VOD Studies in Antique Lace - Series 1: Reading Lace

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Instructor: Elizabeth Kurella

If threads could talk, what stories would they tell of history, fashion, and society? This series uses the analogy of learning to read lace as we read language. Both take small individual units and build them up into meaningful structures. Both have, over the centuries, evolved in appearance, usage and meaning. Both provide ways to view and appreciate our place in society and history.

This series is designed as a useful introduction to get beginners up to speed to better understand and appreciate the content of the further Studies In Antique Lace programs.

Lesson 1: Understanding and Reading Lace - If we study each of these levels - thread manipulations, motifs or bits and pieces, the substance of lace and then the actual object - we can get a long way in gathering the information we most want to know about old lace - dates, places, value.

Lesson 2:  The Alphabet of Lace - Individual thread manipulations or stitches are the letters of the alphabet of lace. In this lesson we explore the basic kinds of thread manipulations - the building blocks of lace - and how they are the foundation for understanding how to identify and study lace.

Lesson 3:  The Words of Lace - The first part of this lesson shows how thread manipulations are combined to form bits and pieces - the words of lace. Then we consider how we might communicate information about those bits and pieces  to others, by putting names to the bits of lace.

Lesson 4: The Sentences and Stories of Lace - In this final lesson in reading lace, we see how all the pieces come together, and how we can use all the clues we can find in lace to figure out many of the things we want to know about the lace.