You can't convince me that Professor Hutton isn't a wizard who knows about all of this folklore because he was there to experience it. I'm pretty sure they don't even invite him, he just shows up during the holidays, gives them information, and then disappears in a cloud of smoke.
@@michaelgartly3753 well I had heard of Mickelmas before so I know he's not making that one up. And it makes sense with the agricultural calendar. The Harvest Queen thing seems pretty plausible to. Pretty much every society has their own version of it. And when you remember that courting or telling someone that you were interested in them was a lot harder back then, it seems the sort of thing that would be done to give an eligible girl the chance to chat up a boy, she was interested in.
My mother has made and taught lace making for as long as i can remember, and i'm 51. She was taught by her grandfather. There were five children in our family and we were all taught lace making, net making, knitting, sewing and so many other things. My mothers hands are never still and she still does the same today having passed on her secrets to thousands of students over the years.
That's fascinating. I've never thought about it but it would be cool to know how to do. Your mom sounds like she could make an appearance on shows like this as one of their experts.
Kangaroo Funo you can make money by selling it, yes. Machine lace isn’t as beautiful. Really, lace making is an art, like painting. As such, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and people pay based on that. Back in the day, lace was sold by the foot - mostly it was used for trim for garments or for home deco. Today you still see lace curtains but they are machine made. Not intricate compared to what the hand can make. For the lucky families, they will have the lace netting their ancestors made a century or more ago. With careful attention to caring for the fabric, it can last and be enjoyed by generations.
Ruth is so smart! She's like the kid in class who knows the answer to every question and is excited to share what she's learned with everyone. She's precious!
One of the best days of my life was our trip to Morwellham Quay, meeting Rick and Steve. When I mentioned the song they sing he said it was the only mining song that was rated g that they could sing for the show. Great time.
Most of the work related songs that are in these series were not G rated. Some have been cleaned up and some took a lot of research to find for use on camera.
I'm from Dayton Ohio. I'm a vet. i have done farming as well. but I must say all three person on these episodes are fantastically charismatic. they really draw you in with there optimistic attitudes I love these shows. well done!
Omg when they started "A mining we will go" I started to tear up. My grand dad use to sing this when we were shoveling coal. The first verse and the refrain are the same but after it was different still. Oh Gods my heart just broke a little. Also when they didn't toss the crust to the knockers I had a gut reaction of fear.
Each one of these craftsman is so passionate about the history of their craft I love it. My family is 5 generations of Carpenter's and love the history of the trade.
My grandfather was a master carpenter, born in 1892. His only son was killed in WW2. I once asked granddad to teach me carpentry, but he said only boys learn carpentry. If I'd been a boy he would have taught me. I think not only of the skills I missed, but the time we would have spent together. What a stupid stereotype!
A Christmas church service touting the evil of drink, preceded by a stint at the pub, and followed by sloe gin at Christmas dinner. Don't think the message was strong enough LOL
When I was young (1950s), we had lace curtains in the house. Once a year in the summer, mother would wash them. Then they were taken wet out into the yard to be stretched on frames and left to dry in the sun to bleach them white.
I remember that too. The curtain stretchers were kept in the basement when not used. I was very young, and never asked what the curtains were made of. This was in 1947 to 1950.
Ithaca Comments who had the nasty job of setting up,the frames? My grandmother’s frames consisted of slats with sharp little nails sticking up to hold the lace.
One reason girls had to work so long at lace at such young ages is the lacemakers themselves were actually paid incredibly low for their work by the tailors and dressmakers who bought it. It was those professionals who jacked the prices up so high reselling to their wealthy clients. It was so common for lacemakers to be paid crap that there was even a "romantic image" sort of line in a poem about how a lacemaker would work long hours and go to sleep with her pocket light but her heart full. (One might suspect they would have preferred a heavy pocket and full stomach to go to sleep....just saying...)
That is sadly the way all business of handmade trade works... One exeption to the rule was when the transatlantic steamers like the White Star Liners took on the last passengers before crossing the Atlantic. Lace makers and jewellers in "Queenstown", were allowed onboard to sell things like lace shawls, costing about £ 200 a piece. But they had to "tip" the chief officer before leaving the ship. J.J.Astor bought such a gift for his young pregnant wife Madeleine, onboard the Titanic.
Yes , it doesn't matter if it was Edwardian lace then , or a new car now the middle men always pocket the most off the top and the first to claim they don't know why the price is so high
Another reason is if you didnt have full yards of lace to sell,that unfinished yard stayed on your pillow and you didnt get payed for it until next week!
@Santina Murphy Just curious. Is it me you're adressing as "Tinkerbell" ?? 😁 Anyway. You're probably living under a lot of fear and stress these days. Due to the global virus situation. Don't take it out on others though. It simply won't improve matters. Try to stay levelheaded. Make sure you protect yourself as best you can. We'll get through this ordeal. 💖
I would love to have an episode of each series that’s just Ruth going through any and all women’s crafts and jobs of said period. She gotten me so interested in by gone domestic everyday life.
Kim Parker She is totally willing to engage in whatever the task, even prepping the outdoor loo! Or cooking a sheep’s head or eviscerating ... anything.
I get that they had to stuff a lot into an hour, but I do wish they had spent a little more time on the lace making. There is so much more detail I would have liked to see them mention. Honiton is one of the finer laces - some of the threads used are as fine as a human hair. How it is essentially the crosses and twists, but how those two are combined can make incredible and elaborate designs. How the patterns are prepared, how ... And I start to babble again. I suppose what I am saying/suggesting/hinting-with-all-the-subtlety-of-an-Acme-anvil, is that I would like to see more of some of textile arts throughout history, with fine detail and how they have evolved and changed over time.
I know of a village in Brazil where they make those laces (the super fine ones) called "Renda de bilro" You won't find tutorials but if you just wanna see it you can find lots
While I agree with you this video videos on the absolute History Channel or whatever this show is called are heavily edited versions of the BBC show that you can find online and each of them are like Tudor Farms Civil War farm others in actuality they did spend a good portion more time on the lace making it's that just a lot of people don't find that interesting and so this UA-cam channel did edit it quite a bit
Oh, lacemaking - I love that! about as fast as faceting, and you get a much larger project in the end. These crafts are not for those who fear tedium! Fortunately, I hear boredom, not tedium - tedium can be quite satisfying when you are following a complex pattern that requires great attention to detail. Love it!
There is something hypnotic and satisfying in repetitive activities. People always ask me why I love lace knitting and knife sharpening. They find it confusing that I love both as one is typically associated with feminine things and the other with masculine things. Both can get you in a flow, in a rhythm. They keep one part of the mind occupied whilst leaving another free to wander. Both force you to let the day’s worries behind (or you’ll mess up your pattern/blade) but allow you to ponder on other things, have a conversation, or listen to music. They’re therapy with a reward at the end.
That lace making technique is called knyppling in Sweden, but here they use a different sort of pillow, like a roll for straight length of lace. There is a rythem to making it, people that play drums have an easier time learning it.
