RE: [lace] Lacemakers in art - Netscher/Vermeer
I found this web link to be informative - (http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/lacemaker.html). it also shows a list of some related paintings (and where they are) at the bottom. jo Edkins Lace Website also has images of lots of lace maker paintings - http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/ref.htm Looking forward to going and seeing the Vermeer it in the flesh, although I understand it is quite small. I'd love to be able to look over her shoulder to see what she is making! Wouldn't it be great if a gallery/museum organised an exhibition of lace maker paintings. Andrea near Cambridge, UK. From: bob.b...@virgin.net To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Lacemakers in art - Netscher/Vermeer Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:58:32 +0100 Have found this thread about Caspar Netscher and Johannes Vermeer most interesting, thank you to those who've posted snippets about the interpretation/meaning on them something which I find quite fascinating. But it has made me wonder if anyone knows where in the world, which gallery/museum or even private collection the paintings of lacemakers by artists such as Gabriel Metsu, Steven van Duyven, Pieter Jacobsz Codde, Thomas Woolner and Quirijn van Brekelenham might be? Nicolaes Maes has around 12 paintings of lacemakers credited to him I beleive, I know of 3 but not the others, and I understand J L Dyckmans painted one too, but I've not seen an image of this. I don't doubt there are others, but if anyone has any answers I'd be most interested to hear - either on or off 'lace'. happy lacemaking Nicky in Suffolk - 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 - 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
Dear Chris, There is a tape lace sailing boat in Pamela Nottingham's book - Bobbin Lace Making (ISBN 0713441321) on page 30. Andrea in a very dry Cambridge, UK Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 03:26:56 -0700 From: cbpu...@yahoo.com Subject: [lace] Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat To: lace@arachne.com 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 - 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] My email address was hacked
Hi all, As many of you may have guessed my email address was hijacked and a rather unpleasant email claiming to have come from me was sent to my whole address book. Please ignore/delete any email you may have received from andreal...@hotmail.com or andrealam...@hotmail.com in the last 24 hours. Both email accounts were hacked and I am unable to access their contents at present. Thanks to those who contacted me to let me know that something odd had happened and to check I was OK. Hopefully my old account will be restored to me but in the meantime please use andreaplam...@hotmail.co.uk as my contact email address. Sorry to burden the list with this but just wanted to let you all know 'it wasn't me' and that I am safe and well (and not in Madrid). Best wishes Andrea Lamble Cambridge 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Help.......Andrea Lamble
Hi,I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,sorry I did not inform you about my trip.I actually made a quick trip to Madrid (Spain) and unfortunately attacked and mugged at a gun point on the way to my hotel,all cash,credit card and cell were stolen off me but luckily I still have my passport with me. I`ve been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and my return flight leaves anytime from now but I`m having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let me leave until I settle the bills. Am freaked out at the moment and need help. - 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] Ebay item
Excuse my frivolity but how about a 'travel' washing line and pegs for taking on that cruise! The long brown things look a bit like the old fashioned wooden 'dolly' pegs and the thick cord could be the washing line - ideal for your nylons and other 'smalls'!! Andreausually in Cambridge, UK, but at present in Prague where there have been some lovely sunny days this week. From: dian...@tiscali.co.uk To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Ebay item Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:50:21 + Does anyone have idea what this item is/was used for? Listing number 290532958457 Diana - 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 - 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 tape as opposed to tape lace!
Wonder if anyone has seen this before: http://www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk/lace-tape-245-p.asp For very special packages only! Andrea - 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] 'thread
A google search identified it as a waxed sewing thread: 'WAX SILAMIDE SKEINS - WAXED HAND SEWING THREAD... Our special waxed hand sewing thread replaces silk in the manufacture and alteration of fine men's tailored clothing.' http://www.cobblersupplies.com/servlet/the-119/WAX-SILAMIDE-SKEINS-WAXED/Deta il Andrea Cambridge, UK Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:27:45 + From: laceviolins...@comcast.net To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] 'thread My daughter was given some thread by her grandmother in law and we don't know what it is or how to use it. It is in a long, flat cardboard tube. It is labeled: RICE'S Silamide waxed for hand sewing Highest Quality Conveniently Put Up Size A 675 yds A. H. Rice Company, Inc. Leading Makers of Sewing Thread for 100 years Mills, PITTSFIELD, MASS. Anybody help? - 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] spangle question
Hi all, I assume you could also use beading thread quite successfully. Andrea, Cambridge, UK - where the weather just can't make up its mind. To: lace@arachne.com Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:01:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [lace] spangle question From: bobbil...@juno.com Hi all, When I did this a few years ago, someone on the list recommended using dental floss. Worked much easier than the wire. Load the floss with the beads... wrap it around the spot that you want the beads to go and then tie a nice square knot. I also threaded the ends through the beads both ways to hide the knot and to give it a bit more strength. So far, none of them have popped. Good luck! bobbi On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:46:08 -0400 Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net writes: I also had several dozen of this type bobbin, and used the same wire that I used to put spangles on Midlands bobbins. I used lots of color combinations (red and white were traditional Danish colors!) and counted out however many beads it took to cover the circumference. Then I wrapped the beaded wire around the grove, twisted it a couple of times, and ran the two ends of wire in opposite directions through the center of the beads, which were now snugly in place. They brightened up the bobbins - and the pillow - quite nicely! Clay Do it right the first time. Click to find contractors to work on your home improvement project. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTJutoMrjXgrh4hBU0HS3jHxjILc YcjC7vGY3cwAzkP40hMRt69pIU/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ Share your memories online with anyone you want. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Lace pillow supplier - UK question
You could try SMP Lace http://www.smplace.co.uk/ No connection, just a satisfied customer. Cordially Andrea Cambridge, UK From: scotl...@aol.com Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:14 -0400 Subject: [lace] Lace pillow supplier - UK question To: lace@arachne.com Does anyone know who in the UK makes square block pillows where all the blocks move, please? I'm looking for one with blocks of 3 X 3 blocks, with extra whole blocks and a supply of a half blocks. Patricia in Wales scotl...@aol.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place Learn more! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] larger pillows
but surely then you'd always be using the same bit of the pillow to work on and it would wear out more quickly. Using a symetrical pillow allows you to change which part you work on Just a thought. Andrea Cambridge. UK CC: lace@arachne.com From: paternos...@appleshack.com Subject: Re: [lace] larger pillows Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:28:29 +0100 To: lacel...@verizon.net Just yesterday I set up a piece on a 24 octagonal pillow. It's not a particularly big pattern; a piece of torchon I said I'd design for a future YLM pattern book, but that was the pillow available and as I was positioning the pricking I though that I wouldn't be using the back third of the pillow at all. Maybe I'll have a go some time at making a D shaped pillow, it would appear that there's a need and a gap in the market for D shaped flat/cookie lace pillows. Brenda On 9 May 2009, at 21:18, Alice Howell wrote: I like working on a 20 cookie pillow for smaller projects. I find that the far 4-5 inches of the pillow are not used much. The 20 pillow won't fit in a suitcase very well. One day I tried cutting a slice off the back of a pillow to make the front to back measurement less than 18 to fit a suitcase better. It worked well. And I found that I really liked using the pillow. That missing part on the far side was not missed. I'm going to try it on a 24 pillow since I have an extra one on hand. I'll cut off the far edge so I have 17.5 depth left, but will have more room on each side than on the 20pillow. It should hold more bobbins. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place Learn more! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Rescued piece of lace
Hi Mark, A lucky find! A pretty piece - interesting to see the 'deliberate' mistake in the rose ground where, on one side of the triangle, the half stitch to finish the rose is omitted. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK - (but currently in Prague where the weather has been wintry. Returning to the UK tomorrow). Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:05:11 -0600 Subject: [lace] Rescued piece of lace From: tatmant...@gmail.com To: lace@arachne.com; bobbinl...@yahoogroups.com Dear lacers, While we were out shopping for last minute props and costumes for the HS musical this past weekend, we were at a flea market and I always hastely glance for any lace paraphenalia. I managed to rescue this cluny lace insertion. It measures 52 inches long and 3 and 3/4th inches wide. I believe it is handmade because the leaf tallies are pointed on both ends(unlike barmen machine lace as referenced to me from a previous post) and you can see where the starter pins were and the lacemaker had tied the thread ends together in knots on the other end. It desparately needs a good washing! If you know of the pattern or think it might be some other type of lace, please let me know. Below are some closeups of the lace: http://tinyurl.com/ba55hc http://tinyurl.com/bacf84 http://tinyurl.com/bmac4y You can also see my post of it on my blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com -- Mark, aka Tatman Temporary blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/ email: tatmant...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ Hotmail, Messenger, Photos and more - all with the new Windows Live. Get started! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Morris Dancing: Life with Bells On
Hi Liz (and everyone) Don't know where this thread started (maybe it was on Chat, but I only subscribe to the digests and don't always read them) but as well as making lace I also belong to a group of morris dancers. We are an all ladies group that dance traditional North West Clog Morris. Are there any other morris dancing lace makers out there? What style do you dance? There is a group in Bedford, UK called Bedfordshire Lace and they decorate their kit with lace (albeit machine made). I beleive one or two of their members are also lace makers. from Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. From: lizl...@bigpond.com To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Morris Dancing: Life with Bells On Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:02:20 +1100 There is at least one group of Morris Dancers here in Melbourne, Oz. I remember one group, in England named, I think, the Luton Hatters!! It is Very energetic dancing, - the film does not show this up. The staves - if not used properly can really damage a finger or hand, as they whack them together Very hard!! It is fun with all the bells tinkling, and the music. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.9 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 297 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ Check out the new and improved services from Windows Live. Learn more! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] bobbin stand...
