[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition 2022

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've now pulled the winner of our Lace Advent Calendar Competition out of
the
electronic hat and the Christmas bobbin goes to

Willy van der Stoep-van Vugt

You’ll find the answers at  https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html

Thank you to everyone who took part.

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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2022

[Jean Leader]

Once again David and I have produced a Lace Advent Calendar which you can find
on my website:

https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html

For anyone not familiar with it, starting from December 1st there is a window
that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two of the
days (they have different coloured numbers), and a competition that you can
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Spread the word and have fun

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Re: [lace] Help With Skeined Cotton Thread

[Jean Leader]

Hi Adele,

I think it’s probably very fine cotton. In the Romance of the Lace Pillow by
Thomas Wright (1971 reprint from Paul Minet) on p.123 it says
“Many workers  use ordinary Lace Thread (which is, of course, cotton),
sometimes called Gassed Thread, from the fact that it is drawn at a slow but
regular pace through a flame of gas in order to deprive it of all film. A two
ounce packet contains four “parcels,” and each parcel a specified number
of “slips”. In the case of the extremely fine “14 slip thread” there
are fourteen slips, in the case of the “12 slip thread” 12 slips, and so
on down to “3 slip,” which is the coarsest in use.”

Somewhere else that I can’t find right now, I’m sure I’ve read that
these “parcels" were tied with pink thread. I’m sending you a photo of
what I think mayt be one of these parcels that I have - it is about 15cm (6in)
long tied with pink string top and bottom and has 14 divisions separated by
the darker pink thread. It only weighs about an eighth of an ounce on my
kitchen scales which may not be very accurate for small amounts. I have other
skeins of thread like this but haven’t had much success when I’ve tried to
unwind them - I suspect the thread isn’t as strong as it would have been
when new. I’ll send you a photo of the thread separately.

Jean


> On 25 Feb 2022, at 19:43, Adele Shaak  wrote:
>
> Hi, Everybody:
>
> I just got a skein of old linen thread that’s not like anything I’ve
ever
> seen before, here in Canada, but I think maybe some of the Europeans on
this
> list might be familiar with what I have and be able to help me.
>
> It’s a single skein, not marked or labelled, and it is very fine - maybe
> equivalent to 180 gassed Egyptian cotton in size - and I think it is linen
> from the feel of it. It is about 15cm (6in) long right now, but it has been
> folded, and about 1.5cm in from each end it is secured with a circle of
pink
> thread. One end is a single fold of the entire skein and the other is two
> folded ends held together.
>
> I think - but I haven’t opened it so I am not sure - that what it is, is
a
> skein of thread about 60 cm around, that has been flatted and folded in
half
> and secured at each end. The thread is so very fine, and has that slight
> wiriness I associate with linen, that I am worried that if I just start
> mucking about with it, in my ignorance I will tangle it beyond saving.
>
> I suppose that if I knew what I was doing, I would cut the pink ties, open
up
> the skein … and then what? How would this be handled? Is there a method?
I
> want to be able to wind it onto bobbins but I’m not sure how to do it.
>
> Any advice on what I should do now?
>
> Adele
> Vancouver, BC
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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've now pulled the winner of our Lace Advent Calendar Competition out of the
electronic hat and the Christmas bobbin goes to

Jane Campbell

You’ll find the answers at  https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html
<https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html>

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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2021

[Jean Leader]

Once again David and I have produced a Lace Advent Calendar which you can find
on my website:

https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html

For anyone not familiar with it, starting from December 1st there is a
window that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two
of the days (they have different coloured numbers), and a competition that
you
can complete when all of the days with clues have been revealed.

Spread the word and have fun

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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've now pulled the winner of our Lace Advent Calendar Competition out of the 
electronic hat and the Christmas bobbin goes to 

Barbara Walsh 

You’ll find the answers at  https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html 

Thank you to everyone who took part. 

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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Those of you who have been following our Lace Advent Calendar will have opened 
the last door today. 
Time now to solve the competition and send off your answer! We look forward to 
receiving them by 31st December.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Jean and David in Glasgow
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[lace] Using Zoom for lace teaching

[Jean Leader]

I have been using Zoom for teaching lace classes for quite a few weeks now, 
trying to work out what was best for both myself and my students, not easy when 
we all had different combinations of desktop/laptop computers and/or 
mac/android devices. With the help of David (DH) I’ve now mounted a couple of 
guides to using Zoom for lace and textile teaching, one for tutors, the other 
for students, which you can find on my website at

https://www.jeanleader.net/teaching/resources.html 

I’d love to know if you find them useful and whether you have any suggestions 
for changes.

Jean in chilly, damp Glasgow

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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2020

[Jean Leader]

Apologies - we had a bug in the mobile version but it’s now fixed although you 
may need to refresh a few times before you get to the right place.

Jean

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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2020

[Jean Leader]

Once again David and I have produced a Lace Advent Calendar which you can find 
on my website:

https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html

For those who are not familiar with it, starting from December 1st there is a
window that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two
of the days (they have different coloured numbers), and a competition that you
can complete when all of the days with clues have been revealed.

Spread the word and have fun

Jean 

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[lace] Updates

[Jean Leader]

Hello everyone,

Just thought I'd let everyone know about some updates I’ve made to my website 
recently - you’ll find links to them on the home page at 

https://www.jeanleader.net

There’s a picture of the cover of my new Bedfordshire book which will be 
available in the new year, a special offer on my lace videos for customers in 
Britain, information about my Zoom lace classes, and also news of a recent 
update to our Lace app.

And now that’s done I need to start thinking about something for December…

Jean in cool Glasgow where most of the leaves have fallen

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Re: [lace] Brides Tortillee

[Jean Leader]

> 
> On 30 May 2020, at 21:36, Devon Thein  wrote:
> 
> Would one consider a piece of French needle lace with a Brides
> tortillee mesh to be Alencon or Argentan? Also, I don't really understand
> how it was made. With Alencon, you do needle lace stitches across a row,
> then you whip back. But in the case of the Brides tortillee all the sides
> are whipped. Is there an easy and logical way to do this? It is supposed to
> be a time saver.

Devon,
I can’t remember now who told me about ‘La dentelle à l’aiguille’ by Brigitte 
Delesques Dépalle but in this she describes both  the Argentan and tortillée 
mesh being made on a grid of laid threads. I have tried it (rather larger than 
it would have been worked) and it does look right. And it’s certainly easier 
than working stitches and then whipping or buttonholing over them. If you’re 
interested I can send you an photo of my effort.
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Re: [lace] Mystery lace

[Jean Leader]

Well, if you look at Joseph Seguin’s La Dentelle (avaiable on the Arizona site) 
Plate XXXVI you might call it Guipure Façon Angleterre, or Guipure 
Anglaise.They both have the same coiled ground and one of them also has 
cucumber tallies.

Allhallows Museum Honiton has two flounces with this coiled ground which 
Santina Levey reckoned were English therefore Honiton late 17th C. They are 
illustrated in John Yallop’s ‘The History of the Honiton Lace Industry’ (the 
book is his PhD thesis and he was the honorary curator at AllHallows).  The 
Glasgow Museums lace collection also has two pieces with this coiled ground, 
one of which is very similar to one of the Honiton pieces. Back in 1993 John 
Yallop told me that the use of the coiled ground is associated with Flanders 
around 1700 but it may be found at much later dates in Eastern Europe.

Jean in grey Glasgow

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> On 21 May 2020, at 22:18, Devon Thein  wrote:
> 
> What would you call the lace I just posted on
> http://laceioli.ning.com/group/identification-history ?
> 

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Re: [lace] Left handed tricks?

