Re: [lace] OT - post-Hurricane Gustav
You're Ok, house ok, neighbourhood ok, excellent. Has the stomach bug gone? Sue in EY On 2 Sep 2008, at 01:04, Beth Mccasland wrote: Gentile Spiders, I rode out the storm at home (suburbs of New Orleans), had a LOT of wind, some rain. Lost power for about 10 hours. It's still very windy. Much to my family's dismay, I didn't evacuate, but the reality was I had a stomach bug and wasn't much for driving very far anyway. So I managed to sleep through much of the past couple of days, including today. I think I only woke up when it got REALLY windy. My neighborhood has minimal damage. And I didn't do one speck of lace. Read, listen to the radio, sleep. Repeat. Beth McCasland in the blustery suburbs of New Orleans - 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] Jewelers Look aka Linen Tester
Hi These were used in the linen industry to test that the linen was made to the correct standards. It is used to count the threads over a set area - That is why it base is square rather than round. I have several that I have purchased from Antique fairs usually made from brass and they come in different sizes Hope that helps. Happy lacing Rosemary Hemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: Clive Betty Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:51:18 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Jewelers Look aka Linen Tester Actually it is sold by several venders as a Linen Tester. It is a trifold (about 3 cm. square when folded). Can't remember why I have always called it a jewelers loop. Happy lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA = From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betty, what is a jeweler's loop Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1627 - Release Date: 22/08/2008 06:48 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Jewellers loupe
In the UK a jewellers loupe is a round magnifier, about an inch diameter and about the same in depth, that you clamp (using your eye socket muscles) into your eye socket. You move the object you are examining closer or further away from the lens to get it in focus. It's usually used by jewellers to examine gem stones and precious metal hallmarks. If you watch any of the antiques programmes on TV, there's usually one of the experts using one. A linen tester is placed directly onto a piece of fabric, or anything else that's flat that you want to examine. The type that folds up usually has a scale on the part that rests on fabric below the lens to enable you to count the number of threads per inch/centimetre. There are also similar lenses which are raised above the object you are looking at either by legs on by a rim, which don't have a scale, but which still sit on the object you are examining. 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] Jewelers Look aka Linen Tester
Hi All, I have several of both, and find that a Linen Prover was different to a jeweller's loupe - the linen prover sits on its own little (usually square) base, and opens out, as has been described, but a Jeweller's Loupe is used like a monocle, and fits in the eye socket, so that the jeweller has both hands free to hold the gemstone. Carol - in Suffolk UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our time.' - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:53 AM Subject: RE: [lace] Jewelers Look aka Linen Tester Hi These were used in the linen industry to test that the linen was made to the correct standards. It is used to count the threads over a set area - That is why it base is square rather than round. I have several that I have purchased from Antique fairs usually made from brass and they come in different sizes Hope that helps. Happy lacing Rosemary Hemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: Clive Betty Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:51:18 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Jewelers Look aka Linen Tester Actually it is sold by several venders as a Linen Tester. It is a trifold (about 3 cm. square when folded). Can't remember why I have always called it a jewelers loop. Happy lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA = From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betty, what is a jeweler's loop Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1627 - Release Date: 22/08/2008 06:48 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting - 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] I've got it
OK, OK, for the dozens (g) of you who privately and on list corrected me, I *do* know the difference between the magnifier I have and the monocle used by jewelers! At the time I sent the posting, I plainly said that I didn't know why I called it a jewelers loop or whatever. I *did* also describe it at a Linen tester. No wonder new members don't post. Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] I've got it
Hi Betty We are only trying to be helpful (VBG) Happy Lacing Rosemary Clive Betty Rice wrote: OK, OK, for the dozens (g) of you who privately and on list corrected me, I *do* know the difference between the magnifier I have and the monocle used by jewelers! At the time I sent the posting, I plainly said that I didn't know why I called it a jewelers loop or whatever. I *did* also describe it at a Linen tester. No wonder new members don't post. Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- YIGGGS Rosemary Hemmett Brownie/Rainbow Guider and Trainer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/9970 Greenowl ICQ#13177992 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] I've got it
Ha Ha so have I Betty!! I got one today! (thanks to all the 'explanations') Sue in EY On 2 Sep 2008, at 20:01, Clive Betty Rice wrote: OK, OK, for the dozens (g) of you who privately and on list corrected me, I *do* know the difference between the magnifier I have and the monocle used by jewelers! At the time I sent the posting, I plainly said that I didn't know why I called it a jewelers loop or whatever. I *did* also describe it at a Linen tester. No wonder new members don't post. Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - 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] Any ideas on what this is?
I don't recall seeing any responses to this post - maybe everybody else is flummoxed, too? I think it's part of a fishing rod - possibly you stuck a reed on the spindle part to make a full-sized rod - but I'm just going on my imagination and have no real knowledge. I certainly can't think of any way this contraption could be used for lacemaking. Adele North Vancouver, B.C. (west coast of Canada) Any ideas on what this item is on ebay? http://tinyurl.com/59c2ku Item number 320292495309 described as: Vintage Pimative wood lace maker spindle spool reel 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] Any ideas on what this is?
