[lace] Lace for iPad
Dear Lacemakers, I was recently privileged to be able to test David Leader's Beta version of Lace on my iPad Air! I had installed the iPhone version earlier this fall and was impressed, but having the program enhanced for the larger iPad screen really makes it even better! The program is spectacular, to say the least! Pictures of each piece of lace are clear and beautiful, and large enough to be able to see the distinguishing features! (If you used the iPhone version on your iPad, as I did, you could click to increase the size of the pages, but this resulted in a loss of resolution.). The information is organized in several different ways, making it very user friendly. You may also explore many types of grounds found in lace, as well as the definitions of broader types of lace made. Having such a comprehensive source so accessible is wonderful! The best part is that new information can be added as it becomes available to David. For those who already have the phone app, you'll notice an excellent addition on the iPad app: there is a tiny globe in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and tapping this while looking at a piece of lace will show you a map which indicates where the lace was traditionally made. I love this feature! It is very interesting to see the subtle similarities and differences in laces from various locations. The program is now available in the App Store, and if you have an iPad, you can download it! It is well worth the $2.99! Thanks David, for all of the work that went into this and thank you Jean... I know you were very involved in the project as well! Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA, USA Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lace at Sweet Briar
I am in the process of editing the mailing list for Lace at Sweet Briar which will be held in mid-June in Virginia. Due to the high cost of printing and mailing, I have removed many names of people who have received the brochure for years, but have never responded. However, I would be happy to add your name to the list if you are interested in coming this year! Our teachers will be Bobbi Donnelly (Tonder), Susie Johnson (Lace a la Carte), and Sandi Woods (Milanese). Anny Noben-Slegers will also be teaching her Binche and Flanders design class via Skype. Please respond to me privately with your name and mailing address if you are interested in coming. The brochures will be sent out in early January. Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA, USA Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace for iPad
I agree here with Clay. I too was privileged enough to test the beta version on Chris's ipad as well as on my old iphone and was well impressed with it!! Chris always insists that I am the only person he knows who can crash an apple and I haven't crashed this programme (yet LOL) As Clay says, the programme is now available in the app store, and I'm sure they'd appreciate your feedback too!!! Thanks Jean David for all your hard work and allowing some of us to test it for you! It's brilliant!!! Sue in Uk On 7 Dec 2013, at 14:26, Clay Blackwell wrote: Dear Lacemakers, I was recently privileged to be able to test David Leader's Beta version of Lace on my iPad Air! I had installed the iPhone version earlier this fall and was impressed, but having the program enhanced for the larger iPad screen really makes it even better! The program is spectacular, to say the least! Pictures of each piece of lace are clear and beautiful, and large enough to be able to see the distinguishing features! (If you used the iPhone version on your iPad, as I did, you could click to increase the size of the pages, but this resulted in a loss of resolution.). The information is organized in several different ways, making it very user friendly. You may also explore many types of grounds found in lace, as well as the definitions of broader types of lace made. Having such a comprehensive source so accessible is wonderful! The best part is that new information can be added as it becomes available to David. For those who already have the phone app, you'll notice an excellent addition on the iPad app: there is a tiny globe in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and tapping this while looking at a piece of lace will show you a map which indicates where the lace was traditionally made. I love this feature! It is very interesting to see the subtle similarities and differences in laces from various locations. The program is now available in the App Store, and if you have an iPad, you can download it! It is well worth the $2.99! Thanks David, for all of the work that went into this and thank you Jean... I know you were very involved in the project as well! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace for iPad
Am 07.12.2013 um 20:03 schrieb Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk: Thanks Jean David for all your hard work and allowing some of us to test it for you! It's brilliant!!! I second this - since I also had that great opportunity to beta test the app, I can say that it's very useful and clearly structured. This will be really helpful if it comes to determine some lace you come across. Also just browsing through the lace styles and grounds is thrilling for anyone interested in this area of needlework (uhm, can bobbin lace be called needlework? Or rather pinwork? In German there's only one word for needles and pins: Nadel). Best, Achim from Berlin, which turned all white the last couple of hours - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace for iPad
Dear all, I think it has been a great idea to produce this application for our mobile devices. In effect I bought it when JeanDavid informed on Arachne and I installed perfectly the version for Iphone, on the Ipad. It looked like in a smaller way but there was and worked fine. It is of great help for us, people who are not experts, only fans in identification and history of laces, to have the information just besides you when it can be needed. I was very pleased when JeanDavid announced the Ipad version, so I offered to test it. I am delighted. The application is designed to provide reference up to 60 individual styles of lace, their historical and geographical context as well as their features. And, one of the most important thing is that pictures are excellent. Thanks for the work! Carolina de la Guardia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] demonstrating
