And coming
back to laces. This time it will be filet lace. It is one of the oldest kind of
lace. Filet lace becomes from nets used to fish.
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| Tools for preparing a net |
It is known that in 1295 there
was some 'cushion of net work' in St.
Paul's Cathedral. This kind of lace was used to do
curtain, tableclothing, clothes... In Middle Ages it was also used as an elegant hair cloth.
I'd like to
introduce a napkin I made for my sister some time ago.
First of
all I had to prepare a knotted net as a background for this present.
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| A net in progress |
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| A small netting shuttle |
A rectangle
net is made starting one corner and adding one mesh on each row, then making suitable
number of rows with this number of meshes and decreasing in the end. After
preparing 80 cm
long and 40 cm
wide net I could start embroider it in hardanger style.
In the
middle there are 56 squares made like canvas.
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| Canvas squares |
It is surrounded
by circles looking like chain links.
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| Chain links |
And the borders
are hardanger embroidered and cut in triangle shape.
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| Hardanger embroidery |
It took me
almost two months to create this napkin.
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| The whole napkin |
