[lace] Lace Guild Website - Technical update - All clear

2003-06-15 Thread Jean Leader
Mozilla OK now. Just needed to clear my cache to get the updated stylesheet. So if anyone else has problems, try a refresh/reload first. David (webmaster) -- Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Three Pair Fiandra stitch

2003-08-01 Thread Jean Leader
There's a description of how to work Punto Fiandra di Gorzia in an article by Cindy Heineman on p18 of the current IOLI Bulletin (Summer 2003). Photos are promised for the next issue. And now I must go and sort out packing for my trip to New Jersey! Jean in Glasgow - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Web Site update

2003-08-02 Thread Jean Leader
a stressful time packing) -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] OIDFA UK Website

2003-08-17 Thread Jean Leader
in Prague. The address is: http://www.q7design.demon.co.uk/oidfaUK/ If you have any links to the old site (either on your computer or on your own web pages), you may wish to update them. Jean -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send

Re: [lace] Suse Bernuth

2003-11-13 Thread Jean Leader
Aage wrote: Some time ago I saw in a German book a table runner (is that the word?) designed by Suse Bernuth. It was with a pattern of grapes and wine leaves and also with some gold decorations. I simply had to have this pattern. Some investigation gave the result that it was represented on page

[lace] Lace Guild Web Site Update

2003-11-15 Thread Jean Leader
Among the usual updates to the Lace Guild Web site we have mounted a selection of the Lacemakers' Census 'luggage tags', referred to by Tamara in a recent posting. We've also got details of the Lace Guild Convention there, updated the suppliers' ads, and the events etc. Also it's Tinkerbell

[lace] Re: Advent calendar

2003-12-16 Thread Jean Leader
on the quiz - for their own satisfaction rather than to win a prize. David (webmaster) -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

Re: [lace] I just saw a beautiful angel...

2003-12-30 Thread Jean Leader
quotes in javascript, for those who know about these things. I'll have another go at it again this week, perhaps. Any suggestions for next year's competition will be gratefully received - after you've sent off your entry for this year's.) -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site

[lace] Recoded Advent Calendar - last chance for competition

2004-01-02 Thread Jean Leader
I've re-coded the Lace Guild Advent Calendar page (for next Christmas) so that the cursor should behave correctly in all modern browsers and the page still work in Netscape 4. I've tested it with Mac browsers and Windows IE 6. If you are using any esoteric browsers, especially on Windows or

[lace] OIDFA Prague Congress

2004-01-04 Thread Jean Leader
This is for all of you hoping to go to the OIDFA Congress in Prague next July (and even if you're not there are some interesting pictures). The web site for the OIDFA Prague Congress is at http://unicoagric.czu.cz/oidfa2004 David has also put information downloadable in Word format (text

[lace] Advent Calendar Competition Results

2004-01-06 Thread Jean Leader
Well, the staff at the Hollies are back after the Christmas and New Year break, so Maggie forwarded the advent calendar entries to us - 77 in all, a record high. Last night we put them into an electronic hat and picked out the two winners, who are: Susan Lambiris, from the US, and Rosemary

Subject: [lace] Technical Nottingham Bucks headside question

2004-01-12 Thread Jean Leader
Julie wrote: This is a staggeringly technical question, but I would like to know the answer and can't think of who else to ask. I am working through Chapter 3 Bucks Point of Pamela Nottingham's The Technique of Bobbin Lace Completely Revised New Edition. Neither is wrong (or they're both right -

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2004-02-15 Thread Jean Leader
We've just posted a new set of Lacemakers' Census 'luggage tags', including some international ones. Also, we forgot to mention that at the end of last month we did an extensive update of lace events organized by The Lace Guild. David and Jean in Glasgow -- Lace Guild home page:

[lace] An Introduction to Bedfordshire Lace

2004-03-13 Thread Jean Leader
This is David writing, as Jean is at the Glasgow Lace Day, where An Introduction to Bedfordshire Lace, which she wrote for The Lace Guild, is being launched. ('Launch' sounds very grand - actually she's sitting at a table selling copies and signing them.) So if you are within striking distance

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2004-03-14 Thread Jean Leader
We have just mounted an update to The Lace Guild's web page with extracts and a pattern from the January issue of 'Lace'. One of the reasons for posting mag extracts on the web is that one can use more colour than the magazine can, and this update takes full advantage of that with colour

