[lace] Win a trip to Estonia

2007-04-07 Thread Pene Piip
To those readers who would like a chance to win a trip to Estonia this summer, the Spring Quiz is on-line. May 31st is last date to enter. http://quiz.mfa.ee/ Have fun a Happy Easter to everyone, Pene Piip in the University City of Tartu, southern Estonia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2007-04-07 Thread Jean Leader
The cobbler's children are always the worst shod, but, earlier this year we got round to setting up Jean's own website. The result has been a delay in updating The Lace Guild site (now in its 10th year) but we've now got round to mounting some extracts from the January issue of Lace, and we've

[lace] Le Pompe book 2 - long

2007-04-07 Thread Leonard Bazar
I was delighted to read Amanda's reference to book 2 of Le Pompe being available in full on the Professor's site (at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pompe2.pdf) both to have the resource and to be able to clear something from my draft file. I've only just been able to catch

[lace] Re: Le Pompe book 2 - long

2007-04-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Apr 7, 2007, at 17:38, Leonard Bazar wrote: Tamara commented that the wood cuts' accuracy is brought out by using them - they make very accurate prickings. I'm reconstructing a (plaited, mostly) piece from LPII for the next Bulletin and I tried to true the pricking and bring it up to

[lace-chat] Win a trip to Estonia

2007-04-07 Thread Pene Piip
To those readers who would like a chance to win a trip to Estonia this summer, the Spring Quiz is on-line. May 31st is last date to enter. http://quiz.mfa.ee/ Have fun a Happy Easter to everyone, Pene Piip in the University City of Tartu, southern Estonia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace-chat] Murphy's Other Laws

2007-04-07 Thread David in Ballarat
Murphy's Other Laws 1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. 3. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night. 5. Change is

[lace-chat] Quotation in Le Pompe book

2007-04-07 Thread Jeanette Fischer
On the title page of the Le Pompe book ( page 5 of 35 on my PC) there is this quotation: Opera non men bella, chi vtile, neccesaria, Et non piu venduta in luce Anyone fluent in Latin, what does it mean? I have made my own conclusions but I sometimes add two and two and get five!! The German

Re: [lace-chat] Italian quote in Le Pompe book

2007-04-07 Thread Bev Walker
Hi Jeanette and everyone I made an attempt to translate on-line via babelfish, got better results when I realized it is Italian rather than Latin (you get a point for being close!). The text is Opera non men bella, che utile, necessaria, et non piu venduta in luce. So, something like: Beautiful

Re: [lace-chat] Italian quote in Le Pompe book

2007-04-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Apr 7, 2007, at 20:41, Bev Walker wrote: Hi Jeanette and everyone I made an attempt to translate on-line via babelfish, got better results when I realized it is Italian rather than Latin (you get a point for being close!). The text is Opera non men bella, che utile, necessaria, et non