On Jan 26, 2006, at 12:12, Ilske Thomsen wrote:
At our Kunsthalle I found a magnet with "The lace-maker"" from Caspar
Netscher on it.
" Manufactored by Customworks".
It is a big serie with famous pintings on them. If you are interested
in live in or nearby a city with an art museum it's worth to have a
look.
As many people know, American refrigerators are _huge_ (at least in
comparison with the European ones I've seen). And we use them as
"bulletin boards", "pinning" all kinds of notes/memoranda on them. With
magnets :) So I've been interested in pretty/interesting/unusual
magnets ever since I arrived here in January of '73.
Since '89, and the beginning of my "lace adventure", I've been trying
to collect lace-related magnets and found that there aren't all that
many of them available (possibly because most lace is made in Europe,
and European fridges aren't as big as ours, and can't accomodate as
many magnets. While here, we have big fridges, but there are many more
subjects competing for the space). At any rate, I've often been reduced
to making my own magnets -- mostly from stickers with lace on them (the
few I made with real lace in them had been given away). I've built a
nice-enough collection (with some super examples, the nicest being a
ceramic tile, ca 2" square, with a gold image of a lacemaker and
"Almagro" on a navy-blue background), but the lace-related magnets are
still in the minority on my fridge.
So, naturally, I was _intensely_ interested in Ilske's posting... :)
Found Customworks (based in Scotland) via Google, and found the
relevant magnet in their "northern masters" collection:
http://www.customworks.co.uk/tmenu/products_list.asp
Also found that they do not sell retail; only wholesale. Couldn't find
out the details of either numbers or pricing; my 'puter skills will
stretch but _so_ far <g>; if I had, I might have been willing to go for
it (and then raffle off the excess), if the "wholesale" wasn't too big
and the price reasonable.
I also noticed
http://www.customworks.co.uk/tmenu/home.asp
that, in addition to the stock they carry (the Netscher among them),
they'll make magnets to order, from whatever image one wants.
I think that might be a venue worth exploring (for people who are more
puter-savvy than I am <g>)... An Arachne magnet (for sale with a year's
commems)? A magnet with a lace group logo to put into a goodie bag for
a Lace Day or Conference/Convention? I expect magnets, even bought
wholesale, would be cheaper than pins (badges), and there are so many
possible images ot put on them...
Yours, reluctant to stick her stamp collection onto magnets,
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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