Want to see the TRUE needle lace, contemporary, masterfully executed? Look here . They look like papaviri attacked on tulle, right? Instead everything is done by hand by Catherine Barley with the technique of Point de Gaze (needle lace of Flanders), apparently with the wire line 175.
When I saw it I was amazed. At this time it exhibited at the Biennale of Sansepolcro, but was created for an exhibition to be held in California, which has its theme as the poppies, with designs created especially (though reminiscent of the Art Nouveau) by Ulrike Voelcker, and variously interpreted.
I found the needle lace on my first visit to the International Biennale of Lace in Sansepolcro in 1998. I went to visit a piece of Tuscany I did not know and admire the work the pillow, the only lace I knew. I saw some beautiful pieces, but I remember having admired in particular a white lace just catherine Barley, who represented the Snow Queen, with special emphasis on fund type and tulle (which I thought was industrial!). This memory is IMAST
me and was the driving force that triggered my interest in lace needle.
In later years I began to read everything I could find on the subject and, perhaps not coincidentally, one of the first books I bought was his "Needlelace, classic and contemporary designs and techniques" by Catherine Barley.
Non è proprio per principianti, non insegna nei dettagli tutti i passaggi che servono per costruire anche i merletti più semplici, ma è interessante perchè descrive la tecnica di diversi punti antichi: Gros Point, Point de Gaze e Hollie Point, con relativi disegni semplificati per il gusto moderno. La seconda parte illustra invece progetti contemporanei, che ricordano un po' lo stumpwork.
0 comments:
Post a Comment