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Skansk Lace
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Skansk lace is originally made in the province Skåne in the southern part of Sweden.
The lace is mostly rather dense. In the time Skansk lace develloped, pins were expensive and scarce, so they were used as less as possible, only at the edges of the lace.
Lots of experience is needed to make this lace, because the threads have to be tensioned exactly the right way, so that they will stay where they have to be and not to let the space between them become too wide.
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Insertion with tulip motif
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| The lace is made without a pricking. Pins are set just at sight with only the checked or striped covering of the pillow as a guide. The motifs were passed on from lacemaker to lacemaker, verbal or with an example. They are traditonal and have specific names like "the big pig's snout" and "the old pig's snout". Often the laces were combined. par example: insertions with edgings like the pig's snouts. This gave the lacemaker the possibility to vary the width of the lace. |
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Insertion with the old pig's snout
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| On the occassion of their convention in 2000 in Lund, Sweden, the OIDFA published several postcards with Swedish laces, also of Skansk lace. |
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Click in the photo to enlarge
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In 1999 I toke a course for Skansk lace with the NKO (the Dutch Bobbin lace Education). Of course we made a lot of examples, but also a lot of drawings. We made new patterns of old laces out of books and of course also designed ourselves some pieces. Although the lace is rather geometric, it assembles torchon a lot, with only pins on the edges, you can easily create new patterns. If you are not that creative, it is quite well possible to use cross-stitch motifs for skansk lace.
Some of my own designs for Skansk lace I will show you in the Skansk gallery.
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Literature
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Skånsk Knyppling /
Schonische Spitze |
Wivi-Ann Nordström |
Barbara Fay Verlag,
Gammelby, 2000 |
3-925184-89-9 |
Swedish /
German |
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| Modified: 10/3/07 |
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