[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Adhesives
I used FrayCheck to finish off the ends on a tiny medallion, and within a year the glue turned golden brown. I wouldn't recommend it unless golden spots are the effect you want. Margery. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thankyou.
Dear Secret Pal, I must apologize for not replying sooner, my computer went down the day I received your parcel last month and we have just got ourselves a new one so I am sorry for the delay. Thankyou for the lovely goodies, a girl can never have enough pins, threads or bobbins to keep her out of trouble. Thankyou also for the Book on Bobbins, I have been enjoying reading it. Thank you once again Your Secret Pal from New Zealand Julie To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Chemicals, Photography, Preservation & Restoration
Hi All! This article came to my attention and it reminded me of the discussion on Arachne about the effects of chemicals on lace, especially once it gets old, arts of preservation and restoration, and the difficulties of photographing delicate lace. I'm sending this to lace-chat since it doesn't directly relate to lace, but there do seem to be certain parallels which might interest some of you. Kind regards, Ricki Utah USA * * * Monks use hi-tech camera to read ancient manuscripts http://www.dawn.com/2005/06/20/int10.htm 2005-07-28 MOUNT SINAI, Egypt - The world's oldest monastery plans to use hi-tech cameras to shed new light on ancient Christian texts preserved for centuries within its fortress walls in the Sinai Desert. Saint Catherine's Monastery hopes the technology will allow a fuller understanding of some of the world's earliest Christian texts, including pages from the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving bible in the world. The technique, known as hyperspectral imaging, will use a camera to photograph the parchments at different wavelengths of light, highlighting faded texts obscured by time and later overwritings. It should allow scholars to understand corrections made to pages of the Greek Codex Sinaiticus, written between 330 and 350 and thought to be one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine. . . . In a joint project with the monastery, libraries in Britain, Germany and Russia, which together hold the bulk of the manuscript, will also scan pages and fragments of the text to digitally reunite the work in a facsimile. Lost to Europe [snip] The monastery, which has never lost hope the manuscript may return, has agreed to take part in the project on condition it includes a modern history of the Codex. . . . Pages of the Codex Sinaiticus in Britain and Germany are in good enough condition to be photographed straightaway, but those in the monastery need restoration to ready them for the process. "Some of them are crumpled in the state they were found in and they need to be opened up", said book historian Nicholas Pickwoad, an adviser to the monastery's conservation project. The monastery plans to build a conservation workshop to treat the Codex and other works in its collection of 3,304 manuscripts and 1,700 scrolls, which make up the biggest collection of early Christian texts outside the Vatican. It will also build a new library to house the collection, preserved by the monastery's remote location, a dry desert climate and the care of the monks. "There is nothing else quite like this collection. It doesn't compare," Pickwoad said. Manuscripts online Hyperspectral imaging will be used to read another of the monastery's most significant manuscripts: the Codex Syriacus. The technology should allow scholars to read the faint remnants of a washed-out 5th-century text which lie underneath visible 8th-century writing. The underlying text in Syriac is a copy of a 2nd-century translation of the New Testament gospels. In the late 19th century, scholars applied chemicals to the manuscript which briefly made the underlying text visible but made the parchment more brittle. "It's almost certain that the whole text has not been extracted yet." Pickwoad said. Photographing the rippled parchment may involve using up to "four cameras taking images from different angles and then knitting the image together, electronically pulling it flat because we may not be able to pull it flat physically." he said. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] bobbins
In a message dated 7/30/2005 6:37:28 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > same website, but this is a nice set of the 12 days of christmas. > http://www.lace-bobbins.co.uk/images/12days.jpg Those are great bobbins -- thanks for those links! Looks like 9 days of Christmas, though, not 12 - but I'd take 'em any which way. Ricki Utah USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
Hi All, Here in Utah, the Seagull is our State Bird, even though the only sea in sight is now a salt lake. I'll save the story of how the seagulls saved the Mormon pioneers from the crickets for another day. But maybe you'd like this little story A little boy and his mum were walking along the seashore, when they came upon a dead seagull lying on the beach. The little boy asked his mum what was wrong with the bird. She told him, "That poor seagull died, and went to heaven to be with God." The little boy thought about this for a minute, then asked his mum, "Why did God throw it back down?" Ricki Utah USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] fray check