There are dozens of different lace making techniques around the world. My mother and I were lucky enough to learn the basics of lace making when my father was stationed in England when I was eighteen. (Go off to college, when I'm not sure what I want to do with my life yet [so many choices], or go to England, where I can pick up even more random skills? Tough call.) The type we first learned was called Torchon, also known as Beggar's Lace. Good starting place, as the bobbins were of a style that didn't roll as easily as the tiny Honiton, or the larger but still roll around a lot Bruges lace that I later made a single medallion in that style, just to prove to myself that I could. In addition to the traditional round pillows that we were taught on, which, just to confuse people more, come in different sizes for different types of lace, we learned about the full bolster pillows (which sounds like what you might be talking about), as well as smaller bolsters set into the round ones, and a modern variant that was round on the sides, but down the center had removable blocks that could be moved as the the pattern was extended or repeated, or the center block swapped for a roll. And just in the last year or so I found on that wonderful/terrible rabbit-hole known as Pinterest, what I believe is a Russian style of lace pillow, with a sort of trapezoid base. Ummm... sorry about the info dump there. Can you tell why I clicked on this video? =grin=
@@PhoenyxAshe You can always do your core stuff first. The things everyone has to take. Don't just take time off for no reason. Trust the older people on that. It's way harder later, and time runs away from you as you get older in ways you don't have the ability to understand now. You could fall in love and have kids, then wake up one day and 20-30 years are gone. Be careful to always have your own money nobody knows about. More is better. Be plenty skilled enough to always be able to take care of yourself. Smart thing to do is not push the education and skills you do have. A lot of guys don't like it if a woman is a lot smarter or skilled than he is. To this day. Be careful that what you choose is going to support you. Always demand your worth. They'll try to scam you when you're female. Never give a grown man any money. And never let him think you have any. This is why God made banks. Anyone who can't get a loan from a bank is a bad idea to even be near. If you own something and get married, keep that money to yourself. I know women who got scammed out of their own cash. Keep it way over there, that nobody knows about minus your parents and such. That way, you can always walk if you want/need to. Some people start out all right and get nasty and vindictive later. Just keep yours over there. Lots of horror stories about that, easily findable online. Just make sure you can get and keep a good paying job. This could lead you into other issues, like bias because you did too well. Read, "They never asked me about the girls." Lisa Robinson, music journalist. Lots of very rich women say they have issues with men. None said they would trade it. These days, you probably don't want/need marriage, unless you run across the one who wants to take care of you. Otherwise, it's a trap for women. Do background checks, and if you see a lot of unstable employment or anything like not paying child support or wife beating--RUN. She's not "crazy." You can print this and look back years later and see how we were right. Experience is most expensive to buy on your own. But you don't have to. Older people hand it to you for free :) Also, be able to defend yourself at all times. If you're grabbed by the hand, twist toward their thumb. Stay sober. You can still have fun. Never leave your drink unattended. Keep it way away from anyone that might dose it. Grown men i know have been dosed. I used to put mine in a thermos.
Just for the record, all the first drummers were female. See Layne Redmond's, "When the Drummers were Women." She was also a very adept hand drummer. She researched it 15 years.
Would like an entire episode on the lace industry, as opposed to just 5 minutes. Fascinating about how lace had to be worked into the curriculum to allow girls to go to school.
This channel re titles and re-uploads the episode every couple of months. It is originally made by BBC if you want to try and find the archived websites for it that have more details
American here in Illinois. Love this program. Just had pasti this past weekend. My girlfriend’s grandmother was married to a Welsh- American. I can’t wait to tell her we have to throw the crust to the knockers. 😆
Re: pasties - the story is that for Cornish miners, their wives made a small pocket in one corner which they filled with jam. Another source I read said that this was what newly wed brides did to show their love - but that story did not say whether or not this continued in later days of the marriage. Apparently, the jam pocket was proof of love!
When i hear "widow makers" i think of the heavy branches broken off and sitting high in the trees and every strong storm they would fall and make a nother widow, it was folk lore but also happened before too.
Beginning 1900 s My grandmother and her sisters worked in lace factory in derby England. After ww1 she met married grandpa they came to Canada because he didn't want to go back to coal mines, and she was not interested in more years making lace.
@@blabla-rg7ky Grandpa worked for a large dairy in the city of Toronto. My grandmother raised 6 kids, and did street sweeping, finally able to do catering for Legion events.
Knockers are a type of fay that can actually be vary friendly to humans, it was a good idea to keep them happy because if there was going to be a cave in if they liked you they would let you know by knocking against the stone of they didn't like you they might trip you and cause your light to go out, or steal your tools
As a Canadian, the phrase 'the worst of winter will be over by Feb 2' made me laugh. For where I live, the '6 more weeks of winter' of groundhog day IS an early spring. If we are unlucky, we have snow on the ground 12 weeks after Feb 2.
Having lived all my life in the US Northeast, I was stunned to see bright green grass and leaves on so many plants in what the narrators were calling a hard winter. Even now with climate change dramatically shrinking the amount and longevity of the snow on the ground here in western New Hampshire, the winter color palette is mostly brown when it isn't white; we don't see bright green on anything but conifers until late April, early May on average.
@@dbseamz Minnesota here, and much the same. It varies from year to year, though. This past winter was easy, but some years we have snow from Halloween until Easter or later.
The “knockers” might have been falling stones and mixed with superstition and fear of collapse and the knockers so feeding the crust of the pasties might be a form of a good luck charm against tunnel collapse
I can remember my Mom stretching lace curtains after she washed them. It was some sort of wooden frame with lg. pins or tiny nails all around the edges. Not sure what exactly was done, but the idea was it kept the curtains "square" as it dried. Also used with lace doilies, dresser scarves, etc. This was in the early 50s.
For some added information, quartz is mainly composed of free silica or silica not bonded to much of anything. When that is powdered and suspended into the air it can be breathed, and free silica has the insidious habit of bonding to the lung tissue for life, inevitably shortening it dramatically. This is a hazard for pretty much any profession that deals with rock dust or fine sand like pottery and glass. The best defense is water since it wont suspend in the air if wet, and keeping your workspace clean of course.
Yep, friend of mine's dad died in his late 50s of emphysema. Didn't smoke one cigarette in his life, it was all from mining in the 60s and 70s. It was painful to see a once-powerful man barely able to hobble 5 metres between the back door and his work shed in the yard in his final years.
"Wherever there's a hole in the ground, You'll find a Cornishman at the bottom of it." As an American with mining ancestors, most were coal miners, I've heard a variations of that saying before. It also reminds me of being too terrified to sleep because my Grandpa would scare me with stories of Rawhide and bloody bones.
I'm from Italy and here still exist candlemass. In my regional dyalect (Umbria) it's called Candelora. "'Madonna della Candelora, dell'inverno sèmo fòra, ma se piove o tira ventu,| de l'inverno semo ancora dentru'' --> "Madonna of the Candlemas | we are out of winter | but if it rains or blows wind, | in the winter we are still in. ''
This is the episode where it all came together for me. My father grew up in an Arizona mining town. My grandfather had an employee from Cornwall (Dad says the man was the smartest individual he’s ever met.). I, myself, have taken lessons in bobbin lace, and all I learned is that someone with lace experience can untie a knotted shoelace like nobody’s business!
