Re: [lace] fine coloured thread
Brenda Paternoster asked How are you planning to use color in Bucks point, other than for the gimps? On 28 Jun 2005, at 17:10, Angela wrote: I am thinking of doing some bucks in color but am having trouble in finding fine enough colored thread. —--- In The book Butterfly and Moth - Ulrike Lahore show spectacularly how color can be used with Bucks Point techniques. She uses Piper silks 90. For this work one can order a pack with the correct colors from Pipers or Holly van Scriver in the USA the details are in the book. This is on my to do list and I drool over the pictures ever so often. Linda Greyling Helderkruin near Johannesburg South Africa --- This message (and attachments) is subject to restrictions and a disclaimer. Please refer to http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer for full details. --- gwavasig gwavasig - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Apology Fine threads (author Butterfly and Moth)
Sorry we have a new mailing system and it changed some of my message without asking me first. Butterfly and Moth by Ulrike Loehr. Linda Greyling Lecturer Mathematics and Science --- This message (and attachments) is subject to restrictions and a disclaimer. Please refer to http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer for full details. --- gwavasig gwavasig - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Apology Fine threads (author Butterfly and Moth)
Hi Linda This book looks like a 'must have' but I cannot find it on the internet. Is it a recent book? Do you know the publisher and/or IBSN number? Thanks Angela Linda Greyling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry we have a new mailing system and it changed some of my message without asking me first. Butterfly and Moth by Ulrike Loehr. Linda Greyling Lecturer Mathematics and Science --- This message (and attachments) is subject to restrictions and a disclaimer. Please refer to http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer for full details. --- gwavasig - 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] Fine Bucks thread
Hi everyone Thanks for the information, it's great to have such a wide group of knowledgeable people to call on. I will look into all the suggestions but please keep them coming if you get any more ideas. And yes, Claire, I am the Angela from the Swanley group and City and Guilds has a lot to answer for!! Thanks again everyone Angela - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Apology Fine threads (author Butterfly and Moth)
Hi, I did a search and found the book. Below the details from GOOGLE. Text for Booklist Page Butterfly and Moth by Ulrike Lohr £19.60. Variations on an Edging by Christine Springett £3.50. Flowers in Bobbin Lace by Ulla Fagerlin Birgitta ... www.smplace.co.uk/txt_bks.htm All the best and happy lacemaking. Elizabeth Elizabeth D Pienaar Senior Scientist South African Cochrane Centre PO Box 19070 Tygerberg 7505 SOUTH AFRICA Tel: +27 (0)21 938-0835 Fax: +27 (0)21 938-0836 Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/06/30 09:33 AM Please respond to Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Linda Greyling [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Arachne lace@arachne.com Subject Re: [lace] Apology Fine threads (author Butterfly and Moth) Hi Linda This book looks like a 'must have' but I cannot find it on the internet. Is it a recent book? Do you know the publisher and/or IBSN number? Thanks Angela Linda Greyling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry we have a new mailing system and it changed some of my message without asking me first. Butterfly and Moth by Ulrike Loehr. Linda Greyling Lecturer Mathematics and Science --- This message (and attachments) is subject to restrictions and a disclaimer. Please refer to http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer for full details. --- gwavasig - 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]
Re: [lace] Calm (logarithmic) Sea and Prosperous (Dieppe?) Voyage
Dear Aurelia, First sugestion you made Aurelia-Torchon -ground. Second Mendelssohn-Torchon-ground or third and that's what you did is head over heals Dieppe-ground. But why not working like this. On one side are the correct lace rules on the other free interpretation. If it works and if you like is it is ok. Have still fun with your fan. I am interesting what you will make if you here let's say beethoven or Wagner Greetings Ilske from Hamburg in Germany where today the weather again changed to grey and sunless. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] fine coloured thread
Brenda Paternoster asked How are you planning to use color in Bucks point, other than for the gimps? Louise Colgan teaches color in BL and for her point ground pattern we used one color thread (YLI #100 silk) for the ground and for CTC passives, other colors of heavier thread (YLI #50 silk) for each CTC worker, and various colors of buttonhole twist silk for gimps. I used black for the fine thread, 2 shades of rust for the flower petal workers, edged in a coordinating shade of rust gimp, and green for the stem and leaf workers, each edged in green gimp. Then there were other colors of gimp around the edge. Since YLI #50 comes in more colors than #100, this scheme worked well for being colorful. And since the passives were thinner than the worker on the the CTC sections, the colored worker dominated the clothstitch sections. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Languages
