This is just to let everyone know that I've now mounted updated
versions of articles that were on the Lacenotes website on my own
website. They are about winding bobbins, making hitches, and working
continuous unbroken trails across a corner in Torchon lace - you'll
find them all in the
We're now back from holiday and have posted the list of Award and
Medal winners for the Seven competition on the Lace Guild website
(URL in the signature). We'll be adding a gallery of pictures in the
next week or so.
You'll also find details of the Exhibition catalogue which has a
complete
We've now added a gallery of pictures of the Trophy and Award winners
for the Seven competition to the Lace Guild website (URL in the
signature) - just click on the small blue Seven logo at top centre of
the Welcome page. ('Refresh' or 'Empty the Cache' if you don't see
it.)
Jean and David
Earlier this week Jeri mentioned that Allhallows Museum in Honiton
had used lace books for sale but it's not the only place that does.
The Lace Guild also has a lot of second-hand books for sale and I've
just put an updated list on the Lace Guild website (url below) -
you'll find it under Lace
We've just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts from the July
issue of Lace and details of next year's Lace Guild Summer School.
The url is in the signature. Remember to reload/refresh your browsers
if necessary.
Jean and David in a rather grey Glasgow
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Lace Guild home page:
Jean's away, so I'm abusing her lace list account to announce that
the Home page of The Lace Guild's website has now been accessed over
half a million times since it was set up in 1997. (There's an
invisible counter on the page which we check every week. Interesting
statistics in the increase
Thought I'd let you know that I've just added pictures of some floral
Bedfordshire to my website. It's part of a collar in my lace
collection and it has some interesting features - you'll find it at
http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/collection/floralbeds.html
For those of you interested in other
instead of plaits in my
floral Bedfordshire.
She has seen it used in a piece of lace in the Cecil Higgins
collection. You'll find her information at
http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/collection/floralbeds.html
Jean in Glasgow it's wet and grey
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We've just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace
Magazine for October and a new pattern on the Young Lacemakers' Page.
Oh, and one more thing...
...not an iPhone, but the Lace Guild Advent Calendar for 2007.
For those who are not familiar with what is now an annual tradition:
Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I tie my knots, and leave longish ends, and then pull the knots through to
the wrong side, and weave the ends in.
You can avoid the tedious business of pulling the threads through to
the wrong side by knotting the threads over the ones already tied
off. It's a bit
I don't mind winding bobins, sewings or tallies. Making prickings and
sewing on to fabric are ok too.
What I do hate is taking out pins and finding a mistake or a long
loop where a thread has got caught round a pin.
Jean
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collection is definitely worthwhile. Among others are the portarits
of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Dorset.
Jean
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Best wishes to all for Christmas and the New Year,
David and Jean in Glasgow
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Happy New Year to everyone!
There were about 70 entries to the Lace Guild Advent Calendar
Competition, of which approximately one third were completely
correct*. The lucky winners were drawn out of an electronic hat and
were:
Libby Inglis, Eve Morton and Bridget Marrow.
Congratulations to
Just to let you know that we've updated the Events page of the Lace
Guild website and you will now find details of the Lace Guild
Convention at the end of March, two study days with the Lace Guild
collection in June and July, and a weekend with Sandi Woods in
November.
You will also find an
At 4:28 am -0500 5/3/08, lace-digest wrote:
I am looking for the issue number of the magazine containing an article
about the illustrative 'Lacemaker' - a painted picture that had been
published in This England in the early 1970's
The article was by Catherine Barley and is in 'Lace' no.80
Just to let you all know that the extracts from 'Lace' magazine on
the Lace Guild website have been updated. You'll find them under Lace
Magazine at
http://www.laceguild.org
Jean in Glasgow - very very busy preparing for a trip to the USA
(Oregon and California)
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We've just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts from the
April issue of 'Lace' - part of an article by Dianne Derbyshire about
some of the lace in the Rachel B Kay-Shuttleworth Collection at
Gawthorpe Hall (Lancashire UK) and a bookmark pattern by Dee Palin.
