• Home
  • Shop
  • About
  • Exhibits
  • Contact me

jeanweaves

~ Jean Williams, Handweaver

jeanweaves

Tag Archives: Piecework Magazine

Crafts Yesterday and Today

23 Friday May 2014

Posted by jeanweaves in Craft History, Tatting

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Craft History, Piecework Magazine, Tatting, Weaving

My parents visited this past week and as usual, we enjoyed many conversations revolving around our UFOs (unfinished objects), current projects, and things we will get to one of these days. Mom patrols used book stores and thrift shops and came across some old Piecework magazines. This is a wonderful publication, covering every kind of needlework from around the world and giving the history to go with the projects. When she finished with these back issues, she passed them along to me.

Piecework Magazine Jan/Feb 1996 (left) and Nov/Dec 2004 (right)

Piecework Magazine Jan/Feb 1996 (left) and Nov/Dec 2004 (right)

I was delighted to see articles on tatting to follow up on my recent exploration of that craft. One even describes threading small beads into the tatting—now there’s something I have got to try!

But something else is intriguing in these back issues. Since I started reading the magazine, knitting has featured prominently in the projects—knitted lace, knitted mittens, knitted sweaters. These older issues do have knitting, but counted cross stitch is a central technique—embroidered yokes, embroidered ornaments, embroidered samplers—and more quilting than appears now.

Handwork is fluid. Crafts ebb and flow in popularity. When my grandmother told me that tatting was a dying art, little did she suspect that within 20 years, it would experience a resurgence. In the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, weaving and spinning were very popular. Many of us who are weaving now, learned then. In the past 10 years, though, it seems like there are fewer of us actively weaving and fewer weaving publications. Give it time though. Weaving is an ancient skill and those of us still weaving keep sharing what we know so that future generations can join the web in their own time.

Advertisement
Shop!

Follow Us

  • Facebook

Galleries

  • Towels to Use and to Give
  • Runners
  • Scarves for Him and Her
  • For the Table
  • Note Cards
  • Animals
  • Throws
  • The Linen Press
  • Privacy Policy

Subscribe

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Archives

  • September 2020 (2)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • August 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (2)
  • June 2019 (2)
  • March 2019 (1)
  • November 2018 (2)
  • September 2018 (1)
  • July 2018 (2)
  • May 2018 (2)
  • April 2018 (1)
  • February 2018 (2)
  • January 2018 (1)
  • December 2017 (1)
  • November 2017 (2)
  • October 2017 (3)
  • August 2017 (1)
  • July 2017 (1)
  • June 2017 (2)
  • May 2017 (2)
  • March 2017 (2)
  • February 2017 (2)
  • January 2017 (2)
  • December 2016 (1)
  • November 2016 (1)
  • October 2016 (2)
  • August 2016 (3)
  • June 2016 (1)
  • May 2016 (1)
  • March 2016 (2)
  • February 2016 (1)
  • January 2016 (1)
  • December 2015 (1)
  • November 2015 (3)
  • October 2015 (1)
  • September 2015 (4)
  • August 2015 (1)
  • July 2015 (2)
  • June 2015 (1)
  • May 2015 (1)
  • April 2015 (2)
  • March 2015 (2)
  • February 2015 (2)
  • January 2015 (2)
  • December 2014 (1)
  • November 2014 (3)
  • October 2014 (1)
  • September 2014 (2)
  • August 2014 (1)
  • July 2014 (3)
  • June 2014 (1)
  • May 2014 (2)
  • April 2014 (2)
  • March 2014 (2)
  • February 2014 (2)
  • January 2014 (2)
  • December 2013 (2)
  • November 2013 (1)
  • October 2013 (1)
  • September 2013 (3)
  • August 2013 (1)

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • jeanweaves
    • Join 62 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • jeanweaves
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...