Hi Everyone, While out shopping today I made what I think is a useful find in the guise of a Pasta Drying Stand. I was buying it for one of my sons as he loves to make his own pasta. While looking at the box in the bus on the way home I realised that it would be perfect for hanging wound bobbins on if you are preparing for a project, especially one involving lots of pairs. It has 12 hanging rails in a cross formation and was less than £10. Think I'll be shopping for another one after Christmas. Season's Greetings to you all. Andrea Lamble nr. Cambridge, UK where today has been a day of glorious sunshine after several days of winter gloom. _ Live Search presents Big Snap II - win John Lewis vouchers - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] bobbin stand...
In reply to the question a few of you have made about where I found the pasta stand: John Lewis (in Cambridge). It is made by a company called Kitchen Craft based in Birmingham. I expect you might find it in other kitchen shops too. I also notice there is a similar one available on ebay (this is the cheapest one I found there: item 260326888271). Best wishes Andrea Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:46:50 + From: alan.d.br...@tesco.net To: andreal...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [lace] bobbin stand... Andrea Lamble wrote: Hi Everyone, While out shopping today I made what I think is a useful find in the guise of a Pasta Drying Stand. I was buying it for one of my sons as he loves to make his own pasta. While looking at the box in the bus on the way home I realised that it would be perfect for hanging wound bobbins on if you are preparing for a project, especially one involving lots of pairs. It has 12 hanging rails in a cross formation and was less than £10. Think I'll be shopping for another one after Christmas. Season's Greetings to you all. Andrea Lamble nr. Cambridge, UK where today has been a day of glorious sunshine after several days of winter gloom. _ Live Search presents Big Snap II - win John Lewis vouchers - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com Dear Andrea, Where did you find the stand please, it sounds very useful. In Cambridge? Sheila in Sawbridgeworth, same sunshine _ Get a birds eye view of the world with Multimap - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] interesting advertisement
Hi All, I've just download a copy of Home Needlework Magazine - Nov 1915 from the Univ Arizona weaving site and came across this ad which I thought I would share:- Hand Made Lace From England That beautiful lace straight from the peasant workers of Bucks, England. Due to the war these English peasant lacemakers are in real need. Just or unjust, this struggle is not of their making but these peace-loving folks are sufferers. Therefore purchases now will be good deed as well as profitable to you. You'll be delighted with the free book we want to send you. Write for it today. Mrs Netty Armstrong's Lacemakers, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Wonder how much they sold? Happy lacing, Andrea in Cambridge, UK _ See the most popular videos on the web - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Re: uploading pictures
Hi Ilske, When you open the Arachne2003 page in webshots there is a menu bar across the top - the third item is upload. Or you made need to open your own album - when you do this, at the top left of the album page is a lght green upload more button. Photos can be deleted just by clicking on the X in the corner. Hope this helps. Which reminds me, I've just completed a yard of 2 wide bucks point and made the garter for my new daughter-in-law-to-be's wedding, which is at the beginning of October. Must take some pics and add them to the album. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Re: uploading pictures Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:15:34 +0200 Hello lacefriends, Who could help me please? First I had problems coming into our foto-album, this work s now. But I want to keep away a few pictures and, the most important to upload new pictures. But there isn't any longer the button upload pictures. I sent this mail twice to Avital but both time it came back. So I don't know what to do. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Win New York holidays with Kelloggs Live Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace teacher wanted - Huntingdon UK
Hi All Whilst demonstrating lace-making in the Folk Museum in Cambridge last week I met with someone who is very keen to learn. The person concerned lives to the west of Huntingdon, and with current petrol prices etc. is reluctant to travel too far, so would be very interested if there was someone who lived nearer to her than me who would be prepared to teach her - or maybe there is a class or group in that area. Please contact me privately if you are able to help and I will put you in touch with each other. Many thanks Andrea Lamble Stapleford, Cambridge, UK _ Win New York holidays with Kelloggs Live Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] tatting ytube
Hi, I've recently been teaching myself to tat. I did find some videos on YouTube but didn't find them much help as I'm (very) left handed could not muster the co-ordination to work right-handed. Finally managed to find someone right-handed to show me how its done and worked out from that what I would need to do to work left-handed - found using 2 colours and thick thread was a great help and then it's down to practice, practice, practice to get the transfer and the tension right. Just googled You Tube tatting and lots of links will come up - this one is quite good - Tatting with Nobones - Lesson 1 Good luck Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:35:06 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] tatting ytube Hallo to all, does anyone know a ytube-link were you can follow very easy and understanding the movments for tating? I do not seem to get the transfer movement correctly done my flowers looks like horrible thissels-thinghs many thx in adv francis - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Hotmail on your mobile from Vodafone - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Needles and Pins exhibition
Hi, Anyone visiting Cambridge (UK) in the next few weeks then do visit the Cambridge County Folk Museum (http://www.folkmuseum.org.uk). They currently have a small exhibition entitled 'Needles and Pins' featuring many crafts, including lace making. I shall be there making lace on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons this week so do come and say hello. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK - where the rain seems to have stopped, but not for long I suspect! _ Win a voice over part with Kung Fu Panda Live Search and 100s of Kung Fu Panda prizes to win with Live Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Do you know?