True. I live pretty close to Bruges, where you can still follow bobbin lace classes and you’ll even find youth centres offering classes. A friend of mine learned as a teenager and still does it as a hobby. She can untie the most complex knots within seconds. When asked how she does it she replies “Well, it’s just a matter of following the thread to where it comes from.”
My great grandfather used to have a general shop - a bit on the affluent side - in a small town near a major port in Greece. He died while on a merchant trip to said port, but when he died (late 1930s), my great grandmother and her children (grandmother included) went on selling the leftover stock for years, until the war came. After the Italians came, they went to extreme lengths to hide the STILL remaining stock they had in great chests so that it would not get stollen. Well, long story short, the most valuable items left, were those that the normal could not afford. After almost 90 years, my mother reopened the chests that had been forgotten and found beautiful lace, made of actual silver and actual gold metal made into fine strands and yarn, handmade and imported from Venice, Italy around the turn of the century apparently. The fabric was then used to make a period costume (quite the cultural thing in my city) from the 19th century using precious fabrics. It is one of the most extravagant things my family has.
I’ve been marathon watching every series and episode that these 3 have been presenters for over the years. Now watched hours over holiday week. Calming and educational. I’d seen several years ago the building a mid-evil castle series and did not enjoy near as much as the Victorian, Edwardian, and WWII series with these 3.
You may well have called this segment Edwardian Mining. There was too, too little on the lace making. Where did the linen thread come from? Was flax grown locally? Was the thread hand spun or machine made? How were the lace pillows made? Were the bobbins spangle-weighted? How were the bobbins wound? I saw a bobbin winder on the window sill, were these types still in use? They were mainly used to wind bobbins for loom shuttles. MORE RUTH!
It was also surprising, he said first time they'd pulled a plow. Some horses would only learn one or two skills and rebelled at doing anymore. Under saddle, a carriage, a plow, a wagon, pull a rock or tree stump out of the ground, race, whatever. The 1st American Morgan horse, born late 1700's, was willing to learn any skill. Morgans enjoy pleasing humans.
This is amazing. I Love it. Sad that the lace industry was so easily undermined. They worked hard for their money. And those men. WOW!!! I think I'd want to stick to the farm. But you couldn't always. The era was so industrious and they were very intelligent about the ways they could supplement their income. Nothing goes to waste when it all works well. Excellent Video.
This episode is 100% more focused on the scary and fascinating underground mining, yet, it's titled Ruth makes lace, lol. That's called burying the lede, guys. :D
I wish this had been more about the lace. The mining stuff in these videos always makes me so nervous lol. Just remembering how many people died mining and how deadly it was i'm just waiting for them to get seriously hurt and it's scary. Same with all these old rusty metal objects in their bare hands...Everything else is so calming and then that stuff.
It's funny, I'm from Michigan where we had a lot of copper mines and a lot of Cornish and Welsh immigrants, so hearing you toss the crusts to the knockers is something I grew up with. Along with pasties. Of course my great grandpa was welsh and his wife's family ran a copper mine in Michigan's upper peninsula.
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Words of praise have yet been invented to apply to this magnificent series.......I love the trio, I live with the trio, and am learning so much.......
I love this series, and all the other series in which we see our beloved Ruth, but I can't say I love the way these videos have been re-labeled since they've been absorbed by the Absolute History franchise. It would be much easier if the series and the episode number were made much, much more clear in the UA-cam title.
I remember about 2012 or so. Snowed so bad, people got stranded on Lake Shore Drive. Wound up being 3 feet or so of snow. And very cold. The nice park you see in the summer, could kill you in winter to walk back to civilization (cold and blinding snow).
Minnesota here, and same. It's February in one of the plowing scenes, and I'm wondering where the foot and a half of frost is, and the feet of snow on top. I suppose it's all relative really. One thing about being an island is that the climate is somewhat blunted on both ends. Their latitude is roughly the same as ours, but temperatures are moderated by the ocean. It's lake-effect on a much larger scale.
My 5 great-grand uncles on my mother's side were Tonkins from Cornwall tin mining. They were some that went out to America to the Californian gold fields, one even tried the Yukon. But they all transshipped to South Africa's gold fields, and then moved to South Australia and then to Bendigo gold fields, where 1 died down a mine and 1 moved to Sydney as a Superintendent of the Railways. The other 3 went on to New Zealand and our Westcoast fields, near Blackball, Charleston Port. where 1 married and settled, the remaining 2 went to the Otago gold fields where 1 became a field overseer and 1 became the Superintendent of New Zealand Railways in Christchurch in charge of the South Island network. North and South Island networks were independent back then with no sea link as now. The Otago gold field overseer based in Dunedin, was my great-grandfather. His son, my grandfather, became a Railway Ganger in charge of a maintenance team in the back blocks of Otago (on the Queenstown line) where he and his wife settled in a 2-room Railway cottage, had 13 children (in a 2-room cottage) who top and tailed in a large bed, in a very rugged part of New Zealand that has deep snow for 4 months of the year. The toilet was a dry long drop outside, and bath night (once a week) was in a galvanised bath in front of the coal range fire in the kitchen room. Very resourceful family, and tough as nails.
I've been a collector since almost forever and one day while going through a pile of garbage somebody threw out of their attic I came up with three giant plastic bags big garbage bags full of lace and it wasn't just lace that was machine made some of this stuff from what I've been told was two and even older two three hundred years old and one day someone came and took all of the lace from one of my storage buildings and to this day I try not to think of how much beauty and maybe even money was in that collection I never even had time to go through all of it all I knew is that some of it was ancient and gorgeous
I have heard that because the tin miners couldnt wash their hands the crusts on the pasties had tin dust on them ane it was poisonous. Therefore the crusts were thrown away.
I knit lace. It's a pain, but worth seeing the finished product. What they're doing here is called bobbin lace. Some lacemakers can have over 100 bobbins going for a single piece. It's insane and glorious to watch!
@@eddavanleemputten9232 ugh, mohair is atrocious to work with, but I love the finished result. Cotton crochet thread is amazing for lifelines. Slides right out!
@@jacquelynsmith2351 - Cotton makes the best lifeline. For stitch markers on very fine work I use little jewellery rings, they don’t snag on the fine thread and don’t get in the way when holding your knitting needles. Mohair is atrocious when you have to knit back but the end result is absolutely gorgeous. Whenever I can I use a mohair and silk blend, it’s so much better than the cheaper alternative of mohair and polyester. For my best pieces I do save up and splurge on blends with silk and alpaca. What I like most about lace knitting is that compared to ‘normal’ knitting, it’s very light. Your arms and shoulders don’t cramp up like they would knitting a sweater or an afghan throw of regular weight yarn. And it’s fun when people exclaim “YOU made that?!!?!??”