[Jean Leader]

I’ve only just caught up with this conversation but if you like diagrams of 
hitches done right- and left-handed I have some on my website a
 
https://www.jeanleader.net/techniques/hitching.html

and also an explanation of why it’s a good idea to wind the thread on the 
bobbin by turning the bobbin rather than wrapping the thread around the bobbin

https://www.jeanleader.net/techniques/winding.html

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Re: [lace] In search of Mikhaylov pattern

[Jean Leader]

Hi Jean,

I have something about making a sample of Mikailov lace on my website at 
https://www.jeanleader.net/articles/fhlrussian.html 
One repeat of the original lace that I copied was about 4.3 cm long, 3.3cm 
wide,  while the sample I made was about 3 cm long, 2.7cm wide. Would you like 
me to send better quality images? 

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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've now pulled the winner of our Lace Advent Calendar Competition out of the 
electronic hat and the Christmas bobbin goes to 

Marion Goard 

You’ll find the answers at  https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html 

Thank you to everyone who took part. 

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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2019

[Jean Leader]

Once again David and I have produced a Lace Advent Calendar which you can find 
on my website:

https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html

For those who are not familiar with it, starting from December 1st there is a
window that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two
of the days (they have different coloured numbers), and a competition that you
can complete when all of the days with clues have been revealed.

Spread the word and have fun.

Jean 

PS Previously there was a separate poetic calendar for smart phones, but as we 
made the whole site mobile-friendly earlier in the year, there is now just a 
single version of the advent calendar that adjusts automatically for different 
sized devices.

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[lace] A puzzle and an updated website

[Jean Leader]

Dear all,

David has been busy and has now updated my website to make it 'mobile 
friendly’. We’ve made a few other changes too - some extra images and a couple 
of new pages. One of these is about my new DVD, Color in Bedfordshire Lace, 
which I filmed with John and Kathy Hensel last summer. The other has photos of 
a present I was given when we were on holiday in France earlier this month - a 
ceramic box  shaped like a lace pillow. I’ve been trying to find out more about 
it without success so I’m wondering if any of you have ever seen something 
similar - you can see it at  

https://www.jeanleader.net/collection/ceramic.html

Jean

PS Technical - If you have visited my website recently it is possible that the 
new version will look dreadful to start with. This is because browsers store 
copies of previously visited files to speed performance. Generally you can get 
over this by refreshing or re-loading, however in this case the problem is with 
a secondary file, a style sheet. One thing you can try is to to load that 
directly by going to to 
https://www.jeanleader.net/scripts/jean.css, then go back to the page and 
refresh. If that doesn’t work you need to clear all the history from you 
browser or wait until other pages you’ve viewed displace my old pages.

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Re: [lace] lace identification websites and books

[Jean Leader]

On 13 May 2019, at 18:52, Karen Thompson  wrote:
> 
>  Elena pointed out the V's site
> http://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Lace-Booklet.pdf
> which
> I also find extremely helpful, especially for identifying the machine made
> laces.

The same website also has a later booklet about identifying hand-made lace

http://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Identifying-Handmade-lace.pdf

I wrote the ID part which was used in workshops on lace for textile 
conservators. It also has a useful section about Conservation, display and 
storage of lace written by textile conservator, Anne Amosford.

Jean

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[lace] New lace website

[Jean Leader]

Some years ago I wrote a couple of dozen web pages for The Lace Guild website 
(under the title “The Craft of Lace”) in which I provided a historical review 
of different types of European laces. Following changes in that organization 
the material has been on my own website, which is not yet adapted to adjust to 
mobile devices. For that reason, and because of its size, we have now mounted 
the material on its own new website, “Lace Types”, at www.lacetypes.com. We 
have tested it mainly on Macs, iPhones and iPads. Please let us know if you 
have any problems viewing it on other operating systems or devices.
 
Thanks
 Jean in sunny Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Bedfordshire lace

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> On 25 Jan 2019, at 23:43, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:
> 
>  After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader, I 
> wasn't as thrilled as I had hoped to be. I've posted a pic to Arachne Flickr 
> & would appreciate some constructive comments. 



Susan,

Looks like you’ve discovered the hard way that threads with the same number of 
wraps per cm/inch don’t all work up the same. Although they have similar wraps 
Cordonnet Special 70 is a hard 6-ply thread designed for crochet, while 
Tanne/Cotona 30 is a soft 2-ply thread which ‘squashes’ and ‘beds together’ 
well which is what’s best for bobbin lace. How lace #3 looks in the 
illustration in my book is how it should look.

I have worked #3 with Special Dentelles 80 (also a hard 6-ply thread like the 
70) because I wanted to use colour but enlarged the pricking 125% for that. 

If you want to stick to Cordonnet Special 70 you could use an enlarged pricking 
or you could try Egyptian cotton 36/2, Mettler 30, DMC broder machine 30, all a 
bit finer that Tanne/Cotona 30, or single strands of 6-strand embroidery floss 
which is a bit thicker, and see how they worked with the pricking you have.

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Re: [lace] Sri Lankan lace

[Jean Leader]

Gil,
I have a couple of narrow lace edgings from Sri Lanka which my mother acquired 
there probably sometime in the 1970s. I think I also have an illustration of 
Sri Lankan bobbins and/or lacemakers in one of my older books about lacemaking. 
I’ll look them out and send you pics and details when I get home. 
Jean - currently enjoying snow and sunshine in the French Alps

> On 15 Jan 2019, at 16:09, Gilian Dye  wrote:
> 
> Sri Lanken Lace
> 
> Many of the items in my lace collection are of unknown provenance, however
> there are a few pieces that I know are from Sri Lanka. Two are tourist
> pieces, one bought by my sister in 1991, the other by a friend in February
> 2004, a third piece I bought from the* Power of Hands* display at the
> Knitting and Stitching show in London in 2008.
> 
> The *Power of Hands Foundation* was established in Gonne in southern Sri
> Lanka after the devastating tsunami in 2004. Women were trained to work
> bobbin lace and to make up items using the lace which can be sold to raise
> much needed funds. Initially sales were mainly to tourists, however in
> 2005, with the support of Andrea Galer and other members of the London film
> an fashion community, contact was established with a film company, and
> Power of Hands is now making collars and other lace items for period films
> such as Jane Eyre. The amount of lace required for such films is more than
> can be provided by the hand workers, so the company has sourced high
> quality machine lace which is used alongside handmade bobbin lace. (Of the
> five other pieces of Sri Lanken lace in my collection, two are machine
> made.)
> 
> 
> 
> I would love to know when and by whom lace was introduced to Sri Lanka
> (Ceylon)? An early note I have was that it was introduced to the country by
> missionaries (I assumed British ones); my sister in 1991 was told by the
> tourist board that it was the Dutch who had introduced the craft, my recent
> research indicates that it was more likely to be a Portuguese import and
> that the Sri Lankan name  - beeralu - is Portuguese, but that is
> contradicted by another source which says the word is a local one! (The
> statement that lace was introduced to the country in the 15th century can
> certainly be discounted.) Some say that the lace was taught first to
> fishermen's wives, others that it was the aristocracy who first learned the
> craft. Today I read that it was Malays who introduced the craft. That was
> the first I had heard of any lace connection with Malaysia - so I am
> thoroughly confused!
> 
> Does anyone have any reliable information?
> 
> Gil
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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

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Happy New Year!

We've now pulled the winner of our Lace Advent Calendar Competition out of the 
electronic hat and the Christmas bobbin goes to 

Susan Hottle 

You’ll find the answers at  https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html 

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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Those of you who have been following our Lace Advent Calendar will have opened 
(in Oz) or will soon be opening the last door.

Time now to solve the competition and send off your answer! We look forward to 
receiving them by 31st December.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Jean and David

PS If you jumped the gun and got an error message on sending your answer, or 
tried again when we thought we had fixed the problem. Our apologies. We have 
set up an alternative way of sending your answers via your email, which does 
work. “The best laid schemes of mice and men…"
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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2018

[Jean Leader]

Once again David and I have produced a Lace Advent Calendar which you can find
on my website:

https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html


For those who are not familiar with, it starting from December 1st, there is
a
window that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two
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you
can complete when all of the days with clues have been revealed.