Fray Check (or however it's being spelled) has been around for donkey's years. I can assure you that it does turn yellow/brown with time. When it first came out I thought it was a great idea..didn't have to hem the linen for cross stitch. Those edges are now a horrible rusty brown. Don't believe all those claims about none yellowing glues, particualrly if you are in a moist climate where wood is the main heating fuel. Sharon on Vancouver Island. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/05 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
i have a seagull story that isn't so nice. i think the birds are beautiful, but a little agressive. i was walking to catch the bus in norfolk virginia about 7 months ago at one of mall areas. i can't remember which one, but there is a mcdonalds sitting off to the right that i went to for some fries to eat while i was waiting. i started walking towards the bus stop and pulled my red french fry box out and started eating the fries when a few of them swooped down on me. i laughed and thought "oh, just silly birds!", then i walked a few more steps and they started dive bombing me. i tried to run, but it was imposible to outrun about 25 birds. as i was running i put my red french fry container in the white mcdonald's bag and they went away. i went home and told my uncle what happened and he said he never had that experience with them and thought they were such nice birds. we also had a big discussion of what kind of bird they really were since i had never seen such wierd looking seagulls. i have never seen them with the gray and white coloring. i looked them up in a bird watching book that describes their habits and environment and found that he was correct. they were seagulls, and i also found out the color red triggers their eating habits. it comes from when they are young and feeding from their mother's bill. moral of the story: do not eat out of red containers while waiting for a bus in norfolk virginia. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > Here in Utah, the Seagull is our State Bird, even though the only sea > in > sight is now a salt lake. I'll save the story of how the seagulls > saved the Mormon > pioneers from the crickets for another day. But maybe you'd like this > little > story > > A little boy and his mum were walking along the seashore, when they > came upon > a dead seagull lying on the beach. The little boy asked his mum what > was > wrong with the bird. She told him, "That poor seagull died, and went > to heaven to > be with God." The little boy thought about this for a minute, then > asked his > mum, "Why did God throw it back down?" > > Ricki > Utah USA > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the > line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > from susan in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
In a message dated 8/1/2005 1:08:40 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i have a seagull story that isn't so nice. i think the birds are > beautiful, but a little agressive. > > i was walking to catch the bus in norfolk virginia about 7 months ago > at one of mall areas. i can't remember which one, but there is a > mcdonalds sitting off to the right that i went to for some fries to eat > while i was waiting. i started walking towards the bus stop and pulled > my red french fry box out and started eating the fries when a few of > them swooped down on me. i laughed and thought "oh, just silly > birds!", then i walked a few more steps and they started dive bombing > me. i tried to run, but it was imposible to outrun about 25 birds. as > i was running i put my red french fry container in the white mcdonald's > bag and they went away. > > i went home and told my uncle what happened and he said he never had > that experience with them and thought they were such nice birds. we > also had a big discussion of what kind of bird they really were since i > had never seen such wierd looking seagulls. i have never seen them with > the gray and white coloring. i looked them up in a bird watching book > that describes their habits and environment and found that he was > correct. they were seagulls, and i also found out the color red > triggers their eating habits. it comes from when they are young and > feeding from their mother's bill. > > Well, Suz, there's one thing you've got to know about seagulls -- not all of them come from heaven, like the ones we have here! :<)) (and no, they're not red here) On the brighter side, sounds like your story could be the plot of a great film for the Bicknell Film Festival here, last weekend in Torrey (no relation) Utahalongside the waterskiing cat. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-07-23-bmovie-festival_x.htm (But wait -- I think there was some film kinda like that already!) It could have been worse -- Just be glad you had those french fries to offer -- that's all I can say! Ricki Utah USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
