Sources
Bibliographies
General Netting
Sanctuary, Anthony. Rope, Twine and Net Making. Shire Album 51. Shire Publications Ltd: Buckinhamshire, 1996. ISBN 0-85263-918-X
Pictures of the methods for making three different netting knots.
Fox, Sally (researcher & editor). The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Book of Days. New York Graphic Society: New York; or Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1985.
A 15th Century image of a woman netting with the net attached to a hook on the wall.
Wyss, Robert L. 'Die Handarbeiten der Maria.' "Artes Minores: Dank an Werner Abegg." 121-123. Bern: Verlag Staempfli & Cie, 1973.
An image of a woman netting off the top of a pole.
Lacis
Bassee,
Nicolas. German
Renaissance Patterns for Embroidery: a Facsimily copy of Nicolas
Bessee’s New Modelbuch of 1568.
Curious Works Press: Austin, 1994. ISBN 0-9633331-4-3
Woodcuts, some appropriate for needlelace or lacis.
Brooke,
Margaret L. Lace in the
Making: with Bobbins and Needle.
Robin & Russ Handweavers: McMinnville, 1975.
Reprinted from George Routledge & Sons Ltd.: Great Britain,
1923. No ISBN
Mostly instructional with some history at the end of the book
Earnshaw,
Pat. Threads of Lace
from Source to Sink. Gorse
Publications: Guildford, 1989. ISBN 0-9513891-1-4
Although this book uses lace as examples, it’s really more about fibers, processing and spinning for fine threads. The term lace is used very loosely; examples include knitted, looped, and woven structures in addition to bobbin and needle-made lace.
Grafton,
Carol Belanger. Pictorial
Archive of Lace Designs: 325 Historic Examples. Dover Publications: New York, 1989. ISBN 0-486-26112-3
Excellent examples, but there are no identifications of source or timeperiod which make the book difficult to use if you don’t already know a bit about lace techniques and styles.
Vinciolo,
Federico. Rennaissance
Patterns for Lace Embroidery and Needlepoint: An unabridged facsimile of
the “Singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts” of 1587.
Dover Publications: New York, 1971.
ISBN 0-486-22438-4
Very little text; just pictures of lace from 1587.
Medieval & Renaissance Hairnets
[no author given;
written by committee!] _Stof uit de Kist: De
middeleeuwse textielschat uit de abdij van Sint-Truiden_. Provinciaal
Museum voor Religieuze Kunst, Begijnhofkerk, Sint-Truiden. Leuven:
Uitgeverij Peeters, 1991.
Seven colorful hairnets.
Crowfoot, Elisabeth; Pritchard, Frances; and Staniland, Kay. Textiles and Clothing c. 1150-1450. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 4. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London: 1992.
Several 13th-14th century hairnets.
Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Textile Conservation and Research. Abegg-Stiftung Bern, Switzerland: 1988.
Page 262 contains a 16th C. German child's hairnet of gold (wrapped filament) thread done with a macrame-style knotting.
Websites on Netting
http://www.lmsca.org.uk/lmsca212.htm - shows a starting method using slip knots and the Fisherman's Knot for joining threads.
http://www.knotsindeed.freeservers.com/index.html - shows two netting methods, one for thread and one for thicker string
http://www.norskfolke.museum.no/prosjekt/WebStar/katalog.html - contains a video of a woman netting with a shuttle and the net attached to a windowsill, and another woman doing a different sort of netting that looks more like macrame.
http://www.is-koeln.de/spitzentraum/DOL/otherlace_filet.html - Some general information and nice pictures of filet lace
Sources for Netting Shuttles
Small metal shuttles and larger plastic ones:
Larger plastic shuttles only:
Brush Creek Woolworks, BCWW@shol.com