@@eddavanleemputten9232 yes! I love wearing Diamonds of Eos from Kristi Holaas, but I'm working on the Princess Shawl from Sharon Miller in cobweb wool
@@jacquelynsmith2351 - Both gorgeous pieces! 😍 I’ve recently finished Madli’s Shawl from Nancy Bush’s book Knitted Lace of Estonia, then did Emily Ross’s Haruni Shawl because I wanted something that would start off rather mindless, but did more repeats because I was using cobweb weight yarn (I think that’s what it’s called, I’m not a native English speaker). Now I’m eyeing Nancy Bush’s Queen Sylvia’s Shawl but I have to finish what I’m working on first: a simple rectangular shawl my daughter wanted with a lilac leaf pattern and a simple edge she chose. Only a few more rows to go!
1:48 in and Really wishing they would PLEASE put episode numbers on these series. Love the content but I'd like to be able to start from the beginning and binge my way though.
I can see how the horses would also provide natural fertilizer while plowing, so it would be an additional incentive not to modernize and use the tractor. As they say, "If it ain't broke..."
I am genuinely interested to see if the wassail works. I've heard about it here in the states but mostly for caring for small gardens so I am intrigued to see if it works on an orchard!
There was actually a recent study that reported that plants grow better in the presence of rhythmic music The vibrations produced from the sound waves somehow produces movements in plant cells and stimulate growth and production
@@Max-iv8pp there's also been an experiment done by the Myth Busters some many years ago where one of the members would play relaxing music to the plants for a determined period of time (I apologize that I don't remember all of the details), while another member of the MB's team would play heavy metal music for the same length of time, and at the end of the cycle the plants who had "listened to" relaxing music had been more beautiful (the same type of plant, obviously). And that's only for the fun of it, but there have been REAL science experiments in which had been proved that all plants are influenced by human's behavior, emotions and/or thoughts. We, humans, have telepathic connections to all lifeforms (other people, animals, and plants) and each of these lifeforms react in one way or another to our various behaviors, emotions and thoughts to them. This is actually proven and 100% accurate, but don't ask me for a link or proof cause I have none. I just remember to have watched a documentary on this topic sometimes in the 90s when I used to watch a lot of Discovery Channel / National Geographic / Animal Planet on TV in mid 90s to late 2000s.
BS You would run away after the first day. If you can't find yourself in this easy life you wouldn't last in that time too. That time was all about very hard labour, no modern day comfort and no social justice at all.
Yes it takes practice to make lace but I've been doing it for less than a year and it really isn't that hard if you start with Torchon lace get comfortable with larger thread before moving to the thin stuff.
I ADORE this show SOOO MUCH! I would be JUST LIKE RUTH if i could live in any era pre 1950 for a year.(but live LIKE it like they do...so in modern times...without disease on every corner. Sadly i would be dead had i been born in any other era before 1950s most likely...because i had cancer as a child and almost died in 1993.) The men of this show are EXTREMELY attractive as well. Both of them i love their attitudes, personalities, and passion. To be a historian is a dream of mine that shall probably nvr happen...more a fashion historian, but i also love all things history related, ESPECIALLY Medieval, 1800s, and 1900-1949. So i shall stay a novice historian. THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOW! AND I DO HOPE YOU MAKE MORE SHOWS LIKE THIS! EVEN IF ITS IN DIFFERENT ERAS! BECAUSE HISTORY IS AMAZING!!!
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You can't convince me that Professor Hutton isn't a wizard who knows about all of this folklore because he was there to experience it. I'm pretty sure they don't even invite him, he just shows up during the holidays, gives them information, and then disappears in a cloud of smoke.
He does seem like something straight out of the Harry Potter movie doesn't he
@@angelwhispers2060 I reckon he just makes it up on the fly.
That's what they do in Devon to bambozzle the Grock's.
@@michaelgartly3753 well I had heard of Mickelmas before so I know he's not making that one up. And it makes sense with the agricultural calendar.
The Harvest Queen thing seems pretty plausible to. Pretty much every society has their own version of it. And when you remember that courting or telling someone that you were interested in them was a lot harder back then, it seems the sort of thing that would be done to give an eligible girl the chance to chat up a boy, she was interested in.
LOL Wassail!
My mother has made and taught lace making for as long as i can remember, and i'm 51. She was taught by her grandfather. There were five children in our family and we were all taught lace making, net making, knitting, sewing and so many other things. My mothers hands are never still and she still does the same today having passed on her secrets to thousands of students over the years.
That's pretty amazing. I always wished to know lace making.
That's fascinating. I've never thought about it but it would be cool to know how to do. Your mom sounds like she could make an appearance on shows like this as one of their experts.
Is lace making practical?
Kangaroo Funo you can make money by selling it, yes. Machine lace isn’t as beautiful. Really, lace making is an art, like painting. As such, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and people pay based on that. Back in the day, lace was sold by the foot - mostly it was used for trim for garments or for home deco. Today you still see lace curtains but they are machine made. Not intricate compared to what the hand can make. For the lucky families, they will have the lace netting their ancestors made a century or more ago. With careful attention to caring for the fabric, it can last and be enjoyed by generations.
How wonderful. Please thank her from me for keeping that skill alive
Ruth is so smart! She's like the kid in class who knows the answer to every question and is excited to share what she's learned with everyone. She's precious!
One of the best days of my life was our trip to Morwellham Quay, meeting Rick and Steve. When I mentioned the song they sing he said it was the only mining song that was rated g that they could sing for the show. Great time.
Most of the work related songs that are in these series were not G rated. Some have been cleaned up and some took a lot of research to find for use on camera.
@@deaniej2766 Yep that is what Rick said.
What's the problem with the other songs?
@@AngelaMerici12 too racy to sing on tv.
I'm from Dayton Ohio. I'm a vet. i have done farming as well. but I must say all three person on these episodes are fantastically charismatic. they really draw you in with there optimistic attitudes I love these shows. well done!
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We lived in Fairborn while my dad was at WPAFB; I have some great memories of living up there as a kid.
Omg when they started "A mining we will go" I started to tear up. My grand dad use to sing this when we were shoveling coal. The first verse and the refrain are the same but after it was different still. Oh Gods my heart just broke a little. Also when they didn't toss the crust to the knockers I had a gut reaction of fear.
Right, you don't disrespect the fae folk
Each one of these craftsman is so passionate about the history of their craft I love it. My family is 5 generations of Carpenter's and love the history of the trade.
As evidenced by the responses, their passion incite our passions.
My grandfather was a master carpenter, born in 1892. His only son was killed in WW2. I once asked granddad to teach me carpentry, but he said only boys learn carpentry. If I'd been a boy he would have taught me.
I think not only of the skills I missed, but the time we would have spent together. What a stupid stereotype!
@@veramae4098so silly, I’m sorry.
A Christmas church service touting the evil of drink, preceded by a stint at the pub, and followed by sloe gin at Christmas dinner. Don't think the message was strong enough LOL
Ruth makes this series shine! Actually, she makes every series she's in shine!
When I was young (1950s), we had lace curtains in the house. Once a year in the summer, mother would wash them. Then they were taken wet out into the yard to be stretched on frames and left to dry in the sun to bleach them white.
Great info !
Were the lace curtains made of linen thread ?
I remember that too. The curtain stretchers were kept in the basement when not used. I was very young, and never asked what the curtains were made of. This was in 1947 to 1950.
My grandmother did the same exactly In Cairo!!