You'll also find details of
Tamara wrote:
Alack and alas! This one would not play for me; requires Windows Media
Player, which my Mac refuses to acknowledge.
What Mac users need to view Windows Video on OS X is the Flip4Mac
plugin for Quicktime.
You can download it from http://www.flip4mac.com/ .
The basic plugin
Thought I'd let you know that we've updated the 98 Lace Group website
with a new gallery of pictures from our exhibition in London earlier
this year.
Some of the lace will be on display at the Great Northern (Not Just
Lace) Fair in October and the National Christmas Lacemaker's Fair in
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We've just updated the Lace Guild website (url in the signature) and
mounted
1. A new list of second-hand books available from the Lace Guild which
you'll find under Lace Suppliers Books
There's a SALE on at the moment with many of the books at half
previous prices.
2. Details of two
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We'll be away this weekend so the Lace Guild website update is early
this month - the URL is in the signature. There are new 'Lace'
magazine extracts, and the something else you might expect at this
time of the year - if you're a newcomer to the list look for more
details on Monday.
Jean
We're back from our weekend, so can now complete our previous message
about the Lace Guild website update.
The something else you might expect at this time of the year was
the annual annual Advent Calendar on The Lace Guild website. The
reason that we didn't say what it was was because -
Just a reminder about the Lace Guild Advent Calendar competition.
You've got until January 5th do the lace jigsaw puzzle (or get your
children or grandchildren to do it for you) and send in your entry.
Good luck, and have an enjoyable Christmas.
Jean and David
Lace Guild website:
We put the entries for the Lace Guild Advent calendar competition in
the electronic hat yesterday evening, pressed the button and out came
1. Alice Howell
2. Micki Cameron
3. Janice Blair
We had lots of entries for the competition this year - we hope you
enjoyed puzzling it out. The
We've just added a new selection of items from the Lace Guild's
Collection to the Lace Gallery which you can access from the Guild
page - url below.
You'll also find some new items on the Errata page (accessed from
Publications). Thank you to Jean Nathan for recently pointing out an
lace - one of the whole piece and others at 16 x
enlargement. I really like being able to follow the path of threads -
hope you find it interesting too.
Jean
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Hello everyone,
We've just updated the Lace Guild web site with details of what's
happening at this year's Lace Guild Convention from 17th to 19th April
in Worcester. You'll find that on the Events page. There's also a new
list of second-hand books for sale - look under Books on the
. I volunteered to try and find out what was
available and pass it on.
Many thanks
Jean
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Thought I'd just let you know that I've mounted a new Lace Gallery on
the Lace Guild website - the topic this time is 'Tools of the Trade'.
In case you're new to the list the Lace Gallery, accessed from the
opening page, features a selection of items from the Lace Guild's
collection and is
are June 26th and 27th, 2010.
Jean
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Hello everyone,
We've now mounted some updates to the Lace Guild website - extracts
from April's Lace magazine, details of a Honiton lace weekend with Pat
Perryman at the end of October, and new membership bobbins.
Jean
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Just to let you know that I've added an updated list of second-hand
books for sale to the Lace Guild website (URL in signature).
You'll find it under Lace Suppliers Books
Jean in warm but rather grey Glasgow
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Thought I'd let you all know that I recently updated the extracts from
'Lace' magazine on the Lace Guild website. We've also added some other
things over the past few weeks - a new Lace Gallery, preliminary
information about next year's Summer School, an exhibition of some of
the Guild's
Hello! Did I misunderstand? I couldn't find the updated post on
the guild site for summer school at Urchfront Hall. Please advise.
Thanks. Sincerely, Susan, Erie, PA
The 2010 Lace Guild Summer School is at Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire from
14th - 21st August and the tutors are Pompi
appear on its own page and underneath you will
find an option download video which will give you an mp4 file that
can be viewed on a variety of free players (including your iPhone or
iPod touch if you have one).
