[lace] translation please
Hi everyone, can you help... what does 'kantbrief op 100%' mean please, I have the english translated pages for my book 'Motieven in Kleur' but the english doesn't include the diagrams and the section I'm not sure of is written on each pattern page (some have 50%)... I know its to do with the pattern size but it would be nice to know the real translation I have just finished the 'sailing ship' from the book and now intend to do the 'hat on a stand', awaiting delivery of the threads and they can't come soon enough. Best wishes to all Celia in a grey and overcast SE London UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Book
Hello everyone I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there is a supplier selling Rosemary Shepards Fantasy Flowers book. A friend of mine would like a copy. I bought mine from a supplier and cannot remember who it was. I`ve e`mailed some suppliers and I get the answer back Never heard of it. Thankyou in advance Daphne Grey Norfolk England _ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place Learn more! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Book
In message bay116-w7c89be48f8e5c52bc8042ef...@phx.gbl, Daphne Martin ladylace...@msn.com writes I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there is a supplier selling Rosemary Shepards Fantasy Flowers book. I bought mine from Roseground, at the Peterborough Lace Fair a couple of years ago (? - don't think it was last year). I seem to remember SMP had it on their stand, too. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Book
Daphne wrote: I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there is a supplier selling Rosemary Shepards Fantasy Flowers book. Try Rosemary's web site: http://www.lacedaisypress.com.au/fantasy.html seems she is self publishing it. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Thankyou
Thankyou Jane, Jean and Pat. I will pass this information on. Daphne Norfolk England _ All your Twitter and other social updates in one place - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] translation please
kantbrief op 100% simply means that the pricking is printed at full size. When it says, ...op 50%, it is reduced, and you would print it out at 200% to get the size used in the model, with the threads which are recommended. Clay Celia Mulhearn wrote: Hi everyone, can you help... what does 'kantbrief op 100%' mean please, I have the english translated pages for my book 'Motieven in Kleur' but the english doesn't include the diagrams and the section I'm not sure of is written on each pattern page (some have 50%)... I know its to do with the pattern size but it would be nice to know the real translation I have just finished the 'sailing ship' from the book and now intend to do the 'hat on a stand', awaiting delivery of the threads and they can't come soon enough. Best wishes to all Celia in a grey and overcast SE London UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Threads for Lace Edition 5 and Raffle
Dear Spiders Edition 5 is now available and I have a stack of boxes to find a home for! see http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/threads/threads.html All the traders who took Edition 4 will receive an inspection copy in the post very soon and any pre-orders will go out in Saturday's post (Good Friday tomorrow so Post Office will be closed). I will be at Lace Guild Convention next week, and I'm really pleased that the books are ready before that. Might save one or two of you some postage. As a thank you to all the Arachnes who have helped this project along I am offering three copies as raffle prizes anywhere in the world. If you want to be included please email me *off-list* and include the word Raffle in the subject line. I'll draw the winner next Thursday morning. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Teaching..eml- designing
Devon and others, I think you have made some great points about designing, if you 'first' have the desire to design. Then there are some who 'just do it'. I never thought of myself as a designer (a very minor one at best) until I took college are classes (I was in my 40s at the time). But I had been designing all my life, I just thought I was 'changing what I had already seen'. My mother used to say why do I buy you patterns (for clothing) when you never make it look like the picture. I think some people have a natural talent for it. But if you get me into another 'media' I can't do anything but 'follow the directions'. When I retire (at the end of this year) I hope to do more designing in lace and the thoughts expressed here are a wealth of information. Thanks to all. Lorri Graham, WA, USA I have been reading these stories about teachers and students and now designing! How do you even begin to design? This is a subject that I have been thinking about for some years, and no one would place me in a tier of design that is not amateur. My artistic talent is non-existent. In fact, my sense of spatial relations is so poor that I cannot even draw a floor plan of the house I live in. But that should be proof that designing is not something that requires a lot of visual talent, unless you want a spectacular result, of course. People who read the IOLI Bulletin can read the process that I used for the piece that was on the back cover. As a not particularly good designer, I would offer the following ideas. One of my first designs was a panda bear fan. I had my daughter draw the Panda, since she could draw, although only 7 years old, and I cannot. I made him in a narrow braid and filled him in with grounds I knew or could cadge from the book of grounds. Persons who are mathematically inclined use the lace design programs with great skill to design continuous type laces. I tend to use them to generate grids for the most frequent kinds of fillings. Then with a scissor, I cut the grid to fit in the area I want it to fit in and tape it in. In fact, frequently, I simply choose between the premade grids on _http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/design.htm_ (http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/design.htmhttp://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/ lace/design.htm) and print them with my computer on a card type paper from the computer supply store and fool around on them.This is a very easy way to design. While you work the piece, you will have a lot of time to think about how you could have made it more complicated. Then your next piece can be more complicated, and you can develop even more theories while you work