Re: [lace] Translation please
Google says "vlas" means flax.... Regina Haring On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 8:49 PM Anna Binnie wrote: > Many years ago I bought a second hand book on Russian Tape lace and am now > finally going to work some of the patterns. > > My problem is that I think it is written in Dutch. The diagrams are > excellent and the patterns are self explanatory. > > I would like to know what is the English translation of âvlasgarenâ. It is > the thread suggested, is this linen or cotton? > > Thank you in advance > > Anna in a warm and cloudy Sydney where I have a green garden to enjoy. > 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] Metro Chapter Lace Day
The Metropolitan Chapter of IOLI, based in northeastern New Jersey, is looking forward to an expanded lace celebration from November 2 - 6. Acclaimed lace teacher Kumiko Nakazaki will teach a workshop for four days: Thursday and Friday, November 2 and 3, and then Sunday and Monday, November 5 and 6. Saturday the 4th is open to the public, and Holly Van Sciver and Kathy Kirchner will offer books and supplies for bobbin lace, tatting, crochet and knitting. There will be a display of lace, demonstrations of lacemaking, and a beginners class. In addition to Kumiko's workshop, on Sunday Pat Morris will teach Idrija lace. Pre-registration is necessary for both workshops. Saturday and Sunday will be held at the Elks Club in Westwood, New Jersey. For complete information please visit our web site at http://www.metropolitanchapterioli.org or contact Mayra Petretti, mpetre...@earthlink.com. Regina Haring Secretary - 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] Polish lace
Hi, Susan - Elizabeth Kurella's book "Guide to Lace and Linens" has an entry for Czechoslovakian lace on pages 132 and 133. Poland is of course just north of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She does say that tape laces are common. and there's a picture of a Slovak tablecloth edging in tape lace. What about the national costume? Is lace any part of it? That's where we see so much lace used in other parts of Europe. What a lovely project! Regina Haring Nanuet, New York On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:30 PM, <hottl...@neo.rr.com> wrote: > Hello All! Today I am searching for some information on Polish bobbin > lace. Our IOLI charter chapter installs lace exhibits in libraries & we > are fully booked thru Dec. 2017! Two of the libraries are in areas that > serve a high percentage of people of Polish ancestry. > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace and spider fabric
Doesn't it seem illegal for somebody to pirate the design? Just asking. Two salespeople in Jo-Ann's told me that they probably would get more of the lace and spiders fabric in before Halloween. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Lyn Bailey <lynrbai...@supernet.com> wrote: > I have found another source for the fabric, and they ship to some other > countries. Pricey for cotton fabric, but itâs the same pattern, but in > white with black. > https://www.etsy.com/listing/77712861/spiders-and-lace-halloween-fabric > > I googled fabric cotton spider and lace. Lots of interesting things popped > up, especially in the pictures. > > Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA where we may be getting a break from > the > humidity soon. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace & Spider Fabric
Good idea, Helene! But it says "designed in Hudson, Ohio Exclusively for Jo-Ann fabric and craft stores". Jo-Ann's is based in Hudson, Ohio. And just out of curiosity I scanned the Holiday fabrics on Jo-Ann's website, and this design does not appear. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Helene Ulrich <helene3...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding the lace & spider fabric available at some JoAnn's. Most > fabric has the manufacturer's name & sometimes the number or name of > the pattern printed on the selvage. > > If someone who has already purchased the fabric could check for this > information, an internet search could produce other suppliers for the > fabric. > > Just a suggestion. > > Helene Ulrich > in extremely hot South Carolina. > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/> > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace and spider fabric
Greetings, all - Since I needed to go to JoAnn's anyway (the nearest is in Paramus, NJ) the discussion about the paisley and spider fabric prompted me to go this morning. The bolt was already almost empty! I bought 2.5 yds, and while the regular price was $9.99/yd there is a 30% off sale. What you can't tell from the picture of the design in the download is the background color used for the fabric, which is a warm light tannish color, making it a very attractive fabric, even if like me you don't like spiders! It will make a great looking pillow bag. Regina Haring Metro Chapter IOLI Nanuet, NY That's great!!! Size limitations suggest a quilt design! Most spectacular > pillow bag on the planet comes to mind!!! > Clay > >> >> 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] Metro Chapter IOLI lace days November 7 and 8, 2015
Jeri, thank you for pointing out that in copying Arachne's address from a previous email, I managed to include the whole previous email and didn't have a subject line. I'm very sorry for the goof! Here's the information: This weekend - November 7 and 8 - the Metro Chapter of IOLI will hold its annual lace day. It will again be at the Westwood Elks Club on Kinderkamack Road in Westwood, NJ, and on Saturday the hours are 10 am to 3 pm. The public is welcome and there is no admission fee. Holly Van Sciver and Kathie Kirchner will be vending, and there will also be an exhibit, demonstrations, and a children's class. On Sunday there will be workshops: Mayra Petretti will teach a Lepoglava motif; Pat Morris will teach techniques in 's Gravenmoer; and Lynda Barber will teach a beginners' class and also a Project in a Day class. Pre-registration is required and lunch is provided. Please see the website for additional information www.metropolitanchapterioli.orgor email the president, Lynda Barber, at lyndal...@att.net. If you are in the area we would love to see you there! Regina Haring Secretary, Metro Chapter - 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] Re: Help please.
