[lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling
Off-topic reply, moved to Chat: On 1/26/07 5:00 AM, Daphne Martin posted on Lace: A lady I know uses the pants off a pair of tights [washed of course] to cover the whole pillow. to keeps her bobbins etc in place. They cause a lot of hilarity at lacedays. But it works!!! Which reminds me of Dad walking around the house with one of Mom's old stockings on his head after washing his hair, to flatten his cowlick. (I didn't know I'd inherited his cowlick until I started wearing my hair in a gibson.) When butch cuts came into style in the fifties, he switched to cutting the cowlick off, and wore a crew cut the rest of his life. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where winter is finally here but the lake ain't froze. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling
Joy said Which reminds me of Dad walking around the house with one of Mom's old stockings on his head after washing his hair, to flatten his cowlick. (I didn't know I'd inherited his cowlick until I started wearing my hair in a gibson.) I've never heard of a gibson Joy, what is it? jenny barron NE Scotland, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Hairdos: was: Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling
On 1/27/07 10:15 AM, Barron wrote: I've never heard of a gibson Joy, what is it? It's a simple bun, but on top of the head. Groo the Wanderer wears one -- I hope I look better in it than he does. It was all the rage when Charles Dana Gibson was drawing his Gibson Girls, but the do dates back to the neolithic, and is probably as old as the comb. I've no idea what the Gibson Girls would have called it. Probably a bun on top of the head. Ma Katzenjammer's hairdo in The Captain and the Kids is a parody of the Gibson; it does tend to come to a point if you don't unwind it half a turn just before sticking in the pins. I read the original _Max und Moritz_ on which the Katzenjammer Kids were based, but don't recall any depiction of their mother. It must be Public Domain by now -- google google -- Witwe Bolte, kerchief with bow on top; Frau Boek: three-pointed hairdo somewhat suggestive of Ma Katzenjammer's from certain angles; distinct shortage of adult females in this book. Also it's nastier than I remember -- though I can no longer read the text, and so don't get the jokes. I do recall thinking that it was somewhat gratuitous to draw mammalian assholes on Meister Muellers federvieh, as if the artist had never seen a duck from the back. On a nicer note, Carl Bark's Grandma Duck also wears a gibson; it's her picture I have in mind whenever I'm trying to pouf my hair evenly. (Bark's work usually credited to Walt Disney. Walt did Donald, but Carl did Grandma and Unca Scrooge.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's winter, after a fashion To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Tatra mountains
On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:57, nicky.h-townsend wrote: a student is going on holiday to the Tatra mountains region of Poland. Are there any museums or places to visit in the area that are lace related please. There isn't a whole lot of lace to be seen in Poland. But, what little there is, is mostly in that area. The lacemaking (bobbin) village -- Bobowa -- is near Nowy Sacz. Since your student is likely to be in Zakopane (the cultural centre of the Tatras), she shouldn't have too much trouble getting there (train, then bus). Zakopane itself used to have a lacemaking school but, although the school still exists, and still is concentrating on arts and crafts, lace is no longer in its curriculum. However, it might still be worth a visit. The name of the school is: Liceum imienia Kenara. Also, Zakopane has a museum of mountain art and something might be there. But in general, I'd advise not counting on seeing much lace. OTOH, the embroideries there are still thriving, as is wood carving and silversmithing(all of which used to be taught in Kenar's highschool too) -- 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]
