[lace] RE: Tebbs

[Jane Atkinson]

The answer to your different sets of sheets in the
Tebbs book is that 
set A
goes with The Art of Bobbin Lace, which has the opera
bag on the cover 
but
only goes up to page 111; set B is from Supplement to
The Art of Bobbin
Lace, which continues on from page 115 to 184.  When I
checked, I found 
I
had the wrong sheets in each book, so I suspect that
may be what 
happened to
yours!

Ah, happy days - when we discovered these, in the mid
70s, friends and 
I
realised we weren't making lace properly, since we
didn't live up to 
the
drawing of The School of Bobbin Lace, in the back and
on the cover of 
the
Supplement, where everyone is wearing elaborate hats,
not to mention 
elegant
gowns.  Perhaps we all ought to revive the art of
gracious living when
making our lace, like the Liberty Lacers with their
pearls?

Cheers, Jane Atkinson


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[lace] Re: Twisted Threads (was Wonderful thread)

[Jenny De Angelis]

I have just sorted through my box of cotton threads and found part of a 
spool of the Brok thread on a spool that I mentioned was hopelessly twisted, 
I hadn't thrown it all away as I thought.  It is Brok 100/3.


If I pull a length of thread off the spool and hold the two ends together 
leaving the rest of that length of thread hanging down as a sort of loop, 
that loop twists itself up all by itself making one thicker strand. If I run 
my thumb and forefinger together down the length of the thread as I let it 
go again it immediately, and rapidly, spins itself round a few times.


It is nothing to do with how the bobbins are wound, it just has to have been 
a faulty batch of thread, perhaps it was over twisted by the machine that 
spun it or something.


Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
Spain.

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Re: [lace] Tebbs' Art of Bobbin Lace Reprint

[Lorri Ferguson]

That is the 'picture/drawing' that is on the dust cover of my smaller book.
All of the laces are very wide for the pillow size, and several are coming off
the side of the pillow.
Maybe they are Red Hat gals, those are really 'special' hats to be wearing to
a lace school.

Lorri

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  From: Patsy A. Goodman
  To: lace@arachne.com
  Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:19 PM
  Subject: [lace] Tebbs' Art of Bobbin Lace Reprint


  Hi,

  Speaking of this book take a look at the last drawing, in the book.   It's a
  picture of eight ladies making lace.  Seems the artist got very lazy and
  didn't want to draw all the bobbins on the lace pillows.  Especially the
  lady's in the front had very few bobbins to make that wide lace they were
  working on.  The gal in the middle had a very wide piece of lace coming off
  a very small pillow.  I thought it was pretty comical.

  Patsy A. Goodman
  Chula Vista, CA USA

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[lace] Fw: wonderfil thread

[Whitham]

Thanks to all who replyed to me about the wonderfil thread, I don't think it
is worth the frustration of working with it, I will put it with my sewing
threads.  As Bev pointed it out it is very slippy and I don't think I will be
happy with the end result.

To try and wind bobbins backwards and in some unfamilar way will waste
precious time that could be spent on a more constructive project with better
results. Thread is cheap, time is precious.

Jenny, I am glad to see you back on the list, I always enjoyed your posts.
Your moped story comes to mind when I see your name.  I couldn't email you
privately, it bounced.

Hope you're all enjoying the last few days of summer,

Irene Whitham
Surrey, BC

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Re: [lace] PieceWork Magazine

[Scotlace]

My thanks to all who replied in answer to my query.  Today was the first that 
I was able to return to my newsagent.  The very efficient lady phoned the 
wholesaler again on my behalf and was told very firmly that it is no longer 
available in the UK.  To use the expression of a lace friend "Rude words, rude 
words, rude words".

A disappointed Patricia in Wales
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[lace] Butterflies and Moths by Ulrike Lohr (Point Ground)

[Lynne Cumming]

Apologies for cross posting but I sent this in error to lace-chat first of
all. I do need to clarify that it's the book of point ground patterns. Many
thanks to Malvery for her help with my original inexact query!

Has anyone done any of the butterflies from this book and would they send me
a picture if they have? I'm comtemplating getting the book but cannot find
anywhere with pics of the actual butterflies and I'd like to see what they
are like before buying. There's a very small pic all the butterflies on
SMP's webpage but I'd like to see something bigger!
Many thanks,
Lynne.
 Lynne Cumming
 Baldock, North Herts, UK
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 "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

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Re: [lace] website

[Brenda Paternoster]

It just comes up with a lot of broken links for me.  I guess it's 
probably because the webpage  requires IE6, though there's no error 
message to say so.  The latest version for Mac is IE5 so I can't 
upgrade and at work we don't have IE6 either.


OK it's my choice to use mac and not windows, but it's his loss too for 
making his website unaccessible to a lot of people.


Brenda

On 29 Aug 2006, at 23:28, Diane Z wrote:


Thank you Sof for pointing out this website -- isn't it exciting!
He's a wonderful artist and designer.  This is the first time in a 
while that I have looked at every single thing in a website.  Guess 
I'll have to download in order to drool later.