This weekend - November 7 and 8 - the Metro Chapter of IOLI will hold its annual lace day. It will again be at the Westwood Elks Club on Kinderkamack Road in Westwood, NJ, and on Saturday the hours are 10 am to 3 pm. The public is welcome and there is no admission fee. Holly Van Sciver and Kathie Kirchner will be vending, and there will also be an exhibit, demonstrations, and a children's class. On Sunday there will be workshops: Mayra Petretti will teach a Lepoglava motif; Pat Morris will teach techniques in 's Gravenmoer; and Lynda Barber will teach a beginners' class and also a Project in a Day class. Pre-registration is required and lunch is provided. Please see the website for additional information www.metropolitanchapterioli.orgor email the president, Lynda Barber, at lyndal...@att.net. If you are in the area we would love to see you there! Regina Haring Secretary, Metro Chapter On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Barrie <toddbj...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > Sorry, here is the photo of the lace. > > http://tinyurl.com/whatlaceisthis > > Julie > From New Zealand > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On 30/10/2015, at 16:04, Barrie <toddbj...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > > > > Could someone please tell me what sort of lace this is ? My friend was > given this beautiful piece which is 7 1/2 inches wide x 62 inches long for > her birthday and we do not know anything about it. Any information you > could > give us would be a great help thank you. > > > > Julie > > From New Zealand > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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] color of lace
Greetings, all - For over a year I have been volunteering a few hours a week at a local history museum which was bequeathed a lace collection of over 400 pieces of lace, of varying kinds and quality. It has been a most enjoyable and educational experience to catalog and describe these pieces, more of which have turned out to be handmade than I thought at first glance. I am about to begin to enter the information for each piece into a software program developed for museums called Past Perfect. I can still make changes in my descriptions as I am entering them, and what I need help with is deciding how to describe the color of the lace. White is of course obvious, but there are so many other shades. I know the threads we use are often named bleached or half-bleached or unbleached, but I don't think those terms would be appropriate for these finished pieces. Should I distinguish - should I say off white, cream, ecru, beige? Then there are a few with a distinctly peachy quality. I'd like to know if there is a standard way that these colors are described in museum terminology. Any help and comments appreciated! Regina Haring Nanuet, NY - 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] missing messages
I don't even like to think of how many messages from Jeri or Devon or others I have missed because they went to my Spam folder and I neglected to check there. Gmail says in answer to the question why is this in Spam that if a name is in my contact list, then the message will always go through. Well, not so - Jeri and Devon are in my contact list, and while a personal message would arrive with no problem, one from Arachne never does. They do come through to my phone. I wrote Gmail about this but don't hold out much hope that I'll get a reply. Also this - maybe this involves a setting, but when I use reply in gmail I do not see the message I am replying to and so do not have the opportunity to shorten it - I don't even see a subject line that I could change if necessary. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY - 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] pattern for a large star
I was wondering if anyone has made a large bobbin lace star that could be used at the top of a Christmas tree - a star perhaps six inches across. If you have tried this, does it look as good as you had hoped? And where did you find a pattern? Looking forward to your comments, Regina Haring Nanuet, NY - 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] Fall IOLI Bulletin?
The IOLI Bulletin I believe says that the next one will be mailed on October 1st. I just renewed using PayPal hoping to speed things up, since the last Bulletin says mine expired September 1st. I hope I get the Fall Bulletin. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net wrote: I inadvertently let my membership lapse last winter, but since being reinstated, and getting the last issue, the most recent has not yet arrived either. Clay Sent from my iPad On Sep 19, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Jane O'Connor jjo...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I renewed Aug. 1, my membership runs Sept. 1 to Sept. 1, and I have not received the Fall IOLI Bulletin either. Jane OConnor New Lenox, IL USA Aspire to inspire before you expire. On Friday, September 19, 2014 1:34 PM, Amanda Babcock Furrow la...@quandary.org wrote: I let my IOLI membership lapse and just rejoined 8/31. I'm wondering if I missed the Fall Bulletin, or does anybody know when it's expected? Thanks! Amanda Furrow in PA, US - 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/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Russian Nesting Dolls Making Lace?
I would surely like to know! My niece brought me two sets of unpainted nesting dolls a few years ago and I couldn't decide how to paint them - and this is a terrific idea! So if anyone knows, please post to the list - thanks, Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:52 PM, kar...@cox.net wrote: Hi, Awhile back someone posted a picture of a set of 3 blue nesting dolls making lace. I've been searching for such dolls on Amazon and anyplace I can think of, with no luck. I've gone through thousands of pictures of nesting dolls and found nothing. Does anyone remember seeing these or have any knowledge where I might find a set? Patsy A. Goodman USA -- Women are Angels. And when someone breaks our wings We simply continue to fly On a broomstick. We are flexible like that. -- Patsy A. Goodman AKA Queen Tat Pat Red Hat Tatters Treas. Chula Bobbin Lacers Chula Vista, CA, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] This is cute! How to make a ball of lace.
