RE: [lace] Convention-help bookmarks
And there is always the idea of providing DIY kits providing you can find some kind soul to offer their pattern copyright free for the purpose. Jane Portchester UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bev Walker Sent: 29 April 2005 06:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: [lace] Convention-help bookmarks Hi Vasna and everyone I will try to 'whip up' a couple of bookmarks for you, although I have much else to do - and you know that saying, so many laces, so little time...At this point, if you are short 200 -my free advice is for you to have a Plan B, something you can assemble more quickly than it takes the average lacemaker to make a bookmark (whatever that might be - is this helping?) that is equal to a handmade bookmark, not too expensive to make and will save last minute fretting. For instance, colour photocopy some really nice, ambitious bookmarks or other laces, paste the colour copies to stiff card, attach a fancy tassel. The tassel can mimic the finish to a bookmark; a jazzy passementerie of thread and beads; or in the form of a 'spangle' of beads. Free idea, use it if you like. -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] travels by air and US customs
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Barbara Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes They're combination locks that you can set with your favorite number, but they also have a keyhole at the bottom. In theory, only TSA has a key that will open them. The idea is that TSA can get into your luggage, but baggage handlers (and others) can't. I'm not sure I'm convinced, Neither would I be - most combination locks don't need a key to get into, just a good ear! My father in law was a locksmith, and so DH is well-clued on such matters - so when our daughters ended up with combination locks on the - hmm, they're not chains, more like a length of plastic coated metal - things for securing their bikes to lampposts, etc we had a demonstration of how easy it was to unlock them, even without knowing the number set. In any case, if TSA can have master keys, who is to say one (at least) can't 'go astray' into dishonest hands? I think I'll stay a land-lubber! -- Jane Partridge -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 27/04/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] travels by air and US customs
On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 06:05 AM, Jane Partridge wrote: I think I'll stay a land-lubber! You don't need to stay a land-lubber, you only need to avoid travelling to the States. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] need help with Russian book titles
Can anyone help with these? They are both in the books section of http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html The first is Otviety ne obyknovennye voprosy diete for which we need a translation into English. The second is under Ericson, N. J. --CYRILLIC SCRIPT HERE-- [A Collection of Samples of Bobbin Lace], 1913, etc. I have tried to change the Cyrillic into a font we can read here in the West, but without success. I hope that someone out there is good in Russian. The Professor and I thank you. Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Another travel solution
I've been off the list for a while so this may have already been suggested, but I travel to workshops with an ethofoam block pillow. The pillow can be cut in half and assembled such that it folds and fits better in my luggage. It is lighter - for the 50 pound luggage limit - and I can pop the block with my bobbins out and put it in a plastic box in my carry on so my bobbins stay with me at all times. Jo Ann Eurell Urbana, IL - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Another travel solution
Don't count on that! TSA agents have discretion/autonomy as to what they will allow in carry-on baggage. The block with the bobbins also has many *SHARP* pins. I've heard people say that they were not allowed to have them on the plane. And then what will you do when you're going through security on the way home, and the agent says you can't take the block with the pins on the plane in your carry-on? You'll have no other option but to let them have the pins. Ideally you'd have enough time to remove and surrender all the pins, so the bobbins, block and pricking wouldn't be sacrificed, too, but the lace would be ruined (all that work from the class down the drain!). Altogether a horrible scenario to envision. Pad the pillow well and secure the bobbins with some slack in the threads so they don't break, and check the whole thing through. Sorry to burst your bubble, but forewarned is forearmed. Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA I've been off the list for a while so this may have already been suggested, but I travel to workshops with an ethofoam block pillow. The pillow can be cut in half and assembled such that it folds and fits better in my luggage. It is lighter - for the 50 pound luggage limit - and I can pop the block with my bobbins out and put it in a plastic box in my carry on so my bobbins stay with me at all times. Jo Ann Eurell Urbana, IL - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Securing luggage with shrink wrap (long)