Thanks again.

Diane Zierold
Lubec, Maine


Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/

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[lace] Tebbs & different patterns

[Rosemary Naish]

Brenda wrote " I have the Paul Minet 1978 reprint of
"Tebbs' Art of Bobbin Lace Reprint including Supplement"
which is effectively two books in one.

The first half of the book is "The Art of Bobbin Lace" by Louisa A 
Tebbs and the second half of the book is "Supplement to the Art of 
Bobbin Lace" by Louisa and Rosa Tebbs.  The pagination in the 
supplement continues from the first book.


There are four sheets of patterns, as you describe, but Set A goes with 
the supplement and Set B  with the first book."


So we've just checked the page numbers ( never thought to look before) 
and both start from page 115, so the mystery is solved- someone, 
somewhere has a part one with the wrong set of patterns.

Thanks

Rosemary

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Re: [lace] Butterflies and Moths by Ulrike Lohr (Point Ground)

[bevw]

Lynne (and everyone),
You can see one in progress, until I messed up, at my blog (addy below).
I am working it again in silk threads, with more success this time,
although I've had to stop work on it while Other Stuff intervenes (a
shame how that goes). I will post a picture of it when finished, but
can't be certain of when that will be.

These patterns are not for the faint of heart - certainly you need
point ground experience, but the threads will be taking unusual paths
compared to traditional laces (such as edgings). The designer has
taken advantage of the point ground appearance to portray the
butterflies and moths as close to their natural forms as possible,
which  makes them all the more stunning. The patterns are all named by
the taxonomical name of the insect they represent.

--
Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com

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Re: [lace] website

[sof]

Hello Diane,

Do you know Marie Rose LORTET ?

http://www.et-alors.org/dossierartistesea/lortetmarierose.html
http://www.exporevue.com/magazine/fr/lortetx3.html
http://www.rawvision.com/back/lortet/lortet.html
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lelia.mordoch.galerie/expotrans0.html
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/Exhib/k2together/index.htm
http://www.createdinfrance.com/pages/article.asp?ref=2689

I never see this woman but I like what she make.

Dentellez bien

Sof in France




On 29 Aug 2006, at 23:28, Diane Z wrote:


Thank you Sof for pointing out this website -- isn't it exciting!
He's a wonderful artist and designer.  This is the first time in a 
while that I have looked at every single thing in a website.  Guess 
I'll have to download in order to drool later.


Thanks again.

Diane Zierold
Lubec, Maine







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RE: [lace] Re: Twisted Threads (was Wonderful thread)

[Noelene Lafferty]

Jenny, I still have a batch of some thread called LBH Tatting Cotton that
came briefly on the market some years ago which also twisted like this.
Totally useless for tatting, but bearable for bobbin lace.  It would be much
thicker than Brok 100/3.

When I spoke about this on Arachne, someone said it twisted so much because
not only had the individual threads making up the overall thread been
twisted one way, but so had each individual thread when they were spun - in
other words, it if it was a 3 ply thread, then each of the three plies had
either a S or Z twist, then the three plies spun together had been spun in
the same direction, S or Z as the case may be.

Noelene in Cooma
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> 
> 
> It is nothing to do with how the bobbins are wound, it just has to have
been
> a faulty batch of thread, perhaps it was over twisted by the machine that
> spun it or something.
> 
> Regards
> Jenny DeAngelis
> Spain.

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[lace] Seeing pictures of lace on the Web.

[Joy Beeson]

DH found a nifty free program at
http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

It's called "Virtual Magnifying Glass", and turns your
cursor into a frame that enlarges whatever you put it over.
It doesn't add any information, of course, so setting it
for more than 2x makes a picture uselessly pixellated.

With lace pictures there's another trick that works more
often than not:  a lot of the people who post pictures of
lace know more about lace than about computers -- so if you
right click on a picture and pick "view image" from the menu
that appears, there's a pretty good chance you'll get a
picture that's larger and more detailed than the one that
you clicked.

The right-click trick also works when an image hasn't
downloaded; if you click where the image should have been
and pick "view image", sometimes you get a message that
there is no such file, but more often you get an image, then
when you go back to the page you were looking at, the image
is where it belongs.

--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.

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[lace] Re: Twisted Threads (was Wonderful thread)

[Tamara P Duvall]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 6:40, Jenny De Angelis wrote:

I have just sorted through my box of cotton threads and found part of 
a spool of the Brok thread on a spool that I mentioned was hopelessly 
twisted, I hadn't thrown it all away as I thought.  It is Brok 100/3.


Yup :) It was the required thread for some class or other, and it was 
*the only* thread I've ever had any problem with. I did wind the 
required number of pairs (cursing freely in Polish and English and 
adding the -- limited -- curse-vocabulary from some 6 other languages) 
and, once that was done, I *did not* have any trouble working with it 
(no slipping of the hitches off the head, etc). The lace came out nice 
and crisp, too. But I *did* toss the spool out aftrewards; life's too 
short to cope with un-necessary frustrations :)


--
Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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