Just check out the other pages on her website - definitely worth a look - and you'll get at least an idea of what kind of pattern you need. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Delores Miller deemille...@gmail.comwrote: These balls look like a lot of fun. How do we get patterns? Delores Miller - Original Message - From: Laurie Waters lswaters...@comcast.net To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 4:30 AM Subject: [lace] This is cute! How to make a ball of lace. http://www.ann-wild.de/pillowsinuse.html - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Gender roles, Lacemaking
Devon and all who chimed in on the male lacemakers/workers thread: Thank you all for the interesting discussion that ensued. The laceworker (passementwerker) from Valenciennes that I wrote about was called Jean Monfort. He and his wife Jacqueline Moreau and their son Pierre indeed came early to this country - they were on the first ship that came to New Netherland with passengers, the Eendracht in 1624. The fact that his name appears on a ship's manifest indicates that he owed the Dutch West India Company for his passage - had he paid for his trip outright, his name would not have appeared. They returned to the Netherlands for at least three years, during which time their son married, and then came back to New Netherland. When Jean Monfort was born, Valenciennes was part of the Spanish Netherlands, not France, and was therefore very Catholic. It appears that the Monforts like many others who were Huguenots (French Protestants) did not acknowledge this until they moved to Amsterdam where he joined the Walloon Reformed Church. Devon, I wrote to the folks who run Philipsburg Manor and Van Cortlandt Manor in Westchester (NY) a few years ago, asking if they knew anything about lacemaking among the early settlers, and they replied that they were also interested but had not been able to find any indication that lacemaking was pursued by the Dutch or anyone else here at an early date. There are old roller pillows in some of the small museums, but they appear to date from the 19th century, not earlier. I have heard that the Netherlands were historically able to produce the best thread for lacemaking, but that it was the Belgians who were more involved in making lace. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:05 AM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: I think that we should try to affix dates to our historical evidence. If I understand Regina, she must be talking about male lacemaking between 1609 and 1674 when New Amsterdam ceased to exist under that name and became New York. Several of the people who are citing the activities of family members appear to be discussing lace making activities of the 19th century. A two hundred year difference in time is significant. I think that the term Lacemaker for a man may well mean an entrepreneur, as in the case of the 17th century grave of the major entrepreneur in Honiton where I think the term Lacemaker is used to describe him. But, might it not be the case that such a person would know how to make lace? Wouldn't he most likely learn the business from the bottom up, so that he can exercise quality control and train the workers? Regina, I would be very interested in any information you have about lacemaking in New Amsterdam/New York, or in reading anything that you may be writing about it. Devon - 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] Jean-Marie Leclair
This raises a question that has always puzzled me - does this truly mean that the men themselves were lacemakers, or that they were employed in the business of lace in the sense that they were middlemen who bought lace from the women who were making it and then re-sold it? I came across this record of a man named Montfort who came early to America and was a laceworker - I would guess that he found another trade after he arrived in wild Manhattan/New Amsterdam. I believe there is another record which refers to him in this way - don't have it to hand right now. Don't know how I came across this entry, or who underlined it so heavily. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY Metro Chapter IOLI On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Janis Savage thelacepl...@hotmail.co.zawrote: Yesterday, DH was listening to Classic FM on the radio and heard a piece of music whose composer was a lacemaker. Being a good sort, he emailed to the presenter to ask for more information and got a reply today. It seems that the composer Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764) came from a family of lacemakers. His father was a lacemaker and his mother a cellist and he was considered a master of both the violin and his father's lacemaking trade by the time he reached adulthood. He was born in Lyons, France, and his 3 younger brothers were also musicians. Greetings from Janis in South AFrica - - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Off topic and Lacing topic
The Queen bobble doll was a gift promotion for contributing to one of the three PBS stations I am able to receive. I don't know whether it's available elsewhere, but perhaps someone will sell theirs on eBay? Just a thought. Regina NY On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Celtic Dream Weaver celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com wrote: I was watching CNN this morning and even though I live in the USA...I do follow everything Royal. When I see stuff happening in the UK it takes me back down memory lane to what I saw and did when I visited the UK about 12 years ago. What I saw on CNN this morning was a Queen Elizabeth hand waving bobble doll. ...You know the ones that usually have a head bobbling but this one has the hand waving. I would love to be able to get one of those...anybody on the list here want to do a bit of shopping for me. I could pay for it with Pay Pal. I am also planning on getting one of the Archer Diamond Jubilee bobbins too to dance on my lacing pillow...I feel with me loving all things Royal...I should have one. Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/ Nata 616 - 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] Vermeer's Painting