[lace] New lace book from the V A

2004-03-19 Thread Jean Leader
Thought you might like to know how I happen to have a pre-publication copy of the new lace book from the VA to review for 'Lace' - it just shows what this list can do. Back in December Jeri Ames, a good friend who I got to know through this list, passed on to me information about a new VA lace

Re: [lace] penguin pattern needed

2004-04-09 Thread Jean Leader
Elaine wrote: The Lace Museum here in Sunnyvale, CA has had an urgent request for a lace pattern of a penguin. I think the English Lace Guild published a Penguin Pattern Book a couple of years ago. If anyone has a copy they would like to sell, please contact me privately. Or if someone has a

[lace] Lace Guild website update with Exhibition Gallery

2004-05-31 Thread Jean Leader
Regarding the winning entries to The Lace Guild's Myth and Mystery Competition and Exhibition, Jane Partridge wrote: The list is to go on the Guild website - I'm sure many are eagerly waiting for Jean and David to do the update this time! It's live, complete with pictures. Had to compromise

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2004-06-09 Thread Jean Leader
Only the 10th of the month (by the time this reaches you) but another quite extensive update to the Lace Guild's website: 1. More stuff relating to the Myth or Mystery Exhibition - The Catalogue and The Commemorative Bobbins are now mounted (you can buy them too) and details of the overflow

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2004-06-20 Thread Jean Leader
We have just mounted an update to The Lace Guild's web page with extracts and a pattern from the April issue of 'Lace'. The three extracts include pieces by two Arachne list members. First, you have a chance to read about and see Miriam Gidron's fan. Then you can read an extract of the article

Re: [lace] Myth or Mystery - Hollies exhibition and extra Visitors' Trophy

2004-06-25 Thread Jean Leader
Jane Partridge wrote: Myth or Mystery at The Hollies. The Hollies will be open on the following Saturdays: 24 July, 31 July, 7 August, 14 August, 21 August and 28 August from 10am to 5pm. Visitors can vote for a Visitors' Trophy to be awarded to those exhibits on display at The Hollies. I'd just

Re: [lace] Art Trade or Mystery book

2004-08-17 Thread Jean Leader
On 17 Aug 2004 Leonard Bazar wrote: Some of us have mentioned the UK Lace Guild's/Pat Rowley's Art Trade or Mystery - Lace and Lacemaking in Northamptonshire ... For those not familiar with it and interested in East Midlands lace, it could be worth considering, as it's got a lot more than that

RE: [lace] IOLI Convention/Meeting

2004-08-18 Thread Jean Leader
Here in the UK visitors are allowed to come to the annual general meeting of The Lace Guild so I was surprised that visitors were not allowed at the IOLI meeting (my friend was turned away too). Perhaps it's a country difference in the rules governing such organizations? There haven't beem any

Re: [lace] fair entry categories

2004-08-18 Thread Jean Leader
I think the annual Royal Highland Show is probably the nearest Scottish equivalent to state fairs.This usually has three lace classes in the Handcrafts section - two for bobbin lace and one for tatting (needle lace often fits in one of the embroidery classes). In most cases a particular item

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2004-09-07 Thread Jean Leader
Summer's almost gone, and we've now updated The Lace Guild website (address in the signature). As well as the usual new event listings, we've made revisions to the suppliers pages and updated our own prices following changes in postal rates. Of more general interest is the featuring of

re: [lace] green man

2004-11-28 Thread Jean Leader
Thought you'd be interested in this from an article by Jan Dalley in this weekend's Financial Times ...somewhere, in almost any church in the land, you can see that impish grinning ancient face with leaves and branches spewing and flowing out of his mouth and whirling round his head, or

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2004-11-29 Thread Jean Leader
We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace Magazine for October, and also the Young Lacemakers page. There is a bookmark pattern, some attractive lace from the Czech Republic, and an article by the Chairman of The Guild about a lacemaker she encountered in Sri Lanka.