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Jean in dark, wet Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Central Repository of Errata - brilliant idea!

[Jean Leader]

Some of you will remember Vibeke Ervo who sadly died five years ago. As someone 
who was involved in publishing and book indexing she very much wanted to get an 
online errata project going and back in 2003 had even put together a list of 
errata in Pat Earnshaw’s books and started to gather others. She was working 
with someone who later dropped out. At this point David and I offered to help 
get things online but it never got any further. I can’t remember exactly what 
happened but I think Vibeke had to find a new job which limited the time 
available. I do still have the errata she sent me.

This is something that interests me too (I have errata for my Lace Guild books 
on my website) and I’d love to offer to help but at the moment I have other 
things taking up my time.

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Re: [lace] Jacquard technology

[Jean Leader]

> On 30 Aug 2018, at 16:06, Devon Thein  wrote:
> 
> Previously, lacemaking machines were run on Jacquard technology in
> which the movement of the machine was directed by punched cards. 

MYB Textiles in Ayrshire Scotland has updated 100-year old lace machines that 
used punched cards so that they are now networked to CAD computers in their 
design office. As Gil said the cards are basic computing technology. See 
https://www.mybtextiles.com/history/
The rest of their website is interesting too.

Jean in sunny Glasgow

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[lace] Portuguese Translation added to OIDFA Translator

[Jean Leader]

We have just added Portuguese terms to the OIDFA Translator at 
https://www.oidfa.com/translate.html .

For once, these have been drawn from third-party sources rather than from 
Portuguese native speaking lacemakers. We would therefore especially welcome 
any feedback from any Portuguese native speakers. There may be mistakes and 
omissions, or there may be alternatives listed that are rarely used. Please let 
us know.

Either use the web form, reply directly to me, or talk to me at the OIDFA Lace 
Event in Zaandam, where I am at the moment.

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Re: [lace] early lace video

[Jean Leader]

Devon,

The UK Lace Guild has a draft of a book on lacemaking by Ethel Nettleship in 
which the instructions tell you to work with one hand for the bobbins and the 
other for placing pins. I can’t remember the details and I’m away from home 
right now but have them somewhere at home. I can look them out when I get home 
at the end of the month. Ethel Nettleship was an interesting lady who made lace 
in colour with subjects like parrots, cats, and even bread and butter! As far 
as I remember she was making lace in the 1930s and 40s - the UK Lace Guild now 
has her surviving lace and prickings in its Museum Collection.

Jean currently in Lake Arrowhead CA before moving on to San Antonio TX for the 
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Re: 'Clifhangers' with some postings eg [lace] 20th century bobbin lace grounds

[Jean Leader]

> On 8 May 2018, at 14:21, Jay Ekers <jek...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I only get part of Devon's messages.  The last character received is nearly
> always a 'b’.

That last character which comes up as a b for those with problems should be a 
single aposthrope. So how about seeing what happens  if you send send without 
the apostrophe.
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Re: [lace] Fwd: Lace Magazine #169

[Jean Leader]

> On 2 Feb 2018, at 20:46, Adele Shaak <ash...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I just got my “Lace” magazine - does anybody know this frogging technique?

Gil Dye has instructions for working this frogging in ‘Surface Decoration in 
Silk and Metallic Threads’, Book 3 of her Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Lace 
series. It’s a copy of what are called 'silver gilt lace leaves’ in the 
Hardwick Hall records.

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Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books

[Jean Leader]

> On 18 Jan 2018, at 12:20, Gilian Dye  wrote:
> I'm wondering if any Arachne member knows of any way of dating the numerous
> books and instruction leaflets published by DMC, Coats and other thread
> manufacturers from the end of the 19th century?

For DMC I was either told by someone or read somewhere (I don’t remember which 
now) that there’s a number on or opposite the title page that gives the date of 
printing.
For example, my little green copy of the Encyclopedia of Needlework has 412 
which is April 1912, 
my copy of Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux (1re serie) has 530 which is May 1930, 
and my copy of Die Kloppelspitzen ((II.Serie) has 225 which is February 1925

Having an older date for the Bobbin Lace 2nd series (the one in German) than 
for the 1st series (the one in French) may seem wrong but these books were 
re-printed many times and the earlier 2nd series has the 1st series advertised 
in the back.

My Encyclopedia of Needlework has the Bobbin Lace 1st series advertised in the 
back but not the 2nd series, which indicates that the 2nd series was published 
later than 1912.

Hope that makes sense

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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've now pulled the winner of our Lace Advent Calendar Competition out of the 
electronic hat and the Christmas bobbin goes to 

Bev Walker 

You’ll find a picture of the complete piece of lace at  
https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html 

Thank you to everyone who took part. 

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[lace] Our Lace Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Those of you who have been following our Lace Advent Calendar will have opened 
the last door today. 
Time now to solve the competition and send off your answer! We look forward to 
receiving them by 31st December.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Jean and David in grey, damp Glasgow (no chance of snowflakes here)
….

Lace Advent Calendar: https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html

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[lace] Winding bobbins

[Jean Leader]

I’m away from home teaching this week so don’t have my books and notes on 
threads with me but I do have an article about winding bobbins on my website at 
https://www.jeanleader.net/techniques/winding.html

For me what’s important is not to put any stress on the threads by either 
adding or removing twist while getting them from reel to bobbin and I’ve tried 
to explain how to avoid doing this. 

Jean in cold (but not snowy) Scotland
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[lace] Lace Advent Calendar

[Jean Leader]

For many years David and I have produced an annual Lace Advent Calendar,
hosted on the website of The Lace Guild. We no longer have any connection with
that website, so this year the calendar is on my own website:

https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html


For those who are not familiar with, it starting from December 1st, there is a
window that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two
of the days (they have different coloured numbers), and a competition that you
can complete when all of the days with clues have been revealed.

Spread the word and have fun.

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Re: [lace] Texas floods

[Jean Leader]

I have heard from a lacemaker in San Antonio, Texas that they are ok there - 
the storm went noth but east of them.  They have lacemaking friends in Houston 
and have received word that all of them are safe as of now, and only one had 
water in her house but some are without power and their neighbourhoods are like 
islands.
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Re: [lace] Ripon lace

[Jean Leader]

Diana Smith wrote:
>  Included among the samples were these two marked as being 'Old Ripon’.

When I looked at the photo in the Flickr album I thought I’d seen the lace on 
the left before and have now found it - it’s in the Antique Lace Sample Book 
which is part of the Lace Guild’s Collection. The original label in the book 
says “Piece of lace Old Ripon Lace 18th century”. I don’t really believe the 
18th century part but the lace is definitely the same.

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Re: [lace] IOLI convention

[Jean Leader]

> On 5 Jul 2017, at 23:12, Susan  wrote:
> 
> I was thinking about inviting a cousin-by-marriage to visit IOLI on Wed. 
> 19th, the day designated for the public to attend.  There is a speaker, 
> Candace Perry, at 7pm but I did not find a description of the topic. Does 
> anyone know?  Many thanks.  Sincerely, Susan Hottle USA 

The title of the talk by Candace Perry is Just For Nice: The Use of Lace in 
Pennsylvania Textiles

If you scroll down the IOLI Facebook page to 28 June you’ll find a photo of a 
piece.

Jean  

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[lace] Black Chantilly lace tie

[Jean Leader]

Hello Spiders,

I have added a new page to my website about a black Chantilly lace tie which 
you may have seen elsewhere until earlier this year. You can see it at

https://www.jeanleader.net/collection/blacktie.html

I bought it in Maine so it’s done a fair bit of traveling across the Atlantic 
in it’s time, and now I’m wondering whether it should travel some more so I can 
bring it to to the Arachne lunch at the IOLI Convention - if you’re going to be 
there you’ll have to wait and see!