Ithaca Comments who had the nasty job of setting up,the frames? My grandmother’s frames consisted of slats with sharp little nails sticking up to hold the lace.
Very nice, and they sound beautiful!
One reason girls had to work so long at lace at such young ages is the lacemakers themselves were actually paid incredibly low for their work by the tailors and dressmakers who bought it. It was those professionals who jacked the prices up so high reselling to their wealthy clients. It was so common for lacemakers to be paid crap that there was even a "romantic image" sort of line in a poem about how a lacemaker would work long hours and go to sleep with her pocket light but her heart full. (One might suspect they would have preferred a heavy pocket and full stomach to go to sleep....just saying...)
That is sadly the way all business of handmade trade works...
One exeption to the rule was when the transatlantic steamers like the White Star Liners took on the last passengers before crossing the Atlantic. Lace makers and jewellers in "Queenstown", were allowed onboard to sell things like lace shawls, costing about £ 200 a piece. But they had to "tip" the chief officer before leaving the ship.
J.J.Astor bought such a gift for his young pregnant wife Madeleine, onboard the Titanic.
Yes , it doesn't matter if it was Edwardian lace then , or a new car now the middle men always pocket the most off the top and the first to claim they don't know why the price is so high
Another reason is if you didnt have full yards of lace to sell,that unfinished yard stayed on your pillow and you didnt get payed for it until next week!
@Santina Murphy No need to be nasty now ...
@Santina Murphy
Just curious.
Is it me you're adressing as "Tinkerbell" ?? 😁
Anyway. You're probably living under a lot of fear and stress these days. Due to the global virus situation.
Don't take it out on others though. It simply won't improve matters.
Try to stay levelheaded. Make sure you protect yourself as best you can.
We'll get through this ordeal. 💖
Its lovely to see people are discovering these again. I watched the whole season years ago, but I'm glad it has been posted again.
Why is Ruth so adorable, and she’s so happy doing everything 🥺🥺
I would love to have an episode of each series that’s just Ruth going through any and all women’s crafts and jobs of said period. She gotten me so interested in by gone domestic everyday life.
I could watch these over and over. I wish they’d make more episodes with this team.
Peter really is a sweet man who loves these animals so much.
Ruth can fit in any era lol
Thats genetics for you
I love her laugh. She seems so joyful no matter what situation she is thrown in to!
Kim Parker She is totally willing to engage in whatever the task, even prepping the outdoor loo! Or cooking a sheep’s head or eviscerating ... anything.
Lol, true😅
So true... yet I find it hard to imagine her living in our time 😆
I love Ruth because she is so 'Natural'...enthusiastic, a 'Good egg' to have around in a disaster...She'd keep everyone organised and morale up. 💕👍
I love that Ruth’s part of the intro is her wildly beating the hell out of a rug lol!
I get that they had to stuff a lot into an hour, but I do wish they had spent a little more time on the lace making. There is so much more detail I would have liked to see them mention. Honiton is one of the finer laces - some of the threads used are as fine as a human hair. How it is essentially the crosses and twists, but how those two are combined can make incredible and elaborate designs. How the patterns are prepared, how ...
And I start to babble again.
I suppose what I am saying/suggesting/hinting-with-all-the-subtlety-of-an-Acme-anvil, is that I would like to see more of some of textile arts throughout history, with fine detail and how they have evolved and changed over time.
This might help:
ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=lace+making+tutorial
@@GEReyn thank you🙏🏾
I know of a village in Brazil where they make those laces (the super fine ones) called "Renda de bilro"
You won't find tutorials but if you just wanna see it you can find lots
While I agree with you this video videos on the absolute History Channel or whatever this show is called are heavily edited versions of the BBC show that you can find online and each of them are like Tudor Farms Civil War farm others in actuality they did spend a good portion more time on the lace making it's that just a lot of people don't find that interesting and so this UA-cam channel did edit it quite a bit
ha ha, Acme! I know where that comes from...
Oh, lacemaking - I love that! about as fast as faceting, and you get a much larger project in the end. These crafts are not for those who fear tedium! Fortunately, I hear boredom, not tedium - tedium can be quite satisfying when you are following a complex pattern that requires great attention to detail. Love it!
There is something hypnotic and satisfying in repetitive activities. People always ask me why I love lace knitting and knife sharpening. They find it confusing that I love both as one is typically associated with feminine things and the other with masculine things. Both can get you in a flow, in a rhythm. They keep one part of the mind occupied whilst leaving another free to wander. Both force you to let the day’s worries behind (or you’ll mess up your pattern/blade) but allow you to ponder on other things, have a conversation, or listen to music. They’re therapy with a reward at the end.
I love the recurring joke about Cornwall being full of weird people
That’s just Cornwall :)
Reminds me of "Florida man" 😂
@@laurieb3703 I don’t know much about Cornwall Man but I sure know plenty of them Florida Man lol
Thank you for another beautifully told story! I’m hooked on this series. Best history class I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of.
That lace making technique is called knyppling in Sweden, but here they use a different sort of pillow, like a roll for straight length of lace. There is a rythem to making it, people that play drums have an easier time learning it.
It makes sense that people who play drums would be better at it. It looks like a bit of ambidextrous ability will help a lot in place making
There are dozens of different lace making techniques around the world. My mother and I were lucky enough to learn the basics of lace making when my father was stationed in England when I was eighteen.
(Go off to college, when I'm not sure what I want to do with my life yet [so many choices], or go to England, where I can pick up even more random skills? Tough call.)
The type we first learned was called Torchon, also known as Beggar's Lace. Good starting place, as the bobbins were of a style that didn't roll as easily as the tiny Honiton, or the larger but still roll around a lot Bruges lace that I later made a single medallion in that style, just to prove to myself that I could.
In addition to the traditional round pillows that we were taught on, which, just to confuse people more, come in different sizes for different types of lace, we learned about the full bolster pillows (which sounds like what you might be talking about), as well as smaller bolsters set into the round ones, and a modern variant that was round on the sides, but down the center had removable blocks that could be moved as the the pattern was extended or repeated, or the center block swapped for a roll. And just in the last year or so I found on that wonderful/terrible rabbit-hole known as Pinterest, what I believe is a Russian style of lace pillow, with a sort of trapezoid base.
Ummm... sorry about the info dump there. Can you tell why I clicked on this video? =grin=
I know this as bobbin lace. I learned how to do it in High School, when I was showing rabbits at fair. A lady was demonstrating how.
@@PhoenyxAshe You can always do your core stuff first. The things everyone has to take.
Don't just take time off for no reason. Trust the older people on that. It's way harder later, and time runs away from you as you get older in ways you don't have the ability to understand now.
You could fall in love and have kids, then wake up one day and 20-30 years are gone. Be careful to always have your own money nobody knows about. More is better. Be plenty skilled enough to always be able to take care of yourself. Smart thing to do is not push the education and skills you do have. A lot of guys don't like it if a woman is a lot smarter or skilled than he is. To this day.
Be careful that what you choose is going to support you. Always demand your worth. They'll try to scam you when you're female.
