Re: [lace] Aconite Bookmark
Hi there I think Central Scotland Lacemaking Supplies used to stock this one. It's a few years since I saw their catalogue, so I don't know if they still do. Beth In a rather damp, grey Cheshire (NW England) On Monday 18 February 2008 08:33, Sue wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get Geraldine Stott's Bucks Point bookmark called Aconite I have a very blurred copy that someone gave me some time ago but it is really too dark to work. I do not know whether it is one of her separate patterns that she sold or whether it came from a book, it is not in my two books of hers that I have at home. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.6/1282 - Release Date: 15/02/2008 19:08 - 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] What do you do ....
What do you do with your prickings? I have been making lace since 1 April 2005 and have held on to all the prickings since then, including the ones I have prepared but not used. The pile is getting rather unwieldy now. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Aconite bookmark
Central Scotland Lace Supplies do have 11 different Bucks Point book marks, and, to my untrained-in-Bucks-Point eye, I'd say that a few of them have the aconite motif in them. They can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/2sxk4h Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] What do you do ....
Hello Jenny I used to do that, then realised that, apart from the tiny 'bookmarks' I use for trying out different threads, I was very unlikely to use a pricking again so I threw them away. Proper card ones went into the re-cycling bin but those with blue film on had to go into the general rubbish. I still have all the paper copies, either in my own folders or in books. Brenda What do you do with your prickings? I have been making lace since 1 April 2005 and have held on to all the prickings since then, including the ones I have prepared but not used. The pile is getting rather unwieldy now. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] What do you do ....
What do you do with used prickings? If you belong to a group or class, try passing them to others (depending on their condition, of course). Especially beginners may be very grateful. Agnes Boddington - ellougthon UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] What do you do ....
Dear Jenny, What do you do with your prickings? I have been making lace since 1 April 2005 and have held on to all the prickings since then, including the ones I have prepared but not used. The pile is getting rather unwieldy now. I have a drawer full of them - all signed and dated and threads named. Then when I'm going away for a month or so, I go through and pick out various smaller favourites to take with me. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace makers census
Hi spiders, I'm giving a talk about lace next week. It is women's club (no males admitted). I'd like to know approximately how many lacemakers there are in the world. Like how many came up at the Lace magazine census? How many belong to OIDFA? How many are there in different countries like in the Netherlands, France, Germany. It doesn't have to be accurate an estimate is good enough. I realize that many OIDFA members also took part in the Lace census. But I would like to show the ladies that lacemaking isn't a dying art. I don't even know how many lace makers there are in Israel. I know Avital, Debbie and another one or two but that is it. BTW thanks to all those of you who wrote to me about splitting embroidery floss. Miriam, in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re: what do you do?
I have a wide three ring binder, with those acid-free clear plastic (not actually plastic, maybe acetate?) sleeves. From the beginning (with the advice of my first lace teacher), when I worked a pattern, I put the original drawing, pattern, any written info gleaned from working the pattern all together and into the sleeve. If there is just a sample piece of the lace (quite a few) I put those in as well. I also put copies of patterns into the book that have not yet been worked, but I really want to try one day. I have a Beginner's book of Torchon patterns, an Intermediate/Advanced Torchon book, a Bedfordshire , Tape lace, Schneeberger book, a Bucks Point book, and a Honiton book. I also keep loose lacemaking articles, receipts, catalogs, etc. from everything I ever bought to do with lacemaking in a binder as well. I have old Springett's catalogs, Mr. D. J. Hornsby's receipts and notes, etc. etc. etc. Debbie in Florida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re: what do you do?
What do I do with prickings? Several fat three ring binders. Each lace I try goes into the binder. Drafts, sketches, actual pricking, 6 inch piece of the lace, notes. I like some when I'm making them, others not. Some are too much work for the effect. Others are simple to work and gorgeous. Maybe I'll like some better later, and all the work is done and waiting. There's a drawer full of old parchement and paper prickings to try later, and a file drawer in the cabinet, a basket full in the hallway, and another big notebook with prickings ready just because they are pretty, but other things come first. A good share of my lace books have prickings prepared and stuck in as bookmarks. I treat myself to making up a pricking, then other chores interfere. So they wait. Sometimes just making the pricking is enough without adding the thread. I'm gathering a box of antique prickings to share on ebay. I know I won't get to make even a sample bit of most of them in this lifetime. :)) :)Kate Henry Indiana USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] What do you do ....