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[lace] Lace groups in Amsterdam and Utrecht

[Jean Leader]

One of my bobbin lace students will be moving to either Amsterdam or Utrecht 
this summer. I’m hoping that someone will be able to give me some information 
about lace groups in those cities that I can pass on to her.

Thank you
Jean in Glasgow where I’m hoping the rain has finally stopped

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Re: [lace] Chrysanthemum & Tonder lace

[Jean Leader]

Susan,

Tonder bobbin lace (with a slash across the o) is definitely from Denmark - ask 
Bobbi Donnelly who is teaching Tonder at the IOLI Convention in July 
(https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/Conventions/2017Convention/Classes/amclasses.html)
 There could be whitework from Tonder but bobbin lace is what the small town is 
known for nowadays.

Chrysanthemum lace I’d never come across until I saw the book by Cathy 
Belleville but I believe it’s related to Bruges lace which would possibly make 
it Belgian rather than Dutch.

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Re: [lace] What constitutes Gros Point?

[Jean Leader]

On 1 Mar 2017, at 21:46, devonth...@gmail.com wrote:

>  If this is not Gros Point, what would you call it, or
> what would you be searching if you were looking for it.

Devon,

I would call it Point Plat - see at the bottom of the page on my website at 
https://www.jeanleader.net/lacestyles/venice.html

Jean in sunny Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Jean and David Leader

[Jean Leader]

Dear Clay,
Thank you for your concern. We are skiing in the Alps where there's no problem 
with earthquakes.
Unfortunately it's the mountainous southern region of Italy which is an 
earthquake zone - there are two faults there and they are both moving. This 
latest quake has been made even worse by snow and the current extreme cold 
weather. 
Jean

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> On 19 Jan 2017, at 21:32, Clay Blackwell  wrote:
> 
> "I noticed on Arachne that Jean and David Leader are skiing in Italy. I read 
> that an avalanche in Italy buried a hotel."

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Re: [lace] Valenciennes de Gand, but not quite...

[Jean Leader]

My impression is that there were a variety of 'strange' laces, that don't fit 
nicely into any category in the late 19th century. They seem to have all sorts 
of mixed techniques and I wonder if they were part of the handmade lace 
industry's attempts to produce lace that hadn't / couldn't be copied by machine 
and so could command a better price. Something to think about anyway. 
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Re: [lace] Make & Take pattern

[Jean Leader]

> On 14 Jan 2017, at 02:52, Sally Jenkins  wrote:
> 
> There is a wonderful set of patterns here called Flowers, Flames, & Fantasy:
> https://www.laceguild.org/

Those patterns started off with a simple flame pattern that I designed for the 
Lace Guild's Young Lacemaker magazine. Then I offered it to my local lace group 
in Glasgow at different sizes and was amazed with the results. We ended up with 
enough pieces to make several small panels, two of which have ended up in the 
Lace Guild Collection. 
The pattern also appeared in 'Lace' and several other groups used it for group 
projects. 

Jean sitting in Glasgow Airport on the way to Italy for a week's skiing

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Re: [lace] Lace Fish, finished in a short beginner session

[Jean Leader]

I’m sure I have the fish pattern but no time to look for it right now as we're 
busy packing for our ski holiday. If no one else has offered it in a weeks’s 
time please remind me to look for it.
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On 13 Jan 2017, at 17:15, jeria...@aol.com wrote:

> Please share with all, someone - until we get the help requested in next  
> paragraph.
> 
> We discussed these little bobbin lace fish several years ago.  At  the 
> time, someone provided access to the instructions and a pricking -  probably 
> on 
> a local lace group's website.  Perhaps someone  could provide a web address 
> to this quicker-to-make than  snakes instruction sheet with us again?  It 
> prints out to one  page, and is something every demonstrating individual or 
> group might like  to have in their "bag of tricks for tiny beginners".
> 
> There are several letters under "Lace Fish" in the Arachne archives, so I  
> changed the subject line to force this new discussion to be filed with  them:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html  
> 
> Jeri Ames in Maine USA
> Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/13/2017 9:26:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> malva...@sympatico.ca writes:
> 
> When  I've gone out demonstrating, we have a fish pattern (like the head of 
> the  snake. but smaller) which doesn't take much to finish...  
> We have  several sets of bobbins pre-wound and often two pillows so that 
> one 
> is  hung on and started while the people are working on the other.
> 
> Malvary  in Ottawa 
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[lace] Lace Guild website

[Jean Leader]

The Executive Committee of The Lace Guild has decided it wishes a new 
webmaster, and therefore after today, 7th January 2017, David and I will no 
longer be responsible for the content or maintenance of the Lace Guild website. 

Jean Leader

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Re: [lace] 2017 IOLI convention classes

[Jean Leader]

On 5 Jan 2017, at 06:10, Julie Shalack  wrote:

> I've gone to the IOLI website but I don't understand how the convention 
> works.  The registration form tells me to sign up for certain times: all day 
> MTRF, AM MTRF, PM MTRF, W half day, W full day.
> 
> However, the only list of classes that I can see just gives a list of 
> teachers and their subjects without mentioning at what times the classes are 
> offered. 

Hello Julie

You need to refresh your browser and/or empty the cache in order to see the 
updated pages about the classes. Or you should be able to get the page with 
this link 

https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/Conventions/2017Convention/Classes/classes.html

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[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition Result

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've pulled the winners of the Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition out of 
the electronic hat and they are

1. Susan Vossier
2. Edwige Renaudin

Thank you to everyone who took part. We've put the answer on the Lace Guild 
website and we've also mounted a list of credits for the lace in the calendar.

Jean and David

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Re: [lace] The Bulletin, fall issue 2016

[Jean Leader]

 On 28 Dec 2016, at 21:43, Susan  wrote:
> Has this issue been published & received by members?  The summer issue was 
> late, so is the fall issue delayed as well? 

Yes, the IOLI Fall 2016 Bulletin is also delayed - it takes a while to catch up 
on lost time. The good news is that it has been printed and should be in the 
mail any day now. 

Jean

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[lace] Advent Calendar

[Jean Leader]

Just a note to say that the annual Lace Guild Advent Calendar has been mounted 
at www.laceguild.org/guild/calendar.html 

For those that are not familiar with this, there is a new picture every day, 
patterns on two of the days (they have different coloured numbers), and a 
competition that you can complete when all of the days with clues have been 
revealed.

Have fun.

Jean and David in Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Lace in Norway - 2

[Jean Leader]

Jeri,

The only Norwegian lace I’ve seen is a Bridal Crown made by Ernst Ziesler which 
was in a Lace Guild exhibition in 1998. Googling for his name I found an 
article but it’s all in Norwegian! Here’s the link anyway

http://www.bunad-magasinet.no/ernst-ziesler-norges-fremste-kniplingsspesialisthele-artikkelen.242541-28794.html

It looks like a recent article so maybe it will help.

Jean

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Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin

[Jean Leader]

On 25 Oct 2016, at 14:22, Karen Bovard  wrote:

> That is my problemIOLI doesn't send out reminders as to when dues are
> due. 

If IOLI has been given an email address the Membership Chair does send out 
email reminders of when dues are due. 

But this only works if the email address is correct so please be extra careful 
when writing it down on the renewal form.

And as Janice mentioned you can always check the expiry date on the address 
label when your bulletin arrives.

Jean in sunny Glasgow

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Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin

[Jean Leader]

On 25 Oct 2016, at 14:47, Malvary Cole  wrote:

> Perhaps IOLI should look at the system The Lace Guild uses.  The renewals are 
> sent out once a year, in the magazine and the payment is for the next four 
> issues.  It means everyone is on the same renewal date and if you join mid 
> year you get the back issues plus those still to come for that year.

