The Youtube films of lacemaking seem to all date from 1929-1931. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9pmm7Yk78 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9pmm7Yk78> shows an elderly woman making tamboured lace. In the last part, you can clearly see, not only the hand on top of the fabric, but how her hand is working beneath the fabric to feed the thread onto the hook. From her speed and age I would suspect she was trained to make it commercially in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Or if you want your viewers to experience the pure soulless monotony and hard work of the industrial lace mills, they could watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9pmm7Yk78 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9pmm7Yk78> which shows Nottingham lace being made. Both of these are silent films; the Nottingham one has subtitles. And of course the one of the elderly bobbin lacemaker on her gigantic pillow has recently been discussed - itâs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcSaAXtZsc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcSaAXtZsc> From her speed, dexterity, and apparent age, probably she, too, made lace (by hand) commercially in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Adele > On Jul 16, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Devon Thein <devonth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Hunterdon Art Museum which is putting on Lace, not Lace, has > recently been using QR codes on their labels so that people may put > their phones up to the code, and then see a video or youtube on the > phone. This is a really nice feature and is often used to show the > artist's process. I was discussing this with my husband the other > night, and he suggested that it would be interesting to connect to a > video of lacemaking (bobbin or needle) from the late 19th or early > 20th century, just to give people the flavor of what it was like when > it was still being practiced commercially. Does anyone know of such a > video? Do we know what is the earliest film of lacemaking? > Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