Tracy Chevalier's historical novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, which is a fictional account of one period in Vermeer's life, does refer to one of his daughters working on her lace. I asked Gunvor Jorgensen back when I was reading the book whether she thought it would have been needle or bobbin lace, and she guessed bobbin lace was more likely. Of course Tracy Chevalier may just have been taking poetic license. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, David Leader lacema...@q7design.demon.co.uk wrote: Laurie Waters wrote: I strongly disagree with the characterization of the model - this was probably Vermeer's daughter, and the family lived under the patronage of the middle class. His few buyers often dug him out of deep debt. In fact he probably had only one real patron, Pieter Van Ruijven, and without that support, it would have gone very badly for him. He married well, and eventually moved into his mother-in-law's place with his 10 surviving children. I'm not sure what the evidence is that the model is Vermeer's daughter, but the fact that as an artist Vermeer held an ambiguous position in society, and that he was financially imprudent does not negate the fact that he and his family were part of the middle classes. Class is not equivalent ot wealth - an impoverished aristocrat is still an aristocrat. Anyway, this seems to me irrelevant. We - or the contemporary audience - look at the picture without knowing anything about who the model was and what her father's financial circumstances might be, and her dress and environs clearly place her. Here is a more pertinent question, then, for those who know about the social history of lacemaking in the Netherlands in this period. Why would a young woman of this class be making lace? Would it be to decorate her own clothing or that of her sisters (she appears to have a lace collar), or what? David - 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] definitions
In my own thinking I tend to distinguish between things that are lacey/lacy, used as an adjective to describe things with holes (there's even lacy Swiss cheese) - and *lace* as a noun, meaning a fabric you make beginning with a strand of fiber from which you create patterns where openwork sections, i.e.holes, are necessary to the design. Regina Haring New York Original Message - From: Brenda Paternoster paternos...@appleshack.com To: Regina Haring rmhar...@optimum.net Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:22 AM Subject: Re: [lace] definitions That would include the wire fences made with BL techniques and die-cut paper doilies. - 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] definitions
Happened to notice in the current IOLI Bulletin that the Powerhouse Museum in Australia is sponsoring an International Lace Award. Their goal is to redefine traditional expressions of lace and its design applications. They say - For the purposes of this award we define lace as: an openwork structure in which the pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas. Thought this very broad definition was interesting! Regina New York - 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 in Vietnam Warp/Weft
Warping the loom comes first, and the word warp is alphabetically before weft. Regina - Original Message - From: Joy Beeson joybee...@comcast.net To: jeria...@aol.com Or to reflect that a loom must be warped before weaving can commence. (I have read that warping is more than half the job, so weavers try to plan several projects that can be woven on the same warp.) - 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] Article
A wonderful article with lovely pictures, but once again, the old error raises its ugly head: A pattern is placed on a 'pillow' of straw or, these days, polystyrene, and pins stuck into the pattern. Then the thread is wound around selected pins and the bobbins interlaced and twisted. It just seems to me that it shouldn't be *that* difficult to get the facts across. I would hope and expect that anyone who has seen lacemaking demonstrated would have a correct understanding of the process. Can you think of anything more tedious and unsatisfying than trying to place pins and then wind thread around them? Uggh! Regina Haring New York - Original Message - From: Brenda Paternoster paternos...@appleshack.com To: Diana Smith dian...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 4:00 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Article How nice to find a mass-market magazine article about lace with proper information about lace from people who really know what they are talking about. Brenda On 5 Jun 2010, at 08:25, Diana Smith wrote: I stumbled across this article - it maybe of interest to some! http://www.bbchomesandantiques.com/feature/lace Diana in sunny Northatns - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.me.uk - 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: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2917 - Release Date: 06/04/10 06:25:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re:
I did the same thing - but the link that was sent does take you directly to lace photos. Try http://community.webshots.com/user/harvey0541 Regina Haring New York - Original Message - From: Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 6:16 PM I've checked harvey0541 and there are 457 shots and none are lace. Lorelei - 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: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2701 - Release Date: 02/21/10 07:34:00 - 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] bakery table
Hi, Tess - The project you are referring to appeared in three books by Annelies de Kort - Van Zijderveld from the Netherlands, called A Taste of Lace. Her website is www.anneliesdekort.nl and I do see a little picture of the bobbin lace pastries on the home page, tho it is not clickable. We at the Metro Chapter of IOLI made quite of few of the delectable pastries which were used as the grand prize at our Lace Day in 2005. Through the generosity of the winner we have since been able to display them in various library exhibits. In fact I brought a few of those with the fruit on top to show to the pastry maker at a local marvelous and authentic French pastry shop, because they were absolutely identical to some pastry that he makes and sells! Again this makes me wish that we at Metro had a website with photos of our work - maybe soon. Regina Haring President, Metro Chapter Nanuet, NY - Original Message - From: tess parrish tess1...@aol.com To: to send Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:26 AM Subject: [lace] bakery table Some time ago, perhaps years, the Dutch group LOKK presented a bakery table, a table full of lacemade cakes and cupcakes and other goodies. It may have been as far back as the OIDFA Congress in Ghent. I think I may have seen pictures of it on line. Does anyone remember this? Do I have my facts right? Can anyone set me straight and tell me where to find the booklet on the exhibit that was for sale at the time? Many thanks. Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine USA, where our third straight day of snow is piling it up most satisfactorily for the happy skiers. - 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: 8.5.431 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2597 - Release Date: 01/02/10 08:22:00 - 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] bakery table P.S.
