How to make lace and printing
Expertise
This sequence is a homage to those who made lace and still make it today. And since Calais has given lace its prestige, it is with pride I maintain my origins, that we associate with it and that all together I continue, day after day, to weave the story of lace by giving it the best of ourselves, for the greatest satisfaction of my clients.
There are lot of process during make lace.
SKETCHERS
There is no beginning, otherwise it would get lost in the night of motions, the key word is continuity. Perhaps it has to start with a sketch, always.
The learning process is slow, very slow, commensurate to a pencil and a rubber, the sketches absorb their trade and understand it.
DESIGNERS
The sketch is examined from all sides, on card, and grows. This resembles a story that is told thread by thread, choosing a colour for each material. The pattern is no longer imagined, no longer presented in lines, but in the loom bar’s movements, each one highlighted by the design drawing.
POINTERS
Once again, this is about translating, and this translation focuses on a very large reproduction, where colour and transparency intermingle, for the beauty of the abstract patterns. Curves and scrolls, sketched out thoughts, will undergo a transition to the era of lines and rectangle, without giving up an ounce of grace.
INSPECTORS
Whether inspecting ecru, finished, raw or coloured lace, the inspectors are harsh look-outs, with chalk or a marker in hand, I hunt down imperfection, whether it takes the form of a gap, growth, stripe or a bobbin hole.
MENDERS
Bundle after bundle, expertly handling the sewing machine, the menders rewrite flowers and plain weave. Patiently, they follow the design, make defects disappear, redesign a border, fill in a gimp and, like a dream, reconstruct the slightest bit of background, whether honeycomb or cabling.
CLIPPERS
In the clipping workshop, I play with blades, first with acutting and then by hand. Stretched between two rolls, the lace shows its wrong side, the long threads that float from one design to another, undesirables. To make these loose threads disappear, a liberating cut with the scissors, then which trims…
SCALERS
Hands smooth and guide even the most stubborn lace to liberate any scales. Meticulous, with their palms they listen to these designs which do not want to held, which slip, the others where scales that are too dug in impede movement and complicate the task
FOLDERS
The last touch, the last examination before being packaged or put on a bobbin. Maybe… Length by length, the lace is rolled up, to a precise measurement, any last flaws which got through the many checks are removed, with a cut of the scissors, the folders check one last time, measure and verify.
How to print :
Designs use the crayon hand paint on the professional paper into the watercolor pattern when finish the painting pattern scan the paper pattern into the pictures which open AI or PS to make the files and hand scraping the patterns on the fabric . Finally the beautiful printing will be finished . Hopefully our ideas can know more our printing designs each other.
Have Nice day!
Nancy
