UPLASASE-LAS2050-SEM2-AE-2024-5-F - L-Università ta' Malta

Course Title

LAS2050 - The Art of Maltese Bobbin Lace 2

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

Semester 2

4 ECTS

Mode of Study

Part-Time Evening

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This micro-credential is offered as part of the programme for the Liberal Arts and Sciences and will only be offered subject to a minimum number of applications received. More information can be found on the PLAS website.

Using their basic knowledge of drawing and making bobbin lace, this study-unit is intended to help students explore the Maltese Lace style and technique and improve on it. This will be achieved by concentrating on:

The 18th century ‘tal-Balla’ strip method, then known as merletto da bocchetti
The Meander style early 19th century, attributed to C. Salvatore Bondi
The Motif / ‘Festuni’ application, D. Giuseppe Diacono
The English Stitch of mid-19th c. made for the vast export market mainly to Britain.

Main Reading List

C. Azzopardi (1991), Gozo Lace Introduction, Gozo Press.
C. Azzopardi (2019), Maltese Lace History & Mystery, Kite Group, Malta.
Lace Day Patterns 2000-2010 – edited & published by Koperattiva Ghawdxija tal-Bizzilla u Artigjanat Ltd.
Is-Seher tal-Bizzilla – magazine in English & Maltese published by Malta Lace Guild.
Bulletin OIDFA – quarterly magazine, English & French published by the International Organisation of Bobbin and Needle lace.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

Decipher the roots of our traditional bobbin lace from Genoa to the convents, aristocrats and finally to peasants or rural areas;
Learn the mechanism of trading lace and the system adopted in schools by the British philanthropists;
Adopt the fight for survival during time of war or time of poverty, as well as emigration;
Adopt to the religious, social, political and cultural impact of their times;
Strive to learn the real Maltese /Gozo design and acknowledge responsibility of safeguarding these methods while passing them on intact to the next generation.

Learning Outcomes: Skills

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

Trace the design of merletti da Bocchetti from portraits and Favray paintings;
Learn how to work ‘tal-Balla’ stitch, nowadays used mainly in church vestments;
Experiment with the ‘Meander’ style;
Work the ‘English’ stitch possibly with variations;
Draw and work the Maltese eight-pointed cross, used as trade-mark of Maltese Lace;
Making a template / moll to create borders;
Constructing corners using Motif application.

Non EU Applicants:

EUR180

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