Re: [lace] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
Hi I agree I don't want any of my lace or anything in the coffin, it would be a waste and maybe, in the future, someone will look at it with the fondness we look at old lace now. Maureen E Yorks UK (where it is a lovely sunny morning.) - 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] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
I think a lot depends upon whether you decide to be buried or cremated. If buried, lace in your coffin - especially if it is wire lace - could tell a future archaeologist that you were a lacemaker... or leave them puzzling, just as the sprang found in the Egyptian tombs has! In message 4A4538EB4E24475B9C64DE6A28E00A5E@Fisaroma123, Maureen Bromley maur...@roger.karoo.co.uk writes Hi I agree I don't want any of my lace or anything in the coffin, it would be a waste and maybe, in the future, someone will look at it with the fondness we look at old lace now. Maureen E Yorks UK (where it is a lovely sunny morning.) -- Jane Partridge - 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
Re: [lace] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
I think that if you are going to be buried and have lace in your coffin there should be an explanation as to why and hope that it can be read in the future. Maureen E Yorks - 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
Re: [lace] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
Liz I think that you are going to have to leave any not 'good pieces' in an envelope or something. I rather suspect that, unless they are lacemakers themselves, they may not know which is good and which is not. Maureen E Yorks - 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] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
Alex, I have one of those Hankies. I was given is as a hankie!I have since been told it was to cover the face of the dead. I don't know much about the tradition, but it sounds about right. However, I have given strict instructions that neither it, nor any other lace is to be put in my coffin with me - I spent too many hour making it, to destroy it like that!!! If they Insist on putting some with me - then use the cut-off, and scraps , not anything good!!! Regards from Liz in cold, wet, Melbourne, Oz. lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
In fact, I am now wondering if they are not handkerchiefs...If not handkerchiefs, could they be challice veils? Often mistaken for handkerchiefs, they are used in the Catholic church to cover the communion cup. Typically they have a rounded centre, rather than square, of very fine material with quite deep lace edging. I suppose they would also have to be washable - the wine would be bound to spill sometimes!Bridget, in Pinner - 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
Subject: Re: [lace] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief
Dear Arachnids I have not looked at the pictures of the 'handkerchiefs' but Joan Tyler-Smith showed me some square handkerchief-like items with circular centres and wide lace edgings, many of them silk, and she explained they were made to cover the face of someone who had died. Does anyone know more about this tradition? Happy lacemaking Alex - 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
