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Me evangelizing about the amazing women who made #IpswichLace at a #Rev250 event in #SudburyMA.

My colleague helps someone complete the "catch-of-the-day" beginner piece of bobbin lace.

#BobbinLace

Me evangelizing about the amazing women who made #IpswichLace at a #Rev250 event in #SudburyMA.

My colleague helps someone complete the "catch-of-the-day" beginner piece of bobbin lace.

#BobbinLace

#WIPWednesday I was about to say that I just cleared off the pillow for our upcoming lace retreat--we are doing "early lace" samplers and I'm psyched for that.

But I do, of course, have more pillows... And this one is the one I use to demonstrate Ipswich lace. Our lace group is doing a Revolution 250 event in Sudbury MA on the town common this weekend.

https://sudburyma.my.canva.site/sudbury250day

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Rev250

#WIPWednesday I was about to say that I just cleared off the pillow for our upcoming lace retreat--we are doing "early lace" samplers and I'm psyched for that.

But I do, of course, have more pillows... And this one is the one I use to demonstrate Ipswich lace. Our lace group is doing a Revolution 250 event in Sudbury MA on the town common this weekend.

https://sudburyma.my.canva.site/sudbury250day

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Rev250

Went to a local museum to visit a piece of lace from ~1820 that we think is #IpswichLace. It's a nice small piece--Anna was skilled. But she did not live to complete the lace. I can tell from her bobbins she was planning to....

I can't share the research photos but here's the museum entry.

https://americancenturies.org/collection/1881-028-01/

1/2 #WIPWednesday #BobbinLace

Went to a local museum to visit a piece of lace from ~1820 that we think is #IpswichLace. It's a nice small piece--Anna was skilled. But she did not live to complete the lace. I can tell from her bobbins she was planning to....

I can't share the research photos but here's the museum entry.

https://americancenturies.org/collection/1881-028-01/

1/2 #WIPWednesday #BobbinLace

Actual text message I sent today:

Was in the 18th century before, could not take calls. Home now, can chat.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace

Actual text message I sent today:

Was in the 18th century before, could not take calls. Home now, can chat.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace

I recently learned about Elizabeth Perkins Wildes Bourne. She was apparently a talented weaver in #Maine, widely known for her counterpanes (coverlets). Reportedly one was in the White House with the Madisons.

Someone overpainted her portrait at some point, and I want to do very bad things to that person. I cannot fathom why they did this to her.

Painting is at the Brick Store Museum in Maine and I plan to visit her soon. I need to see her lace up close.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace

I recently learned about Elizabeth Perkins Wildes Bourne. She was apparently a talented weaver in #Maine, widely known for her counterpanes (coverlets). Reportedly one was in the White House with the Madisons.

Someone overpainted her portrait at some point, and I want to do very bad things to that person. I cannot fathom why they did this to her.

Painting is at the Brick Store Museum in Maine and I plan to visit her soon. I need to see her lace up close.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace

This #mural artist puts huge #lace on the sides of buildings. I want one for #IpswichLace so much, but I wouldn't invite anyone from outside the US to come here right now.

Anyway, she's giving a talk for #IOLI soon and I will store that in my cheek pouches for some future grant writing when we get out of this phase.

#Nespoon #BobbinLace

https://lacelectures.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-lectures/nespoon-03-26

This #mural artist puts huge #lace on the sides of buildings. I want one for #IpswichLace so much, but I wouldn't invite anyone from outside the US to come here right now.

Anyway, she's giving a talk for #IOLI soon and I will store that in my cheek pouches for some future grant writing when we get out of this phase.

#Nespoon #BobbinLace

https://lacelectures.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-lectures/nespoon-03-26

The cat who wrecks lace. For some reason, this Belgian lace pillow makes my cat lose her mind. She rubs it with her face, she paws the top from below, she chews the threads and she pulls pins out with her teeth (although she didn't pull pins this time).

I finished this piece, it's a reproduction I'm trying to create from a museum sample. But she didn't help.

