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Friday, February 1, 2013
BRIDAL Jewelry on FRENCHatHEART
We are pleased to announce we are now offering Briday Jewelry on our Web Site.
We can do any custom designs for your entire Bridal party!
We can do any custom designs for your entire Bridal party!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
History of ANTIQUE LACE
Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace-making is an ancient craft. True lace was not made until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. A true lace is created when a thread is looped, twisted or braided to other threads independently from a backing fabric.
Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton thread, although linen and silk threads are still available. Manufactured lace may be made of synthetic fiber. A few modern artists make lace with a fine copper or silver wire instead of thread.
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The Chancellor of Oxford University. The robes of some high officers of state and university officials are trimmed with gold plate lace or gold oakleaf lace.There are many types of lace, classified by how they are made. These include:
Needle lace; such as Venetian Gros Point is made using a needle and thread. This is the most flexible of the lace-making arts. While some types can be made more quickly than the finest of bobbin laces, others are very time-consuming. Some purists regard needle lace as the height of lace-making. The finest antique needle laces were made from a very fine thread that is not manufactured today.
Cutwork, or whitework; lace constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery.
Bobbin lace; as the name suggests, made with bobbins and a pillow. The bobbins, turned from wood, bone or plastic, hold threads which are woven together and held in place with pins stuck in the pattern on the pillow. The pillow contains straw, preferably oat straw or other materials such as sawdust, insulation styrofoam or ethafoam. Also known as Bone-lace. Chantilly lace is a type of bobbin lace.
Tape lace; makes the tape in the lace as it is worked, or uses a machine- or hand-made textile strip formed into a design, then joined and embellished with needle or bobbin lace.
Knotted lace; including macramé and tatting. Tatted lace is made with a shuttle or a tatting needle.
Crocheted lace; including Irish crochet, pineapple crochet, and filet crochet.
Knitted lace; including Shetland lace, such as the "wedding ring shawl", a lace shawl so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.
Machine-made; any style of lace created or replicated using mechanical means.
Chemical lace; The stitching area is stitched with embroidery threads that form a continuous motif. Afterwards, the stitching areas are removed and only the embroidery remains. The stitching ground is made of water-soluble or non heat-resistant material.
www.FrenchAtHeart.com Lynn Konrad
Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton thread, although linen and silk threads are still available. Manufactured lace may be made of synthetic fiber. A few modern artists make lace with a fine copper or silver wire instead of thread.
Pieces below available for immediate purchase:
www.FrenchAtHeart.com
The Chancellor of Oxford University. The robes of some high officers of state and university officials are trimmed with gold plate lace or gold oakleaf lace.There are many types of lace, classified by how they are made. These include:
Needle lace; such as Venetian Gros Point is made using a needle and thread. This is the most flexible of the lace-making arts. While some types can be made more quickly than the finest of bobbin laces, others are very time-consuming. Some purists regard needle lace as the height of lace-making. The finest antique needle laces were made from a very fine thread that is not manufactured today.
Cutwork, or whitework; lace constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery.
Bobbin lace; as the name suggests, made with bobbins and a pillow. The bobbins, turned from wood, bone or plastic, hold threads which are woven together and held in place with pins stuck in the pattern on the pillow. The pillow contains straw, preferably oat straw or other materials such as sawdust, insulation styrofoam or ethafoam. Also known as Bone-lace. Chantilly lace is a type of bobbin lace.
Tape lace; makes the tape in the lace as it is worked, or uses a machine- or hand-made textile strip formed into a design, then joined and embellished with needle or bobbin lace.
Knotted lace; including macramé and tatting. Tatted lace is made with a shuttle or a tatting needle.
Crocheted lace; including Irish crochet, pineapple crochet, and filet crochet.
Knitted lace; including Shetland lace, such as the "wedding ring shawl", a lace shawl so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.
Machine-made; any style of lace created or replicated using mechanical means.
Chemical lace; The stitching area is stitched with embroidery threads that form a continuous motif. Afterwards, the stitching areas are removed and only the embroidery remains. The stitching ground is made of water-soluble or non heat-resistant material.
www.FrenchAtHeart.com Lynn Konrad
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Antique FRENCH LACE Newly added TODAY!!
We are FINALLY adding our New Selection of French Antique Lace to our web site, More to come as the days progress!!
If you are seeking a large panel or anything specific, please feel free to contact us direct.
Pieces below are NOW on-line for immediate purchase.
www.FrenchAtHeart.com
(714) 310-0702
Call to schedule a Studio appointment in Huntington Beach.
Merry Christmas!!!
Lynn
If you are seeking a large panel or anything specific, please feel free to contact us direct.
Pieces below are NOW on-line for immediate purchase.
www.FrenchAtHeart.com
(714) 310-0702
Call to schedule a Studio appointment in Huntington Beach.
Merry Christmas!!!
Lynn
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
French Antique JEWELRY ~ History of GUILLOCHE Enamel
Guilloché (or Guilloche) is a decorative engraving technique in which a very precise intricate repetitive pattern or design is mechanically engraved into an underlying material with fine detail. Specifically, it involves a technique of engine turning, called guilloché in French after the French engineer “Guillot”, who invented a machine “that could scratch fine patterns and designs on metallic surfaces”. The machine, called a rose engine, improved upon the more time-consuming practice of making similar designs by hand, allowing for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of the line, as well as greater speed.
Yet another account is that it derives from the French word for an engraving tool, not the engine turning machine.
A guilloche is a repetitive architectural pattern used in classical Greece and Rome, and neo-classical architecture as well as medieval Cosmatesque stone inlay work, of two ribbons winding around a series of regular central points. These central points are often blank, but may contain a figure, such as a rose. Guilloche is a back-formation from guilloché, so called because the architectural motif resembles the designs produced by Guilloche techniques.
All pieces above are available for immediate purchase on
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Lynn
Saturday, November 17, 2012
French Antique Jewelry and GIFTS in LA County this Sunday!!
Just some of our Latest designs!!!!
We will be at the Long Beach antique Market this Sunday, November 18th in our usual spot!
Hope to see you there!!
If you need help finding us, please call (714) 310-0702
If you cannot make please consider an appointment in my studio!
Happy Holidays!!
Lynn
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Friday, November 16, 2012
St Jude Charity Event Success!!!
A BIG MERCI to all of my wonderful Friends and Customers who attended the St Jude Charity Event last night!
We raised a good sum for this remarkable Charity!
Lynn Konrad
www.FrenchAtHeart.com
We raised a good sum for this remarkable Charity!
Lynn Konrad
www.FrenchAtHeart.com
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