Talk:Bobbin lace

message: I suspect the picture labeled "Bobbin lace of the Royal collection, Belgium" is either needle lace or mixed lace (probably needle lace with a bobbin lace border?), but the resolution of the picture makes it hard for me to be sure. I have appealed to the Arachne list for expert judgment. I plan to move the picture to the appropriate lace article if the consensus agrees with my suspicion.Julie E. 18:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect you are right.  Woould you like to join our wikiproject on Textile Arts?  We could use more lace expertise. - PKM 20:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

message: I am going to delete the phrase " because sometimes fish bones were used as pins" unless some can source it VERY soon.  It smells, um, fishy to me. - PKM (talk) 18:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleting now. PKM (talk) 19:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's mentioned in Lace, ancient and modern, but even there it's presented in a hearsay fashion, ie "Some say that..." Better to leave it out. Krschreyer (talk) 16:15, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bone lace

message: see articles on braid theory and braid groups--for those familiar with making bobbin lace, the correspondence between how straight laces are made and this area of topology is striking. Also, since braids (in the mathematical sense) are non-commutative, that means by extension that specific straight lace designs might be useable for public key encryption! Lacemaven (talk) 00:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bobbin lace & braid theory (topology)

message: joedkins, When the sun shows its face again, I might be able to make better pictures of the Honiton filling sampler. Now I understand why most books usually show so little detail. As a non-native speaker I'm not going to meddle with braids and tapes, but may be we should leave that to the articles about the respective laces or groups of laces. You may need to correct a little more terminology. Jo Pol (talk) 16:48, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  structure 

message: joedkins, The contemporary section needs also a subsection about art. Such as jewelry, sculptures and wall hangings of Lieve Jerger (quantum cube, lace-princess/coach), Lenka Suchanek and many other artists. But how to deal with links and copyright? Or should we leave the web-search to the reader? Jo Pol (talk) 16:47, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Contemporary

message: joedkins, We seem to have different opinions about the article length. I don't like the number of stub-size articles that mostly repeat what is said elsewhere, sometimes I'm looking to merge some. In fact I merged the raschel article into the warp knit that used to have an even larger section on raschel.
So I checked the guidelines. It states a max of "about 30 kB to 50 kB of readable prose, which roughly corresponds to 4,000 to 10,000 words". We reached not even 5 kB or 800 words. Remains the matter of balance. I'm rather tempted to extend the first sections (moved the traditional styles up) and/or add more history. But all in due time. Jo Pol (talk) 14:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  article length 

message: joedkins, I'm having trouble getting the bold 'mesh' at the start of the phrase in the overview of traditional types, and could not create a one liner for all the types. Jo Pol (talk) 19:29, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  one liners 

message: Re the idea of combining lace types a bit - I've got no objection. I just suggest that you take it slowly and combine obvious ones. Something like Beds Lace has so many antecedents (and continues to develop) so it might be hard to put it in a category. It wouldn't matter if some got combined and awkward ones left alone. But if you combine, could you put in redirects to the individual styles on that combined page? So if people search for a lace, they get taken to the right page, rather than looking through the results of 'Page not found' search, which might make some people give up. Joedkins (talk) 22:15, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Page organisation (continued from article size) 

message: joedkins, you linked the spangled bobbins to the bobbins article. But that article does not contain lace bobbins, let alone something about spangled bobbins. As the types of bobbins are closely related to pillow types I'd rather have them in a single article. You might guess: my preference would be to have it in a tools section on the bobbin lace page. The bobbins article would need some "see also". Until that is done I think it is better to drop the link. Jo Pol (talk) 07:19, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  bobbins and pillows 

message: I'm not very happy with Structure of lace. We've been talking about ground a lot, and it isn't mentioned in the gallery (where people's eyes tend to wander, like you with the Bobbin article!) How about a nice Point ground? The Toile is lovely, but is a headside, and we are dealing with people who may not realize that it's often (usually?) inside the lace. There is no picture of a motif, either in part lace or continuous lace. I would like a headside and footside as well, to define the terms, and after all, they ARE part of the structure of lace. I'm not adding anything myself with discussing it with you, because I may have the wrong idea of what this section should cover. Joedkins (talk) 12:04, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Structure section

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