Jean
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Nottingham mentions it in one of her books but can't find
where right now.
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Earlier this month we visited Le Puy-en-Velay and the Auvergne region
of France, partly for a holiday and partly to take part in the 20th
Lace Couvige organized by the Centre d'Enseignement de la Dentelle au
Fuseau in Le Puy. We've mounted some photos of the couvige at
://www.jeanleader.co.uk/mylace/wallhanging.html
It has areas of cloth and half stitch joined by plaits and tallies and
there are groups of raised tallies on some of the cloth stitch.
Jean
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but I can't find them right now
(the result of finally getting around to decorating my workroom).
Jean
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We've just updated the Lace Gallery on the Lace Guild website - this
time with some of the new acquisitions to the collection. You'll find
this on the first page under Lace Gallery. If you haven't already
found it there are now details of next year's Lace Guild Summer School
in the Events
or not to pass it on. Personally I would be very wary of doing anything
until I had a lot more information about what was happening.
Jean
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Just a note to say that we've mounted the Lace Guild Advent Calendar for 2009.
For those who are new to the list, this is an interactive advent calendar
which you get to by clicking on the sprig of green holly on the top menu bar
of The Lace Guild website home page http://www.laceguild.org. You
Just to let you know that we've updated the Lace Guild website. There are
extracts from the October issue of 'Lace' magazine which include an article
about Mrs Treadwin's new headstone and a pattern for a Torchon mat. Mrs
Treadwin contributed a great deal to the nineteenth century Honiton lace
Happy New Year!
We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar competition out of the
electronic hat and they are
1. Ilske Thomsen
2. Connie Longford
The answer is now on the Lace Guild website. We've also mounted a list of
credits for the lace in the calendar .
Thank you to everyone who
You live and learn - I always thought the threads left on bobbins were 'oughts'
because you ought to do something with them!
Jean
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I've just added several updates to the Lace Guild website. They include
1. A new Lace Gallery with pictures of collars from the Guild's collection
2. Details of the workshops and talks at the Lace Guild Convention in Worcester
from 9-11 April
3. Two new weekend courses - Honiton Lace with Pat
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You may remember that the University of Southampton in England is closing the
Textile Conservation Centre in Winchester - something which would leave the
UK without any training facilities for conservation specialists.
Some good news that I have just received on the email list of the Online
We were at the Lace Couvige in Pierrefeu du Var (France) again this year, and
have mounted some of our photos on Jean's Google Picasa site. The pictures are
perhaps more social/individual this year's than reflecting the overall lace on
display, but some of you may be interested. (The theme was
Susan wrote: The carved Italian bobbins were particularly intriguing--would
anyone care to comment on their use?...Are they worked palm up?
Jean is still away, so I thought I'd mention that she has a couple of old
articles about Occitan lacemaking on her website, in case you haven't seen
them:
Faye Owers wrote
Does anyone have pictures of the John Bull Trophy winning entries and the
associated classes please.
I've just added a list of the winners and pictures of some of the winning
entries in the Movement competition to the Lace Guild website (accessed from
the home page — URL in
A few small changes to the site. Some of you may find it of interest.
Jean and David in cold, snowy Glasgow
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Oops, pressed the wrong button!
What we were going to say was that the Advent calendar picture and pattern for
2nd December was sent to us by Sue Turnbull, a member of the list. She sent us
one for last year's calendar too and we'd like to say a big thank you to her.
This is the thirteenth
Just a reminder about the Lace Guild Advent Calendar competition - you have
until January 4th to send in your entry.
Good luck!
With wishes for an enjoyable Christmas,
Jean and David in cold and snowy Glasgow
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Happy New Year!
We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar competition out of the
electronic hat and they are
1. Pat Tinney
2. Diana Shand
The answers are now on the Lace Guild website. We've also mounted a list of
credits for the lace in the calendar .