I keep them in files, labeled by subject: general, bookmarks, Christmas, etc. Or if the 'original' is filed in a notebook, it goes back with the master copy. Lorri Graham, Washington where it is sunny this morning, and I am off to Lace Guild today. - Original Message - From: Jenny Brandismailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.commailto:lace@arachne.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:56 AM Subject: [lace] What do you do What do you do with your prickings? I have been making lace since 1 April 2005 and have held on to all the prickings since then, including the ones I have prepared but not used. The pile is getting rather unwieldy now. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace/http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace makers census
Hi Miriam and everyone I think you can safely say 'thousands' of lacemakers throughout the world - not 'tens' of thousands, but 'thousands' should cover it. There are about 500 in Canada, by my guesstimate, but let's say a thousand counting anyone who could possibly have tried bobbin lace. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Miriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi spiders, I'm giving a talk about lace next week. It is women's club (no males admitted). I'd like to know approximately how many lacemakers there are in the world. Like how many came up at the Lace magazine census? How many -- Bev (in Shirley near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, 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] What do you do ....
I don't have any that I 'store' any more. I kept everything over ten years, but never went into the bulging files, drawers, boxes and binders. It was freedom to toss the lot. I found I don't reuse a pricking if I've put it away. I'd just as soon make another photocopy of the original, from my library. I work exclusively from a newly done photocopy glued to card and I work the pattern as I go, that is the pins do the pricking. If I'm going to reuse the pricking, it will be right away, sometimes as many times as the pattern can stand until it is in shreds. Like Kate, I will go ahead and prepare a design to work, for the meditative exercise: I won't prick the pattern, but I'll make a photocopy (scan and print with home computer that is), glue it to card, find a matte covering if it will need it, trim it and stare at it for a long time to appreciate the lacemaking, such as one might read sheet music and play the tune silently :) On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Jenny Brandis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do with your prickings? I have been making lace since 1 April 2005 and have held on to all the prickings since then, including the ones I have prepared but not used. The pile is getting rather unwieldy now. -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Ipswich Lace
Hello Katrina Have just been catching up on the latest couple of digests and needless to say picked up on the Ipswich lace theme and then spotted that you are from Ipswich, Suffolk. Have you ever been along to a Suffolk Lacemakers Lace Day? There are several held fairly close to Ipswich, ie at Kesgrave in September and Martlesham in May. We've just had one at Wickham Market, hall was filled to capacity. There are currently around 160 members of SLM. I live to the north east of the county and am currently researching the Suffolk Lace industry - yes we did have one once. Sue H, so pleased to hear that your DIL and grandchildren are all ok, there have been some really nasty accidents just lately. Nicky in Suffolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lacemakers census
Mirian and spiders, hello. remember that are lacemakers in Central America and South America and ... Perhaps they are not in a group or in a club. Probaly great number of them work with lace but I think we have to add them to the census. For exemple, at north of Brasil, in Bahia, Ceará, Paraiba, Piaui, ... there are many comunities that works with lace... In Paraguay, in Itaugua, the Nanduti's City, they says there are more than 15.000 persons that make money with nanduti ... Certainly there are lacemakers also in Argentina, in Peru e Bolivia. na Venezuela the lacemakers made the soles... I think that it was a great think we can make a world census ... By the chance, if you have a time, go to www.nhandutideatibaia.com.br to see a wonderful N.Sra. de Assunción with a nanduti mantilla. I went to Paraguay last december and I recommend. Its a great country, a lovely people, a very wonderfull culture. We have many things to learn with them. And all of you that loves lace can make a immersion tour in culture and crafts with Organizations Hecho a Mano and Memoria Activa (www.memoriaactiva.org.py) in it's cultural center, Hotel-museo del Lago. To know more about this wonderfull project go : www.hoteldellago.org. I went to Hotel del Lago and if some of you make a group to go to this tour, said it to me. I want to go again. elizabeth horta corrêa www.nhandutideatibaia.com.br 0xx11 4412-1082ehcskype - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace makers census
Hi Miriam and everyone, I can say that they exist at least 5000 lacemakers, only here in my area of Catalunya (Spain). Possibly the number raises up to 10.000 lacemakers, all the country (Spain) (I have not evidence of this, this is only a supposition) So, it is not a nonsense to speak of tens of thousands all over the world! Carolina.Barcelona. Spain. Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace Special Fan Patterns now available bevw escribió: Hi Miriam and everyone I think you can safely say 'thousands' of lacemakers throughout the world - not 'tens' of thousands, but 'thousands' should cover it. There are about 500 in Canada, by my guesstimate, but let's say a thousand counting anyone who could possibly have tried bobbin lace. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: What do you do ....
