[lace] lacing outside
Hello lacemakers, Irene wrote: >Do any of you make lace outside? Finally, we have weather nice enough for being outside and I am going to give I think it would be great to sit outside to make lace, I'm going to get out there this evening when it is dry from washing it. Happy lacemaking, Irene Whitham Of course we do!! Where else would you want to be on a hot day, or even just a warm one, than under a nice tree with a little breeze blowing, hopefully, if it's very hot! Just make sure you have a cover cloth than covers all your lace, and pattern too, anbd put it on even if you only go away for one minute!! Birds are known to wait for the unwary lacemaker to relax her attention I usually lace sitting on a folding chair, leaning my pillow against the metal outdoor table, or I take my lace stand outside. Quite often in summer, I come back from work at 5.30pm, get changed, and take my lace to the front verandah for an hour or so, before I start making dinner It's wonderfully relaxing after a day's working with silly customers! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Do you Yahoo!? Try Yahoo! Photomail Beta: Send up to 300 photos in one email! http://au.photomail.mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] museums list
Ricki wrote: >After learning something about the irreplaceable value of some antique lace, I'm wondering if anyone could tell me a bit about lace museum collections. I'd be interested in knowing which ones top the recommendation list, no matter where they are. I would also be interested in learning something about how the lace collections are/were acquired -- like for instance, are there any lace conservation societies or something similar that work on acquiring lace for museums? If anyone could recommend books along these lines, I would also appreciate thatAnything along these lines, really! Thanks in advance -- Best regards, The only thing I've ever seen on the subject is the booklet about Lace Museums and Collections put out by the English Lace Guild. I think it's still in print, and you can buy it from their website. But it only have addresses, no details about how the collections started. Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where the weather is sunny again and again. Where is that winter rain we are supposed to be having??? Ricki T Utah U.S.A. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] posture
Malvary wrote: >I know our posture isn't always what it should be when we are making lace, >but I think we would very soon have a bad back if we had to lace like this. >http://membres.lycos.fr/sitelle/lace/litlacer.htm Let alone the fact that your lace wouldn't keep clean for very long with all those vegies around!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's capital), Canada Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Making Lace Outside
Dear Spider pals, I used to make lace outside quite a bit. It is necessary to have your pillow out of the sun. It dries out your thread! I took a pillow with a project using 100/2 linen and wondered why the thread kept breaking. I've heard that you should have a mist bottle to lightly spritz your threads occasionally so that they won't dry out. I would think you'd have to fill it with distilled water to keep chemicals and other stuff in the tap water from ruining your lace. You might also want to consider sitting under an umbrella (I use one of those beach umbrellas that attach to your chair) or at least keeping your lace covered as much as possible. A bird made a poop hit on my pillow but luckily it was on a cover cloth and not in the middle of my working area. Good thing it wasn't pokeberry season as I could have ended up with purple spots on my lace! I have several pillows with UFO's on them so maybe I'll try taking them outside to see if THAT helps me get them deUFOed! That is if it ever stops raining! Trish in thundery and wet West Virginia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] lacemaking outside???
Hi All in Arachneland!! Yes, well when the weather is as good as it has been recently here in the UK I take my pillow out onto the Verandah and rest it half on the table and half on my lap. It certainly makes getting a suntan more interesting and it's lovely just sitting in the sun listening to the birds etc whilst being productive. I'm working on a part of a lace tablecloth at the moment so anytime I can get is a bonus. Here's hoping that the weather continues as good as it has been so that I can get out more often. Regards to all, Babs (Chesterfield, UK) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Making lace outside
I have made lace outside.a lot! It is the lovelyest of things that one can do. I always make sure that I place a tree between me and the sun!! I have had ended up firey red after more than one lace session! ;-) Much to hot, now, to do that around here for a while.But fall will come again. Enjoy BarbE - Original Message - From: Margot Walker To: ARACHNE Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:49 PM Subject: [lace] Making lace outside My favourite place to make lace is outside, especially by the ocean or a lake. The only thing to remember is to place your body between the sun and the pillow. If the sun shines directly on the pillow, you can't see what you're doing because of the shadows cast by the pins. 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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Making lace outside
My favourite place to make lace is outside, especially by the ocean or a lake. The only thing to remember is to place your body between the sun and the pillow. If the sun shines directly on the pillow, you can't see what you're doing because of the shadows cast by the pins. 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] lacemaking outside???
