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We have no authentic record concerning the existence of "Witch Stitch
Lace" until the second half of the Nineteenth Century. It can be said
indeed that this lace is related with ancient numerical laces coming from
East and South of Europe:Slovenian, Creta, Genoes, old Milanese .
About 1920 a lace maker called Mrs. Candida Garcia taught to noble
ladies of Sevilla this type of lace, which they worked as well as lace,
embroideries as a pastime, and their handiwork came into use for priestly
robes, household linen or religious purposes.
It exists the evidence that they worked Duchesse and Brugge laces too,
though the most common and popular was Encaje de Hinojosa, also called
Witch Stitch, its nickname.
Mrs. Garcia drew her own designs over green cards and, to give the
pricking a more hardness and duration, stuck a linen on the back.
Witch Stitch Lace is usually made with 10 or 12 pairs of bobbins. Designs
had not fillings since the braids touch one to another producing a moving
sense and changing so many times as needed to fill all spaces (unlimited
and continuous moving). There are no dots drawn on the pattern, so the
worker has to be a skilled lacemaker.
Moving braids, worked with clothstitch, halfstitch and some transparent
points, compose the pattern, with a final result of great plasticity to the
finished work. The braids carry foot on edges and picots in the heading.
They are worked from fine threads, on a cylindrical short pillow 50 x 25
cm. set up on the lap.
The knowledge of Mrs. Garcia spread on to Extremadura, there, these
laces were taught to girls at school and the craft pass from mothers to
daughters until the 60's.
A lace workshop was set up and the young girls learnt and worked. Soon
their laces were sent to sell to Barcelona and Madrid. Their earnings
(some coins) were saved every week for their future household linen and
their trousseau.
From 60's lacemaking declined and its practice stopped, though lately it
has not been completely lost, and I consider myself a lucky person as in
2002, I was teached by Mrs. Josefa Jimenez, (82 years old). A
marvellous lady with a great experience as she has been making lace
since it was a child. She showed me her first lace as well as her first
design too, that she had been keeping all her life and she made when she
was 11 years old.
I am now on the way to follow the thread and continue spreading her
knowledge.
We can say that this lace is known since de last century but it keeps the
most ancient techniques.
Lace" until the second half of the Nineteenth Century. It can be said
indeed that this lace is related with ancient numerical laces coming from
East and South of Europe:Slovenian, Creta, Genoes, old Milanese .
About 1920 a lace maker called Mrs. Candida Garcia taught to noble
ladies of Sevilla this type of lace, which they worked as well as lace,
embroideries as a pastime, and their handiwork came into use for priestly
robes, household linen or religious purposes.
It exists the evidence that they worked Duchesse and Brugge laces too,
though the most common and popular was Encaje de Hinojosa, also called
Witch Stitch, its nickname.
Mrs. Garcia drew her own designs over green cards and, to give the
pricking a more hardness and duration, stuck a linen on the back.
Witch Stitch Lace is usually made with 10 or 12 pairs of bobbins. Designs
had not fillings since the braids touch one to another producing a moving
sense and changing so many times as needed to fill all spaces (unlimited
and continuous moving). There are no dots drawn on the pattern, so the
worker has to be a skilled lacemaker.
Moving braids, worked with clothstitch, halfstitch and some transparent
points, compose the pattern, with a final result of great plasticity to the
finished work. The braids carry foot on edges and picots in the heading.
They are worked from fine threads, on a cylindrical short pillow 50 x 25
cm. set up on the lap.
The knowledge of Mrs. Garcia spread on to Extremadura, there, these
laces were taught to girls at school and the craft pass from mothers to
daughters until the 60's.
A lace workshop was set up and the young girls learnt and worked. Soon
their laces were sent to sell to Barcelona and Madrid. Their earnings
(some coins) were saved every week for their future household linen and
their trousseau.
From 60's lacemaking declined and its practice stopped, though lately it
has not been completely lost, and I consider myself a lucky person as in
2002, I was teached by Mrs. Josefa Jimenez, (82 years old). A
marvellous lady with a great experience as she has been making lace
since it was a child. She showed me her first lace as well as her first
design too, that she had been keeping all her life and she made when she
was 11 years old.
I am now on the way to follow the thread and continue spreading her
knowledge.
We can say that this lace is known since de last century but it keeps the
most ancient techniques.
"Witch Stitch Lace"/Encaje de Hinojosa
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