[lace] Couronnes
Janice asked: how do you add it to your lace? Couronnes (rings) are stitched to the completed lace using just a stab stitch. You can leave a long end, when you finish making the couronne, and have joined upo the last stitch, and then use that long end to stab stitch it in place. I like small holes in the centre of my couronnes, so, instead of using the ring stick, I use the eye end of a tapestry needle - about a # 24, - and start the couronne on that. After the first 2 or 3 stitches, I take it off, and hold it in my fingers - a bit fiddley, but it gets the knots of the stitches on the edge. If you make the whole thing on a ring stick, you may find the knots all sit to one side. I don't know why, but they do! I use the eye end, as then I can get my fine sewing needle into the wrapped stitches more easily. The trace method is the easiest, I think. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] A contact, please
Please can anyone put me in touch with Pat Earnshaw. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Day in Barcelona - long
Hi All Just thought I'd let you all know about the fantastic Lace Day I attended last week on the outskirts of Barcelona. Carolina told us all about it back in Feb and as it coincided with our wedding anniversary DH and I decided that a long weekend in Barcelona sounded like a good idea. Selina (who started making lace in Sept) and her DH decided to come too. We arrived in Barcelona on Thursday and spent the following 2 days sightseeing, by Sunday we were shattered by the amount of walking we had done. We still didn't see half of what we wanted (opps, might have to go again, VBG). Sunday morning saw us up bright and early to get to the station to catch the train. Carolina had given me directions and we'd arranged to meet at 10.15am. Getting to the station and finding the platform proved easy, now for getting on the right train. Easy - find a lacemaker and follow her. We had a choice of hundreds to follow! I've never seen so many lacemakers crammed into such a small space before. All with pillows of varing shapes and sizes, many of them being transported in shopping trollies or on luggage wheels (now there's a good idea that needs following up). The train arrived and on we all piled on, a few lucky ladies got seats, the rest of us stood,fairly comfortably, hanging onto the handrails etc. Next stop - another couple of hundred lacemakers get on! What a squeeze! If the train had stopped suddenly no one would have fallen down as there wasn't any room! One more stop and it looks like we're there -the train empties completely apart from a few bemused holiday makers who had caught it at the airport. We join the end of the queue to get out of the station, 20 mins later we emerge onto the street and what a sight awaits us just acroos the road. Three long rows of trestle tables and chairs, divided into zones so that you could find where you were sitting, going down the middle of the road. A long row of gazeebo's on the right where the vendors were doing a roaring trade and thousands and thousands of lacemakers. The day was bright and sunny, but not too hot (the previous Sunday it poured with rain, so we were lucky). We were a few minutes early, so we sat down and waited to see if we could spot Carolina. She found us and it was great to meet her. Carolina took us across to the vending area and explained how the lace day worked, we chatted for a while in a mixture of English and Spanish (or was it Catalan?). DH and I discoved that Catalan is similar to Italian so we had no real problem understanding her. Then we went our seperate ways. We solved the problem of where to start by working our way down the vendors, just looking first time round and then back again sending far too much money. Then on to the lacemakers. Pillows of all shapes and sizes, lace of every description, though predominately white torchon. Groups of lacemkers who had all dressed their pillows the same way, groups of lacemakers with matching hats, groups of lacemakers with matching t-shirts. Groups of lacemakers with banners on their tables - what a wonerful sight. Lots of fantastic lace being worked and lots of lace being displayed. The camera was well used and I'll be putting photos up on the PBLC site shortly. We stopped and chatted (well sort of) to many of the lacemakers and my supply of spangled bobbins was given away very swiftly. Most of the lacemakers were not familiar with Midlands bobbins and found them fascinating. 5 hours passed quickly and we headed back to the train early so as to beat the rush. A fantastic day, one which I hope to repeat another year. Now I'm looking for lace days nearer home in the south of Spain - not sure when and where they happen. Sorry to have gone on so long Pam Mattioli In sunny Vera Playa, Almeria, Spain - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: discs 3/4
In a message dated 5/21/2004 12:02:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At long last, CD3 and CD4 are ready for shipment. This time, they will be sent together as a pair, packaged in a double jewel case. The cost is the same as before, but as a pair, not singly. So total for both would be $20 plus postage ($2 for domestic, $4 for international), a total of either $22 or $24, wherever you may be. Dear Tess, I'm in London now and will put a (US) check in the mail tomorrow. I would prefer that you send the discs to me at The Lace Museum if that doesn't mess up your records. Ele Schwartz is managing the mail sent to us at the Kyburz address, and is then forwarding it to us here. The discs will just be a problem for her. I can ask Ruth Roller to keep the discs for me at the Museum. The Museum address is at the end of this email. Are you coming to the OIDFA Congress in Prague? Hope to see you there. love, Elaine The Lace Museum 552 South Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 Tel 408 730 4695 The Lace Museum 552 South Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 Tel 408 730 4695 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Help!