In a message dated 4/28/05 9:27:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A lot of you travel around and fly hither and thither. Have any of you used the system of wrapping your cases in Cling Film that is now on offer at airports, to secure your cases against tampering, etc.? We are considering it for our travels to USA in July. Dear Liz and Other Air Travelers, After going through the inspection - in Budapest - I paid to have two suitcases wrapped. Then, they were put on a conveyor belt. The smaller case was full of lace books purchased at OIDFA Prague, and nothing else. Very heavy. I thought the wrap would protect the cases from rough handling and soiling. When I showed in my ticket at the loading gate, I was pulled aside and ordered to follow someone who took me all the way back to passport control, took my passport, then ordered me into a small room on the other side of passport control - all in sign language. There, on a table, was my suitcase of books. They handed me a cutter and indicated I should remove the shrink wrap, open the combination lock and unzip the bag. They opened every book (there were about 30) and flipped through them. Then, let me close and lock the bag. In broken language one said it would be on the plane. All of this took place with them refusing to speak any English. Very frustrating. I KNOW that young students in Hungary are all learning English and that among 6 people with whom I tried to communicate there had to be at least one who understook and could have replied. This flight makes one round trip to New York per day, and English must have been a requirement of the job for some of this personnel. I am a senior citizen, rather petite, a very plain American, and not intimidating. When my luggage arrived at Kennedy Airport in NY, the larger suitcase was still encased in shrink wrap. No books were missing from the other case. I did not take another flight, connecting or otherwise, so do not know how the shrink-wrapped case would have been treated by airport security in the U.S. My friend in Hungary (whose husband is a retired judge) investigated and reported back that the airport had a warning that some people were packing explosives in books. This incident would have been very frightening for a first-time traveler who had no friends in-country. Fortunately, I've been through some pretty interesting travel situations. Experience helps. I do think it a good idea to try to seal luggage so nothing illegal is added and your luggage has some protection from conveyor belts and so forth. Just know that there may be some aggravation along the line, such as a demand to remove the wrap. Jeri Ames in Maine USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] I travel with my lace
In January I went to Spain with my lace. I put my scissors and other bits and bobs in my case but took the pillow with lace, bobbins and pins in the lace onto BA plane. I always go BA as I never have any trouble. I suppose every eight or nine flights I get asked to show what it is. No problem. When I took my table cloth pillow with all my bone bobbins (98 pairs) they put it on a seat, with belt across, in first class whereas we were in the poor peoples seats! If you go cheap, say Easy Jet you will get problems. that is why we only fly BA. No, I am not any thing to do with BA!!! KEEP LACING, TATTING, CROCHETING AND EMBROIDERING, VIVIENNE, BIGGINS - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re Another travel solution
By the end of a lace class away from home, I always have some lace, bobbins and pins on my pillow. I bundle up the bobbins as if I were moving my lace up the pillow, take all the pins out, take it all off the pillow, cover the lace, and put bobbins and lace into my carryon. Pillow, pins and tools go into the suitcase. There is nothing metal to even attract anyone's attention as I tie knots in the covering handkerchiefs when I bundle the bobbins. At most it's a 10 minute task, and needs to be done by the end of a class since the lace needs to be moved by then anyway. I do this no matter where I travel, because I hate worrying about my bobbins getting smashed to smithereens, or getting lost forever in outer space as it once did. Being off the pillow doesn't harm the lace at all. I have a large flanders handkerchief edging that was off its pillow for a year when it was half-way done. It is not possible to even see where the lace paused for so long, tossed carelessly into a corner of my sewing room. Sally Schoenberg Anchorage Alaska where it's spring and the daffodils are blooming! From: Barbara Joyce baggage. The block with the bobbins also has many *SHARP* pins. I've heard people say that they were not allowed to have them on the plane. And then what will you do when you're going through security on the way home, and the agent says you can't take the block with the pins on the plane in your carry-on? You'll have no other option but to let them have the pins. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] re Another travel solution
