[lace] Bart and Francis
Hello to all, it's me francis from Bart & Francis I just wanted to let the UK'ers on the list know, we will be in the lace event next sunday 11 may 2008 at Peterborough. we see it as a great opportunity for all whom have visited our website and were wundering of the very funny and bizzare threads but in the end wanted to feel smell touch and see them in real. Now they can We hope to see you there. kind regards Francis on the leaflet it is mentioned: *The East of England Lace and Craft Supplies Fair* will be held at the Holiday Inn West, Thorpe Wood, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 6SG, a great venue on the western edge of Peterborough on *Sunday 11th May 2008* at 10.00am to 3.30pm. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Variegated thread
Hallo, because of that "striping" effect this kind of varigated thread is seldom uesed in industry if fo any reason what so ever we realy need a varigated thread we will do it a bit differend we then use a gimped thread the core yanr is then an even coloured thread which matches the most common ground colours of the thread (varigated ) which is used for gimping if this is don whit evrytime a little space between the gimping you will have a slightly underbroken pattern which will never give you any stripes. i lack good proper english to explain it so for some it wiil be jibberisch but try to immagine... this kind of thread is never offered to the hobby market because most of you will find it not special and don't seet he connection to the why of it i have offered that kind of thread to several markets but no way they did no twant it so what kin you do to mach it a littel bit you take that varigated thread and take an other thread on the same bobbin together and slightly twist them to give a "gimping effect"not the same but it will give you an advantage. beleve me this way will do one disadvantage the threads are becoming thicker which might give you the disadvantage in certain patterns. francis Alice Howell schreef: Variegated threads can be tricky. The color changes attract attention away from the pattern. If you have an intricate pattern don't put variegated thread in it. I did a small 's Gravenmoerse pattern with variegated thread and the pattern was very hard to see among the different color shades. Yet, if you use the variegated ONLY on the cloth stitch trail of a pattern, it can be exquisite. My friend did that on a scarf pattern and it turned out a prize winner. The length of the thread in one color before it changes makes a big difference. I have been making roses with a pricking that is all half stitch. It's the shaping of the rose after the lace is done that makes this rose nice. Since there is essentially no 'pattern' in the lace, there is a lot of scope for using variegated threads. I made some with the variegated only on the passives, on both passives and worker, and just on the worker. This was larger scale thread...DMC Cordonnet 30. The color changes were many inches apart on this intended-for-crochet thread, but worked out fine in this case. I particularly liked using a solid color in the passives and the variegated (say...red and white) for the worker. Each color would do 8-12 rows before changing. This was enough space that it looked like whole petals alternating from lighter to darker. I acquired a spool of thread with color changes every half inch or so. A bookmark made of it was disappointing. The constant change of color distracted from the pattern. The solid color bookmark of the same pricking was much more attractive. When a variegated thread is mixed with a solid color, the eye blends them. Change one of the threads, and you get an entirely different look. In general, I suggest keeping a thread that changes color limited to a simple area of the item, such as cloth stitch sections. This will let the color be the star of the show without competing with an intricate pattern at the same time. Also, different types of lace will respond differently to being made with variegated threads. Experiment a bit, but be aware that some things will not work out as well as hoped. Then again, some of them will be absolutely amazing. Alice in Oregon -- expecting record high temp of 96+ degrees fahrenheit tomorrow. Rather a shock after below normal temps all spring. But it's only for 4 days and then the cool returns. - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any hints about using variegated thread successfully? I've been using some Valdani thread as workers in a piece of Torchon and it's comming out in regular stripes - not the effect I wanted at all. Other times I've used it and the patterns been completely lost and a mess. What's the trick? - 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]
Re: Subject: RE: [lace] Bobbin Lace Jewelry in sterling silver??
Hallo, i am still a bit "starteled" unfamiliar whit the problems concerned in "silver"-lace? is it the thread/wire? is it the bobbins? is it the patterns? what else? or is it just a problem for looking to find teachers giving courses in this matter? furthemore i have worked more the 10 years ago in that silverclay material and to be honest, I can not see how you could do lace in that material it is unpleasant in touching it extremly smelly in a very jakkieway and it did almost never dowhat i wanted it to do and it was not able, is refrase: I was not able to do fine cording or threads whit it does anyone else have an other experience? did anyone else sucseeded in making a NICE litlle peace in that clay? is so please let me know and see please do not see this as critique but as a general question out of astonischment that i could not do it and others may be.. francis verry curious tina schreef: There is a workshop on PMC Silver Jewelry scheduled for August 8th – 10th through Great Escapes Weekend in the UK. And although it’s been a few years since I attended one of their weekend workshops, I’m sure that this one will be just as delightful. Tina - -Original Message- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:28:31 -0700 From: "Kim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [lace] Bobbin Lace Jewelry in sterling silver?? I think this might be called PMC, which stands for precious metal clay. I met someone in a metal weaving class who makes jewelry this way. Kim No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1466 - Release Date: 5/25/2008 6:49 PM - 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]
Re: [lace] Threads for Thomas Lester lace
Dear Mrs Sally, please do not compare the products used for weaving towards lace. The reason way is that in weaving you have a lot of fibres and such possible attachement fibres for making the products kling to it in lace you have almost no cloth, you create openings rather then weaved colsures. So what is used in profs... the same as is used for 100dres of years WATERBASE: sugar cornflower patatoflower ALCOHOLBASE: Shellack or other Pinethree based GUM and thraditional GUMMA arabica (the shellack and gumma you will find mostly in silk thulle like products like it is mostly sold for bridalwear , here yo can mostly clean and only gradualy it will loos stability) Buthylalcohol bases and these are the extra strong ones but also the extra dangerous ones because buthylalcohol is considered an cancerougenous product petrolbases resins. you can clean as oft as you want it will not do anythingh WHAT is the difference?? the waterbase is the most natural and also the most difficult the stronger you want your textile the more times you need to repeat the proces of applying it to the textile over and over again BUT in the end your textile stays "unspoiled" you can reinice it and will have again your natural peace of textile That is the minuspoint of the 2 others you apply it and that is it it will sty there for ever mostly in machine lace they will use a polymer which resambles serisine (silk gleu) but again the professional will look towards what is the enduse for the lace. if a special highend marked lace for "haute couture" it deos not matter they willnot clean it afterwards however if you make it for underwear.. well most persons will want to clean it regulary (normaly) there they will use no product at all i know that you are a bit startled now but there they will take an other sort of threads or add some special threads for makeing it stick and stay like intended. you are all woman out here so it will be easy to explain take one of your more fancy BH's if you have picots on the edges and you take a magnifier and look how it is made you will see that it has no reason stay in shape because in the machine picot is not made like we make a picot so way does it stay anyway like a picot? because in some of the threads there are thermofixing fibres which stick together when after the machine lace is made just ironing it will make it stay in form and that is moqtly forever mostly in all textiles you will find of theses fibres even in some "100%" pure natural ones because 100% does not realy mean 100% it all depends of the origine of the producing country. the moral of it all is do not just look to the finished product and ask yourself what starsh did they use? but rather start to look what kind of fibers did they use to start from? Because not all natural fibres can be made strong in the same way and as Mrs Sally was mentioning in her analyse of cotton you have cotton cotton and cotton. francis Sally Schoenberg schreef: Ordinarily I wouldn't dream of disagreeing with Barbara Underwood, but in the case of thread, I disagree with her. I've made Bedfordshire with Brok, Egyptian, and Finca. My lace made with Finca was nice and stiff unwashed, but after rinsing it in water, drying and pressing it, it turned into soft fuzzy lace. Rinse lace made with Brok thread in water, dry it and mangle or press it, and it is as limp as Egyptian. The main difference between Brok and Egyptian, I am convinced, is the sizing. Finca, I think, is an inferior thread made with short bits of cotton that has been coated with a strong sizing that is effective only until the first washing. I don't use Finca at all anymore. This is a subject I've been thinking about for awhile. I wish I knew what the thread manufacturers use for sizing. My handweaving books have some receipes for sizing and I've been thinking I need to do some experiments. Like Barbara, I want stiff Bedfordshire. Sally Schoenberg Farmington New Mexico - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1476 - Release Date: 31/05/2008 12:25 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Another OIDFA clip - with ME
Hallo to all, it just works fine no problem what so ever for those not speaking dutch: it is the general bla bla bla of an newspaperboy asking do you not become confused of all those bobins she says no it is easy it is relaxing. and then some comment of the general age over 60years old persons very funny is the moment they zoom in to a lot of older ladys "bums" (sorry i do not know of other more refined words for it) you see of course that it are women back"bums"botoms.. and they say all are women and then you have an interview whit a man whom says it is also accepted in the UK for man.. other words: all the cliches that news and non lace/textiel persons will like to hear the most pity is they do not mention anny novelty nor sowuing any real modern lace francis Clay Blackwell schreef: I have Windows, but could only get the initial box to open... no voice, no video!! So I don't think we can blame our platforms at this point. Sounds more like a malfunction in their news department equipment. Clay Nicole Gauthier wrote: Hello everybody! Well, the video plays on my Mac and I could even see and hear one of our Arachne friends from Belgium, Magda Malisse. Great! I happened to know Magda whn we were in the same Mechlin class in the Kantcentrum. Nicole, on a beautiful day in Kirkland, Qc, Canada Le 08-07-05 à 22:05, Tamara P Duvall a écrit : Alack and alas! This one would not play for me; requires Windows Media Player, which my Mac refuses to acknowledge. - 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] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1537 - Release Date: 6/07/2008 5:26 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Orvus - question
Hallo, there is a big difference it is all in the number of carbon-end(atoms) on each Nat-Lau-Sul-molecul the more of them on it, the more it will work for animals they use the less carbonfree atoms for special uses like antique cloth washing they use the more/higher number of free carbon atoms at the molecule ends it is offcourse rediculous overpriced but the more carbon atoms the more expensive in production but and now it cums, practicly you will not see any difference what so ever it will clean...it will make bubbles.. who for gods name will start counting bubbles because that is what will happen less in the animal one. less bubbles, less fun for the cows, pigs and horses when we wash them the moral of the story if it cleans an elephant, it will clean surely your small binch-lace tooo Clay Blackwell schreef: Hi Ricki - I'm not an "expert" on the subject, but having also bought a vast supply in a feed store, and compared it to the tiny supply you get labeled for home use, I can say that there seems to be no difference at all!! But they would much rather have you buy it by the half ounce for home use, because it costs ever so much more that way!!! It probably also has to do with the fact that companies cover their products for liability, based on the intended use of the product. If you bought the farm store soap and had an issue with it which came to a lawsuit, they could say you had used it for purposes other than they intended. Just my 2 cents worth... Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I know Jeri and others have recommended Orvus for cleaning lace. I bought some at a feed store, and am wondering if I got the right thing. The label says "industrial product - not for home use." I did some research and it is supposed to be very mild, so I'm wondering why it would be labeled like that. Anyone know? Did I get the wrong type, or what is the concern with home use? Thanks for any guidance Best wishes - Ricki T in Utah where it's warm and sunny and not tremendously hot, like it was last summer! - 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] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.10/1549 - Release Date: 12/07/2008 16:31 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] very large tatting needle?
