Much as I feel every day can be (and often is) knit in public day
(yes, I had my knitting out at the cafe on Saturday for the 'official'
day), my lace pillow with the simple little nine pin edging comes with
me all sorts of places (mostly SCA events, but not entirely!).
Every day can be lace in
I was thinking of proposing that a certain museum key their object of the
day to the International Lace Day, ie. make one of our lacemaker
paintings, or even a piece of lace to be object of the day. However, I am not
convinced that June 21st is sufficiently well accepted that a third party
Jane is important to our lace community. A cry of dismay was buried in a
message from her today (16th).
Is there someone on this list who has the technical capability and vision
required to work on this problem that seems to be proliferating? How about
a small committee with
Hello All! Not a bead expert, but do have a bit of experience! Beads have
gotten very expensive as manufacturers have dreamed up new colors finishes.
As an example, AB finish is just that--thin layers of a coating that reflect a
rainbow of colors over the the base color. My favorite bead
Thank you Robin! I was scratching my head as I too thought that Lace Day was
in the fall. This is NOT to discourage anyone from having a Lace Day, but if
we could be a bit more collaborative when planning events, we would have a
greater impact.Especially if we are contemplating this from
Whether there is a special day for it or not, we should all, especially in the
US, where they still almost universally think bobbin lace is tatting, do lace
in public places as much as possible. Kathryn Roberts and I demonstrated lace
at the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Makefest. The Guild
Dear Devon, et al,
There is a big problem in the US with St. Catherine's Day, because it is
November 25, which is right at the time of Thanksgiving here, and that means
everyone is making pies and turkey, or eating the same.
What day should I propose for a
lace theme? Possibly St.
I don't know if email works differently in the UK, but in the U.S., email
addresses do not have to be tied to the service provider. There are gmail,
hotmail, and yahoo which offer free email addresses. One can access them online
through the website or set up the email program, Outlook, for
The problem is many of us in the UK read our emails through Explorer which
don't show AOL and yahoo emails but sends them straight to spam. I have
tried to changed my laptop to read them but it ignores the changes I want to
make. I now check for any emails in my spam box so that I can read all the
There are Lace Days all the time. Individual groups sponsor and promote
them. The problem is with the word International. If you are celebrating
in one country, it should be a National Lace Day. In some cases, to
which lacemakers from other nations have been invited. Publicity can
It seems there are some classes this summer at Kantcentrum. Susan Hottle,
Erie, PA USA
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We have known for some time that not everyone receives everything. I don't
see messages from Jeri, Devon, others I can't think of at the moment, and
surprisingly Jacquie Tinch, who as most of you know, is my sister. However,
I do see messages from them if they write to me directly.
I know I
Good afternoon
I am very appreciative of all those people who set up and monitor Arachne but I
too have had problems. Although I can pick up all (I think) of the messages on
my iPad, if I use our main computer then a lot of the messages only come
through with the first line in. If I was
There is already a group on Facebook that includes lots of Arachne members and
the plus is that pictures are easily uploaded! The obvious minus is that
there are probably a lot of Arachne members who are not on Facebook, and would
have no desire to do join.
Clay
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On Jun
Good evening
I use Thunderbird and outlook to receive my emails and have no problem
receiving emails from aol or yahoo - so maybe it would be a good idea to
download these programmes and use those to recieve your emails If the
programme you use now is obviously not doing what you require find
We have a book going at the Norfolk a lacemakers in which anyone can write down
hints and tips that they have found useful, and I wondered if we could do
something like this on Arachne as I have found the book very useful and have
indeed used a few if the tips since. I will kick off with a
Dear Devon,
There is a large file of information about St. Catherine's Day in Arachne
archives. It is also explained in several books written by British lace
history experts, and in Cattern Cakes and Lace, the cook book written by
Julia Jones and Barbara Deer that is illustrated so
We have a book going at the Norfolk a lacemakers in which anyone can write down
hints and tips that they have found useful, and I wondered if we could do
something like this on Arachne as I have found the book very useful and have
indeed used a few if the tips since. I will kick off with a
Hi All,
I am not a computer expert, but I know that arachne is a majordomo
mailing list working on a unix computer.
All 'arachne' does is receive an email and bounce (reflect) it out to
everyone on a specific list.
Except that in addition, 'arachne' bundles emails into a package for a
In other words, the arachne majordomo and server are working fine and if
anyone on the list is not in receipt of an email it is much more likely to be
the receiving server / computer / email software. I can only suggest that
those with problems pick over their email settings with a
I think this is a wonderful idea! How I wish Our Arachne group was
sophisticated enough to save all of these tips! Maybe someone in the group
could do this?
Clay
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On Jun 16, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Sue Harvey 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
We have a book going at the Norfolk a
I think this is a wonderful idea! How I wish Our Arachne group was
sophisticated enough to save all of these tips! Maybe someone in the group
could do this?
Clay
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On Jun 16, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Sue Harvey 2harv...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
We have a book going at the Norfolk a
I hate to throw a wet blanket on this, because I love nothing more than lacing
in public. But 21 June is Father's Day in the U.S., and the two celebrations
just do not mesh well! I will make lace like a mad-woman (the end if the
project is near!) until the end of the week, but the weekend
Hi! It's your friendly local (...ok, Philadelphia-based) lace-making
systems administrator. I think I can tell you what's going wrong.
