On display were some of the items made by members that have now been distributed to families caught up in the floods around Bundaberg
The challenge this year was to make a re-cycled bag from denim & lace. All entries were beautifully made - some had doilies and a couple had red lace which was a great contrast.
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| Viewers choice winning bag is on the left made by Margaret Grieves from Emu Park |
History
of DENIM
The
story of jeans begins in the city of Genoa,
in Italy,
famous for its cotton
corduroy.
Jean fabric from Genoa (at that time) was in fact very similar to
corduroy; Genoese sailors started to use it to cover and protect
their goods on the docks from the weather.
During
the Republic
of Genoa,
the jeans were exported by sailors of Genoa
throughout Europe. Gênes, the French word for Genoa,
may therefore be the origin of the word "jeans". In the
French city of Nimes, weavers tried to reproduce the fabric exactly,
but without success. However, with experimentation, and through trial
and error, they developed another twill fabric that became known as
denim, literally "de Nimes".
Only at the end of the nineteenth century did jeans arrive in the
United States.
Initially,
jeans were simply sturdy trousers worn by factory
workers.
During this period, men's jeans had the zipper down the front,
whereas women's jeans had the zipper down the left side. Fewer jeans
were made during the time of World War II, but 'waist overalls' were
introduced to the world by American soldiers, who sometimes wore them
when they were off duty. By the 1960s, both men's and women's jeans
had the zipper
down the front. Historic photographs indicate that in the decades
before they became a staple of fashion, jeans generally fit quite
loosely, much like a pair of bib
overalls
without the bib. Indeed, until 1960, Levi Strauss called its flagship
product "waist overalls" rather than "jeans".
Jeans
are pants
made from denim
or dungaree
cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style
of pants, called "blue jeans" and invented by Jacob
Davis
and Levi
Strauss
in 1873. Starting in the 1950s, jeans, originally designed for
cowboys, became popular among teenagers,
especially members of the greaser
subculture. Historic brands include Levi's,
Lee,
and Wrangler.
Jeans come in various fits, including skinny,
tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, Narrow bottom, Low waist, anti-fit
and flare.
The
jean brand "Levis" is named after the inventor, Levi
Strauss.
Dyeing
Traditionally,
jeans are dyed
to a blue
color using an indigo
dye.
Approximately 20 thousand tons of indigo are produced annually
for this purpose, though only a few grams of the dye are required for
each pair.[10]
Some other colors that can be achieved are pink, yellow, black, and
white.
Environmental
and humanitarian impact[edit]
A
typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its
life cycle (this includes the water to irrigate the cotton crop,
manufacture the jeans, and the numerous washes by the consumer).[13]
The
production of jeans with a "used look" can be more
environmentally damaging than regular jeans (depending on how the
waste compounds are processed). Sandblasting and treating with
sandpaper has the risk of causing silicosis
to the workers, and in Turkey,
more than 5,000 workers in the textile industry have been stricken
with this disease, and 46 people are known to have died. Some
companies have announced they are banning the use of
sandblasting.[14]
AND
LACE
Lace
is an openwork fabric,
patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand.[1]
The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a
previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as
part of the lace fabric. Lace-making
is an ancient craft. True lace was not made until the late 15th and
early 16th centuries. A true lace is created when a thread is looped,
twisted or braided to other threads independently from a backing
fabric.
Originally
linen,
silk,
gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton
thread, although linen and silk threads are still available.
Manufactured lace may be made of synthetic
fiber.
A few modern artists make lace with a fine copper or silver wire
instead of thread.
There
are many types of lace, classified by how they are made. These
include:
Needle
lace;
such as Venetian
Gros Point
is made using a needle and thread.
This is the most flexible of the lace-making arts. While some types
can be made more quickly than the finest of bobbin laces, others are
very time-consuming. Some purists regard needle lace as the height of
lace-making. The finest antique needle laces were made from a very
fine thread that is not manufactured today.
Cutwork,
or whitework;
lace constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the
remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery.
Bobbin
lace;
as the name suggests, made with bobbins and a pillow. The bobbins,
turned from wood, bone or plastic, hold threads which are woven
together and held in place with pins stuck in the pattern on the
pillow. The pillow contains straw, preferably oat
straw
or other materials such as sawdust, insulation styrofoam or ethafoam.
Also known as Bone-lace. Chantilly
lace
is a type of bobbin lace.
Tape
lace;
makes the tape in the lace as it is worked, or uses a machine- or
hand-made textile strip formed into a design, then joined and
embellished with needle or bobbin lace.
Knotted
lace;
including macramé
and tatting.
Tatted lace is made with a shuttle or a tatting needle.
Knitted
lace;
including Shetland
lace,
such as the "wedding ring shawl", a lace shawl so fine that
it can be pulled through a wedding ring.
Machine-made;
any style of lace created or replicated using mechanical means.
Chemical
lace;
The stitching area is stitched with embroidery threads that form a
continuous motif. Afterwards, the stitching areas are removed and
only the embroidery remains. The stitching ground is made of
water-soluble or non heat-resistant material.
Chantilly
Lace Alencon
Lace
Etymology
The
word lace is from Middle
English,
from Old
French
las, noose,
string,
from Vulgar Latin
*laceum,
from Latin laqueus,
noose;
probably akin to lacere,
to
entice,
ensnare.[1]
"Of
many Arts, one surpasses all. For the maiden seated at her
work flashes the smooth balls and thousand threads into the
circle, ... and from this, her amusement, makes as much profit as
a man earns by the sweat of his brow, and no maiden ever
complains, at even, of the length of the day. The issue is a
fine web, which feeds the pride of the whole globe; which
surrounds with its fine border cloaks and tuckers, and shows
grandly round the throats and hands of Kings."
-
Jacob Van Eyck,
1651.
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