Does anybody have a current e-mail address for Cynthia Voysey? The one I've been using for years suddenly no longer works. Please reply to me privately: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] butterflies book on ebay
Does anyone know about this book? I'd like a review before I buy it. Looks interesting. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=378item=6900483791rd=1 Sumac Susan G. MacLeod Dummerston, VT USA new! www.sumac.us www.sover.net/~sumac Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] butterflies book on ebay
Have a look at: http://www.manuela-beck.de/en/index.htm for a little bit more info Sue http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=378item=6900483791rd=1 Sumac - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] butterflies book on ebay
Wow! Those are spectacular for those of us who like our butterflies realistic! There are so many butterfly designs out there and most make the zoologist in me cringe because they're so bizarre. I have no idea how good the instructions are, but her results are gorgeous! Robin P. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA -Original Message- From: Sue Babbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a look at: http://www.manuela-beck.de/en/index.htm for a little bit more info http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=378item=6900483791r d=1 Sumac - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Butterfly books
Looks good from the cover, very tempting, but don't get too carried away over the bidding. I'd guess it is for sale by the author or author's contact. If you go to the seller's other items he/she has three copies for sale at the moment, so don't bid over the buy it now price of 17 euros/$23, because you can go on to the next one. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Butterfly books
Jacquie wrote: so don't bid over the buy it now price of 17 euros/$23, because you can go on to the next one. You can't bid over the Buy it now price. Buy it now is the only way you can buy - this isn't an auction. When I looked, on the Euros one, she had 7 copies available, on the dollar one ending on 1st June, 18 copies and on the dollar one ending on 2nd June, 17 copies. From the UK it's cheaper to buy in euros than in dollars. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace and weddings
Hello all, Thank you Antje, for the detailed description you made of the different laces exhibited in the Royal Wedding. As a complementary information, I have put on my web some closed pictures of the veil that the Princess Letizia wore, as well as the Spanish mantillas that H.M. the Queen Sophia and her daughter Infanta Elena showed off in the Royal Ceremony. Camariñas, the traditional lace location, have given as a wedding present a wooden hand made ship which sails are all made with bobbin lace. I have included the picture too. http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/wedding.html Enjoy them! Best regards. Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/ http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/encajebrujo.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re: Lace mixed with other media
At 08:56 PM 5/23/04 -0700, Bev Walker wrote: I love the idea of combining tatting with basketry! That rang a bell, so I jumped up and examined the pine-needle baskets and hot mats my grandmother made. Sure enough, all but one begin with a needle-lace spider worked in raffia, and that one is so sharply different in style that I suspect that the bought it or received it as a gift. I don't think I could tat raffia. On the other hand, I could sew a pine-needle basket with linen . . . -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we got a day off from the rain today. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] All that glitters?
