Welcome to Arachne's Web Server Arachne's Web Server is dedicated to the lacemaker's art. Due to personal bias, the contents will tend to lean heavily towards 16th and early 17 century laces, and lacemaking in the SCA. I've started with a few files I have lying around - postings I have written in response to questions on rec.org.sca, and lecture notes I've written for various classes. If you ...
Official site of the British Lace Guild with information on all aspects of lacemaking and Guild activities ...
www.laceguild.demon.co.uk
Includes a short introduction to princess, bobbin and needle laces.
John and Jennifer Ford Lace Supplies catalogue of materials, bobbins, threads, books and sundries for lacemakers, embroiderers and tatters. ...
Tatting: a host-written site at BellaOnline ...
www.bellaonline.com/site.asp?name=tatting
The English origin of the word lace owes something to the French lassis or lacis, but both are connected with the earlier Latin laqueus. Early French laces were also called passements; the name applied to ornamental open work formed of threads of flax, cotton, silk, gold or silver, and occasionally of mohair or aloe fiber, looped or plaited or twisted together by hand: (1) with a needle, when ...