Thank you to everyone who took
There has been a problem with email to The Lace Guild over the past week. This
has now been fixed. Anyone who has sent a message and not received a reply is
asked to resend. Apologies for this inconvenience.
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Just thought we'd let everyone know that we've updated the Lace Guild website
with details of this year's Convention in Swindon. If, like Jean, you didn't
get a copy of the convention planner with your latest copy of 'Lace' you'll be
able to download it and a booking form from the Convention
I've just mounted a new second hand book list on the Lace Guild website - this
is the list mentioned in 'Lace' 141 that includes duplicates that have been
removed from the library so you could find something you've been looking for.
You'll find it under Suppliers Services Books DVDs and you
Laurie Waters wrote:
I wonder if this stamp is at all connected with Spanier Arbeit.
I think she's making a braid which will be used to decorate the trouser legs
shown in the next stamp.
There's a very similar photo in 'Braids Beyond' by Jacqui Carey (ISBN 0
9523225 4 4) of a woman from
Bev Walker wrote
Does anyone know - did the lacemakers expertly use one hand to move
bobbins, the other to place pins?
The Lace Guild library has a draft copy of a book by Ethel Nettleship - 'Pillow
Lace Making - 14 technical lessons to train the eyes and hands in the art of
pillow lace
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Jean
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holly leaves, is it just practice
that will turn then into something
wonderful, perhaps I should go back to my Torchon???
Leaves do get better with practice - keep going!
Jean in cool, wet and windy Glasgow
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to leave it as a challenge. We're looking forward to seeing
the results.
Jean
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cancer research.
Jean
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Jean
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time to go but I hope that anyone who
does will report back about the lace on the skirt and train. I've yet to see a
photo that really shows this well.
Jean
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This is slightly off topic but I thought everyone who has bought 'Floral Bucks
Patterns designed by Joyce Symes' would like to know that Maggy and I have now
been able to donate £3600 to Cancer Research UK - half to go to a research
group in Edinburgh working on the spread of cancer, the other
It's that time again.
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We've had a couple of emails from people using Firefox not being able to see
the pictures in the windows of The Lace Guild Advent Calendar. After consulting
with the Forensic Department at the North Pole we have ascertained that the
culprit is a Firefox plugin, Adblock Plus. The genius who
From time to time I'm asked if I can find homes for lace books and send the
proceeds to designated charities. At the moment I have a box of books which my
local lace contacts either already have or not interested in. However, it
could be that there is someone somewhere who is looking for one of
Just a reminder that with the final window of the Lace Guild Advent Calendar
now open, and the final competition clue revealed (actually that was two days
ago) there's something for you to do over Christmas, namely identify the lace
for the competition.
Have Fun, and a Merry Christmas to all.
Happy New Year!
We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar competition out of the
electronic hat and they are
Suzanne Hardy
Renaudin Edwige
The answers are now on the Lace Guild website. We've also mounted a list of
credits for the lace in the calendar .
Thank you to everyone who took
On 6 Jan 2012, at 14:17, Karen M. Zammit Manduca wrote:
I've opened this link and then tried to open the links to view the list of
books but the Excel link has no book list and the PDF version just doesn't
open. Any ideas anyone?
Karen in Malta.
Depends whether you are on Mac or Windows, what
The January update of the Lace Guild website includes
1. In the Guild section
Information about the Guild's 2013 competition and exhibition on the theme of
Contrasts
2. In the Museum Library section
New Lace Gallery with some needlelace from the LG Collection
The last two parts of the
Just to let you all know that we've updated various things on the Lace Guild
website over the past few weeks. Some of you may have already found them but if
you haven't they are
a new Gallery featuring some of the new acquisitions to the lace collection
We have just mounted an update to the Lace Guild website which includes details
of the July issue of 'Lace', preliminary information about next year's Lace
Guild summer school, information about two new DVDs of Bucks Point prickings
from the AV Clark collection, a new Lace Gallery and...
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It's that time again.
Slight difference this year to accommodate the increasing number of iPad users.