This is the system IOLI had before it was changed to the current one over 10 
years ago. The problems with a single renewal date are (A) having to estimate 
how many extra magazines to have printed to allow for new members joining 
during the year, (B) finding somewhere to store all these extra magazines, (C) 
the extra postage costs for sending out additional magazines (not something you 
can pass on to a new member).

Jean in sunny Glasgow

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Re: [lace] OIDFA lace patterns?

[Jean Leader]

Hello Susan,
I don’t remember a page of patterns on the OIDFA website. There certainly 
hasn’t been one since the website was redesigned in 2012.
Jean

On 23 Oct 2016, at 19:23, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:

> Hello All!  Did OIDFA take down their page of patterns?  At one point, there 
> was quite a collection. From time to time, I've used several as learning 
> pieces but didn't find a link when I checked today.  Perhaps they are 
> archived somewhere else??  It would be sad if they just disappeared.  
> Sincerely, Susan Hottle USA  

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Re: [lace] Linen thread

[Jean Leader]

On 17 Oct 2016, at 09:12, Kathleen Harris  wrote:

> They told me that the old varieties of flax, which were used to produce linen 
> thread fine enough to make, for instance, Binche lace, have been lost. 
> Today's flax varieties just do not have fine enough fibres.

I have heard that too, but wonder if it could also be to do with modern 
industrial processing versus the old hand processing of the flax. Hand 
processing is likely to be gentler and might also give the opportunity to 
select the finer fibres. 

Many years ago when I was a new lacemaker I also had the idea of spinning linen 
thread to make lace and even produced enough to make a few inches of a Torchon 
fan edging. Then I moved on to Bucks Point and it certainly wasn’t fine enough 
for that so I gave up. I’m a better spinner now so maybe I should try again but 
first I’d have to find the prepared flax!

Jean in damp, grey Glasgow

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[lace] Lace for iPad and iOS10 - important

[Jean Leader]

The recent release of iOS 10 (September 2016) causes Lace for iPad to crash on 
launch. The iPhone version is not affected. 

Unfortunately there is no quick fix for this and Lace for iPad will have to be 
restructured and rebuilt from scratch. We sincerely apologize for this 
inconvenience and will do all we can to expedite the release of a new version, 
but regret that it is likely to take several months. In the interim, we can 
offer a copy of the iPhone app to anyone who has purchased the iPad app. This 
can be mounted on the iPad under iOS 10, although it does not take advantage of 
the full area of the iPad.

If you have already purchased Lace for iPad it will work fine up to iOS 9 - 
it’s just the latest update to iOS 10 that is the problem.

Jean and David in damp Glasgow

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[lace] OIDFA

[Jean Leader]

This week I’ve been asked by a couple of people what will happen now that the 
2018 OIDFA Congress in Bruges has been cancelled. If you are also wondering 
about this you will find a statement from the OIDFA Executive Council on the 
OIDFA website - go to https://www.oidfa.com/cong.html and click on the link 
about half way down the page.
You’ll also find photos from this year’s Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia 
further down the page. I was there and thoroughly enjoyed both the Congress 
weekend and the tour afterwards.

Jean in Glasgow where it was warm and sunny today

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Re: [lace] Lutec (?) lace

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On 27 May 2016, at 09:12, H M Clarke  wrote:
> I had the privilege to go to Anchorage for a lace class way back in, I think, 
> 1998. I did Bruges but I seem to remember that a few people were learning 
> lutec (?) lace. I think it was a bobbin lace that made use of padding 
> techniques from some needle laces. 

Hi Helen,

Your memory isn’t playing tricks - it’s Lutac lace named after Lucienne 
Tack-van Maldere,  the person who developed it. She wrote a book called Lutac 
Relief which has what I always think of as a cauliflower on the cover. In her 
instructions the padding is covered with cloth stitch. Karen Marie Iversen from 
Denmark also uses the technique for jewellery and she covers the padding with 
half stitch which means that the padding threads are visible and become part of 
the design (there are patterns in her book Modern Lace Jewellery). 

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Re: [lace] Honiton With Rectangles?

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On 16 May 2016, at 21:57, Adele Shaak  wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago I posted a question (below) about a Honiton collar, and
> didn’t hear from anyone. 

Hi Adele,

I think it is probably Honiton - the flowers including the thistle are typical 
as are the leaves with raised work. I’ve never seen quite such a regular ground 
of picoted bars before but maybe someone was trying to be a bit different! The 
bird looked familiar and that’s because there’s a very similar one in a Honiton 
flounce in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

Jean in Glasgow where rain is forecast for tomorrow after a week of sunshine

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Re: [lace] Queyras lace

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On 15 Apr 2016, at 22:48, sylvie nguyen  wrote:
> I'm wondering if some of the lace makers are familiar with or make Queyras
> lace.

Hello Sylvie,

I haven’t been to Queyras but the lace in Val Varaita just across the border in 
Italy is very similar. I went to Val Varaita a few years back and have 
something about it on my website at   
http://www.jeanleader.net/articles/index.html

They’re both freehand laces worked with very few pins - I have a couple of 
samples from Val Varaita and instructions for a few patterns.

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Re: [lace] Used book prices - The Lace Guild's book offerings

[Jean Leader]

On 2 Apr 2016, at 22:56, Jean Reardon  wrote:

> I am an IOLI member and have considered joining the Lace Guild, also, but I 
> live in
> the US. …. Do you know if it is possible to pay that through Paypal?

Yes, it is possible to pay for Lace Guild membership using PayPal - if you go 
to 

https://www.laceguild.org/guild/membership.html

you can download an application form which has that as one of the payment 
options.

Note that the membership year runs from 1st July.  

Jean in damp Glasgow

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[lace] Lace Guild Second Hand Books

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I’ve just added a new list of second hand books for sale from the Lace Guild - 
you’ll find it at https://www.laceguild.org/suppliers/books.html - just click 
on Books for Sale for the PDF file.

Jean in grey damp Glasgow

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Re: [lace] thread for Hollie Point

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Hi Julie,

It’s a long time since I worked any Hollie Point but I used Madeira Tanne 50 
for the best sample I made (I’ll send you a scan privately). In that one I had 
about 8 rows and 15 stitches in a 0.25 in square. By comparison a piece of 
Hollie Point in the Glasgow Museums Collection had about 10 rows and 22 
stitches in a 0.25 in square - more stitches closer together, although I was 
getting close. I can’t remember what size needle I used. I do remember that I 
could only work that tightly with good light and sometimes needed a magnifying 
glass too! 

You do need to use short lengths of thread for needle lace - the length of your 
forearm is a good guide. Any more than that and the threads will start looking 
sad before you get to the end.

When Hollie Point was made I expect linen was used rather than cotton but I’ve 
never seen any made with silk. I’ve always found that linen available today 
isn’t good for needlelace as it tends to fall apart quickly. Perhaps the 
quality was better in the 18th/19th century.

Jean in cool but dry Glasgow 

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Re: [lace] Book enquiry

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Hi Anna,

If it’s just the Nüw Modelbuch facsimile part of 'Fascinating Lace' that you 
want it can be downloaded as a PDF file from

http://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/1658127

e-rara.ch is a  platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries

Gil Dye’s books on Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Lace  ( 
https://earlylace.wordpress.com/home/ ) feature several patterns from the Nüw 
Modelbuch

Jean in chilly Glasgow

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[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition Results

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar Competition out of the 
electronic hat and they are

1. Achim Siebert
2. Silvia Scholz

Thank you to everyone who took part - this seems to have been a more difficult 
competition than last year but nevertheless some of you managed to crack it!

We've put the answers on the Lace Guild website and we've also mounted a list 
of credits for the lace in the calendar.

If you would like to contribute a picture or pattern for next year's Advent 
calendar we'd love to hear from you.

