Sunday Snippets: A Lace Star from the Witches of Fawsetwood
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Background: Alain in Witches of Fawsetwood loves Elspet. That is no secret. As they enter their teens, which in their time is to say early man and womanhood, he grows impatient with her failure to return his love. He seeks a love token to give her, something by which he can declare his intentions. After looking through his own treasures he finds nothing that speaks his heart plainly enough so he goes to Elaine, a grandmother of the Fawsetwood community and asks her for a lace star or rose if she has one made. She does but needs to seek permission to pass it to Alain since she had made it for Katrin, her daughter by law who had passed years before. Finally, he has it in hand. This is the moment he waited for. Certainly, this gift would open her heart. It is a starched, white linen pentacle or star surrounded and marked with delicate cutouts, each side of which was bound by careful stitching to close the raw edges. Medieval lace is a lattice work of cutwork bound with thread. Some use multiple color stitching, but this one is white on white. Elaine has charged it for Elspet’s hand. Here’s how Alain tells it.
Sunday Snippets: A Lace Star from the Witches of Fawsetwood
Sunday Snippets: A Lace Star from the Witches…
Sunday Snippets: A Lace Star from the Witches of Fawsetwood
Background: Alain in Witches of Fawsetwood loves Elspet. That is no secret. As they enter their teens, which in their time is to say early man and womanhood, he grows impatient with her failure to return his love. He seeks a love token to give her, something by which he can declare his intentions. After looking through his own treasures he finds nothing that speaks his heart plainly enough so he goes to Elaine, a grandmother of the Fawsetwood community and asks her for a lace star or rose if she has one made. She does but needs to seek permission to pass it to Alain since she had made it for Katrin, her daughter by law who had passed years before. Finally, he has it in hand. This is the moment he waited for. Certainly, this gift would open her heart. It is a starched, white linen pentacle or star surrounded and marked with delicate cutouts, each side of which was bound by careful stitching to close the raw edges. Medieval lace is a lattice work of cutwork bound with thread. Some use multiple color stitching, but this one is white on white. Elaine has charged it for Elspet’s hand. Here’s how Alain tells it.