Hallo to all i have a question You all knwo that one can do frivolite (tatting) with needles i have seen somewhere in the past a website were you could buy large (very large) tatting needles say about 2milim diametre or even more does anyone knwo about were i could find this? why? i have a very nice Dutch lady askink for this on the link you can see what she wants to do now she uses u crochtneedle for it http://foto.weefshop.be/#home - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[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]
Re: [lace] tatting ytube
Hallo Isabel, yes i did the needle tatting but it is so boring. there is no real adrenalline involved it is like swimming on your airmatras good for a moment but then you had it i have seen many others making frivolitee seeing all the shuttles dangling down the fast furious movements the sudden picot then they do the bizare thingh on the pinky (in the film called the baby finger) and hupsa voila they have done a round and do have a nice flower figure and before you looked close enough to understand ... up down up down picot flip flop flip flop hupsa second flowerd that old lady looks then to you broad smiling but actualy saying without words " oh darling you did not catsh it, was I the old $µ$µ$µ$µ to fast?" that is the moment i feel so stupid look smiling back and say "very nice" well you all understand the scene i described. in short well for me that was magic i always found it marvelous to make whit almost nothingh of material somethingh nice it is like knitting on your fingers whitout the help of needles only your hands , thread and your fantasy i can do entire pulovers, boonets etc anyway many thanx for all the good information and i will practice the moment i have somethingh which does not hearts the eye i will put it on the internet francis Isabel Wear schreef: An idea: have you tried the needle-tatting??, is a much simpler and efficient way to tatting. Isabel Wear Realtor Sutton Group - West Coast 7547 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V6P 3H6 Mobile: 604-377-3475 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Busschaert Sent: August-11-08 12:35 PM 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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.3/1611 - Release Date: 14/08/2008 6:20 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] hitches & straws
Be aware of straws ! for the USA people under us their should be reading now under the text "do not do this at home"! SO be aware of straws!! they can cause more dammage then doing any good to your work mostly it is of fine plastic/plastoïde material whit extra harding compounds to make it tough for drinking/sipping now because of the toughness of the plastic it works quite offen like a knif on your threads if you use very fine silks made of flos silk/ continuous silk you can have very very unwanted fibres cuttings and so you get some fluffyness on the threads beleve me a "catastrophe general total" their is a special silk-knot i learn all people wanting to see it i promise to put it as fast as possible on the internet to show to all of you i do not have a camera so it will be still fotos all whom i learned it say WOW is it that simple yes it is and it is a world of difference some are more underneath their table looking for the unwounded bobins and rewinding them then making lace i have the very unwanted feeling that to many people do not know the basic of lace they can make binche vallencienne and most other extremly time consuming laces but the real basic before you start is mostly lacking.. in most of their minds they are here (in the payed classes) to do lace not to wound bobbins.. mostly they do it at home between their patatoe peeling and the carots-scrapping that gives an idea of how important they think it is WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! it is of the uttermost importancel!!! that is were the "catastrophe general total" begins and not the sice of the bobin the color of the bobin the extra head or what ever nope no no i promise to put the fotos on a website this weekend it will be in english, well you knwo my english (Belgo-beneluxenglish) but you will nderstand kind regards francis Karen schreef: That's what I used the straws for but it didn't work for me! Perhaps the bobbins we use here have necks that are too thick for straws, but yesterday I came across two straws which are much thicker than usual, so I washed them and kept them to try again! Karen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Ligeti Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:57 AM To: Arachne Subject: [lace] hitches & straws That is an excellent video of how to do hitches. I have used the split straws when using a metallic thread, - when the thread had a mind of it's own! It worked very well. Regards from Liz in cold, grey, Melbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 241 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len - 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] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1621 - Release Date: 19/08/2008 18:53 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Mixing Threads
I have an other text in my mothertonghe it is about my own work and my motivations for doing it it took a wile for making it in my own language i parcialy explain why i do some experiments and to what cause i do them this is about weaving but it could be knitting, lace, crochet frivolite (i sill can't manage!) and all other textiel techniques i am so sorry for all whom do not speak Nederlands but i hope someone will put it through a translation program and hopfully it does come out a bit as intended but i am quite ok whit the possible result it is afterall blabla on "art" so even puting through a translaterprogramm nothingh can realy go wrong anyway... Uitleg bij mijn textiel Het zoeken naar structuren en die zo sterk mogelijk proberen weer te geven is een aspect die in al mijn werk terugkeert. Zowel in mijn textiel als in mijn edelsmeedkunst is het een blijvend zoeken naar vorm, kleur, textuur, structuur, schaduw… De technieken en verworven kennis van de verschillende disciplines vullen dat zoeken aan. Het ene medium vult het andere eigenlijk aan. Textiel wordt nog teveel als een vlak, 2-D gebeuren beschouwd. Een tekening op een ondergrond, eerder als een schilder zijn canvas benut. Een aanbrengen van vlakken, platte figuren op een vlak geheel. Dit dus zonder echt door te dringen in de essentie van textiel, zijnde opbouw van vezels. Voor mij is textiel een aaneenschakeling van vezels. Vezels die een zekere dikte, vorm, kleur geur, en aanvoelen hebben. Die vezels vormen de basis en die basis heeft dus een sterk 3-dimensioneel karakter. Het lijkt me dan ook volstrekt zonde om dat 3-D karakter weg te weven, te breien of te manipuleren in een vlak 2-dimensioneel stuk textiel. De essentie van mijn textielvisie is spelen met dat 3-D gevoel en het pogen te benadrukken in het eindresultaat, het zoeken naar een ideale structuur, het zodanig manipuleren van ketting en inslag om een stuk op zich te bekomen. Van daar dat ik vrij snel onconventionele inrijgpatronen ga toepassen, geen rekening wil houden met de geldende regels van vlotters, bindingsleer, garendikte die je wel en niet kunt benutten bij zus en zo’n binding. Door tegen de regels van de geldende textiel in te gaan kom ik vrij onwaarschijnlijk zeer dicht te staan bij de oude barokke en middeleeuwse traditie van textiel. Ook zij waren zeer sterk geneigd om dat 3-D gevoel in hun textiel weer te geven. Geldende regels van dikte en bindingen was ook iets dat praktisch onbestaande was. Het geeft me een zeker gevoel van vrijheid en tevens van verbondenheid met de eeuwenoude textieltraditie van onze westerse beschaving. Een soort van “back to the roots” gevoel. De reden waarom ik in sjaals werk is hoofdzakelijk omdat ik een zekere bezetenheid heb met sjaals. Ze boeien me mateloos, de manier waarop je ze kunt dragen, wikkelen, draperen op het lichaam, heeft schier geen grenzen. Ik poog ze zo te maken dat ze zelfs, zonder drager/lichaam als ondergrond, een object op zich zijn. Het is niet zo evident om textiel boeiend te blijven houden in een sjaal. Een proeflapje is meestal 30cm * 30cm. Daarentegen is een sjaal ongeveer 200cm lang, hier moet je dan ook 200cm blijven boeien. Voor mij is de uitdaging groter. Het vergt gewoonweg meer van mezelf. En uiteindelijk is dat het ultieme zoeken. Je eigen streven, normen en waarden blijven verleggen. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Mixing Threads
Hallo mrs Clay and Mrs Jeri, i do agree for a big part what Mrs Jeri says and i also do agree very much what you Mrs Clay say i have a certain ambiguity about this subject why? well.. some tempted to experiment only for experimenting i am completly against it i have an academic beckground in this matter whom formed me to what i am now we learned to do experimenting only in fuction of certain designs not just for the fun of the experiment so... in that matter id do agree whit mrs jeri if she says you need to take threads as such and do whit it what the tread is intended for but ofcourse you have the artist/profesinal bricoleur hobbywoman-man some people hav it in them to take a "dogshit" and turn it in to somethingh you will say WAW this is magificant (sorry for the words) but unfortunatly most of thos art-"wizards" are very rare to find so i have to agree that sometimes for some people it is better to stick to their tricotin or what ever no this sounds humongusly pretensious and it may not sound like this at all because I AM a man from the future and for advence and inovation but whitin guidelines just taken straw to work whit straw is ok for a sample wut what afterwards what will you do whit it? for me it is important if you do the straw thing, you need it to do into a project make in your mind an idea why you want to work straw and what you are aiming from result look to the result and see what went wrong or wht is ok and what needs to go better i will be lasy i will graft herunder a text in "Nederlands" my mothertonghe and hope that someone will translate it it is a brief text of what to do how to do for makeing some experiments it is not a marvelmous text but it is a great guideline it is called "the real challenge of beiing creative" i know ther are translating motors out there on the www but i never found one well let us say my talents are defenatly not ENGLISH and not COMPUTERS hahahaha please feel free to coment i would love some input in this subject if the text under does not appear i can put it somewhere else - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Mixing Threads
this is the first text but it diod not pass sorry francis *De ware uitdagingen van het creatief zijn* *Verschil tussen kunst en ambacht?* In het verleden is zelf nu nog word heel veel geschreven over het verschil en wat kunst nu echt kunst maakt. Een eenvoudig antwoord is er niet. Wel kunnen we verschillende strekking waarnemen binnen deze filosofische vraag. Merendeel van deze strekking hebben een consensus gevonden in de volgende stelling : “Kunst is op zich het overstijgen van een bepaalde techniek,ambacht.” “Het verheffen tot een hoger goed” Daarnaast heb je een radicale strekking die kunst ziet als een puur maatschappelijk gegeven van *De principes van het creëren* Voor velen onder ons lijkt het niet evident dat ontwerpen op zich in drie kleine gouden regels te vertalen valt. Het lijkt absurd dat je met deze drie principes bijna alles kunt vertalen, verklaren en valideren. Let wel, dat ik duidelijk stel “bijna” alles. Er zullen altijd buitenbeentjes zijn maar die zijn zeldzaam. Het zijn die buitenbeentjes die de kunstwereld doen daveren op hun grondvesten en zorgen voor het evolueren naar een andere denken en zijn. Dus zeldzaam! U en ik vallen daar dus niet onder. Wat volgt zal een klein overzicht zijn van de drie regels en hoe je ze praktisch kunt vertalen tot werkbare instrumenten. *Steeds je thema verwerken als leidraad* Indien je ergens aan wil beginnen moet je een thema hebben. Een thema zorgt voor een gestructureerde benadering van een gegeven. Nu moet je niet denken dat een thema iets is wat je zomaar kiest. In de academies wordt de eerste 3 jaar het zoeken naar je eigenheid op die manier gestuurd. En slechts een paar vinden hun DING. Velen vinden het nooit. Leer experimenteren met die thema’s en voel aan wat je er goed in vind en wat niet. Probeer een paar eenvoudige als India, Japan, bloemen, bergen…. En probeer dan eens de echte moeilijke thema’s toe te passen zoals een kleur wit zwart, een begrip haat, liefde of zelfs een vorm vierkant kubus….. Je zult zien dat thema’s als India zeer snel tot een resultaat leiden omdat we als mensen met clichés over India zitten. Je zult ontwerpen zien van bekende Indische motieven, herkenbare poses met handen en hoofd. … Het is echter een totaal ander iets om een vorm te geven aan een kleur. Kleuren associëren we niet direct aan een vorm en toch kan het. Hoe geef ik liefde weer zonder er duidelijk een gestileerd hartje in te verwerken? Kan het? Natuurlijk! Het komt er vooral op neer om dagdagelijkse voor geprogrammeerde denkpatronen te analyseren en te doorbreken. *Minder is meer* Nadat je ernstig hebt nagedacht over het thema/onderwerp en daar reeds ver in verdiept zit moet je een idee hebben wat je ermee wil doen/bereiken. Dat idee moet je vertalen uit je praktisch gerichte voorontwerpen en studies die je gedaan hebt rond je thema/onderwerp. Daar haal je HET ding uit. Je steek alles in de centrifuge steekt de stekker in en duwt op de knop. En voila, het resultaat. Je zult zien dat bij de echte kunstennaar dat steeds een vereenvoudiging is van zijn voorontwerpen. Dat heten ze dan ook het stileren van je gedachten. Ga steeds tot het uiterste om alles wat overbodig is omtrent je thema weg te laten. Zodat je een zuiver thema overhoud. Dat zijn steeds de zuiverste ontwerpen. *Alles moet een doel/functie hebben* Indien je in dat ontwerp een krul wil bijtekenen moet je daar een reden voor hebben, een reden die perfect past in het kader van je onderwerp/thema. Zonder deze doelgerichte functie ben je stuurloos bezig je ontwerp te verknoeien. Let wel degelijk op dat ik hier nu krullen, tierlantijntjes en dergelijke pierlawietjes niet zit af te breken he. Rococo barok etc hebben dit in hun denken zitten. En toch zelfs daar hebben ze een welbepaalde functie en noodzaak van bestaan in het ontwerp. Een teveel en het gehele werk is ook omzeep. *Voorbeelden* *Help ik ben extreem blond op gebied van ontwerpen!!!* Paniekeer nooit! Zie niet direct af van het zelf eens iets te proberen. Durf je lot in eigen handen te nemen. GA ervoor!! Uiteindelijk zal de wereld niet stilstaan als het mislukt. En heel belangrijk, leer uit iets wat niet geslaagd is. En veel belangrijker!! Kijk of je er niet eens iets mee kunt experimenteren!! Je kan toch niets meer mis doen?! Eenvoudig te volgen regels Kleur Indien je kleurenblind zou zijn en je durft niet te experimenteren met kleuren begin dan eens met één totaal gek kleur. Maak er een volledig werk in. Je zult aangenaam verrast zijn van het resultaat. Durf je al iets meer neem er twee. Kleuren hoeven op zich niet echt bij elkaar te passen. Dit klinkt echt wel als een vloek in velen hun oren maar toch is dit een waarheid als een koe. Er bestaan zoveel kleurenleren die je van alles laten zien, voelen en denken over kleur dat je uiteindelijk bij alles wel een draai of zwaai kunt geven in een of andere pseudo-wetenschappelijke benadering. Moraal van het verhaal.