Now we are discussing languages, I do think it is the right time for me to tell you, the explanation lacemakers - who have not English as their first language - give for dropping Arachne. It takes too long time to read. I do tell them that they should just go on to the next posting every time they don't understand what it is all about, because of slang, abbreviations etc. So when you write something 'smart', do think about your readers, they are not all of them living round the corner. BTW all Scandinavian language bobbin lace makers are welcome in the Danish group, run by Knipling i Danmark. You will get information about joining by sending an empty mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Exhibition
Dear All, Last sunday I went to the west of Hamburg to the so called Jenisch Haus. It was the country residence of the Hamburg Senator Martin Johann von Jenisch. This villa set in a huge parc was built after the designs of Franz Gustav Forsmann and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1831 til 1834. You can overlook the river Elbe. A series of rooms can be seen decorated with furniture and artwork from the Baroque and Classicism up to the Biedermeier style. And what has these all to do with lace you ask me. This house is a dependance of Altonaer Museum. A Museum who under other things has also laces and dresses. From 5. june till 16. october 2005 they show us there mariage dresses. You remember we discussed this object a long time two years ago. And in this exhibition who start in 1755 you see all the different types and ideas for dresses for the most important day in life as it is often said in Germany, hopefully it's true. Back to the dresses, first the weren't white. In the time between 1755 and 1789 women haven't special dresses for mariage. The wore a festve coloured dress with flowers in the hair or a bonnet with lace hold a fan or a handkerchief both with a special motive for love. After French Revolution the first whit mariage dresses were in fashion but abround 1815 again coloured dresses as well as white ones were worn. After 1848 most women prefered a dress in white only for this special day. And only war times could stop this and since the 1968 not all mariagers still were white. On these dresses very often lace was used and a few lace handkerchiefs and other object are to seen. Not all laces are described and a few in the wrong way (gain I had to critizise after visiting the show and I did) and everything is written only in German. But those of you which have the possibiliity to come near Hamburg in Germany don't hesitate to visit this exhibition you will like it. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Glass Bobbins
Hi BarbE et al, I always have lots of Malcolm's glass bobbins on my pillow, and they are remarkably sturdy! I have in the past fifteen years or so only broken two. The first was at a Suffolk Lace Day, when a lady saw me winding them, and paused to pick one up. She promptly dropped it on a parquet floor, and it broke into three pieces - not the least bit concerned, she looked at the pieces on the floor, said My - they don't bounce, do they! and stomped off.I was so amazed, I didn't take off after her and deck her! However, Malcolm was at the Lace Day, and mended the bobbin - it was one with two little tiny red bobbins inside, and although there is a scorch mark where it was mended, I am still delighted with it, and use it a lot. The other breakage was my fault. You know how it is - I was coming downstairs, with lots of stuff in my arms, and too lazy to make more than one journey upstairs!I tripped coming downstairs, and fell the last three/four steps - the gear went everywhere, and the little box containing all the bobbins opened, and the bobbins went everywhere - but miraculously, only one bobbin of the four or five pairs of glass bobbins in the box broke! But that one broke into lots of little pieces, so no chance of that one being repaired. So - don't be afraid to use the bobbins - they sound lovely on a pillow, and look beautiful too. Carol - in Suffolk UK. - Original Message - From: Barb ETx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Glass Bobbins - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Language Translations Locations
Dear Lacemakers, Some members have language translation problems. When you are asking for help, please consider that we cannot guess where you are writing from just from your e-mail address. If you are asking for purchasing info, we want to give vendor names that are easiest for you to conduct business with. This list is very helpful, but you'll get better answers if you at least put your country after your signature. Some people have this pre-programmed, so they do not have to type each time. People asking for help finding local lace teachers or groups: Often, a lace expert is near you. Please give us as much as you can without pointing directly to your front door. One way is to use only your first name. If you live in a smaller city or town that is near a large city, it helps if you sign as (example) Mary, near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, not just Mary in Ohio. You'll get more focused help when you help us help you. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Glass Bobbins - sturdiness