Irene, I think you will love lacing outside. I regularly made lace on my porch on the weekends. But this summer, we got a camper and have it permanently parked in a campground on a small lake and I leave my travel pillow there all the time. I can sit at the picnic table with my pillow and watch the birds come to the feeder, all the campers walking by and the activity on the lake. I even found out that my campground neighbor knows how to tat and we've had wonderful conversations about tatting and collecting shuttles. There's something about making lace outside that is very relaxing. Diane Williams Galena, Illinois USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Whitham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello lacemakers, > > Do any of you make lace outside? > > Finally, we have weather nice enough for being > outside and I am going to give > it a try. My furniture on my sundeck is not > suitable for lacemaking, but > since my son sold his truck, the picnic table is no > longer used to hold the > canopy, so now the table can be used as it was > intended!!! > > I think it would be great to sit outside to make > lace, I'm going to get out > there this evening when it is dry from washing it. > > Happy lacemaking, > > Irene Whitham > where summer has finally arrived on the west coast > of Canada > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write > to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galena Illinois USA __ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lacemaking outside???
Hello lacemakers, Do any of you make lace outside? Finally, we have weather nice enough for being outside and I am going to give it a try. My furniture on my sundeck is not suitable for lacemaking, but since my son sold his truck, the picnic table is no longer used to hold the canopy, so now the table can be used as it was intended!!! I think it would be great to sit outside to make lace, I'm going to get out there this evening when it is dry from washing it. Happy lacemaking, Irene Whitham where summer has finally arrived on the west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] lace collections
Hi Jeri and Spiders, I don't know about the American guilds, and their constitutions, but most of the lace guilds in the British counties have committees which change every couple of years - as do the Lace Guild, the Lacemakers' Circle and the Lace Society. The only one of those to have its own property is the Lace Guild - with the others, the business is carried out from the various homes/offices of the committee members. The Lacemakers' Circle is at present selling off its library collection - for two reasons, that the books are not very often borrowed, and the other reason is that the poor soul who takes on the job of Librarian to any guild is the one who has to find space for these books. Garages are not always the driest and best places to store such items - so the spare bedroom comes into use - meaning no visitors can be entertained for the duration of the committee term! So - I would think that it would be very difficult for local - or not-so-local - guilds to store any items on a regular basis for their members. The sheer logistical difficulties of transporting it all to Lace Days would be very off-putting, and I don't like to think of the insurance ramifications of a member storing items of quite considerable value. I know one of the local groups (not a lace group!) to which I belong had lots of stuff, including an electric typewriter - when they were quite state of the art, and *very* modern! - all kindly stored by a member in her garage, until she had a fire, the whole lot was destroyed, and the insurance ramifications went on almost for ever ... Not a happy thought for the guilds or the poor soul entrusted with the articles, be they books or textiles. Carol - in Suffolk UK Subject: Re: [lace] lace collections > In a message dated 7/19/05 4:58:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] lace collections
I have just been contacted by an elderly lady who has asked me to find the best way to put her family's lace in the hands of people who will appreciate it. She is convinced that her children would just toss it in the dumpster! I was skeptical as I went to see the collection, trying to think of a polite way to tell her that the dumpster would be appropriate!! But while there are some pieces that are not worth worrying about, there is enough beautiful hand-made lace in the collection to make it worth putting in appreciative hands. Donating the lace to a museum was one of the options we discussed, but in my experience, the better museums (the ones who take their collections seriously and store them properly) also have a limited amount of space and therefore have vetting committees to consider items available for acquisition. This could take a lot of time - and some expense - and she is eager to have the issue resolved before she dies (and at 93, this is not just an academic discussion, from her perspective!!) After much discussion, our plan is to offer the lace to lacemakers first, and then to the "rest of the world" via auction on ebay. So far, members of our local guild have spoken for a number of pieces, and there are quite a few more which I may take with me to Denver in order for more lacemakers to see them. Clay Jacquie wrote... >I am currently selling books for 3 students who have had to stop lace for >health reasons and for the family of one who has died. As I have multiple >copies >of some books, I know just how the Lace Guild feels. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] lace collections
