The History of the Dress of My Dreams
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The history of the Easteregg dress of my dreams in Milanese See more on page 8-9 technique See more on page 14 Member magazine for The Danish Lace Association February 2018 130 Dear members Happy new year. I hope you are all do- bulletin, as this is our most important the board. 1. Substitute, Lea Gamborg ing well. I also hope that you all enjoyed impression of us for the outside world. It has therefore taken Charlotte Zachau’s Christmas, New Year, being together is a magazine many talk about and look place on the board. with family and friends, and also hope forward to receive. We need to follow that you could find some quiet time the trends and through this attract new You will find the program for the Annu- with your lace pillow. members. All our efforts have resulted al meeting and the General Meeting in in the magazine you are holding in your this publication, and we look very much What you have in your hands right now, hands and we hope it is to your liking. forward to see many of you in Odense on is our new design of Kni plebrevet. The March 17th. Peter participates with an board and the editorial office hope that We have with this, started a proses, open workshop. You do not need to sign you like it. which we hope that our members wants up, just come in and try Dogme lace. You to participate in. Help us in this hope- need not bring anything, as there will be You might want to ask, why? Yes, why? fully positive proses, which we hope, you pillows for trying out. Then to the Friend- Our association has existed for 35 years will support. We wish to attract new ship quilt: If you wish to have your piece and is therefore an older establishment and especially younger members and at of lace on the quilt, which will be on dis- with a membership bulletin which has the same time hold on to our present play at Kniplings-festivalen I Tønder in stayed about the same through all these faithful members, in order to make our 2019, we would appreciate you bringing years. With a steadily falling member- common interest live on. We all have to it to the Annual Meeting. In this way we ship we had to realize that something welcome new members, invite them into will have plenty of time to make the quilt, had to be done for us to attract new our midst and help them mastering this or perhaps a couple of them. members. Our biggest wish is that we fine hand craft. will survive and stay an attractive or- We look forward to seeing many of you ganization with an exciting magazine. Since last, Chalotte Zachau announced for the Annual Meeting in Odense. We therefore contacted an advertising short after summer vacation that she for company, which told us to look at our personal reasons, was not able to stay on The new graphic staff... When you read these words, there will be more than one year ago that we started to work together with Foreningen Knipling i Danmark. And we enjoy it! Written by Lone Frost t has been an exciting task for us to de- know you better - and in particular - cre- We love it - and now also lace making. Ivelop a design for your association, more ate an urge to learn this beautiful craft, lace modern in it appearance, and we hope it making. It is a trade which through hun- We - who are we? - Lone and Cecilia will appeal also to young lace makers. dreds of years have been an everyday part Frost. Mother and daughter, together 45 of women’s tradition in Denmark. We are years of experience with graphical work. We have developed a new logo, a new line ourselves involved in lots of handy-crafts. We are located and work together on a of note-paper, envelopes, membership We enjoy crocheting, knitting, embroi- wonderful old-fashioned farm outside cards and a wide variety of other products, dery, paper collage, and we also make our Nyborg, where we also have a B&B. which all together should make the asso- own cards, we draw, make graphics and ciation more modern and inviting. Our paint. Therefore, if there is something we We look forward to making strategies for hope is that the new identity will give po- have an understanding for, it has to be the the future together with your association tential members the inclination to get to fascination of working with our hands. and to get to know you - and lace - better. 4 Lace trip To Switzerland, South France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. Part 2. Written by Karen Vontillius he trip visiting different lace centers was able to make 10 cm. lace, 4 meters owned it since 1871, and it contained Talso led us to other nice places wide, in no time. Handmade lace and all kinds of lace. without lace museums, like for ex. to 2 machine-made lace were exhibited and visits to vineproducers. lots of garments, very nicely displayed. Our lunch was in a wonderful colorful boutique, and even here they had laced The next stop on our trip was Avignon. We visited the wonderful lace school in walls, painted over with black, but were I can really recommend visiting this Bailleul, only 87 km. from Bruges and decorative. town. It is a town still marked by the 30 km. from Lille. Here we got to see time when the pope resided in his pa- what the French ladies had on their pil- Our trip ended at Bochholt textile lace in the middle of town. The palace lows. It was everything from the wildest museum. One of the most important is well taken care of and it is easy to see colors to the most elegant lace, so we weaving- and spinning mills in German how costly it must have been. But it was took pictures, nodded our heads and textile industry through 150 years. The fantastic to see. It was for ex. a stage in said oh and ah. The headmaster told us production stopped in 1973 but was re- the big yard of the palace. We were so about their classes, also for children, 4 built after historical model in 1984. It lucky to experience the international days weekly with classes for adults and was enormous. A gigantic weaving hall, music-day there on the last evening. 1 day weekly with classes for children. gigantic spinning hall and a house for Streets and cafés were full of people and the workers including a vegetable gar- music flowed out of stages all around We came to Bruges, the one and only den, as it used to be. town and along the river. pretty Bruges, lace center and choco- late center. We were driven to the big If you happen to be in the vicinity of A shorter trip went to Marseille, where marked place, but everything was being some of the places I have mentioned we had planned to visit a museum, changed in the middle of town. in my article, go visit them. If you are but had to do with seeing the outside interested in textile you will be pleased only. It had a wonderful façade, but was The place, normally filled with people to see how well many places tell about closed on Tuesdays, as was also the fan- around the big fountain, was changed how things were. It puts thing into per- tastic cathedral. to a construction place and dug up spective in our days of business. everywhere. We hurried away into the Ecole Dentelliere We moved on northwards, to more small streets looking for stores to tempt 6, rue du Collége-59270 Bailleul - Nord people-friendly tempratures. We went our needs before it was time for lunch. [email protected] to Calais, and that was a nice expe- Caleis: www.cite-dentelle.fr rience. In Cité Dentelle Mode could We found indeed a lace store where we Bochholt: www.lwl-industriemuseum.de thei demonstrated how a machine had not been before. The family had 5 Lotus silk - the most expensive fibers of the world Text: Prof. Dr. Waltraud Rusch, Karlsruhe Photoes: Jürgen Nebel Published with permission from “Die Spitze” ost people know the Lotus flow- materials of the world. He has, beside day. Loro Piana is the largest Cashmere Mer as an exotic water plant. The the baby-cashmere from Mongolia and producer and the largest merchant of flower symbolizes purity, faithfulness, the vicuna-wool from Peru, also found the finest wool in the world. The fine creative power and enlightenment. The the lotus fibers from Myanmar. A Japa- vicuna-wool, which the business pur- famous lotus effect simply lets water nese friend showed him a shawl of lotus chases from a natural reserve in Peru, is and dirt run off the lotus plants leaves. silk and he felt it. The material looks like manufactured to a very expensive cloth What only few people seem to know, is linen cloth or raw silk, but it does not for clothing. The firm produces yearly a that the lotus flower is not only pretty, stretch. It is very comfortable to wear. limited amount of the finest garment but its fruits and roots are eatable. The One can breed through it, which makes cloth in merino wool. Burmese people like to eat the lotus the material interesting. It seems cool in fruit’s kernels as a snack.