in reconstructing similar laces (including Gil Dye from England!) are puzzling over the teardrop shapes of spangles in various pieces, and wondering how they would have been made. Modern spangles are apparently made by flattening small cross-sections of rolled metal, or possibly coils of wire, and it’s hard to see how anything teardrop-shaped could be made using such methods.

Hang in there and get those spangles right–it would be a shame to work so hard on developing accurate threads and wires for the embroidery but use something inappropriate for the lace, even though the lace is less eye-catching than the embroidery. I think all us lacemakers would agree on that!

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