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2004-11-30 Thread Jean Leader
In reply to our query: The usual diary info update will follow at the end of month. I have this nagging feeling there's something else we should have been preparing. Let us know if any of you can think of it. Several people wrote: Advent-calendar That's what it was. Thanks for reminding us, but

[lace] Lace Guild Website Advent Calendar

2004-11-30 Thread Jean Leader
OK, we managed to get something together in the St Nick of time (ho! ho! ho!). A different type of competition this year - doesn't require vast (any?) knowledge of lace, so we look forward to lots of entries. For those who have joined the list in the last year and wonder what on earth we're

[lace] Re: Lace Guild Website Advent Calendar

2004-12-01 Thread Jean Leader
, but, then, it's just an Advent Calendar not a guided missile system :-) ) David -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Advent Calendar problems

2004-12-03 Thread Jean Leader
Apologies for cross-posting, but a couple of people have been having trouble seeing the advent calendar. They have the December 1st date, but still see the Myth and Mystery logo instead of the holly. I would say: 1. It's not my fault 2. They could try the French page (a good excuse to learn

Re: [lace] Duchesse-Sluisse on eBay

2004-12-11 Thread Jean Leader
At 11:58 am -0500 10/12/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elaine Merritt, Devon Thein, Jean Leader, Angela Thompson, Collectors: What do you think of this item and the pricing? I've had a look at eBay (not something I do very often) and I'd agree with Barbara Joyce $350 sounds unreasonably high

[lace] More on the Advent Calendar Competition

2004-12-30 Thread Jean Leader
We're back from a week with our son, Ian, in Torino (Turin to us Anglo-Saxons) having had a very enjoyable (and white) Christmas there. David and Ian managed to get in a day's skiing in Sestriere after the weather had cleared, which was a source of great satisfaction as it had been some years

[lace] Advent Calendar Competition Results

2005-01-04 Thread Jean Leader
Well, the staff at the Hollies are back after the Christmas and New Year break, so Maggie forwarded the advent calendar entries to us - 110 in all (beating the 77 entries of last year). We've just put them into an electronic hat and picked out the three winners, who are: Carla Guzzi (from

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2005-01-16 Thread Jean Leader
We finally got round to a January tidy of the Lace Guild website. We've mounted a new set of census 'luggage labels' - very international this time - added info on a couple of CDs (no, you can't download tracks from iTunes, they are not that sort of CD), and mounted details of programme for the

[lace] Re: competition rules

2005-02-17 Thread Jean Leader
At 8:21 pm -0500 16/2/05, lace-digest wrote: There must be some restrictions on what a group can enter, even if the rules/classes for individual entries don't apply. I suppose we'll have to inquire of the Lace Guild...any volunteers to do so from interested Arachneans in England? It has to fit the

[lace] Myllan from Brussels

2005-02-22 Thread Jean Leader
Patricia, the secretary of Glasgow Lace Group has asked me if I know anything about a lacemaker from Brussels called Myllan - she had a phone call from her in which she asked if she could come and sell her silver lace jewellery at our lace day next month. She has apparently been at the

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2005-02-28 Thread Jean Leader
We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace Magazine for January which include a cryptic lace crossword. As promised, we have also added a page for Seven, the 2007 Lace Guild exhibition and competition, where you can download details of the classes and rules. David

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Convention - Bristol - April

2005-03-15 Thread Jean Leader
At 7:06 pm -0500 14/3/05, Helen wrote: I know I picked up a flier at the Weston-super-Mare fair about the Bristol thing, but I never actually got any further with it, despite it being in my Easter holiday. Let me know when you meet up. I'm only in Bath, so it's not far to travel to meet other

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2005-03-28 Thread Jean Leader
We have just done a minor update of The Lace Guild website - some Spring cleaning of the events pages - but we've also put something new on the Young Lacemakers' page. This is a bracelet pattern Gilian Dye used teaching children at the 2004 IOLI Convention (which both Jean and Gilian enjoyed

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2005-03-30 Thread Jean Leader
Helen wrote: Ooh, I like that bracelet! Before I really get started, the cane ground crossing is much like a windmill crossing but with twists everywehre? Cane ground has more stitches! In a windmill crossing the pairs are used as if they were single threads and you work a cloth stitch with a pin

[lace] RSS Feeds?

