Essay 2 by Margot Drayson https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv en-us 2021-03-04 13:32:30 UTC 2025-11-07 16:52:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272921620 2021-03-05 09:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272921620 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272927610 2021-03-05 09:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272927610 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272928756 2021-03-05 09:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272928756 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272931184 2021-03-05 09:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272931184 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272935504 2021-03-05 09:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272935504 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272936242 2021-03-05 09:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272936242 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272937784 2021-03-05 09:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272937784 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272958452 2021-03-05 09:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272958452 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272961877 2021-03-05 09:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272961877 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272962743 2021-03-05 09:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272962743 Object(s) Details 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272963856 Border, lace, bobbin lace, 18th to 19th century
From the Thomas Sandwith Collection.
de Chaves, Lila, Greek lace in the Victoria & Albert Museum / introduction by Despina Koutsika. Athens : Indiktos, 1999. 236

]]> 2021-03-05 09:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272963856 Ideas of investigation 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272979718
  • lace in Crete; Cretan lace in the 18th and 19th century
  • Cretan lace vs. Venetian lace
  • Cretan lace in relationship to the Ottoman Empire, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern fibre culture 
  • Labour, female labour, in the making of lace
  • Where did the lace, the flax come from? How was it produced?
  • Most interesting for me: the relationship between lace, these fragments, and the myths of the Greek Islands, and stories told around the origins of lace ~ these circle around maritime themes, aquatic symbols, thinking of fishing, fisherman and sailors and fishnets
    • ]]>     2021-03-05 09:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1272979718     Sources (primary sources?) 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1273011535 Archives:
    • Historical Archive of Crete at Hania 
    Institutions: 
    ]]>     2021-03-05 10:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1273011535     ‘Burano’s Lace-Making: An Honourable Craft’ by Sciama, Lidia 246157 https://padlet.com/246157/tu55fj03k525d5gv/wish/1273015129
  • ‘A twelve-year old girl provided the following version: “A young woman was standing by the sea. She was waiting for her lover to return and while she waited she saw that the seaweed had formed a beautiful woven pattern (un lavoro bellissimo) on the edge of the water. She liked the work very much, and when she returned home, she tried to copy it with some thread and a needle: she saw that it was coming out very nicely. She then taught other girls, and they all added something to it and they worked out new stitched”’
  • 'A boy told me the following, somewhat different, account: “One day some fishermen went off on a fishing expedition. They saw a rock and on the rock was a siren. All of them tied one another up on the mast of the boat except one who wanted to be faithful to the woman he was going to marry. The siren saw that he had been strong and she wanted to give him a gift. She struck the water with her tail, and she thus produced some foam. As the sea foam dried on the rock it formed a piece of lace. The sailor [fisherman?] then took it back and it served as a veil for his bride. It was very beautiful and all marriageable girls copied it.”’ p.179

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  • about how my research is going...how I came to these objects? 
  • possible topics to cover around these objects
  • theme of the ocean, maritime references: lace decoration, the location, the myths too around lace
  • focus on the individual look of these lace fragments: they do not resemble 18th or 19th centuries lace pieces from Italy or northern places; they seem embroidered, or closer to the aesthetics of embroidery
  • perhaps these are closer to the Balkans, Russian or Ottoman/Byzantine design? 
  • lace in Crete (Greece): was lace making much different in Crete and Greece to the lace making centers in Europe? Where did the fabric come from? Who was it for?
  • how much of the history of Greece & Greek mythology shaped references into the product but also process?
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