http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:54:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmR-QTqwsD4&] http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/05/16/bobbin-lace-video/ [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=O1uWP8wSR54] Let's see. This is one of the most important pieces. Before they used to make the Tulle on which the Brughes pieces were embroidered to. But, for a little more than a century it has been worked in a mechanic tulle. It is an important lace, Brussels lace or needle lace ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/28/bobbin-lace-video-translated-from-youtube/ [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TiJ_Kkl88] Part 3. All you need to do to make the bottom part of the spider is to follow the same steps as for the top part. Pull down all the bobbins of the "milano" or spider and proceed with the "path" TCTC with the pair on the left, leave bobbins ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/26/bobbin-lace-tutorial-part-3-translated-from-youtube/ [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=seI-zHGt8oM] Part 2. The sider is a little more complex, she says: Make 3 twists with each pair (there are 6 pairs in all, 3 on the right and 3 on the left. 1,2,3, twists to each leg. Then, to make the spider: First you have to make the first half or the ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/24/bobbin-lace-tutorial-part-2-translated-from-youtube/ [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=uKPDGJsNZo8] To work the fan (the design with which she begins video #1 4 twists to the right or last pair of bobbins 3 twists on the pair of bobbins immediately to its left Do CTC (cloth stitch) with last pairs and place a pin close pin with tctc. To return from right ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/23/bobbin-lace-tutorial-part-1-translated-from-youtube/ All three methods shown in this video can work for everyone. The most difficult seems to be the third one, but you could try it with a pin to finish threading the bobbin or if the thread comes loose while you are making lace. I like the clarity of the ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/21/preparing-bobbin-lace-bobbins-for-bobbin-lacemaking/ Each lacemaking country-sometimes each district-evolved its own style of bobbin lace pillow and bobbins. In most cases, the same kind of pillow is used in the same areas today. The most common pillow used here in Puerto Rico is the revolving bolster. In Belgic, the old Belgian pillow ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/15/the-many-types-of-bobbin-lace-pillow/ Today, the newcomer who is beginning bobbin lace and is looking for a teacher to help her will find that it is almost imposible to find one who knows how to make the lace and is willing to teach this ancient art. Some people call bobbin lace a ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/11/bobbin-lace-teachers-are-hard-to-find/ According to existent data, bobbin lace was already cited in the industry of the eighteenth century. In France, it was called "dentelles au fuseau" and in Italy "Marleti a poimbini". By the middle of this century it began to flourish its industry in Europe, where it was very appreciated. To be ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/10/how-bobbin-lace-is-made/ For hundreds of years, lace has been considered one of the most beautiful and sumptuous things man has ever made. We call lace a kind of net made of threads of various materials (cotton, silk, wool, rayon) or metal which forms a design by twisting braids and overweaving the threads ... http://www.bobbinlacepassion.com/index.php/2008/04/01/bobbin-lace-history-history-of-bobbin-lace/