it's really an orange-red spot on their beak not an red beak and it is where the yound aim at that spot when the mother seagull is feeding them. i really did watch the attack of the killer tomatoes once. i don't think it could have been outdone or outwon in this movie catagory. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 8/1/2005 1:08:40 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > i have a seagull story that isn't so nice. i think the birds are > > beautiful, but a little agressive. > > > > i was walking to catch the bus in norfolk virginia about 7 months > ago > > at one of mall areas. i can't remember which one, but there is a > > mcdonalds sitting off to the right that i went to for some fries to > eat > > while i was waiting. i started walking towards the bus stop and > pulled > > my red french fry box out and started eating the fries when a few > of > > them swooped down on me. i laughed and thought "oh, just silly > > birds!", then i walked a few more steps and they started dive > bombing > > me. i tried to run, but it was imposible to outrun about 25 birds. > as > > i was running i put my red french fry container in the white > mcdonald's > > bag and they went away. > > > > i went home and told my uncle what happened and he said he never > had > > that experience with them and thought they were such nice birds. > we > > also had a big discussion of what kind of bird they really were > since i > > had never seen such wierd looking seagulls. i have never seen them > with > > the gray and white coloring. i looked them up in a bird watching > book > > that describes their habits and environment and found that he was > > correct. they were seagulls, and i also found out the color red > > triggers their eating habits. it comes from when they are young > and > > feeding from their mother's bill. > > > > > > Well, Suz, there's one thing you've got to know about seagulls -- not > all of > them come from heaven, like the ones we have here! :<)) (and no, > they're not > red here) > > On the brighter side, sounds like your story could be the plot of a > great > film for the Bicknell Film Festival here, last weekend in Torrey (no > relation) > Utahalongside the waterskiing cat. > http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-07-23-bmovie-festival_x.htm > > (But wait -- I think there was some film kinda like that already!) > > It could have been worse -- Just be glad you had those french fries > to offer > -- that's all I can say! > > Ricki > Utah USA > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the > line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > from susan in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
In a message dated 8/1/2005 4:37:11 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's really an orange-red spot on their beak not an red beak and it is where the yound aim at that spot when the mother seagull is feeding them. Ahh! Thanks for the clarification -- need to watch out for those, in case they invade here, along with the killer bees, some of which have been spotted in southern Utah. > i really did watch the attack of the killer tomatoes once. i don't > think it could have been outdone or outwon in this movie catagory. Yes, that movie was at the top of the bill for last year's festival, and I remember seeing some scary artwork on their webpage showing a tomato with teeth. This year's lineup looks like it was tame in comparison (except for Halfway to Hell, of course). http://www.waynetheatre.com/biff.html Ricki To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
> > > > > > i have a seagull story that isn't so nice. i think the birds are > > > beautiful, but a little agressive. In the middle of our town we have a man made lake. Well more of a dirty pond which attracts lots of bird life. In the past year pelicans have started attacking tourists and picnicers at the lake, stealing whatever food they can. It becomes very dangerous when the pelicans start chasing children as they can inflict a lot of damage. One stole a childs wallet last summer. After a couple of stories in the local newspaper all feeding of pelicans was banned at the lake and some of them were relocated. Seems to have stopped the problem. Good story for the local paper though. Pelican steals wallet...LOL To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Travelling children and books alive
Hello All, I had a very big day yesterday. I put DD1 on a flight for the US. It was very hard to watch her leave knowing that it will be over 4 months before we see her again. It's the first time anyone in our family has travelled overseas. I know a lot of you have travelled and your children live in other countries but it is all new for us, kind of like a new chapter in our lives. I am really excited for her, but a little empty inside knowing she won't be around for a while. On a different note; Eats Shoots and Leaves, which has been the subject of much discussion on lace chat is on a list of 50 great reads released by the Australian government. A project aimed to increase adult reading levels.The government has realised that when adult literacy levels rise child literacy levels also rise. Kind of a 'win, win' effect. You can see the site at www.booksalive.com.au Cheers, Yvonne. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Sad Seagull Story
