Alice wrote I suggest you go to Lacefairy on the web. She has
four sources listed with the one in the USA being John
Aebi of Indiana. He does not have a webpage that I
can find, but there is an email address listed.
I can vouch for John Aebi's fan sticks. They are gorgeous. He makes some to
fit
I have made a number of fans using fan sticks taken from inexpensive fans
bought in tourist shops especially in Spain. Whilst they are only plastic or
cheap wood they do look nice when made up with your own lace and you can
always move onto better quality fan sticks when you become more
FIBER FOR'-EM, 2006
Hosted by Cajun Lagniappe Fibers, September 8-10, 2006
Come and spend a couple days with other fiber artist (old and new). Take
classes, shop with the vendors, enjoy talking with like minded people, share
project ideas, and take time to enjoy the fiber arts. Its is being held
Just another quick comment. The fans in Louise
Colgans's Fan book are sized to fit John Aebi's small
fan sticks.
The fans come with two extra of the small interior
sticks, just in case you break one, so don't think you
have to use all of them. Fit the pattern of your lace
with the placement of
Dearl,
You asked about joining at the end of a round. Yep, that's a difficult
one. I tried lots of things before finding an easy way, and that was
explained on the list. Now, let's see if I can explain it.
When you get to the point where you want to join:
1) grab the picot, and flip