Teaching period: 14 half days (1st year)
Foreknowledge: to have the ability to work Torchon lace and reading technical drawing
goal: to get notion in the techniques of Torchon lace, to process the gathered knowledge into a proper file, having the ability to make own designs and translate them into a technical drawing
Contents:
Lace technology, materials, terminology
characteristics; full work; lace edging, ground, decorations
simple ground: torchon ground, Brussels ground; enclosed pin ground, Dieppe ground
composed grounds: simple virgin ground
double virgin ground
closed check point
maiden’s net stitch
maiden’s net stitch with squares
Slavic maiden’s net stitch
Twist maiden’s net stitch
Rose ground (torchon, Brussels, enclosed pin, Dieppe)
triangular stitch to the left and to the right
simple square ground, crossed square ground
decorations:
simple spider, spider with ring, spider with eye, spider in the edge
tally: square, leaf, triangular
gimp
working with colours
junctions: full work with full work, full work with ground
input and output of pairs
Tasks:
making Technical drawing, thread drawing en pricking
designing corners on 2 different ways
putting a motif in a circle, oval, square
Full circle and full square
material: drawing material, linen 80/2, long fine torchon pins
Evaluation: written exam
designing a special end work, working it and handing in before the start of the second year. Handing in the file after the module( date after agree)
Data:
01/09, 15/09, 29/09, 13/10, 27/10,10/11, 24/11/2026 ganse dag