Preparing a talk about my lace I’ve been looking back at
some of the work I made when I started designing and making bobbin lace in a free
style. The photo shows a detail from a necklace inspired by looking at flints
in a museum. I drew and painted some of the flints to explore their shapes and
the myriad colours they contain and decided to make some necklaces based on
those images. For this one I first made a rough necklace shape using triangles
of fabric in the colours of the flints, trying to bring out the different
golds, browns and blues of the originals. I glued the shapes together and then
worked bobbin lace over the top of them, using the edge of the fabric as my
footside, and sewing in by piercing the fabric with a crochet hook, pulling
through one thread of the worker pair and looping the other through it. I tried
to keep the lace open so glimpses of the fabric could be seen behind it and
worked round the necklace making triangular shapes with the lace. It’s
interesting to see how something as sharp and angular as flint can be used to
inspire bobbin lace.
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