Amazing! Sally, thanks for sharing this information. I think it may be the perfect solution. Can you please provide a little more information? I understand everything you said, up to a point. So you've taken all the pins out, and the bobbins have been supported in a bundle so as not to put tension on the threads. Now the lace is off the pillow. You said cover the lace. Exactly what do you mean by that? What do you do to ensure the lace is protected from jostling and distortion in your carry-on? Thanks for any information you can add. I am very excited about this idea! Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA By the end of a lace class away from home, I always have some lace, bobbins and pins on my pillow. I bundle up the bobbins as if I were moving my lace up the pillow, take all the pins out, take it all off the pillow, cover the lace, and put bobbins and lace into my carryon. Pillow, pins and tools go into the suitcase. There is nothing metal to even attract anyone's attention as I tie knots in the covering handkerchiefs when I bundle the bobbins. At most it's a 10 minute task, and needs to be done by the end of a class since the lace needs to be moved by then anyway. I do this no matter where I travel, because I hate worrying about my bobbins getting smashed to smithereens, or getting lost forever in outer space as it once did. Being off the pillow doesn't harm the lace at all. I have a large flanders handkerchief edging that was off its pillow for a year when it was half-way done. It is not possible to even see where the lace paused for so long, tossed carelessly into a corner of my sewing room. Sally Schoenberg Anchorage Alaska where it's spring and the daffodils are blooming! From: Barbara Joyce baggage. The block with the bobbins also has many *SHARP* pins. I've heard people say that they were not allowed to have them on the plane. And then what will you do when you're going through security on the way home, and the agent says you can't take the block with the pins on the plane in your carry-on? You'll have no other option but to let them have the pins. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Securing luggage with shrink wrap (long)
There's another problem with putting lots of books or magazines together in a suitcase--they may fail X-ray inspection. The clay coating of glossy paper is X-ray opaque and a stack of them looks the same as a big, metal box. I had that problem at Heathrow, years before 9-11. I'd bought a bunch of back issues of a needlecraft magazine and divided the lot between my 2 suitcases--both of them failed X-ray and had to be thoroughly searched. The inspector doesn't know *why* they were flagged by the machinery (but told me it was probably the magazines), so has to examine everything. Since I'd been in England 2 weeks, combining a meeting, some work-related research, general tourism, the Springett's lace fair, and the needlework expo, my luggage was *quite* full. I'd spent all evening trying to fit everything in just so, and had a devil of a time getting it all back in after the inspection without missing my plane! Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] control - all in sign language. There, on a table, was my suitcase of books. They handed me a cutter and indicated I should remove the shrink wrap, open the combination lock and unzip the bag. They opened every book (there were about 30) and flipped through them. Then, let me close and lock the bag. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] travels by air and US customs
Most of us travel with fabric suitcases, so a determined thief merely has to take a knife to it. The purpose of a lock, on a suitcase or a car, is merely to convince the thief to try an easier target. If the thief wants your luggage (car, house, bicycle, whatever), he'll take it no matter what lock you have on it. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither would I be - most combination locks don't need a key to get into, just a good ear! My father in law was a locksmith, and so DH is - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] travels by air and US customs
I know that we cannot lock a case in the US but is it still possible to lock your cases when returning from Europe? I have waited at O'Hare to see my cases go through the xray machine and have seen them opened. In which case I definitely wait until they are finished before going through security myself. I have also opened my cases at the other end on trips within the US to find the notice from the TSA to say they had been searched. I have also seen things on the carousel that are wrapped in plastic but I assumed they had done that to boxes and cases that they were unable to secure after forcing them open to be searched. I am off to France via Heathrow/Gatwick next Friday so it is good to be up to date with all the rules and regulations. I thought of Tamara when she was off to see her son as it was around the time they banned carry-on of lighters. Could see her gasping for a fag at the end of that journey if she had to wait to buy some matches. :-) BTW, they have to be cardboard matches that you are allowed to carry on. Now for lace content: I am manning a craft table at St. Johns Episcople church, N. Wille St., in Mt. Prospect tomorrow selling lace pictures along with all sorts of stuff from my lace guild. If it is quiet on the sale front I will be demonstrating lace making, all the better to push my pictures to the non-lacemakers that will the there. I am told I will be given the best position by the windows. I think I will track my time lacemaking so I can use the demo hours for IOLI. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] travels by air and US customs