2005-04-27 Thread Jean Leader
Anyone on the list subscribe to RSS feeds? I was vaguely wondering whether I should learn how to set this up, and thought about using The Lace Guild website as a testbed. I'd need at least one user to make it worthwhile, so if that is you, please reply to me directly. David (webmaster) -- Jean

Re: [lace] Bobbin lace fence in NY Times/Joep/Jeroen

2005-05-09 Thread Jean Leader
On the NKO page with the fence http://www.kantopleiding-nko.nl/Aktiviteiten/Aktiviteiten.html I clicked on Studio DEMAKERSVAN and got http://www.demakersvan.com/ From this it appears that the fence is by Joep Verhoeven and that Jeroen Verhoeven is a different designer. Jean - To unsubscribe send

[lace] Second-hand Lace Books (and more on RSS feeds)

2005-05-11 Thread Jean Leader
The Lace Guild often receives gifts and bequests of books on lacemaking. Usually these duplicate the Guild's own library holdings, so they are put up for sale to provide funds for new library purchases. Currently these books are on view at the Guild's HQ, The Hollies, so only visitors tend to

[lace] Re: Lace Guild second-hand books

2005-05-16 Thread Jean Leader
Angela wrote: Once you have the Lace Guild home page, click on Lace Suppiers, then Books then Secondhand Books. You should then get up an Excel page giving you the postage rates. At the bottom of this page you should see tabs labelled Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet 3. Just click on Sheet 2 and the

re: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Jean Leader
Brenda Paternoster wrote: A strange website! I clicked on cours and then etudes des fond and then lancer le cours and got an error page telling me that the browser I'm using is too old and that I should update to IE 5.5 (for Windows) That happened with Safari 1.3, Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for

[lace] Help with square Valenciennes ground, please

2005-05-30 Thread Jean Leader
A friend and I are trying to puzzle out how best to work square Valenciennes ground (the one in 19th century Valenciennes). There seem to be plenty of variations for Valenciennes ground in Cook Stott's Bobbin Lace Stitches and Michael Guisiana's Binche Lace but none of them give us quite what

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2005-06-01 Thread Jean Leader
We've just updated the Lace Guild's website for June, and also mounted: 1. Extracts from the April issue of Lace. 2. A Pattern on the Young Lacemakers' page 3. Updated list of second-hand books for sale from The Lace Guild, which includes some new additions. The url is in the signature.

Re: [lace] American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

2005-06-02 Thread Jean Leader
At 9:30 pm -0400 1/6/05, Jeri Ames wrote: Some of my guests from overseas will remember that I always recommend this museum to them, if they are visiting New England. And, if they are visiting me, I take them to this museum (a 3-hour drive from my home - and 3 hours to return). It is a

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2005-07-10 Thread Jean Leader
Despite the appalling events of the week, life must go on. We have updated The Lace Guild website with a new selection of 'census labels'. There is also a revised list of second-hand books on the Sales page. David (webmaster) and Jean (Glasgow) -- Lace Guild home page:

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2005-09-06 Thread Jean Leader
We've just updated The Lace Guild's website, the main item being extracts from the July Issue of 'Lace'. (The Young Lacemaker page will come later.) In addition the following have been updated: 1. The Events pages (especially lace days) 2. The Suppliers ads 3. The list of second-hand books

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2005-10-09 Thread Jean Leader
We've been updating the Lace Guild Website over the past week, and it now has quite a few new items: * The Young Lacemakers' page has a new item * There are a couple of new publications and a new set of lace notelets * The Christmas bobbin is now on sale * The events pages are now up-to-date *

[lace] Lace Guild Website changes

2005-10-31 Thread Jean Leader
Along with the extremely minor November update to the Lace Guild website (just a few events added), we've made a couple of changes in overall site format. One aims to increase text legibility with the trend to larger displays over the last few years, and the other to give a somewhat cleaner

[lace] Lace Guild Website address - temporary problem

2005-11-09 Thread Jean Leader
In exploring a necessary change of administration of the www.laceguild.org address I've managed to temporarily muck things up. Please use http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk for the moment. It'll be fixed within a few days I hope. David -- Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Website address - temporary problem

2005-11-10 Thread Jean Leader
I wrote: In exploring a necessary change of administration of the www.laceguild.org address I've managed to temporarily muck things up. Please use http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk for the moment. It'll be fixed within a few days I hope. Fixed. Now the compact website domain name

