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A whole alphabet about pillow lace
exists, the “Sceda” (the pricking card).
This word most probably derives from the Latin “scheda” which
means “pattern”, “shape”, “sample”.
It is made up of a different series of modules increasingly
more complicated.
The first step is the “flettrua”, a kind
of plait which is made with two pairs of bobbins, to
represent animals or flowers made with many pairs of
bobbins up to a maximum of 28 pairs for the “pupuatta” (a
doll).
The names of these modules are generally of dialect origin,
and derive from the different ways of working or they
have a fancy origin.
Proceding step by step, the pricking card gives the students
the basic fundamental elements on how to make the lace
according to a pattern printed on a card and then placed
on the pillow lace.
It represents the path which every expert lace maker
has taken in order to acquire a good technique to make
the pillow lace.
The term is being used to indicate the single pattern
or the module.
The different degrees of difficulty are as follows:
- The flettrua: a plait
made with two pairs of bobbins. It is the first and
easiest procedure which is in the pricking card;
- I diént d’i chiane (dog’s
teeth): a row of small triangles made up by
working the plait. It is the most elementary form
of lace.
- I pint pint: a procedure
made of many holes and a prelude to the small nets.
It can be found in many more complex modules where
this procedure called a pint is mentioned. The name
perhaps originates from paint or painted and it refers
to the lightness of the texture.
- I pint e lisci: it is
obtained by alternating the holes’ procedure
of the aforementioned pint pint with that of a smooth
and compact one. The smooth part denotes as it is
with the pint pint a kind of work which will later
be used with the other patterns, called liscio (smooth).
- Le cappiétte:
cross stitch.
- Le pescetèlle:
a row of small fish that represent the very first
graphic sign of the pricking card.
- Le mèse cambrucce:
(half rooms) a given pattern of a row of
holes separated and alternating from right to left
by a serpentine.
- Le crucétte: (small
crosses) model from which both the work and
the design begin to evolve towards new and more
complicated methods.
- Le chiuse ad otto: the
design that truly represents the figure 8.
- Le leschetélle:
(the small fish bones) a row of patterns
which recall the skeleton of the fish.
- I pezzuareìe ch’la scaluccia (small
lace with the stepladder) a lace which forms
a ladder by increasing and decreasing the number
of bobbins (20 pairs).
- I pezzuareìe ch’i ròte (small
lace with a pan pattern) the specialty of
this lace is given by a central presence of an
oval shaped element imitating that of a pan (roto=pan))
executed by a technique which involves the leaving
and taking of the bobbins. For this kind of work
21 pairs of bobbins are required.
- I pezzuaréi ch’la resvolta:
(small wavy lace) a pattern characterised
by half pan or lace with a smooth central alley with
a wavy effect. For this kind of work 21 pairs are
required.
- La retina: this kind
of work is similar to that of the tulle but the texture
is without doubt better.
- La retina ch’la resvolta:
a lace characterised by the presence of a net formed
by small cross stitches and by a central joint worked
smooth and originates from the use of six pairs of
bobbins from one side to the other. For this kind
of work 24 pairs of bobbins are required.
- La retina ch’i ròte:
a lace which originates from the combination of more
patterns: the ròte (an oval pattern with a
pan shape), the risvolta and the retina. By the central
alley 9 outer cross stitches are executed. The pan
is positioned at the centre of the net of cross stitches
using 9 pairs of bobbins. For this kind of work 26
pairs of bobbins are required.
- Le tre fernecèlle:
(the three small leaves) pricking card of
a particular difficulty which is used for introducing
the retrnata at different steps and the lacemaker
has to be able to read it on her own. The end result
is a three-small-leave figure. For this kind of work
24 pairs of bobbins are required.
- I girasòle: (the
sunflower) this lace represents a wavy alley
with a smooth centre that alternates at the sides
a series of 9 cross stitches and a set of interlace
called sunflower. For this kind of work 24 pairs
of bobbins are required.
- La giarra: a pattern
representing a jar.
- La giarra e la frasca:
(the jar and the branch) it is a different
interpretation of the three leaves which leads to
the formation of a branch with a central twist. For
this kind of work 28 pairs of bobbins are required.
- La passata d’i tammariéi:
(the passing of the bobbins) this name more
than recollecting a shape indicates a kind of technique.
The lace is formed with two distinctive modules:
the first one is given by four pans joined at the
centre and at the sides with cross stitches; the
second one is formed by a net called passata d’i
tammariéi – passing of the bobbins –.
For this kind of work 28 pairs of bobbins are required.
- La pupuatta: (the
doll) pattern formed by a veil net in the
centre of which, through a smooth work, a doll
is represented. It is one of the last and more
complex works using the pricking card. For this
kind of work 28 pairs of bobbins are required.
- La papara e la fònde:
(the duck and the fountain) a kind of lace
whose name springs from the subject portrayed by
it.
- I còre (the
heart): in this kind of lace smooth stitches
are worked in a cross stitch net forming a heart.
- I òme, la
femmene, la fònde (the
man, the woman, the fountain): the pattern
refers to a landscape having a man, a woman and
a fountain as its subjects.
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