[lace] need help

2005-12-30 Thread sof
Hello everybody, I need some help : I look for 2 photos (free publishing) to illustrate a text I writted for a french lace organisation bulletin. I look for a picture of Limerick lace and one of Coggeshall lace. Thank you to help me Happy new year Sof in France with snow and sometime sun!!

[lace] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Pene Piip
Has anyone had success in printing the patterns from the UK Lace Guild Advent Calender? If you have, what browser are you using? I'm using Mozilla Firefox, and I'm just getting chicken scratchings. The photo diagrams are not very clear but the instructions are illegible. I've sent an email

[lace] Point de F

2005-12-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
Greetings Everyone! I hope your Holidays have been filled with the things and people you love! I was able to start a new project this week, and am having a wonderful time with it. It is a Binche piece from Anne-Marie Verbeke-Billiet's Syllabus Binche III, and she describes it as an example of

RE: [lace] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hi Pene - Sorry to hear you've got printing problems! I use Internet Explorer with Mozilla and have no problems. In fact, the printed copy of the pricking was exactly the size that Jean said it should be. Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: Pene Piip [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread sof
Hello Pene, For me all is ok : I print the french versions from Opera. Sof from France Pene Piip a écrit : Has anyone had success in printing the patterns from the UK Lace Guild Advent Calender? If you have, what browser are you using? I'm using Mozilla Firefox, and I'm just getting

RE: [lace] Wreath Boxes - Again!

2005-12-30 Thread Sue
Hi Barbara and all spiders, I am always reading about wreath boxes although I can imagine what they are by the various descriptions I cannot say that I have ever seen one, can anyone tell me whether such a creature exists in the UK? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK where the rain has just started and is

[lace] John Brooker

2005-12-30 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- Does anybody know the current whereabouts of the great British fanmaker of two or three decades ago, John Brooker? Thank you! -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] John Brooker

2005-12-30 Thread Jenny Barron
Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dear all -- Does anybody know the current whereabouts of the great British fanmaker of two or three decades ago, John Brooker? Thank you! -- Aurelia Hi Aurelia, I googled and came up with his homepage http://www.fanmaker.co.uk/ jenny barron

[lace] tatting query

2005-12-30 Thread Alice Howell
There is a Tatted Bedspread on eBay. I recognize the rings and picots of normal tatting, but each section has a wide row of stitches that I don't recognize. It this all tatted? Or has there been a row of crochet added around each section?

Re: [lace] Point de FXe

2005-12-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
Thank you very much for this information, Ilske!! That is a plausible explanation, and I will print out your note, especially as it is Anne-Marie's, (since her use of the term prompted my question). Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: Ilske Thomsen [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Wreath Boxes - Again!

2005-12-30 Thread bevw
If they are to be had, they would be found with either the Christmas 'stuff' in stores, or the dept. that offers plastic tote boxes. I understand the artificial wreath isn't necessarily an item that would be brought out from year to year for the Christmas season, such as to decorate a door, in the

Re: [lace] tatting query, Point de Fée

2005-12-30 Thread Susan Lambiris
Alice wrote: There is a Tatted Bedspread on eBay. I recognize the rings and picots of normal tatting, but each section has a wide row of stitches that I don't recognize. It this all tatted? Or has there been a row of crochet added around each section?

RE: [lace] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Jean Leader
We're off tomorrow to visit our daughter and family (were going to go today but thought it better to avoid the snow). We've sent pdf files of the patterns to Pene - if anyone else has problems printing let us know and we can send them to you too. Jean and David in Glasgow where the snow is

[lace] tatting query

2005-12-30 Thread Valda Kemp
Looks to me to be all tatted. Valda, in foggy Nova Scotia, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a Tatted Bedspread on eBay. I recognize the rings and picots of normal tatting, but each section has a wide row of stitches that I don't recognize. It this all tatted? Or has there been a row of

FW: [lace] tatting query

2005-12-30 Thread Patricia Dowden
There is a Tatted Bedspread on eBay. I recognize the rings and picots of normal tatting, but each section has a wide row of stitches that I don't recognize. It this all tatted? Or has there been a row of crochet added around each section?

[lace] Lace bobbins on antiques roadshow

2005-12-30 Thread Karen
The children's version of Antiques Roadshow had some lovely lace bobbins on on Wednesday this week. Unfortunately, the bone ones were described as being made of ivory by the expert on the show! I did email and point this out, including a couple of references, and have had a reply that they will

Re: [lace] Cardboard wreath boxes

2005-12-30 Thread CLIVE Rice
They have boxes that are called OnePak shipping and are available year round at the US Postal Service; cost varies according to size. Might be good if you were shipping a pillow to Montreal. Jane, your local P.O. might have something that they were doing as a community service. Nothing like

RE: [lace] wreath boxes

2005-12-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
I've come across other styles of wreath storage which would be good for protecting lace pillows, and are available on-line. http://tinyurl.com/825os - This is an octagonal box with lid that looks to be corregated material but is described as stronger than cardboard. Measures 24, but would

[lace] Oya/Bibela in Piecework

2005-12-30 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, The January/February issue of Piecework arrived today!! Lots of neat stuff in it but of most interest to us is an article on Oya called A Meter Square: Headscarves Trimmed with Needle Lace. The article is interesting and the photos are fabulous. One of a pile of scarves edged with the

RE: [lace] BRUSSELS POINT DE GAZE LACE PANEL -- eye candy

2005-12-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
I have to admit, I was puzzled by the description of this piece. For starters, the waist measurement seemed completely out of line with the contemporary view of acceptable female proportions! And that strange patchwork on the end... what is that all about? Like Laurie, I also wonder what this

[lace] Re: Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Dec 30, 2005, at 8:52, Pene Piip wrote: Has anyone had success in printing the patterns from the UK Lace Guild Advent Calender? If you have, what browser are you using? I'm using Mozilla Firefox, and I'm just getting chicken scratchings. No trouble printing out the patterns either with

[lace] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Noelene Bill Lafferty
Talking of printer problems - I recently bought the HP PSC 1410 printer/scanner/copier, and found if I scanned prickings at a high quality then moved them into Paint Shop Pro for resizing (for different thread), then it was as if the original scan was an enormous sheet of paper, and if I resized

[lace-chat] Expressions for OED

2005-12-30 Thread Jean Nathan
Janice wrote: pop one's clogs before 1977 (assumes pop means to pawn) I know pop was used for pawning things but I always thought this expression meant that the person had died. Yes, it does, but what the OED is trying to do is to find out where and when these expressions actually

[lace-chat] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Pene Piip
Has anyone had success in printing the patterns from the UK Lace Guild Advent Calender? If you have, what browser are you using? I'm using Mozilla Firefox, and I'm just getting chicken scratchings. The photo diagrams are not very clear but the instructions are illegible. I've sent an email

[lace-chat] RE: [lace] Printing problem

2005-12-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hi Pene - Sorry to hear you've got printing problems! I use Internet Explorer with Mozilla and have no problems. In fact, the printed copy of the pricking was exactly the size that Jean said it should be. Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: Pene Piip [EMAIL