In a message dated 8/1/2005 5:42:40 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pelican steals wallet...LOL Understandable, since pelicans have such big bills! :>) Ricki T Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Travelling children and books alive
In a message dated 8/1/2005 5:56:03 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a very big day yesterday. I put DD1 on a flight for the US. It was very hard to watch her leave knowing that it will be over 4 months before we see her again. It's the first time anyone in our family has travelled overseas. I know a lot of you have travelled and your children live in other countries but it is all new for us, kind of like a new chapter in our lives. I am really excited for her, but a little empty inside knowing she won't be around for a while. Ah, yes - the empty nest syndrome! I'm dreading that, with my own DD planning to move out to the University dorms this fall, even though it's just a few miles up the hill. I heard a radio talk show recently with a caller who was facing the same problem. While acknowledging that it was normal and healthy for children to grow up and establish an independent life, but that still the mom was struggling with missing her, the talk show host said, "It's healthy that you should miss your daughter. It shows you have a loving and close relationship. The real problem would be if you did NOT miss her." I found some comfort in that, even though I do kinda wish my daughter would never grow up! Ricki T Utah USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Travelling children
Whereabouts is your daughter coming to in the US? Are any of us near enough to offer her hospitality? Sue To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Travelling children
On Aug 1, 2005, at 22:08, Sue Babbs wrote (in response to Yvonne's message): Whereabouts is your daughter coming to in the US? Are any of us near enough to offer her hospitality? Me, me! She'll be at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, which is just 75 miles away, and I'm going to meet Yvonnne too, when she comes to vist her daughter come Christmastime... Yours, bubbling (and babbling) in expectation, -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Travelling children
On Aug 1, 2005, at 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ricki) wrote: I heard a radio talk show recently with a caller who was facing the same problem. While acknowledging that it was normal and healthy for children to grow up and establish an independent life, but that still the mom was struggling with missing her, the talk show host said, "It's healthy that you should miss your daughter. It shows you have a loving and close relationship. The real problem would be if you did NOT miss her." Yeah, well... :) I grew up in an environment where the majority of students stayed home with their parents during the college years - we had to, due to shortage of dorms (never mind rental apartments) . So I was appalled at the idea that my only son was going to go away for college, and I'd only see him twice a year. At 17, yet... But, his last year at home was so stressful, it was a wonder we didn't kill one another :) So I didn't mind his going away as much as I thought I would, when the time came. And the 4 months of separation did both of us a "power of good" Once I was no longer responsible for micro-managing him, I was able to concentrate on his more admirable traits and missed him (so, there's always e-mail; he taught me how to use it ) -something I never thought I would :) And I was able to remember that I was as much (probably more) pain in the butt to my mother, only, with me, it happened much earlier (girls *do* grow up faster than boys; nobody's gonna tell me different ) He, too, given some space to breathe and time to reflect without heat, discovered (from other students) that things might have been *much worse* in "parental units" stakes... :) So, from that first Christmas, we went back to being great friends again, if no longer *quite* on the same terms. Now, we like one another as human beings, not as a parent and child. -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: books alive/good read
On Aug 1, 2005, at 19:52, A & Y Farrell (Yvonne) wrote: The government has realised that when adult literacy levels rise child literacy levels also rise. What a totally novel idea! Bet it took a 15-person committee 5 yrs to come to that conclusion :) You read to your kid from before he (or she) understands that you'r reading, not just telling stories, the child is likely to be interested in books. And, if both your parents are bookworms, with their noses stuck in a book every free moment, you have a blue-print for what to do to entertain yourself, no? Not that I think a book on *punctuation* is likely to raise the level of *literacy* all that much... :) On the "good read" front... A while back, I recommended Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club" as a most-excellent "ethnic" "read" - the lives of several Latino young women, from totally different backgrounds (country, skin-tone, social standing) in US. Well... She's come up with a new book - "Playing with Boys" - so I snapped it up, when I saw it at the library. To an extent, it's the (old) story of the second book... twice as long and half as good, with the same basic "formula" (changing narrators every chapter). And, like the rest of US, she's become "polarised"; she's much more vehemently Republican now than she used to be, and seems to accept propaganda as facts. But the book is still very well written - funny and schmaltzy in the right proportion - and a good way for a non-Latin-American to get a glimmer of an idea that not all people whose surnames end in -ez are identical :) -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: TOO HIGH