[lace] Lace Guild e-mail problem

2005-11-11 Thread Jean Leader
I wrote: ...However the e-mail forwarding is more problematical*. Anyone communicating with the Hollies and finding email bouncing later this month should try using a laceguild.demon.co.uk address instead of a laceguild.org address. If there is a problem I'll post details in the 'Stop Press'

[lace] E-mail problems at the Lace Guild

2005-11-16 Thread Jean Leader
It never rains but it pours. Following the email problem at The Lace Guild with the laceguild.org addresses, their broadband has gone down so they can't pick up any email at all, even that to the laceguild.demon.co.uk address or sent from the website. The staff may be able to use webmail

[lace] Lace Guild email problems fixed

2005-11-23 Thread Jean Leader
The email problems at The Lace Guild have now all been fixed. British Telecom restored the broadband yesterday, and I managed to reestablish email forwarding from specific .org addresses last night. Any email to the latter which was sent within about the last four days should now have been

[lace] French Translation wanted

2005-11-28 Thread Jean Leader
to translate one of the patterns that comes later. If you are a native French speaker and have the time to translate a lace pattern from English into French we'd like to hear from you. Jean and David (in Glasgow) -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org

[lace] Lace Guild Website - December update

2005-11-30 Thread Jean Leader
We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace Magazine for October, a festive Christmas tassel on the Young Lacemakers page, and the usual events and suppliers updates and ... ... the Lace Guild Advent Calendar for 2005. Some of you will be familiar with this, but for

[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar patterns

2005-12-08 Thread Jean Leader
Today I had a query about whether the pricking for the pattern on the Lace Guild Advent Calendar for 7th December had printed out at the correct size. It hadn't and was smaller than it should have been - this is something that can happen when the browser has 'Shrink pages to fit' (or something

[lace] Advent Calendar Competition and IE6

2005-12-15 Thread Jean Leader
Apparently there is a bug in Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 2 that has prevented some people accessing the Competition and Credits sections associated with the Lace Guild web Advent Calendar. I have now recoded the pages in a way that appears to have got round this. If anyone still has

[lace] Lace book corrections (was Muriel Instructions...)

2005-12-20 Thread Jean Leader
and email address to obtain them just for this project. David and Jean in Glasgow -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write

[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition

2005-12-22 Thread Jean Leader
, and an enjoyable Christmas and peaceful New Year. Jean and David (in Glasgow) -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Lace book corrections

2005-12-22 Thread Jean Leader
' on the Lace Guild website. -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Printing problem

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

[lace] Advent calendar competition problem

2006-01-04 Thread Jean Leader
On returning to work after New Year the staff at The Hollies had computer problems. Unfortunately, it appears that any competition entries sent between 22nd and 27th December have been lost. (Those before and after these dates have been received.) If you sent your entry in then please

[lace] Advent Calendar Competition results

2006-01-09 Thread Jean Leader
Lee (from the USA) and Ilske Thomsen (from Germany) and to all who took part. Hope it was fun. Jean and David PS Could Linda Lee please contact us. Mail to the email address she supplied on the web form bounces. -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http

[lace] British National Lace Day

2006-02-02 Thread Jean Leader
This was started in 1991 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of The Lace Guild and it's usually the second Saturday of September. (I think the timing was to get people interested before evening class sessions started.) Glasgow Lace Group made lace in in Princes Square (an up-market shopping

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2006-04-17 Thread Jean Leader
With the film star back from her North American expedition (and her laundry dealt with, Janice) we've just made a somewhat overdue update to the Lace Guild's website. Included are: 1. Extracts from the January issue of Lace. 2. A couple of items on the Young Lacemakers' page 3. Updated events

Re: [lace] UK lacemakers please

2006-05-15 Thread Jean Leader
Sue wrote: Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase the DVD of Louise Colgan's Milanese Lace, in the UK, preferably? You can get it from Suzanne Brackenbury in the UK and you can find her address etc from Google (search for Suzanne Brackenbury). Jean in wet, grey Glasgow - To

