Re: [lace] Bobbin makers
Some of my favourite bobbins were made by Tim Parker in the early 80's. At the time he was teaching woodwork at the local boys school. When he gave up teaching he became a general supplier and sadly stopped turning bobbins a little while later. I believe Paul Durst passed away in the late 80´s, I have a couple of his bobbins which are nearly always on a pillow. Archer bone bobbins are always on a pillow along with some wooden one made Ray Brown who was the husband of my lace teacher all those years ago. Diane Miller´s painted bobbins always get loads of admiration at Lace Days. Using bobbins when you know who made them always makes making lace more personal and, for me, more pleasurable. I often amaze people who admire my bobbins by telling them all about the person who made them. Pam Mattioli in sunny southern Spain - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Bobbin makers
It would be nice if we posted the names of bobbin makers from whom we have bought bobbins, so that a list could be compiled which took in all bobbin makers. Sheila in Sawbo' where we are waiting for more rain and it's cold! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Bobbin makers
That's easy most of mine are from Sixpenny Bobbins!! Sue in EY On 28 Sep 2010, at 11:37, Alan Sheila Brown wrote: It would be nice if we posted the names of bobbin makers from whom we have bought bobbins, so that a list could be compiled which took in all bobbin makers. Sheila in Sawbo' where we are waiting for more rain and it's cold! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Shiffu bracelet
I'm in the process of starting the Shiffu bracelet on pages 22-23 in Schmuck Parures. The authors are Anita Dajcar-Florin Catherine Lambert. Published 1997. Has anyone else made this bracelet? I'm trying work out if there is another way to add the beads. I was also wondering if it can be made without adding taking out a pair when starting each new diamond shaped section. This book is in German French hence the title. I translated the French section to find out that Shiffu originates from Japan and Nepal, is made from paper so it is supple washable but doesn't have a lot of body like linen is used to make traditional clothing. Does anyone know anything about this fibre? I couldn't find it in Brenda's Threads for Lace book. Maybe it should be included? Thanks in advance, Pene in a wet cooler Tartu, Estonia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Bobbin makers
I have lots of bobbins made by Alan Hazel. He also made me bobbins from a chunk of my maple tree which came down in the severe ice-storm we had in 1998, and some from a neighbour's walnut tree. Malvary in Ottawa, where the retro lacing is almost at an end, perhaps 1 more day will have it off the pillow and ready to start again. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Bobbin makers
It has been great to read the thread about your favourite suppliers and how many of them have stopped making them. The truth is that it is quite hard to make a living out of bobbin turning alone. Most of those who continue either have other sources of business or do not need to make a living out of bobbin making. There are few niche makers who seem to do OK and other have a faithful following of you good lace makers. There is of course the mass produced range; often put out under a makers name and certainly turned to their design and pattern, but mass produced all the same. Currently my favourite bobbins are those painted by very talented people. (Oops other than antique ones of course!) The most recent I saw were two Lighthouse painted East Devon bobbins... Just lovely. No idea who painted them. I nearly got a contract once to drill all the spangling holes in massed produced bobbins . That was going to be a deadly job as far as I was concerned. Not at all creative. Keep buying... bobbin turners need your custom! :) No... I hardly turn bobbins these days, a few copies of antiques for fun for my collection when I do not have the originals. I am always interested in receiving pictures of interesting, beautiful or rare bobbins (Antique) From any genre of English lace making. Thanks. :) To my American friends.. I would love to buy an Ipswich lace bobbin. I have never handled one or been able to study one. :( I have pictures of course. Your forever scrounging friend Brian Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Cheap bobbins without a lathe
Yes, get appropriate dowel to suite the thickness that you want. Cut roughly to length. ( A bit longer as it will allow your neck holding hand to be further away from the wheel) I am sure most of you have an electric grinding/sharpening wheel in the garage or shed. The wheel will be about 1/2 to 1 inch wide. Just right for the neck. Offer it up to the spinning wheel at the place where the neck will be, with the dowel firmly held down on the guide; then I gently turn/revolve it with finger and thumb until the neck is made. I use my other hand to hold the other end steady and allow it to turn between my fingers. For the head I offer the dowel up to the edge of the wheel and with the dowel at an angle and again revolve the dowel until the head is ground to the V shape you want it. Do the whole thing gently... do not try to grind a lot away at one time. Drill the spangling hole. This is offered with all the safety warnings that should be taken when using power tools. From Brian and Jean Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Term Craft