The first glass bobbins I got were a gift (don't know who made them, but I've seen them for sale by Holly van Sciver). I'd never have bought them, being afraid they'd break too easily, but I wanted to use my gift so I put them on a pillow. I now have maybe a dozen glassies. When I packed to go to Arachne '98 (a grand convention of Arachneans in Nottingham, organized by Pat Hallam and Margaret Allen), I over-stuffed the bobbin box and broke two bobbins. One was wood and the other glass. Another time, I sat on my bobbin roll. It only had a few bobbins in it (whew!!!), but I broke one wood and one glass. If you drop them onto cement or other very hard flooring, they break more readily than wood or bone. Other than that, though, they seem just as sturdy. I've only broken the two glassies, but have broken other woods. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I always have lots of Malcolm's glass bobbins on my pillow, and they are remarkably sturdy! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Glass Bobbins - sturdiness
... I've only broken the two glassies, but have broken other woods. Robin P. = Wow Robin, I didn't know bobbin lace was a contact sport! Patty - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Website, Brazilian bobbin lace
(Forwarded from Antje) Hello all Arachneans, I have an e-friend who comes from Brazil and is also a lacer. I have asked her about the gigantic pins that have been commented a few days ago: she has told me that these large bobbin laces we saw in that website are made in the North East of Brazil and, as this is a very poor region, they use (instead of pins) the thorns of a plant called mandacaru, which is a kind of cactus. She has also sent me an incredible fotograph. I will put it in my web site so that you can have a look at it. Greetings from Antje, in Guadalajara, Spain - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] A visual treat on eBay...
Hello all fellow lacemakers!! I have just spotted a treat on eBay. I am not in a position to rush in to bid on this item, but I am sure that any of you would enjoy seeing it, considering the id and appraisal given by our own Kate Henry!! This is quite an old piece of lace, and in very good shape, AND the pictures are worth looking at!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=362item=7332317820 Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] A visual treat on eBay...
Corners in Bucks Point lace are relatively new - I thought they were around in other types of laces for longer. I got a series of closeup pictures by clicking on the word Supersize underneath the photo. Ruth (Sydney, Australia) - Original Message - From: Carolyn Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Clay Blackwell' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:52 AM Subject: RE: [lace] A visual treat on eBay... Hello, I am very curious. This doesn't look like anything from the 17th century to me. For one thing, it is quite small. Any handkerchiefs that I've ever heard of from prior to the 19th c. were quite large. Also, I was under the impression that corners in lace were not developed until the later half of the nineteenth/twentieth century. I notice that there is no way to get a close look at the lace itself. Any comments to enlighten us, from some of you experts out there?? Thanks, Carolyn Carolyn W. Hastings Stow, MA USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clay Blackwell Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:30 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] A visual treat on eBay... Hello all fellow lacemakers!! I have just spotted a treat on eBay. I am not in a position to rush in to bid on this item, but I am sure that any of you would enjoy seeing it, considering the id and appraisal given by our own Kate Henry!! This is quite an old piece of lace, and in very good shape, AND the pictures are worth looking at!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=362ite m=7332317820 Clay Clay Blackwell [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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] IOLI/Denver Convention
Gentle Spiders, Forgive the wholesale message, but my Inbox is full to bursting, and I can't cope with all individual responses any more... To all my friends - those I've met, and those I've met on-line only, and had hoped to meet in real time... To those who wrote me that they'd miss me if I didn't come... Thank you; I'll miss you too. To all others - those who'd written to say I'd be sorry if I didn't come, and those who'd written to say how much they were going to enjoy the event anyway... I am sorry already, but I'm not changing my mind. And I most certainly hope eveyone will enjoy the experience... In fact, enjoy it a little bit *extra*, so that, between you, you'll generate enough enjoyment to make up for my lack of it :) I'm sure the organisers will make it easy for you to do so. I am not coming to Denver, and that's final, however sorry I may feel. My official cancellation notice had gone to the organisers (and everyone else directly concerned in my disappearance) a couple of days ago, and had been accepted in time for me to claim my money back *without* having to provide a substitue for my two missed classes :) Yours, -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] A visual treat on eBay...