Alex, I doubt that either of these lacemakers is still alive but I could be wrong. A google search on Emilie Palickova revealed she was born in 1892 and another search talked about a reprint of a 1925 book by Leni Matthaei. For more about Emilie Palickova you could try the contacting the Lace museum at Vamberk. check out: http://www.blen.net/blen_11/11.htm Hope this helps Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. where it is hot and humid - oh for a light breeze!! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Do you know? Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:19:48 +0100 Dear Lacemakers My friend Jean Eke and I are working on a website that should soon be ready for viewing. We shall each have a page about our lace an there will be a pattern page that will change periodically. My lace page will start with the saga of my 'Greek Gods!!'. I am hoping to begin with the pieces of lace that inspired the design and would like to trace the following people who made the lace or included pictures in their books to ask for permission to include pictures. Full credits will be given, and also my thanks for the inspiration they have given me. The pieces of lace are Lace by Professor Emilie Palickova (there is an accent over the 'a' but I cannot find how to add it) on pages 122 124 in the book '20th-Century Lace' by Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt. Mills Boone 1975. Lace by Leni Matthaei on pages 23 33 of the book with that name written by Inge Muhlensiepen. VerlagM H Schaper Hannover 1980. Many thanks Alex - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Play and win great prizes with Live Search and Kung Fu Panda - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Origin of D'Oyley
From Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Doiley / Doyley - a small cloth used to cover dessert plates; but originally it had a much wider meaning. Thus Dryden speaks of doyley petticoats; and Steele, in No. 102 of the Tatler, speaks of his doiley suit. The Doyleys were linen-drapers, No. 346, east corner of Upper Wellington Street, Strand, from the time of Queen Anne to the year 1850. Andrea Lamble in a glorious Cambridge, UK where the croquet set has had an outing this afternoon! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Origin of D'Oyley Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:04:04 +0200 A round lace or crocheted mat is known as a D'Oyley or as in South Africa as a doiley. Does anybody have any idea where the name originated. I would assume that it was named after a person by that name but why? I suppose something along the lines of a cardigan which was named after Lord Cardigan. Any ideas? Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Wanted - lace teacher - Ipswich, UK
Hi All, Are there any lace makers in Ipswich, UK or close by that would be prepared to teach someone bobbin lace making on a one-to-one basis? This is a complete beginner (a friend of a good friend of mine) but she lives too far from me to make it practical for me to teach her. Please reply to me off list (as I'm sure the rest of you don't want to be bothered with the replies) and I will put you in touch with each other. Regards, Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK where Spring is in the air _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Aconite Bookmark
Hi Sue, There is an edging pattern called Aconites in the Stott and Cook 100 Traditional Bobbin Lace Patterns (p29) but not a bookmark. Maybe the pattern you have was developed from this. Andrea Lamble Just down the road from you in Cambridge, UK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Aconite Bookmark Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:33:42 + Can anyone tell me where I can get Geraldine Stott's Bucks Point bookmark called Aconite I have a very blurred copy that someone gave me some time ago but it is really too dark to work. I do not know whether it is one of her separate patterns that she sold or whether it came from a book, it is not in my two books of hers that I have at home. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.6/1282 - Release Date: 15/02/2008 19:08 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] thread divider
Hi, Can anyone help? - I'm sure a few months ago there was a posting on the list that mentioned a device for separating skeins of embroidery thread into their component parts. Am I imagining things or does such a device exist. If so any info as to where to get one would be very welcome. I tried the archive but couldn't seem to find any mention of it - maybe I was not using the correct search term. Andrea in a rather cold and frosty Cambridge, UK _ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lace Guild website
I believe it is Demon - the ISP - our own company website and email retreival is also down. Hope they get it back working soon. Christmas and New Year Greetings to one and all. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK To: lace@arachne.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Lace Guild website Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:04:51 + Is anyone else unable to connect to the Lace Guild website today? http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/ Hopefully it's a problem with the ISP and not the website, but David and Jean are away for a few days so no point in asking them. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] commemorative bobbins
Hi All, Does anyone know if any commemorative bobbins are being made for the Queen's diamond wedding anniversary? If so - by who. Best wishes Andrea in a cold and dank Cambridge, UK. _ Feel like a local wherever you go. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Preference of book format
Such a shame that all these messages about the book format are coming into the lace in box. I feel it would have been much better if Carole had requested we contact her 'off list'. As she says in her message she will provide a summary. It's not impossible that there is some interesting 'lace' content in some of the reply messages but the subject line discourages one from want to bother opening the message 'just in case'. Maybe I'm just being a 'grumpy old woman', but is this really lace! Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK, but off to Portugal tomorrow for a week to visit my father who moved there a few years ago. Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:09:01 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Preference of book format I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Feel like a local wherever you go. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: [lace] Preference of book format
Such a shame that all these messages about the book format are coming into the lace in box. I feel it would have been much better if Carole had requested we contact her 'off list'. As she says in her message she will provide a summary. It's not impossible that there is some interesting 'lace' content in some of the reply messages but the subject line discourages one from want to bother opening the message 'just in case'. Maybe I'm just being a 'grumpy old woman', but is this really lace! Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK, but off to Portugal tomorrow for a week to visit my father who moved there a few years ago. Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:09:01 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace-chat@arachne.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Preference of book format I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Feel like a local wherever you go. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Which thread??
I am looking at making one of the Queen cards in a recent Lace Express. The thread detail says: VENUS / BULK SILK 30 Anyone any idea what this is - I've tried Brenda's Threads book but can't find it there. The only references on (albeit a rapid) Google seem to be for stranded embroidery silks - would this be what was used? Any help greatly appreciated. Andrea Lamble in Cambridge, UK - where we have had a gloriously sunny autumn day. _ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lacemakers in Prague
Pavouci, We have recently acquired a flat in Prague (fairly central in Prague 1) and consequently I'll be spending increasing amounts of time in the Czech Republic. I would like to make contact with any lacemakers there (English speaking as my Czech is minimal!). Are there any groups that meet that would welcome an English lacemaker in their midst? Are there any workshops, lace days etc.? Any information would be welcome. I intend to take at least one pillow etc. over there with me but would also like to know if there are any places for buying lace equipment in Prague or environs as I would like to come to grips with Czech lace techniques. My next visit will be towards the end of November but whether I will be able to take my own equipment with me on this visit is uncertain (depends on how much other luggage I have to take). (I'm happy to receive replies off list so that others are not inconvenienced). Best wishes AndreaCambridge, UK _ 100s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] lacemakers in Prague
Pavouci, We have recently acquired a flat in Prague (fairly central in Prague 1) and consequently I'll be spending increasing amounts of time in the Czech Republic. I would like to make contact with any lacemakers there (English speaking as my Czech is minimal!). Are there any groups that meet that would welcome an English lacemaker in their midst? Are there any workshops, lace days etc.? Any information would be welcome. I intend to take at least one pillow etc. over there with me but would also like to know if there are any places for buying lace equipment in Prague or environs as I would like to come to grips with Czech lace techniques. My next visit will be towards the end of November but whether I will be able to take my own equipment with me on this visit is uncertain (depends on how much other luggage I have to take). (I'm happy to receive replies off list so that others are not inconvenienced). Best wishes AndreaCambridge, UK _ 100s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Re: Planning Finished Lace Presentations in Advance
An ebay search for 'Aperture Card' brought up loads of possiblities! Andrea Cambridge, UK From: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Re: Planning Finished Lace Presentations in Advance Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:31:51 -0400 On Aug 26, 2007, at 19:14, Jane Partridge wrote: I agree about good presentation, but it shouldn't be an obstacle to creativity, rather an enhancement. Speaking of which... Can someone, pretty please, point me to a place which stocks those tri-fold cards with an opening in front? I had one such place -- in UK, I think; they had a large variety of colours, sizes and shapes -- bookmarked but it seems to have disappeared from my list. And my large stash of those has, over the years, been reduced to a single one... :( -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Got a favourite clothes shop, bar or restaurant? Share your local knowledge http://www.backofmyhand.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] altoids
Hi there, For anyone interested in more about Altoids go to http://www.altoids.com for a fun website. Takes a while to load but is a cut above the normal site and worth a visit if you have the time - try the Products tab for example. Enjoy, Andrea Lamble in a now sunny Cambridge, UK - no doubt it will be raining again soon _ Watch all 9 Live Earth concerts live on MSN. http://liveearth.uk.msn.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: [lace] Fw: Does anyone have a horseshoe pattern?
Hi Penny, Following on the suggestions already made - if you belong to the UK Lace Guild then you could borrow the book(s) from their library. In my experience it is an extremely efficient service (all for the cost of the postage). There is also a self published book by Gilian Dye called Weddings and Anniversaries that has a torchon horseshoe in it. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK From: Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lace-chat lace-chat@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Fw: Does anyone have a horseshoe pattern? Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:08:47 +0100 Help please, does anyone have a pattern for a simple lace horseshoe for a wedding. I have been asked to make one for a friend's daughter, along with a garter and I only have 6 weeks to finish both. However I don't have a horseshoe pattern. Can anyone help me. I will willingly pay postage or any other costs involved if someone has a pattern they can let me have. Many thanks Penny Ostler Williams Cheltenham, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Win tickets to the sold out Live Earth concert! http://liveearth.uk.msn.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] dutch girl or boy in lace
Can anyone help! I'm looking for a Dutch Girl and/or Boy to make in lace - is there a pattern out there in a book/magazine somewhere that someone can point me in the direction of, or has someone else designed one and is prepared to share the pattern with me. Ideally about 5 inches tall, probably tape lace/milanese/torchon. If all else fails it'll be out with the drawing board, but I'd much rather spend my time making the lace. Andrea Lamble in a warm Cambridge, UK where the lawn will need mowing again this weekend!! _ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Pattern help
Dear Tania, Looks to be a fairly standard torchon lace pattern - spiders, trails (v), fans and ground. I don't think it would have a special name like some of the Bucks Point patterns do. Different interpretations can be made on the same pricking - the trails and fans can be worked in either half stitch or cloth stitch and the ground could be worked as cloth stitch twist - pin - cloth stitch and twist. If working half stitch in the fan then it is best to work the outside edge pair in cloth stitch and twist for firmness. The V trails could be worked with the top half in half stitch and the bottom in cloth stitch. Hope this helps. Best wishes from Andrea Lamble in a spring like Cambridge, where yesterday the grass was mown for the first time this year. From: Tania Gruning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tania Gruning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Pattern help Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Hiya all on this nice spring day in Denmark. I would like the lists help in identifying the lace I have started on, you can see a pic in my livejournal http://tania-gru.livejournal.com/ I got the pricking along with the bobbins, which I were really after at a fleamarket, and being slightly lazy, and not wanting to make another pricking for my next project decided to use this. It is coming along pretty well and I have learned a lot from this pattern. Next one is going to be something with tallies, as I have not really done that. Tania (In Denmark, who has just been hit by the first days of spring) - Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] cotton plaiters and pin makers
Greetings, I've been doing some family history research recently. My paternal 4 greats grandfather (one Simon Cowcher) was a tailor in London - from the early Census returns it would appear that 2 of his daughters were 'cotton plaiters' - wonder what that actually invloved - I can only find references to straw plaiters on Google. If any one out there has any info on cotton plaiting . My 5 great's grandfather was William Cowcher and I have found that there was a pinmaker's called Cowcher and Finch (1794) in the same area of London the Cowchers were living in in 1841 so maybe his father was a pin maker. All this info gave me quite a buzz - they say what goes around comes around - here am I plaiting threads and using pins. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK cold and damp but the snow has melted. _ MSN Hotmail is evolving check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace buttons
Greetings to all, There was talk of lace covered buttons earlier today/yesterday. I came across this book by Gilian Dye on ebay: Bobbin lace patterns for Birds, buttons bookmarks if anyone is interested. Item number: 290080357670 The description says there are 15 patterns for lace buttons. Best wishes Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK Where the snow is now freezing. _ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on your mobile. http://www.msn.txt4content.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lacemakers in Chicago 1800s?
