[lace] Fish bones and the like. Evidence...
I do not know if folk lore ever becomes fact. I do not think the evidence in terms that we accept in modern days really exists. I have become very pragmatic about things these days and I seem to think that the hand me down stories have an element of truth in them, but there seems no real evidence that what some person did years ago, for what ever reason they did it, turns into Lace-makers-used-to-use-fish bones ... -whatever. I just do not believe it. There was the story that the Museum in Edinburgh had a pillow with bones as bobbins, and I followed that up and museum could not confirm that and indeed had an element of doubt. Some keen people have re-created pillows with bone bobbins and pins of some type, but that proves nothing. A slightly obtuse story now. I had a colleague who was determined to live in a lovely country house. He and his wife were active seekers, and when they found a house they liked they asked themselves one question; What if we needed a box of matches after we came home from work? The answer to that question was a determinant for their purchase (They did eventually buy a nice country house.. not far from the Village store) The point I want to make is that a cottage lace maker that needed a few pins and could not get them till the lace man came around next, got her husband to to sliver some chicken bones (whatever) to tide her over. It was a great time for Make do and Mend I cant think that the use of these pin or bobbin alternatives had any permanency. There is the exception of hand carved/twig bobbins of which there are many examples around these days. These could well have originated as the result of need of some sort and stayed on because they clearly worked with little inconvenience. There is nothing more convenient than a pin! BTW it is a fascinating thread which has thrown up some very interesting things. Brian and Jean From Cooranbong. Australia You can read my bobbin stuff on: http://tiny.cc/egb85 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] fish bones/magazine articles
Hi Liz I have compiled a database/spreadsheet of articles (of interest to me) from my lace magazines. It has five fields - the name of the mag, the year, its issue/page number, subject/title of the article and author/source. So I can put a subject or word in 'find' and know which issue I'm looking for. I can just add (supposedly!) when ever something new takes my fancy. Works for me - though I guess other fields could be added. Best wishes Diana in a very windy Northants - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat
Hello Everyone, Does anyone have a bobbin lace pattern of a sailboat ? I would greatly appreciate the source and how to purchase/obtain the pattern. It will be used as a raffle item for a local children's hospital next year. The group doing the raffle contains several sailing groups that attend the raffle. Thank you. Chris Brill-Packard Western Reserve Lace Society Cleveland, Ohio area - where it seems to be raining endlessly this spring - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat
Hi Chris, There are a few nice sail boats in Eeva Liisa Kortelahti's book Let's make bobbin lace, ISBN 951-99922-3-5, reprinted in 1995. The boats are inserted in a picture... I mean: it is not an isolated boat, but it also has a sea and a sky, making a square motive. I hope I have made myself understood. I bought my book directly to the author. But I suppose it is available in some lace material shops... Good luck. Antje González, from 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] thorns etc.
On the Arizona site you can find the book by Sophie Davydoff: 'La dentelle russe, histoire, technique, statistique' (Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1895). Look at plate A you will see thorns of wild pear used as pins in the Minsk area of Russia. In the OIDFA Bulletin 4/1999 p. 46 you can see a lacepillow from Dalecarlia in Sweden with 'pins' cut from wood. It is exceptional that such a primitive pillow has been preserved. Aino Linnove states that in Finland pins made of the backbones from fish or made of wood were used. In addition the dividing pins could be made of pig's teeth. Bodil Tornehave was more specific she stated that it is the backbones of perch that was used to make pins. Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Tutors in the Halkirk Area
Hello all Does anyone know of a lace teacher in the area around Halkirk (Caithness, Scotland) please. I have a friend who lives there and would love to learn bobbin lace! thanks in advance Sue in East Yorkshire - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Re: Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat
On May 23, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Chris Brill-Packard wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone have a bobbin lace pattern of a sailboat ? In addition to the Kortelahti lace pictures which incorporate sailboats that Antje mentioned, there's a small sailboat (as an individual motif) in: Motieven in kleur; 220 patronen in Russiche kant by Sebastiana van den Herik. In the same book, there's also a motif of a full old-fashioned sailing ship (3-masts and very pretty). Both books (van den Herik's with English translation) are available for loan to IOLI members. To join IOLI: http://www.internationaloldlacers.org/ -- 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Lace teacher in Scotland
Sue, if you can't find a teacher for your friend, buy her the Rosemary Shepherd book, Introduction to Bobbin Lace http://www.lacedaisypress.com.au/pubs2.html I know some ladies in the Outback who only had this book, and they all learned from it, and became excellent lacemakers. You can pay by Paypal, too - which is a help. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. lizl...@bigpond.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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Tiger on the loose
Over the weekend there was a tiger on the loose in a field not far from where I live. A man saw it laying in a field through the zoom lens of his camera. It was near a golf course and the police cleared it and told everyone to stay in the clubhouse. A cricket match was going on and the players were safely in the pavilion. Marksmen moved into the are and the local zoo got a portable cage and a tranquilliser gun that they use on their own tigers for veterinary treatment ready, and a police helicopter went to investigate. As the helicopter descended to get a better look, the downdraft from the rotor blades cause the tiger to roll over, and they discovered it was a life-size cuddly toy. The police are initially treating the tiger a lost property, but they are investigating whether it was a deliberate hoax. If it was I wouldn't like to be the perpetrator - I'm sure they've got quite a few charges ready because of the amount of time, manpower and expense involved. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13491268 Makes such a pleasant change to have something like that on the news instead of the usual doom and gloom. Really made me smile. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