At 05:19 PM 9/2/2008, Adele Shaak wrote: I don't recall seeing any responses to this post - maybe everybody else is flummoxed, too? I think it's part of a fishing rod - possibly you stuck a reed on the spindle part to make a full-sized rod - but I'm just going on my imagination and have no real knowledge. I certainly can't think of any way this contraption could be used for lacemaking. Any ideas on what this item is on ebay? http://tinyurl.com/59c2ku Item number 320292495309 described as: Vintage Pimative wood lace maker spindle spool reel Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK It is a sewing awl used for leather or canvas. That was my immediate notion and it took some research to confirm it. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Any ideas on what this is?
Thus, we can say it is for lacing, but not lacemaking. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Patty Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what this item is on ebay? http://tinyurl.com/59c2ku Item number 320292495309 It is a sewing awl used for leather or canvas. That was my immediate notion and it took some research to confirm it. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke 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] Linen Tester.
I have one of these Linen Testers. They sit on the lace/fabric, and the magnifier is about an inch + above the cut-out base, which has graduation marks around it, and you can count the number of threads per inch with them. It is very useful, and fold down flat, to fit into it's tiny box and is So portable!! :) Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, where we have glorious sunshine At last! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. SPAMfighter has removed 246 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Messages going to the wrong file
And when it comes to the 'phishing' ones all we do is.. hover the mouse over the link and the good old mac will tell us where it's going! Not right?? delete!! No harm done to computer, emails or anything else!! Pleased I've got a mac aren't you Tamara? Sue in EY On 2 Sep 2008, at 04:15, Tamara P Duvall wrote: That's why I'm not on Internet Explorer; anything Windows exceeds my 2-cell-gray-matter capacity :) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Messages going to the wrong file
Tamara wrote: Watch out for phone calls, too. The first time I got a we're calling about your credit card account call, I nearly had a heart attack. It was only with the second sentence I'm registered with the telephone preference service, so I rarely get unsolicited calls. I've heard of ways of dealing with unsolicited calls, apart from putting the phone down. If it's about a credit card, you could listen to the schpeil and them give them the number of your supermarket loyalty card if you have one. Probably won't fool them because the first four numbers on plastic cards identify who the issuer was and they must know the numbers used by all the credit companies, but it wastes their time if you're prepared to waste some of yours. My favourite is that as soon as I realise it's a spoof call, I say Hang on a minute and put the receiver down beside the phone. After about ten minutes they'll have rung off, but it will have cost them money for all the time they were holding waiting for you to return. It also means the call centre employee isn't earning anything in that time. One I did that to rang back and said We seem to have been cut off. I said, No, I decided that, as you wanted to waste my time, I'd waste yours instead. and I put the receiver beside the phone again. 10 minutes later I checked and she'd disconnected, so I replaced the receiver. The phone rang again and she yelled at me You're pathetic! I said You're the pathetic one for ringing me back to tell me I'm pathetic and for not getting a worthwhile job instead of bothering people who have no interest in anything you have to say. and put the receiver down beside the phone again. She didn't ring back again. 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] Helen
Hi All I have just had an email form Helen in Auss this morning and she had some test results back today and she has said they look promising there will be more next week, but she does have to go through a lot of blood test for the next few weeks to keep a check. Thanks all of you that sent her wishes Wendy St Dogmaels _ Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Messages going to the wrong file
Good for you Jean!! I had several calls from Internat to speak to my daughter.[Shiralee is deaf] In the end I had to threaten them with the police several times before they stopped . Daphne Norfolk England ---Original Message--- From: Jean Nathan Date: 09/02/08 09:12:22 To: Chat Subject: [lace-chat] Messages going to the wrong file Tamara wrote: Watch out for phone calls, too. The first time I got a we're calling about your credit card account call, I nearly had a heart attack. It was only with the second sentence I'm registered with the telephone preference service, so I rarely get unsolicited calls. I've heard of ways of dealing with unsolicited calls, apart from putting the phone down. If it's about a credit card, you could listen to the schpeil and them give them the number of your supermarket loyalty card if you have one. Probably won't fool them because the first four numbers on plastic cards identify who the issuer was and they must know the numbers used by all the credit companies, but it wastes their time if you're prepared to waste some of yours. My favourite is that as soon as I realise it's a spoof call, I say Hang on a minute and put the receiver down beside the phone. After about ten minutes they'll have rung off, but it will have cost them money for all the time they were holding waiting for you to return. It also means the call centre employee isn't earning anything in that time. One I did that to rang back and said We seem to have been cut off. I said, No, I decided that, as you wanted to waste my time, I'd waste yours instead. and I put the receiver beside the phone again. 10 minutes later I checked and she'd disconnected, so I replaced the receiver. The phone rang again and she yelled at me You're pathetic! I said You're the pathetic one for ringing me back to tell me I'm pathetic and for not getting a worthwhile job instead of bothering people who have no interest in anything you have to say. and put the receiver down beside the phone again. She didn't ring back again. 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] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of imstp_animation_panda_en_250808.gif] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