Never give a grown man any money. And never let him think you have any. This is why God made banks. Anyone who can't get a loan from a bank is a bad idea to even be near.
If you own something and get married, keep that money to yourself. I know women who got scammed out of their own cash. Keep it way over there, that nobody knows about minus your parents and such. That way, you can always walk if you want/need to.
Some people start out all right and get nasty and vindictive later. Just keep yours over there. Lots of horror stories about that, easily findable online.
Just make sure you can get and keep a good paying job. This could lead you into other issues, like bias because you did too well.
Read, "They never asked me about the girls." Lisa Robinson, music journalist. Lots of very rich women say they have issues with men. None said they would trade it.
These days, you probably don't want/need marriage, unless you run across the one who wants to take care of you. Otherwise, it's a trap for women.
Do background checks, and if you see a lot of unstable employment or anything like not paying child support or wife beating--RUN. She's not "crazy."
You can print this and look back years later and see how we were right. Experience is most expensive to buy on your own. But you don't have to. Older people hand it to you for free :)
Also, be able to defend yourself at all times. If you're grabbed by the hand, twist toward their thumb. Stay sober. You can still have fun. Never leave your drink unattended. Keep it way away from anyone that might dose it. Grown men i know have been dosed. I used to put mine in a thermos.
Just for the record, all the first drummers were female. See Layne Redmond's, "When the Drummers were Women." She was also a very adept hand drummer.
She researched it 15 years.
I love these shows. It's a total experience...being completely immersed in a period of history.
I love Ruth’s enthusiasm.You go girl!
Winter with greenery and lots of birds chirping. Meanwhile, over in Michigan, dark, gray, bleak. A foot of snow, and no sunshine until May.
Would like an entire episode on the lace industry, as opposed to just 5 minutes. Fascinating about how lace had to be worked into the curriculum to allow girls to go to school.
This channel re titles and re-uploads the episode every couple of months. It is originally made by BBC if you want to try and find the archived websites for it that have more details
American here in Illinois. Love this program. Just had pasti this past weekend. My girlfriend’s grandmother was married to a Welsh- American. I can’t wait to tell her we have to throw the crust to the knockers. 😆
I love they're talking about throwing crusts to the tommy knockers. Thanks for the upload.
When I look at how England has been such a world power throughout history I have to give their adaptability and their ingenuity all the credit.
And bigger arme deplomacy without any qualms over exploitation
Hey, Absolute History. Give us what we want, RUTH! We want what you promised, a video about Ruth. Still a good video
If you want you can go to the BBC website and look for Edwardian Farm this is just one of a series like medieval farm with the same crew
Re: pasties - the story is that for Cornish miners, their wives made a small pocket in one corner which they filled with jam. Another source I read said that this was what newly wed brides did to show their love - but that story did not say whether or not this continued in later days of the marriage. Apparently, the jam pocket was proof of love!
A little touch of sweetness in a backbreakingly hard day of work! That's so touching 🥰
depends if you liked the geezer, i guess LOL
that's very sweet
When i hear "widow makers" i think of the heavy branches broken off and sitting high in the trees and every strong storm they would fall and make a nother widow, it was folk lore but also happened before too.
Ruth is the most enthusiastic historian ever!
Beginning 1900 s My grandmother and her sisters worked in lace factory in derby England. After ww1 she met married grandpa they came to Canada because he didn't want to go back to coal mines, and she was not interested in more years making lace.
and what did they do in Canada for a living?
@@blabla-rg7ky Grandpa worked for a large dairy in the city of Toronto. My grandmother raised 6 kids, and did street sweeping, finally able to do catering for Legion events.
@@cheriefrench6956 thanks
Knockers are a type of fay that can actually be vary friendly to humans, it was a good idea to keep them happy because if there was going to be a cave in if they liked you they would let you know by knocking against the stone of they didn't like you they might trip you and cause your light to go out, or steal your tools
Mr Mudge is my favourite, he seems like such a sweet, smart, resourceful man.
he reminds me of a forest imp or some folklore being.
I love this series. It's very interesting and well done! The group has an excellent energy about them, they make it very exciting, especially Ruth 😁
It was original only BBC. Once shows get old enough they sell off the licensing to show them on other mediums
As a Canadian, the phrase 'the worst of winter will be over by Feb 2' made me laugh. For where I live, the '6 more weeks of winter' of groundhog day IS an early spring. If we are unlucky, we have snow on the ground 12 weeks after Feb 2.
as a fellow Canadian, I concur.
Yeah we had snow in April and thats all way down here in east Tennessee
What has Canadian weather got to with Edwardian farming?
In between Buffalo and Rochester Ny, I remember it snowed on June 19th one time. Sorry don’t remember the year, I think it was in the 1970’s.
The pinning of the lace after washing is called “blocking” I know someone who makes bobbin lace, it’s so beautiful.
One of my hobbies is lace knitting (mainly Shetland and Estonian patterns). The term is used in lace knitting as well.
2:15: “in Devon, it’s been the harshest of winters.” (1mm of snow gently falls). As a Canadian, I couldn’t help but chuckle at this 😆
Having lived all my life in the US Northeast, I was stunned to see bright green grass and leaves on so many plants in what the narrators were calling a hard winter. Even now with climate change dramatically shrinking the amount and longevity of the snow on the ground here in western New Hampshire, the winter color palette is mostly brown when it isn't white; we don't see bright green on anything but conifers until late April, early May on average.
@@dbseamz Minnesota here, and much the same. It varies from year to year, though. This past winter was easy, but some years we have snow from Halloween until Easter or later.
Sweden here, Minnesota who???
Lovely start to the video .I'm a big fan of Ruth Peter and Alex I wish they could do another farm series 📹
The “knockers” might have been falling stones and mixed with superstition and fear of collapse and the knockers so feeding the crust of the pasties might be a form of a good luck charm against tunnel collapse
My word that's dedication. Totally admirable.
I can remember my Mom stretching lace curtains after she washed them. It was some sort of wooden frame with lg. pins or tiny nails all around the edges. Not sure what exactly was done, but the idea was it kept the curtains "square" as it dried. Also used with lace doilies, dresser scarves, etc. This was in the early 50s.
It was also a quilting frame. Lace was starched and blued heavily..
Mom taught me to take well starched doilies and put th e m wet on a nail/wood device to stretch the "points" outdoor dry
This series is keeping me sane, thanks Absolute History
For some added information, quartz is mainly composed of free silica or silica not bonded to much of anything. When that is powdered and suspended into the air it can be breathed, and free silica has the insidious habit of bonding to the lung tissue for life, inevitably shortening it dramatically. This is a hazard for pretty much any profession that deals with rock dust or fine sand like pottery and glass. The best defense is water since it wont suspend in the air if wet, and keeping your workspace clean of course.
Yep, friend of mine's dad died in his late 50s of emphysema. Didn't smoke one cigarette in his life, it was all from mining in the 60s and 70s. It was painful to see a once-powerful man barely able to hobble 5 metres between the back door and his work shed in the yard in his final years.
I am in absolute awe of the lace making.
I remember as a kid watching greataunts and other kinfolk making lace and chatting away like it was nothing but a simple hobby.
Practice, practice and more practice.