Did the disappearing emails problem begin about a year ago? That's when
first Yahoo, then AOL, made changes which rendered their users unable to
reach
Hello Liz and everyone
Could it have been the Plimoth Jacket?
http://www.plimoth.org/jacket
It came to mind, when reading your description.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Elizabeth Ligeti lizl...@bigpond.com
wrote:
Can anyone please help me? - Recently I saw a web site showing a
Can anyone please help me? - Recently I saw a web site showing a
reproduction embroidered jacket, which was made in England copied from one
in a museum - possibly the VA.
I cannot find the link anywhere, - and nor can I find my 'bookmark' for it!
Grrr!
I promised to share the link with a friend
I don't even like to think of how many messages from Jeri or Devon or
others I have missed because they went to my Spam folder and I neglected to
check there.
Gmail says in answer to the question why is this in Spam that if a name
is in my contact list, then the message will always go through.
Leonard, a now sadly gone old lacemaker who learned the craft in Northern
England many, many years ago, was taught to just draw out the pattern with
lines, and then put up the pins where necessary as she worked!
I saw her patterns and also her work, - and it was just as good as those of
us who
There is no obligation to actively participate Clay, just send kind lace
thoughts my way on Sunday :-)
Hugs
Jenny B - who is starting to dread next week as I have knee replacement surgery
booked *shudder*
-Original Message-
From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:clayblackw...@comcast.net]
On 17-Jun-15 1:49 PM, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
Thank you Amanda for a very detailed run down on the e-mail problems
some of us have.
snip...
The reason why many of us can still see the emails from our yahoo.com
and aol.com lacemakers is simply that we are using mail providers
who are
Yes!! Many Thanks everyone - that is it. The Plimoth Jacket. I have been
trying to remember it for days. Why didn't I think of asking this Oracle
before thoday?!
Very many Apologies to USA - I quite thought it was a UK piece!
Isn't it magnificent? I have carefully bookmarked it now!
Hi Clay and everyone
How about making use of the archive search, via the subject line, Hints
and Tips ? that way the topic is searchable in the mail-archive/lace. The
first few lines of a message appear in the search also, below the link to
the respective message. Using Sue Harvey's example, the
Hi Clay and everyone
How about making use of the archive search, via the subject line, Hints
and Tips ? that way the topic is searchable in the mail-archive/lace. The
first few lines of a message appear in the search also, below the link to
the respective message. Using Sue Harvey's example, the
I first saw this idea on 24th May 2015 on the facebook group Bobbin Lace
Makers.
The message from Juanita de Jonge from Driewegen, Zeeland, Netherlands
included a picture of a map with a red pin in it and the words
Do you see the red pin? That's me, a lace maker from the Netherlands. On
Dear All
One further thought on prickings: I am working on/working out a fairly complex
Beds pattern, and am at present on version 3. Â I have pricked out, from the
paper draft, the pinholes for the pattern features and trails, and foot and
headside, but on Mrs Underwood's advice, just marked
When I was working on the Castle class locomotive and tender 'picture' I made
for my City Guilds, using Branscombe techniques (Branscombe Point is a Devon
tape lace (as opposed to braid lace, which is the name we use for bobbin made
laces of the ilk) similar to Battenberg but uses a greater range
Sorry not to snip but need both posts to explain my answer.
When I make a mistake on the lines on my pricking, I very, very gently scratch
the line out and the rub the offending place down with the wooden end of my
bulbous pricker. After I've made my first piece of lace with the pricking you
Can you still get that now?
If not a small tube of acrylic paint could be substituted, but choose an
opaque colour, not a transparent one! Yellow ochre is opaque as is titanium
white.
Brenda
On 16 Jun 2015, at 08:33, Leonard Bazar leonard...@yahoo.com wrote:
Using permanent ink means a
I imagine that you mean that the thread can break while working with it...
Or can it also happen that it breaks after you have made the lace, once you
are using it?
I had never thought of this before until Pene asked. It has never happened
to me... Do you think it can depend on the type of thread
I never heard of a 'Lace Day' but a 'World Wide Knit in Public' in Madrid
(Spain) which took place last Saturday.
The Costume Museum participated (
http://museodeltraje.mcu.es/index.jsp?id=751; ) as it did in the past and
there we were representing bobbin lace on Saturday evening. Unfortunately I
It would certainly happen both while you were making the lace and later, when
it was being used, if you used sharp bugle beads. With the metal ones, I am not
so sure. It would probably be fine in the making, but wear through the thread
later. I don't think it would matter what thread you used -
Hello
I use quite a lot of seed beads in my lace. I do find the Guatemann seed beads
do lose their colour when washed. I made two lots of edgings for skirts. The
lace and beads looked lovely when done. Then I washed them and the beads went
clear. Has anyone else found this??
Daphne Martin
I do know that tatters have had this as a problem. Quite what the solution is
though I don't know... short of Don't Wash it!!
Sue in East yorkshire, UK
On 16 Jun 2015, at 12:32, Daphne Martin wrote:
Hello
I use quite a lot of seed beads in my lace. I do find the Guatemann seed
beads do
I don’t know where this idea was developed and by whom. The first time I read
about it, it was mentioned on Facebook. My first thought was, that this idea
came from an English speaking country and the Museum De Kantfabriek followed.
It was on Facebook for the first time last week. Originally an
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