Just a thought, but maybe the company made laces as opposed to lace!? Andrea Lamble in a sunny but cold Cambridge - snowdrops, daffodils and crocuses all spied on a local walk this afternoon. From: C Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: C Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arachne List lace@arachne.com CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Lacemakers in Chicago 1800s? Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 07:34:21 -0600 Lacemakers: This inquiry was sent to the L.A.C.E. Guild website. In an effort to lend her a hand, we are posting it here with permission. If anyone can answer Helen's questions or direct her further in her search, would you send your reply to her directly, please. I am seeking information on the lacemaking industry in Chicago in 1879. My great-great-grandmother, Wilhelmine Scherer, was a lacemaker, according to her death certificate. (Previous married name was Meinhardt/Meinhart/Minehart). She died 31 Oct 1879, 59 Burling Street, Chicago, KS, at age 71 (death certificate) or 68 (Graceland Cemetery record). A descendant inherited a business card of M. A. Minehart Co., Chicago Lace Goods Novelty Co., 152 154 Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL. Is anybody in L.A.C.E. familiar with this company, which is listed in Chicago city directory in 1881? Any information or suggestions on where to search would be greatly appreciated. I can give you more info from the business card if it would be helpful. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 913-294-3882 __ Thank you, Susie Johnson Morris, IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 815-942-1838 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on your mobile. http://www.msn.txt4content.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] miniature lace pillow
Hi there, Don't know where you are in the world, Nathalie, but if you go to ebay - item no: 140078870817 someone based in Northampton, UK is selling one which claims to be 1.75 inches across, if that helps Best wishes Andrea, in Cambridge, UK From: stevie nixed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: stevie nixed [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] miniature lace pillow Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:49:45 +0100 Hello, I'm looking for a small miniature lace pillow, measuring about 10 cm (2,5 inch?) in diameter. I have seen it before, so I know it exists, but I can't seem to find a seller. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? My friend would like to have one as she loves to make lace but also has dolls and wants to display her dolls with a lacepillow. Is anyone here able to help me? :-) Nathalie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on your mobile. http://www.msn.txt4content.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Spanish lace in You Tube
Brilliant - well worth a watch. Thank you Andrea Lamble in a bright but chilly Cambridge, UK. From: Carolina de la Guardia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Carolina de la Guardia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Spanish lace in You Tube Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:56:26 +0100 Hello all spiders, TAM (Arenys de Munt Television), has uploaded a lace video on You Tube that though it has not a great sound and image quality, it is worth watching it, by its great value as docu soap document filmed in the year 1958. It can be seen how at that time, lacemaking was yet a way of life for many ladies in Arenys de Munt, how the girls went to lace school and worked open air at the home doors altogether with expert all ages lacemakers . The video show the speed and skillfulness they worked and work today Ret-Fi (similar to blonda), the traditional lace of this area. Also the full process of making lace, from the beginning: The pricking of patterns and later the drawing of repeats, and I would like to call your attention to the ancestral reed winder which they used to hold the thread as well as how they manually wound the bobbins. Enjoy it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwYyzLjI58k Regards from Barcelona. Spain. Carolina -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace II now available - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MSN Hotmail is evolving check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Deleted messages
I set up a hotmail account specifically for arachne emails a couple of years ago now and have never had any spam (hope I'm not speaking too soon!). Heaven only knows how the spammers decide who to target. Best wishes Andrea Lamble in a bright, sunny but cold Cambridge, UK. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] Deleted messages Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:32:09 -0800 Interesting comment re email addresses. I haven't checked the archive website myself. However, I have 7 email addresses (one main and six aliases) and the alias I use for Lace and Chat is the only one I ever get any spam on (and yes, I use the others regularly including for websites, external emails, etc) - my mail all appears nicely colour-coded so it is clear which address any email is sent to without opening it. The spam started immediately (certainly within 1 day) after I sent my first message to arachne from this address ... On Sunday, December 17, 2006, at 12:23AM, Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karen wrote: This evening you were discussing some lace suppliers who had the bamboo/silk thread apart from other things. I managed to delete the message after reading it, but before I had bookmarked the site. Can someone please let me have it again. If you want to see messages that have been on Arachne Lace, they're archived on: http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/maillist.html#03505 There's a search facility if you're looking for a message on something specific. It's a public archive but email addresses are blanked out, so they don't generate spam and no-one could contact you by visiting the site. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Think you're a film buff? Play the Movie Mogul quiz and win fantastic prizes! http://www.msnmoviemogul.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] black ethafoam
Hi, Maybe it's the pins themselves not being sharp enough to penetrate!? I've experienced this with a batch of pins in the past. Some would go in fine but others seemed to be lacking a suitable point. Season's Greetings to one and all Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK - where it is dull but mild for the time of year. From: Dona B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Dona B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] black ethafoam Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:04:39 +0100 Lori wrote: So it could be ethafoam but not the correct grade for pillows. I have been wondering about this of late. Whether there are different grades of ethafoam? I'm currently making a piece of Flanders lace on an ethafoam pillow that I made several years ago. Up to this point I had only ever made Brugge Flower lace on this particular pillow using a larger sized pin. I never had a problem. But with this Flanders, I'm using a thinner thread and thus smaller pins and I'm having a heck of a time getting some of the pins to go into the ethafoam. One would think that smaller pins would go in more easily but that is not the case. These pins will hang in a certain spot and there's no pushing it in without taking the larger sized pin into the spot first, which will push in without a problem. Talk about sore fingertips! Not to mention bent pins. I'll be glad to finish this piece- not only to move onto the next project but to put this pillow away for awhile. I've talked to Santa about a nice Belgian straw pillow so hopefully the next piece of Flanders will be easier on the fingers. I hope he's listened! The ethafoam I used was white and was the only color offered when I purchased it. It does hold the pins in tightly once they're in. Dona in Maisieres, Belgium where our beautiful weather is continuing into December. - Original Message - From: Lori Howe To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 6:06 PM Subject: RE: [lace] black ethafoam Once I wanted to order ethafoam from a manufacturer and they carried dozens of weights and coarseness some of which were identified by color. So it could be ethafoam but not the correct grade for pillows. It would also need to be tested for pin ability and strength to hold the pin without moving when threads are tightened. Lori the Lacefairy - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http://www.msnpasstheparcel.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Wedding horseshoes
Hi all, Horseshoes are given to the bride as a symbol of good luck etc. You'll find some information here http://www.wedding-garter.com/traditions.htm I'm sure Googling might provide some more history! Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARACHNE lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Wedding horseshoes Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 07:59:12 -0400 I don't know the story behind the wedding horseshoes, but it seems to be a British thing. On Saturday, December 9, 2006, at 03:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are wedding horseshoes used for? What is the story behind their use? I'm familiar with real horseshoes over doors - but this lace horseshoe stuff I haven't heard of and don't understand. Margot Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Re: Start spreading the news....
