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Participants perform a demonstration from 16:00 to 19:30 and finished work rolls show, needlepoint and other craft work, some of them made in the course of the charms of the Centro Cultural de Ceuta.
According to the instructor of that course, Barbanera Valero, was in ancient times and there are many types of lace, needlework, knotting, crochet and point, among others, but since the mid-sixteenth century, especially from the seventeenth century Bobbin lace is a tradition common to all Western countries and those who received the Western culture.
Thus we find handmade lace from Russia to Brazil.
On the origins of the bobbins is speculation about whether it was in Flanders, Italy and Spain.
What is clear is that the fashion of bobbin lace spread rapidly and its peak was in the fabulous collars and cuffs of the seventeenth century.
There is more to see the pictures DeVan Dyck and Velázquez to assess two different ways to use them, a starched at gunpoint and others with their natural fall.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth it was fashionable blankets were splendid lace, bobbin made also.
In Spain, until the 50's, it was customary to teach these skills to the girls in the schools, because it was considered essential in female education.
In general, learning is done in the home, inheriting the knowledge and patterns from mother to daughter.
Keep in mind that completion of both embroidery and lace was a usual activity was done in groups, assuming a place to meet and talk to women, who gathered in the street when the temperature allowed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Ceutí
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