Re: [lace] hitches & straws
Hallo Mvr Siegbert, fur ein oder den anderen ursache laden die fotos nicht auf ich versteche es auch nicht so gut ich versuche es montag noch mahl neu auf das internet zu publicieren hoffendlich gheht es dan doch sichtbar sein die knoten ist echt ein reines wunder sehr einfach und das gibt sie den moglichheit fur shon weiter su arbeiten mit glates materiaal grusse francis Achim Siebert schreef: Hello Francis, Am 20.08.2008 um 09:30 schrieb Francis Busschaert: their is a special silk-knot i learn all people wanting to see it i promise to put it as fast as possible on the internet to show to all of you i do not have a camera so it will be still fotos Since I did a little Bucks bookmark in silk last weekend I had another look on your "Zijde Knoop" page - unfortunately, none of the pictures mentioned in the text are visible. Is it an error on the webpage or did you just not get around to complete the page? Looking forward to see how you do it - some of my bobbins tend to loosen with the slippery silk, even with a double or triple hitch on them. Best, Achim in autumnal Berlin. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.21/1674 - Release Date: 16/09/2008 8:15 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] re: horsehair in lace
Hallo to all, horsehair is my DADA, my thing of intrest if you want to clean horsehair you will use of course kerosine it is the fuel of arirplains not so easy to get at but it is that what we use for affimageoil = you could say the same as cremeshompoo for hair it gives a second third or more yought to the hair and it is not damaging for any natural fibres after a good dry it evens completly vannish in thin air you will probably say he is crazy . but i can assure you it does the work in 2 steps it gives again a certain souplesse tot the hair and works as a rejouvinating aspeckt (if only i could use it on myself.) and it also rinise the filth dirt of it the only SMAL problem you ca have is when you have coloured materials in the work then the colours can depending on the kind o pigments used begin running any direction but until now i have never seen a hair work in differend colurs cotton silk or what ever throuh it mostly in hair works the natural colour of the hair is what works best of all Also if you have problems working bobbinlace in horsehair because it is to rigid add some drops on the bobins and the hairs you will be astonished by the result of easyer working conditions the smell well you have to think you are ready to fly... francis phil powis schreef: What lovely snippets turnup here! Reading about the fate of washed horsehair n lace reminded me of the helpful hints for washing lace in Therese de Dillmonts Encyclopaedia of Needlework first pub. 1886? but dont know if the hints were added or modified later. She recommends that soiled lace be soaked overnight in olive oil to remove grime and restore suppleness - then boil in a pan of water with pure soap until clean, rinse in water and dry still wrapped around the bottle to retain shape and prevent shrinking. So perhaps , if horsehair was incorporated in the lace and it was soaked and boiled like this the keratin would be denatured a bit and become kinked rather like perming our own hair. Phil in Newcastle _ Take a summer road trip with Windows Live Hotmail. Multiple prizes and the ultimate dream beach house! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.6/1769 - Release Date: 5/11/2008 7:17 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] other chat groups like ours?
Hallo, Spiders, deos there exist a "Embroidery" chat or an other equvalent of us in other textile groups? many thx francis kortrijk other chat groupsbelgium - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] other chat groups like ours?
Hallo Norma, well i was looking forward to have a look on the groups but the link does not realy seem to work didyou have the correct weblink copied? many thx in advance francis belgium Norma Harris schreef: Hi Francis, Are you looking for something like this? Â Â Â Â http://groups.com/group/hand-embroidery/ We'd love to have you join us! Norma http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com NATA #847 --- On Sun, 30/11/08, Francis Busschaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Francis Busschaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [lace] other chat groups like ours? To: lace@arachne.com Received: Sunday, 30 November, 2008, 4:22 AM Hallo, Spiders, deos there exist a "Embroidery" chat or an other equvalent of us in other textile groups? many thx francis kortrijk other chat groupsbelgium - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.11/1820 - Release Date: 29/11/2008 18:52 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Mixing fibres and gimp question
Hallo to all, hi Jane, that idea of handing down the washing instructions is a real marvelous idea i think it might be even a perfect part of the design why not embroider the washing instructions on the gown? I think it is a real good idea and a modern touch to the total work besides the problem of linnen or cotton you can always choose for a not 100% pure linnen or cotton if you whoose a halfmix you can overcome sometimes the problems of shrinking or deforming, that is in the first place the reason why they began making mixes of materials in the "old-days" plus if you take a mixed thread of linnen and other materials you have less and less nobs of "horrifying"linnen structures ... francis Jane Partridge schreef: In message <654178.80006...@web51103.mail.re2.yahoo.com>, Dona Bushong writes My first question concerns the thread. The pattern calls for Egyptian Cotton 80/2. As I said though, I'm putting this on linen. Does one usually mix fibers for the lace and fabric? I know from knitting and spinning that mixing of fibers can give different results when it comes to laundering. And as I hope this will get passed down from my daughters to their children, will the different fibers age differently? I'm working a Bucks piece (a one-off, of my own design) at the moment and using linen thread which is at the thick end of comfortable for the grid - when I hit a slub it is hard going. (Yes, I know, I could have used a larger grid but I want a denser effect on this one, I also have reasons for the thread choice!). The particular thread (Texere's Galway Linen) behaves the same as DMC Broder Machine - untwists with the movement of the bobbins so I have to keep a constant watch that the threads are not about to fall apart on me (which has happened a couple of times). I personally prefer to use a glazed cotton for Bucks, but find the William Hall 80/2 cotton produces a good result without the untwisting problem. As a weaver, you will know that there is a difference in the "handle" of the finished lace between lace and linen - and the same will go for the robe itself. The amount of drape and creasing you want may be a deciding factor between the two fabrics. If the robe is likely to be used in a hot climate, then fine linen may be a good choice, but cotton fabric may be a lot easier to care for and may give a nicer feel against the baby's skin. Because you cannot expect to be there when your gr.gr.gr.gr grandchildren are using the robe, I would go for a match between fabric and lace threads, to make washing/care as easy as possible for someone who may not have our knowledge, and would definitely not add the hassle of having to remove the lace from the robe before washing, then put it back, to the schedule of a busy new mother who may not be the best of needlewomen! Handing down washing instructions with the robe is a good idea, as long as it is kept up to date with the availability of washing products over the next hundred-or-so years. We have two robes - one made from my mother-in-law's (cotton) wedding dress, worn by my husband and eldest daughter, and a smocked silk robe and bonnet I made for my younger daughter (before I started making lace). As for the effect of the gimp round the honeycomb, without seeing the pattern, I would work a small sample first, looking at the effect of doubling and stop-start, and decide which looks best. Double would at least mean that the threads are continuous, and less likely to come astray over the washings to come! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.2/1872 - Release Date: 2/01/2009 13:10 - 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] Thread Identification
hi hallo, an other small test is fire just burn a bit and smell if it smells like paper it will be cotton or linnen or hemp (could be hemp if you say it is that old, hemp was sometimes trangly more available then linnen) then you do the Brenda magnifying test for making the difference to long (linnen) and short staples (cotton) if it smells quite burned plastic ..well. c'est la vie if it smells like you are burning hear or burning pigs skin then you might think it is raw silk francis belgium no more freezing now it is raining and wet and dirty ... laceandb...@aol.com schreef: Delores, Two other factors can make thread stiff; one is the amount of twist. There was a cotton thread called Unity that was around when I started making lace (about 30 years ago) which was *the thread* for Bucks as it was highly twisted and the lace made with it was *crisp*. Some threads are starched on the reel; Gutterman's cotton quilting thread is one. This is starched to make it smooth to sew with, but when it is washed it fluffs up a tid and is much softer. Disappointing for lacemaking if you weren't expecting it. Linen thread on the reel often doesn't feel that much different to cotton. It is when you was if and iron it damp with a hot iron that the difference shows. Linen feels like it has been starched. Brenda's tip about looking at the length of the individual fibres is probably the best and easiest, but I do also wonder if it might be poly-cotton. Most of the threads on large plastic cones are industrial threads so although that doesn't exclude cotton and linen, it is also very likely that it is at least partly synthetic. If that is the case, we need to go back to Brenda again and ask if polyester used for a cotton look-alike sewing thread is continuous filament or short staple. No reason you can't use it for lacemaking (sharp intake of breath from the purists, perhaps). In fact if you ever want to mount lace on poly-cotton fabric it makes sense to use a compatible thread for the lace. When you came to wash and iron, the care instructions are the same for both. Malvary and I have several blouses of Mum's, with applied lace, and some are cotton thread, some polyester, but they all look just as good 20 or so years on. Jacquie in England - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.9/1902 - Release Date: 19/01/2009 9:37 - 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] lemongrass Obama dress
Hallo to all I m a bit lost now ok i might be lightly blond but still.. even then i can not follow anymore could one of the smart ones enlighten me what it is? is it lace net basis uesed for the felting of the wool merinos elements? or what is it now and how does retournac fit in all of this? many kind regards francis very strong winds unplaisant sticky wet rain cold dark ... hottl...@neo.rr.com schreef: Hello again! How does "wool lace in silk net", described by the designer as custom guipure, translate into chemical lace?? Susan in Grassy Key - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1911 - Release Date: 23/01/2009 7:28 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] opendoor days
hallo to all i dare to put this on the arachne chat because it is not just me selling but also a marvelous, i even will tell you a more then fabulous exposition whit works from Mariet Visser a dutch queen of modern lace specialised in 3-dimensional multi layer laces you just have to see it we have the "opendoor-day" this coming weekend the place to be is Kortrijk Belgium saterday-sunday from 9.30h-16.30h so if you are in the neaghbourhood you are more then welcome francis from bart & francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] numbers of knitting needles
hallo to all i need a fast answer is the knitting needle numbering from USa "american " needles the same as the numbers we use in europe here a number 10 is 10mm dimameter is this the same in the USA or is there quite a difference many kind regards francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] wooden knitting needles
ok, now i know i was not sure but.. better to be sure then to be sorrow afterwards thanks to all for the fast help an other question does anyone know a good label of high quality wood knitting needles and please no bamboo ones i "hate" them for not using other words... until now i have found www.lanternmoon.com they look fabulous but a bit pricy many kind regards francis - 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] wooden knitting needles