For those (two) days where there is a linked pattern, you get to it by
clicking/tapping the date, rather than the pic. Should be obvious as the date
will change colour when the window opens.
We've realised that we forgot to add a URL for the Advent Calendar to our
message - more haste, less speed!
So for those of you who haven't been to the Lace Guild website before or have
web browsers that are slow to update here it is
http://www.laceguild.org/guild/calendar.html
Today's
We've just mounted a new gallery with a selection of baby bonnets from the Lace
Guild collection. You'll find it at
http://www.laceguild.org/museum/gallery.html
Also new is a list of Contents and a feature from the October issue of Lace -
see
http://www.laceguild.org/sales/magazine.html
If
Happy New Year!
We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar Competition out of the
electronic hat and they are
1. Jean Nathan
2. Ann Shea
The answers are now on the Lace Guild website. We've also mounted a list of
credits for lace in the calendar.
If you would like to contribute a
Lynne Cumming wrote:
Yesterday I picked up a magazine as it said 'The Art of the lacemaker' on the
front. Looking inside I saw the article was about Arachne's own Jean Leader.
So I bought the magazine and sat down to read.
I'd been wondering if anyone had seen the article. It's a pity about
I'm just posting to announce that my husband, David, who is webmaster for
OIDFA, has just released a facility on the OIDFA website for translating
between common lace terms in different languages. Although there are printed
lace dictionaries available, the distinctive features of this facility
Jane Partridge wrote:
Check the way the pairs go in and out of the trails to do the plaits and
tallies - Beds
trails carry passive pairs that go in and out of the trail, keeping the
trail workers to work back and forth, but Cluny swaps the trail workers
into the plaits.
It's not as
On 22 Oct 2013, at 22:29, Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net wrote:
However, what pleases me so much about this new resource on the OIDFA site
is that it encourages lacemakers to add more words and more languages which
need translation!
That's what we think is important too and it's
David's lace is machine-made but I don't think it's Barmen. From looking at Pat
Earnshaw's books about Lace Machines and Machine Laces I think it is Leavers
Independent. The following is what I've already sent to David (minus the scan):
The rather prominent ridges on the 'cloth stitch' areas
If anyone has access to the 3 October issue of the scientific journal Nature
(Vol. 502, No. 7469), there's an interesting one page interview with Sandra
Smith, head conservator at the VA's new Clothworkers' Centre for the Study and
Conservation of Textiles and Fashion. It touches on storage
We've recently updated the Lace Guild website and among other things have added
information about The Lace Guild's 2016 Competition and Exhibition which has
the theme Let's Celebrate. Any lacemakers can enter (you don't have to be a
member) and you can download the Schedule (with the details
email me direct and I'll explain what is
involved.
Jean Leader
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It's that time again - as usual you'll find the Advent Calendar at
http://www.laceguild.org
Also new on the site are the index and featured article from 'Lace' 152
http://www.laceguild.org/sales/magazine.html , and a new book of Celtic
Letters in Milanese lace by Pat Read
We'd like to say thank you again to Sue Turnbull who provided today's pattern
for the Lace Guild Advent Calendar - this is the fourth one she's sent us
since 2009.
If you haven't looked at the website Advent Calendar on an iPad or other
tablet before and are wondering where to find the pattern,
Those of you who have been following the Lace Guild's Advent Calendar will have
opened the last door today.
Time now to solve the jig-saw puzzle and send off your solutions! We look
forward to receiving them all before 2nd January.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Jean
Happy New Year!
We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar Competition out of the
electronic hat and they are
1. Sue Eddy
2. Sue Babbs
Thank you to everyone who took part - we had lots of correct entries.
We'll put the answer on the Lace Guild website tomorrow evening when we get
back
I've updated The Lace Guild website with the January sale of second-hand books.
These are books that have been donated to the The Lace Guild but because the
library already has copies, are being sold to raise funds to buy new books.
You'll find them at
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