Brilliant! - I'v e no sound card in my work computer but it kept me glued to the screen!! Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. 6 weeks ago, a friend (another Arachnean) sent me a link to a YouTube video, which deals with obsessive knitters. Just substitute bobbins for knitting needles she said... I've been waiting ever since to tie it to an existing thread. Can't think of a better one... :) Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZjMWLqJvM -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http://www.msnpasstheparcel.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] christmas lace
Hi all, I too have been making icicles to use up some thread on bobbins. I've now posted the Nativity lace I made from Lace Express on webshots (member: arachne2003 - password: honiton, in case anyone needs the information). Waiting for some blue silk gimp to arrive in the post so I can start my next project. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK - where the sun is shining again - really must get the duster out! _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Welsh Dragon
Hi Lacemakers all, Celebrated St Catherines day by making some Cattern cakes to share with my lace group on Saturday. They went down well with our coffee. One of my pupils wants to make a Welsh Dragon for her future grandson-in-law. Does anyone out there know of a suitable pattern (other than the one in the Lace Guild magazine Vol 48) or one that could be adapted. If not, it's out with the drawing board - but with Christmas coming time is at a premium. I've just finished making a yard of Bucks point lace for another garter and the Nativity scene from the latest issue of Lace Express which was pleasing to work - I'll try and post pictures on webshots in due course. What has anyone else been doing? I'm looking forward to seeing this years Christmas card exchanges - I missed out as I was away when the call for participants went out. Happy lacing Andrea Lamble Cambridge (UK) - where the sun has just come out (help! it's showing up all the dust!!) _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Welsh Dragon
Hi Anita, I'll post a message when the lace is on webshots. You have to subscribe to Lace Express for the year. It's a quarterly magazine. Not sure if you can just purchase single issues. The web site is www.laceexpress.de where I'm sure you'll find the necessary information. If you belong to IOLI you may be able to borrow issues from the library. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK From: purple lacer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] Welsh Dragon Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:30:36 -0600 Please do post a picture of your Nativity scene! I love Nativities! Which issue of Lace Express? How would I get a copy? Thanks so much! Anita Hansen Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA _ MSN Shopping has everything on your holiday list. Get expert picks by style, age, and price. Try it! http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8000,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200601tcode=wlmtagline _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Welsh Dragon/cattern cakes
Hi Bev, I agree with your comments about cattern cakes. Taste, not looks won the day with mine!! Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK I, too, made the cattern cake recipe last week, thought that if successful I'd freeze some to take to the Christmas lace party next week. There is only one guarantee I've found with that recipe, that each time the results are different. And, I'm not really sure what a good cattern cake is supposed to be like! It is the converting of the measurements, and substituting the flour that is likely my problem. The 'cakes,' cookies or bar (however it turns out) are always edible, but never what I'd be happy serving to guests. So, have decided to make a regional recipe for Pinwheel cookies instead, which have a creamed shortening base, instead of melted butter. _ Download the new Windows Live Toolbar, including Desktop search! http://toolbar.live.com/?mkt=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] pricking on card
Hi All, Most copiers will work with thin card without problem. I use coloured card (160/200 gsm) and photocopy the pattern directly on to that. It can be covered with film if required but for a 'single use' pattern is fine as it is. Certainly I find it better than paper. A4 (and I imagine American letter size) sheets of coloured card can be bought at most stationery/art shops. The colour I use depends on the colour of the threads to be used in the project. Happy lacing Andrea Lamble Cambridge (UK) - where the promised frost didn't materialise. (apologies if this message goes through more than once - got an error message the first time) _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Blackborne Collection at Bowes Museum
Hi Margot - May be a bit heroic for a day trip - Barnard Castle is a long way from London (approx 3 hours each way by train with a 15 mile road link at the end). The museum web site certainly looks interesting and they are giving talks on the collection on the second Tuesday of each month so might be worth trying to coincide your visit with that. Lovely part of the country to spend a few days in. Maybe there is someone on the list who is more local than me who can give advice on where to stay etc. Andrea Cambridge, UK From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARACHNE lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Blackborne Collection at Bowes Museum Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:26:39 -0300 I leave for England next Tues. and am setting off on a lace tour of Normandy the next day. Then back to London for 4 weeks. During that time I hope to make a day trip to the Bowes Museum. I'll let you know all about it when I get back towards the end of Oct. On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 12:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Blackborne Collection exhibit at the Bowes Museum opened on Sept 9. Has anyone gone to it? I am anxiously awaiting reviews because it would take quite a lot of scrambling, husband persuading, and even perhaps compromises on the features of a new car, in order to get there by April 29th. Sept 9-April 29th are not my favorite times for visiting England. Please, please, someone go there and then provide an honest assessment! Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] thread colour conversion
Hi all, Can anyone help? - my Husband has bought me a printed tapestry canvas (view of Prague about 18 x 36). It says it is printed in Germany and the Coats logo is also printed on it. On the side is a list of wool colours required (presumably Coats) - does anyone know of a resource for converting from this to Anchor or DMC thread. I've spent quite a time searching on the web but can't seem to find anything that has the numbers I've got on it. I've got lots of skeins of tapestry wool (mainly Anchor and DMC) here but want to be sure I have enough of the correct ones to complete it. It's going to be a mammoth project (for those winter evenings perhaps). Any help appreciated. Best wishes Andrea Lamble Cambridge (UK) - where it hasn't rained yet today! _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Finished garter
Hi Jackie (and all the other spiders who might be interested) I've received some lovely comments about the garter - thank you. Some, like Jackie have asked how it was constructed - well here you are. Hope it makes sense. The lace was made in the usual way as a straight piece of lace using gold coloured silk gimp threads (a brighter gold for the bees and antique gold for the honeycomb rings). I purchased 2 different widths (1in and 1.5in wide) of what was described as 'honey' coloured ribbon - they are see-through in the middle (organza?) and have a solid gold coloured edging that matched the gimp colour I used for the bees. I joined the 2 ribbons together (with the bottom edges meeting) to make a casing and joined the whole thing into a circle. The lace was attached over the top of the casing - carefully hand stitched to the two lines of machine stitching that made the casing. This meant there was a single thickness of ribbon half and inch wide at the top which made made the small frill at the top. Threaded elastic through the middle and voila! I did try attaching the lace to the bottom edge of the casing but the effect was not nearly so pleasing - suppose it would depend on the lace and the ribbon used. I was really lucky to find the delicate ribbon. Think I'll go back and buy some more - just in case (3 sons and none married yet!!) I really like the finished effect I acheived. I've made other garters in the past either as a wide piece of lace with ribbon/elastic threaded through the middle or as 2 strips sewn either side of a casing but, knowing I could be pushed for time with this one, decided to try something different. Happy lacing Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK p.s. the reason for the ecru and gold is that the bride will be wearing an antique gold coloured dress on the day. From: Jackie Bowhey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrea Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] Finished garter Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:20:45 +1000 Andrea, your garter is lovely. I had a look at the pattern in the book but I can't work out how you did it! What is the gold? Flat metallic gold thread or ribbon? And how did you put it in? As a gimp? And how did you do the elastic? I don't intend to copy your method (no more marriages in this family until the great-grand children come along) but I'm very curious because it is different to any garter I've seen or made. I'm sure your sister will appreciate it. Cheers, Jackie a Yank but now in sunny but cool Brisbane, Australia _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Finished garter
Hi all, Hoorah, I've just finished making a whole yard of two and a hlaf inch wide Bucks Point lace (Honey Bees pattern from Stott and Cook's 100 Traditional Bobbin Lace Patterns) for a garter for my step-sister's wedding in September - only started it 3 weeks ago and thought it would take me much longer to complete the length. I've managed to load pictures on to the Arachne webshots album if anyone is interested. I used Pipers spun silk, 140/3 which was a dream to work with (only broke one thread in the whole piece and that was in the picot edge bundle so was not a problem) and the lace has a nice soft drapy feel. Just hope the bride likes it and appreciates the hours of work. This seems to be the link to my album: http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=viewAllPhotosalbumID=553273881security=iPvKNN (don't know how to do these tiny url's) or go to: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/2 and look for my folder (Andrea Lamble). Have to decide what to make now to fill the gap in my life! Mind you might have to get the duster and vacuum cleaner out of hibernation as DH returns from a month spent in the Czech Republic tomorrow. Regards Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Four Seasons