Gentle Spiders, Some of you might remember Sally Barry, who used to be on Arachne in the list's diaper days. Some of you might not remember her, but be in possession of her first book of Bucks patterns (50 of them) -- reproductions of samples from the Luton Museum's Lace Dealer's Pattern Book (photos of - hand made - laces offered for sale by a lace dealer). The second book ought to be out soon; she seems to have made the reproduction of *all of them* her life's mission g While mining for gold -- looking for more patterns for the second book -- she came across an anomaly... One of the samples looked to be *machine made*! She wrote to me, full of excitement of discovery, asked me to check it out, and to tell her what I thought. Unfortunately, Bucks not being my favourite lace, I never thought to spend the money on the Lace Dealer's Pattern Book when it was published :) Additionally, even if I did have it, I probably wouldn't be able to *find* the particular sample (Sally, cunningly, wouldn't tell me *which* sample it was; she wanted too see if I'd catch it myself g). And, anyway, I don't make all that much Bucks (or even other Point Ground laces), I don't *study* lace, what do *I* know? I told her to run her suspicion past some *true* experts; let *them* say whether she's right or wrong... Well... Apparently, this past weekend, she'd had a chance to do it. In spades! g She ran it past Holly van Sciver (who's *the* Bucks expert in US). Holly also thought the piece was machine-made, but suggested that an even more reliable confirmation might come from Alexandra Stillwell (a Brit, and the author of Cassell Illustrated Dictionary of Lacemaking), who happened to be teaching a class at that same weekend retreat. Ye gods, *Stillwell* thought the piece was machine made! Nobody knows how that particular sample made it into the book (was the dealer, perhaps, not entirely honest?). Nobody knows how come the usurper snippet wasn't discovered when the entire book was taken apart and re-assembled, with the lace cleaned and re-shaped in the process several years ago... Sally, still giggling in glee, says she's gonna have a ball with the snippet in her second book... I may not be a fan of Bucks, but I dearly love a mystery (even an un-resolved one g), so I'm looking forward to it. What ticks me off more than anything else is that I'm likely to be away *just* as the book comes out, so won't be the first one to share her I'll be darned... when she points out just which Emperor is lacking his clothes... :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Posting on the website
I would love to post some pictures of my lace on the community website, but how do you do it? I would appreciate an Idiots Guide to doing this. How many photos can we put up? How do you get the credits under the photos etc. I am still a novice with this machine, and really don't know where to start. Any help and advice would be appreciated. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] punctuation
Oooh, Noelene, you reminded me of the good old days when I was spending my holidays in England, and getting all the girls at my friend's school to give me autographs!! (unheard of activity in French schools). The one I liked, which seems to apply well here wis: 2Y's UR, 2Y's UB ICYR 2Y's4me Can you guess? Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, getting very nostalgic... Noelen wrote: Which reminds me, I used to write this in autograph books at school: 11 was a racehourse. 12 was 12. race and 12112. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Happy Victoria Day
On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 01:06 AM, Bev Walker wrote: To all my Canadian buddies, I hope you're all enjoying the May long weekend. Anyone in the Maritimes able to go on a picnic? There will be no picnics in Halifax today. The fog is so thick that I can't see the next block. And unless it clears up, there'll be no fireworks tonight either. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] greetings on Memorial Day, too
At 09:54 AM 5/24/2004, you wrote: What are some traditions related to Memorial Day? The traditional USA Memorial Day is May 30th. Our commercially-wise government decided 3-day weekends were desirable, so changed several holidays to always be on a Monday, thus -- 3 day holiday weekends. And this year, Memorial Day Monday is a week away, May 31. I think the younger generation has lost the original meaning of the day. It is a day off work, and a long weekend, that starts the summer season. Many people in this area choose that weekend to go on the first camping trip of the season. (Which usually means camping in the rain.) Family graves are decorated -- all ancestors, not just war dead. Military groups do have memorial services. ( I have only one grave to do. The rest of the family are too far away. My brother gets to do them.) I'll try to decorate my family grave on Thursday or Friday, before the crowd shows up on the weekend. For me -- it's mostly a normal weekend. DH works at a store that is open all the time, so will probably work all three days. Since it includes the last Saturday of the month, that's Lace Meeting day. () The first half of the weekend is supposed to be damp, but Monday should be nice. Maybe I can pull a few weeds in my garden, or something, outside. Then enjoy my lace pillow part of the time. Have a nice end of May, whether you have a holiday or not. Alice To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] punctuation
Really digging back in memory AB, C D goldfish? M R no goldfish. S M R. Noelene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ Helene and Noelene, et al, That partners the 2XUR 2XUB ICUR 2X 4ME Just the same, but different!!! Carol - in Suffolk, UK. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Alphabets
