Ortolan Pie
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First-person article by lace artist Aurelia Loveman describing how she designed and worked a needle lace fan leaf, "Ortolan Pie," for a set of painted ivory fan sticks. She traces the design of a crouching fire bird adapted from a Utamaro bird book, and explains the stitches used: knotted double buttonhole, cloth stitch, Alen\u00e7on mesh, the "Les Venises" band, and a festoon-stitch ground with a running-stitch armature that she claims as her own invention. Illustrated with photographs of the finished lace and details; includes a short bibliography and author note.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- March 1989
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
- Archive notes
- By permission. Incomplete. Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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