I from belgium but i m just an email from you away and these days the world is around the corner i have seen those brittnay needles may i say i do not like them just visual they do not appeal to me because they look a bit meatloaf like i know beeing picky and crazy can eb considered an illnes but it is one whom just itches a bit nothingh more sorry. i am one of those looking first of all how it looks liek then how it works like so if in that following order the looks are a "no go" the rest does not matter anymore do not forget ladys i m a man not a woman most of you say we do think differend it is even written in a bad book men mars woman venus c'est la vie kind regardss ajrd barron schreef: I like knit picks, see here, sorry I'm not sure where you are, this is a UK site http://www.getknitted.com/acatalog/Knit_Picks_2.html jenny On 6 Feb 2009, at 15:34, Francis Busschaert wrote: ok, now i know i was not sure but.. better to be sure then to be sorrow afterwards thanks to all for the fast help an other question does anyone know a good label of high quality wood knitting needles and please no bamboo ones i "hate" them for not using other words... until now i have found www.lanternmoon.com they look fabulous but a bit pricy many kind regards francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.18/1937 - Release Date: 02/05/09 11:34:00 - 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] numbers of knitting needles
hallo mrs Isabel, why do you say that? i m intrigued now because you are the first of a long list sayning this i must admit that mostly i do not use needles but i use a computerised industrial machine but now and then i do a bit of sampling on the classic way it is very fast for looking for colour matshing and effects of fantasy threads the reason i was looking for wooden knitting needles is that I have now a pear of german ebony needles and they feel so njammy to work in it is like you are not carrying those needles hard to explain in a foreign language but I feel like a knitting princes altough i am a knitting farmer i think that after some soulsearshing i can say that it is to put away the feel of the industrial side of my activitys metal and industry versus wood and nature so that is way i was looking if there are other wood needles on the market and apperently there are a lot but .. a lot of differend ones differend touches, differnd woods and grains If i look to the metal ones I used to work in: Like the prym metal needels and other similar ones i sometimes have the feel that they are to heavy and not pleasant enough in my hands they feel cold and clinical death it is again between the ears ofcourse but. Bart always looks to those matters in an other way he says it is a kind of snobisme i do not agree but if you have a real reason and not emotional ones like i have. i am one and all ears and i forgat to mention that the tik tak noise of the woods are like the risling of willows in the wind and the metal kling klang tsching, well it bothers me francis Isabel Wear schreef: Of all the purchases I have made for knitting over the years, the best, by far is the "metallic knitting gauge". It is THE tool for any knitter. Isabel Wear Realtor Sutton Group - West Coast 7547 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V6P 3H6 Mobile: 604-377-3475 E-mail: isabel.w...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Francis Busschaert Sent: February-06-09 7:08 AM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] numbers of knitting needles hallo to all i need a fast answer is the knitting needle numbering from USa "american " needles the same as the numbers we use in europe here a number 10 is 10mm dimameter is this the same in the USA or is there quite a difference many kind regards francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1939 - Release Date: 02/07/09 13:39:00 - 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] numbers of knitting needles
AHA and suddenly ther was light sorry i wrongly read and understood this gauge thingh now i do get it luckely one of you 'jane in particular' did understand my "not understanding" of the words i have no problem finding the correct needel numbers or even if there are no numbers on it but somehow i end up using again and again the same needles like a 4 6 9 and 15 metric numbers so i wanted to order some in the big USA and then i wanted to be sure about what i buy as i wanted it to match my most uesed numbers.. but indeed i have seen those "gauges" before in several shops in belgium but as i recolect, they only refer to the metric system i never seen any refering to other number systems but anyway i had my doughts there must be more then one system in handknitting because i know that in machine needles we do have already 3 differnd systems of numbering flatknitting versus round kniting machines versus braiding needles etc etc so i beleven Isabel is still sleeping and will indeed be puzzled by my question luckely this is solved in the same time of her beautysleep so sorry isabel and thanks to you Jane francis Jane Partridge schreef: In message <498fbf69.3070...@telenet.be>, Francis Busschaert writes hallo mrs Isabel, why do you say that? i m intrigued now because you are the first of a long list sayning this Isabel Wear schreef: Of all the purchases I have made for knitting over the years, the best, by far is the "metallic knitting gauge". It is THE tool for any knitter. I think what Isabel (and likely the others) is suggesting you obtain is a gauge for measuring the size of knitting needles - possibly the one she mentions not only gives a hole to measure each size needle but also lists the equivalent sizes against each? The wooden needles I have (given to me years ago; I have no idea of their maker or type of wood) didn't have their numbers on them to start with - we have had to mark them, and due to the year we were given them they are numbered in the old UK system. Needles we buy now are all sized in millimetres. It can get confusing when you have old and new needles together - particularly around the (old) size 5 and 6 region! I have two gauges - both old, one a plastic square which was free with one of the women's magazines years ago. It has holes to measure the needles, a ruler along one edge, and an inch-square hole for you to check your tension. The other, bought with some fine crochet hooks, sewing needles, etc from an antique shop, is brass, with a graded width slit down the centre - marks etched alongside the slot at intervals give the needle size - this goes down to extremely small sizes. Both are numbered to the old UK system. The gauges are useful when checking the size of double ended or circular needles - for some reason these are less likely to have their size on them! Of course, unless the gauge gives the different numbering systems you will need a chart to convert between the three systems in use. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1939 - Release Date: 02/07/09 13:39:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Chinese Panda chewchew
hallo to all i want to thank aal wo hellped me in the wooden needle question i was on a textile event this weekend and we could sample all possible and unpossible wooden needles as i was not aware of the difference before i can only say that i am asstonished about the difference i have to retake my offensife words to wards the bamboo needles until now i only knew bamboo needles which are hoorible i think they are made in china and were the leftovers from the chewchew of some panda reservate. i have seen now bamboo needles and knitted on them and we they are a world of difference of what i used to see as bamboo needles so yo can see how a man can be misled and that alone on bamboo one wunders what else i am misled about anyway i adjusted my viewings on bamboo and know i know that the bamboo needles i had before in can only use them to use on the grill/barbeque in july so thanks to all for the help and i must say that my favorites are now the christal palace kneedles francis in belgium kortrijk not so cold anymore not so wet anymore - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] measure problems
Hallo to all i have an other question it is also knitting related on that knitting event in Holland were i found those lovely knitting needles i was also there as an seller of our threads and quite often we were confronted whit a question i did not directly had an aswer for they asked if it was laceweight, and other teminolegy concerning the thickness of the threads i have to say i m very good in conversions in Nm Nec linnen wool deniers etc but thatone is again an other kind of mesurements i did not know i have googled for it but did not find until now a good conversion towards Nm or other known numbers i can relate to so i hope, as most of you are not only bobbin or needle lacers, but generaly whit a very broad horison in textiles and can be considered as the real genuan "textile-maniacs" / "filo-maniac" like myself (they say its a mental desease that keeps you from the streets) and so that you can solf the problem so is there any out in the virtual world knowing exactly how its working from those laceweight towards real Nm or Nec or den measures? or and that is what i have found until now onn the net they give a kind of fork/interval of numbers were that kind of thread could be pinpointed in many thax in advance francis kortrijk belgium the sun is shining the crocus flowers are getting open the first signs of summer - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: Lace weight wool in NM
hallo mr Bazar, yes that is what i was realy looking for those numbers do say me a lot and now all fals into perfect place many many thanx and congratulations whit you perfect legs unfortunatly mother nature was not so kind to me... i now do need to pink a tear away francis Leonard Bazar schreef: Dear Francis The Shetland wool spinners of whom I am a satisfied customer, but otherwise unconnected, give what I think are the details you require. The website is www.shetlandwool.org, and clicking on “products” gets you to the wools. The “lace weight” yarns are dyed, the one-ply being 1/14.5NM, the two-ply 2/14.5NM. The “Shetland Supreme” ones also have lace weights, one-ply being 1/16NM, two-ply2/16NM. I hope this does mean enough to you; there are some other statistics which I also don’t understand. From a practical point of view, the Supreme is worsted spun and undyed, the range of colours (including black, grey and a dark brown) are what the sheep come in, and works up much finer than the ordinary dyed. Using the ordinary, I get a tension of 44st to 10 cm on 1.75mm needles, and use 108st for a sock for a small but perfectly-formed leg (mine). The Supreme, admittedly on 1.5mm needles to get a suitable fabric, requires 180st. leonard...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.5/1977 - Release Date: 02/28/09 17:21:00 - 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] Laceweight Yarn vs. Thread Thickness
hallo, what is this? I have a great love of Sanquhar (and also Selbuvotter, which is less 3 ply specific). it sound very Nordic or Irisch or does it make part of some other ancient knitting slang? it even sounds to me like part a figure from "lords of the ring" furthermore i want to say that the normal industry is split into 2 sections knitting and weaving manufacturers most are realy specialised in one or the other and if you are in busines on the knitting industry you will only find Nm mentionings never fingering aran or others in fact i have asked some producers the same question they never heard about that aran laceweight etc as far as they recollect they only have uesed Nm and in the old days they had 3 other numbers but then one of the region of limoges france told me that even that is a very very long time ago "Worsted" numbers Dewsbury numbers which are for the very thick counts and the woolen numbers i agree 100% on what brenda says it is time to put the real numbers on the articles and not some own factory label for making tit not easy to compare to other materials all the links i got for reference do help a bit to make a small chart many thx to all francis Susan Reishus schreef: Thank you for your letter. I noted your textile weights given on the list and appreciate it. I have a bunch of British 4 ply by various vendors, inherited from a relative (I have Scottish/English ancestry but was born/live in the US), and 4 ply is definitely thicker; somewhere between fingering and sport (US terms). I have addressed this with people/knitters who are considered expert in the industry and they all concur that fingering is finer than 4 ply and also place it between fingering and sport. Your explanation of fingering references in the UK perhaps explains a lot, but it is considered a valid description here, and now with the resurgence of sock yarns, is often now called fingering/sock yarn. I agree that the lines have become blurred with perpetual transitions as the industry has had many resurgences this last century as trade and communication increases. I have ordered inordinate amounts of yarn from Colourmart also and have to order what he calls 4 ply to get fingering to use for my designs and fingering sweater patterns. I also collect knitting needles and have a predispositition toward a particiular UK needle so often have to merge the UK/US/mm size qualifications. On the aside, do you know of a good source for 3 ply? I have a great love of Sanquhar (and also Selbuvotter, which is less 3 ply specific). Substitution of fingering/2 ply isn't always satisfactory since it if finer and because the design and more sophisticated glove pattern, yarn thickness (along with needles of course) are often the only way to control as most were knit with 3 ply. TIA, Susan Reishus --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Brenda Paternoster wrote: From: Brenda Paternoster Subject: Re: [lace] Laceweight Yarn vs. Thread Thickness To: "Susan Reishus" Cc: l...