#Caturday #BobbinLace #IpswichLace

The cat who wrecks lace. For some reason, this Belgian lace pillow makes my cat lose her mind. She rubs it with her face, she paws the top from below, she chews the threads and she pulls pins out with her teeth (although she didn't pull pins this time).

I finished this piece, it's a reproduction I'm trying to create from a museum sample. But she didn't help.

#Caturday #BobbinLace #IpswichLace

Although we have original #IpswichLace samples documented from the 18th century period, we are discovering new ones around New England. We published a couple in PieceWork magazine recently.

I discovered one that is shockingly red! All the other known ones were white linen or black silk. So I've been meaning to re-create the red one. It has this tricky crescent that's hard to trace the thread paths in my photos. It's still giving me trouble, but I think I'm close.

#WIPWednesday #BobbinLace

Although we have original #IpswichLace samples documented from the 18th century period, we are discovering new ones around New England. We published a couple in PieceWork magazine recently.

I discovered one that is shockingly red! All the other known ones were white linen or black silk. So I've been meaning to re-create the red one. It has this tricky crescent that's hard to trace the thread paths in my photos. It's still giving me trouble, but I think I'm close.

#WIPWednesday #BobbinLace

The web article that accompanies our Piecework magazine article is available. We talk about our #Rev250 event last spring with the tale of the Revolutionary lacemakers.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Massachusetts250

https://pieceworkmagazine.com/lace-lives-on-bobbin-lace-in-ipswich-past-and-present/

The web article that accompanies our Piecework magazine article is available. We talk about our #Rev250 event last spring with the tale of the Revolutionary lacemakers.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Massachusetts250

https://pieceworkmagazine.com/lace-lives-on-bobbin-lace-in-ipswich-past-and-present/

I have an article coming out in the spring issue of Piecework Magazine. It's about #IpswichLace and it has stories of the women we are researching who made or used the lace.

The issue has a #Rev250 theme. Another article is about Abigail Adams and the accompanying pattern is a needlepoint of her house and a phrase:
To be Good
and
To do Good

I gasped when I saw it and thought of #ReneeNicoleGood . Patriots--the real kind.

#BobbinLace #embroidery

I have an article coming out in the spring issue of Piecework Magazine. It's about #IpswichLace and it has stories of the women we are researching who made or used the lace.

The issue has a #Rev250 theme. Another article is about Abigail Adams and the accompanying pattern is a needlepoint of her house and a phrase:
To be Good
and
To do Good

I gasped when I saw it and thought of #ReneeNicoleGood . Patriots--the real kind.

#BobbinLace #embroidery

There was an American set of lace stamps. This site shows them and the backstory.

I feel like we need a new one for the American #IpswichLace now, but that's a battle for another day.

https://www.mysticstamp.com/2351-54-1987-22c-lacemaking/

There was an American set of lace stamps. This site shows them and the backstory.

I feel like we need a new one for the American #IpswichLace now, but that's a battle for another day.

https://www.mysticstamp.com/2351-54-1987-22c-lacemaking/

I spent yesterday at Smith's Castle in N. Kingston RI. Doing a #BobbinLace demo in a home of the right period for #IpswichLace makes me happy.

But they have this mystery painting, with a sitter draped in black lace that haunts me.

They say they think they have the painter and the likely sitter's sister IDed, but the woman I talked to couldn't recall it in the moment. I will email her after the festivities and hope to learn the outcome.

https://www.smithscastle.org/

I spent yesterday at Smith's Castle in N. Kingston RI. Doing a #BobbinLace demo in a home of the right period for #IpswichLace makes me happy.

But they have this mystery painting, with a sitter draped in black lace that haunts me.

They say they think they have the painter and the likely sitter's sister IDed, but the woman I talked to couldn't recall it in the moment. I will email her after the festivities and hope to learn the outcome.

https://www.smithscastle.org/

After a very hectic #Rev250 commitment schedule for April and May, I can finally get back to my own projects. I bought pre-tariff yarn for this, but it was waiting in the shadows....