On Feb 23, 2008, at 3:56, Jenny Brandis wrote: What do you do with your prickings? Pretty much what Debbie in Florida does: keep them in binders, in those clear plastic sleeves/pockets. By now, I have several binders: Point Ground, Flanders, Rosalibre, Wireworks, 2 Miscellaneous (probably ought to start a 3rd), Christmas and have recently (about a year ago) started a Reconstructions one. Each pocket holds: a copy of the page (if the pattern came from a book) with title, autor and page number, the pricking itself with thread suggestions, any samples I cut off with an explanation as to what was wrong with it (if appropriate. Some are so bad, no explanation is necessary, since their errors are obvious g) and diagrams. Also, notes I made while making the pattern (so as to avoid making the same mistakes next time around). A photo/photocopy of the finished lace (if I had finished it). Sometimes, a photo of the work in progress, if it seems easier than trying to explain/diagram a particular spot. Into the same binder, a couple per pocket, so that they're easily accessible, go ideas or visual stimulants: photos of paintings, drawings, ornaments, lace etc -- wich I either took myself or cut out from various catalogues and other junk mail. All of these are either to be developed into a pattern one day, maybe or else -- as in the case of the Reconstructions binder -- help me decide which particular technical trick would have been used in a particular situation. Unlike Debbie, I was a self-taugh lacemaker, so nobody told me to do this. I started because once, I sent off a pattern to be published, it got lost in the mail and I was never able to reproduce it. Since then, I've kept a copy of all documentation. And, while it's true that I don't often re-use prickings, sometimes I do. If I participate in the Christmas exchange, for example, I sometimes like to give my partner a choice of the ornament, rather than develop a new one for the occasion. It's easy to reach into the Christmas binder, dig up the pocket, remove it, and have all the materials next to my pilow as I work. Same's true about little gifts of wire earrings -- they're all housed in the Wireworks binder and easily accessible. -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace makers census
Including the lacemakers in all the Americas and Spain, I stand corrected :D On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Carolina de la Guardia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly the number raises up to 10.000 lacemakers, all the country (Spain) (I have not evidence of this, this is only a supposition) bevw escribió: Hi Miriam and everyone I think you can safely say 'thousands' of lacemakers throughout the world - not 'tens' of thousands, but 'thousands' should cover it. There are about 500 in Canada, by my guesstimate, but let's say a thousand counting anyone who could possibly have tried bobbin lace. -- Bev (in Shirley near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, 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 makers census
The Dutch lace association had 3000 members a few years ago. The magazine is translated into English, so there might be some duplicates with the Catalan, but my guess 10.000 is a way too low guestimate. I can say that they exist at least 5000 lacemakers, only here in my area of Catalunya (Spain). Possibly the number raises up to 10.000 lacemakers, all the country (Spain) (I have not evidence of this, this is only a supposition) So, it is not a nonsense to speak of tens of thousands all over the world! Carolina.Barcelona. Spain. bevw escribió: Hi Miriam and everyone I think you can safely say 'thousands' of lacemakers throughout the world - not 'tens' of thousands, but 'thousands' should cover it. There are about 500 in Canada, by my guesstimate, but let's say a thousand counting anyone who could possibly have tried bobbin lace. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] aconite
Many thanks for all your replies re aconite bookmark, have not yet managed to track it down although I now know it is based on a pattern by Stella Herbert. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1294 - Release Date: 22/02/2008 18:39 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace makers census
Miriam, there are nearly 1000 in the Australian Lace Guild, and quite a few others who are not members, --so I would say about 1500 in Australia, all up. (Gosh! our membership has dropped somewhat recently, I think.) 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]
[lace] Re: Lace makers census
On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:57, Miriam wrote: I'd like to know approximately how many lacemakers there are in the world. According to the report of Membership Chair of IOLI (Laurie Hughes), in summer of '07, there were 1398 members total, of whom 1256 were in US. As in other countries, not every lacemaker belongs to the national group, so I guess the number of lacemakers in US is a bit bigger than the 1265. Though, how much bigger, I have no idea. -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Lace makers census
Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As in other countries, not every lacemaker belongs to the national group, so I guess the number of lacemakers in US is a bit bigger than the 1265. Though, how much bigger, I have no idea.- I would say the number is *considerably* larger than the IOLI membership. Of the few guilds that I know personally, only about 10-15% are members of IOLI. If my experience is reasonably average, then there would be 7-10 times as many lacemakers in guilds in the US as the IOLI membership. or 9-12,000. And that doesn't include the lacemakers who are not in guilds. In that case, 10,000 is a perfectly reasonable number for US lacemakers. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Lace makers census
Of the 90 members in the Lacemakers of Puget Sound, only 30 belong to the IOLI. Lorri Ferguson According to the report of Membership Chair of IOLI (Laurie Hughes), in summer of '07, there were 1398 members total, of whom 1256 were in US. As in other countries, not every lacemaker belongs to the national group, so I guess the number of lacemakers in US is a bit bigger than the 1265. Though, how much bigger, I have no idea. -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace makers census
Dear Friends, I think you can safely say 'thousands' of lacemakers throughout the world - not 'tens' of thousands, but 'thousands' should cover it. There are about 500 in Canada, by my guesstimate, but let's say a thousand counting anyone who could possibly have tried bobbin lace. I WOULD say tens of thousands. You have 500 in Canada - there would be many more than that in the whole of Australia. Then think of those many small villages in Spain, France etc. whose lace-makers are not online. No doubt there are hundreds - if not thousands - in places such as India and Thailand as well. Not to mention, of course, our other well known places such as the USA, Sth Africa, Great Britain, Sandinavia, Sth Amercia etc. etc. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
