The first strip of bobbinlace is finished. The bobbinlace I am using is a repicated pattern from a 16th C Piece in "Onder de Leop" 
by Nora Andries. It looks quite a bit like a connecting piece used in an Italian lace piece in "Old Italian Lace" from the 17th C. It uses 40 bobbins and 60/2 linen thread. This is the first piece I have made from that book. This was the 15 piece of lace for the challenge.
by Nora Andries. It looks quite a bit like a connecting piece used in an Italian lace piece in "Old Italian Lace" from the 17th C. It uses 40 bobbins and 60/2 linen thread. This is the first piece I have made from that book. This was the 15 piece of lace for the challenge.To go with the bobbinlace
I finished the first piece of the lacis. I posted a picture of it when it was partially done before. The lion is now done and the accompanying unicorn is started. At the moment the unicorn is kind of creepy. It looks like a unicorn torso, but it is going quickly and will pick up a head and feet pretty quick. In the meantime it is appropriate for the 
All-Hallowed Evening holiday coming up later this month. Because of a long delay between the start of the lion and the start of the unicorn they are numbers 7 and 16 respectively.
I finished the first piece of the lacis. I posted a picture of it when it was partially done before. The lion is now done and the accompanying unicorn is started. At the moment the unicorn is kind of creepy. It looks like a unicorn torso, but it is going quickly and will pick up a head and feet pretty quick. In the meantime it is appropriate for the 
All-Hallowed Evening holiday coming up later this month. Because of a long delay between the start of the lion and the start of the unicorn they are numbers 7 and 16 respectively.On the other hand I finished another scroll. This one is a silver cresent done in the Persian style. The recipient has a Persian personna in the SCA (http://www.sca.org/) so the style was especially appropriate.
I really like making scrolls in the Persian style eventhough I consider them to be difficult. Some of the pieces from the Safavid period are almost unbelievably beautiful. With dragons appearing from around trees, and extraordinarily complex patterns on the buildings and tents of the people, they are gorgeous. I have not attempted to make one that is close to the more complex patterns. I think it could take months of continual and hard work. For now I chose to replicate a picture of a tree which dissappears behind the script box. This was the 15th scroll out of the 50 I want to complete for the challenge.
I really like making scrolls in the Persian style eventhough I consider them to be difficult. Some of the pieces from the Safavid period are almost unbelievably beautiful. With dragons appearing from around trees, and extraordinarily complex patterns on the buildings and tents of the people, they are gorgeous. I have not attempted to make one that is close to the more complex patterns. I think it could take months of continual and hard work. For now I chose to replicate a picture of a tree which dissappears behind the script box. This was the 15th scroll out of the 50 I want to complete for the challenge.
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