Jean and David

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[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Those of you who have been following the Lace Guild's Advent Calendar will have 
opened the last door today. 
Time now to answer the competition questions and send them off! We look forward 
to receiving them all before 4th January.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Jean and David

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[lace] Lace Guild website Advent Calendar

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The Lace Guild's website will once again be mounting its Advent Calendar at 
http://www.laceguild.org/guild/calendar.html . For those of you not familiar 
with this, there is a new lace picture every day, two of the days have links to 
patterns, and six of the days are clues for a competition, which anyone can 
enter.

Although this works well on tablets as well as on standard computers, 24 
windows are something of a squeeze on a smartphone. So there is also a phone 
version of the calendar which you can find at 
http://www.laceguild.org/phonecal.html .
The smartphone version has the daily lace picture, although if you want the 
patterns and wish to enter the competition you will still need to go to the 
standard version. To compensate we have added a literary dimension to the phone 
version. (You need to tap somewhere other than the doors to get to it.) If you 
miss a day (how could you?) you can go back by tapping somewhere else. (Ask a 
small child, if you can’t suss out these hidden features.)
As long as you have a recent browser the calendar should work on most phones.

If you have any problems accessing the calendar please let us know.

Jean and David in Glasgow where it may snow tomorrow (which will be a change 
from the incessant rain)

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[lace] Updates to Lace Guild website

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Dear Spiders,

I have just done some updating on the Lace Guild website - details of  next 
year’s summer school in North Wales, the new exhibition at The Hollies and a 
correction for the lovely Honiton pattern by Pat Perryman in the October 
‘Lace’. The pricking is on p.39 and should be reduced to 75% of the printed 
size for working with Honiton techniques. There’s also some extra information 
about Doreen Creed’s Honiton flowers on p.38. See 
https://www.laceguild.org/guild/stop.html

Jean in grey,damp Glasgow
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Re: [lace] Sea Silk

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On 2 Sep 2015, at 11:51, Jane  wrote:

> I've never heard of sea silk before, but found this article amazing. I 
> thought others of you might be interested.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

If any one wants to know more bout sea silk there’s an interesting website 
about Project Sea-silk at the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland 
which is documenting what is known about sea-silk - history, production, 
inventory of existing objects etc - despite the URL in German,  it's in English

http://www.muschelseide.ch/en/projekt.html

I found it fascinating.
Jean in sunny Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Young Lacemakers bracelet pricking

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On 21 Aug 2015, at 17:48, Susan hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:

 Hello All!  Size matters!  When I printed out this cute pattern from the Lace 
 Guild UK website, it doesn't seem like it is the correct scale.  Can anyone 
 tell me the correct length

Susan,

I added the bracelet pattern to the Lace Guild website and have the original 
pricking. The size should be 15.3 cm long (A to bottom pinholes), 1.6 cm wide. 
I made it at that size and it didn’t go round my wrist! That’s why I added the 
sentence about checking and adding more repeats if necessary.

The pricking has been there a while - now I would give a size indication. Must 
remember to go and do that when I get back from next week’s holiday.

Jean in sunny Glasgow (but we had a lot of rain earlier today)

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Re: [lace] lace timeline

[Jean Leader]

Susan,
A couple of years ago I was asked to write a section about identifying 
hand-made lace in a booklet that was used for a series of workshops for textile 
curators organized by Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS) in partnership with 
the VA. As the aim was to help non-specialists to identify hand-made lace I 
tried to give an overview of how lace styles changed over time rather than 
include lots of photos which could have been rather intimidating.

The booklet is available online at

http://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Identifying-Handmade-lace.pdf

and also includes useful information about conservation, display and storage of 
lace. 

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Re: [lace] Lace Guild - Poppy and Swan Bobbins for Members

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On 6 Jul 2015, at 17:45, ELIZABETH PASS elizabeth.p...@tesco.net wrote:
 I appears that the Lace Guild website has recently been updated.  Sadly there 
 are no Poppy bobbins but for the current membership year 2015-2016 the 
 bobbins have the Lace Guild logo and heart outlines in blue.


Liz Pass is quite right - I updated the Lace Guild website last week and added 
the new Lace Guild membership bobbins for 2015-16 (the bobbins for 2014-15 are 
sold out except for a few Poppy continentals). If you can’t see the new bobbins 
you need to refresh your browser (or empty the cache if that doesn’t work).

The new bobbins are lovely smooth wood and while they are more expensive than 
last year don’t forget that the price that you see on the website includes 
postage.

I also added the 2016 Calendar - Rubies are red…  I haven’t seen it yet myself 
but hope to be able to add some information about the contents soon.

Next on my list for the Sales Page are the 2015 Christmas bobbins - there will 
be a bone and a wooden bobbin for ‘Seven Swans A-swimming” for those of you 
collecting the 12 Days of Christmas, and also painted bobbins with a Christmas 
wreath in Midlands, Honiton and Continental styles.

The elephant on the Young Lacemakers page 
(https://www.laceguild.org/ylm/elephant.html) can be made as a simple outline 
for beginners - scroll to the bottom of the page to see this. A good way of 
providing something for a young lacemaker beginner is to take a simple outline 
and work it with 4 or 5 pairs in cloth stitch - the elephant outline can be 
downloaded from the page as a PDF file or the young lacemaker could draw her 
own shape.

Jean in Glasgow where it’s still grey and damp

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Re: [lace] Flanders beginner books

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On 6 Jul 2015, at 04:24, Marianne Gallant m...@shaw.ca wrote:

 Can someone recommend a good beginner book that is on the market right 
 now, for Flanders lace? 

I don’t know of a book that is available now but I learnt the basics of 
Flanders Lace from Creative Lace Patterns by Valerie Paton which was published 
by Dryad in 1987. Valerie Paton was living in Scotland then but had learnt her 
lacemaking in Belgium. The book also included the basics of Russian, Bruges 
Flower, and Torchon lace. It doesn’t have a lot of patterns but the 
illustrations - lace, prickings and diagrams - are clear and the instructions 
look detailed (I don’t remember having any problems with them).

The book is available second-hand at a sensible price - the Lace Guild’s 
second-hand book list  (https://www.laceguild.org/suppliers/books.html) shows 3 
copies at £2 but they might have gone by now. You can also get it from various 
second-hand book sellers via Amazon.

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RE: [lace] OIDFA Lace translator

[Jean Leader]

If anyone wishes to comment on the Hebrew lace translation on the OIDFA 
website, I think it would be best if they contacted me OFF-list (via Jean’s 
email address). 

Thank you,

David Leader

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[lace] Something different on the OIDFA Lace Translator

[Jean Leader]

This is David using Jean’s address to announce that another language has just 
been added to the Lace Translator on the OIDFA website 
(http://www.oidfa.com/translate.html) making 17 in all. This one is Hebrew, and 
it’s different for a couple of reasons. 

First it’s a right-to-left language, which not only required new coding to 
accommodate, but was a real pain manipulating on the computer when mixed with 
Roman (left to right) characters like simple parentheses. The second is that 
it’s a language which does not have its own words for certain lace terms, and 
so a term had to be transliterated or invented. Yael Kaplan, who was 
responsible for the translation therefore added short explanations, which I 
have inserted below the image.

This latter is something that could be applied to terms in certain other 
languages — Japanese comes to mind, but even in European languages there will 
be styles that are not common in the region where the language is spoken. So 
the moral is that if you think an explanation is required from something 
already listed, please contact us, and if you were thinking of offering, say 
Chinese, don’t be put off by the absence of some terms in your language.

Oh, and if you happen to speak one of the mainstream lace European languages 
that we still lack - Portuguese and Maltese come to mind - do give it a go 
(Brazilian-flavoured Portuguese is OK with me).

David Leader (OIDFA Webmaster)

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Re: [lace] June 21 International Lace Day

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On 15 Jun 2015, at 14:53, laceandb...@aol.com wrote:

 If this is a new event/idea someone's come up with, why not have it  the 
 same day as the already long established UK National Lacemaking Day, 2nd  
 Saturday in September (this year the 12th) and make it International 
 Lacemaking  
 Day instead?  