On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 02:44 PM, Janice Blair wrote: I know that we cannot lock a case in the US but is it still possible to lock your cases when returning from Europe? I'm going to move this to Chat and reply there. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Another travel solution
Barbara, I just carried a square with pins and bobbins on it through Lansing and Chicago. I carried a whole box of pins on the plane with me through Boston to Chicago and Lansing. Pins aren't on the prohibited items list. I understand it has to do with the length of a pointy object, can it cause bodily harm. Pins really don't. Again, here is the prohibited and permitted items list from our own Transpotation Safety Administration. It's there in seven different languages. http://www.tsa.gov/public/display?theme=177 Print it out, carry it with you. It really isn't that hard to negotiate American Airports. Lace in Peace, Laurie *-Original Message- *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Behalf Of *Barbara Joyce *Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:19 AM *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com *Subject: Re: [lace] Another travel solution * * *Don't count on that! * *TSA agents have discretion/autonomy as to what they will allow *in carry-on *baggage. The block with the bobbins also has many *SHARP* *pins. I've heard *people say that they were not allowed to have them on the plane. * *And then what will you do when you're going through security on the way *home, and the agent says you can't take the block with the *pins on the plane *in your carry-on? You'll have no other option but to let them *have the pins. *Ideally you'd have enough time to remove and surrender all the *pins, so the *bobbins, block and pricking wouldn't be sacrificed, too, but *the lace would *be ruined (all that work from the class down the drain!). * *Altogether a horrible scenario to envision. Pad the pillow *well and secure *the bobbins with some slack in the threads so they don't *break, and check *the whole thing through. * *Sorry to burst your bubble, but forewarned is forearmed. * *Barbara Joyce *Snoqualmie, WA *USA * * * I've been off the list for a while so this may have already * been suggested, but I travel to workshops with an ethofoam * block pillow. The pillow can be cut in half and assembled * such that it folds and fits better in my luggage. It is * lighter - for the 50 pound luggage limit - and I can pop the * block with my bobbins out and put it in a plastic box in my * carry on so my bobbins stay with me at all times. * * Jo Ann Eurell * Urbana, IL * * - * To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *containing the line: * unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *- *To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: *unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re more details on Another travel solution
Hi again, Joyce has asked me for more detail about my bundle of bobbins and lace. Actually, she asked about the lace dangling off the bundle of bobbins so this is an elaboration on the previous email. First, the bobbins are all secured on bobbin holders. At one time or another I've used sticks with elastic, knit stitch holders, and double pointed knitting needles with stoppers sandwiching bobbins. They all work great in my experience. Then I stack the bobbins on top of a large handkerchief. I tie the ends of the handkerchief tightly so the bobbins can't move around but leaving the threads loose with no tension. I use as many handkerchiefs as I need to make things secure. I make the last tie a very tight one around the bundle of threads so they all come out of a teensy weensy hole in the top of the bundle. At this point, all the bobbins are inside and the lace is hanging loosely off the last tie. I lay the lace flat on the bundle without tensioning the threads, but remember, the last tie is supposed to hold the threads in place so the tension won't travel down into the bundle of bobbins. I cover the lace and bundle with another large handkerchief and toss the lot into a plastic bag. They're called baggies, I don't know the size, they are just a standard item in my kitchen, but any zip lock will do. Mine needs a twistie on the top and then the bag is tossed into my carryon. If you have securely tied that last knot, the one with the teensy weensy hole for all the threads, and all the bobbins are secure inside