There is a set of the four seasons in Honiton Lace, by Pat Perryman on p46 of the Lace Guild pattern collection from some years ago. I can't see a publication date on it but the first pattern in the book is one for a Penguin. Must have been published about 20 years ago - I'm sure the Lace Guild must have it. Happy Lacing Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK From: Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Four Seasons Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:32:05 +0100 I'm looking for the prickings for a set of four small panels, each one showing one of the four seasons. I've found pictures of a square set in New Designs in Bobbin Lace by Ann Collier, and the prickings for a set with different shaped outlines in 100 New Bobbin Lace Patterns by Yusai Fukuyama, but neither of them is the set I'm sure I've seen somewhere. I can't think where I've seen them or find them in any of my books or magazines - but then I can be blind when looking for things. I thought there was a set in one edition of 'Kant' magazine, but could only find Christmas scenes. To save me wasting any more time going through my magazines, etc, again has anyone knowledge of others. You usually come up trumps for finding prickings. Thanks. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Windows Live Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] A question
Greetings I received mine on Saturday, just as I was going out to give a lace class - not had time to study it in detail yet. Andrea Lamble Cambridge - Uk - where we've been having a bit of a heatwave. From: sof [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sof [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] A question Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:05:23 +0200 Jackie Bowhey a écrit : Greetings all, Has anyone received their April issue of Lace Express? Jackie in cold and windy Brisbane - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Not yet Sof from France with a hot sun - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] lace express
Hi Jenny et al, Yep, definitely says 1/06 on the cover. Does anyone else get the optical illusion effect with the piece illustrated on p37 (a very pleasant torchon piece) - when you start to look at it it appears as you would expect - ecru lace taken on a white background - as you continue looking at it, slightly changing your focal length it looks like it has been 'quilted' on to some white fabric. All very intriguing. Happy lacing Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK - where it is cooler and raining (gently) although as I type thunder is rolling in the distance. From: Jenny Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jenny Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] lace express Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:26:49 +0100 (BST) was that the first issue of 2006? The web site says it was sent on the 2nd June http://www.laceexpress.de/cgi-bin/web_store/web_store.cgi?page=/magazines/le1_06.htmcart_id=7730860_2379 jenny barron Scotland - where it is far too hot, roll on Autumn Jackie Bowhey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, Has anyone received their April issue of Lace Express? Jackie in cold and windy Brisbane - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search! http://join.msn.com/toolbar/overview - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] definition of bobbin lace
Spiders All - How about this for a quaint definition of lace-making: Of particularly beauty is the bobbin lace. From a sketch on a cardboard placed on a bench with a cushion and on which pins are placed (which hold the knots which make the lace), the lace-makers manage skilfully the bobbins - little cylinders to hold the string. Found on a web site about Tavira, Portugal. My step sister is getting married near there in September and I was looking up accommodation possibilities when I came across it. Still trying to decide whether to go. Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK, where it is a little warmer today, although still cloudy. _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] English laces and locations
Dear Lorri, Tolland is not far from Taunton, the county town of Somerset. Somerset is a county in the SW of England; the next county one way (to the W) is Devon (where Honiton lace comes from) and the other way, Wiltshire (where Downtown lace was made). Somerset itself does not have a particular style of lace making but I would guess the most likely situation was that the women made Honiton lace. I'm not sure that the Downtown lace industry had started in 1630 and was more focused in a small area in the SE of Wiltshire. http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm I'm sure others will chip in with more information. Best wishes Andrea Lamble in Cambridge, UK - where Spring is trying hard!! From: Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace arachne lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] English laces and locations Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:02:15 -0800 To a Gentle Spider in the UK I have recently found that my father's ancestors came to the USA in 1630 from Tolland, Somerset, England. What I am wondering is where in England this is located and which style of lace may have been made in that area. Lorri Ferguson Graham, in Washington State, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search! http://join.msn.com/toolbar/overview - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] cleaning lace
Don't know whether this will help anyone but: I have a distant recollection of attending a lace day when Santina Levy was giving a talk (probably in the late 80's/early 90's). The subject of cleaning (old) lace was covered and I remember that the use of natural saponins was recommended and that Horse chestnuts were a source (as are many other plant materials). Can't remember how the saponin was extracted but remember the recommendation of small peices of lace being cleaned by being immersed in a jam jar of the saponin solution and being gently agitated, then rinsed off etc. and blocked out to dry on e.g. blotting paper covered board. Larger pieces were attached to a backing fabric before cleaning and immersed in a bowl etc. This links to an article on Saponins.http://www.meltandpoursupplies.com/mpwebsite/school/Saponins.htm Funny how things stick in the mind to resurface later. All the best Andrea Lamble in a rather dull and gloomy Cambridge. Now you can search and browse smarter using the new MSN Search Toolbar including Windows Desktop Search! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace relay - more thoughts
To all Arachneans interested in the lace relay: I think we need to stop and ask ourselves the purpose of a round-the-world lace relay - is it to show that lace is continuously being made round the world over the 24 hour period in question or do we want interactive chat going on between participants as it happens? As there will be maybe 100 or more taking part it doesn't quite come in the same category of the e-meeting Margot hosted the other day. Personally I feel that we could end up spending all the time reading and responding to emails and not much time actually making lace. Would it work if: An email address was set up with e.g. hotmail or yahoo (I just broke off from typing this and set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] just in case it's decide to go down that route). At the appointed start time and place the first people (wherever/whoever they are) send an email to the address to say they have started making lace - no fancy message - may be just a straight message saying who they are, where in the world they are, what time of day it is where they are, and the type of lace they are doing. As each new person starts they too just send a similar email to indicate they are joining in. Then when someone stops making lace they send a basic message saying they are leaving the list. (If they wanted to they could log in and out again later). If the email subject line said 'starting' or 'stopping' it would be easy to see what the status was at any given time. Then either while it is happening or when it's all over the resulting list of emails can be analysed to see what went on. Using this method no one ends up with loads of emails to read or cluttering their in-box - they can be concentrating on making lace and catch up with who was making lace where and when at their leisure. If everyone who participates gets the password for the email account (I'm sure we could all be trusted with this) then they could log into the account at any time and view how things were going. Or maybe there is another way of acheiving this. I'm not really up with live chat rooms etc. Happy lacing Andrea, in a cold and dull Cambridge, UK. Fed up with spam in your inbox? Find out how to deal with junk e-mail here! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Virtual lace meeting
Dear Margot, Hope to join you (and others) tomorrow. Hubby is away so no evening meal to cook! Working on a large Milanese motif in cream Pipers silk at present. Number 4 of 8 I am making for the cover of an antique parasol. Need some incentive to get going on it again - promised myself once I've got 4 done I'll complete the bronze silk cover and attach it to the spokes - the first 4 motifs can then be attached in alternate segments. Best wishes Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARACHNE lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Virtual lace meeting Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:09:53 -0400 The monthly meeting of my lace guild is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon and no one can come, except me! So I thought I'd invite all Arachneans to become honourary members of the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers for the day and to join me for a virtual lace meeting. Here's how it will work: Date: Sun., Jan. 29 Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time. (That's 5 - 8 British time, 12 - 3 Eastern Standard, 9 - 12 Pacific Standard) What: Do something lace-related, i.e. make lace, prick a pricking, decide what you're going to make next, ... How: Let me know you want to participate before 12:30 (my time) and shortly before 1:00, I'll send an email to everyone who's joining the meeting. You can reply/post just by clicking 'reply all' to my email. Let us know what you're working on, how it's going, gossip, whatever strikes your fancy. (Just like a real lace meeting!) Looking forward to hearing from you, Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Wreath Boxes - Again!
Sue Harvey Wrote: Hi Barbara and all spiders, I am always reading about wreath boxes although I can imagine what they are by the various descriptions I cannot say that I have ever seen one, can anyone tell me whether such a creature exists in the UK? Hi all, Can't say as I've seen them here, although somewhere like Homebase might stock them - never really looked. More houses over here seem to sport a wreath on the front door these days so I guess there may be a demand. What I did notice on a Staples office supplies flier that came through our door today was a Christmas Decoration Storage box that someone else (from the US or Canada I think) was describing on Arachne the other day for using as thread storage. Three layers with plastic criss-cross dividers for £9.99. Happy New Year to everyone Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK, where the sun has shone all day. Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Merry Christmas to all!