The first UK National Lacemaking Day was actually on 14th September 1991 - 
there’s a report with photos in “Lace 65 (January 1992). 

Jean in Glasgow

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Re: [lace] June 21 International Lace Day

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On 15 Jun 2015, at 14:53, laceandb...@aol.com wrote:

 If this is a new event/idea someone's come up with, why not have it  the 
 same day as the already long established UK National Lacemaking Day, 2nd  
 Saturday in September (this year the 12th) and make it International 
 Lacemaking  
 Day instead?  

The first UK National Lacemaking Day was actually on 14th September 1991 - 
there’s a report with photos in “Lace 65 (January 1992). 

Jean in Glasgow

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[lace] Lace Guild website address

[Jean Leader]

 Since 1999 The Lace Guild website has had the address www.laceguild.org. 

When the website was set up in 1997 it was hosted by a company called Demon 
Internet which furnished the site with an underlying name of 
www.laceguild.demon.co.uk, which is more complicated, tied to a now defunct 
company, and the use of which has been discouraged this century. Nevertheless 
googling indicates that dozens of sites still have links to this old address. 
OMG!

Later this month The Lace Guild website will no longer be hosted by a company 
that redirects from www.laceguild.demon.co.uk, so that address will no longer 
work. 

Please check your links and replace any incorrect ones with the simple and 
obvious address that will persist as long as The Lace Guild does, irrespective 
of web host:

www.laceguild.org

Or just google for The Lace Guild.

Jean and David in sunny Glasgow

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[lace] 1931 lace making clip

[Jean Leader]

It’s a fascinating film clip. The pattern she’s making is in Geraldine Stott’s 
Bobbin Lace Manual where she says “ This old Bedfordshire pattern is meant to 
represent the meandering River Ouse at Bedford , with the many waterlilies that 
lie on the river there.” It also appears in Pamela Nottingham’s Technique of 
Bobbin Lace (original edition) where it is called Bedfordshire spider pattern. 
In both of them half stitch is used for the ‘spider/waterlily’ while I think 
the film shows cloth stitch.
Jean in Glasgow where  we’ve had a sunny Bank Holiday Monday

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Re: [lace] Picot problems

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On 25 May 2015, at 19:58, Susan hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:

 Before I aggravate myself with another strip, could someone lend a hand with 
 advice? 

Susan,

Working a twisted picot:
1. Take pin from outside under outer thread of twisted pair, bring point of pin 
towards you and out to the side over the thread, place pin (this can be 
somewhere in the pillow at a distance from the pattern).
2. Check that the thread to the bobbin is on the underside of the loop round 
the pin.
3. Bring other thread of pair below and round the back of the pin to lie beside 
other thread. (For left-hand picots this will be clockwise, for right-hand 
picots anti-clockwise.)
4. Check that the threads coming away from the pin are one below and one above 
the threads going to the pin. (The diagram on kloskant week 45 shows this for a 
picot on the right-hand side of the lace.) This is necessary so that when you 
tension the twists stay together and end up around the pin.
5. If you’ve placed the pin away from the pricking you can now move it 
carefully into its pinhole. (Placing the pin away from the pricking initially 
and then moving it into place is a trick I was shown any years ago.)

I suggest trying this to both right and left with a pair wound with thick 
thread so you can really see what’s happening.

Jean in Glasgow where the sun is still shining

 

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Re: [lace] Lace Guild website update

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On 14 May 2015, at 01:39, Cindy Comeyne lace@arachne.com wrote:

 Jean.
 the file is hard to read.  The gray and black lines in the table are too
 thick and the spacing of the words are too close to them.  I even
 magnified and it still was not good.

It’s always difficult to know how things will look on someone else’s computer 
or tablet. It looked fine to me but I have now changed the PDF files and the 
cells are a bit bigger - I’ve also added row numbers which were missing on some 
pages. If the new PDFs aren’t any better for you please contact me privately 
and I’ll send the original Excel spreadsheets.

Jean in Glasgow where it’s not raining yet!

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[lace] Lace Guild website update

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I've just updated The Lace Guild website with two new lists 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. This time there is a Bargain Basement list with all the books at either 
50p or £1!
You'll find them at

http://www.laceguild.org/suppliers/books.html

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[lace] New Gallery on Lace Guild website

[Jean Leader]

I have just mounted a new Gallery on the Lace Guild website. This one features 
nine items from the Lace Guild Collection with accession numbers starting with 
D, E or F and can be found at
 
http://www.laceguild.org/museum/gallery.html

Please contact me with any questions or comments.

Jean in grey but dry Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Convention

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On 16 Jan 2015, at 09:34, Jane Partridge jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk wrote:

 The Lace Guild's AGM and Convention at The Masonic Guildhall
 in Stockport, UK, 10-12 Aprill. Further details are on the Guild's 
 website http://www.laceguild,org/events (click on the tab for 'annual 
 convention') 


I’ve realised that a comma has crept into the URL that Jane gave so it doesn’t 
work. It should be
http://www.laceguild.org/events/

There will be more information coming with details of displays and workshops 
just as soon as it gets to me.

Jean in sunny Glasgow where we’ve had one snow shower this morning and more are 
promised
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[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition Results

[Jean Leader]

Happy New Year!

We've pulled the winners of the Advent Calendar Competition out of the 
electronic hat and they are

1. Alice Howell
2. Joepie Hammett

Thank you to everyone who took part - we had lots of correct entries.

We've put the answers on the Lace Guild website and we've also mounted a list 
of credits for the lace in the calendar.

If you would like to contribute a picture or pattern for next year's Advent 
calendar we'd love to hear from you.

Jean and David

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[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition

[Jean Leader]

Those of you who have been following the Lace Guild's Advent Calendar will have 
opened the last door today. 
Time now to answer the competition questions and send them off! We look forward 
to receiving them all before 2nd January.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Jean and David

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[lace] Lace Guild website problem

[Jean Leader]

There has been an intermittent problem with the Lace Guild website today and 
it’s currently down. This is a general problem with the hosting company and we 
don’t know when it will be fixed but if you want to see the Advent Calendar we 
have already had to move it because traffic temporarily exceeded our allowed 
quota. 

The Advent Calendar is now at 

http://www.jeanleader.net/lace/guild/calendar.html

and

http://www.jeanleader.net/lace/phonecal.htmlfor the phone version

Jean and David in damp Glasgow

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[lace] Updates to Lace Guild Advent Calendar

[Jean Leader]

David has been working hard on the phone version of the Advent Calendar and 
it’s now possible to go back in time and look at any days that you might have 
missed. `
Just tap on the date.

And today someone pointed out to me that on the competition page there were 
only 5 drop-down menus for the 6 grounds featured. That has now been fixed - if 
you don’t see all 6 then you need to refresh the page.

Jean in Glasgow where we’re expecting gales and rain tomorrow

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[lace] Advent Calendar translation

[Jean Leader]

Slightly off topic but...
A translation note for US viewers of the phone version of the Advent Calendar 
today - ‘do the washing-up’ (British English) equals ‘do the dishes’ (American 
English)

Jean and David in sunny Glasgow

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[lace] Lace Guild website Advent Calendar

[Jean Leader]

The Lace Guild's website will once again be mounting its Advent Calendar at 
http://www.laceguild.org/guild/calendar.html 

Although this works well on tablets as well as on standard computers, 24 
windows are something of a squeeze on a smartphone. So this year we have 
prepared a phone version of the calendar which you can find at 
http://www.laceguild.org/phonecal.html

This has the daily lace picture, although if you want the patterns and wish to 
enter the competition you will still need to go to the standard version. To 
compensate we have added a literary dimension to the phone version. (You need 
to tap somewhere other than the doors to get to it.) We are afraid that there 
is no turning the clock back — you can only see the picture and the literary 
quotation for the current day, so if you are interested in this, save a link on 
your phone and check it each day.

