Re: [lace] Re: happy dance !!

[linda . walton]

Congratulations!  Is there a picture available anywhere?
(And do you get a posy with your prize?)

Linda Walton,
(in Goosnargh, Lancashire, U.K.,
where it's a beautiful Summer morning,
and I'm being reminded of how much bird song 
we don't have in the South of England any more).

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[lace] Re: happy dance !!

[Joy Beeson]

Conga-Rats!

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re: [lace] pens and plastic for prickings

[Clay Blackwell]

This brings to mind the solution suggested when this subject was last on
the list (two years ago, maybe?)  There are little devices sold in craft
shops which laminate anything you want (within reason, of course!), and
while the cost might seem steep at first glance, if you use it strictly for
making your prickings and can keep the kids away from it, it really isn't
so bad... especially if you can get it using a discount coupon (our
Michael's is always sending out 40% off coupons, and that's how I got my
little one).  My bigger one was a "find" at a yard sale, and I couldn't
resist.  When this subject was last explored on the list, there were a lot
of lacemakers who swore by this method of "making a sandwich".

Clay

Clay Blackwell
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> [Original Message]
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> Date: 5/29/2004 3:31:53 PM
> Subject: re: [lace] pens and plastic for prickings
>
> My personal solution is to get the pattern photocopied on to coloured
paper, 
> cut it to size, then have it laminated - all at my local copy shop.  As
the 
> lamination is just heat-sealing in very thin plastic, there's no glue to
worry 
> about.  Also, you can choose whatever colour of paper suits your thread,
so 
> you don't have to worry about getting coloured plastic.  The whole
sandwich is 
> very thin, so it's easy to prick, and it's easy to overlap with another
copy 
> of the pricking if you want to join them up.  In England, at least, it's
very 
> cheap too.
>
> Linda Walton,
> (in Goosnargh, Lancashire, U.K.,
> blessing the arachne member who first introduced me to the idea,
> and wishing I could remember who it was).
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RE: [lace] happy dance !!

[Clay Blackwell]

Congratulations, Sue!!

I think you have every reason to be happy dancing, and I've just done a
turn with you!!  

Clay

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> I've just received a letter from the Lace Guild telling me
> that one of  my entries for "Myth or Mystery" -  a miniature sampler
> roseground book based on the nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' Roses"  - has
won
> a Medal of Excellence and the Ann Collier trophy for miniature lace.
> Whoopee!!
> Sue
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[lace] happy dance !!

[Sue Babbs]

Forgive me for this message, but I am so excited! I just have to share this
with someone!! I've just received a letter from the Lace Guild telling me
that one of  my entries for "Myth or Mystery" -  a miniature sampler
roseground book based on the nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' Roses"  - has won
a Medal of Excellence and the Ann Collier trophy for miniature lace.
Whoopee!!
Sue

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Re: [lace] pens and plastic for prickings

[Steph Peters]

On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:25:40 -0700 (PDT), Bev wrote:
>Personally I don't like pinning through adhesive and I just use a
>photocopy of the pattern, over a piece of card, all pinned to the pillow.
>Lately for getting a sample done quickly, I've even dispensed with the
>card - easier to pin through because I don't pre-prick the patterns ;)

Buy the grade of very light card that can bend enough to go through
photocopiers, and just print straight onto the card.  Mine is 160 grams per
square metre, which is equivalent to 4.86 ounces per square yard.  It will
happily go through the rollers of a photocopier, or through a computer
printer.  So I just scan into my computer and print on the light card using
my *laser* printer, which is the same technology as a photocopier.  Don't do
this with an ink jet printer though as the ink isn't suitable for making
lace on.
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Re: [lace] Wedding Bobbins

[Adele Shaak]

Just on this one point - I've noticed that many historians who 
specialise in
Modern History will count the English Medieval period as ending at the
accession of James I; that is, at the end of the Tudor dynasty.
My Oxford reference dictionaries define the medieval period as being 
from the 5th to the 15th centuries - ie, roughly from 401 - 1500 AD, 
and I think that's the generally accepted meaning of the term. The 
Oxford Illustrated History of England cuts off the Middle Ages with the 
accession of the Tudor dynasty.

I don't doubt your veracity - but if I knew those historians, I'd argue 
the point!

Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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re: [lace] pens and plastic for prickings

[linda . walton]

My personal solution is to get the pattern photocopied on to coloured paper, 
cut it to size, then have it laminated - all at my local copy shop.  As the 
lamination is just heat-sealing in very thin plastic, there's no glue to worry 
about.  Also, you can choose whatever colour of paper suits your thread, so 
you don't have to worry about getting coloured plastic.  The whole sandwich is 
very thin, so it's easy to prick, and it's easy to overlap with another copy 
of the pricking if you want to join them up.  In England, at least, it's very 
cheap too.

