Re: [lace] Re: Beads - was Lace for Christmas
That's just one way to add beads and would take the place of a ground stitch/pin hole. Earlier this year at Lace Guild Convention I did a taster workshop on adding beads to BL. Go to http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see my sampler. At the top (left) the beads were threaded onto the passives and pushed up randomly as required. The bugle beads that look like ears were pre-threaded onto a worker and pushed up as required. IIRC the large crystals were added with a hook, as per Jean's instructions on the Lace Guild website and the seed beads either side were threaded as before, also the beads either side of the spider and along the sides of the lace. There's a gimp going around the spider and the cloth stitch which doesn't show too well because I used clear beads, but it's the same thread as the rest of the lace with beads pre-threaded and pushed up into place, one between each pair. The bugle bead over the cloth stitch was tricky to do; it required pulling a long loop of passive thread through the bead with a crochet hook and pinning that loop back, working down a few rows and then passing the partner passive through the loop and tensioning! Because we had threaded beads onto all the passives and there were still some threaded at the end of the work I just tied them with reef knots and cut off close for the tassel. I used a linen thread (Goldschild Nel 40/3, Nm 66/3) and I'm glad I did because it has so much more 'body' than the samples made with cotton had. Brenda On 29 Nov 2006, at 14:01, Helen Ward wrote: Lenore, if you go to the Lace Guild's website http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/ then go to Young Lacemakers, under Techniques there is Adding a Bead. Don't know if this will help or not. As I'm *very* new to lacemaking - will be a while before I get to that stage - I don't know if there are other methods or not, although I assume there would be. This way sounds pretty easy and straight forward. Helen in OZ, where we had 104F (40C) today, and it's 78F (26C) now at midnight! Pene, Your icicles sound beautiful, especially the one with little beads in the honeycomb diamonds. Can you tell me how you plan to add the beads to your bobbin lace? Do you add the beads to one pair, or do you add the beads as you work? Lenore in Michigan - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brenda in Allhallows, Kent - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Beads - was Lace for Christmas
On 11/30/06, Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just one way to add beads and would take the place of a ground stitch/pin hole. Earlier this year at Lace Guild Convention I did a taster workshop on adding beads to BL. Go to http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see my sampler. Thanks for posting the link and explanation, Brenda. I think beads on the sides would add a nice sparkle to one of the Christmas Spirals I'm doing. Maybe the next one will get some beads. Lenore in Michigan - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: [lace] Re: Beads - was Lace for Christmas
I too would like to thank Brenda and all the others who regularly share their experience and knowledge and some patterns with us all. I do hope you all realise how much it is appreciated by us fledgling lacers around the world. I have made two horseshoes after our discussion earlier in the year and am currently collecting ribbon, trim etc ready to make it up. Much to our joy, our daughter got engaged recently and so a wedding is in the future, so busy deciding on the garter pattern (As well as all the other projects, lace and otherwise keeping me busy at the moment) Sue T, Dorset UK On 11/30/06, Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just one way to add beads and would take the place of a ground stitch/pin hole. Earlier this year at Lace Guild Convention I did a taster workshop on adding beads to BL. Go to http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see my sampler. Thanks for posting the link and explanation, Brenda. I think beads on the sides would add a nice sparkle to one of the Christmas Spirals I'm doing. Maybe the next one will get some beads. Lenore in Michigan - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace calendar
Oh lacefriends, Did you remark my fault? The Advent-calendar will start tomorrow, first of december, and not on sunday first advent. Sorry Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Ñanduti and Sol Lace - long
