Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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2 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday: Wooden Box with Lace, Ribbons, and Threads”
Tatting was a form of lace making frequently done by upper class ladies due to the time consuming techniques. You could edge items, make dollies and collars. You can also crochet edges in a lace like manner. I have many items my grandmother had crocheted. When I married, she gave me pillowcases where she had crocheted a lace edge. Handkerchiefs were a prime example where you could tat or crochet a beautiful lace edge.
I love the beautiful photo of the sewing box with the bobbins of ribbons and lace. Is that a tiny carving of birds? Oh, how lovely. Anyone who has done needlework of any kind will oooh and aaah over this photo. Great choice.
My grandmother crocheted blankets for us. Mine was different shades of pink. I still have it. I used to have some pillow cases with the lacy edging, but they are no more 🙂 My father-in-law once mentioned that he knew how to tat which I found interesting. His wife was a fantastic knitter and seamstress. I am hopeless at all of those things. 😀 I would have needed to marry well in order to hire someone to make my clothes back then or I would have been doomed to wear some not so great creations. LOL
I would have loved to have had that ribbon in the bottom left corner on a dress. I can imagine running its softness through my fingers.
Tatting was a form of lace making frequently done by upper class ladies due to the time consuming techniques. You could edge items, make dollies and collars. You can also crochet edges in a lace like manner. I have many items my grandmother had crocheted. When I married, she gave me pillowcases where she had crocheted a lace edge. Handkerchiefs were a prime example where you could tat or crochet a beautiful lace edge.
I love the beautiful photo of the sewing box with the bobbins of ribbons and lace. Is that a tiny carving of birds? Oh, how lovely. Anyone who has done needlework of any kind will oooh and aaah over this photo. Great choice.
My grandmother crocheted blankets for us. Mine was different shades of pink. I still have it. I used to have some pillow cases with the lacy edging, but they are no more 🙂 My father-in-law once mentioned that he knew how to tat which I found interesting. His wife was a fantastic knitter and seamstress. I am hopeless at all of those things. 😀 I would have needed to marry well in order to hire someone to make my clothes back then or I would have been doomed to wear some not so great creations. LOL
I would have loved to have had that ribbon in the bottom left corner on a dress. I can imagine running its softness through my fingers.