I do think that these experts to get compensated for their time & effort. I also think Professor Hutton is a hilarious!
"Wherever there's a hole in the ground, You'll find a Cornishman at the bottom of it." As an American with mining ancestors, most were coal miners, I've heard a variations of that saying before. It also reminds me of being too terrified to sleep because my Grandpa would scare me with stories of Rawhide and bloody bones.
I am loving these shows, so very interesting and educational!
The lace making is absolutely fascinating I want an entire video about pace making
I'm from Italy and here still exist candlemass. In my regional dyalect (Umbria) it's called Candelora. "'Madonna della Candelora, dell'inverno sèmo fòra, ma se piove o tira ventu,| de l'inverno semo ancora dentru'' --> "Madonna of the Candlemas | we are out of winter | but if it rains or blows wind, | in the winter we are still in. ''
The U.S. Groundhog Day occurs at the same time, for the same purpose. There must be a connection somewhere.
@@nancymontgomery8897 yes it's called immigration hahaha ;)
I live in the Pacific Northwest of America and my Parish celebrates CandleMass every year. Its a Catholic thing lol. We have a Mass for everything lol
This is the episode where it all came together for me. My father grew up in an Arizona mining town. My grandfather had an employee from Cornwall (Dad says the man was the smartest individual he’s ever met.). I, myself, have taken lessons in bobbin lace, and all I learned is that someone with lace experience can untie a knotted shoelace like nobody’s business!
True. I live pretty close to Bruges, where you can still follow bobbin lace classes and you’ll even find youth centres offering classes. A friend of mine learned as a teenager and still does it as a hobby. She can untie the most complex knots within seconds. When asked how she does it she replies “Well, it’s just a matter of following the thread to where it comes from.”
My great grandfather used to have a general shop - a bit on the affluent side - in a small town near a major port in Greece. He died while on a merchant trip to said port, but when he died (late 1930s), my great grandmother and her children (grandmother included) went on selling the leftover stock for years, until the war came. After the Italians came, they went to extreme lengths to hide the STILL remaining stock they had in great chests so that it would not get stollen. Well, long story short, the most valuable items left, were those that the normal could not afford.
After almost 90 years, my mother reopened the chests that had been forgotten and found beautiful lace, made of actual silver and actual gold metal made into fine strands and yarn, handmade and imported from Venice, Italy around the turn of the century apparently.
The fabric was then used to make a period costume (quite the cultural thing in my city) from the 19th century using precious fabrics. It is one of the most extravagant things my family has.
I’ve been marathon watching every series and episode that these 3 have been presenters for over the years. Now watched hours over holiday week. Calming and educational. I’d seen several years ago the building a mid-evil castle series and did not enjoy near as much as the Victorian, Edwardian, and WWII series with these 3.
I remember watching this, loved the different shows through the ages. And you have to love Ruth, what a great lady.
You may well have called this segment Edwardian Mining. There was too, too little on the lace making. Where did the linen thread come from? Was flax grown locally? Was the thread hand spun or machine made? How were the lace pillows made? Were the bobbins spangle-weighted? How were the bobbins wound? I saw a bobbin winder on the window sill, were these types still in use? They were mainly used to wind bobbins for loom shuttles. MORE RUTH!
Thank you, that's exactly what I was thinking about!
OMG... Groundhog's Day = Candlemas. I never realized they were the same thing. Frankly, I wish we called it Candlemas here in the US too.
Those Shires were so happy to be pulling
Animals like doing the job they're bred for.
It was also surprising, he said first time they'd pulled a plow. Some horses would only learn one or two skills and rebelled at doing anymore. Under saddle, a carriage, a plow, a wagon, pull a rock or tree stump out of the ground, race, whatever.
The 1st American Morgan horse, born late 1700's, was willing to learn any skill. Morgans enjoy pleasing humans.
The amount of serotonin released when I saw the pasty pro grannies... wow
This is amazing. I Love it. Sad that the lace industry was so easily undermined. They worked hard for their money. And those men. WOW!!! I think I'd want to stick to the farm. But you couldn't always. The era was so industrious and they were very intelligent about the ways they could supplement their income. Nothing goes to waste when it all works well.
Excellent Video.
Came here for the lace, stayed for the entire episode 😍
this is such a wholesome show
I would like warm winters like that.
This episode is 100% more focused on the scary and fascinating underground mining, yet, it's titled Ruth makes lace, lol. That's called burying the lede, guys. :D
Thanks!
I wish this had been more about the lace. The mining stuff in these videos always makes me so nervous lol. Just remembering how many people died mining and how deadly it was i'm just waiting for them to get seriously hurt and it's scary. Same with all these old rusty metal objects in their bare hands...Everything else is so calming and then that stuff.
I’ve loved every series with the three lovely people. So interesting and superb lessons in social history. Thank you for uploading.
That's nice to see the old machinery I have a broom shop I'm 1909 Broom maker I still used today I love this show
People complaining that Ruth barely appears on this episode, well... I only watch it for Peter anyway!
I do too ... isn't he cute!
Here, here!!! I'm a Peter person too.
It's funny, I'm from Michigan where we had a lot of copper mines and a lot of Cornish and Welsh immigrants, so hearing you toss the crusts to the knockers is something I grew up with. Along with pasties. Of course my great grandpa was welsh and his wife's family ran a copper mine in Michigan's upper peninsula.
Words of praise have yet been invented to apply to this magnificent series.......I love the trio, I live with the trio, and am learning so much.......
♥️🇬🇧😁 yey! My happy place. With the friends I've never been lucky enough to meet. Love them all.
I love this series, and all the other series in which we see our beloved Ruth, but I can't say I love the way these videos have been re-labeled since they've been absorbed by the Absolute History franchise. It would be much easier if the series and the episode number were made much, much more clear in the UA-cam title.
I have been watching them in order on the Playlist. But you're right, they are poorly labeled.
Sitting in Michigan listening to them call that a harsh winter lol
I remember about 2012 or so. Snowed so bad, people got stranded on Lake Shore Drive. Wound up being 3 feet or so of snow. And very cold. The nice park you see in the summer, could kill you in winter to walk back to civilization (cold and blinding snow).
Minnesota here, and same. It's February in one of the plowing scenes, and I'm wondering where the foot and a half of frost is, and the feet of snow on top. I suppose it's all relative really. One thing about being an island is that the climate is somewhat blunted on both ends. Their latitude is roughly the same as ours, but temperatures are moderated by the ocean. It's lake-effect on a much larger scale.
I'm actually making bobbin lace myself. It is very interesting
My 5 great-grand uncles on my mother's side were Tonkins from Cornwall tin mining. They were some that went out to America to the Californian gold fields, one even tried the Yukon. But they all transshipped to South Africa's gold fields, and then moved to South Australia and then to Bendigo gold fields, where 1 died down a mine and 1 moved to Sydney as a Superintendent of the Railways. The other 3 went on to New Zealand and our Westcoast fields, near Blackball, Charleston Port. where 1 married and settled, the remaining 2 went to the Otago gold fields where 1 became a field overseer and 1 became the Superintendent of New Zealand Railways in Christchurch in charge of the South Island network. North and South Island networks were independent back then with no sea link as now. The Otago gold field overseer based in Dunedin, was my great-grandfather. His son, my grandfather, became a Railway Ganger in charge of a maintenance team in the back blocks of Otago (on the Queenstown line) where he and his wife settled in a 2-room Railway cottage, had 13 children (in a 2-room cottage) who top and tailed in a large bed, in a very rugged part of New Zealand that has deep snow for 4 months of the year. The toilet was a dry long drop outside, and bath night (once a week) was in a galvanised bath in front of the coal range fire in the kitchen room. Very resourceful family, and tough as nails.
