Further Sources of Information
This page will be added to, as often as I find good source material. Please, do email me with good links or information, if you have it.

Links

Society of Creative Anachronism
A link to our organization's home page: learn more about the Middle Ages,
and how we're trying to recreate it.

Atlantia Arts and Sciences Page
Probably the most comprehensive A&S links pages in the Knowne World. Not
a lot of lacis-specific links, but lots of nice other stuff.

Beautiful and Practical Netting
An excellent source for learning the lacis stitch, and a number of period
and out of period mezza-like stitches.

Giraude's Netting Page
A links page, full of PDF's and a good list of books. Lots of specific
information on snoods/hairnets.

DragonBear Designs Period
An index of lacis style patterns

Lacis Online Catalog
A terrific commercial site, with lots of lacis tools, threads, books, the
works.

Les Singulairs Et Nouveaux Portraicts
An online version of Vinciolo's famous lace pattern book. Dozens and
dozens of beautiful lacis darning patterns

Ranvaig's Mezza Page
A lovely collection of portrait images depicting mezza mandolina.


Some Resources by Lady Cecilia Bartoletti:

Lacis (pdf file: 5 pages, 125kb)
An article I wrote for Tournaments Illuminated

Mezza vs. Lacis: A Comparison of Technique (pdf file: 10 pages, 2.2Mb)
An A&S Competition entry

Bibliography:

Levey, Santina, Lace: A History, published by the V&A Museum.

Powys, Marian, Lace and Lacemaking, 1953 Charles T. Branford Company,

Ricci, Elisa, Old Italian Lace, Vol I and II, 1913, London: William Heinemann / Philadelphia:J.B. Lippincott.

Ricci, Elisa, Italian Lace Designs 243 Classic Examples, 1993 Dover

Simeon, Margaret, The History of Lace, 1979 Stainer & Bell, London

"Needlemade Laces & Net Embroideries" by Doris Campbell Preston

"Art of Netting", by Jules and Kaethe Kliot, Lacis Publications

Pictorial Lace Designs, 325 Historic Examples, Grafton/Dover

Handmade Lace & Patterns, Harper & Row.

Bibliograpie der Modelbucher, 1933, Karl Heirsemann, Leipzig.

Knotting and Netting, The Art of Filet Work, 1971, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, originally published in Swedish as Knutet och Tratt, translated by Joan Bulman.

Seven Centuries of Lace, 1908 (London: William Heinemann / New York: The MacMillan Company)





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