#lacemaking

[tacit-semantics]

Alright lacemaking sonic the hedgehog fans let’s make some noise

#id in alt #oh my god this was so stupid I love being alive. hours and hours and hours of work #COMPLETELY bungled the ending. Godspeed. but seeing as I’ve never made my own bobbin lace pattern I’m gonna cut myself a little slack there #anyways ridiculous side project done now to. other ridiculous side projects. it’s a bit of an MO really #loooord my mediocre 2D art skills come back to haunt me once more #bobbin lace #fiber arts #lacemaking #sonic #sth #sonic the hedgehog #my work #trypophobia

[futurebird]

I don't understand how lace is made, but looking at the bobbins and pins and patterns … listen buddy I know math when I see it. This is A Math Thing. Obviously.

Right away I want to know:

Can I encode information in lace?

How much of an expert must one be to make your own patterns?

What about the creation of surfaces?

Knitting is more accessible, and people have been exploring math with knitting forever.

But what possibilities does lace offer?

What is the theory of lace?

An excerpt from Mathematics Magazine Vol. 91, No. 4 (October 2018), pp. 307-309

Shows I'm hardly the first person to muse about this. Need to get my hands on the rest of this article, obviously.

#crafts #crafting #making #lace #lacemaking #knitting #mathematics #topology #geometry #bobbin lace #tatted lace #tatting #complexity #patterns #industrial revolution

[mirith]

Tatted snowflake!

Pattern is "dainty snowflake" by tatting by the bay/Robin Perfetti. I am going to make a bunch of these!

#tatting #shuttle tatting #fiber crafts #fibre arts #mirith #yarn #yarnblr #lacemaking #lace making #snowflake

[slavsquatting-rat]

Do you want to see the evolution of my lacemaking skills?

No?

Too bad, because

From the first lesson to the most recent one.

Yes, this weird abstract mess

Is much more complex skill (or like, an effort) than the first one. It's awful but I like it anyways.

Also I've just finished this little guy

My crochet lace still looks much better (even unblocked as in the photo) but also crochet is not only much easier than tatting but I have also much more experience in it

#lacemaking #tatting lace #crochet

[rosegrounds]

latest piece! I haven't posted in a while because I honestly found this super boring to make and let it sit on the pins for months while I tried to decide whether to make more or just cut it short. now I've given up I'm gonna go work on some new skills instead

#bobbin lace #lacemaking #torchon #fiber art #crafts

[lacerotalong]

It's Sprang time! Instalment 1: Looms

Time for sprang! Since this lace style requires more tools and also perhaps less familiar hand movements than our last style, we are doing this one in three instalments: 1: making/acquiring the loom, 2: learning to warp the loom and do some basic stitches, 3: making an actual object of some kind.

To make sprang, you need a loom of some sort. There are many ways to DIY them:

SolRhiza Arts on youtube explains what functions a sprang loom must serve, and shows a few DIY options

Here is SolRhiza's detailed instructions for making a loom out of sticks

And here at SprangLady.com/SashWeaver you can download written instructions for making several other types of looms. For this instalment, check out the files "Frames: how to make them" and "Instructions for Carol's Sprang Frame".

(It is formatted like a shop, but you do not need to enter payment information if you are only downloading $0 items.)

#lace race 2024 #lace along #sprang #lacemaking #fiber crafts #fiber arts #Youtube

[monikahmakes]

A little finished lace!

#fiber art #textile art #needlework #artists on tumblr #needle lace #lacemaking #stitch #thread #art

[radioperyton]

This handkerchief edging is taking way longer than I thought, probably because I keep stopping just to look at it

#it's going to be a gift for a family member who loves sunflowers #tatting #lacemaking #mine #wip

[iplaywithstring]

That feeling when you've been putting off working on lace because you know you should change a pair of bobbins and you finally decide to do it and realize past you already got a paor ready

I've done one full turn of the bolster. This lace is for the leg hems for my daughter's split drawers that go with her 1850s prom dress. Because if you're going that far why not go all the way

Simple fan and torchon ground worked with 8/2 weaving cotton because that's what I have on hand. I'm about halfway done, with a goal of working on it at least once a week.

