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Gros Point
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Gros point needle lace is a lace with raised, and decorated cordonettes. It is supposed to look like carved ivory. For those who want to learn it or to study the details of its construction in antique examples. Historical antique form was called Venetian gros point needle lace.
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Resources for Gros Point
BOOKS
Catherine Barley NEEDLELACE, DESIGNS AND TECHNIQUES, CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY. Batsford 1993, reprinted 2003. Contains a chapter on technique and several patterns.
Nenia Lovesey and Catherine Barley VENETIAN GROS POINT LACE. Dryad 1986. Stitch diagrams are clear, but description of how to make the padded roll is not satisfactory. Quite a few nice motifs.
Nenia Lovesey INTRODUCTION TO NEEDLEPOINT LACE, Larousse 1985. Has a chapter on raised work.
ONLINE RESOURCES
http://encyclopediaofneedlework.com/chapter_13.html This chapter contains needlelace stitch diagrams and diagrams for bars (in the context of tape laces, but the stitches and bars are the same).
This is a link to a free download of superb close-up photos of a highly sculpted Venetian Gros Point. File is 4.2 mb. Clicking on it will immediately start the download.
http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/activities/FicheGrosPoint_MickFouriscot_ang.pdf
http://lynxlace.com/needlelacegallery.html#gros-point ;
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89745/collar-josef-storck/
The Retournac gros point symposium
http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/activities/symposium.html See the bottom of the page for links to several pdf files, photos of brides, fillings, decorative holes (portes) and a few old laces.
photos of lace grounds
http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/francais/actualites/2008/news4/Catalogue_remplis.pdf
Discussion Forum
Punto Cologna 5 Replies
I've just noticed that in Cologna Veneta, a small town near Verona, Italy, there is a lace school where they make Punto Cologna, which is very similar to the Gros Point.In my blog…Continue
Started by Silvia. Last reply by Christiane Machabée Nov 21, 2015.
Stitches of gros point needle lace 4 Replies
Last night I picked up a sampler I started nearly 2 years ago. It has been nearly that long since I last worked on it. It was supposed to be a sampler of gros point stitches. So I was devoured by an…Continue
Tags: gros point, gros point needle lace stitches, stitches of gros point
Started by Lorelei Halley. Last reply by Lorelei Halley May 15, 2014.
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Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti. on December 20, 2015 at 6:50pm
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Christiane, I go home from holiday tomrrow., I will answer your questions about the embellishments in a few days time, when I have the bit computer to work on, and I think I have close-up photos to show you.
The arrow A shows "threaded Couronnes", and arrow B shows a twisted cordonette.. I will explain them in a few days, when we are at home, and I can type properly. this laptop keyboard is horrid!!
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Comment by Christiane Machabée on December 20, 2015 at 7:09am -
Liz. Par le passé, vous nous avez admirablement expliqué l’exécution du "zigzag on top of cordonnette". Aujourd’hui, je pointe à l'aide de flèches sur l’une de vos magnifiques dentelles, deux différents embellissements qui pour moi soulèvent de sérieuses questions. Si la période des fêtes vous laisse du temps libre, seriez-vous assez aimable de tenter d’éclaircir ces techniques particulières? Merci à vous.
Liz. In the past, you have beautifully explain to us the implementation of the "zigzag on top of cordonnette". Today I point, using arrows on one of your magnificent lace, two different embellishments that clear for me raise serious questions. If the holiday season leaves you free time, would you be kind enough to try to clarify those particular techniques
? Big thanks to you.
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Comment by Lorelei Halley on November 20, 2015 at 3:30pm
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Comment by Lynette Hale on April 2, 2015 at 4:11pm -
Thanks Maureen & Teri. I have found the photos of the Irish Crocheted shawl in my folders so will upload them now.
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Comment by Teri Dow on April 2, 2015 at 5:10am -
Hi Lynette, if you are able to put the photos on Lacioli, that would enable so many more people to see your latest work ....I'm not a member of Laceioli but I always check the site daily. Kind regards x
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Comment by Maureen Bromley on April 2, 2015 at 2:21am -
But you can put photos on Laceioli. Being a lover of crochet including Irish Crochet, I would also love to see them. Happy Easter
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Comment by Lynette Hale on April 1, 2015 at 10:34pm
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Hi Liz, Sorry I have just read the notes which "no crochet". I have discovered that i still have your private email in my address book so will send you some photos.
happy Easter.
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Nice to hear from you Lynette. I was thinking about writing to you to see how you were, but did not get around to it - yet!! Yes, you are a bit further Down Under that I am, I think!!
Please put up photos of some of your work - it is always so beautifully done - wouldn't Irish crochet sneak in somewhere even if embroidery didn't!!!!!!!! Hmmm . I suppose a crochet hook does not qualify as a needle, though!! Or put up a link to where we might see something you have made recently!!!!
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Comment by Lynette Hale on April 1, 2015 at 9:46pm
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Hello All, I live in NZ way down under, so a Happy Easter to all from here! I seem to have been very busy since moving here to the complex - hopefully as winter approaches I will have more time to make lace. Have been doing a lot of embroidery & Irish crochet & only one pair of hands!
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Happy Easter to all from Down Under, too!
Yes, Jean, - join the Guild of Needlelaces - you get a magazine 3 times a year, and
I know Teri had a Ball at the AGM - she is still enthused by that day out!! You will find all the committee are really hel;pful if you have to contact them.
When I first joined and got my first magazine there was something about Williamson Stitch in a piece. I had never heard of it, so wrote and asked - and was promptly sent instructions on how to work the stitch. Wonderful help so graciously given. That alone made it worth my while to join - and I now use the stitch a lot!!
I live much too far away to go to an AGM (I live in the southern part of Australia - furthest away from England!)- which is my one regret about joining, - I can only participate from afar.
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