[lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet/d.i.y. magnets
From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED] I made lace photo magnets on business-card size magnets with a peel-away sticky surface on which to apply the business card, or in my case the photo - I had taken pictures of laces, and cut them to fit the magnet. Another d.i.y. magnet project is with a sheet of balsa wood to cut to size, the paper image, spray-adhesive and magnet strips with adhesive backing, sold by the length at craft places. I know some people who laminated postage stamps and glued those magnet strips to the back, as a fundraiser. One could laminate lace stamps-- its easier to find duplicate lace stamps and make them into magnets than it is to find lace magnets. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 26/01/2006 06:50:14 PM: On Jan 26, 2006, at 12:12, Ilske Thomsen wrote: At our Kunsthalle I found a magnet with The lace-maker from Caspar Netscher on it. [...] Since '89, and the beginning of my lace adventure, I've been trying to collect lace-related magnets and found that there aren't all that many of them available (possibly because most lace is made in Europe, [...] Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ FWIW (For what it's worth), I was in Brugge/Bruges, Belgium in October last year and brought home a wonderfully tacky fridge magnet featuring bobbin lace. It's very plastic looking and has a cartoon-like representation of an overhead view of a lace pillow, complete with bobbins and a pair of hands. I think it has the words Bobbin Lace and Belgium on it, and the Belgium flag in the corner. So keep searching, it's not an impossible hunt. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada Who collects fine-art portraits of lacemakers, mostly historical; and postcards of lacemakers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
Oh! I also found Vermeer's Lacemaker as a fridge magnet in the Louvre (very big) gift/book shop. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
On Jan 27, 2006, at 0:11, bevw wrote: Already thought of for the consumer market - you can buy magnetic sheets coated with paper that can be run through an inkjet. _Not_ the same thing, _at all_, as the professionally-made magnets... The magnets made by Customworks are already coated with some goo that makes them impervious to outside interference. Inkjet ink smears easily, which means you have to do something before the magnetcan be used without secong and third thought... And that's assuming that the inkjet works well, which mine doesn't. The lines it produces are _nowhere near_ as clean-cut as those made by the laser-printer (which is not a copier)... Regarding: I've been reading the thread about lace related magnets and would suggest you view our SA Branch Australia Lace Guild web page where we have, among other things, some lace magnets. The address is: http://www.austlaceguild.org/branches/sa_sale.htm Bye for now, Shirley T. - in very hot Adelaide, South Australia I found magnets as a sale item (and cheap, too) but was unable to see what I was buying. And I could find no description of the product, either, or the shipping costs, especially for foreign buyers... The basic price of an item may be so low that one is tempted to go ahead sight-unseen and thought-unconsidered, but, given the current situation vis oil prices (and, consequently, the shipping costs) plus the rapacious bank charges on currency exchanges, it would be foolish to indulge... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
On Jan 27, 2006, at 19:12, Donna Hrynkiw wrote: Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada Who collects fine-art portraits of lacemakers, mostly historical; and postcards of lacemakers. I collect _everything_ connected with lacemaking (except lace itself, which is out of my price-range per piece): stamps (both postal and rubbber), paper napkins, coasters, table-mats and other table-ware (glasses, mugs and plates) with lace or lace-guild logos on them, gift-wrapping paper ditto, postcards of paintings and statues of lacemakers, badges (pins), charms, etc with logos of laceguilds/lacegroups, stickers... Any and every trivial ephemera, IOW. And it still is so little, it doesn't even merit a single hiss from my pocket snake (though, to be sure, I'm unlikely to pay $10 for a $1.5 item because it's to be had at the other end of the globe g)... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet/d.i.y. magnets
Already thought of for the consumer market - you can buy magnetic sheets coated with paper that can be run through an inkjet. _Not_ the same thing, _at all_, as the professionally-made magnets... maybe not, maybe so - as you say, if your own inkjet printer doesn't do a great job. The one I received in the greeting card, looked pretty good to me. Inkjet aside - some years ago I made lace photo magnets on business-card size magnets with a peel-away sticky surface on which to apply the business card, or in my case the photo - I had taken pictures of laces, and cut them to fit the magnet. Sold well for a fund-raiser. Another d.i.y. magnet project is with a sheet of balsa wood to cut to size, the paper image, spray-adhesive and magnet strips with adhesive backing, sold by the length at craft places. -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
Hello Everybody, At our Kunsthalle I found a magnet with The lace-maker from Caspar Netscher on it. Manufactored by Customworks. It is a big serie with famous pintings on them. If you are interested in live in or nearby a city with an art museum it's worth to have a look. Good luck Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
