[lace] Rope bags
Well! Well! Well! The things one learns on a Lace List :)) :)) :)) I had never heard of Rope bags before Thanks for the tiny url, and now I know all about them!! (Instant expert!!) What a good idea for a pillow bag. I made mine from upholstery vinyl, so it is showerproof. However the straps are a bit springy as I did not lay tape when I made them up, and the whole thing was a pain to make, as the sewing machine does not like stitching that fabric! Still it works - that is the main thing!!! 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]
re: [lace] flax, and linen thread
Hi everyone and Madelin > spinning some into thread for bobbin lace. I think I could spin it very > fine indeed--fewer than 8 individual fibers--on my homemade Lisard > (paper) spindle. Has anyone else tried this? I haven't tried flax on a spindle, but it should work if you can put enough twist in - keeping your fingers damp with linseed gel helps, in the process. Also spin from the end of the fibre, not from the fold. The latter is nice for woollen yarns, but can give too much halo to a strand intended for a craft with abrasive movements such as macrame' tatting or bobbin lace, where the strands move over each other a lot. If you want the thread as smooth as possible, ply starting from the same end as you started to spin each single - therefore plan ahead as you build up the source (cob? cop?) around the spindle, so you can find the beginning bit after releasing the spun amount from the spindle. HTH :) I have just finished a sample using the DMC embroidery linen. A couple of threads parted rudely before I was finished - and in general this thread doesn't seem to have as much integrity as, for instance, Bockens linen threads for lace. But, providing I want gentle, muted colours, I can pick up a skein when I want it from Michael's locally; nice to have the thread in hand ;) bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (in autumn rain 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]
[lace] Fw: American Indian lace
Hi Lorri and All, I received this directly and I think Lorri was the one who asked about it. -Original Message- Go to http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving and enter "American Indian Lace" in the search box. -- I've been at the Professor's site looking for tape/Battenberg lace and haven't gone futher afield there but I thought they must have info! I've had fun by Googling"sybil carter" lace The quotes make sure it's one name and the lace helps get what I want (though possibly the same Sybil Carter also has a recipe for Lace cookies and Peanut Butter Pie). I'm particularly taken with the site concerning Mrs. Bainbridge's lace collection going to the Univ. of Rhode Island: http://www.uri.edu/hss/tmd/bainbridge.htm I love the Czech lace on the last page! I do love color . Jane in Vermont, USA where the leaves are starting to change and they're very pretty! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Robber Baron Slide duplication
In a message dated 10/5/2005 10:06:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Met gets so much getting that maybe it could try a bit of giving? Dear Aurelia, I wouldn't dream of asking. The Met maintains a Textile Center where lace researchers can view the collection on an expensively maintained data base, in a comfortable, carpeted room. Then the visitor can consult the library and sit at the desk and read rare lace books whose value is such that they are kept locked up in a cabinet. An administrative assistant sits at a desk and makes appointments for us to visit and prints out pictures of lace for us to buy. A staff of people, all with graduate degrees, who have to be paid enough to rent apartments in New York, takes out lace and places it on tables so that we can view it. Then they put it away in conservationally correct and very expensive storage. Every day they spend time checking the machines that measure humidity and making charts to document the climate so that it can be controlled and the lace won't rot. They store 5000 pieces of historical lace on some of the most expensive real estate in the world so that they can make it available for study. They employ a genius to construct special boxes of acid free materials to store lace in. A graduate of a Collections Care Masters Degree program fashions special storage mounts of muslin to properly support awkward lace collars. They set up microscopes that cost $30,000 so that we can view details of the lace on a monitor, and discuss them. When we visit, expensively educated people attend us at all times, turning over the lace, bringing us ladders, magnifying glasses and copy stands. Perhaps you recall your visit to the center where after some unpleasantness associated with an uninformed guard, the heroic Calvin, a unionized employee with full benefits, figured out how to bring you, in a wheel chair using an elevator and taking you through the non-public areas of the museum to the Center. Afterward, the world's greatest authority on tapestries, who probably would have preferred to be planning a tapestry exhibit, launched a full investigation into the unpleasantness that had required Calvin to perform heroically. Hours were spent. Later, our assistant manager spent hours of her time trying to get a definitive answer from Security and the NY Fire Department about how we would have evacuated you in the wheel chair if there had been a fire during your visit. You were not present, I believe, for the visit of the IOLI, the previous year when the entire staff and all the volunteers were there to supervise the visit, in which at least 50 pieces of lace were displayed in three rooms. Three men and a hand truck had been required to extricate the Diana and Endymion coverlet for our viewing. When Dr. Bertha, of our party, became lost, squads of security men were dispatched on a search and rescue operation, and people from another department found her and accompanied her to the Ratti so she wouldn't get lost again. For all of this, there has been no charge. Is it any wonder that they have had to raise the price of the "suggested donation" for entrance since our visits? Not that we ever pay the full suggested amount. My greatest fear is that a funds crisis such as that posed by the sudden drop off of tourism after 9/11 might result in some curtailment of these services. Philippe di Montebello is probably drinking wine with some rich person he doesn't like very much, right now, just to keep the lace services flowing. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Robber Baron Slide duplication