@dont.panix.com Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 3:36 AM Hello Sue http://www.colourmart.com/eng/knowledge_base/knitting_properties"; The only challenge on the aside, is this chart reverses the weights of 4 ply and fingering, as Richard of Colourmart engaged a relatively "novice knitter" when he started his business to help him set up the chart, and she was unfamiliar with fingering. 4 ply typically tends to be thicker than fingering, thought the lines have blurred in all descriptions as knitting becomes more international. If the Nm sizes are correct and the 4 ply is Nm2/14 and the fingering is Nm 3/14 then the chart is correct with 4 ply finer than fingering. Originally, fingering was 2 ply, and 4 ply was as stated. The old rule was that sport was doubled fingering, and worsted was doubled sport, and the UK double knitting falls between sport and worsted (5 sts per inch in stockinette/stocking stitch). In UK it used to be 2 ply, 3 ply and 4 ply which were just that, getting thicker with each additional ply, double knitting which was thicker but still with 4 plies and occasionally Aran which was very thick. Everyone knew what the names meant and although manufacturers didn't like to say so, one brand of 4 ply was very much like any other brand of 4 ply. Fingering meant a quality worsted which had been carded and combed whilst 'ordinary' wools were just combed. Then synthetics (acrylic mainly) were introduced and they started making all sorts of different yarns and also used fewer but thicker plies (less spinning so cheaper to make!) Added to that the internet meant that lots of American yarns and patterns became available. Not only were the Americans using a different numbering system for their needles, but they also used different descriptions for their yarns. No wonder people got confused! The needle sizing is getting better now with metric sizes becoming the norm in most place
Re: [lace] cotton and linen
hallo to all, what is pin stitched? francis joanne scowcroft schreef: On the topic of hanky fabrics, (i)Copelands in Ireland no longer keep hanky linen. They tell me that most of the Irish weavers are closed and they cannot source it. (ii)Yes, Lacis still sell pin stitched cotton centres. The smallest is four inches. (iii)I haven't found any pin stitched linen centres at Lacis. I am glad I have found a supplier for linen batiste in Europe. I should make up a hanky and report on how it works up. Best wishes, Joanne, Downunder, beautiful Autumn day here. Ph: 02 4975 5201 e-mail: joa...@joscolace.com.au website: www.joscolace.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.25/2019 - Release Date: 03/23/09 18:51:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] lutac
hallo, does any one know were lutac lace originates? and when? and can anyone show me a website were i can find new inspirational lutac works kind regards an extremly sunny day - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
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[lace] real danger comming to the USA???????? or just a fluffy knit
hallo dear Arachnes, i have a question i will be in a plain towards the big USA (brussels ---chicagolosangeles) and i was wondering to "kill" the time by knittning on the plane but . it is towards the BIG USA so there will be probably problems ahaed .. has anyone reacently done this? and dident been put out of the plane over the atlantic whit a small dingorubberboat and one paddle i assume that they will say that i can ""kill"" more than time whit knitting needles if that is the case i think i feel greatly overestimated in my 007 bond capabilitys but . c'est la vie many kind regards francis - 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] real danger comming to the USA???????? or just a fluffy knit
But did you use them on the plane, did the flight-staff said anything about it ? I wanna use them in the cabin ... to pas some time Francis, Annelore Stone schreef: Hello, I have had wooden knitting needles in my carry on, and they didn't show up on the scanner I guess. They passed OK. When I came back from Frankfurt in May I brought a fairly large--a size 3 crochet hook, 1/2 plastic and 1/2 metal, and they didn't take that away from me. Of course that has a fairly large rounded metal tip. Annelore Stone in the shadow of Mt. Rainier in the Great State of Washington - Original Message ----- From: "Francis Busschaert" To: Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 1:08 PM Subject: [lace] real danger comming to the USA or just a fluffy knit hallo dear Arachnes, i have a question i will be in a plain towards the big USA (brussels ---chicagolosangeles) and i was wondering to "kill" the time by knittning on the plane but . it is towards the BIG USA so there will be probably problems ahaed .. has anyone reacently done this? and dident been put out of the plane over the atlantic whit a small dingorubberboat and one paddle i assume that they will say that i can ""kill"" more than time whit knitting needles if that is the case i think i feel greatly overestimated in my 007 bond capabilitys but . c'est la vie many kind regards francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2220 - Release Date: 07/05/09 17:54:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.386 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2220 - Release Date: 07/05/09 17:54:00 - 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] real danger comming to the USA???????? or just a fluffy knit
hallo Mrs Irene, yes i will be there for the IOLI Lace guild convention we are making the whoe trip towards you specialy for you and we bring a lot of gooodies whit us as you know i m a real thread-aholic a yarn-maniac a textile obsesed creature yo have no idea. welll you will see for yourself and don't mind i am in therapy for it you show me a bit of thread fibers and i m like a child geting candy my mother told me reasontly ""'DO NOT ACCEPT THREADS FORM OLD LADYS lol lol why did you ask? do you want sometink in perticular from our range? you can always ask to bring it to the USA but huy the last shipment is leaving in 2 days many kind regards francis Whitham, Irene & Steve schreef: Dear Francis, This isn't an answer to your question but my curiosity.will you be in Los Angeles for the IOLI convention? Irene Whitham who's looking forward to her first IOLI convention, - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.386 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2220 - Release Date: 07/05/09 17:54:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] The USA seems to have a problem whit me
Mrs alice howel send me an email for buying threads at the ioli convention but her emailsystem sends it back as impossible to diliver i am seen as unwanted spam by the system you seee i am even seen as a danger by USA email provider so sorry to do this here but i have no possibility of contacting her otherwise this was the email Hello, Are you the Francis of the Bart and Francis Threads that Michael Guisiana brought to Lace at Sweet Briar conference? I tried to find your webpage but I didn't have it written down correctly. If you are the right person, I am interested in the thread packages for Binche and for Flanders. I understand that there are three sizes of thread in each package, and one of the spools is size 240. I have several friends going to IOLI in Los Angeles, so one of them could pay you and pick up the packages. I hope you have a great trip, and can use your knitting needles all the way. Alice in Oregon Alice Howell this is my reaction hallo mrs Alicen, yes indeed that is me i m francis form bart en francis it is not a problem to reserve this now it is even better you just do a order on the internet and you put on it your name and shooche dilivery form IOLI losangeles that way your package will be awaiting for you or your friends at the convention the fine cotton threads are a real wonder they are the best of the best from this kind of egyptian cotton finer and better cotton is not technical possible you willl be very very happy about it if i may ask you to spread the word around we are comming and it is not a problem to order now to put aside in IOLI it saves us a bit of problems please do notice they have to pay on the spot in cash or goldnuggets (no creditcards or other systems are possible) many many kind regards francis http://www.bart-francis.be this is the error SPAM i got back This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients was aborted after 0 second(s): * lacel...@verizon.net Reporting-MTA: dns; georges.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.68] Received-From-MTA: dns; [192.168.50.101] [84.197.34.103] Arrival-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:20:21 +0200 Final-recipient: rfc822; lacel...@verizon.net Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 571 Email from 195.130.137.68 is currently blocked by Verizon Online's anti-spam system. The email sender or Email Service Provider may visit http://www.verizon.net/whitelist and request removal of the block. 090707 Last-attempt-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:20:21 +0200 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] our USA ioli adventure part 1
hallo to all So we went to the USA I finaly did not take knitting needles on the plane because i all to well remember that custums and airportsecurity peolpe lac any kind of "polite" and "frindly comprehensive" caracter i beleve they are specialy trained in beeing a in the . it is at your own imagination to fill in the . when i finaly was on that plane, I a was happy not to have my knittigneedles there is no place to move around my arms and elbows to knit.. not whitout hurting the co-passengers anyway so no knitting i fly a lot evry year in europe short cityhoppers so in and out the plane and it is always out of holliday periods so i forgot how it is when you do travel in holidayperiods what it is like to have very small, small and even bigger children on the plane or the nonstop blond narative waterfall or big dinosoruslike persons next to you or behind you whom just fit in the chair and even beyond that chair and were you have to dwell and survive for 8 painfully long hours evry airbreeding movement and other fysical movements were you feel the knees of that person al to we in your back where you see and mostly hear the children of parents whom lost the parental battle against there own monsters a veryyy long time ago boy o boy i still want children but that are the moments were you realy think twice somehow you seem to not feel the dinosaur anymore somehow you seem to not notice the little gremlins anymore somehow you seem to be able to dwell in a state of sleeping and "not noticing" all the rest we survived the trip and suddenly you are in Los Angeles it was the first time we were in the USA it realy is DIFFEREND not in big ways but in small remarcable thinghs the first thing we noticed was the imens amounts of traffic and all those small busses for the hotels, and carparks etcetc sooo many traffic and soo big cars, driving monsters on 4 or more wheels big bigger bigest shining metal monsters we did not see any old cars it was like a new presenting carshow we took the ride to the hotel settled down and asked at the concierge were we could find a supermarket BIG MISTAKE.. he said only 10 minutes around the corner a bit further welll those 10 minutes became 45 minutes of walking real walking in skin burning SUN and hot air i felt like a vampire in the sun and i was smimming in my own underware... that was the first time we noticed the "small distinct " other way of seeing distances at that point were were awake for 28 hours, to give you a bit the feelling we had in our remainders of brain we espacily go first to see supermarkets when we arrive in other countrys for us it is like a "contempary museum of the living culture" or like "the ambasy of lifestyl" what you see there is what you will get for the rest of the time beeing so my remarks are were do you find non sugar containing yogurt and when i say non sugar i do not want some kind of fake/synthetic sugar in it like aspartaan or what ever we could not find any natural non sugartasty yogurt IMPOSSIBLE and the more you see other products the more you notice that vertualy all is sugary, sweetend, honny. where are those lovly hard baked cookies biscuits and other delights? it seems to be mostly half baked whatevers i like them crunchy what the HELL happend whit chocolate in the USA why does all chocolate products taste like ... well i can not decribe it must be some recycled wasteproduct of the pertochem industry my god that is in the eys of us belgiums (and swiss) like blasfamy ""you shall not rape or violate the taste of chocolate"" why does the fish smells like it came by "slow" animal transport from Argentina. what is the difference between 1% fatfree milk and 2% fatfree milk and please do not tell me 1% difference and i forgot a lot of those little differences they will come. so we bought our selection of never tried before goods and headed back to the hotel when we arrived in the hotel we felt like yellifis and went straight to bed the next morning we were a wake at 3.00 3.30 4.00 .and at 5.00 in the morning the 2 of us were already fully awake we coudl unfortunatly not shed off the belgium timeline i never had that big difference in time before it is a real bodyand mind killer i still do not understand how longdistance flycrews can cope whit it its a wonder no more planecrash hapen ... that fisrt day we took a small bustrip first stop manhatten beach to see the passific the one ocean i had never seen before it was nice warm t hot again but nice from the breese in the air we stopped at the starbucks drink some coffees and noticed again some very bizare usa-behavier some not so skinny persons asked a coffee whit lowfat milk BUT whit whipped cream on it yeaah like that will work 1 -1 = 0 like eating negative weightwatchers poits lol - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the li