Linda Walton,
(in Goosnargh, Lancashire, U.K.,
blessing the arachne member who first introduced me to the idea,
and wishing I could remember who it was).

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Re: [lace] Wedding Bobbins

[linda . walton]

Quoting Adele Shaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> (snip)
> Never mind that there's little evidence that bobbin lacemaking even 
> existed in medieval times, (snip)

Quoting Jean Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> (snip)
> I think that any writing that mentions 'lace ' and 'medieval' in the 
> same context needs more salt to swallow it than is good for you. (snip)

Just on this one point - I've noticed that many historians who specialise in 
Modern History will count the English Medieval period as ending at the 
accession of James I; that is, at the end of the Tudor dynasty.

But thank you to both of you for your comments, which are most enlightening.  
And when I get home, (I'm house&cat-sitting for my sister - I call it a 
holiday, due to the rare opportunity for continuous lacemaking), I must try to 
find my copy of 'The Romance of the Lace Pillow' by Thomas Wright.

(O.T. Jean, yes I'd love to know more about the Scandinavian custom, too!)

 
> I say bah, humbug!
> 
> Adele
> North Vancouver, BC
> (west coast of Canada)

Me too, me too!

Linda Walton,
(of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire,
and Goosnargh in Lancashire, U.K.).
(Yes - Goosnargh - named by Norse settlers.)


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[lace] RE: lace-digest V2004 #164

[Mary Robi]

Hi Arachne's
Thanks to everyone who responded about Le Pompe. I haven't yet located a 
copy, but I'll keep my eyes open.

I have found a few pictures of the wood cuts Lorelie talked about. They're 
very intrigueing. I'm way too new to be able to interpret them now, but 
someday...

My new roller pillow arrived yesterday, and I'm dieing to give it a go. We 
have visitors from out-of-state for the holiday, so it looks like I'll have 
to wait till everyone goes to bed.

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday week-end. For those of you who are 
thinking, "What holiday?" We celebrate Memorial Day here where families get 
together to go to cemetaries to put flowers on loved ones graves. Lots of 
people camp on this week-end as it sort of marks the beginning of summer 
activies like swimming, fishing, camping and picnics.

Have A Happy,
Mary
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[lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #164 visit to Brugge

[Bobbinlacemaker]

hello,
just want to let you know there is no lace in  the "Arentshuis" anymore,
since 3 years now. It's a great pitty
Magda, from sunny Brugge

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Re: [lace] Wedding Bobbins

[Jean Barrett]

Good Morning All,
I think that any writing that mentions 'lace ' and 'medieval' in the 
same context needs more salt to swallow it than is good for you.  Where 
did the story come from? In 'The Romance of the Lace Pillow' by Thomas 
Wright he mentions in the chapter on bobbins that
'At Renhold in Beds.(Bedfordshire), in days gone by, when persons got 
married they would take a bone from the ham or other joint provided at 
the wedding feast, and get the bobbin maker to fashion from it a bobbin 
with a suitable inscription.'
From such small suggestions a whole legend has been woven it seems. But 
like Linda, I would really like to believe in the Scandinavian one.
Jean in Cleveland U.K.
On 28 May 2004, at 19:44, Linda Walton wrote:

Just found this, and I've never heard of it before:  can anyone verify 
it?

It's from "Heaven and Hearth - A Seasonal Compendium of Women's 
Spiritual and Domestic Lore", by Beverly Pagram.  (The Women's Press, 
London, 1997.)  Except for actual quotations, it's not the sort of 
scholarly work that lists sources for everything, unfortunately.

Under 'June', she collects wedding traditions, and there is a piece 
about the contents of the bride chest - apart from the usual linens 
and so on.  "In their marriage-chests, or 'bride-wains', many girls in 
medieval Britain kept lucky lace-making bobbins carved from bones from 
successful past wedding feasts they'd attended."

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[lace] Re: Visit to Belguim

[Liduina]

Hello Jean,

There are two interessant exhibitions in Brussels at that moment, one in the
"Musée du Costume et de la Dentelle"
(http://www.brussels-online.com/uk/ville.php?spartie=Cultural+activities
clik on MUSEE DU COSTUME, or
http://www.brucity.be/artdet.cfm?id=91&nLanguage=1, but this one is only in
french or in dutch), and one in the "Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire"
(http://www.kmkg-mrah.be/fr/divers/tentoonstellingen_nu.html also only in
french or in dutch).

Liduina, from a sunny Ath in Belgium.
www.athdentelle.be

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