Dear Devon -- Maybe with your powers of persuasion, you could persuade the Met to make a gift to the IOLI? The Met gets so much getting that maybe it could try a bit of giving? That would solve some of our problems. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Robber Barons - nitty gritty
Dear Tamara -- Try adding on a whole lot of brilliant artificial light, as the days grow shorter; that is a wellknown and usually effective remedy for SAD (Seasonal Affective Depression); and as for the "head team" and all that, try leaving a little space for those of us who disagree with you utterly about politics, by leaving the subject off Arachne where it doesn't belong. Aurelia Yours, digging ever deeper into depression, as the summer winds down, the days grow shorter and the country's "head team" continues to be as disgusting and treacherous as ever the commie system had been in my teens... Tamara - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Pictures from Rauma lace week
try this link to the home page http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 jenny barron Scotland Ann-Marie Lördal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello When I try to look at the album I got a page that says it does not exist. 1996 I spent a day in Rauma and it was a very beautiful city with a lot of lovely lace. It was a day called The day of the black lace. Ann-Marie, Sweden Hälsningar Ann-Marie, Ljusdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thebreastcancersite.com http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello everyone, > > > >http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=viewAllPhotos&albumID=469031950 > > > >Happy lacing! > >Outi >>From Vantaa, Finland > > > > - 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] Pictures from Rauma lace week
Hello When I try to look at the album I got a page that says it does not exist. 1996 I spent a day in Rauma and it was a very beautiful city with a lot of lovely lace. It was a day called The day of the black lace. Ann-Marie, Sweden Hälsningar Ann-Marie, Ljusdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thebreastcancersite.com http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=viewAllPhotos&albumID=469031950 Happy lacing! Outi From Vantaa, Finland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Pillow Bag
Thanks for all the advice about pillow bags, I've just finished making the one Clay recommended and I'm impressed - with the concept not particularly the execution, my dressmaking skills are very rusty - it's a very adaptable shape and it's taking my largest round pillow, I think it's a 24inch, with ease. I think I'll make a smaller one for my littlest round pillow - can't resist fiddling about with patterns to see how I can adapt things. jenny barron Sunny Scotland, think I'll take the dog for her overdue walk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Pictures from Rauma lace week
Hello everyone, Pene, who lives now in Estonia which is separated from Finland by only the Gulf of Finland, is thinking of visiting Rauma lace week some day and asked if I have any pictures from the lace week this year. I sent the pictures to her but mentioned that if she can not receive the files I could use the Arachne web shots album to share them. After receiving the pictures she mentioned that actually other Arachneans would like to see them as well. So, I have uploaded them for all of you to see. The title of the album is Outi or you can use this link: http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=viewAllPhotos&albumID=469031950 In Rauma Museum they have every year a lace exhibition from some another country. This year the laces where from Vologda, Russia. (Rauma Museum has Rauma lace in permanent exhibition.) Rauma lace association has every year an exhibition of lace made in Rauma in Poselli. This year there was also lace from Mária Danielová from Czech Republic. She makes these pieces of art lace that look 3D even though they are flat. (Some of you saw her lace during the OIDFA lace tour in Czech republic after the Prague congress.) For some years now there has also been a lace exhibition in the water tower of Rauma. The tower has a cafe and a good view over the city and also room for an exhibition. This exhibition tends to have more contemporary point of view to laces than the others and every year presents something you have not seen before but it does not reject traditional laces either. The laces for this exhibition has been collected from around Finland and are not just work of Rauma lace makers. This year there was also a lace exhibition celebrating Impi Alanko's 80th birthday. She is the most famous lace maker in the country, I think, having been on TV couple of times. Anyway, she has done a lot to keep Rauma lace alive and redrawing old patterns as well as designing new ones. She is a very much respected person in lace circles in Finland. Even though she is not in very good health at the moment she spent a lot of time demonstrating lace making at her exhibition. Hopefully you enjoy the pictures. Happy lacing! Outi >From Vantaa, Finland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]