The Battle of Britain commemorative machine lace panel made in the
mid 1940s will be back on display at the Nottingham Castle Museum next year in
the new lace exhibition. However if you can’t wait that long, one of the panels
is on permanent display at Bentley Priory Museum in Stanmore, London. The
reason I’m blogging about it today is because I’m taking part in Jane Fulman’s
lace challenge on Instagram and today’s prompt is ‘grounded’. A panel about an
airborne battle may seem a strange choice for grounded but in fact I’m referring
to the numerous ground stitches within the panel which give it such a sense of
shading and three dimensionality. For example the wheat ears include five
different stitches and even the shamrock leaves include two woven areas, one
slightly thicker than the other. The image above the edging shows the ruin of St
Clement Danes, which was devastated by incendiary bombs in 1941. It has since
been rebuilt and dedicated to the RAF. The level of shading on this, and the
other images depicting the bombing of London, is amazing and allows the details
of the scenes to be shown. The Battle of Britain panel celebrates the bravery
of those who took part in the battle but also celebrates the skill of the machine
lacemakers who made the panel.
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