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L'Aquila bobbin lace |
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L'Aquila bobbin lace is a kind continuous lace quite similar to Torchon. Italian traditional lace (non continuous) usually requires a small number of bobbins; lacemakers give life, with whole stitch or half stitch, to a sort of ribbon that turning many times creates the design. If the lace consists of more pieces, they are connected using a thin crochet. L'Aquila continuous lace, instead, requires a great number of bobbins, not always known at the start. The thread, usually linen or silk, is white and very thin. The designs are generally old and not available for sale. The work proceeds in a way that the lacemaker never comes back to the part of lace already made. Traditionally two kind of points are worked: the so called "aquilan old point" and the "commercial new point". Aquilan old point permits to create an "ornato", that is pictures like flowers, ribbons, butterflies, alphabet letters. As bobbin are more and more added during the work, their number is not known at the start. Aquilan new point is quite similar to Torchon with the use of a gimp. The designs are symmetrical and geometrycal, the number of bobbins used can be high, but is anyway known sice the wok starts. |