For #WIPWednesday I have made my first "big" #BobbinLace. It's just a swatch now, I needed to feel how the yarn behaved. It's going to get bigger. I have a massive roller pillow to use for it.

It's a 300% sized #IpswichLace pattern.

After a very hectic #Rev250 commitment schedule for April and May, I can finally get back to my own projects. I bought pre-tariff yarn for this, but it was waiting in the shadows....

For #WIPWednesday I have made my first "big" #BobbinLace. It's just a swatch now, I needed to feel how the yarn behaved. It's going to get bigger. I have a massive roller pillow to use for it.

It's a 300% sized #IpswichLace pattern.

LOLOL! I just found out that our upcoming #IpswichLace demo at the #MarbleheadMA museum will have sea shanties too! I love sea shanties.

This Saturday, or Sunday if they have to move to the rain date.

The singers are called "Scurvy Fellows Indeed" and I can't stop laughing.

#SeaShanties #18thCentury

LOLOL! I just found out that our upcoming #IpswichLace demo at the #MarbleheadMA museum will have sea shanties too! I love sea shanties.

This Saturday, or Sunday if they have to move to the rain date.

The singers are called "Scurvy Fellows Indeed" and I can't stop laughing.

#SeaShanties #18thCentury

#WIPWednesday is all about our #IpswichLace event this coming Saturday!

Event details: https://nelg.us/Weaving-threads-of-lace-history

The museum will let me sell my Ipswich lace jewelry (necklaces and pins) so I'm doing the final details. I am also bringing Karen Thompson's books for her if you wanted to see them before buying. They are hard to find in person.

#GatherFiberSymposium has had so many great events this month that I absolutely could not keep up with them.

#IpswichMA #BobbinLace #Lace

#WIPWednesday is all about our #IpswichLace event this coming Saturday!

Event details: https://nelg.us/Weaving-threads-of-lace-history

The museum will let me sell my Ipswich lace jewelry (necklaces and pins) so I'm doing the final details. I am also bringing Karen Thompson's books for her if you wanted to see them before buying. They are hard to find in person.

#GatherFiberSymposium has had so many great events this month that I absolutely could not keep up with them.

#IpswichMA #BobbinLace #Lace

For #WIPWednesday I have so much demonstration lace under way for #Rev250 that I needed to make myself another pin box. Yes, I have about 5 pin boxes already, but for different sized pins. I need them all...

These are Altoids boxes dressed up for events. All #IpswichLace related stuff.

#BobbinLace

For #WIPWednesday I have so much demonstration lace under way for #Rev250 that I needed to make myself another pin box. Yes, I have about 5 pin boxes already, but for different sized pins. I need them all...

These are Altoids boxes dressed up for events. All #IpswichLace related stuff.

#BobbinLace

For #WIPWednesday I have so much demonstration lace underway for #Rev250 that I needed to make myself another pin box. I have about 5 pin boxes already, but for different sized pins. I need them all... These are Altoids boxes dressed up for events. All #IpswichLace related stuff. #BobbinLace

I was at this #GatherFiberSymposium event yesterday, and we all yearned to be at the protest. But I will say that hanging with artists was really good for my soul. Artists are taking no shit.

Anyway: so many great events coming this month if you like textile arts. And our #IpswichLace event made the #Boston Globe today.

https://www.gatherfibersymposium.com

#BobbinLace #TextileHistory

I was at this #GatherFiberSymposium event yesterday, and we all yearned to be at the protest. But I will say that hanging with artists was really good for my soul. Artists are taking no shit.

Anyway: so many great events coming this month if you like textile arts. And our #IpswichLace event made the #Boston Globe today.

https://www.gatherfibersymposium.com

#BobbinLace #TextileHistory

#WIPWednesday and my experiments in reproduction lace continue.

I'm trying to replicate the lace from this baby cap in the MFA #Boston. but I don't know how wide it actually is. So I'm testing out some versions.

1/2

#TextileHistory #BobbinLace #IpswichLace

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/69291/infants-cap

#WIPWednesday and my experiments in reproduction lace continue.