#bobbin lace #lacemaking

[saltwaterstitcher]

One of my first pieces of handmade lace, it's definitely a little wobbly but I feel accomplished

#lacemaking #crafting #lace #bobbin lace

[emmaklee]

(via III-obelia | Lenka's Way of Lace)

sea creature made of lace

#lacemaking #needle arts #contemporary lace

[tacit-semantics]

Alright!!!!!!!!!! Finished my biggest filet lace piece yet :) a big mess on the technical level because I realized at the very very end what it was that was giving me so much trouble (was failing to account for one of the threads when working around the holes (which were giving me so much trouble on the bigger part that I DID indeed just give up on but we will get em next time)) but let’s ignore that because I DID IT LOOK YALL. Thumbs up picture partially for scale but also because I DID IT

#id in alt #YEAHHHH #amateur lacemaking baby!!!!! fly high!!!!!! #look for teaching myself entirely from books and Vibes I’ll take it sksjjs it’s RECOGNIZABLE baby we are recognizable. did it!!!!!!! did it #tension on the net is alllll screwy but I’ll figure out how to fix that in later projects :) think it’s just gonna be smaller projects for #bit though like looooord we did not have the technical basis for this one. we did not. #filet lace #lacis #lacemaking #embroidery #fiber arts #netting #net making #netted lace #my work #:))))))))))) #trypophobia

[thehistoricalfrog]

Bobbin lace sampler

#these bobbins are awful to work with #all of them are different and the thread snags on them when you loosen or wind up #anyway the pattern is fun to do #bobbin lace #lacemaking #thehistoricalfrog #fibre crafts #textile art

[speedwagons-glorious-mane]

My first snowflake!

I've wanted to make one for a while now but I never got around to it until yesterday when I needed to clean off some bobbins of white thread and thought it was a perfect opportunity. I'm attempting to stiffen the lace with some watered down mod podge so I can use it as a Christmas ornament and hang it on a tree

#shuttle tatting #tatted lace #lacemaking #handmade

[rosegrounds]

spiders and rose ground!

#bobbin lace #fiber art #lacemaking #crafts

[lacerotalong]

Time for another lace style...

We will eventually get around to learning all of these, which one do you want to learn first?

Also we have many more styles planned, these are just the styles we have good tutorial resources for so far.

These styles all require some specialty tools/supplies, which I've listed below the cut in case that's a deciding factor for people. Pretty much everything can be DIY'd or repurposed from some other common objects, and this information will be shared as part of the lace-along :)

Bobbin lace:

Thread (e.g. sewing thread, embroidery floss) (edit by mod Rex: crochet cotton or perle cotton preferable for beginners)

Bobbins (24 for the sampler we will do)

Bobbin lace pillow

Pattern printed or drawn out

Pins with small heads (a whole lot of em)

(edit by Mod comfy: I dipped my toes in this already, you can use clothespins as bobbins (basically everything that holds some thread and can be moved around comfortably), and some sturdy cardboard as a pillow. Your "pillow" just needs to be sturdy enough to keep the pins in place for the time you work on the lace, so if you have a couch pillow that could work, go for it)

Drawn thread lace:

Plain-woven linen or cotton fabric, with large enough threads you can comfortably see individual threads at a comfortable working distance

Sewing thread in the same colour as your fabric

Fine blunt-tipped needle

Fine tipped scissors or seam ripper and a steady hand

Lacis/ filet lace

Sturdy thread/ twine/ crochet cotton

Netting shuttle/ netting needle

Netting gauge/ mesh stick (e.g. dowel, knitting needle, smooth popsicle stick or similar)

Blunt tapestry needle

Some method of tensioning the net for embroidery: mesh frame/ embroidery hoop/ stiff paper to tack net down to

Needle lace:

Paper pattern printed or drawn out

Backing fabric (e.g. sturdy medium weight calico) (will not be part of finished piece)

Sticky backed plastic/ clear packing tape

Lace thread (e.g. crochet cotton, perlee, stranded cotton, silk thread)

Regular sewing thread in a contrasting colour for tacking down pattern (will not be part of the finished piece)

Sharp needle to tack down pattern

Blunt needle to make lace

Tweezers

Fine tipped scissors

Thimble (optional)

Sprang:

Sprang frame (e.g. empty backless picture frame, DIY frame made of sticks, two dowels tied to sturdy objects an appropriate distance apart)

Sturdy cord or crochet cotton

Smooth dowels/rods, 4-6 of them?

#lace race 2024 #lace along #lacemaking #lace making #bobbin lace #drawn thread lace #lacis #filet lace #needle lace #sprang #poll