[lace] new book
I just received my new book by Elizabeth Kurella âThe Many Lives of Old Laceâ. In spite of postage adding 30% to the cost, I have to say this book is worth every penny for those interested in antique lace. It wasnât until last year that I actually came across old re-worked lace. Weâve all been told how valuable lace was in the past ..worth more than itâs weight in gold.. but actually seeing a some that was already a hundred years old before being re-worked leaves even more of an impression. Elizabeth Kurellaâs book helps identify, assess, and judge approximately when a piece was re-worked. She also advises when and how it would be appropriate to re-work lace yourself in order to save sections from an otherwise badly damaged piece. Thank you Elizabeth for another well worthwhile book. Sharon, on Vancouver Island where weâre expecting yet another 2 inches of rain today - 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 book authors
I can fill in some details about POD companies in the US. I have compiled several articles on a blog page should you want more information.  I feel almost as proud of the fact that I found my way through the self-publishing maze and was able to publish/print my book without the possibility of loosing money as I am of the book itself!  The site is: http://nichebookpublishing4cheap.blogspot.com/ If you figure out my system I have alot of information about publishing niche market books there. I used a Google Blogger site and each article is a separate page/post. There are a couple of posts with no information in themthose are on my 'to do' list. In a nutshell there are only two or three 'true' self-publishing print on demand companies: CreateSpace (affiliated with Amazon), Lightening Source and now IngramSpark. All the other POD companies are fee-based or author services based which means that they want alot of money from you to create your book for you. As a published author, you already have done this or know how to do it yourself, thus the 'true' POD companies are what you want. You upload your print ready cover and interior (2 separate files), they analyze it for print-readiness, then inform you to order a proof copy.   I have researched Lightening Source (LS) and CreateSpace (CS) extensively and have published my findings (go to the #10. post at this address: http://nichebookpublishing4cheap.blogspot.com/ ).  IngramSpark is a relatively new company that I need to research and include in my website. CreateSpace, in my experience, is THE way to go. LS does about the same thing but charges an upfront cost (not too bad!) to get going. CS does not. All it costs to get a book published with CS is a proof copy--the actual, end cost of the book plus postage---in my case less than $10. When I had to send a book to Canada, shipping direct from CS was the most cost-effective way to go.  I have been very happy with the quality.  So what I would suggest is to have your book digitally stored with CS and then when you get a US order, you can order (through the internet) with them and have the books sent to your client. The only other option I can think of is to have someone in the US be your order person. Karen BovardThe ShuttleSmith Publishing CompanyOmaha, Nebraskawebsite/blog: www.TheShuttleSmith.com On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 5:26 PM, Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net wrote: Lace Book Authors: One thing I learned in the past few days (didn't write down the source) is that it is less expensive to have a British book published in the U.S. than it is to ship from overseas. Hi Brenda I have looked into this idea. The only print-on-demand printing company I could find that prints in UK, USA and Australia is too poor a quality (pulp fiction) for my diagrams and photos. They also require you to have separate accounts for each country, pay the set-up cost for each country and pay you in the local currency, with all the conversion and tax implications that brings. I was not going there. However, they will send out individual books at a cost of �.20 per book on top of the postage (that was 3 years ago). I quote cost of book plus postage and require to be paid in sterling (PGB) by cheque or PayPal. I do not use a commercial PayPal account. Apart from the first flurry, about 6 months when a book comes out, my PayPal receipts drop down and it costs about 7% to use a domestic account. Ignore any threats they make, they are only trying to make you use the more expensive account, just keep less than �,900 in the account. I will be happy to answer any questions you have on the subject to the best of my ability. Happy lacemaking Alex - 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/ - 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] I'm still here and thanks
Dear all The groups emails are part of sometimes what seems like a very thin rope pulling open a teensy door that let's me see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last tuitions bill dec 2015. Then I want my life back and I will be very happy this group will be there Carrie Sent from my iphone On Feb 6, 2015, at 4:45, Gray, Alison J ag...@essex.ac.uk wrote: Hi It's more than a year since I sent an email to lace, but I have read all your posts. It's been a difficult year trying to work full time and support my mum who became increasingly frail and eventually died at the end of November. But now I'm back in the flow and have a bit more time for making lace again. So I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for just being there and reminding me that there are things beyond the everyday grind. I particularly want to thank Jean Leader. Over the last few years I have been working through Jean's little Lace Guild book on Bucks Point lace and have at last finished the final piece short of taking the pins out. I started working the final pattern, a bookmark, in May last year and managed to get about a third of the way down by Christmas. In my notes I announced that on 31 December I had got half way and now it is done. I have enjoyed nearly every minute of working all the patterns, except the times when I was going backwards, rather a lot at the beginning, less when I got nearer the end. Thank you Jean, so much, I'm looking forward to choosing the next Bucks Point pattern to tackle. Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's sunny but bitterly 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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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] I'm still here and thanks