We have tested the site on all iPhones from 3G to 6+, and on several android 
phones and one Windows phone. As long as you have a recent browser the calendar 
should work. (We had trouble on an HTC phone until we downloaded a Chrome 
browser.)

If you have any problems accessing the calendar please let us know.

Jean and David in Glasgow where it’s been a beautiful sunny day

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[lace] Lace Guild website update

[Jean Leader]

Just in case no one has noticed I thought I’d tell you that over the past few 
weeks I’ve made various updates to the Lace Guild website including:

Details of 27 Earring Patterns, the new book that was mentioned on Arachne 
recently
http://www.laceguild.org/sales/pattBooks.html

Details of the Lace Guild Christmas bobbins - 6 Geese a-laying
http://www.laceguild.org/sales/bobbins.html

Suggestions from Jacquie Tinch for lace to wear that could be entered in  Class 
12 of the 2016 Let’s Celebrate competition. 
http://www.laceguild.org/guild/class12.html
You don’t have to be a Lace Guild member to enter and you can download the full 
schedule as a PDF file at 
http://www.laceguild.org/guild/celebrate.html

A new Gallery of lace from the Lace Guild Museum
http://www.laceguild.org/museum/gallery.html

Jean in Glasgow where the promised rain never arrived and the sun shone instead

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[lace] 98 Lace Group Exhibition

[Jean Leader]

I have now mounted images of the lace from the 98 Lace Group’s current 
exhibition, Gateways. This will be at the Wisbech  Fenland Museum in Wisbech, 
Cambridgeshire until 1st November. This weekend (13th and 14th September) 
members of the group will be making lace at the museum and also at Peckover 
House, a National Trust property.
You’ll find details (under Group Events) and images (Gallery 6) on the 98 Lace 
Group website at   http://www.98lacegroup.org.uk

Jean in Glasgow where it’s a beautiful autumn day

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[lace] Photos from OIDFA Adelaide Congress

[Jean Leader]

Just wanted to let everyone know that you can see photos from the OIDFA 
Congress in Adelaide at

http://www.oidfa.com/cong.html

The first gallery of photos is of the Competition Prize-Winners, the second is 
of Congress events and Adelaide itself.

Jean and David in Glasgow where the sun is shining now but rain is promised for 
tomorrow

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[lace] Lace translations

[Jean Leader]

Dear all,

Some of you will be aware of the OIDFA Translator which my husband, David, has 
been developing. This focusses on about 40 (currently) core lacemaking terms 
(primarily bobbin lace) and attempts to solicit the vocabulary from native 
speakers of different languages. Currently 15 languages are represented, 
although with varying degrees of completeness. The URL is 
http://www.oidfa.com/translate.html .

David has asked me to post the following about the latest update, which is 
Russian. Now we appreciate that the members on this list are mainly from the 
US, Great Britain, and other English-speaking countries, but - especially in 
the US - there are always members for whom English is not their mother tongue. 

Russian is a particular problem in that there is a continuing tradition of 
lacemaking there, but few Russian lacemakers speak English. A set of Russian 
terms would therefore be particularly useful, but correspondingly difficult to 
obtain. The translations I have so far are via a French intermediary! I have 
tried to use pictures to clarify terms for non-English or non-French speakers 
(the two languages of OIDFA), but sometimes it is difficult to select a picture 
that is unequivocal. There is also the problem that different types of lace 
techniques have different vocabularies, and that different languages may 
express things in different ways and lack nouns used in other languages.

So I suspect that there are some problems with a few of the Russian terms, and 
I wonder if there are any native speakers on this list who are able to help 
out. These are the problems:

1. In English there is a general name to refer to things like half-stich, cloth 
stitch, cloth-stich-and-twist, namely 'stitch'. Although Google translate 
suggests several words for stitch, it is not clear which, if any correspond to 
this idea. Unfortunately the image I have is of a particular stitch which 
confused the Russian translator (suggestions for something better appreciated). 
My question then is whether such a word exists in Russian. For example, how 
would one translate the following sentence?

Which stitch do I use next, cloth stitch or half stitch?
Is there a general term for the stitch which is the second word in the 
sentence, or would this be translated in Russian without a noun? e.g. as in:
What do I do next, a cloth stich or a half stitch?

2. Nouns for the concepts of 'head-side' and 'foot-side' may or may not exist 
in different languages. I am suspicious that the translator has tried to 
translate the components of the English terms, rather than the concepts they 
are used for.

3. Likewise for passive v. weaver/worker.

Let me emphasise that I am most grateful to the translators for providing 
translations for the grunge work of providing the bulk of terms, but that 
nobody is perfect and the essence of mounting this on the web is that 
corrections can be made and continue to be made at no publishing cost.

If I waited until the work was perfect I'd wait forever. But if anyone can help 
improve it in the meantime I'd really appreciate it.

David

P.S. The Slovenian is still in progress and I am sure will be complete by the 
next OIDFA Congress. The Greek, Polish and Finnish have only been checked by a 
couple of people, so any further scrutiny would be especially welcome. Other 
languages, too, but mainstream European languages are perhaps not the priority.

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[lace] Carrickmacross net and organdie

[Jean Leader]

Does anyone based in the UK have some spare cotton net and organdie suitable 
for Carrickmacross?

Earlier this year I made some Carrickmacross lace for Amy, a student at Glasgow 
School of Art, to have as part of her degree presentation in June. As you may 
have seen on the news there was a terrible fire in the School of Art's 
Mackintosh building last Friday and Amy along with some other students has lost 
all her degree show work in the fire. She won't know anything definite about 
what's going to happen next until Friday but it looks as if some sort of end of 
year show will go ahead as planned on 13th June so she's trying to work out 
what might be possible. She's asked me if it would be possible to re-make the 
lace but I don't have enough net and organdie left and Jo Firth who we got it 
from, is on holiday until 10th June. None of the other lace suppliers seem to 
stock it so I thought I'd see if anyone had some lying in a cupboard.

If you do have any suitable net or organdie please contact me off list.
Thank you
Jean in Glasgow

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[lace] Missing digests

[Jean Leader]

Janice Blair wrote:

 Weird thing, I did not
 receive Arachne Volume 61 digest, so I was wondering how the topic of
 footsides had started.

I didn't receive digests 59 or 61  - has anybody else had this problem? 

Jean in grey Glasgow (at least it's not raining)

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Re: [lace] Stunned

[Jean Leader]

Bill Blake was an ex-miner who learnt to make Honiton lace with Elsie Luxton 
after he retired. Back in the 1990s he was teaching Honiton lace in Kirkcaldy, 
Scotland. Somewhere I have a photo of him at his lace pillow. Sadly he is no 
longer with us and I wonder if whoever is selling his lace realises how much 
work was involved.

Jean in wet, grey Glasgow

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[lace] Lace Guild website update

[Jean Leader]

A series of information leaflets on various aspects of lace and lacemaking has 
been available from the Lace Guild for a number of years. These leaflets have 
now been updated and can be downloaded as PDF files from the website.

You'll find the first two - Care of Lace and Woollen Lace at 
http://www.laceguild.org/guild/infoLeaflets.html

The other six leaflets - Pillows for Bobbin Lace, Bobbins for Lacemaking, 
Threads: an Introduction, Packing Lace for Exhibition, Mounting Edgings and 
Insertions, and Bobbin Lace: Making Sense of Instructions will be made 
available over the next few weeks.

I have also mounted a new Gallery with some needlelace from the Lace Guild 
Collection at 
http://www.laceguild.org/museum/gallery.html

There is also information about workshops, talks and suppliers at the 2014 Lace 
Guild Convention at
http://www.laceguild.org/events/convention.html

Jean 

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