I've been a collector since almost forever and one day while going through a pile of garbage somebody threw out of their attic I came up with three giant plastic bags big garbage bags full of lace and it wasn't just lace that was machine made some of this stuff from what I've been told was two and even older two three hundred years old and one day someone came and took all of the lace from one of my storage buildings and to this day I try not to think of how much beauty and maybe even money was in that collection I never even had time to go through all of it all I knew is that some of it was ancient and gorgeous
I have heard that because the tin miners couldnt wash their hands the crusts on the pasties had tin dust on them ane it was poisonous. Therefore the crusts were thrown away.
it wasn't tin dust that was poisinous it was the arsenic also produced at the mines
The more I watch the more I'm convinced I was designed for Tudor/Victorian/Edwardian farming and anything inbetween.
I love ruth Goodman's shows💕
Ruth Goodman seems like a real gem she seems to have a great nature and passions for nearly everything she does in these shows its adorable!
I knit lace. It's a pain, but worth seeing the finished product. What they're doing here is called bobbin lace. Some lacemakers can have over 100 bobbins going for a single piece. It's insane and glorious to watch!
I’m a lace knitter too! A life line is an absolute necessity to your sanity. Especially if you’re working with yarns containing mohair. 🙈
@@eddavanleemputten9232 ugh, mohair is atrocious to work with, but I love the finished result. Cotton crochet thread is amazing for lifelines. Slides right out!
@@jacquelynsmith2351 - Cotton makes the best lifeline. For stitch markers on very fine work I use little jewellery rings, they don’t snag on the fine thread and don’t get in the way when holding your knitting needles.
Mohair is atrocious when you have to knit back but the end result is absolutely gorgeous. Whenever I can I use a mohair and silk blend, it’s so much better than the cheaper alternative of mohair and polyester. For my best pieces I do save up and splurge on blends with silk and alpaca.
What I like most about lace knitting is that compared to ‘normal’ knitting, it’s very light. Your arms and shoulders don’t cramp up like they would knitting a sweater or an afghan throw of regular weight yarn. And it’s fun when people exclaim “YOU made that?!!?!??”
@@eddavanleemputten9232 yes! I love wearing Diamonds of Eos from Kristi Holaas, but I'm working on the Princess Shawl from Sharon Miller in cobweb wool
@@jacquelynsmith2351 - Both gorgeous pieces! 😍
I’ve recently finished Madli’s Shawl from Nancy Bush’s book Knitted Lace of Estonia, then did Emily Ross’s Haruni Shawl because I wanted something that would start off rather mindless, but did more repeats because I was using cobweb weight yarn (I think that’s what it’s called, I’m not a native English speaker). Now I’m eyeing Nancy Bush’s Queen Sylvia’s Shawl but I have to finish what I’m working on first: a simple rectangular shawl my daughter wanted with a lilac leaf pattern and a simple edge she chose. Only a few more rows to go!
I was just watching Ruth Goodman in Tudor Times! She’s a time traveler!
1:48 in and Really wishing they would PLEASE put episode numbers on these series. Love the content but I'd like to be able to start from the beginning and binge my way though.
Professor Hutton is wonderful!
Candle mass? We call Groundhog’s Day! This is so amazing to learn!
I can see how the horses would also provide natural fertilizer while plowing, so it would be an additional incentive not to modernize and use the tractor. As they say, "If it ain't broke..."
I am genuinely interested to see if the wassail works. I've heard about it here in the states but mostly for caring for small gardens so I am intrigued to see if it works on an orchard!
My family here in the states made Wassail the hot cider, with cloves and other spices on the stove on Christmas eve.
There was actually a recent study that reported that plants grow better in the presence of rhythmic music The vibrations produced from the sound waves somehow produces movements in plant cells and stimulate growth and production
@@aleenaprasannan2146 So THAT'S why Charles plays music for his plants!
@@Max-iv8pp his excuse and sticking to it whereas i talk to the wind lol
@@Max-iv8pp there's also been an experiment done by the Myth Busters some many years ago where one of the members would play relaxing music to the plants for a determined period of time (I apologize that I don't remember all of the details), while another member of the MB's team would play heavy metal music for the same length of time, and at the end of the cycle the plants who had "listened to" relaxing music had been more beautiful (the same type of plant, obviously).
And that's only for the fun of it, but there have been REAL science experiments in which had been proved that all plants are influenced by human's behavior, emotions and/or thoughts. We, humans, have telepathic connections to all lifeforms (other people, animals, and plants) and each of these lifeforms react in one way or another to our various behaviors, emotions and thoughts to them. This is actually proven and 100% accurate, but don't ask me for a link or proof cause I have none. I just remember to have watched a documentary on this topic sometimes in the 90s when I used to watch a lot of Discovery Channel / National Geographic / Animal Planet on TV in mid 90s to late 2000s.
I wish I could go live somewhere like this! I would do it in a heartbeat!💚
Same! I'm craving to go back to a more nature orientated lifestyle on the land!
BS You would run away after the first day. If you can't find yourself in this easy life you wouldn't last in that time too. That time was all about very hard labour, no modern day comfort and no social justice at all.
Yes it takes practice to make lace but I've been doing it for less than a year and it really isn't that hard if you start with Torchon lace get comfortable with larger thread before moving to the thin stuff.
When you love your job, it isnt work...great series..Thank You.
These guys would never survive reenacting a the same year in my region. Their rough winter, looks like a glorious spring day.
I JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH! HOORAY, FOR ABSOLUTE HISTORY!!!👏👏👏👍
anyone else obsessed with ruth?
So much I traveled from America to England and went to Morwellham, and Weald and downland. LOL
I ADORE this show SOOO MUCH! I would be JUST LIKE RUTH if i could live in any era pre 1950 for a year.(but live LIKE it like they do...so in modern times...without disease on every corner. Sadly i would be dead had i been born in any other era before 1950s most likely...because i had cancer as a child and almost died in 1993.)
The men of this show are EXTREMELY attractive as well. Both of them i love their attitudes, personalities, and passion.
To be a historian is a dream of mine that shall probably nvr happen...more a fashion historian, but i also love all things history related, ESPECIALLY Medieval, 1800s, and 1900-1949.
So i shall stay a novice historian.
THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOW! AND I DO HOPE YOU MAKE MORE SHOWS LIKE THIS! EVEN IF ITS IN DIFFERENT ERAS!
BECAUSE HISTORY IS AMAZING!!!
Lace making is so relaxing. I loved working Honiton, Bucks, Birmingham, all kinds.