I'm trying to replicate the lace from this baby cap in the MFA #Boston. but I don't know how wide it actually is. So I'm testing out some versions.

1/2

#TextileHistory #BobbinLace #IpswichLace

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/69291/infants-cap

The firm of "Melville & Ziffer" apparently made it. Michel Bouvot said he found it in a book during his #OIDFA talk today. And Karen Thompson (of #IpswichLace fame) updated the entry in the #Smithsonian to account for that.

I added it to #Wikipedia today.

https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmah_650216

The firm of "Melville & Ziffer" apparently made it. Michel Bouvot said he found it in a book during his #OIDFA talk today. And Karen Thompson (of #IpswichLace fame) updated the entry in the #Smithsonian to account for that.

I added it to #Wikipedia today.

https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmah_650216

Oh, Elena Kanagy-Loux has done a lovely Insta post about #IpswichLace and talks about our upcoming big event in #IpswichMA .

#BobbinLace

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGdv5s4Skpn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Oh, Elena Kanagy-Loux has done a lovely Insta post about #IpswichLace and talks about our upcoming big event in #IpswichMA .

#BobbinLace

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGdv5s4Skpn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I haven't shown work in a while--I was working on a piece for a competition that we aren't supposed to reveal before our event. But that's done now, and I'm back on other stuff.

I took my #IpswichLace off the pillow. This is what I worked on at public demos last season. It's got some errors and some experimentation (the color in the flowers). But it's about to become jewelry.

Traditionally (like in 1790) this lace was only done in black silk.

#BobbinLace

I haven't shown work in a while--I was working on a piece for a competition that we aren't supposed to reveal before our event. But that's done now, and I'm back on other stuff.

I took my #IpswichLace off the pillow. This is what I worked on at public demos last season. It's got some errors and some experimentation (the color in the flowers). But it's about to become jewelry.

Traditionally (like in 1790) this lace was only done in black silk.

#BobbinLace

The #lace segment that ran today is now available to view on the web.

My heart is broken that they showed only a smidge of #IpswichLace and didn't even say its name....sigh.

#BobbinLace #Needlelace #IOLI #IrishLace #Idrija #TextileHistory #RBG

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/weaving-a-fascination-for-lace/

The #lace segment that ran today is now available to view on the web.

My heart is broken that they showed only a smidge of #IpswichLace and didn't even say its name....sigh.

#BobbinLace #Needlelace #IOLI #IrishLace #Idrija #TextileHistory #RBG

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/weaving-a-fascination-for-lace/

Lace-related rumor: CBS Sunday Morning program in the US will have a #Lace segment on this weekend (barring any breaking news disruptions).

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #Tatting #IpswichLace #TextileHistory

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-week-on-sunday-morning-february-9-2025/

Lace-related rumor: CBS Sunday Morning program in the US will have a #Lace segment on this weekend (barring any breaking news disruptions).

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #Tatting #IpswichLace #TextileHistory

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-week-on-sunday-morning-february-9-2025/

#TextileHistory fans: the largest gathering of #IpswichLace makers and examples of real period lace tools will be this coming April 26, 2025.

Women were on the economic front lines of #Revolution250, weaving history and textiles. We're telling that story.

#BobbinLace

https://www.lacecouvige.com/threadsblog/weaving-threads-of-ipswich-lace-history-april-26-2025

#TextileHistory fans: the largest gathering of #IpswichLace makers and examples of real period lace tools will be this coming April 26, 2025.

Women were on the economic front lines of #Revolution250, weaving history and textiles. We're telling that story.

#BobbinLace

https://www.lacecouvige.com/threadsblog/weaving-threads-of-ipswich-lace-history-april-26-2025

For local #Boston area textile nerds: there'a a month-long series of events coming to celebrate local arts. Our lace group is just one of many involved. We'll be having an event that celebrates #IpswichLace that is a little bit #Revolution250 aligned. #Gather2025 nelg.us/Ipswich-lace...

New England Lace Group - Ipswi...