To draw in younger people you might also prepare a little card with links so some good lace sites and online discussion groups, as a handout. There are A LOT! Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Demos
I demo at city celebrations - 4th of July or founder's days. I find if you want to impress/dazzle older people they go for the frilly yardage, but if you want to hook the kids/teens things like the snake, or a bunny, or a dinosaur are the best. And more often than not it's the kids that really want to learn. I also have a book full of the the major types of lace that people can look through and ask about. The year I did a tape lace bunny I had kids flocked around me and even had several come back to see how far I'd gotten. Just this last month I was was working on the tape lace snake at my daughter's play group. I ended up with three 4 year olds wanting to help me. So I took a half hour and taught them. One keeps pestering her mom because she wants to learn to 'that braid lace stuff' some more. If you want to argue that the snake or such isn't lace than you'll have quite the fight from Idrija style lace makers. To paraphrase a saying, Don't judge me because I Lace differently than you. Is a sweater any less a work of knitting that a fancy shall? As to the idea that there are only 2 stitches in bobbin lace; I agree! Cross/ Twist. That's what I tell people. Once you learn that you can do anything. Yes, I know that there is a bit more to actually creating lace, HOWEVER, there is no rhyme nor reason to launch into some long spiel that will most likely make the other person feel they can never learn to make lace. As I say with tatting - you make one knot . . . over and over and over. That's it. The rest is learning to read the patterns. I feel the same about bobbin lace; you move the bobbin left or right that's it, the rest is reading the pattern. My 2 cents Robin -- Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. *Your* sky. *Your *limit. Now, let's dance. *~Tom Hiddleston* - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Demos
When I demonstrate, I tend to break it down to the essentials also. I agree... Although I usually say that essentially, there are only two moves in lacemaking, the cross and the twist. Then I explain that it is how these are combined that lead to the lovely patterns. I also point out that whether there are a dozen bobbins on the pillow or hundreds of bobbins, only four are used at one time. I am also one who agrees that it is helpful to demonstrate on a pillow with an attractive pattern which looks like real lace! It is while working on real lace that folks can see that there is an order to things. Otherwise, folks take one look and move on, because who needs another snake? On the other hand, those snakes are what we put on the try-it pillow, so people can actually pick up the bobbins and use them! I definitely think there is a place for both in demos. Clay Sent from my iPad On Dec 7, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Robin D human.m...@gmail.com wrote: As to the idea that there are only 2 stitches in bobbin lace; I agree! Cross/ Twist. That's what I tell people. Once you learn that you can do anything. Yes, I know that there is a bit more to actually creating lace, HOWEVER, there is no rhyme nor reason to launch into some long spiel that will most likely make the other person feel they can never learn to make lace. As I say with tatting - you make one knot . . . over and over and over. That's it. The rest is learning to read the patterns. I feel the same about bobbin lace; you move the bobbin left or right that's it, the rest is reading the pattern. My 2 cents Robin -- - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Demos
I agree. Tatting is 3 movements to doing it. I say the same for bobbin lacemaking even tho technically it is 2. once you master these movements, you can grow into all else. I shuttle tat and have demonstrated and held a class where i gift kits (ready wound shuttles, etc.) at Americana Days - historical society events. one year i even had my picture in the paper with my night cap stringing a dipped candle. i have more fun and people just love being near a new thing being done with a smile. i just believe that a project should be fast for trying and if you finish it, you get it to take home. that way you are still thinking about the doing. I do this for the pillows that others play with and try out. But so there is adult interest as food for thought, i have a Milanese motif that i work. When doing an Americana Day event, i have a table with 6-12 pillows with a start of different laces that caters to more folks. I do an owl in Honiton on a Honiton pillow, have several sizes of cookie pillows. I made a place mat pillow to show travel opportunities. I made a pillow that started out like a honiton pillow but ended up more like a basketball that sits nicely in a salad bowl where i have a project on the top and one on the side (yardage). then i got a spool from braid at the store and topped it with a 7 cookie pillow which with an elastic cover on the pillow keeps it together so the bobbins can hang down like icicles. when i was thinner, the spool went under my thighs and my thighs slipped into the braid space so it sat on my lap securly. you can never demonstrate all the various opportunities for this craft. we are only limited by our imagination and this is on craft that affords lots of creative license. the variety tho will appeal to someone. the snake is instant gratification, useful as a bookmark and because i use metallic thread in the middle, it is appealing and eye catching. do you need it, probably not and my mother who was deathly afraid of snakes would not appreciate it other than to look at it. but you might be able to take it home if you work and master the method. yes, provide the look of more beautiful lace making but also cater to the doer that will remember with a token in hand afterwards. once i was found by a youngster with snake in hand a year afterwards. they wanted to show me they loved having it even after a year. what better reward. Hugs, Lin and the Mali *Mistakes are beautiful. Mistakes are part of the fun.* - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