[lace] USA
Hallo to all, dont panic i will not write of my journey of the USA that will come later i will condense all in one verryyy long email and post it but i have a question i have seen a so called blonde work on ebay i m not an expert but if i see those fotograps my little alamr senors in my head say NOWAY that is not handmade but ùmachien lace i know there are some EXPERTS here enlighten me please the abay nr is ebay nr 110428639339 http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-SILK-BLONDE-CHANTILLY-LACE-SHAWL-HANDEMBR-8_W0QQitemZ110428639339QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b60f506b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] USA
I have an other question on this matter do sellers not have the OBLIGATION to tell the truth that it is not handmade, machinemade, etcetcet or is this obligation only a fague notion? i have looked a bit further on ebay and i was ashamed for some of these sellers to even try to pass on piecec whom are so clearly machine lace trimmings as the real genuan product.. even "vintage" was labeled on some so i will drop my real question here and now i m looking for a chantilly or blonde genuan/vintage nice and for virtualy no money i it need ot be as big as possible because it i need it to be scanned and blown up to be used as a print on textile afterwards - 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 edges
To all, please be awere of the fact that these days machine lace can overcome this problem of picots and edges there is the possibility to use watersolube thread on the parts where you normaly should do the cutting of the differend peaces of machiend laces and it is no longer valid that possitions of thread nr 1 cant go to possition nr 5000 in one and the same "row" of work in the modern machines they can promtly change possitions of threads like you should do on your pillow the reason they do not do it is because it takes time and we all know time is money but for the highend market it is done so you can make lace peaces on these machiens and then just water it and hocuspocus pats you have the several differend peaces no cutted threads. only strangely looking picots but this is not a real problem in normal live because if her ladyship is wearing a scarf well draped over her voluptous bozem no one will dare to go look close and ask "is this a normal picot?" well I wood not do it... i did not look to the picots i only looked suspicious to the woven linnen parts wich seems for me to be to "open" and in a bizare way spaced intervals inbetween and i do not agree to the assuption that the ends are taken """"always""""" care of yes you might do that but look to what is there to find in most shops look to the horrors hanign in citys like Brugge Gent Antwerp Brussel.. i m born and raised in Brugge and looked all my life to it i almost got bad eyes because of it so BAADDD or is this a wrong assuption of me? please feel always free to correct me i do not bite very hard francis Alice Howell schreef: I'll give a try on this. First, the lace shawl on eBay had a strip of machine made picots (little loops) sewn on the edges to imitate the picots on handmade lace that are an extension of the edge stitches. Depending on the lace, the handmade loops can be made with one thread or with two threads twisted together. Some machine made laces are made with a woven background and these are usually made in quantity and attached together. When they are cut apart, it leaves single thread ends sticking out all around. I don't know of any handmade laces that have single threads sticking out. Bobbin lace is made with pairs, and great care is taken to finish off the ends so they do not stick out. Needlelace techniques hide the thread ends. Alice in Oregon - Original Message From: Pat Tinney This brings up a question that I have had on my mind for a while.. I know that most, if not all, of the lace in my church is machine made. Some of it looks like the pattern was woven and a sizing used to hold it together. No twist, no cross, no knots. The one thing I have wondered about, that I also think I see in the eBay quasi-shawl is that on the edges little threads are sticking out. It is the existence of these threads that make me think that the lace in my church is a simple weave that is trimmed at the end of the manufacturing process. My question is this: Are there any traditional techniques that have these short threads sticking out. I cannot tell about the eBay example, but on the ones in my church these are definitely single cut threads, not at all like a worker thread going around a pin. Any information or resources would be most appreciated. Thank you, Pat T. ------ From: "Brenda Paternoster" Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 2:58 PM To: "Francis Busschaert" Cc: Subject: Re: [lace] USA Hello Francis It's not Chantilly It's not hand made It's not even big enough to be a shawl. It is a machine made scarf - probably Leavers machine. Brenda On 6 Sep 2009, at 19:53, Francis Busschaert wrote: i m not an expert but if i see those fotograps my little alamr senors in my head say NOWAY that is not handmade but ùmachien lace i know there are some EXPERTS here enlighten me please the abay nr is ebay nr 110428639339 http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-SILK-BLONDE-CHANTILLY-LACE-SHAWL-HANDEMBR-8_W0QQitem Z110428639339QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b60f506b&_trksi d=p3286.c0.m14 Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incomin
[lace] coloured old lace knitting?????
hallo to all i know it is not realy lace so i will AGAIN walk on the sharp edge of a knife, but jaaa thats meee i have seen now a lot of very nice to wonderfull lacesjaals made in knitting from estonian to islandic to shetland etcetcetc very nice very perfect in technical outworking BUT is there anyone whom knows of OLD (for me that is from before 1900) of coloured fine to cobweb knitted peaces? arez there some around in musea? or is that just somethinghs never been done in those days? i can hardly immagine it was only done in white black or beige or the shetlandcolours francis - 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] Mechelen Lace
Hallo, there is a group specilised in the art of "Mechelse Kant" they have a enormous collection of mechelse kant and also a 20 or more original pattern books from the old days and i mean real patternbooks from the 1800 i beleve it was about to be trown into a fire when someone nearby happend to see them and said NOO WAYYY and so just by coinsidence of that person beeing there this treasure was saved the person whom learned it from one of the older nons in a convent of Mechelen way back in the 60or 70ties is Mrs Nieke Vermant she does not do a lot of traditional work anymore but is you want information on it i am sure she is THE ONE to contact she lives in the town next to Mechelen called Bonheiden they have a website http://www.kantcentrumbonheiden.be/ they are very very much into renewing the art of lace and espacialy to teach young ones from age 7 to... it is one of those more livly groups francis in a horrible drooling raining cold wet unpleasant belgium i wiched i was back inn the californian climate Ilse Depaepe schreef: Dear fellow lace makers, I have just joined this list but I like the information I am getting. I hope one of you can help me. I live in a town called Mechelen (Malines) in Belgium. In the 1600s the lace made in my town was considered as one of the best in the then known world. The British poet Edward Young described it as the 'Queen of laces'. In 1713 princess Anne of England, daughter of Charles II bought 57 meters of it. And it is also known that Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of France had some for her wedding. I have seen samples of the lace in our museum. But I can't find anyone anymore who can teach me the technique. There are no real books or instructions I have been able to find. So I was hoping any of you had heard of this type of lace and would be able to point me in the right direction. I would love to be able to make some lace again altough in my history book of the town it says it took years to learn the technique Thank you very much! Ilse D. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.420 / Virus Database: 270.14.4/2416 - Release Date: 10/05/09 18:23:00 - 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] Re: Accomodation in Tonder 2010
whatever you decide book now there is not a lot of accomodation anyway and it is of poor quality for danish prices that means much to high priced for what it is and do not forget the devide the numbers of stars by 2 if you have a car do as most of the non-scandinavians do go to look for a hotel on the german side it is moslty 15 min driving half the price a breakfast not made up out of dry cowshuw more comfortable beds and stable beds in a lot of hotels in denmark you have those funny beds they are not put on 4 bed "legs" but have a kind of circular support and it can easyly give you the idea you are on a boat, constantly moving around in the bed i do not considfer it funny to need to take "touristil" the shipsikness pils for sleeping on land. a shower wich is realy a shower and not a metal dripping thinghy or even an bath you will senden find a bath in danish hotels don't ask me why it must be a danish thingh. and be aware of holiday houses that is also very very funny most are in a roofconstructioncontraption whould be a better word for it so if you have chinese proportions, head is ok if not take a helmet whit you several years ago we were in one near slagelse and we are both tall you don't want to know... but i beleve that you do not want fysio therapy after a holidy break. it is very very bad wheather here this may explain this email but still i find it very close to to the real DANISH hotel/hostel/holidayhouse experience BUT DO GO TO TONDER it is nice it is some thingh completly differend then all the other lace events you need to go to absorb the atmosphere of the scandinavian lace world you need to attend the evening fest and meal it is funny they always have a nice exibition which is worth to see GO GO GO Francis kar...@bold.net.au schreef: Hi Firstly, sorry if I have posted this to the incorrect list. I am a Lacemaker in Australia. I am hoping to come over to Tonder for the Lace Festival next June. Could someone please let me know of any suitable accomodation closeby the festival. Regards Karen  - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
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halo to alll arachneas, a hap and threadtastic filofabultastic 2010 may we live all happily, long, and healthy. i email here for 2 reasons as most of you know we have our open door days the last weekend of Jan, to be exact the 30 & 31 jan 2010 from 9.3o--16.30 on the website you will find ample information on it www.bart-francis.be on these days we have 2 special events an expo of Mariet Visser and 2 of her students she is specialised in the more advanced 3-dimensional lace she combines, her absolute suburb clasical skills to realise modern work and has invented a combination of simplicity to obtain 3-dimensional grandeur. you ought to see it to be stunned by it she also incorporate a lot of differend textiel tchniques together whit lace to make a some of her works pure art besides this fabulous expo we also have the presentation of ieve Pollet her endwrok for the Kantmonitoraat i m not sure if it is the correct term in english but i beleve we call it a scription / thesys it is based on the researsh of silk cultivation /silk activity between the Cevenne and the Haute-Loire in france and she made several fine laces to mach her scription. so if any of yo can come over to us you are more then welcome as always we have very nice cofee (not the recycled stuff from the some dead brasian bark) but real good cofee extreme good apetisers al from sweet to very sweet and very important we have a ""drop your husband corner"" were he can find a wide selection of newspapers and some homebrewed fancy liquors to keep him bussy while you are injoing yourself so tell me is this not appealing a happy newyear Francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] bambooo ------ milk -----running frensh smelly chees........