Whoops - a P.S. If you choose your language you then can get to the bobbin lace page. Regina Haring in cold and windy suburban NYC - Original Message - From: tess parrish tess1...@aol.com To: to send Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:26 AM Subject: [lace] bakery table Some time ago, perhaps years, the Dutch group LOKK presented a bakery table, a table full of lacemade cakes and cupcakes and other goodies. It may have been as far back as the OIDFA Congress in Ghent. I think I may have seen pictures of it on line. Does anyone remember this? Do I have my facts right? Can anyone set me straight and tell me where to find the booklet on the exhibit that was for sale at the time? Many thanks. Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine USA, where our third straight day of snow is piling it up most satisfactorily for the happy skiers. - 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: 8.5.431 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2597 - Release Date: 01/02/10 08:22:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Metro Chapter Lace Day
The Metro Chapter of IOLI, based in Bergen County, New Jersey, is having our 21st lace day this coming weekend, November 7 and 8th. Location is the same as previous years - the Elks BPO Westwood Lodge, 505 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, NJ. Saturday we will have an exhibit of lace, demonstrations, and a children's class. We also look forward on Saturday to vending by Susan Wenzel, aka Lacy Susan, and by Kathy Kirchner Lace Supplies. On Sunday Susan will teach a class called Color in Lace and Lee Daly will teach a needle lace heart. We are also offering a beginners' class and a half-day class for unfinished objects. Please write me rmhar...@optimum.net to request a flyer sent as an attachment, or if you have any questions. Regina Haring - 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] Making a Leaf tally
The bottom-line question - it seems to me anyway - is how long a video will remain on YouTube, and who makes the decision as to when it is taken off. If I could be sure it will remain available for a good long time (and I surely hope so, as it looks like a wonderful technique), then all I would do is add it to my Favorites list. Does anyone know who decides when a video is taken off YouTube? Regina Haring Nanuet, NY - 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] Looking for lace group/teacher near East Chester, NY
The Metro Chapter of IOLI is the closest group to Eastchester in Westchester County, New York, and we would be happy to welcome your friend. Our meetings and classes are held in Bergen County, NJ, where Gunvor Jorgensen lived and taught for many years. Meetings are usually in a home in the Westwood area of Bergen, and classes are offered in Ridgewood. Apparently this is about a 45 minute trip from Eastchester, and I'm not sure whether (a) going south to the George Washington Bridge and then northwest to Westwood or Ridgewood, or (b) going north in Westchester to the Tappan Zee Bridge and then south to the meeting and class places - would be an easier or shorter trip. Actually these locations in Bergen County are roughly due west of Eastchester, and if we could only devise another way to cross the Hudson River, the trip would be much shorter - as it is it depends on the hour and the traffic. Our Lace Days in Westwood are November 7 and 8 this year, with vendors, demos and an exhibit on Saturday and classes on Sunday. Perhaps your friend could visit us at that time - we'd love to meet her. Someone recently commented about the fact that conventions were never held in this area, but actually the 50th anniversary convention of IOLI was held at the Hilton Hotel in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ in 2003, and the hosts were the Metro Chapter, Lost Art Lacers of Sussex, NJ and the Cranberry Lacers of NJ. I am aware that there are some gals who gather to make lace in NYC with a teacher, and I believe that they use the Spanish vertical lace pillow - they are not connected with IOLI. Regina Haring President, Metro Chapter - Original Message - From: Vicki Bradford twohappyb...@aol.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:21 PM Subject: [lace] Looking for lace group/teacher near East Chester, NY Hello all, A friend of a friend is moving to East Chester, NY shortly and is hoping to find a lace group and teacher in the area. Can anyone on the list provide advice? Vicki in Maryland...just finished making lace for 30 hours at our county fair last week - 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: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.66/2325 - Release Date: 08/25/09 06:08:00 - 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] Slides
I mentioned this to my son and he provided the URL of a site which compares different methods of converting slides to digital, so you can see how sharp and clear the picture is after using different equipment: http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/photo/slide-transfer.html Regina Dear Arachnids I am researching techniques for the next chapter in my Floral Bucks Book and need to put some slides onto my computer so that I can see the techniques that were used. As lacemakers you will know my requirements. I have a large collection of lace slides and it will probably be worth buying the equipment rather than having them professionally copied. Looking forward to your answers. Alex - 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: Lace Demonstration at Historic Sites
The majority of the members of the Metro Chapter of IOLI are from Bergen County, NJ. This is due in large part to the fact that the late and very much missed Gunvor Jorgensen lived in Northvale and began the group. There are a few of us from Rockland County, NY and other counties of NJ and even one gal who comes by bus from NYC. We do get opportunities to demonstrate lace making at historic houses in the area and also are regulars at the Colonial Day held at the DeWint House in Tappan. Like Mark, we just want to introduce folks to the craft of bobbin lace, since most have people never heard of it before, so we don't feature any particular style of lace. Members have also been asked to speak at various other groups including a historic society, a spinners and weavers group, the Christian Women's Club, and even a garden club (focus on floral designs). Costumes are sometimes appreciated - in a pinch a long apron that is full enough to meet and tie at the back, worn with a simple blouse and perhaps the addition of a shawl, makes an easy and effective costume (sorry, Mark!). We know that bobbin lace was made in Ipswich, but have never been able to find evidence of it being made in our area, which was strongly Dutch when first settled. Apparently in Europe at that date it was in Belgium that lace was mostly made, while the Netherlands provided them with excellent thread. If anyone has any additional information on lace being made in the NY/NJ area, we'd be grateful to have it. Regina Haring President, Metro Chapter, IOLI Nanuet, New York On 8/20/09 5:01 PM, Regina Hart reginah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all On a related note, is anyone out there demonstrating lace at historic sites? If so, what kind of pillows/bobbins are you using, and what kind of lace are you making? Do you try to replicate a specific time period or do you just demonstrate the art? Cheers, Gina - 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: Question
