[lace] UK Tatters.
Hi Fellow Lacers (and Tatters) I've just heard that Roseground in the UK have a large shipment of Tatting supplies, including the new Lizbeth Twizl thread in size 20!! I think these are the same price as all the other Lizbeth threads! Had to share the information as there aren't many places here in the UK that you can get supplies for tattilng!! Also they have now a selection of items for tatting onto - these having an eyelet to tat into Cotton Embroidered 9.5ins sq. cotton Handkerchiefs:£4.75 4ins round centre with eyelets for tatting --£2.75 6 ins as above --£3.85 oval mats are 9.25ins x 6ins, also the small scallop shape are 9,75ins x 6ins, both are in cotton price £4.00 I'm not anything to do with them just a VERY satisfied customer!! Can't wait for Harrogate Rally now!!! Sue in a damp East yorkshire My Tatty Blog http://pigminitatty.blogspot.co.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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] The Musketeers
Is anyone watching the BBC1 series The Musketeers. There are lots of lovely lace trimmed costumes to see. Ann - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Beautiful lace egg decorations
Just came upon this site, the eggs are drilled by a artist - they are amazing and look like lace made eggs. Had to share. http://www.flipflipmeheidi.com/article/fragile-beauty-franc-grom Enjoying a day off and looking forward to a play date to make some lace with a friend! -- Shell in Central PA “A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Book Review: Interwoven Globe (Metropolitan Museum Exhibition)
Interwoven Globe - The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 Edited by Amelia Peck Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-19698-6 2013, 350 pp. Hardback You will recall that I announced the Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800 Exhibition on September 15, 2013. Since then, we had very nice reports of visits from Devon, Lyn, and Arlene. It was requested that I write a book review of the catalogue, but I found little to tie the 350-page catalogue to lace. (For Hispanic lace scholarship that relates to this time period and geography, look up Florence May in the Arachne archives.) Now, I am shelving the book, having made my way to the finish at a snail's pace. I think it important to voice a critical opinion, bearing in mind that I read and review a lot of books. This book consists of nine chapter essays by seven museum staff members and scholars, covering three centuries of history. The subject is vast, and the exhibition was very large. When this is to be the case, a very organized editor is required. The first 135 pages are devoted to History, a subject I love. However, reading was not made easier by the way the text is organized - with frequent references to Notes, and pages and pages of Notes at the back. One must try to balance a very heavy large art book and keep a finger at the ready to locate clarifications in the form of Notes. It would have been so much nicer if the Notes had been incorporated into the text. The second section of the book is the very nice Catalogue, with individual pieces in the exhibit featured in color and explained in substantial detail. The History (first) part of the book also sent the reader to these, creating quite a unique exercise of fingers fumbling over each other! This sort of thing discourages the non-genius. No wonder so many people dislike history. In this case, it has the suggestion of intellectual exclusivity. Yes! I am speaking up. Museum professionals should be mindful that readers want to absorb the contents of museum exhibitions and accompanying catalogues with ease. Their aim should be to educate in user-friendly ways, being aware that in 2014 nearly everyone likely to be interested in an exhibition subject is in information overload. No one has yet mentioned it, so in a separate memo, I will share what this book has to say about Frances Morris, who was very important to the establishment of the lace collection at The Metropolitan. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace exhibit at SFO
I was in the Bay Area in California a week ago and took the opportunity to visit the newly opened exhibit in the International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport. There are 20 tall cases, roughly a square meter in footprint, and glassed all around so the laces are visible from three sides, at the north end of the ticketing and check-in area of the International Terminal, each holding several pieces of lace (and sometimes related objects) with the accompanying descriptions. Even my husband, who has humored me on our twice yearly visits to the Bay area to sing Renaissance music by accompanying me to Lacis in Berkeley and taking in Jules Kliot's expositions of their regularly changing exhibits, was impressed with the superb quality of the pieces, the detailed explanations, and the breadth of the scope of history and types of laces shown in such a coherent fashion. Though secluded in an area that keeps the laces from being exposed to the damaging daylight that fills other parts of the terminal, the cases are very well lit, so one can see details as well as possible without a magnifier. http://www.flysfo.com/museum/exhibitions/lace-sumptuous-history gives you just a taste of the treasures available for view, by picking out twelve examples along with their explanatory comments. Click on the individual laces for the detailed comments and follow the arrows through all twelve. If you are driving and using the parking garage beside the terminal, use garage G instead of A, so you don't have to traverse the terminal from the south to the north end; it's a bit of a hike! We knew the exhibit was in the international terminal on the ticketing level but entered from the garage on the south side and took a while to find it. The airport is also accessible by BART from San Francisco and the East Bay. Congratulations to curator Nicole Mullen, the Lace Museum in Sunnyvale and Lacis in Berkeley, and all the others who contributed to a superb, informative exhibit. It was definitely a highlight of our time in the Bay Area. Beth Stoll, returning home to balmy Albuquerque, New Mexico tomorrow after a week in cold and snowy New Hampshire and Connecticut visiting family. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] UK Tatters
Hi Fellow Lacers (and Tatters) I've just heard that Roseground in the UK have a large shipment of Tatting supplies, including the new Lizbeth Twizl thread in size 20!! I think these are the same price as all the other Lizbeth threads! Had to share the information as there aren't many places here in the UK that you can get supplies for tattilng!! Also they have now a selection of items for tatting onto - these having an eyelet to tat into Cotton Embroidered 9.5ins sq. cotton Handkerchiefs:£4.75 4ins round centre with eyelets for tatting --£2.75 6 ins as above --£3.85 oval mats are 9.25ins x 6ins, also the small scallop shape are 9,75ins x 6ins, both are in cotton price £4.00 I'm not anything to do with them just a VERY satisfied customer!! Can't wait for Harrogate Rally now!!! Sue in a damp East yorkshire My Tatty Blog http://pigminitatty.blogspot.co.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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