that. Having taken free lace techniques such as Withof and Milanese allows you to draw a picture and make a piece of lace on it, once you understand the techniques. Jane Atkinson has taught and written a lot about modern design and her ideas are very inspiring. Taking a design class with her or others can be of great help. Now, I find myself in a phase where I get some materials and I fool around with them, often on the preprinted grid from the above lace site and see what interesting effects can be derived from the materials. For instance, when you combine different fibers and do different things with them, does something magical emerge? Then you have to figure out how to optimize that effect and try to make it into something. Although I have been known to be able to take a picture of a known lace from the museum, and, with the help of graph paper, draw it out. I tend to still do this by hand with tracing paper and graph paper, and counting the threads and stitiches in the original piece. I am somewhat intimidated by the idea of designing borders, etc., even with the software, possibly because I am not a specialist in most of these continuous laces. A true artist, of course, would be able to counter positive and negative space, and, using artistic design principles and color theory produce a much better product. I do keep coming up against the issue of whether in lace design, technical proficiency or artistic ability is more important. Historically, it seems that the designers often designed, and then the makers figured out how to make the piece, so both talents did not have to reside in the same person. Good luck, Devon arachnemodera...@yahoo.commailto:arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: Drawing on Right Side of Brain
Mark, If you want to 'read and lace' at the same time try 'talking books'. A friend mentioned it to me and I love it, if you come to a 'need to think about this bit' place in the lace just put the book on pause. Lorri Subject: [lace] Re: Drawing on Right Side of Brain - was:Teachers Alex, My art teacher in high school taught from this book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love blind contour drawing. Now just wish I could do blind lacemaking. I might get a book read at the same time HAH. Thanks for mentioning that book. Brought back good memories. -- Mark, aka Tatman blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/ email: tatmant...@gmail.commailto:tatmant...@gmail.com On 4/8/09 1:31 AM, Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.netmailto:alexstillw...@talktalk.net wrote: Incidentally using the right side of the brain is euphoric - no wonder we enjoy it. For more information about this subject read 'Drawing in the right side of the brain', Betty Edwards. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Re: Drawing on Right Side of Brain - was:Teachers
Sue, do you understand us righty If so everything is ok. By the way to be honest I am partly partly. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Re: Drawing on Right Side of Brain - was:Teachers
Hello All, sorry being so quiet but I am very busy at the time, but to this point I will tell you my experience. A bit more than two years ago I was lucky to get two design students to teaching lacemaking. The one was a glass designer and couldn't find a job so she tried to do something else and hoped with lacy things to make her living. She came regularly and started from the bginning on. She was quicker as other I had as students were. And after a while I remarked that she is left handed. So I got a shock and asked why she told me not immediately. She answered oh it's no problem I try to think things in the other direction. But it doesn't work with winding bobbins. So I learned for myself to do it as left handed and said her next time. Everything was ok now. I remarked that she didn't have own ideas and wasn't very creative, but she liked to learn more. When her husband came back from Spain where he worked for several years they moved outside of HH and so she couldn't come any longer. A few weeks later another young lady studiing textile design came to me to learn lacemaking. It was in october and she had the idea to make lace on her diploma work, which must be finished in january. She was pregnant and want marry a few weeks later. We started with the beginning stiches and worked out structures and so on. She was so quick and so creative. The diploma work was a piece of cloth starting with the underwear than the dress and a coat all this in one piece. And on each part more or less bobbin lace. Each part has another sort of tissue so the lace had to fit in structur and thickness of thread to it. The lace parts she drawed were nearly unworkable. But I tried very hard to explain her and we stated with the original. (I helped with working but you don't tell anybody, please psst) And we managed to be ready in time. She gave birth to her baby and I went to Australia. Coming back several weeks later she foned me and told me that her dress will be shown in museum and invited me to the vernisage. She was right handed as I am. Ilske from warm and sunny Hamburg in Germany Am 08.04.2009 um 17:41 schrieb Mark, aka Tatman: Sherry meant for this to go to the lace list as well. Her email below. -- Mark, aka Tatman blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/ email: tatmant...@gmail.com -- Forwarded Message From: Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com And since I am left handedI use the right side of my brain more than the lefthave you ever noticed how many of our past presidents were left handed. Being left handed myself I have a tendency to notice those things. Even President Obama is left handed. Does being left handed make it easier to catch on how to do lace and other things with my hands easier? What do you all think? Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Postcard on ebay
Dear Friends, Saw this great postcard on ebay - a woman making lace in Beer, Devon about 1910 Item number: 200328535281 David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Pewter bobbins
I was given an old wooden bobbin with pewter spots, but one spot was missing. It was in fact a rod which passed right through the bobbin. Because it wasn't valuable, I cut a suitable short length from an aluminium knitting needle of the right diameter and tapped that in. Don't think anyone would notice that it's aluminium rather than pewter as they are both grey, and the bobbin is complete and useable again. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] roller, oops?