[lace] The thistle bookmark by Jean Leader

2006-05-15 Thread Jean Leader
Edith Holmes wrote: Have any of you seen Jean's new book of motifs, using the thistle, rose, daffodil and shamrock, with a fuschia as well? and Daphne wrote: Where can I buy a copy of Jean Leader's Motifs book please?? It's available from me in the UK (please email me off list for details)

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2006-05-16 Thread Jean Leader
We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's website, adding details of: 1. The 2007 Lace Guild Calendar 2. 30th Anniversary Pattern Book 3. Membership Bobbins for 2006-7 4. 30th Anniversary Commemorative Bobbin 5. New Notelets 6. Second Hand Books available from the Lace Guild

[lace] Re: Lace Guild Website Update

2006-05-17 Thread Jean Leader
Oops! We got our wires crossed about who'd mounted what and the new membership bobbins and the updated Second-Hand Books list have only just been added. Jean and David At 9:15 am +0100 16/5/06, Jean Leader wrote: We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's website, adding

Re: [lace] IOLI /Montreal

2006-06-11 Thread Jean Leader
Cluny de Brioude was my first choice for Montreal too and that's what I got (-: I've also been wondering where to get the silk so if anyone finds a good source please let me know. The website http://www.auverasoie.com/html/gb/clients.htm has addresses for distributors in the USA (Texas),

Re: [lace] IOLI /Montreal

2006-06-12 Thread Jean Leader
Much impressed by Au Ver à Soie in Paris - there was an email waiting for me with details of UK suppliers when I got up at 8am this morning! Now I just have to decide which of the many colours I want to use... Jean - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] IOLI Cluny de Brioude class

2006-06-15 Thread Jean Leader
Having found out where to get the thread specified for the Cluny de Brioude class (not that I've actually got around to ordering it yet) I considered the other things on the requirements list 1. the pillow which it says should be 50 cm x 50 cm - that's about 20 inches square and I'm

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2006-07-08 Thread Jean Leader
We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's website, specifically to the Young Lacemakers and Magazine sections. The Young Lacemakers section has been completely refocussed, with a primary aim to provide support to lacemaking in the British school curriculum. However the

Re: [lace] Jean Leader books

2006-07-18 Thread Jean Leader
At 6:38 am -0400 16/7/06, Jean Nathan wrote: Jean, just been browsing Amazon and came across: Thistle, Rose, Daffodil, Shamrock and a Fuchsia: Five Motifs Using Bedfordshire Lace Techniques (Paperback) by you published June 2006. I've got your bookmarks book and the Bucks point from the Lace

[lace] Re: Arachne lunch at Montreal convention

2006-07-18 Thread Jean Leader
At 8:47 pm -0400 16/7/06, Janice Blair wrote: No-one contacted me about an Arachne meeting so maybe we should plan on eating lunch on Monday together in the hotel. Haven't seen any more about this - is it going to happen? I'm in favour. Jean - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] London

2006-08-08 Thread Jean Leader
At 8:37 am -0400 8/8/06, Vibeke wrote: When you are in the Greenwich area do also try to see Ranger's House in Blackheath, with the Suffolk Collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean paintings with lots of lace. This collection of paintings has been moved and is now in Kenwood House, Hampstead,

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2006-10-03 Thread Jean Leader
Well, the summer is over - hope you had a good one - and we finally got round to updating the Lace Guild's website. Some of the events have been updated, and there are extracts from the July (sic) issue of Lace (if you want it sooner you have to become a member). The url is in the signature.

Re: [lace] Oval Leaves

2006-11-08 Thread Jean Leader
At 11:08 am -0500 8/11/06, Pauline wrote: I have made leaves in the 'English' manner (on the pillow rather than in the hand) all my lacemaking life, but am just starting to experiment with other methods, Be careful - I'm currently suffering from an inflamed tendon in my right thumb and I'm

[lace] Re: leaves

2006-11-10 Thread Jean Leader
The Cluny de Brioude way of making leaf-shaped tallies doesn't come in the book at all - it's difficult to describe and the best way to get the hang of it is to see someone doing it. However, as I started this thread I'll have a bash You start with your hands palm down, bobbins (up to eight)

Re: [lace] Re: leaves

2006-11-13 Thread Jean Leader
At 7:22 pm -0500 11/11/06, Bev wrote: I made a leaf according to Jean's directions. It looks good, Bev - nice to know my instructions made sense. What I forgot to add was that I was working with 4 bobbins of Soie d'Alger and up to 4 bobbins of Soie Ovale, one of which was used as the

[lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2006-11-30 Thread Jean Leader
We've just updated The Lace Guild website for December. Items of interest include: 1. Updated Lace Days and other events. 2. Updated list of second-hand books from the Lace Guild. 3. Appeal for member to help complete Lace Guild Sampler Project - see Stop Press. That's about it we think.