At 05:52 PM 6/30/2005, you wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7332317820 I am very curious. This doesn't look like anything from the 17th century to me. For one thing, it is quite small. Any handkerchiefs that I've ever heard of from prior to the 19th c. were quite large. Also, I was under the impression that corners in lace were not developed until the later half of the nineteenth/twentieth century. I'd like to put forth some thoughts for the more expert people to counter. First, it is small. This size today we call a hanky. However, needlelace is fairly firm and I would think that a hanky with this much firm lace would not be much fun to carry, and it is true that older hankies were much larger than todays'. Consider that it might have been made as a small doily. It would look lovely under a sculpture or flower vase. And the 3-dimensional part would show up well. Second, the 'gathered corners' on hankies was for bobbin lace which gathers much more easily. Set corners in bobbin lace can be a challenge, especially on the laces that are not 45 degree angle. Corners in needlelace are as easy as straight edging. The motifs -- flowers, leaves, scrolls-- are made separately, then laid out in whatever design is desired, and the connecting brides put in. This design is geometrically arranged for four corners. However, if you look closely, not all the symetrical features are truly symetrical. There's some differences in the left and right matching motifs. Very possibly, many people were involved in making the motifs of this doily. I notice that there is no way to get a close look at the lace itself. The words ' larger picture' are above the main picture but don't show up well on the dark background. Once in 'large' mode, just click on the side arrows to page through all the pictures. Click on the middle arrows for an automatic scroll through all of them. Click the side arrow when you want the paging to stop. As for the linen center, it is possible that this is not the original center. As fabric wore out, lace was often removed and then attached to new fabric. The stains and wear on the lace do not match the linen center. It would be lovely to have this, but with IOLI coming up, I'm saving my pennies for the sales room. G Alice in Oregon -- where we had summer today. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: A visual treat on eBay...
On Jun 30, 2005, at 23:58, Alice Howell wrote (in response to Carolyn): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7332317820 I am very curious. This doesn't look like anything from the 17th century to me. For one thing, it is quite small. Any handkerchiefs that I've ever heard of from prior to the 19th c. were quite large. Also, I was under the impression that corners in lace were not developed until the later half of the nineteenth/twentieth century. [...] it is small. This size today we call a hanky. However, needlelace is fairly firm and I would think that a hanky with this much firm lace would not be much fun to carry, and it is true that older hankies were much larger than todays'. Consider that it might have been made as a small doily. It would look lovely under a sculpture or flower vase. And the 3-dimensional part would show up well. Yes, but did they *have* doilies, to put under a vase or sculpture, in mid 1600 hundreds? I know they used carpets to show off their prized possessions, but I've never seen (in paintings) an intricate doily like that used in the same place. Most of the lace made then - whether needle or bobbin - was made either for the Church, or for the top 5% of the population, and it was still considered something very, very, special, being out-of-sight expensive... Surely, then, not something to serve as a frothy background to a marble bust of Julius Cesar or Homer? Besides, those sculptures were *big*, as were the flower vases, while this thing is dainty, at 12-12.5 square *total* area. You set a 17th century vase on it, and only the little corners of the lace peek out from underneath. Total waste of your money, since you get no status-boost :) It's true that corners in lace - late apply to Bobbin Lace only; NL doesn't have to face the same constraints of design as some of the BL does, and hankies with corners - some quite dainty - were made in NL fairly early (mid 18th c? I sem to remember that some of the NL hankies in the Cone Sisters collection at the Baltimore Museum of art were as early as that)) I have another doubt about the dating of the piece... To quote from the site (Yes! I *could* copy and paste! Much to my surpriseg) Handmade French Point