{"id":8127,"date":"2016-04-19T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2016-04-19T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T04:26:24","slug":"macrame-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2016\/04\/19\/macrame-old-and-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Macram\u00e9 &#8211; old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was greeted by an email from Houzz in my inbox, in which it loudly proclaimed that macram\u00e9, the knotted craft that took the world by storm in the 70s and 80s, is making a comeback. &#8220;Hmm&#8230;&#8221; I thought to myself, &#8220;I wonder if they mean the large chunky stuff that people call macram\u00e9, or the fine, amazing stuff that is done in Italy?&#8221; You know the type I mean: pot planters, owl wall hangings with big fluffy eyes, other non-owl wall hangings, all usually in the palette of the day of yellows, oranges and browns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"hzroot3614297\" style=\"width:480px;text-align:center;font-size:12px;padding:0;border:0;margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:18px;margin-bottom:3px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houzz.com.au\/ideabooks\/65288914\/list\/its-knot-over-macrame-makes-a-comeback\">It&#8217;s Knot Over: Macram&eacute; Makes a Comeback<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;border:0;margin-bottom:3px;\"><iframe data-hzvt=\"MjAxNjA0MTg6MjM4Mzp2aWV3R2FsbGVyeQ==\" name=\"HouzzWidget5843\" id=\"HouzzWidget5843\" border=0 frameborder=\"0\" SCROLLING=NO style=\"border:0 none;width:480px;height:385px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com.au\/jsGalleryWidget\/gallery\/65288914\/\/new_window=yes\/title_on=yes\/width=480\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, they meant the large, chunky stuff. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/macrame-hanging-typo.jpg\" alt=\"macrame-hanging-typo\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8139\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/macrame-hanging-typo.jpg 600w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/macrame-hanging-typo-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/macrame-hanging-typo-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/macrame-hanging-typo-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>And as if to prove the point that macram\u00e9 is on trend, this morning while shopping with The Gymnast, I came across this macram\u00e9 wall hanging in one of the local &#8220;trendy, desirable&#8221; tween\/teen stationery\/accessory shops.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Jeanine at <a href=\"http:\/\/italian-needlework.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Italian Needlework blog<\/a>, has opened my eyes to what macram\u00e9 *can* be. If you head over to her website, you can see a <a href=\"http:\/\/italian-needlework.blogspot.com.au\/search\/label\/Macram\u00e9\" target=\"_blank\">selection of posts<\/a> dealing with Italian style macram\u00e9 and a style of lace called Margarete lace (also known as Margaretenspitze, as the creator, Margarete Naumann, was German), which is a derivative of macram\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8135\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8135\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MacrameChiavari-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Used by permission of Jeanine from Italian Needlework blog\" width=\"597\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MacrameChiavari-3-1.jpg 747w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MacrameChiavari-3-1-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MacrameChiavari-3-1-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MacrameChiavari-3-1-400x535.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Used by permission of Jeanine from <a href=http:\/\/www.italian-needlework.blogspot.com>Italian Needlework blog<\/a><\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThis is a hand towel with macram\u00e9 edging. Jeanine has more information about this particular example of macram\u00e9 on her <a href=\"http:\/\/italian-needlework.blogspot.com.au\/2015\/10\/macrame-from-chiavari.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanine also shared with me a list of websites of Italians working macram\u00e9. Thanks Jeanine!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artedelmacrame.it\/gallery.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.artedelmacrame.it\/gallery.php<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adriana.lazzari\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adriana.lazzari<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/macramepatrizia.paris\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/macramepatrizia.paris<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laura.demelas.3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laura.demelas.3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/macramemodena.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/macramemodena.blogspot.ca\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilmiomacrame.com\/galleria\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ilmiomacrame.com\/galleria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, now that you know what macram\u00e9 can be like, you can stop thinking about it with the same preconceived notions as I have had since the 70s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was greeted by an email from Houzz in my inbox, in which it loudly proclaimed that macram\u00e9, the knotted craft that took the world by storm in the 70s and 80s, is making a comeback. &#8220;Hmm&#8230;&#8221; I thought to myself, &#8220;I wonder if they mean the large chunky stuff that people call [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introducing","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}