In a message dated 19/07/2005 14:18:54 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have even heard of lace guilds selling books Yes, The Lace Guild is, but when they get 'common' books as part of a bequest, and have several copies when even one is rarely borrowed anyway, surely it is sensible to turn a liability into an asset. If I decided to leave my lace things to them, I would perhaps be upset (from the other side?) if they sold off what I consider to be 'special' pieces of lace, or a rare first edition of a book, but I wouldn't expect them to make *my* copy of "Little Grey Rabbit Makes Lace" *their* 27th one! I am currently selling books for 3 students who have had to stop lace for health reasons and for the family of one who has died. As I have multiple copies of some books, I know just how the Lace Guild feels. Jacquie in Lincolnshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] lace collections
In a message dated 7/19/05 4:58:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have given my antique lace collection to The Manor House Museum in > Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk,England. Why this museum? > Because they have a very good textile collection of costumes etc.;They > have a display from these collections that changes at least twice a > year; if any textiles need repair -darning, beading and so forth- they > can call upon highly skilled needlewomen who do the repairs as a labour > of love taking all the time that is neccesary. I have also deposited my > mother's 1928 French wedding dress with them. > Togther with the lace has gone my library of lace history, lace > journals(which gets updated) and identification.This decision was > taken a) because we are moving into a smaller house and b) to make sure > they where they could be of use across East Anglia and c) to relieve > our children of the problems of disposing of a collection/library of > which they had little knowledge. > I hope this contribution to the discussion will inspire others to follow > the same path. > > Sheila in a still sunny but cooler Sawbridgeworth > Dear Sheila, Yours is a lovely path to follow. However, in the U.S. such a contribution is likely to be put away in improper storage conditions and never or rarely see the light of day. The smaller museums do not have adequate funding, and our government does not distribute so much money that they can manage museums properly. The large museums are responding to the problem with questionable marketing strategies of considerable magnitude. Some, like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, are leasing collections to places like the Bellagio in Las Vegas, instead of the long-established practice of loaning between well-established museums! They deassession (send art to auction) without thought to future interests. ETC! (It gets worse - lots of individual manipulations.) This information is from a full-page article "What Price Love? Museums Sell Out" in the Sunday, July 17, 2005, New York Times Arts & Leisure section about these "abuses" of traditional museum practices and the intentions of donors. I have even heard of lace guilds selling books (I hope the donors knew that was the intent when they were accepted). One local guild that I belong to has said in a newsletter that they are planning to sell a centerpiece Lace Day exhibit garment in their collection. I don't know the terms of the original donation, but do think future members of the local guild would benefit from studying such a garment. It is my hope that more guilds will establish a collections committee and written policy. I am still searching for an American solution to housing my collection, about which I wrote to Arachne a couple years ago. Very few answers came (less than 10 as I recall, and 2/3 of those were from overseas). I've become more alarmed since the story of the American Textile History Museum's financial problems became public earlier this year - because that is a large ideal facility, with conservation lab, library, educational programs for children, etc. University collections exist, but are difficult for many to visit and study. Great for students and a few scholars, but not accessible to large numbers of viewers. Without viewers, and reviews, interest cannot be generated to support large lace exhibits - or any lace exhibits. There is always money for presenting large motorcycle "shows" in major museums... 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]
[lace] lace collections
I have given my antique lace collection to The Manor House Museum in Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk,England. Why this museum? Because they have a very good textile collection of costumes etc.;They have a display from these collections that changes at least twice a year; if any textiles need repair -darning, beading and so forth- they can call upon highly skilled needlewomen who do the repairs as a labour of love taking all the time that is neccesary. I have also deposited my mother's 1928 French wedding dress with them. Togther with the lace has gone my library of lace history, lace journals(which gets updated) and identification.This decision was taken a) because we are moving into a smaller house and b) to make sure they where they could be of use across East Anglia and c) to relieve our children of the problems of disposing of a collection/library of which they had little knowledge. I hope this contribution to the discussion will inspire others to follow the same path. Sheila in a still sunny but cooler Sawbridgeworth www.lace-helpandhistory.info - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re Miniatures Exhibition
Hi When I sent the message about the opening hours of Gawthorpe Hall I forgot to say it was closed on Fridays. The sun has got to my brain! It is closed Monday and Friday. Open other days of the week from 1pm to 5pm. Regards Dianne Derbyshire Preston (UK) - Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