de France Needlelace. Mid to late 1600's. “Point d France was developed by Louis XIV and finance minister Colbert, to provide a French industry of fine needle laces in the mid 1600's. As my memory gets worse and worse, my dependence on handy resources grows stronger... According to the Heritage Dictionary, Louis XIV wasn't even *born* till 1638. True, he became king at the tender age of 5 (1643), but I doubt he was discussing lace production with Colbert at that point :) In fact, according to Pat Earnshaw's Lace in Fashion, it was only in 1661 that Louis had a chance to repeal his mother's (Anne of Austria) and her second husband's (Mazarin) proscriptions against the excessive use of lace, and that's when Colbert started to encourage home manufacture of lace - importing teachers and designers and planting them in existing needlework (not *lace*, mind you) centres. But that would have taken time to take root and to poduce the point de France look, so we can abandon the idea of the piece being mid-1600's right away. Not even by stretching one's imagination to the outermost limits, would that piece have been produced then. Even, if it is, indeed, point de France (I wouldn't know, not being a lace-historian). Late 1600? Maybe. Though I'd still like to see some provenance on it, before I shelled out the money (supposing I had it, that is g). Not that it's not worth $500+, even if it was made yesterday; it must have taken hours and hours to make... I have no idea at all, whether the arrangement of the motifs is consistent with the particular lace (point de France) look, or even the period it's been ascribed to - Devon might know, and I hope she'll pitch in with her insights. But, mathematically challenged as I have always been, I still don't see how we get (another successful quote from the page? Yes! g): lace that is about 400 years old. In my arithmetic, 1650 (mid-1600) and 400 makes 2050; I'll be long gone by then, not spouting off on Arachne :) Unless about is the same as my answer to the history teacher at the U, when she asked when the Spinning Jenny was invented, and I said: sometime in the 18th century (even then, my inerest in history was minimal, but the course was compulsory)... :) I had no trouble at all accessing all the detail photos (even though my screen configuration is totally different from that described by Alice), some of which seem to show the wrong side of the piece, and I found those at least as interesting as the photos of the right side. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL
[lace-chat] Cleaning Antique Bobbins/Spangles
Recently I was lucky enough to purchase, sight unseen, a group of antique bone bobbins. There are quite a few Haskins bobbins in the group. One in particular is an amazing mother babe made by Joseph Haskins. It is in almost mint condition! The only problem with it is it has some sort of soiling on the rim of the neck the babe bobbin has this same soiling covering the entire head, neck, a bit of the body. I would like to try to clean this bobbin to remove the soiling but I do not want to damage it! The babe is decorated with dots gold foil. The mother is decorated with colored dots what looks like gold leaf. Is there a way I can clean this bobbin without damaging it, or should I attempt to clean it at all? I would also like to ask about cleaning antique spangles ... should I clean them or just leave them alone? Some of the antique bobbins I come across have spangles that are pretty filthy or all that remains of them is the wire with one bead on the end. Is it appropriate to replace the wires /or clean/replace the beads? If I want to clean the beads, can I just swish the entire spangle (still attached to the bobbin) in soapy water, rinse, quicky dry (perhaps using a blow dryer) without causing the wire to rust? Many thanks ... Shirlee __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Cleaning Antique Bobbins/Spangles
Hi Shirlee, I use all my bobbins, be they antique or modern, so I have no qualms about changing the spangling beads!I *do* have a stash of old beads, mainly square-cuts, which I use to re-spangle the antique bobbins - and to clean the beads I have been known to put several at a time in a tea infuser (you know, the thing that looks like two teaspoons held together, with holes in the spoon bowls) and put it in the dishwasher! I do also wrap a piece of muslin round the tea-infuser, so that the beads cannot escape and it cleans them beautifully... Carol - in Suffolk UK Subject: [lace-chat] Cleaning Antique Bobbins/Spangles To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