Each fall I sell various needlework (knitting, tatting, crochet and sometimes quilted) items at the senior center bazaar and invariably someone remarks about my many crafts to which I gently reply, I don't do crafts, I'm a needleworker. To me, crafts involves using glue, paper, wood or plastic. Hugs, Norma http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com NATA #847 Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. --- On Mon, 27/9/10, Susan Reishus elationrelat...@yahoo.com wrote: - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Bobbin makers
I've really enjoyed this thread, with names I've not heard in a long time - if ever!! Me too Clay. Let me add some of my favourites:- - Mike BESTER of Sth Africa - Graham JOHNSON of Ballarat, Australia (now deceased) - Keith HUMPHRIES of Ballarat, Australia - John BESWICK of Uriala, Sth Australia - Trevor SEMMENS of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and there's one pair in particular I love which I got from an English maker, but whose name I never remember. I think you knew him Steph. These bobbins are very fine and have a slim hour-glass shape. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
Alice et al, I do sympathise greatly with the dilemma, but have no suggestions as to the removal of the glue.What a disaster!But the question of the 'worth' of lace opens up a whole can of worms, I feel. I belonged to an Art Group, which had several splinter groups, such as the potters, as well as the painters, but a lace group also.We always produced work to display in the bi-annual exhibitions but our lace was rarely for sale, as the hours spent on just a small and relatively simple bookmark made it such that if we charged about £2.50 for it, it seemed to denigrate the art of lace. If we attempted to charge say £5.00 per hour for the work - which is very much lower than house-cleaning, babysitting, plumbers (!) and garage mechanics - said bookmark would roll out at about £100.00 minimum!Which would probably occasion heart-failure in anyone who enquired ... When I have been asked to carry out commissions, I usually ask if the person enquiring realises how time-intensive bobbin-lace-making (as well as most other crafts) is - if they seem content with thinking about that, then they are hopefully sitting down when I give a rough calculation of the hours and remuneration - I have to admit that that is very often the end of the enquiry, but there have been people who have commissioned work, been pleased with whatever it is, and have sometimes asked for other pieces. So - I would probably go for broke, and say each bookmark was worth, to me, £100.00 (of course, that is sterling, but could be converted to USA dollars etc) and take it from there.The cost may encourage the organisers to be a little more circumspect when they apply their nasty little stickers next time... Carol - in Suffolk UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' - Original Message - From: lacel...@frontier.com To: lace_arachne.com lace@arachne.com Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:01 AM Subject: [lace] lace and glue After it was much too late, I found out that the lady who set up the display used glue dots to stick the lace to the fabric panels. I about came 'unglued' when I discovered it, and the person in charge of the whole thing got an earful of my thoughts. Alice in Oregonexpecting improving weather and sunshine for Lace Day. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Bobbin makers
I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea! I'd like a section of our webshots to be devoted to bobbins, so when we find a bobbin that we can't identify, we can go look for similar bobbins there! Clay On 9/28/2010 6:37 AM, Alan Sheila Brown wrote: It would be nice if we posted the names of bobbin makers from whom we have bought bobbins, so that a list could be compiled which took in all bobbin makers. Sheila in Sawbo' where we are waiting for more rain and it's cold! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Bobbin makers
Yes, I have a lovely set of Out of Africa bobbins made by Mike Bester! He does beautiful work. And John Beswick is known to me because of his wonderful little travel winder. The others, I don't know... Clay On 9/28/2010 10:17 AM, David C COLLYER wrote: I've really enjoyed this thread, with names I've not heard in a long time - if ever!! Me too Clay. Let me add some of my favourites:- - Mike BESTER of Sth Africa - Graham JOHNSON of Ballarat, Australia (now deceased) - Keith HUMPHRIES of Ballarat, Australia - John BESWICK of Uriala, Sth Australia - Trevor SEMMENS of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and there's one pair in particular I love which I got from an English maker, but whose name I never remember. I think you knew him Steph. These bobbins are very fine and have a slim hour-glass shape. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
I agree, Carol... Except that I would be specific about the number of hours it took to make it, and give a reasonable rate for skilled work... $15 per hour is not unreasonable. When the total is computed, it will have the desired effect, and you won't see glue dots again! Clay On 9/28/2010 10:32 AM, Carol wrote: Alice et al, /snip/ So - I would probably go for broke, and say each bookmark was worth, to me, £100.00 (of course, that is sterling, but could be converted to USA dollars etc) and take it from there.The cost may encourage the organisers to be a little more circumspect when they apply their nasty little stickers next time... Carol - in Suffolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Term Craft
