Re: [lace] beeswax
In a message dated 5/10/2007 8:30:42 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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to which I will add the honey people at the farm market told me that beeswax
is supposed to be superlative for preparing a baking sheet for cookie dough!
I haven't tried that though. They had huge cake-size (as in birthday cake)
slabs of beeswax for sale. The scent was heavenly, but at that size too much
and too costly for using for little dibs for lacemaking.
I remember buying big blocks of beeswax from a little farm that kept bees
for about 5$ each, maybe fifteen years ago. Now that place is gone. Not only
that, but the bees too, apparently, around the world, are disappearing, so the
price of beeswax is likely to skyrocket (though that's only peripheral to the
real problem, whatever is causing the decline)... See, e.g.,
_http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/09/notes050907.
DTL&nl=fix_
(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/09/notes050907.DTL&nl=fix)
Well, I digress, but before I go back to minding my own beeswax, I'll just
say it's probably best to buy your beeswax now! Someday it will probably be
worth its weight in gold!
Ricki in Utah ("the Beehive State")
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Re: [lace] beeswax
Jenny De Angelis wrote To clean pins the best thing is Pumice Powder. A quick word of caution - some of the lace pins now being sold by some of the suppliers, are quote from one supplier's website : 'These lacemaking pins are nickel plated steel which is stainless. Under no circumstances should these be used with an emery powder pincusion." Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's Capital), Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] beeswax
> Viv, I use my block of beeswas when I am pricking patterns. Now and then I prod the pricking needle into the wax and it makes the needle pierce the pricking card more easily. You can also use bees wax when embroidering, run the thread over the bees wax and it keeps all the little fluffy "hairs" of the thread smoothed down and helps to strengthen the thread while sewing. I would not use it for lace threads in this way. To clean pins the best thing is Pumice Powder. If you can get a little bit of fleece, enough to fill a small pin cushion, and put a teaspoonful or so of the pumice powder into the centre of that and enfold it with the fleece, you make a pin cushion which you can use now and then, and only now and then, to sharpen and clean your lace pins. If you were to use the pin cushion all the time you will wear the pins down as each time they go in and out of the pumice pin cushion a little bit of the metal is rubbed away. You used to be able to buy pumice powder form Tim Parker in the UK, but not sure if he still sells it in little bags of so many grammes. Tim's website including his catalogue is at http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/timparker/ Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] beeswax etc.
Instead of the laborious process of putting the lace pricker in to the pot of beeswax, if you rub the paper pattern (which is on top of the parchment) with beeswax before pricking, it does an equally good job for far less work, so more energy for lacemaking! Edith North Nottinghamshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] beeswax etc.
Robin in California wrote: I know the purpose of this thread was more or less about uses for beeswax, but I wanted to point out that some people put a piece of wax paper (common in the US, anyway, for wrapping sandwiches, etc., to keep them fresh) between the pattern and the pricking card. Then every pinhole lightly waxes the needle as it goes through. No need to stop and stab a beeswax lump. Robin, is this Cut-Rite wax paper you are talking about? I still have 4 brand new roles, and a partly used one. I used to buy this when I lived in California, and then my American friend here would get me the odd roll from an Air Force base shop. I use it sparingly, and never thought of using it the way you describe, but will put some with my lace things now! Agnes Boddington - finally rainy in Elloughton, East Yorkshire, UK and will get my bedding plants in today. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