the bundle so they don't move around, then you can safely toss the bundle around with the lace hanging off the end like a flag. I like to do that for new lacemakers. Lace is much more durable then you think. I've done this with fine Buck's Pt, Binche made with 165/2 egyptian, Beds, Tonder, Flanders. I've done it with 216 pairs but then the bundle was as large as a basketball and it used up all available handkerchiefs. I prefer working with a flat cookie pillow, I'm faster and more comfortable with cookie pillows, and so I've gotten lots of experience moving lace. My handkerchiefs are big. Some are white and some colored. I got them in Bruges years ago and have used them ever since to move my lace and bundle it all up for travel. It's so nice not worrying about my suitcase. It's just full of clothes for the laundry by the time I'm headed home and the thieves are welcome to it. And if they empty it on the way to a class? No problem, I need new clothes anyway. Sally Schoenberg and pins on my pillow. I bundle up the bobbins as if I were moving my lace up the pillow, take all the pins out, take it all off the pillow, cover the lace, and put bobbins and lace into my carryon. Pillow, pins and tools go into the suitcase. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Newbie Reporting In
Hi all, Well, I made my cookie pillow and have been working my way, with the help of our instructor Dale Pomeroy, through the bookmark projects in The Torchon Lace Workbook by Bridget M. Cook. So far all is going well. On my own, I made a roller pillow loosely following the instructions in Doris Southard's Lessons in Bobbin Lacemaking. It turned out quite well and I'm very proud of it. I'm looking forward to showing it to Dale! Next in line is Roz Snowden's Miniature Bobbin Lace, as I'm a miniaturist, and this would marry my 2 main interests! I still need to get bobbins and thread for this adventure, though. That's it for me! I love reading this group's Digest and picking up tidbits (or avalanches LOL) of information. Thanks to all! Sue Coulter You must do the things you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] travels by air and US customs
On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 03:48 PM, Barbara Joyce wrote: Margot, I was afraid someone would do that. IMHO, this discussion is relevant to lace since many of us are planning to go to the IOLI convention this summer, and there are many other opportunities for lace study through the world that may require air travel. I don't read chat, so now I might miss out on some information that would be most helpful in my lace study/travel. Barbara Here's what I posted to Chat: On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 02:44 PM, Janice Blair wrote: I know that we cannot lock a case in the US but is it still possible to lock your cases when returning from Europe? A few weeks ago there was quite a long thread going about this on http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g186338-i17-London_England.html It seems that all (?) European countries (at least the UK for sure) and Canada want you to lock your suitcases. The US seems to be the only country that wants them unlocked. By the way, the tripadvisor.com web site is great. There are chat forums for practically every place in the world where you can ask questions and get them answered. And the hotel part of the site has reviews of hotels/resorts written by people who've stayed in them and reviews copied from various guide books. Take a look. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Course in Vienna:The Identification and Analysis of Lace
I'm not sure how she stumbled upon it, but a friend sent me this today and I thought I'd send it along to the list. (I apologize if it is a duplicate notice.) regards, Lorraine In Albany, NY, where Spring's package deal has brought daffodils, pansies, violets, vinca/myrtle, tulips and all manner of trees into bloomand also brought dandelions and the interminable strains of the ice-cream truck playing its corporate version of Oh Susannah as it drives slowly around looking for customers. Date: 8 Apr 2005 From: Regina Knaller regina.knaller [at] gmx__at Subject: Course on lace making The University of Applied Arts Vienna, Textile Conservation Department, is organizing the following course The Identification and Analysis of Lace July 4-9, 2005, from 9-17:30 daily Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols Polimada Florenz (Technical College of Design) Ms. Schoenholzers intensive introduction course will give an extensive overview of the history of lace-making, from a hand-crafted to a machine-made product. Stylistic development and regional centres of development will be examined, a wide variety of different techniques will be demonstrated; original examples will be studied and compared. The technical cataloguing system (database) will be explained and used by the participants themselves. A field trip to the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) and its superb lace collection will round out the programme. Each participant is expected to bring their own