I think I've seen this one before; still find it amusing... From: L.F. A group of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, accompanied by two female teachers, went on a field trip to the local racetrack (Arlington Park) to learn about thoroughbred horses and the supporting industry, but mostly to see the horses. When it was time to take the children to the bathroom it was decided that the girls would go with one teacher and the boys would go with the other. The teacher assigned to the boys was waiting outside the men's room when one of the boys came out and told her that none of them could reach the urinal. Having no choice, she went inside, helped the boys with their pants, and began hoisting the little boys up one by one, holding onto their "wee wees" to direct the flow away from their clothes. As she lifted one, she couldn't help but notice that he was unusually well endowed. Trying not to show that she was staring, the teacher said, "You must be in the 5th grade." "No, ma'am," he replied. "I'm the jockey riding Silver Arrow in the seventh. -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Blondes' bashing
Another one which seems to ring faint bells of memory... So, I'm compromising and forwarding only the ones I don't remember, or find particularly funny. The last one is my favourite Yours, ex-blonde From: R.P. Did you hear about the two blondes that froze to death in a drive-in movie? They went to see "Closed for the Winter." Did you hear about the near-tragedy at the mall? There was a power outage and twelve blondes were stuck on the escalators for over four hours. A blonde went to an eye doctor to have her eyes checked for glasses.The doctor directed her to read various letters with the left eye while covering the right eye. The blonde was so mixed up on which eye was which that the eye doctor, in disgust, took a paper lunch bag, cut a hole to see through, covered up the appropriate eye and asked her to read the letters. As he did so, he noticed the blonde had tears streaming down her face. "Look," said the doctor,"there's no need to get emotional about getting glasses." "I know," agreed the blonde, "But I kind of had my heart set on wire frames." A blonde was shopping at a Target Store and came across a silver thermos. She was quite fascinated by it. She picked it up and brought it over to the clerk to ask what it was. The clerk said, "Why, that's a thermos.it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold." "Wow, said the blonde, "that's amazing... I'm going to buy it !" So she bought the thermos and took it to work the next day. Her boss saw it on her desk. "What's that,' he asked? "Why, that's a thermos.it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold," she replied. Her boss inquired, "What do you have in it?" The blonde replied, "Two Popsicles and some coffee." -- 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Stocking runs: was Adhesives & Blue Vanishing Pen Inks
At 10:38 AM 8/1/05 +0100, Jane Partridge wrote: > Fraycheck always used to remind me of the stuff that you could get in > the 1970s to stop ladders in tights - and I think that had been around > for a while. Of course, in the days before coloured tights, it wouldn't > have mattered if it turned slightly brown. The glue wouldn't have *time* to turn slightly brown. I had to have rather low grooming standards on Friday to get a week's wear out of a pair of hose. Pantyhose (tights) were even more evanescent, because you couldn't switch legs to put the picked places where they didn't show as much -- and it wasn't practical to wear the better stocking from each of two pairs. And Pantyhose didn't fit as well as stockings, which put more strain on them. Stopping runs with glue dates all the way back to silk stockings. In my grandmother's sewing basket, I found a repair kit that had been given out as an advertisement for silk stockings. It looks like a matchbook, and the run-stop sticks look like paper matches with glue instead of fire-starter. The label says that the glue is guaranteed to wash out, and a needle and fine silk thread are supplied for darning the run when you get home. The brand name of the stockings was "Real Silk", so I presume that art silk (rayon) had already been invented when the kit was made. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the thermometer is creeping up, but Weather Underground says we might get some rain on Thursday. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
