[lace] Royal Wedding
Hi Everyone, This is for those of you who would like to see the Danish Royal Wedding live. One of our TV stations is transmitting live on the internet and there is also English translation. I'm off to my favourite position on the sofa to enjoy it all. The actual ceremony is at 4pm Danish time. http://bryllup.tv2.dk/?forsidespot All the best and keep bobbin' along from Avril -- And on the 8th day, God created golf courses and lacemakers Avril Bayne Denmark - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: Check out Cathleen Belleville for chrysanthemum lace
Thanks to all who pointed me to Cathleen's website. the lace is really pretty another book to add to my list of wants methinks. Jane Bawn Portchester UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 May 2004 19:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Check out Cathleen Belleville for chrysanthemum lace Try this to find out about it. You can order her book if you are interested from the site, and she doesn't charge postage even from the States as she says she still makes more on the ones she sells direct than through suppliers or Amazon.I can recommend her book as I have it and use it, and so do some of my students (have their own copies and use them, I mean). I think the last ones I got cost about £16 but it depends on the exchange rate. She has also got another new lace, details on the site. Click here: Cathleen Belleville - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace](Branscombe Point and) Tape laces
Good morning All, One of the things that nobody seems to have mentioned in the Branscombe/Battenburg saga is that, from what I have seen, Branscombe Tape is narrower and finer, and has no gathering thread along the edges. You have to either ease the tape round corners or put in a gathering thread yourself. Battenburg tape is much coarser and has a loose thread along each edge which you can gather up to help you to make the tape fit the pattern. I am not sure if this is solely a modern development but it does seem to be the case now. Jean in Cleveland U.K. On 13 May 2004, at 17:01, Clay Blackwell wrote: Hi Liz - I agree with you that Branscombe Point and Battenberg are different, - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Loehr's flowers
Hello, Tamara, thanks for the wellcome home *smiling* Re Loehr's flowers, best thing first: Ice flowers and Art Noveau PG Flowers are not the same story! Last december, U.L. showed some of those Mechlin prickings to us, and not only the prickings, because some of the patterns were worked by participants of this class I am as lucky as happy to join. (Two weekends a year - the next two are already fixed - is this a regular student? ) Marvelous, stunning - but Mechlin is hard work.. Nevertheless, with a good share of attention, concentration and patience, every lacemaker who is fond of these kind of lace and is familiar with the one or other kind of Flanders lace, will find them a possible task, but positivly a task. Yes, and they are monochrome, designed for light colours on darker background. Somehow I remember they are ment to become a book, though I don't remember a publishing date was mentioned. Ice Flowers certainly will be eye candy like Schneeverweht and Schwarzarbeit and Jagd.. are, even if it's likely that you leave some patterns unworked. The idea for the PG flowers may have been developed while making the mechlin patterns, but they are different in style. They are really brandnew, dated 3/04. In her usual quest for perfection, she developed some very special ways to treat the coloured threads (gimp and workers which form the motives), special beginnings and lots of magic with the help of lots of magic threads. So I doubt these patterns will by available out of class. But this is only my guess.. If you have the chance for this class, take it! I'm very busy working my dicentra, and will do more! And this lace will end framed, decorating the walls of my new home! (rented house in Haltern, with more space for the children and space for a loom and pillow at the same time. and for guests, of course. we'll move in August) ooops, this was long. sorry.. Eva, from Haltern, Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] My question has been answered
Thanks for the information regarding Bev Walker! Janet Fort McMurray, ALberta Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Branscombe Point and) Tape laces
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Branscombe Tape is narrower and finer, and has no gathering thread along the edges. You have to either ease the tape round corners or put in a gathering thread yourself. In the Branscombe technique, you tack the tape to the pattern following your outline. Mrs Treadwin's advice (Antique Point and Honiton Lace, Lacet Publications 1994 page 8) is to tack the outside edge of the tape first, then whip the inner edge, draw up the whipping thread and finish off securely, then tack the inner edge down. It is important that the tacking doesn't gather the tape. It is a while since I learnt Branscombe, but I am sure we tacked near to the outer edge and whipped the inner, without the second line of tacking. The tape at this stage does look wrinkled, with the gathering, but it is almost magical when you finish a piece, remove the tacking stitches to take it off the pattern, then *wash and iron* it - this is one lace which needs washing and pressing! - all of the wrinkles disappear, and the tape lies flat! With Battenberg tape, you do need to be careful to secure the far end of the gathering threads before you start gathering, otherwise get enthusiastic and you could pull it too far it is also a case of pull one, then the other, as you always gather the inside of a curve and for designs that snake around, this means gathering both sides in different places. I found that using the Branscombe tape available in the UK (through Hornsby's or Tim Parker) it needed DMC Broder Machine 30 or 50 in the old blanc shade of white - the newer, optic white 5201 is so much brighter that it makes the tape look grey. That of course, was before I did my train (see Canadian Lacemaker Gazette, Vol 15 Mo.3 (Spring 2001)) and ended up making most of the tapes with cloth stitch bobbin lace, using the same thread for the tapes as for the fillings in order to get the colours required. At least I was let off making the tape I required in black - Tom in Belgium was able to supply that. (The black brings back memories - I got to the wheels and undercarriage that required it in the winter, not the best time of year for working in that colour!) As to tape versus braid, in the UK, and possibly the reason behind the original question Jacqui? We were taught that for the purposes of City Guilds tape was machine made, braid with bobbins. Branscombe is a Tape Lace - it is only when you end up making your own tapes/braids for it that it gets confusing! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Branscombe Point and) Tape laces