On Jan 26, 2006, at 12:12, Ilske Thomsen wrote: At our Kunsthalle I found a magnet with The lace-maker from Caspar Netscher on it. Manufactored by Customworks. It is a big serie with famous pintings on them. If you are interested in live in or nearby a city with an art museum it's worth to have a look. As many people know, American refrigerators are _huge_ (at least in comparison with the European ones I've seen). And we use them as bulletin boards, pinning all kinds of notes/memoranda on them. With magnets :) So I've been interested in pretty/interesting/unusual magnets ever since I arrived here in January of '73. Since '89, and the beginning of my lace adventure, I've been trying to collect lace-related magnets and found that there aren't all that many of them available (possibly because most lace is made in Europe, and European fridges aren't as big as ours, and can't accomodate as many magnets. While here, we have big fridges, but there are many more subjects competing for the space). At any rate, I've often been reduced to making my own magnets -- mostly from stickers with lace on them (the few I made with real lace in them had been given away). I've built a nice-enough collection (with some super examples, the nicest being a ceramic tile, ca 2 square, with a gold image of a lacemaker and Almagro on a navy-blue background), but the lace-related magnets are still in the minority on my fridge. So, naturally, I was _intensely_ interested in Ilske's posting... :) Found Customworks (based in Scotland) via Google, and found the relevant magnet in their northern masters collection: http://www.customworks.co.uk/tmenu/products_list.asp Also found that they do not sell retail; only wholesale. Couldn't find out the details of either numbers or pricing; my 'puter skills will stretch but _so_ far g; if I had, I might have been willing to go for it (and then raffle off the excess), if the wholesale wasn't too big and the price reasonable. I also noticed http://www.customworks.co.uk/tmenu/home.asp that, in addition to the stock they carry (the Netscher among them), they'll make magnets to order, from whatever image one wants. I think that might be a venue worth exploring (for people who are more puter-savvy than I am g)... An Arachne magnet (for sale with a year's commems)? A magnet with a lace group logo to put into a goodie bag for a Lace Day or Conference/Convention? I expect magnets, even bought wholesale, would be cheaper than pins (badges), and there are so many possible images ot put on them... Yours, reluctant to stick her stamp collection onto magnets, -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
T and all, I did send them email to find out how many one would have to order, and how much they cost per each; also what the shipping cost would be to the US. I'll post if/when I get a response from them. I'm up for ordering the minimum number and then making them available at my cost to anyone who wants one. Depending, of course, on what that minimum order would be. Ten, yeah sure. Fifty, maybe. 1,000--Nope! Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA On Jan 26, 2006, at 12:12, Ilske Thomsen wrote: At our Kunsthalle I found a magnet with The lace-maker from Caspar Netscher on it. Manufactored by Customworks. It is a big serie with famous pintings on them. If you are interested in live in or nearby a city with an art museum it's worth to have a look. As many people know, American refrigerators are _huge_ (at least in comparison with the European ones I've seen). And we use them as bulletin boards, pinning all kinds of notes/memoranda on them. With magnets :) So I've been interested in pretty/interesting/unusual magnets ever since I arrived here in January of '73. Since '89, and the beginning of my lace adventure, I've been trying to collect lace-related magnets and found that there aren't all that many of them available (possibly because most lace is made in Europe, and European fridges aren't as big as ours, and can't accomodate as many magnets. While here, we have big fridges, but there are many more subjects competing for the space). At any rate, I've often been reduced to making my own magnets -- mostly from stickers with lace on them (the few I made with real lace in them had been given away). I've built a nice-enough collection (with some super examples, the nicest being a ceramic tile, ca 2 square, with a gold image of a lacemaker and Almagro on a navy-blue background), but the lace-related magnets are still in the minority on my fridge. So, naturally, I was _intensely_ interested in Ilske's posting... :) Found Customworks (based in Scotland) via Google, and found the relevant magnet in their northern masters collection: http://www.customworks.co.uk/tmenu/products_list.asp Also found that they do not sell retail; only wholesale. Couldn't find out the details of either numbers or pricing; my 'puter skills will stretch but _so_ far g; if I had, I might have been willing to go for it (and then raffle off the excess), if the wholesale wasn't too big and the price reasonable. I also noticed http://www.customworks.co.uk/tmenu/home.asp that, in addition to the stock they carry (the Netscher among them), they'll make magnets to order, from whatever image one wants. I think that might be a venue worth exploring (for people who are more puter-savvy than I am g)... An Arachne magnet (for sale with a year's commems)? A magnet with a lace group logo to put into a goodie bag for a Lace Day or Conference/Convention? I expect magnets, even bought wholesale, would be cheaper than pins (badges), and there are so many possible images ot put on them... Yours, reluctant to stick her stamp collection onto magnets, - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
Already thought of for the consumer market - you can buy magnetic sheets coated with paper that can be run through an inkjet. I got one (i.e. such a magnet) from a relative, in the Christmas card. You could also print the logo or picture onto regular or photo paper, in multiples, glue that to magnet sheet, cut them apart - sheets available at crafts supplies. I found some at WalMart! commems)? A magnet with a lace group logo to put into a goodie bag for a Lace Day or Conference/Convention? I expect magnets, even bought wholesale, would be cheaper than pins (badges), and there are so many -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