hallo to all i had an email from several of you conserning the bamboo i have multiple reaction a few remarks ùmost what you will find id the stuff all of you are talking of so in this regards the bamboo you have to list as regenereated celulose from bamboo origine BUT BUT BUT be aware ladys and some men the real bambooyarn made from real bamboo fibres does exist aswell we have always offered this ones there are only 2 manufactures whom produce real bamboo like linnne proces one in france and one in japan i take threads but mostly sliver (the fibres already made in prespinning state) from both of them their production is very small for giving you an idea of exclusivity, they also make threads from Wisteria Sinensis we call them in belgium and holland bleu rain so they are realy specilised in special bast fibres the one in france is the one whom made our special ananas/pinaple thread they are small in producion it is easyly concluded that all the rest is celuluse the rerason is simple the proces itself is very very time consuming and also expensive from the original plant you have vertialy nothing left they often call it sifting a needle in a heystack that is the reason that this quality it is normaly used in the highend fashinon that is the reasion we need to ask 6.5€ for one of those small spools and we have a very small margin of profit on this artickle personaly i do not have any proble that it is mentioned as manmade because of the problems explaining it that you also have the real genuan thingh i suppose it is clear enough on our website that you have others non real products the bigest problem is that it is not so easy to see the difference the bamboo brakes down to extremly fine fibres you can in that matter compare it whit high quality sisal most know sisal as a very thick material you can not be more wrong that is for the bamboo i can tell much more but i beleeve i made myself again more then aple rudicule in English or whatever it is i type concerning the MILK: milk proteine is actualy chees/chedar kind of procedee that is then made in thread i strongly desugest you putting it in the list it is a experimental proteine fibre it is instable and non of the biger producers like bayer dupont etc are until now able to compensit the dificulties it is very very strong as fibre but it is realy fast attact by beast/coucarages and smaal bugs they see it as a supreme supper plus the biggest disadvantage is that it does nasty smells in contact whit water humidity it begins after a wile to smell like one of those frensh cheeses which came to live agian .. so i strongy dought that it still is available on the market beacause it is reacherced in the early 80 when we had in europe the big butter and milk surplus only dupont makes it for a medical utility there it is used as a kind of vales for harts .. i do not know how it works but ... it is the only use i do not want to be the BAD one but it is a cheneese enterprise they often pretend to have invented this or that and are cracks in reinventing boiled water or to envent the moon now that i am thinink about it teir is a very good study and whit result in real thread of goats injected so they make milk containing the same as spidermilk proteines it is then made into yarn but again this aplication is done for medical results so here it doesd not matter that it smells like and old swine ready to drop dead of its own smell again i know it is made into little hartvalves and aslo into some other kind of membrane for plastic surgery i beleve it is used as grafts or bases for grafts of tissue to grom cells into in forms etcetc this is very great and intresting but already to way of my own topic... francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] bam-milk
i forgot to tell tha tit is not from the imens bamboo you see on the link it is the small srub one whom is used when i find the name i put it in an email francis - 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] Rayon
Susan Reishus schreef: I think of rayon as being made from tree pulp, and though many fibers are being refined to "micro" fibers, and bamboo is also a tree, fibers of refined rayon compared to bamboo, are only close cousins in "hand." there is a BIG difference beteen the old rayone and the newone you have to see it in an other way i will compare it whit oldfashinoned icecream in the days the birds still spoke you had an icecreamventer whom sold vanilla if you were lucky you had chocolate and coffeee have a look now at an icecreamventer it is endless they put spoilers and colours ontop of the original vanilla or even the just plain milkcream so they inhance the flavour now transpond this to rayone in the old days when rayonne was made you had just plain rayonne and that was it nowdays you have an endless veraity of royonne lookalikes because they putted spoilers on them they try to change the composition and caracter of these rayones by simply adding stuff mostly chemicals whom do only 2 differend actions A the first do an action on the molecular level itself they realy change the nature of the molecule or the behavior on that molecule ( molecule is not the correct term here it are chains of molecules my english again lacks rafinement) the later kind does a complete differend thingh they do not change the molecules but they change the enviroment in whom they are acting the difference the first is eg: less stenght more strenght coping to more heath less heath more or less elastic only by adding chemical addetives before the makeing of the fibres by pressing them like spaghetti pasta here you have realy visible aspects to what is does or not it is perfectly measurable what it does the lastkind is more publicity and of the kind were you have to take a leap of faith.. like adding to the pulp beauty antiaging chemicals now we all now that i am the only one stayning 26 and a half but the rest is still aging. and now ladys do you realy beleef that the celulite will walk away by putting this or that?? an other one is like putting 1 promille silver to the pulpmasss before the fibre making it should scare the horrible small dust and home acaricides yes in theory silver oxide reacts bad on them but in that small amounts? again the only real products in this matter are uesed in the medical industry 3M has a plaster woven out of rayone enhanced whit antibacterial chemicals antiseptic etcetc for giving you an idea of the possibilitys and it is done a lot the thigh is as a manufacturer yo will not call your beautyenhancing fibre anymore rayone you will even make the publicity so strong on the fact to avoidd that it is a rayone lookalike whit some aloavera in it yop call it then slimmfibre or marvelfibre.. can you immaine that some people find textile boring?? they should ozerhgimuHLGFPIgfyfGFN DIRECTLY kind regards from francis just about to go do a big beautysleep A century ago, rayon was poo-pooed also, but has evolved from it's category of cheap and shrinking, to definitely serving a purpose. I am sure we will find more and more naturally occurring substances being processed for various uses. At some point the "green" perspective blurs in using so many chemicals to make something natural into a fiber, then textile. I love these new fibers, but I don't think I will will be using them for bobbin or tape laces at this point. Not just because of the time lace takes, but not knowing how stable they are, and for something that hopefully will be passed on and appreciated for many generations to come. As far as milk being developed to assist heart function medically, medicine is so liability conscious, that I doubt the use something that wasn't reliable. (One of my sister's is a VP of a major international company specializing in these things.) Another, is that many heart treatments are projected to last 10-15 years, and then redone, etc. So maybe it won't last forever, but it must be so chemically changed that the body doesn't try to assimilate it, as a body can even absorb a sliver from a piece of wood, etc. in a fairly short period of time, if not removed. All interesting! FWIWSusan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.733 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2653 - datum van uitgifte: 01/28/10 15:55:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Breaking threads
i have been following this BREAKING thread also it is a big problem its even an enormous problem but it is seldon a problem due to one factor it is mostly a combination of more then one have a look in depth in the problem someone mentioned it already colouring can do various dammage to threads/fibres in some colouring processes you have to use quite strong mordants to make the pigment stick to the fibres for having some special colours you need special pigmetns special pigments means sometimes that it needs other chemicals to make the colour attach itself to the thread/fibres these chemicals can do a lot of damage to the fibres.. now special colours means mostly more expensive pigments more expensive proces to get the endresult i hope you can all feel it comming ofcourse their is always the cheaper alternative an alternative were it looks just a bit differend but almost the same a bit more agresssive mordants a bit stronger pigment a bit more of this and that of cheaper products will do the trick "for jsut a bit of time i hope that all of you have had already the experience of some drops of bleach (natrium hypochloriet) on a jeans if you are fast and spool it out under a lot of watter you can be lucky not to have any stains if you have not seen it that while beeing the cleaning queen and a drop of bleach here and there on your clothes. you wil end up whit a stain and mostlikly if it is strong bleach you can even have a so stongly weakend spot that it falls apart the cotton justs "desinegrate" into cottondust there it is clear again bleaching threads is a hasard you need to know what to do the just amount of bleach or peroxide but not to damage it and to reinice it all out again hit loott of water so immage those cheaper produxcts stronger as they are more agressive as they most are (but cheaper) you need to know hat you are doing if you use strong agressive products you need to neutralise them again and then absolutly neutralised or they wil slumer, keep working slowly but steddy and do the dammage on a moment you do not need it mostly there in a work were it is difficult torectify it weel we all have had it seen it or .. an other problem is that sometimes colouring does not give the needed or wanted result because the light yellow is not anymore good to use because it was not light enough or do dark then what will you do? trow all the fibres or thread away? NO you will start looking for a solution it is often used into an compete other dark colour so then you do not have a one coulour attack on the fibres but a second too as an example you needed pistachio green but it turns to be sage green the client will not like it so you take a new batch of threads and do it over but the sagegreen will be used to re"paint" it into for example very dark green or black if you are a realy cheap person as a factory you will even try to undo the colour by a particular bleaching proces based on the absorbtion of some kinds of salts and recouler it afterwards can you see it virtualy in front of you first colouring then bleaching then coloring again after some proceses like this your thread looks like the head of a 16year old blond whom tried evry week again on other colour she ends up whit a bunch of straw brittle hair. she cant help it she is blond but the factory knows... so the tricky part is to make it again presentable ot the end user eas there are again chemicals to use to cover up the "yarngate-scandal yes you heard me well again chemicalsthey wil temporaraly stabilise the thread the cheapest way to do is transparent silicon spray there are a lot more other therapys to do now there was the sugestion of the way you put the spool of thred to wind in on your bobins that is blabla there are very few added on or taken of twists to it easy to calculate it you take the diameter of the spool and multiply by PI 3.14 and you have the outer diameter lets say 1cm * 3.14= 3.14cm per extra twist so if you needed 1 meter of thread on your bobin you have 100cm / 3.14 =31twist per meter extra if you work into fine threads like 70/2 Nec you are around 400 to 600 twists per meter that 31twists will be ignorant to the tbehavior of the thread and again the Z or S and the adding or takeingof will be minimal some will say now: but if you need 10 meters it will be 10 times that amount? not realy only the distance from the threadspool to the bobin counts and then again you will fearly end up on an even dispercion of the added or taken of twists Mirian wrote that atmospheric conditions seems s not to effect her work well it is not so much that it is dry or wet cold or warm whom will effect thread breaking or not but it is more the fact that it is continiously changing from dry to wet to ... a simple comparison is the violin and the piano you need to adjust constantly if the moist in the room changes ofcourse long periods of dry air can do
Re: [lace] Re: Breaking and Twist to Thread
hallo Susan, yes and no is the answer on your answer i was probably not clear enough in this matter YES you are correct if you do talk about handknitting and hand sewing but i must realy say NO to the matter if we talk in terms of bobinlace please make a difference between those techniques first of all the knittng is mostly done whit thicker threads here we have to take in account oa other way of looking towards twists if you have a thick thread of say 1cm diameter (i take a virtual strong example) and you put a few twist per meter, you will fast have a deformation of the thread also by knitting by hand you have strangely the effect of acumulating twist between the hand and the skein/cone/ball or whatever this mostly applies for 1 ply threads this is a proces we do not have in machine knitting there again the twists do spread themselfs like i told for bobbinlace for sewing you have that same problem indeed and more even there is the same problem in handsewing as in machine sewing way is that? it all has to do whit tensioning the threads how much tension is put on the threads in the machine you have the thred which goes through all those differend thread guidance and ther is a lot of tnesion on the threads so it is more easy for the twists to accumulate adn not slipping over the guidance there for if you use not leveled sewingthreads but lets say knitting threads or weaving threads to sew you will have problems like snapping hreads on one pount or an other this due to the acumulation or decumulation of the twists the easyes way of having to deal whit it is rethreading the sewing machine each 10meters of used thread a real hassle but on option now on the handsewing you will have the same problem and mostly because the extratension/stress you put on the thread by pulling it through the tissue it seems to gluide for most people but in reality the thread if pulled on a quite strong tension and will do the same effect as accumulate or decumulate twist just before the ingoing of the tissue again this should only be haapenign whit nonlevveled threads if you use ballenced threads, they should not do it now the bobbin lace it is blabla, it realy is i lack the courage and words in written english to express myself fully but look towards it closly the movement after it is done by youself AFTERWARDS i did not go into depth of the S or Z twist and how yo put it on the bobbin tha tis on other story i only mentioned that the number of twists added on a bobbin is neglectable for the work peanuts you cal it i beleeve so if you put a spool in a way that you derool it by puting it horizontal towards the bobin so it unwinds as the threadcone unrolls aswell or if yo just rool the thread from the coen from its vertical possition and so "add or deminish" twists it is of no concequense again look to the thickness of threads you use in bobbinlace mostly fine to extreme fine from 300 to 1800 twists per meter in the extrafien threads adn if you do the math you will see that the number of added twists is "peanuts" even if you take very small threadcones were the diameter is 0.5cm it still is peanuts anf the problemof adding afterwards on the pillow has notthing to do whit the way you put it on the bobin (taken out of sight the S or Z way to put threads on the bobin, that is an other discusion) ask around to teachers they will tell you soem always have problems other never have if you work in those spangels you do not turn atall so the should not have that problem it only occurs whit us european bobins whom can turn around if manipulates to fast and to nonchalant i wil try to make some diagrams and try to put them on the internet to show you what i mean as useal english seems far more diffuclt to fully express my thoughs then it should be francis extremly happy that atleast the lovley Susan reacts to this please if you also have thuoghts on this matter . let them come Susan Reishus schreef: With all due respect, I have to disagree, Francis, as not only is thread wound on a bobbin, but it has movement after that, whether in working stitches in bobbin lace, how people turn the bobbins as they work (even if a small amount, it accrues), and other "dangling," etc. Though I am not an expert in bobbin lace, I have worked with textiles, fwiw, for decades. Sewing thread for hand sewing twists just with simple running stitches, and is compliant and stronger, when allowed to "unfurl." (Often thread cut from the spool, and threaded with the last from the spool, handles better, going along with the twist, than threading a needle from the first cut end). Even when knitting lace or a plain sock, one must continually allow the yarn (or object), to unwind. Not done, this put bias on objects so they tend not to lay "on grain" which adds stress, but especially, as untwisting too much will weaken (not often a problem in hand knitting, rather over twisting is) the yarn and will break or wear s