Boo- hoo - not a single lace related present or jigsaw (a book of Sudoku puzzles and crosswords will have to do) in my stocking today, though lots of other nice things - I'll have to start leaving broader hints!!! Shouldn't complain as at least all the family were here for Christmas We probably ate to much and drank too much and played lots of silly after dinner games - will sit down to watch The Importance of Being Earnest on the TV soon. Hope I don't fall asleep watching it. Greetings to all Andrea Lamble (in what was a bright Cambridge, UK) Are you using the latest version of MSN Messenger? Click here to download MSN Messenger 7.5 today! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Visiting Virginia
on Tamara's advice I am posting this on lace as well as lace-chat. Dear Spiders, DH and I are coming to the US for a 'road trip' around the Virginia area at the beginning of October for 18 days. We're starting from Washington DC and travelling via Shenandoah Valley/ Blue Ridge Mountains, across to Richmond and Williamsburg then up round Chesapeake Bay and back to Washington. Hoping to catch lots of Autumn colours in Shenandoah. Planning the final route this weekend. Is there anywhere that we simply 'must' include in our itinerary? This will be the fifth US road trip we have undertaken but the first visit to this area. We usually cover about 2000+ miles while we are away (and even with the massive hike in petrol prices in the US it will still be cheaper than the UK). Don't think I'll be travelling with any lace but will bring some embroidery or crochet with me to do for if I'm not too exhausted at the end of the day. Happy lacing Andrea Cambridge, UK - where autumn is only just round the corner. Want to get more out of e-mail? Then get Outlook Live! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Visiting Virginia
Dear Spiders, DH and I are coming to the US for a 'road trip' around the Virginia area at the beginning of October for 18 days. We're starting from Washington DC and travelling via Shenandoah Valley/ Blue Ridge Mountains, across to Richmond and Williamsburg then up round Chesapeake Bay and back to Washington. Hoping to catch lots of Autumn colours in Shenandoah. Planning the final route this weekend. Is there anywhere that we simply 'must' include in our itinerary? This will be the fifth US road trip we have undertaken but the first visit to this area. We usually cover about 2000+ miles while we are away (and even with the massive hike in petrol prices in the US it will still be cheaper than the UK). Don't think I'll be travelling with any lace but will bring some embroidery or crochet with me to do for if I'm not too exhausted at the end of the day. Happy lacing Andrea Cambridge, UK - where autumn is only just round the corner. Fed up with spam in your inbox? Find out how to deal with junk e-mail here! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace and music
Felllow Spiders, In the light of some recent postigs: Does anyony have favourite music for making lace by - for me Torchon and the Beach Boys, in the garden on a Summer's day . Happy Lacing Andrea in a warm and sunny Cambridge, UK Win a video conversation with a star with MSN Messenger! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Glass Bobbins
Hi All, I bought a pair of these bobbins on ebay a few weeks ago. I found them a little chunky (diameter 3/8ths inch) and somewhat longer (5.25 inches without spangle) than the other midlands bobbins that I use - they'll be fine for me for gimp though. You may need to take this into consideration if you like your bobbins to be compatible size-wise. They were quickly despatched and very well packaged. Andrea Cambridge, UK From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARACHNE lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Glass Bobbins Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:13:03 -0300 I too like to use glass bobbins - love the tinkling sound. I've bought them at lace days in the UK and also from: http://www.tuffnellglass.co.uk/Bobbins.htm I recently bought 3 glass bobbins on ebay and should receive them sometime this week. There are some still listed for sale and you can see them at: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/KEITHS-GLASSCRAFT_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Premium gives you PC protection, junk-mail filters, advanced communication tools and great software like MSN Encarta® Premium. Click here for a FREE trial! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] intriguing item on ebay
Hi All, Came across the following listing on ebay today - anyone know what sort of lace they were used to make. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=106159item=6189147708rd=1 Best wishes Andrea in Cambridge, UK, where the sun is still shining. Win a video conversation with a star with MSN Messenger! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] secret pal thanks
Dear Secret Pal, Your parcel arrived last Thursday, which coincided with my Brithday so it made an extra surprise for the day. I was very pleased with all the contents - I'm always short of divider pins and the needle threader will be very useful. The pin cushions are really cute and the little bag will be useful for keeping thread in. I have just got back from a long weekend away so have only just been able to get to my computer to reply. Looking forward to finding out your identity next month Best wishesAndrea Want to get more out of e-mail? Then get Outlook Live! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] LAce Guild website
So was I, Andrea Lamble Sunny Cambridge, UK From: Jenny Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jenny Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] LAce Guild website Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:50:48 +0100 (BST) No, I was in looking at the list of books this morning jenny barron Sunny Scotland Sue Babbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the posting yesterday about books for sale on the Lace Guild website, I have only been able to get up a blank page on the Lace Guild website. Is this happening to other people too? Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the MSN Toolbar you can search the web from any page, block pop-ups and more! Download it for FREE today. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] secret pal thanks
Dear Secret Pal, Your parcel was waiting for me when I got home from work yesterday. Many thanks for such lovely gifts - they were well worth waiting a little longer for. Where do I start? The key ring is really cute and will be in use soon. The bag and bobbin are delightful and I can't wait to embroider the pin cushion kit. Loved the tea towel - it won't get used for the dishes yet but will be hung up on display for a while. The pack of beads are perfect as I've recently purchased some bobbins with blue flowers painted on them - you must have known!! Pleased to hear your lace society gathering was a success. I know what hard work such things can be. Hope you get the chance to put your feet up for a bit now. Thanks againAndreain Cambridge UK, where Spring has Sprung. MSN Premium gives you PC protection, junk-mail filters, advanced communication tools and great software like MSN Encarta® Premium. Click here for a FREE trial! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] sticky label gunge
From: Ann McClean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace-chat] Getting sticky-label gunge off melamine Greetings fellow spiders, Advice, please, on how to remove the residue from sticky labels from a pair of melamine salt pepper shakers. The paper has soaked away, but the sticky gunge left behind is proving stubborn :( I'd try methylated spirits. Best Wishes Andrea Cambridge, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Tablecloth Pattern Help.
Hi Babs, I know Biggins do patterns and kits for 'all lace' tablecloths (www.bigginslace.co.uk). Happy lacing, Andrea in a Spring-like Cambridge, UK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Tablecloth Pattern Help. Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:32:54 EDT Hello to all, I'm looking for a large pattern for a tablecloth. I know that this will be a mamoth project but I would prefer a pattern which is all lace instead of inserts. Does anyone know where I might be able to find one - I must be honest and say that I prefer Torchon lace to any others but anything would be great. Thanks in advance. Regards, Babs - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce friends to MSN Messenger and win amazing Xbox prizes! Find out more here. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lace books
Greetings Spiders, Another fairly comprehensive book on Tonder Lace is: The Technique of Tonder Lace by Inge Skovgaard No idea if its still in print - the copy I have was published by Batsford in 1991. Best wishes Andrea from Cambridge, UK where April Showers are promised later today. Can anyone recommend a Tønder technique book? I noticed that Karen Trend Nissen book 3 is Tønder lace, has anyone learnt from this one? I'm not ready to start Tønder but it's on the back burner and looking through a book in advance works wonders when the time comes. Greetings from Surrey, BC Irene Whitham _ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lacemakers Circle AGM
Dear Margot, I believe South Wootton Village Hall, where the AGM is being held, is about 3 miles from Kings Lynn. There is a map in the latest Lacemaker, but the quality of it is not brilliant. I could try scanning it and sending it to you as an attachment, but it doesn't even show Kings Lynn on it. I can recommend www.theaa.com (The UK Automobile Association) for route planning - if you put in your start and finish points it will plan the route for you and provide a map. I would guess that a taxi from the station would be the best bet - I'm sure the local drivers will know where South Wootton is. Not sure if I'm going to make it to the AGM or not. Best wishes Andrea Lamble In a cool and dull Cambridge, UK From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARACHNE lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Lacemakers Circle AGM Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:35:00 -0400 I will be in London (Bloomsbury) on May 14 and I've looked at a web site to find out how to get to King's Lynn, but I haven't been able to find out how to get from the station to the AGM venue. Of course, I'm basing my searches on the Dec. issue of The Lacemaker. ( I probably won't get the March issue before I leave on May 5. I swear they put the issue on the back of a turtle and point it in the general direction of the Western Hemisphere!!!) If anyone can give me some details, I'd appreciate it. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] secret pal thanks
Dear Secret Pal, I have just returned from vacation to find your parcel waiting for me - it was the first thing I opened, after all who needs bills!. The surprises were really nice - did you make the edging on the hanky? Two more bobbins too. I'm off to raid my bead tin to make some pretty spangles for them. The address book and pen are really usefull and the soap smells delicious. I spider on its web is great - I've stuck it to the corner of my computer monitor for the present. The bookmark with the handsome tail is already installed in the novel I am currently reading. Thank you once again for your thoughtfulness. Best wishes Andrea _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lead weighted bobbins
Dear Spiders, I always use the rhyme: Weft goes from LEFT to right to remind me which is the warp and which is the weft in weaving - I suppose in bobbin lace the weaver pr is the equivalent to the weft on woven fabric. Hope this helps you remember. from Andrea Lamble in a rather damp and slushy Cambridge UK - the overnight snow is melting fast. The differential identification is Tapestry bobbins They are weighted but I have never seen them square as that would make them difficult to pass thought the warp/weft ( I am not sure which) threads.\ Brian and Jean from Cooranbong Australia _ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lacemaking classes
Hi there, I dropped out of teaching for the local authority classes about 10 years ago when they wanted all classes to be independently financially viable. For the daytime class, which had a lot of concession fee payers, this would have meant enrolling 24+ students. With the individual tuition involved in lace making, this was not on as far as I was concerned. For me 10 students is plenty, especially if they are all working on something different. I still meet once a month with some of the students from the classes I taught (plus a few new ones) but in a private house. Would like to do more but with a full time job and other hobbies (and the family of course) I just can't find the time and energy. I was made to do a 'teaching adults course' as a condition of employment but really it was of very little relevance to teaching lace making or any other craft with individual student needs - just took up lots of my time. The tutor of the Painting class I go to has recently stopped teaching for the local authority because of all the bureaucracy/inspections etc and is now hiring a local village hall one evening a week so we can continue to meet. Nicer surroundings than the local college too. From what I've heard I'm really glad to be out of it all. Happy Lacing Andrea in a dull and gloomy Cambridge, UK. _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Cloth stitch/whole stitch
Dear Spiders, Having nothing better to do this lunch time and having a moderate library of lace books, (approx 100 books ranging from Mincoff and Marriage through to Sandi Woods latest publication covering both English and Continental laces) I decided to do a quick search to ascertain which of the two terms was most commonly used. My findings are: It would seem that the use of both terms was about equal across the books that were studied. The publication date of the book and the lace style covered do not seem to affect which term was used. The use of the term Linen stitch for CTC occurs in some Continental lace books. Nowhere did I come across the term Whole stitch defined as CTCT. Half stitch was consistently used throughout to mean (CT) I agree wholeheartedly with the comments of others that the most useful thing is to define your terms at the beginning of the publication. Happy Lacing Andrea Lamble Cambridge, UK. _ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] help on english terminology
Dear All,
I was taught lace making in England (all be it 28 years ago) and have
always used the terminology Cloth Stitch (for CTC) and Cloth Stitch and
Twist ( for CTCT). I've been teaching lace making for 25+ years and all my
pupils have been taught this terminology (they are also told that they may
see the term Whole stitch in some books and that this is the same as Cloth
Stitch).