Also known as needlecraft? Words! Whatever 'craft' it is, it is not a derogatory word, it is the context in which the term is used, yes? I consider knitting a craft, and a good one. I also do paper crafts in an arty, one-off kind of way. My craft room is my lace place, my weaving loft, my knitting stash and where I store my watercolours :p On 9/28/10, Norma Harris nrm_h...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Each fall I sell various needlework (knitting, tatting, crochet and sometimes quilted) items at the senior center bazaar and invariably someone remarks about my many crafts to which I gently reply, I don't do crafts, I'm a needleworker. To me, crafts involves using glue, paper, wood or plastic. Hugs, Norma http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com NATA #847 Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. --- On Mon, 27/9/10, Susan Reishus elationrelat...@yahoo.com wrote: - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
Clay wrote. and give a reasonable rate for skilled work... $15 per hour is not unreasonable. I think that the Ontario minimum wage is around $10+ and I find $15 is only a little over minimum wage. Car mechanics, plumbers, electricians charge well over $50, computer tech charges $88 per hour! So why would our skill and expertise be less valuable? Malvary in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
I think that putting a price on our hobby lace is at cross-purposes. For insurance it could be the cost of replacing materials which is 'meh' for the amount of thread in a bookmark. The majority of us don't make lace for money and the value in making it is personal. How about 'priceless' ? On 9/26/10, lacel...@frontier.com lacel...@frontier.com wrote: . By the waythe Festival chairman said damages would be covered by their insurance, and I need to submit the value of the damaged items. How much is a bookmark worth? -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
Trades such as plumbing and electrical work aren't hobbies really, are they? Car mechanics - some do that as a hobby but it is otherwise a trade. I think we are comparing apples and oranges here ;) In my opinion as expressed already our lacemaking is priceless :D On 9/28/10, Malvary J Cole malva...@sympatico.ca wrote: Car mechanics, plumbers, electricians charge well over $50, computer tech charges $88 per hour! So why would our skill -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
I think 'priceless' covers it - after pointing out the length of time required to make the item. When I put anything in a show or on public display I'm aware that there is an off-chance that it could stolen, or ruined in some way. The glue-dot was an unpleasant surprise :( When one of a kind is ruined no amount of money is going to replace it. On 9/28/10, Margery Allcock margerybu...@o2.co.uk wrote: How about 'priceless' ? But for the purposes of insurance at a show, and to give the glue dot lady an idea of what she is handling, putting a price on my work is useful; and -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace and glue
I totally agree with you on the value of our work! I think that the difference is, car mechanics and plumbers and electricians provide services that we find hard to live without when we need them... but a lacemaker is an expendible luxury. That's why you rarely (if ever...) see a lacemaker working for $50 an hour - no one has agreed to pay them! So... my figure of $15 was selected as being over minimum wage - although barely. Still, when computed for purposes of loss, it gives a value to the piece that will get their attention. OTOH, you could *try* saying, I would not do this work for less than $50 an hour, which is why I don't sell my work. On 9/28/2010 12:11 PM, Malvary J Cole wrote: Clay wrote. and give a reasonable rate for skilled work... $15 per hour is not unreasonable. I think that the Ontario minimum wage is around $10+ and I find $15 is only a little over minimum wage. Car mechanics, plumbers, electricians charge well over $50, computer tech charges $88 per hour! So why would our skill and expertise be less valuable? Malvary in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] bobbin makers
It occurs to me that all of you who know the bobbin maker might want to make a photo record of which ones were made by which bobbin maker. When they get passed on your sucsessors won't know which are which. And future generations might want to know. It seems that those who collect antique bobbins like to know who made them, although I gather that it is almost impossible to be sure. The simplest thing would be to lay them on the glass of your scanner and shoot. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] {lace] Skill
Hello Jan Gardiner from Lacewing gave a talk at Wymondham in Norfolk UK on wether we could be called a skilled worker. If I remember correctly, she said we do something very skillfull. Manovering the bobbins, threads. Knowing how to read, design and maker from a card with pinholes on it wether we photo copy a pattern or not] Most people cannot sit for the hours it takes to make our lace, even if its a bookmark. At the end of her talk she said I have come to the conclusion that we are skilled people. So don`t let others say you are not!!! I think she is right. Daphne Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] needlelace
Catherine Barley recently sent me a photo of a new needlelace piece she has made, and I've posted it on NEEDLELACETALK with her permission. You might like to see: http://needlelacetalk.ning.com/photo/needlelace-poppies-catherine?xg_source=a ctivity Lorelei Halley - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] needlelace x3
Just cut and paste the ctivity to the end of the url. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] needlelace x3
or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2est3c9 On 9/28/10, Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com wrote: Just cut and paste the ctivity to the end of the url. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