Re: [lace] Re: Breaking and Twist to Thread
indeed claire it is you and not the thread it is mostly a chock to see that you are the cause of the cataclism and not the thread but the good part is that it means that you CAN overcome that problem because it is you and not the thread this put aside that there are real catastrophical threads on the market they exist to but then again you also have to addapt francis Claire Allen schreef: Another thought to add to the mix. I wind my bobbins to ensure I am not adding or removing the thread's twist, but I still find it untwists as I work. Years ago it was suggested to me that I might be twisting my bobbins as I work my lace unintentionally. I now keep an eye on my threads and find from time to time I need to give my bobbins a twist the other way to put the twist back on the thread. Claire Kent,UK Claire Allen www.bonitocrafts.co.uk Crafty stuff I want to show off. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Breaking and Twist to Thread
hallo i have been working over this in my head how can i make it more visual to you all? because out of the emails from several from you I do understand that i created more confusion then understanding so i have some diagrams have a look francis http://twists.weefshop.be/#home - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Shredding threads
polycotton def the best for this count 18 threads per cm and upwards or you can just use innerlining for skirts it is qiute gloss but as smooth as the of a but you do not realy need to tear downyour pillows now it can be simply overcome whit leather all of you know Anni Noben Sleghers? what does she uses for not shreedding threads? have a look at pictures of her working again she cuts out a part of a leather sheet in the form of a kidney to put on her pilllow it covers all the part of the pillow were the threads would be able to make contact to the cloth so the threads will never ever shred on the surface the leather is highpolllished francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] this is a comunication over the KANTCENTRUM
i just treceived this information of the kantcentrum Chers Fans de dentelle, Depuis quelques mois, le Centre de la Dentelle de Bruges (Kantcentrum) est géré par un nouveau Bureau de direction. Cette nouvelle direction a pu conclure un accord avec le conseil municipal de la ville de Bruges et les propriétaires des locaux (la famille De Limburg Stirum). Il y a quelques mois encore, cela s’annonçait très mal pour l’ASBL. Mais un groupe de brugeois décidèrent que le Kantcentrum ne devait pas disparaître. Ils ont été rapidement rejoints par un large groupe de soutien. Les professeurs, les stagiaires, le personnel (où une réorganisation devait avoir lieu, les postes fixes sont passés de 4 à 2) se réjouissent d’un vent nouveau en poupe. Le nouveau Bureau de direction (avec le nouveau directeur délégué et homme d’affaires Wim Decraemer, le président et journaliste à la VRT, la radio/télévision flamande, Nico Blontrock et membre du Bureau, le libraire brugeois Koen De Meester) a relancé des liens qui ont retrouvé leur place, des relations perdues par le passé et qui se sont renouées. La revue KANT va bientôt profiter d’une nouvelle mise en page. Les cours d’été seront de nouveau organisés ainsi qu’une nouvelle formation de trois ans pour les professeurs de dentelle. D’autre part, l’occupation des bâtiments historiques du XVème siècle arrive à échéance. Cependant, le propriétaire a investi un demi-million d’euro dans la restauration et l’agrandissement de l’ancienne école de dentelle, un peu plus loin dans la Balstraat. Un nouveau Musée de dentelle (avec les dentelles de la collection municipale) s’ouvrira là aussi. Les relations avec nos « concucollègues », autrement dit les autres commerçants dentelliers brugeois, seront aussi rétablies. Bientôt, des projets seront menés en collaboration avec ceux-ci. Le centre du Tourisme de Bruges va fortement promouvoir tout ce qui concerne la dentelle comme événements culturels, en Belgique comme à l’étranger. Le Kantcentrum revit. Il foisonne d’activités, il envisage de nombreux projets, l’avenir nous offre une quantité d’opportunités. Si vous avez des questions, des remarques ou des suggestions, vous pouvez toujours contacter le Kantcentrum Peperstraat 3a, 8000 Brugge, 00 32 50 33 00 72 (i...@kantcentrum.com) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] email problems
hallo to all i see here "panic reactions" of people seeking to contact us well several i have not had any email from we do have firewalls whom do filter out several types of emails and unfortunatly for those using hotmails, yahoo and other kinds of rubish email systems that are the ones whom are mostly filtered out sorry for that but also not sorry i am tiered of the lottery emails , the viagra emails , the enlargements of this or other parts of the body, the Kenian Zimbabwe milions etc etc etc etc if that is the cost of having emails lost so be it also we must apologise to otherts whom sended emails and whom had no reply we had a "upgrade" of the system whom did so good job that there was virtualy noting left on our computer and because i am completly digitalblond..we "c'est la vie" lukily i m a ginious on other levels. besides this please do not forget that we were gone to Barcelona and to Tonder all in 2 weeks time so for al those wanting to have answers to their questions please reemail all and we will begin whit a tabula rasa many many kind regards francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] IOLI portland
hallo to all we will be present at the PORTLAND IOLI lace convention we will bring whit us quite an extended range of special threads threads for lace , knitting, embroidery, tatting , and all you can dream of textielworks but still we do not bring all to the Big USA so if anybody wants anythingh special at the event in portland.(i hate to disapoint people) go to the website palce an order and in the part were you can mention any comment you just put in delivery at the IOLI portland convention if you have trouble on the website (this website is made for fast internet connection) you can just email to us i...@bart-francis.be i know it is not very "suited" to put this in here but how could i ever reach all of you? in here we are just one mail from each other away so please forgive me Avital i do have some other request if you have made any lace, knitting, embroidery,..what ever in our products please feel free to bring them to the lace convention we are always extremly intrested in what you did whit the threads francis - 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] Threads
hoi susan creuse is not a place it is a way to produce a thread it is fully named/called "broche creuse" in english "hollow spindle" it is perfectly for knitting and fat torchon laces it is not good not bad there is for the moment much much more exiting yarn on the markets even in the USA kind regards francis > Op 3-sep.-2015, om 02:42 heeft Susan het volgende > geschreven: > > Hello All! As most of you know, I never (well almost never!) met a thread I > didn't like! Today, I hit the jackpot with an order that brought WonderFil > Eleganza, Fonty & Thread Gatherers Oriental Linen to my mailbox. If anyone > has any experience with these threads, would you please post your comments? > In the meantime, I will share what (little) I know. The Eleganza is 100% > Giza 88 cotton & the colors are beyond fabulous! Who hasn't wished for perle > 8 that is outside the box?! Bookmarks may never be the same with this > thread. Fonty by Calin is pretty much a mystery except that it is 2ply linen > & "made in Creuse". The 190m spool is 25 grams & knitting gauge is listed as > 2-2.5. No size listed. The Oriental Linen is 2ply, 52% silk & 48% linen. > It's knubby & "naturally" variegated because the fibers take the dye > differently. It's a bonanza that I'm eager to test! WonderFil Eleganza is > listed in Addendum 5, but I didn't find the others. If someone in France can > she! d ! > some light on the linen, that would be great. Would love to hear some > reviews, pro or con. Many thanks. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA > > Sent from my iPad > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] ?
hi to all 1 c 2 b & C - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] answers
my answers to the list 1 c 2 b & c depending on the mood - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] 2018 OIDFA Congress in Bruges cancelled
hallo if you say i quote: More posts will follow including an Open Letter to OIDFA recommending changes in the organization. from whom to whom is that letter then exactly? form oidfa towards the belgium delegation i am curious now kind regards francis - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] NORMAL lace magazine
for all i care: it is typical anglosakish for the privacy matters or to slack or to harsh never in the middle of it for givng you an example it is also that if we call to the UK the one answering the telephone will not say his or her name but rimram like a well reheasrt lyrick their own telephone nr i always found it so "I hide myself behind my privecy" there must be privacy but do not exagorate in it you can hardly see this at all as in intrusion on ones privecy and for that matter i am not astonnished to see that it are mostly anglosak people whom are making a husss out of it would it not be more liky to be happy to be part of a greater whole were you realy get informed of thinghs rather then to look whom or what is behind the """strange""" rather NORMAL lace magazine whom has the intention to reach out to ALL lace related people. be happy you got a free copy of somethingh you might be intrested in afterall it is not like you got a brochure of the aldi or lidl soit c'est la vie.. i hope i did not used to strong words but as you all know my english is quite limited in refeined words so excuse me if anybody feels i uesed to strong words it is not the intention but only to make it clear do not forget this the NORMAL magazine is listed in: UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION about a Provisional list of non-governmental organizations and non-profit-making institutions one more not to thuis all i aslo would have oneted this in english but they get a lot of subventions grants from the Flemish governemetn and so it needed to be in dutch francis - 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] removing red dye or set the color
no offense given but it looks more to witchcraft recepeice there is a very good reason underwear is mostly in "washable" colors we are not made out of sugar and honey…….. goo new year to all francis Op 28-dec.-2011, om 13:41 heeft B Krbechek het volgende geschreven: > I forgot where I found this (a long time ago) but it has helped me: > > To Set Colors > > Red, Pink, Black 1 cup salt - 2 gal. water > > Yellow, Tan, Brown 1 cup vinegar - 2 gal. water > > Blue, Green, Purple 1 ozl. alum - 1 gal. water > > Soak for 2 hours > > Blanche in Minneapolis > > - > 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] OT - Webshots
hoi avital a couple of years ago the same problem emerged here in this forum i do not remember anymore what the cause was but i stil know this in the time i offered you the free use of a part of my paid webspace and you told us that flicker was still so much better.. i do not have those restrictions you mention we could make one password for all whom want to put fotos on it and it can be done in any kind of volume small fotos and extremely big ones to in the past i used it even to put RAW-files from nikon on it to share in adobe workshops francis bart & francis Op 5-okt.-2012, om 07:58 heeft Avital het volgende geschreven: > Just joining in rather late because I've subjected myself to digest. :-) > > I'm a long-time Flickr user (pro) and there are a couple things you > should know about the free account: > > 1. Only the most recent 200 photos are visible (the rest are there but > not visible). > 2. There are bandwidth restrictions, so if a few people upload high > resolution photos, the account might reach its weekly or monthly > threshold and then others would not be able to post. > 3. There is no easy way to move an entire archive between most > services. They're designed that way, to discourage you from moving all > your photos around at a moment's notice. > > Most solutions are not free. Photo services (Picasa Web Albums, > Flickr, SmugMug, etc.) have a free version but it's not suitable for > the number of photos that are posted on this list. Social networking > services (Facebook, Google+, Yahoo, etc.) are more generous but they > require you to have an account to upload photos and I gather, from > past discussions, that some members prefer not to join Facebook. > > Any suggestions? I'll give it some thought. > > Avital > Arachne moderator > > -- > > Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com > Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr > > - > 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/albums/most-recent - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] Blonde lace festival today and tomorow
hallo hallo for all those of intrest do not forget this please in France Caen Normandie from Friday 11 may till Saturday 12 may salon dentelle et arts du fil all about Blonde Lace http://blondecaen.chez-alice.fr/salon.htm#X - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace]
hallo hallo to all for your information TEXTURE the new lace and flax museum in Kortrijk is having a STUNNING artshow 14 july till 11 November 2018 Biolace by Carole Collet http://thisisalive.com/biolace/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/