Whoa Nellie! Did I misunderstand? I thought you were looking for a way to store the lace on a flat pillow as it is completed (i.e. you are moving the lace on the pricking) rather than making a roller pillow. Mea culpa. Susan, Erie PA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Fwd: The Lacemaker - Bail, Claude Joseph
Dear Lacemakers, Lori found reproduction of an artwork on eBay, and sent it to me for those of you who collect images of lacemakers. She's made it easy with a tiny address. (Not so sure I'd order from so far away.) Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center From: lacefa...@roadrunner.com To: jeria...@aol.com Sent: 4/9/2009 4:54:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: The Lacemaker - Bail, Claude Joseph http://tinyurl.com/cf9cfq **Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood0001) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: what is darning magic thread?
On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:09, Jenny Brandis wrote: I have heard of and used magic thread when I start/end torchon lace but what is a darning magic thread? Can anyone tell me how it is different to the first or is it the same thing with a different name? My guess -- but *a guess only * -- would be that it's the same magic thread/loop but used in a different way: to darn loose ends of the threads, left when the work is finished, back into the work to secure them instead of just sewing a bunch of them into the single starting point. I know that tatters use the technique and I learnt to use it -- from Sue Lambiris (an Arachnean, but an infrequent commenter) -- in wire work. Christine Springetts' little booklet (Magic Thread) mentions such use also, though I must admit that I find Springetts' explanations difficult to follow, despite excellent photos and diagrams (there are times when *both* the left and the right side of my brain go on strike) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] warding off arthritis
In the old days one Always had a leopard bobbin( wood with pewter spots) on the pillow, to ward off arthritis. Patty - I would not hold your breath, if I were you!! :)) Sorry!! Still you never know! Some of these old remedies Do work! :)) With arthritic fingers one is happy to try Anything!! (I know, and can sympathise with you.) Bobbin lace is just about the only handcraft that suits crippled hands. A now gone friend had the most terribley crippled hands due to arthritis, and had to give up all her crafts - till she discovered bobbin lacemaking. Her DH made her some thick bobbins that she could manage, and she made a Huge banquet table-sized tablecloth edge - 6 - 8 inches wide, - and she said it saved her sanity!! Her daughter had to mount the lace on the cloth, but lacemaking was the only thing she could do - with thicker threads, of course. I have a couple of prs of her bobbins, now - a group of us were given them after she passed away, and I use them for gimps. They are perfect, and a nice reminder of a lovely lady. So if your hands are a problem, - keep making lace. It really is good for you! Regards from Liz in Melbourne lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 341 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] warding off arthritis
Sorry Elizabeth, I sent this email direct to you as opposed to the 'list. One of my bobbin resource people (you know I am not a lace maker and have to rely on others for practical advice) Showed me that she certainly did not handle the leopard bobbins in any way that would involve her touching the protruding lumps pewter. Perhaps others handle their bobbins differently. I love tradition and old wives tales, but you cant really think that touching pewter when lace making will help your arthritis! Having said that, if you thinks it helps, then that is fine by me:) - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti lizl...@bigpond.com To: Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:03 PM Subject: [lace] warding off arthritis In the old days one Always had a leopard bobbin( wood with pewter spots) on the pillow, to ward off arthritis. Patty - I would not hold your breath, if I were you!! :)) Sorry!! Still you never know! Some of these old remedies Do work! :)) With arthritic fingers one is happy to try Anything!! (I know, and can sympathise with you.) Bobbin lace is just about the only handcraft that suits crippled hands. A now gone friend had the most terribley crippled hands due to arthritis, and had to give up all her crafts - till she discovered bobbin lacemaking. Her DH made her some thick bobbins that she could manage, and she made a Huge banquet table-sized tablecloth edge - 6 - 8 inches wide, - and she said it saved her sanity!! Her daughter had to mount the lace on the cloth, but lacemaking was the only thing she could do - with thicker threads, of course. I have a couple of prs of her bobbins, now - a group of us were given them after she passed away, and I use them for gimps. They are perfect, and a nice reminder of a lovely lady. So if your hands are a problem, - keep making lace. It really is good for you! Regards from Liz in Melbourne lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 341 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3998 (20090409) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace-chat] Fwd: Tofu, anyone?
Poor vegetarian lady... I'm afraid that her idea of the license plate would have been turned down in Virginia as well (our DMV is *very* vigilant regarding vanity plates obscenities) but, what a hoot! http://coloradoindependent.com/26088/colorado-dmv-nixes-tofu-vanity- plate-citing-obscenity-concern -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