thread-counter, lead and coloured pencils (no felt-tip pens!), scissors, paper, stapler or adhesive stick, ca. 100 clear plastic folders and a thick ring-binder. Program Day 1: General introduction to lace-making; introduction to bobbin (pillow)-lace Day 2: Bobbin lace (continuation) Day 3: Opaque laces Day 4: Precursors to needle-made laces; needle-made laces Day 5: Other lace-making techniques (fillet, macrame, etc.) Development of machine-made laces Day 6: Discussion of a documentation sheet for the technical analysis of laces Descriptions of lace Excursion to the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). Registration Deadline: May 23, 2005 Registration: kons-rest [at] uni-ak__ac__at Working Language: German Participation Fee: Euro 500, (including course documents, graphic materials, engineering detailed drawings) Maximum number of participants: 25 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: travelling with bobbins
Hi All, I just want to add my 2 cents worth. When I went to the UK in 1989 for a Springett's class, I took my traveling pillow with a piece of lace on it. I had a 2nd roller ready to go and my bobbins in my suitcase. When it came class time, I swapped out the roller. However, what I had prepared before leaving Oz on my adventure was a small, sturdy box which I made. It was made out of the artists board (like my travel pillow), and covered, with a lid. I was able to pack the roller, with lace attached, and bobbins secured on holders and wrapped in a dressing cloth inside the little box which was sturdy, inside my suitcase. Everything survived the journey home, and no broken threads. I haven't flown with bobbins since 9-11. Cheers, Helen, Aussie in rather chilly and damp Denver - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Suitcases and travel
Thank you all for your help and advice . We have taken note of your thoughts, and suggestions. Last time we travelled to the US we came home about 3 weeks before 9/11, so there were none of these hassles! Having our cases unlocked is a worry, after some of the things that have happened here in Oz, and coming home with all the goodies I intend (hope/plan to) buying at Denver will fill a few more carry-on bags than we are allowed!!! :)) Never mind - I will tackle that problem when the time arrives!! :) I look forward to meeting many of you in Denver. Regards 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] travels by air and US customs
On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 02:44 PM, Janice Blair wrote: I know that we cannot lock a case in the US but is it still possible to lock your cases when returning from Europe? A few weeks ago there was quite a long thread going about this on http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g186338-i17-London_England.html It seems that all (?) European countries (at least the UK for sure) and Canada want you to lock your suitcases. The US seems to be the only country that wants them unlocked. By the way, the tripadvisor.com web site is great. There are chat forums for practically every place in the world where you can ask questions and get them answered. And the hotel part of the site has reviews of hotels/resorts written by people who've stayed in them and reviews copied from various guide books. Take a look. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Air Security: was: Re: [lace] Bobbins, and other things.
Moved to Chat because my response is very off-topic: At 07:13 PM 4/28/05 -0700, Barbara Joyce wrote: I really hate what the terrorists have done to us. :-( All the terrorists did was wave blankets at us. We jumped over the cliff entirely on our own. At 06:31 AM 4/29/05 -0400, Laurie Hughes wrote: I just take most valuables with me on the plane in carry-on. But then security will steal and destroy it on suspicion of it looking something like something that could conceivably be used as a weapon. Sigh. For me, not flying in the U.S. means not flying. At the moment, by good luck, I don't want to go anywhere I can't get to by car. (But we're starting to have safety check points.) -- Joy Beeson, resident curmudgeon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] French: was: [lace] Re: Query
English got its habit of French interjections from a little event in 1066 -- but where did Polish pick it up? Several centuries later... Around baroque, I think, maybe? My history is pretty bad, but I remember French was very fashionable for a while. Do you also have latin stock phrases? (e.g.: etc., i.e., q.v., Q.E.D., gustabis non disputandem est, habeus corpus, quid pro quo, carpe diem, . . . ) Yes, we do, although not as many as in English. We had very little contact with actual Romans, so these come from the Middle Ages, when Latin was the learned language. There is some German, too, unsurprisingly. And I'm sure there are lots of influences from other Slavic languages, but these are hard to pick out. Ah, and Italian, too, from when one of our kings married an Italian woman and she introduced things like cauliflower ;-) Weronika -- Weronika Patena Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