Dear Spiders I have copied the following from my book, Textiles of Central and South America, which Jeri Ames mentioned,so this is my copyright, just for you to read. I am now over half way through the new book, Textiles of South East Asia. It is a hard life!!!Angela Thompson, Worcestershire UK Ñanduti and Sol Lace. The word Nanduti means 'web', an excellent description of the filmy, open-work construction of these little needle-stitched lace circles, or 'sun' shapes. There are differing opinions as to whether this type of lace was imported into the southern continent by the Spanish Jesuit priests as a church lace, or whether the Portuguese conquistadors brought it as a form of traditional decorative drawn thread-work from the home country. The Sol or 'Sun' lace had developed from the Spanish mediaeval drawn-thread work which was the forerunner of needle-lace. Both horizontal and vertical threads were withdrawn from areas of fine, linen fabric to form an open-work grid. The remaining threads were held together with darning and knotted stitches before the ground fabric was cut away from behind the motifs to create an airy design. Gradually this pattern area increased and the large rectangular spaces left in the corners of the cloth were filled with diagonal lines to form circular shapes. Eventually, the circular elements of the design took over, so that the Nanduti motifs became joined to one another. The angular shapes left between the circles were themselves incorporated into the lace work, with stitches laid at right angles making an intervening grid pattern. The Ñanduti lace from Paraguay is famous for its fineness and delicacy of workmanship. The stitches used were fairly simple and included the darning stitch - which is like a miniature version of weaving - and knotted stitches that joined the radial lines of the circles to the spokes of the web. The fine, muslin fabric was stretched onto a rectangular wooden frame, called a rastidor, that was used as a support during work. The circular patterns were marked onto the fabric with a hard pencil and these outlines were then defined with lines of running stitch. Next, the spokes for the wheels were laid across the circles, linking into the running stitch outlines. Finally, the darning and knotted stitches were worked and when all was completed, the background fabric was cut away to reveal the circular web designs set within the cloth. Similar versions of Sol lace were made in Mexico and the other areas of Central America. Its popularity may have been due to the comparative simplicity of the stiches and the portability of the embroidery frame, thus having an advantage over bobbin-lace with the more cumbersome pillow and stand. The Paraguayan Nanduti lace is often confused with a similar type of lace from Tenerife in the Azores. At some stage it was decided to do away with the supporting fabric and frame. Instead, the web for the rounds of lace was made by lacing threads across a wooden former with circles of holes drilled at intervals. Alternatively, pins were stuck into a circular pattern supported on a small, hard pillow. The rounds of lace were removed from the pillow when completed and later joined together to make the lace, which is always referred to as 'Teneriffe' lace, with a double 'F'. Originally, the little lace circles were worked in fine thread and included a greater variety of stitches, but in recent years, a coarser version of these lace mats continues to be produced for the tourist industry. - --- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 657 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] More Brazilian laces
Spiders, my love with nhanduti make me blind. There are many laces in Brasil and what we have more is bobbin lace. The Agnes msg make me open the eyes and, with my apologies, I introducce more brazilian's sites of laces. http://www.edukbr.com.br/estudioweb/ativ_antigas/rendeiras/renda.htm click em bilros and so on http://www.paraiwa.org.br/artesanato/rendas.htm 3 laces of Paraiba/Br http://www.inepac.rj.gov.br/arquivos/RendeirasdeBilro.pdf http://www.inepac.rj.gov.br/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=25 a texte from Rio de Janeiro's Achive of Patrimony elizabeth horta corrêa Nhanduti de Atibaia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Guild Website Update
We've just updated The Lace Guild website for December. Items of interest include: 1. Updated Lace Days and other events. 2. Updated list of second-hand books from the Lace Guild. 3. Appeal for member to help complete Lace Guild Sampler Project - see Stop Press. That's about it we think. David and Jean in wet and windy Glasgow -- Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org (alternative if problems: http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] ...one more thing
Oh, almost forgot, there's one more thing on The Lace Guild website for December. Try clicking on the sprig of holly. J and D -- Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org (alternative if problems: http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] ...one more thing
Mischiefs!!! You had us all worried with your earlier message. Thanks for doing it once again, it does brighten up every December Now I've got to be patient till tomorrow :( Sue - Original Message - From: Jean Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:29 PM Subject: [lace] ...one more thing Oh, almost forgot, there's one more thing on The Lace Guild website for December. Try clicking on the sprig of holly. J and D -- Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org (alternative if problems: http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/) - 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] Advent Calendar
