[lace] RE: seven
Seven books of Harry Potter? Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in Denver - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Seven one more time!
On Jun 3, 2004, at 21:07, Patricia Ann Fisher wrote: I'm enjoying listening to all the buzz about the arachne group lace project and I certainly want to be in on it! What I'm enjoying more than anything else is seing people, who usually just lurk, actually *post*; that's a good measurement of how bright the original idea was (Sue's? Jane's? I didn't keep the original posting, though I've been keeping track of most of the subsequent ones) All the talk about sevens makes me think about the story about As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. The seven wives had seven sacks. The seven sacks had seven cats. The seven cats had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives? Which brings us right back to ones and sevens... Neat :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Seven one more time!
Tamara wrote: that's a good measurement of how bright the original idea was (Sue's? Jane's? I didn't keep the original posting, I believe the original idea was from Jacquie who wrote on May 30th I shan't see the exhibition until 3rd August, but I hope my catalogues arrive before then, and I can do some arachne spotting. Sounds like we did well. Perhaps we should do a group entry next time! Jacquie. Malvary in Ottawa - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: seven
I spent hours engrossed in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable last night, and found out all sorts of seven-related things. Anyway, the seven deadly sins each have an associated colour, animal, and opposite cardinal virtue. Pride: violet, horse, humility Envy: green, dog, kindness Anger: red, bear, patience Sloth: light blue, goat, dilligence Greed; yellow, frog, liberality Gluttony: orange, pig, abstincence Lust: blue, cow, chastity Personally, I wouldn't have said that goats were particularly slothful, or cows lustful, but there you go. Hope this helps someone. Deborah = Deborah Metters 'Per ardua ad astra' Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: seven
We could do it as a seven sided building - with seven doors seven signs. Three dimensional of course! Sue - Original Message - From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Deborah Metters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:58 PM Subject: [lace] Re: seven In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Deborah Metters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anyway, the seven deadly sins each have an associated colour, animal, and opposite cardinal virtue. Greed; yellow, frog, liberality This brought about the idea of seven pub (?bar) signs The Greedy Frog depicting a large frog on a yellow background, surrounded by food? It would, of course, have to be a free house in order to retain its liberality Just thought, no, I am not referring to anything other than the amphibian type of frog! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Seven
On Jun 2, 2004, at 15:44, Panza, Robin wrote: Didn't the Plucky Little Taylor (a children's story) kill seven in one blow? So he did, as reported by the Brothers Grimm :) The design could be a fly-swatter with 7 splats on it! Add to that Helen's contribution: Malvary Cole wrote: I just remembered the Magpie Rhyme - last line: Seven for a secret never to be told. I think I can do that one on my own!! All you need is a frame, with these words written at the bottom, or the top...There you are! Instant secret lace!! With the 7-splatted fly swatter *within that frame* (and let them guess *which* secret it is... g) Love it :) I also liked Magda's tale of the Belgian royal seven; it reminded me of the magic attached to the 7th son of the 7th son (and, the same applies to daughters, I think; though, if I remember a-right, nothing good comes out of *that* combination g). It reminded me also of *all kinds* of superstitions connected with the number seven; I spent many years in my childhood and teen years collecting public transportation tickets whose numbers added up to 21 (3x 7, both being lucky)... :) Come to think of it, the beyond seven mountains... etc ,*also* invokes the lucky 21, repeating the beyond seven phrase three times. And then there's the 21st birthday; the sign of having arrived at adulthood... Once on the superstition trail, and prodded by Debora's list of colours of sin, I dipped into my Cassell Dictionary of Superstitions... Quote: The number seven is associated with the supernatural and will bring success to any project associated with it (good news g T). God created the world in seven days, man lives through seven 'ages' and in ancient times there were thought to be seven planets. The seventh son of the seventh son is said to have the gift of second sight and will make a good doctor, having special powers of healing. If the date of a person's birth is divisible by seven, he or she will enjoy good luck throughout life. The myth of the 'seven year itch' said to tempt adults who have been in the same relationship for that length of time to form new partnerships (I think the person writing this might have profited from Eats, shoots and leaves g T), is probably derived from the ancient ntion that major changes in a person's life occur after every seven (or nine) years. This idea is welcomed by some parents, who console themselves that badly behaved children will change their ways once they reach the age of seven. End quote. That last one... In the old days of artisan guilds, it was more you'd better, or else, rather than *hoping* for a change... :) The whole system was based on a 7-year period; you started sweeping the floor, running errands, and observing your master at about 7. At about 14, you became an apprentice, and started learning in earnest. At about 21, you became a journeyman, semi-independent, travelling and studying with other masters... I don't think that we need to worry about anyone stealing the ideas via the archives. On the one hand, Seven seems to be so firmly entrenched in the various cultures, that some repetitions/similiarities among various projects are inevitable. On the other hand, there are so many of them, we can afford to spare some :) And, as someone (Jacquie?) pointed out, once (if?) the project gets going (ie we reach the stage of a real cartoon, on which everyone's agreed), the whole thing is likely to go underground for a while, with the visuals available only to participants, and with only words being banded on the list (and, probably, not even those; it's very easy to create a special list... Even *I* can do it g) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Seven...
On Jun 1, 2004, at 20:19, Jane Viking Swanson wrote: Hi All, Don't forget the Seven Dwarfs! Personally, I'm thinking about Tamara's seven mountains, etc. and Jo's village name. Me, I like the sins (because of colour possibilities) and the Seven Sisters roses (because many people could participate) I'm thinking about squares that fit together to form the larger picture. Then some would be easier to make to fill in the sky or the seven forests. And I'm thinking that a 3-D project would open the project to more participants (though it would be a nightmare to assemble and then ship to its destination), *if* we're permitted to go ahead with it. pattern drafting such a large project sounds like a nightmare! Well, as I remember it, the *size* is prescribed by the competition rules (though I don't remember what it is... Anyone?). That's why I'm thinking a 3-D might offer more scope; an ordinary lace group is likely to have maybe 10-15 members participating. If this Arachne project flies, we're likely to have many more. Even if we have a division of labour (different people drawing overall pictures, deciding which drawing to accept for the group, designing it in lace so the bits would fit, parcelling out the bits, with instructions etc), it will still be difficult to accomodate everyone. Unless, of course, the whole idea becomes so popular, that most people decide to enter individual projects, with a little as inpired by Arachne note attached :) In which case, the organizers might, again, not be able to exhibit everyone's entry... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Seven........
On May 31, 2004, at 17:02, Sue Babbs wrote: Ooh! I like that one - lots of floaty veils to construct and a rich, vivid coloured setting to set the dancer in , dance of the seven veils, A veil for each sin, and and a sin for each day of the week? g I'm collecting all the sugestions which have surfaced so far, and many of them are interesting indeed. I'd like to add one: Beyond seven mountains, beyond seven forests, beyond seven rivers... Which is the Polish way of starting a fairy tale (the equivalent of the English once upon a time...) I'd love to see an Arachne group project going, but we've had straw fires (I think the English equivalent is flash in the pan) before :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