I agree totally with Janice - I read a lot (or listen to books-on-tape while making lace) and it was one of the few books that I didn't bother finishing - the story itself wasn't satisfying at all. Regina Haring New York - Original Message - From: Janice Blair jbl...@sbcglobal.net To: ilske-peter-thom...@t-online.de; lace lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: [lace] Re: Question Ilske wrote: Hello Lacefriends, specially those from US, here in Germany in several magazines they announced a book from Brunonia Barry the German title is Die Mondschwimmerin in English translated the one who swims in the moon. Mrs Barry told in interviews that her aim was to tell the historie of lace! My question, has anybody of you read this book and is it worth to buy it? I have listened to the book called The Lace Reader and it is more about telling fortunes by reading the lace, similar to reading tea leaves or looking at a crystal ball. I only saw one book on the following site attributed to Ms.Barry and maybe you can see if the cover is similar to the book you are writing about. I do not recall much, if any history or details about lace making. I did not personally care for the book. I suggest you borrow it from a library and save your money for lace books. http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/34123/Brunonia_Barry/index.aspx Janice - 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] NELG web-site
I have a website for local history and genealogy and we recently were hacked, as my son who is the webmaster says. He was able to fix the problem. When you clicked on any of the internal links, instead of getting to the page you wanted, you came to a Google page - which was a fake Google page! Somehow the hackers had inserted lots of fake or useless HTML into the valid HTML for our site, and that's why it happened. What I'm not sure of is what the hackers got out of this - tho apparently collecting valid email addresses is profitable. Regina http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com - Original Message - From: pene piip p...@eggo.org To: Arachne Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:42 AM Subject: [lace] NELG web-site Would other lacemakers please see if they can access the NELG website at http://www.nelg.us/? For me it is coming up as a Reported Attack Site. Is it just me or for everyone? Thanks, Pene - 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: 8.5.364 / Virus Database: 270.12.68/2175 - Release Date: 06/14/09 05:53:00 - 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] Lace Article You May Enjoy...
Lace is the simple art of making holes in fabric - k! That's even worse than what you constantly read about winding the thread around the pins, and I thought that was as bad as it got! If you start with fabric you may create something that has or gives a lacy effect - but it isn't really lace. To make lace you start with thread, not fabric. Should someone write to those people? Regina NY - Original Message - From: Susan Reishus elationrelat...@yahoo.com To: post to Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: [lace] Lace Article You May Enjoy... http://www.handmadenews.org/article/index.php?id=1052 See, we are fashion forward! Now for more students, books republished, threads made available again, etc., etc.! LOL Best,Susan Reishus - 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: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.42/2137 - Release Date: 05/27/09 07:50:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] are you new to lace?
My maternal grandmother and my mother were knitters, crocheters, and embroiderers. In fact the tease was that if you stood still long enough my grandma would put a crocheted edging on you - everything, even the most utilitarian things, had a fancy crocheted lace edging! I have a few hankies and pillowcases with embroidery and crocheted lace trim that she made. For years I attended a needlework fair at the Unitarian church in Paramus, NJ, for which the late Miriam Forbes was the driving force. Miriam made huge bobbin lace hangings for the church, using nails for pins - they are wonderful. While the focus of the fair was embroidery of all kinds, the Metro Chapter of IOLI always demonstrated there, and for years I was awed and fascinated by their beautiful work, and intimidated as well. Prior to seeing their demonstrations I wouldn't have had any idea how this delicate lace was created. When the time was right, I began studying with the late Gunvor Jorgensen and have loved it ever since. Regina Haring Nanuet, NY - a glorious spring day here - 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] Luton museum/Bedford
But surely there were women with leisure enough to make lace for pleasure, as we do? And so a scene showing a nicely dressed woman who knew how to make more than one kind of lace is not unrealistic in my opinion. The awful picture of poor women and children who could only keep body and soul together by laboring under difficult conditions until their eyes gave out is thankfully not the whole story of our favorite pasttime. Regina New York - Original Message - From: jeanette jeane...@maxitec.co.za To: arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:03 PM Subject: [lace] Luton museum During 1996 four of us had a lace tour with Liz Bartlett and visited all the Midlands museums. One museum had a display of a lacemaker sitting in a cottage making lace and Liz was most upset by the display as she did not consider it a true reflection of the conditions lacemakers worked under. I think this was the Luton Museum and it was the most charming museum of them all. She said the room was too grand, the lacemaker was dressed too smartly and she also was wearing a lace collar which was unlikely. She was also working on a Beds piece with a Bucks piece lying around - both difficult patterns and she said any lacemaker ever worked only one or two patterns in her life and did not go from one kind of lace to another as we do. We , ignorami from South Africa, thought it was a lovely display!!! We thought that most people would just enjoy the display but Liz said that being a museum it should be factually correct. One museum had a lovely display of pincushions. I have all this on video but the video player has decided to stop working so I cannot check to see which museum it was. But I do think that I saw the bobbins because Liz then gave a talk on the hanging bobbins. Factually correct or not, it was a most enjoyable trip. How does the saying go - Been there, done that, forgotten most of it!! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] No stupid question? Really?