I don't think you sounded assuming Jackie. - No need to go and hide! :) It sounds like you have had a Very bad year. I just hope Next year will improve, and be a bit happier for you. Just get your head down, and make some lace - that is good Therapy. Hope you health and that of your DH is much better now. The loss of your daughter must be shattering. 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-chat] 'Downtown'
In my upbringing, 'downtown' just meant the central business area of the smallish town I lived in. In the medium sized town I'm in now, the merchant organization is the Downtown Association. It's the core area of the town -- stores, restaurants, city hall, police, fire, county courthouse, library, swimming pool, city park, community theater, churches, post office -- as opposed to the shopping centers that have developed on the outskirts of town. This would include an area about 10 blocks long by 4 blocks wide. Downtown Portland would include a larger area since it is a much larger city. I would make a guess that an area about 20 blocks square would fit the designation. Does anyone from a different area of this country have another meaning to 'downtown'? Alice in Oregon -- with a weather warning of freezing rain. Portland is supposed to be ice-covered for the morning commute. It's raining now, so wet or ice here depends on the air temp by morning. I'm glad I'm retired. --- Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by downtown? To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] 'Downtown'
Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by downtown? That's easy downtown means the city centre ie where everything is.. So if you were going up to London (which we did from Bromley, Kent) , you would be going downtown! I too was surprised by the term, but have got used to it after 7 years of living in the States. Sue To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Photos of Ballarat
Dear Friends, If anyone would like to see some stunning photos of Ballarat, go to this newly set up website. http://people.aapt.net.au/~davidmorrison/album/index.html David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Photos of Ballarat
What absolutely wonderful pictures!! You have inspired me to beg my housemate's camera and get some pictures of the wonderful architecture here in Seattle. We really do have more cool buildings than just the Space Needle grin and I should take advantage of the fact that working here at the Pike Place Market I know of and can access some of the really cool architecture that is here in the market that most people just walk past and don't bother to look up and see! Shere'e in Seattle, WA, USA On 11/30/06, David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, If anyone would like to see some stunning photos of Ballarat, go to this newly set up website. http://people.aapt.net.au/~davidmorrison/album/index.html David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] 'Downtown'
Here on the west coast of the US (in Washington State), the term 'downtown' usually means 'in the heart of the city' or 'where the action/nightlife is' as opposed to the outer areas and suburbs. Nothing negative about the term here. Lorri Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by downtown? I was watching Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' last night (the US show from the day before) and he mentioned the poisoning of the former Russian spy with Polonium 210. He said he had been at a sushi bar in downtown London. I think this is meaningless to anyone from the UK. I certainly have no idea what it means. The sushi bar in question is in Picadilly, which is in the heart of London's West End (the posh shopping area as opposed to the East End, which is definitely not upper class and mainly terraced Victorian housing - where I was born and lived for the first 22 years of my life). Downtown gives the impression of meaning run down. The only clue I've got is the song Uptown Girl. Picadilly isn't run down, quite the opposite in fact. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] shoelace trick
Hi all I would like to thank everone who sent me instructions for the shoelace trick in tatting. I can now make the mat that I like . Happy Lacemaking Sue To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Bobbin Draw
We will forgive you, - this time!!! :)) :)) :)) Providing you have a nice glass of Cider for us Nothing better than a good cider!!! :)) I tried a few glasses on my recent trip to Tasmania - the 'cider country' around this part of the world.!! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Downtown
Hi All, Doesn't anyone remember Downtown by a record by Petula Clark in the 1960s? Downtown has only positive connotations as far as I know. Here in Brattleboro (where downtown is pretty small) people also say they are going down street. It means pretty much the same thing and I don't know where it came from. Jane in Vermont, USA where I saw pansys in bloom in front of the Post Office! I think unheard of for November and almost December! I'm enjoying the balmy weather myself G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] 'Downtown'