I was taught that it was called Cloth Stitch because when you made a strip
in the stitch it looked like woven cloth. Seems logical to me!
Happy lacing
Andrea
from a cold Cambridge, UK where it might snow again later.
It would be nice if we English-speaking lace makers could standardize our
terminology. At the moment, we have to find somewhere in the book/article
how the author defines the two terms.
Here are the usual definitions:
U.S.: Cloth stitch is cross, twist, cross and Whole stitch is cross,
twist, cross, twist (i.e. 2 half stitches making 1 whole stitch)
U.K.: Whole stitch is cross, twist, cross and Whole stitch and Twist is
cross, twist, cross, twist ('cloth stitch' isn't used)
As a 'neutral' Canadian, I think the U.S. terminology is more logical and
prefer to use it.
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[lace-chat] Secret Pal - thanks
Dear Secret Pal, Thank you so much for the package that arrived yesterday. The magnetic note pad is already installed on the door of the fridge and the pen is to hand. The cloth pocket will be ideal for keeping scissors, thread, spare bobibins etc. to hand when I'm lacemaking or sewing - I'll be able to attach it to the side of my armchair. The bobbins are beautiful - so nice to have some made in your native wood. The pictures of your country may give me some inspiration for a painting. New Zealand is top of the list for a long vacation when my DH and I retire. Best wishes Andrea Cambridge, UK - where its dull and damp today. _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Jet Lag
Hi Jane, I believe what you need is Melatonin - certainly in the USA you can buy bottles of tablets, of varying strengths - we found them with the vitamin supplements in a K Mart or similar store whilst travelling in the US last year. Not sure if availability in Canada will be the same. There are lots of articles about its use - if you do a Google search on 'Melatonin and Jet lag you will find lots of information. They certainly worked a treat for us. Hope this helps. B regs Andrea From: Jane Dobinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jane Dobinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Jet Lag Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:31:08 -0500 DD and her husband leave for Japan tomorrow morning. I remember reading a posting on Arachne a couple of years ago about someone who had gone to Australia, had purchased some pills to help with Jet Lag (in the airport in the US) and found that they worked really well. I forget what it was called and would appreciate knowing! Also, DH and I are going on a Cruise to Hawaii at the end of January and I'm wondering if there's anything lacey that I could be watching for. We are flying to Los Angeles where we will be staying overnight before leaving on the Cruise in the morning - sadly, I don't think there will be shopping time there :( Jane in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace parasols
Hi All, I have recently been lucky enough to purchase (from ebay) a couple of dainty antique parasols, with heavily rotted/damaged silk covers, but with perfect working frames. I am now in the process of removing the old fabric and making templates to recover the frames in new silk. My plan is to make a lace outer for each of them (eventually) and can't decide whether to try and design my own patterns from scratch or base them on an existing motifs? Do I make all sections the same or do I try and design the lace so that each section is different? Oh decisions decisions!! and oh for more free time - sometimes think there should be more hours in the day and days in the week to fit in all the things I would like to do. Has anyone out there done this sort of thing before and do you have any tips to pass on? Hopefully I'll be able to post some progress photos on the web in due course. Happy lacing to one and all, from, Andrea in a somewhat dull Cambridge (UK). _ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] burning CD -problems
Hi there, Helen wrote: .Which means that I now have about 10 CDs which could contain hundreds of pictures each, and which only have 24 or 36!!!.. Perhaps you could copy the photo's off the various CD's into a temporary folder on your computer and then burn a new CD containing them all. Best wishes Andrea in a very damp and gloomy Cambridge (UK) _ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Coloured prickings
Another way around this problem is to scan the pricking with a desktop scanner and then change the background colour to white in Photoshop or similar program. You can then print out the pricking in black and white. Happy lacing Andrea in a rather damp Cambridge. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Coloured prickings Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:39:08 EDT One of my students, in conjunction with an on-the-ball photocopy-shop man, found out that she could have her black on orange pricking (which she didn't like) copied onto white by the simple expedient of him turning off the background colour in a colour photocopy machine ie it only picked up the black. She was then able to cover this with her preferred choice of blue film. I am now trying to work out if I can do this on my home (and more basic) colour photocopier, but if I can I haven't been able to work it out yet. If my explanation is clear enough, and your copy shop can understand you, this might be an option for dealing with the bright RED pricking in Tonderkniplinger. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] USO's
Dear Lorri, I believe the pattern you want is in Lace Number 61, January 1991. The pricking is on page 30 - a picture of the finished work is on the front cover and p61. I've often been tempted to make it myself. With all the talk of copyright etc. I'm not sure how I stand as far as copying the picture and sending it to you. The design was by Sandra Hobbs. Andrea in Cambridge, UK From: Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] USO's Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:25:25 -0700 Subject: [lace] USO's So I am looking at this pattern, which I still intend to do and wondering is it just me or if any other Arachnes have had projects they want to/intend to start which they seem to have trouble getting launched? Cathy in Newark, DE Yes, Cathy, I have several. I know that part of it is I have 'so many' that I want to do. I have a real cute hedgehog in a basket that I would dearly love to finish. Part of my problem with it is I have no instructions, just a very poor picture. I believe it was to be done in Honiton, which I haven't done very much of -another stumbling block. Does anyone 'recognize' where the pattern came from? I believe I got it from someone who was giving up lacemaking. I would then like to find a copy of the 'source', which might give me a better chance at ever finishing it. Lorri - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] 16th century bobbin on ebay???
The seller is certainly based in The Netherlands and seems to have a vast range of (very) old stuff for sale. Andrea In Cambridge, UK where the sun is shining today See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck From: Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] 16th century bobbin on ebay??? Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:52:46 -0400 I'm glad I brought this to the attention of my more learned colleagues on Arachne!! I had not sent the seller a message, and probably won't!! It seems that this bobbin might be as he/she says. Clay From: Jean Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Clay and All, This bobbin is very similar in shape to one of the bobbins recovered from the 'Batavia' ship wreck off Australia. It was a Dutch ship wrecked off the west coast of Australia in 1629, so the bobbins were older than that. They were featured on an Australian stamp some years ago and Kleinhout make reproductions of them. It would be interesting to see if there is a Dutch connection to this bobbin. Jean in Cleveland U.K. On 13 Aug 2004, at 21:56, Clay Blackwell wrote: I came across the following on ebay today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemcategory=114item=6112829488 Now, I must say I'm VERY skeptical. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Hanging Bobbins
If anyone is interested there is information on hanging bobbins at the two sites listed below. the latter link is for the Cowper Newton Museum in Olney, Bucks (there is a lot about lace making on that site). http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/object_of_month/museum/sept2003.htm http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/lace/lacehtml/hangingbobbins.html Andrea, in a rather damp Cambridge, UK. See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck _ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