The priceless classic story from our area, which I did not hear personally but has been passed down is this: A woman had been standing and watching bobbin lace being made for a while, and then she said: If I die and go to h*ll, that's what they're going to make me do! Regina New York - 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] crazy quilt with lace on eBay
The description has *definitely* been changed - so someone must have gotten through to the seller! Thanks for pointing that out to me. Regina Nanuet, NY - Original Message - From: Beth Schoenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Regina Haring [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lace lace@arachne.com Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [lace] crazy quilt with lace on eBay Regina Haring wrote: Is there any reason to claim that the lace on this crazy quilt for sale on eBay is handmade? http://tinyurl.com/25c43t Hi, all, Did the seller claim that the /lace/ was handmade? As of the description today (Monday, 10 March), it seems that it's the /quilt/ that is supposed to be handmade, not the lace. Unless someone corrected the seller and the listing has been amended ... Cheers! Beth Schoenberg -- in beautiful and hot downtown Kambah, Canberra - 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: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.6/1318 - Release Date: 3/7/2008 2:01 PM - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] crazy quilt with lace on eBay
Is there any reason to claim that the lace on this crazy quilt for sale on eBay is handmade? http://tinyurl.com/25c43t It's not worth bothering the seller about - I would just like your thoughts on it. Regina - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Ipswich Lace on eBay?
Here's a picture of a bit of Ipswich lace http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm157.html The ground is very heavy and the effect is nowhere near as attractive as the eBay sample. Regina - Original Message - From: Ilske Thomsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ARACHNE Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Ipswich Lace on eBay? Clay, it's for sure a simple but handmade Point Ground Lace. This pattern we find on several places so it's very dificult to say from which place. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Ipswich Lace on eBay?
To me this lace has the characteristics of a very simple Chantilly - couldn't that be a Tulle ground? The motifs are outlined in gimp and look like half stitch (not linen) and there are picots on the edge - all essential to Chantilly. Chantilly was made by machine as early as the 1870's. Regina - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:25 PM Subject: [lace] Ipswich Lace on eBay? There is currently a listing on eBay for a length of black lace. It is very simple in design, and seems to be fairly unevenly worked - signalling the likelihood that it is handmade. It is being sold from Pennsylvania. I wonder if this is some Ipswich lace? Does anyone out there know enough about this lace to make a judgement on that? Here's the URL: http://tinyurl.com/2ealrh Thanks for your ideas on this. I'm totally in the dark when it comes to Ipswich. Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA - 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 Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.6/1280 - Release Date: 2/15/2008 9:00 AM - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Princess Lace Machine
As was mentioned in a previous message, the difference with the recent machine that sold was that it came with 96 perfectly good looking bobbins, which had to contribute to the price it fetched. Regina - Original Message - From: David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Laurie Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED]; arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Princess Lace Machine Carol et al, I have looked at the pictures, and the pillow seems to be in good order but ... The bidders must have been crazy or didn't realize what they were bidding on. These things are only any good for yardage and having used mine twice I shall never use it again. Actually I have 2 of them which I picked up in rural Tasmania in the 1980s. I recall giving $70AUS each then - which was a fortune, considering I didn't even know how to make BL at that time. I shall certainly be putting mine on Ebay when I get around to it and will be prepared to ship anywhere as long as buyer is prepared to pay postage. David in Ballarat Can a lace pillow really be worth all that amount of money?I know we are a bit spoiled in the UK with suppliers of all sorts of things, but I can't believe that anyone here would spend as much as that.It looks quite a lovely piece of work, even though the pictures didn't seem very bright and clear, but some of my roller pillows would, I am sure, be just as efficient. So - please tell me what I have obviously missed - maybe I am just a tad dimmer than the average... Carol - in Suffolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Princess Lace Making Machine on eBay
Wanted to bring to your notice that there is a Princess Lace Making Machine with 96 bobbins for sale on eBay. The number is 290168377164. Shipping will be $28, and the reserve has not yet been met. Regina - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Pincushion idea
A couple of weeks ago Martha Stewart had a demonstration of how to make darling teacup pincushions - and I can't find the directions on her website now, though I did locate them at the time. She used felted wool as from old sweaters, rolling a couple of thicknesses, and then using say a cuff from a patterned sweater that had been felted as the outside. The handle of the cup and the saucer were made from that knitting you did with a spool as a kid, we called them horsetails or rattails - the handle was shaped and glued on, and the saucer was made by coiling the knitted tube in a flat spiral. She decorated the top with a few little 'leaves' from felted fabric - it might make you think of whipped cream on hot chocolate. To use it for lace pins it might be good to top it with a piece of real wool felt. But they were really very pretty when made in nice colors! Regina New York - Original Message - From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pene piip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lace List lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Pincushion idea This is a real goodie for a goodie bag :)) I wonder if the cupcake could be knit oversize with worsted wool - then the whole thing made to shrink, that is, felted. Then it could be stuffed firmly with fleece, and pins would stay put. Hm, might try one some time. On 3/9/07, pene piip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the ideas, I thought, would make a great pincushion - knitted cupcakes!! The tops could be made from felt so that the pins can't get lost.And this would be great for a goodie bag gift. -- Bev in Sooke BC (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Highland year of culture - Inverness Scotland