Jean Nathan wrote: Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by downtown? I have been told that in New York City, uptown and downtown are directions, akin to mauka and makai (which I've almost certainly mis-spelled) in Honolulu -- but mauka and makai are radial co-ordinates and uptown and downtown are one axis of a Cartesian set. (Perhaps some New Yorker can chime in to tell us the names of the orthogonal axis.) One assumes that someone who grew up in New York City would establish an uptown and downtown in any large city he happened to be in, just as I want to know which way is north in any small city I happen to be in. In the rest of the country, downtown is the shopping area at the heart of the city; in a county seat downtown is the courthouse square and walking distance around it. In smaller towns, it would be the main street and up to a block in each direction of the streets that cross the main street. (Hence Main Street America for the average joe.) But in my dialect, referring to a two-block main street as downtown would be a bit pretentious, and might be mocking, as when I refer to the commuter-plane landing strip in West Lafayette as Purdue International Airport. When I lived in Indianapolis, downtown was called the mile square. I still considered myself downtown when I was at the library one mile north of The Circle, but there was a pretty big park in between I imagine that that was pushing the definition of downtown. All the really big stores were within a block(one-eighth mile) or two of The Circle. Starting in the sixties, shopping centers sprang up around the edges of cities and towns, and downtown in the original sense no longer exists. Some downtown areas have been salvaged by cutesypoo shops that go broke when the start-up money runs out -- somehow there is always another sucker with more start-up money -- and some are covered with metastasizing government buildings. Of late, there seems to have been stabilization, and I no longer notice empty storefronts as the main feature of the main streets I drive through. Pierceton, for example, has re-defined itself as an antique shopping mall, and all you see when driving through it is reasonably-healthy second-hand stores. (Also a noted re-enactor's shop, but you need an appointment: they are primarily mail order.) It has been nearly ten years since I set foot in a town large enough to call a city. Those seemed to hang on by converting to specialty shops, such as Lodge's Department Store in Albany, New York -- last time I Googled Lodge's, they had actually expanded. When I lived near Albany, Lodges was where you went to buy underwear for your grandmother. They also had work clothes for men, play clothes for children, and cheap-but-good stuff such as washrags made from irregular bath towels. (I'm still using the washrags I bought at Lodge's.) Anyhow, despite the present state of downtown areas, the word downtown does not mean down; on the contrary, the word still retains echoes of the time when a lady put on a hat and gloves when she went there. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: 'Downtown'
On Nov 30, 2006, at 4:35, Alice Howell wrote: In my upbringing, 'downtown' just meant the central business area of the smallish town I lived in. Ditto here, a small town in Virginia. Only, our downtown is 4 (maybe 5) blocks long and 2 blocks wide... And, at that, the second block is somewhat iffy -- it's really only the Main Street, with maybe a few shops on one side of its cross-streets. The street parallel to Main Street doesn't have much :) And yes, Jane, I remember Petula Clark and her Downtown... used to hum it before I could even understand all the words; just the tune was exciting :) Here's the text, which does give a very good idea of what downtown is: http://www.twin-music.com/azlyrics/c_file/songs/clark/down.html The heartbeat of the city... -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Mothers Milk
From: M.W. Students in an advanced Biology class were taking their mid-term exam. The last question was, Name seven advantages of Mothers Milk, worth 70 points or none at all. One student who had also partied the night before, was hard put to think of seven advantages. He wrote: 1.) It is perfect formula for the child. 2.) It provides immunity against several diseases. 3.) It is always the right temperature. 4.) It is inexpensive. 5.) It bonds the child to mother, and vice versa. 6.) It is always available as needed. And then, the student was stuck. Finally, in desperation, just before the bell indicating the end of the test rang, he wrote... 7.) It comes in such cute containers. He got an A -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives
Yesterday, I went to a Dem hens lunch-- a bunch of middle-aged and elderly women all of whom had worked as volunteers for the (successful! g) campaign of Jim Webb for Senator (of Virginia). One of the women found the following text and printed out enough copies so that each of us got one. I thought it was amusing enough to trace back to the source, so that it's easily accessible, without cluttering the e-space... http://tinyurl.com/yy7ad8 -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