[lace] ...one more thing

2006-11-30 Thread Jean Leader
Oh, almost forgot, there's one more thing on The Lace Guild website for December. Try clicking on the sprig of holly. J and D -- Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org (alternative if problems: http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: [lace] miscellaneous lace questions

2006-12-19 Thread Jean Leader
, there's little scope for Machiavellian strategems. That said, we're glad the pattern intrigues you, hope you have an enjoyable Christmas and that 2007 will be kinder to you than 2006 has been. Jean and David in Glasgow -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http

[lace] Off to Italy

2006-12-22 Thread Jean Leader
We're all packed and hoping to catch a plane to spend Christmas with our son in Turin (at the moment it's still on despite the fog at Gatwick). Enjoy the rest of the Advent Calendar and do have a go at the competition. (Get your children/grandchildren to surf the net for the answers.) If

[lace] Advent Calendar Competition results

2007-01-02 Thread Jean Leader
The answers to The Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition have now been mounted on the website. Congratulations to the winners: Anja Guzzi (from Switzerland) and Antje Gonzalez (from Spain) and to all who took part. Hope it was fun. Jean and David -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

2007-01-03 Thread Jean Leader
To start the new year we did a January update on the Lace Guild website, and finally got round to mounting some pieces from the October Lace magazine (too busy before Christmas). Otherwise just an events update, and a stop press notice about visiting The Hollies during February (or not).

[lace] Lace Guild website update

2007-01-14 Thread Jean Leader
The Lace Guild's exhibition 'Now and Then' opened at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum yesterday and will be there until the 24th March. I've just updated the Events page of the website with details of the two workshops and gallery talks which will take place during the exhibition.

Re: [lace] Scottish Lace - Hamilton lace

2007-02-05 Thread Jean Leader
I've visited Hamilton Museum (it's not far from Glasgow). It has lace pillows and bobbins (all of the typical English Midlands type) and some lace but only one piece that is said to be Hamilton lace. I took Jeri Ames there back in 2002 and we were both very unhappy with the scrambled mess on

Re: [lace] Scottish Lace - Hamilton lace

2007-02-05 Thread Jean Leader
At 5:52 pm -0500 5/2/07, Rochelle wrote: Interesting the continental influence in Pitsligo. Wasn't that bit late for the migrations of lacemakers from Europe? I thought there were a few 'waves' of migration of lacemakers but much earlier than that. Does anyone know any more about that, or am I

[lace] My new website

2007-02-28 Thread Jean Leader
One of my New Year resolutions was to make this the year when I got my own website together - I've been thinking about one for over two years but not getting down to it until now. But it is now up and running at http://www.jeanleader.co.uk David designed it and did all the stuff 'under the

Re: [lace] My new website

2007-03-01 Thread Jean Leader
hope (the problem was we'd done some re-arranging yesterday morning and overlooked a few changes also needed). Jean -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK http://www.jeanleader.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Lace Guild Website update

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

[lace] 98 Lace Group Website

2007-04-14 Thread Jean Leader
. Jean Leader (Treasurer) and David Leader (Webmaster) -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK http://www.jeanleader.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] thread question

2007-05-22 Thread Jean Leader
At 5:24 pm -0400 21/5/07, lace-digest wrote: In the book Modern Lace, the author calls for Translucent Lurex thread. Can anyone tell me where in the US this can be obtained or what the equivalent would be? Thanks. Who's the author of this book? What sort of lace is it? The book will be

[lace] Lace Guild website update and other things

2007-06-18 Thread Jean Leader
Life is a bit hectic at the moment as I'm in the midst of preparing the catalogue for the Lace Guild's 'Seven' exhibition which opens in Dudley, West Midlands on 14th July. The judging for the associated John Bull Trophy competition takes place next week and we hope to get the results up on

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