How absolutely beautiful - what a gorgeous design! I would love to see it completed. Can you post photos and keep us in touch with your progress? Don't feel bad about being renamed Highland Lacers - there's another group listed there called the Highland Quiters and that would be worse. I hope they don't live up to their name, or the work will never be complete ;-) Regina Haring Metro Lace Chapter IOLI from a cold suburb of New York City - Original Message - From: micki cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 5:25 AM Subject: [lace] Highland year of culture - Inverness Scotland We are celebrating the Highland year of culture in 2007 and the Inverness Lace Group is participating in a very exciting project, namely making lace for a large piece of community textile art. Lacemakers, quilters, spinners, weavers, dyers, feltmakers and embroiderers are all contributing towards this piece of work. Last night, at our monthly meet, Joan Baxter - a texstyle artist - who designed this piece of work came to speak to Inverness Lace Group about our lace contribution. If you want to read more about the project you can go to the following website: http://www.highlandarttextiles.co.uk/index.htm. We will be making the wind turbines you can see under the third panel (the last panel on the right). The project will be unveiled on the weekend of the 31st August, 1st and 2nd September and during this time members of the public will be invited to classes held by the various 'disciplines' (for want of a better collective word grin) which brings me to my request: Inverness Lace Group (or Highland Lace Group as the project renamed us) will need to have a lace tutor on hand for Sunday - someone who can perhaps showcase his/her own lace work, hold an informal class etc. Any volunteers from the British contingent of Arachne? We can contribute to your costs and provide accommodation. Please contact me off list if you are interested [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you Micki Cameron Inverness Lace Group Secretary from a dampish morning in Drumnadrochit, Scotland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Threads and pins
I learned bobbin lace from the late Gunvor Jorgensen, and we always loop the patterns she pricked for us (lucky us!) completely around the roller and overlapped them and firmly pinned them down, cutting off excess pricking. I can't imagine not pinning the edges of the pricking to the pillow every couple of inches as it goes around. Very carefully line up the repeats and put several pins straight through both thicknesses of pricking at matching spots to hold it in place while pinning the edges to the roller - then remove the temporary pins from the pattern section. For instance, the center of a spider was an excellent and easy place to match the overlap. If you can't make it match perfectly because of the length of the repeat, pad the roller with a thickness (or even two) of felt to bring it up to the size needed to make the repeats match perfectly. Be sure and have the overlap be the top layer as the roller turns so you can continue to work smoothly round and roundand round Regina Haring New York - Original Message - From: Barbara Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Malvary J Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Threads and pins I bought a beautiful roller pillow in Montreal, and am about to start a pattern on it. The pricking will be exactly as Malvary described, a loop larger than the roller. Here's my question: I've been cautioned that with this method there is a risk that the pricking might not stay exactly vertical but might eventually work its way slightly diagonal. Is this really a problem/risk? If so, how can I avoid it? Thanks, Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA Hi - while I would agree with this description for a flat, bolster, block or cookie pillow, it is very difficult to put cover cloths front to back on the pillow when you are using a roller pillow. When using a roller pillow one of the best methods is to make the pattern into a loop, larger than the diameter of the roller and then as you unpin from the back and re-pin at the front, the pins go back into a different place in the roller each time. If you are making a long length and you have the pricking exactly the same size as the roller the holes will gradually get looser as the pins go into the same place over and over. This is particularly noticeable with a foam pillow. Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's Capital), Canada - 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] -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.25/515 - Release Date: 11/3/2006 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Days in Bergen County, New Jersey
This coming Saturday and Sunday, November 4 and 5, are the annual Lace Days for the Metropolitan Chapter of IOLI. They will again be held at the Elks BPO Westwood Lodge, 505 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, New Jersey. On Saturday the hours are 10 to 3, it's free and open to the public, and we will have vendors, demonstrations and a lace exhibit. There are classes on Sunday from 9 to 4. For more information on classes, please write to Micheline Hodge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regina Haring for the Metro Chapter - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Jana Novak question
I feel sure that what Jana means is to cover your pillow with the plastic *kitchen* film ( what we call Saran Wrap in the US, whatever the brand), very thin plastic film, and just work through it. This is in addition to what we call blue sticky paper (the technical term, g) and its purpose is to protect the cover of your pillow from the starch when your pieces are finished. I hadn't thought of that, and just put paper towels over the pillow around the design area to keep it clean when spraying. Regina Haring - - Original Message - When you make the figures in her Nativity sets, she has you starch them prior to taking them off the pillow. Anticipating that, she instructs you to cover your pricking with plastic foil before you begin to make the lace. My question is, what does she mean by the plastic foil? I usually cover my prickings with the blue film, and assuming I do the same with my Nativity prickings, is there any need for any other plastic? Clay - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] sad news
It is with deep sadness that I have to tell the list that Gunvor Jorgensen, well known lace teacher, passed away this morning at home after a brief illness. Regina Haring - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
