Hi folks,
Just going to have to unsubscrible for a couple of weeks, as I'm going on holiday to
England - Somerset and Devon (Honiton here I come!!).
Just wanted to say - GO ENGLAND WORLD CUP RUGBY TEAM!!!
I'll go back to lurking when I come back.
Jo in still sunny Cyprus, but cooling down a
On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 16:54 US/Eastern, Jane Viking Swanson
wrote:
Hi All, Something else came up in Ithaca. I used a magnifier (fits
on my
head and the lenses go up and down) for my Needlelace class
like I did when I learned Carrickmacross. Sumac's Withof teacher,
Susie
Johnson, su
On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 16:33 US/Eastern, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
The Lace Guild sell a kit with one little wooden body plus a pattern
for choirister, angel or King, designed by Jean Leader. I've got a
few kits in the parcel for Tonbridge Fair on Sunday. For bodies only
I got a pack of
Hi All, Sally Barry, a member of the New England Lace Group, has just
published a book of patterns from the Luton Lace Dealer's Pattern Book. She
has redrawn and newly made 50 pieces from the book. Members of the NELG
have been blessed to get one or two of these in our newsletters but here are
5
On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Irene wrote:
Some time ago there was talk about some little lace angels with wood
bodies.
I have lost the link to the supplier, does anyone remember who sells
these?
The Lace Guild sell a kit with one little wooden body plus a pattern for
choirister, a
Hi All, Thank you for sending this Louise. I was going to do the
same thing! It is stunning and you can look at a couple of the
squares close up. APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) offers MUCH
inspiration for lace too! And it also shrinks my problems
down to size when I read about nebula bein
<>
I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to London! When I last went to the Fan
Museum a couple of months ago, the exhibition on the upper floor wasn't very
interesting (to me) - mostly painted fans from the time of Louis, the Sun
King. It sounds as if the exhibition there now is much more interesting
Hi,
Just looked at the pictures of the LOKK Festival. The dress of leaves
caught my eye. Would anyone involved in making this dress give us
the story on this dress and how it was made. Tell us about the making
of the leaves, what thread was used, etc. It looks like gold thread but
most gold th
I just wanted to say sorry to those who are kind enough to help me with my
various questions if I don't reply for several days. I'm really struggling
these days with RSI, and both typing and lacemaking make it worse. Often it's
not possible to answer email promptly. As a novice, I'm very gratefu
>>> I like to come up with ideas I have not seen yet, (I don't pretend to
know everything about all the laces so someone might have done that before),
but I am not sure how the lace community feels about innovation. <<<
Well, the Milanese Lace Police can say it's not Milanese if you have an
innova
Patty wrote:
I guess I wasn't thinking about inventing another way of doing something, just
something that was easier for me. Saves me the eye strain and the struggle with the
crochet hook. I like to come up with ideas I have not seen yet, (I don't pretend to
know everything about all the l
Dear Arachnes,
Reading all the message about Ithaca, I thought to inform you about the
LOKK Festival held the 27th of September this year.
The LOKK, the Dutch Lace Organisation, was founded 25 years ago.
Therefore they organised a lot of activities. On the 27th of September
a Lace Festival was
In a message dated 10/15/03 9:43:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I asked another lady and she send me to the
Cecil Higgins Gallery.
Everybody was so nice and told me all about and I went upstairs and looked.
After a while a men asked me if I want a torch because the l
Dear "Wired" Lace Experts,
We have quite a few newbies on Arachne each year who do not have access to
the wealth of classes and books some of us have accumulated. The subject of
using wire to shape laces may be new to them.
In my collection are a pair of tatted lace mobiles, circa 1950 (a peri
On October 24, at 2:00 Sheila Mason, author of Nottingham Lace 1760-1950,
owner of the Cluny Lace Co. of Nottingham, and custodian of the Mason collection
of machine-made lace will be coming to the Ratti Textile Center at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for a viewing of about 10 pieces of machine
Gentle Spiders
Do go and have a look at today's (17 Oct) Astronomy picture of the day - an
astronomical quilt.
"Demonstrating her mastery of a traditional astronomical imaging technique
quilter and astronomy enthusiast Judy Ross has produced this spectacular
compostion of "Astronomy Quilt Piec
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