I found that using the Branscombe tape available in the UK (through Hornsby's or Tim Parker) I must male a correction to a previous comment of mine about tapes in the USA. I had seen only the plain Battenberg tapes when I wrote. Then immediately, it seemed, I was browsing on the pages for Lacemaking Circle --- and lo, there is a section on Tapes, and they have all kinds of fancy tapes -- for Branscombe and other types. So, in the USA, take a look at Lacemaking Circle for tapes. Just information, no connection with them. It almost tempted me to get some. Alice in Oregon -- where the clouds are coming in again for a wet weekend. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Royal Wedding
I did not stay up to see the Royal Wedding - (It was the wee small hours here in Oz,) but we have just bought the newspaper, and it shows the bride on the front page. I had heard, on the radio, that she wore a 100 year old Irish lace veil, and from the picture in the paper, it looks like Carrickmacross. - and a beautiful piece of carrickmacross, too! I hope to see it in full, on the TV news, tonight! 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] Re: Loehr's flowers
On May 14, 2004, at 5:32, Eva Von Der Bey wrote: Re Loehr's flowers, best thing first: Ice flowers and Art Noveau PG Flowers are not the same story! It is, indeed, a piece of *very good* news; thanks, and please thank her, next time you see her. (Two weekends a year - the next two are already fixed - is this a regular student? ) It *is*, compared to me :) And, if you're one of her guinea pigs, testing new patterns, then you have to be in contact with her more than just during the workshops. Not to mention that, obviously, you must be *way* ahead of me in lacemanship; I had problems with the Snowflake Quilt Sampler the first few days. *Then* she showed us the un-revised version she'd given her students to digest -- with about 10 diagrams missing from what *we* had to cope with... The mind boggles... :) The idea for the PG flowers may have been developed while making the mechlin patterns, but they are different in style. They are really brandnew, dated 3/04. In her usual quest for perfection, she developed some very special ways to treat the coloured threads (gimp and workers which form the motives), special beginnings and lots of magic with the help of lots of magic threads. So I doubt these patterns will by available out of class. Maybe not within the next year or so... But, it seems to me that Loehr follows a pattern of sorts: she comes up with a revolutionary idea, tests it (on her German students), then publishes a book. *Then* teaches related classes in the US... So, I'm hoping to see *both* ideas published, eventually, as books. And I agree with Susan's (Lambiris): No, no, *please* let's try and persuade U.L. to publish the Art Nouveau PG flowers--if necessary even in preference to the Mechlin book, wonderful as *that* would be. Some of us can't take courses I'm self-taught, from books, myself; it's only been the last few years, that I've been able to attend classes (or had enough basics to attend classes which interested me). Books are *vital* to people who live in isolation... I'm not sure though, that I agree with Susan on the in preference ot Mechlin bit; I want it to be *in addition to* :) --- 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-chat] FW: Royal Wedding
Hi Everyone, This is for those of you who would like to see the Danish Royal Wedding live. One of our TV stations is transmitting live on the internet and there is also English translation. I'm off to my favourite position on the sofa to enjoy it all. The actual ceremony is at 4pm Danish time. http://bryllup.tv2.dk/?forsidespot All the best and keep bobbin' along from Avril -- And on the 8th day, God created golf courses and lacemakers Avril Bayne Denmark To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Smile
I've not seen this one before, it appeared on another list I am on and I thought my Arachne friends might find it amusing. One day, a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river when her thimble fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, Why are you crying? The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water, and she needed the thimble to make her living. The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden thimble. Is this your thimble? the Lord asked. The seamstress replied, No. The Lord again went down and came up with a wooden thimble. Is this your thimble? the Lord asked. Again, the seamstress replied, No. The Lord went down again and came up with a silver thimble. Is this your thimble? the Lord asked. The seamstress replied, Yes. The Lord was pleased with the woman's honesty and gave her all three thimbles to keep, and the seamstress went home happy. Some time later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along the riverbank, and her husband fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked her, Why are you crying? Oh, Lord, my husband has fallen into the water! The Lord went down into the water and came up with Mel Gibson. Is this your husband? the Lord asked. Yes! cried the seamstress. The Lord was furious. You lied! That is an untruth! The seamstress replied, Oh, forgive me, my Lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see, if I had said 'no' to Mel Gibson, you would have come up with Tom Cruise. Then if I said 'no' to him, you would have come up with my husband. Had I then said 'yes,' you would have given me all three. Lord, I am a poor woman and am not able to take care of all three husbands, so that's why I said 'yes' to Mel Gibson. The moral of this story is: Whenever a woman lies, it is for a good and honorable reason, and for the benefit of others. Jane Bawn Portchester UK email [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] Re: Pictures (was Heather's Phone Call)
So, Heather I don't see your picture on Lacefairy, have you sent one to Lori so we know what you look like? It is fun to go to Lacefairy and put faces to names. Or is your pictures posted somewhere else (and I've missed that message?) :-) Tonnie McBroom Phoenix, AZ Jane Bawn wrote: On May 8, 2004, at 16:43, H. Muth (Heather) wrote: I like having the voice and the photo to go along with the letters snip To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] booklets, not bobbin lace
Hello all - Since many, if not most, bobbin lacers also have interests and abilities in other gentle arts, I'm offering some booklets here on other arts. They are free, and if more than one person asks, I will pull the names out of the proverbial hat for them. 1) A weaving Primer (Weave-easy series #7225) 2) Lace Net Embroidery placemats and Tablecloths, by Rita Weiss. (American School of Needlecraft #3035) 3) Lace Net Darning in Color, (McCall's Craft Book M/8415) Please contact me privately with any questions re: contents, and interest in having any. Rose-Marie romad2shaw.ca 2=@ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Clever criminal
A cop's life is never boring, it seems g From: D.D. (darling *son*, actually g) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/040510/481/ tpe80505100924e=2ncid=1756 --- 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]
