[lace] Bookmark exchange
A beautiful tatted bookmark arrived this morning from Sue Duckles in England. Our postal services are so unreliable that I was beginning to give up hope that the bookmark would arrive but lo and behold , there it was in the post this morning. Sue's effort is much admired and appreciated. Thanks to Lyn for arranging the exchange. Jeanette Fischer Western Cape, South Africa. - 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] thread anchor
Dear Arachnes, Can you help me with a name / supplier of a "thingummy" to help anchor threads when starting a piece with a trail working away in both directions. I have seen some somewhere - a piece of wood (flat underneath) that you can pin over the threads in order and trap the bobbins on one side while working the other. I've tried the 'wrap around a pin' anchor as in a Flanders single bobbin start but am not having much luck keeping the threads lying flat across the trail. I need four pairs of passvies for the trail plus the plait pairs for the edging to start the top of the curve. Any other suggestions on how to tame them gratefully received Louise In soggy Cambridge, we seem to have hit the "June Monsoon" now the students have finished their exams - 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] thread anchor
Hello Louise and everyone Some ideas: If you are using midlands, put pins through the spangles of the pairs in waiting on the one side, while you work enough on the other side to anchor that set. If that isn't possible, bundle the set of pairs on the one side in a hanky, cinching the hanky tight around the threads, and pin that firmly to the pillow. A stick bobbin holder helps, too, or put the pairs in waiting in a crocheted bobbin minder pinned to the pillow. Try a piece of cardboard for the "thingummy" ? even an emery board ? You can do this, find a way that works for you :) On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Louise Bailey wrote: > Dear Arachnes, > > Can you help me with a name / supplier of a "thingummy" to help anchor > threads when starting a piece with a trail working away in both > directions. I > have seen some somewhere - a piece of wood (flat underneath) that you can > pin > over the threads in order and trap the bobbins on one side while working > the > other. > Any other suggestions on how to tame them gratefully received > > -- 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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread anchor
There is a very neat hitch around a large pin worked with the whole bundle of threads, which I've seen worked by Flanders / Binche experts, but can't describe how to do it! I'd love to see a description from someone Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com http://babbsandbaobabs.blogspot.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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread anchor
Hello Sue and everyone Not expert as such, but I'll have a go at describing: With the threads neatly across the pillow, put the large pin under them towards you (the lacemaker). Deftly lift the pin back over the threads, and under again twisting so as to catch the threads again in a backwards move, completing the half-hitch. Push pin into the pillow further anchoring the threads. Easier said than done? I've tried it without attempting a hitch, just catching the bundle around the large pin several times, and that has held, once pushed into the pillow. Whatever works... On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Sue Babbs wrote: > There is a very neat hitch around a large pin worked with the whole bundle > of threads... I'd love to see a description from someone > -- 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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Thread Anchor
I have seen thread anchors which are a flat piece of wood with pinholes drilled on each end.  We made some for a conference once. They were about 1/2" wide and 3" inches long. We did put a small handle on each to hold while pinning, but it isn't really needed. I use a tongue depressor stick which is laid across the threads in front of the bobbins, and pinned with four pins (two on each side, slanted inwards to hold the stick tightly to the pillow). Anything flat and sturdy could work, as long as you can anchor it to the pillow. Even a multi-folded piece of paper would work, with several pins holding it steady. Wrapping the threads around a pin just next to the head of the bobbins does work. If there's a problem keeping the threads straight, use a separate pin for each thread. Wrap it once or twice and pin at the head, and it should not move while working the first half of the threads. When you switch sides to start the second half, anchor the first side threads like you did before. This will help keep everything in place until the project is well started. Alice in Oregon - 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] [lace] "Tribute to Ardoye" war lace
âHi Vickie, In response to your question: â â- â I have a construction question about the second piece on the first page of â â the war laces section. It's a table runner titled "Tribute to Ardoye". â-â The embroidered emblems surrounded by lace ground on the border of this â piece appear to have button hole stitch edges. â-â Would they have been appliquéd using a buttonhole stitch onto a large area â of ground after the lace was complete or would the ground have been sewn onto â the buttonhole stitches as the lace border was made? The embroidered emblems on the Tribute to Ardoye War Lace are embroidered âon woven âfabric with satin stitch and French knots. No buttonhole stitches are used. The outside of each emblem is bordered with tightly spaced satin stitches. The ground is made to fit, not carrying behind the emblems. The back of each emblem has a 1/16th inch wide (about 1.5 mm) tightly woven(?) ring, possibly made with bobbin lace, to which the ground and emblems are whip-stitched. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces -Karen in Washington, DCâ - 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] Antique divider pins?
You will be able to deduce I am up "D" in the dictionary development. I do not have a picture of an Antique divider pin. can anyone help please? Long, specially decorated. You know best Is it ok I keep asking you good people for help? I could ask my "particular friends" (Jane Austin) if it is a hassle. I will have mentioned that web publication allows a lot more pictures, which is good, but stretches my library in certain directions. Thank you Brian - 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] name of thingummy
The thingummy for holding multiple threads in place is a Fadenbrücke. Dont know how useful it is but it looks neat. - 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] Antique divider pins?
Brian, It seems to me that the primary point of the list is to help one another, so in my book it's more than okay to keep posting requests for help. Besides, I find your queries interesting, even though I have nothing to offer--the only old bobbins I have are continentals, except for two Midlands which are nothing to speak of. So you have my vote to keep posting requests for help as long as it's useful to do so!--Nancy, Connecticut From: Brian Lemin To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 7:55 PM Subject: [lace] Antique divider pins? Is it ok I keep asking you good people for help? I could ask my "particular friends" (Jane Austin) if it is a hassle. - 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] Antique (?) Pins..... I need help! :)
Hello, Here is your begging cousin from Oz! I have decided that creating a dictionary is so much more than having a good collection of bobbins and the issue of illustrating the various pins is causing me difficulty. I have an historical list of pins used in lace making, I have a few pictures, but not being a lace maker I am clearly at a disadvantage. Here is the list I would like to illustrate and define -though the latter, define- is a little less important. If you can help I would be delighted. Like I say the key thing to pictures is focus.. If a picture is out of focus I cannot do much with it. Most other things I can digitally manipulate. Good light (flash is acceptable if not enough available light), reasonably close but not excessively close, reasonable pixels and I will be delighted. Historical List of pins used by lace makers in the past. * Beaded Head pin * Burr Heads or Sweethearts. * Corking pins * Detachable heads. * Divider pins. * Glass Head pins * Goose Grass seed heads. * Hard head * Hariffe pin * Head Pin * King Pins * Lanking * Limmicks * Long Toms * Needle pin * Prickers * Sealing wax ends * Stabbing * Stacker pins * Strivers * Venetian * Yellow Pins. I have Alexandra Stillwell sitting beside me! (I wish.. I mean her dictionary) and some of the above have slipped through her efficient net!! If a modern pin is available that is appropriately used/named I can get away with that. Many thanks in anticipation. Brian - 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/