Hi It's more than a year since I sent an email to lace, but I have read all your posts. It's been a difficult year trying to work full time and support my mum who became increasingly frail and eventually died at the end of November. But now I'm back in the flow and have a bit more time for making lace again. So I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for just being there and reminding me that there are things beyond the everyday grind. I particularly want to thank Jean Leader. Over the last few years I have been working through Jean's little Lace Guild book on Bucks Point lace and have at last finished the final piece short of taking the pins out. I started working the final pattern, a bookmark, in May last year and managed to get about a third of the way down by Christmas. In my notes I announced that on 31 December I had got half way and now it is done. I have enjoyed nearly every minute of working all the patterns, except the times when I was going backwards, rather a lot at the beginning, less when I got nearer the end. Thank you Jean, so much, I'm looking forward to choosing the next Bucks Point pattern to tackle. Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's sunny but bitterly 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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] mathematics and lace - compare to Whiting's research
Thanks for the reference Jeri. I will definitely try to get my hands on a copy of Whiting's book. I have been trying to collect as many references as possible on lace grounds and systematic descriptions of lace. The main resources I am using right now are: Viele Gute Grunde by Ulrike Lohr Grunde mit System by Uta Ulrich Moderne Grunde by Deutscher Kloppelverband e.V. The Book of Bobbin Lace Stitches by Cook and Stott Many thanks to Lorelei and the IOLI newsgroup for helping me compile this list and to Bev Walker and the Victoria Lace Guild for helping me get access to books. As an aside, I have recently discovered the Google Translate image to text option which is helping me read some of the German text. You can take a photograph of the text and Google Translate will scan the image for words so I don't have have to type them. Now all we need is to get Google to recognize lace specific terms... Kind regards, Veronika Irvine http://web.uvic.ca/~vmi/ - 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] I'm still here and thanks
Alison, I don't know you personally but I have been through caring and nursing my mother several years ago and know exactly how it takes over your life, although I didn't regret a minute of it as she worked hard all her life to bring up six of us it is very tiring as none of us were very young either. Look forward now to enjoying a well earned rest and make plenty if lace. Sue M Harvey Norfolk U.K. Sent from my iPad - 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] Binche Peacock
Hi Sherry! I think I have made the peacock that was discussed, but I'm not sure. My patterns and lace books are still packed away after our move so I can't check the pattern to see if was from OIDFA. I have uploaded a photo of my lace to the arachne2003 flicker account. My Binche lace skills are primarily self taught. If you can follow a color-coded Belgium diagram you are well on your way to doing Binche! Oh, and being able manage a zillion bobbins helps! LOL! If you can't find a Binche workshop, one in Flanders or Paris is the next best thing. The most difficult part of working Binche lace (aside from the zillion bobbins) is that it will keep you on your toes. You will need to constantly refer to the diagram. This isn't Torchon where you look at the lace and automatically know what to do and easily get into a repeatable rhythm. So you will either like that or you won't. I don't even bother taking my Binche project to a lace demonstration because I need to concentrate. I also put my working diagram on a styrofoam board (covered with fabric) so I can use pins to keep my place. I will suggest that it helped me to practice Flanders ground, Paris ground and snowflake ground before I just jumped into one of Kumiko Nakazaki's design which was similar in size to this peacock. Kumiko Nakazaki will be teaching a class on Binche lace at the upcoming 2015 IOLI convention. I am delighted to say it is being co-hosted by the Doris Southard Lace Guild right here in eastern Iowa, namely Coralville. You can find information on the IOLI website. And you will (hopefully) find me in her class too! Anita Hansen Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 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] mathematics and lace - compare to Whiting's research
I have been enjoying learning about Veronika's work/thesis. Very cool!!! I just wanted to point out that there are some math ties to tatting too. A few years back, Patty Dowden introduced the tatting world to 'Hyperbolic Tatting' and taught it at the Minnesota IOLI Convention (so sorry I couldn't go to be in that class!).  Follow the following link to explore Patty Dowden's work on Hyperbolic Tatting:http://api.ning.com/files/7K-JVVxwVhh4LGvReFO018O*M*lVkVxiCkKDXgkvZES 9uImRI9DR6d5*5E-Te54YQgM07nM*LFJxlaKHH-5w6iU-Gm28GnaB/HyperbolicTatting.pdf  Just recently I was in the Denver Art Museum Textile Gallery and they had some wonderful displays up that introduced fiber/textiles as 'Art'. In the tatting display was a couple of small tatted bits of hyperbolic tatting. I faintly recall that Patty gave a workshop there...but could be completely wrong about that. I have a picture of the display and hyperbolic tatting on my blog: www.TheShuttle.com/shuttlesmithblog I have been researching and playing around with the concept of Tesselation in my tatting design work. My last book, MORE Fun with Split Ring Tatting, introduces that theme and features unique tatted designs with Tesselation in mind. However, Tesselation refers to designs made of identical shapes but the shapes must fit together without any gaps. I have a few of these designs in my book. BUTLace is about the negative space (holes) enhancing the positive parts (the thread) in the design. Thus I came up with a new term: LACE TESSELATION. Many of my designs fit into that category. You can see some of the designs on the front covers of the book at this address:  www.TheShuttleSmith.com/books-for-sale/  There are more in the book. Karen BovardThe ShuttleSmithOmaha, NEwebsite blog: www.TheShuttleSmith.com On Friday, February 6, 2015 9:16 AM, Veronika Irvine v...@uvic.ca wrote: Thanks for the reference Jeri. I will definitely try to get my hands on a copy of Whiting's book. I have been trying to collect as many references as possible on lace grounds and systematic descriptions of lace. The main resources I am using right now are:   Viele Gute Grunde by Ulrike Lohr   Grunde mit System by Uta Ulrich   Moderne Grunde by Deutscher Kloppelverband e.V.   The Book of Bobbin Lace Stitches by Cook and Stott Many thanks to Lorelei and the IOLI newsgroup for helping me compile this list and to Bev Walker and the Victoria Lace Guild for helping me get access to books. As an aside, I have recently discovered the Google Translate image to text option which is helping me read some of the German text. You can take a photograph of the text and Google Translate will scan the image for words so I don't have have to type them. Now all we need is to get Google to recognize lace specific terms... Kind regards, Veronika Irvine http://web.uvic.ca/~vmi/ - 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/ - 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/
