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It 'now time to report some news found around the web. Before
news: the Metropolitan Museum in New York has put online its collection of European sculpture and decorative arts, which includes a lot of textiles. Under the heading Laces are 4925 pieces! Unfortunately the pictures are not very large, only a few cases you can see the details, and often the explanations are generic. However, a unique opportunity to admire its beauty, also because these pieces are on permanent display in the halls.

second innovation: it is again visited the site Tuttoricamo , in a version that does not require updates, but it contains all articles published in the past, some very interesting regarding the merltto Needle as this and this sull'Aemilia Ars on Lucia Costantini, one of the few world-famous lace of Burano, the Italian translation of the famous seventeenth-century poem La Revolte des Passements .

Third signaling: a beautiful lace Chebka article, published on lacenews . For several months Laurie Waters created the blog to report news Lacenews lace, and every week there's a post on the sale of lace on ebay, also interesting for collectors because it is not often the pictures are very detailed, a post indicating " Lace Days "in the U.S. and England (and there are many!), exhibitions and more. The
Dec. 29 published an article about a beautiful lace did not know, the Tunisian Chebka lace, needle made, such as the knotted lace Armenia, Oya, and the puncetto point needle Latronico. The post is very interesting and worth a thorough read, contains the scan of two books (the only ones on this topic), in French: Chebka, Dentelle Arabe, a manual written by missionary nuns who taught this technique and Dentelles et Broderies Tunisiennes, a rare book, which contains many photographs of artifacts, interesting because it allows you to see the typical patterns, very special.

With a manual available maybe I could refrain from trying this technique?
The result:

Good. There is room for improvement loooong, I think. But I like the design, I find modern and unusual. If I had the time (and unfortunately this is a condition all my life) I would try to do it seriously. Who knows that this report does not give it a try with someone else is more acceptable.

play from December, Google launched Google NGram viewer that allows you to see how often words appear in the books, as a function of time. Here's the chart for needlelace and needlepoint lace. Below is a list of books reviewed.