Freehand Lace


Freehand Lace
The techniques of Freehand Lace are relevant today. In current contemporary lace practice you find the same aspirat
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ions of Freehand Lace being executed in the irregular grounds first used in the Benelux countries. Freehand Lace follows a pattern but does not utilise a ‘pricking’. The pins are usually placed down the two edges of lace the stiches and pattern in between is maintained through the tension of the lace. You can find out more about Freehand Lace by visiting the Kunstindustrimusset in København and reading Danske Frihåndskniplinger by  Bodil Tornehave. Alongside Denmark, you also find examples of Freehand Lace in other areas of Europe including Skåne in Southern Sweden (please see Wivi-Ann Nordström’s books Skånsk Knyppling and Pettersson Lace).

Further information sources:

Freehand Lace Research group website.

Denmark:

Danske Frihåndskniplinger by Bodil Tornehave. Notabene 1987 ISBN 8774902911

Fuglefletskniplinger by Bodil Tornehave og Jana Novak. Notabene 1989 ISBN 8774903063

Finland:
Nyytinki by Inga Pentikäinen and Irma Leihmulahti. Barbara Fay Verlag 2004 ISBN 3925184678

Germany:

Freihandspitzen von der Schwäbischen Alb by Gisel Noll; Elda Gantner and Marianne Stang. Deutscher Klöppelverban e.V. 2000 ISBN 3934210260

Italy: Cogne

Sweden:

“I Knipplingahjörnan” Österlens Museum 2000 ISBN 9186220322

Knypplade spetsar från Dalarna by Liv Trotzig.

Knypplade spetsar från Råttvik.

Petterssonspetsar från Österlen by Wivi-Ann Nordström. Barbara Fay Verlag 2010 ISBN 9783925184192

Skansk Knyppling by Wivi-Ann Nordström. Barbara Fay Verlag 2000 ISBN 3924184899