Does anyone know more than the first few letters of A for 'orses. B for mutton C for yourself D 'f as a post E 've a brick F 'fer vesence G 'fer Police and there I get stuck - is there any more? Noelene in Cooma It's actually raining, so I'm in a silly mood. It's been so long since we saw that strange stuff falling from the sky. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Help Please
This has nothing to do with lace but hope someone can help me. When my Sister and I were small our Mother used to tell us a little verse , we can only remember the first couple of lines and I hope someone out there can remember the rest. It begins like this Never leave your eggshells Unbroken in the cup ?? Shirley in Corio Oz ( where we have just had the hottest May 24th on record.20 C. ) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Help Please
Don't know Shirley, but I was always told to upend my empty eggshell and smash it to save a drowning sailor which seemed a contradiction to me. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ This has nothing to do with lace but hope someone can help me. When my Sister and I were small our Mother used to tell us a little verse , we can only remember the first couple of lines and I hope someone out there can remember the rest. It begins like this Never leave your eggshells Unbroken in the cup ?? Shirley in Corio Oz ( where we have just had the hottest May 24th on record.20 C. ) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Alphabets
There are versions of the Cockney alphabet at: http://thinks.com/words/cockneya.htm http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/cockney.htm Sue - Original Message - From: W N Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:54 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Alphabets Does anyone know more than the first few letters of A for 'orses. B for mutton C for yourself D 'f as a post E 've a brick F 'fer vesence G 'fer Police and there I get stuck - is there any more? Noelene in Cooma It's actually raining, so I'm in a silly mood. It's been so long since we saw that strange stuff falling from the sky. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Help Please
This webgsite has a 'lost quotations' section. Not operating until the end of June, but I've found it very useful in the past for finding various poems http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/ Best wishes Edith North Nottinghamshire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Alphabets
Noelene, I'd be in a silly mood too if we had rain!! We've got grey sky, promises from the Weather Bureau which started out very postive 4 days ago, and have sounded less confident as the Tuesday rain approached, and all we've seen is a few spits - not enough to show up on the road surface, let alone be seen falling from the sky! *Surely* this drought must end sometime?? Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) W N Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually raining, so I'm in a silly mood. It's been so long since we saw that strange stuff falling from the sky. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: greetings on Memorial Day, too
On May 24, 2004, at 12:54, Bev Walker wrote: What are some traditions related to Memorial Day? According to Emily Post (book on etiquette, which, being a peasant with no manners, I studied, dilligently, the first couple of years in The South), it's OK to wear white shoes from that day on, till Labour Day. g And, hey, please don't rush it on us; I'm hoping to get the 2-Prs out of the house and to the printers' by then, and you shook me up to my (black) shoes mentioning the matter today, since I'm not ready today... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: The difference
I grew up in a country which was 97% Catholic, despite (because of??? Contrariness is a fairly common human trait...) all the difficulties the Communist regime imposed on those who wanted to practise it. The remaining 3% were more-or-less equally divided between atheists and other religions. History -- both in high school and at the U (where I only studied the Anglo-branches, having chosen English as my subject matter) -- alerted me to the existence of Protestants. Those, apparently, were a branch of Christians, whose priests, unlike ours, didn't wear a cassock and a collarette, were permitted to marry, and where the congregation was encouraged to read the basic text (both testaments of the Bible), instead of having it interpreted for them... Then, I came to US... :) And met the niggling differences, somewhat like the one in the following, most excellent, IMO, joke. 31 yrs later, I still cannot believe it... From: M.A. I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. I immediately ran over and said Stop! Don't do it! Why shouldn't I? he said. I said, Well, there's so much to live for! Like what? Well ... are you religious or atheist? Religious. Me too! Are you Christian or Jewish? Christian. Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant? Protestant. Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist? Baptist. Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? Baptist Church of God. Me too! Are you Original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God? Reformed Baptist Church of God. Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915? Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915! To which I said, Die, heretic scum! and pushed him off. --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Boulder, Co.
I've been to Boulder! :)) - Helen took us to the Celestial Seasons Tea factory, and then on to the Leaning Tree Western Art Gallery - and it was well worth the visit. Beaut paintings - landscapes relating to Westerns, etc, and some marvelous bronze sculptures. I am old fashioned, and like the traditional type of art and sculptures, and there were many excellent ones in Boulder and Denver. A fabulous sculpture just outside the Koebel Library, Denver, of a mother with 2 children, sitting on a bench, reading books. Lovely, and so realistic. A Belated Happy Memorial Day. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
