I have had a spate of these strange messages. Some trigger off my
anti-virus, so I just delete all of them as they arrive. I know the Lists
do not allow attachments, so anything labelled as coming from Arachne that
has an attachment or anything different in the subject line gets ditched
quickly!
This looks like address spoofing to me. These aren't coming from Arachne but
they're being sent with an Arachne address (I've never heard of
lace-digests-outgoing @ arachne.com--the address is fictitious) as the
recipient. Certainly there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribed to
lace or lace digest. I
The little scissors with a bump on the end of one blade are called
Carrickmacross scissors. The bump is there to lift the organdie away from
the net when you are trimming away the organdie from outside the design.
Carrickmacross lace is a layered lace, with organdie laid over net. The
design is o
I, too, have a job keeping my NL clean. I must have a very greasy thumb!!
However, I have made myself a cotton thumb stall, held on by an elastic loop
which hooks around the wrist, which I use when working NL. I even have a
white cotton glove, but that is only good in the winter. Oz summers are to
I used to take my knitting to church meetings, and eventually the minister told
me that I never had to speak at the meetings, - he knew how I felt about an
issue by watching my knitting. If I agreed with what was being said, I knitted
calmly and fluently. However, if I disagreed, I knitted more v
Posting to both lists, sorry about that.
If anyone in Australian wants to buy commemoratives:
JoAnne has quoted all prices this year in US dollars.
You work out what items you want, and add postage as quoted by
JoAnne in her original message. You then look up the exchange rate
for that day eith
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A friend visiting from England and I went recently to the Isabella Steward
Gardener Museum recently. The guide that was given to us stated that the
Museum had "collections" of lace. Of course we were excited -- but the real
collection was on display in a case in the far corner of one of the rooms
on Sun, 11 Apr 2004 Johanna Brown wrote:
I was watching an old movie with Catherine Hepburn as Mary, Queen of
Scots
and in once scene where Mary is in her drawing room with her ladies in
waiting, one of the ladies is doing bobbin lace
Dear Johanna and esteemed Spiders,
I'm sure I saw thi
Hello,
I don't understand very well what are lace scissors with my english. But I
know carrickmacroos scissors (like Richelieu scissors in France) who
help you to cut the right thread. You can buy then in Jo Firth shop : 58 Kent
Crescent, Lowtown, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS289EB, tel (0113)2574
Hello,
Sorry, I was outside of my home and I could not answer.
For me, It's a strange description, a wrong one.
In the picture, there is, for me, old Le Puy bobbins, typical.
In lace, I only speak about "fuseau" (or fuseaux). On "bobines", you put
thread for machine or it's the roll, reel in
Cluny tatting has been around for a while. I am not sure just how long,
though. It does imitate the leaves and its construction is very much similar.
Knowing how to make these leaves, helped me make my first leaves in bobbin lace
(in wire). Here are some instruction pages that might also hel
Another Needlelace book, suitable for beginners or those who would like
to have some reference book, but might not become too involved with the
craft is one by Pat Earnshaw. it is in the Merehurst Embroidery Skills
series and entitled 'NeedleLace'. My copy was published in 1991 by
Merehursy ltd
You could try Tim Parker http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/timparker/sundries.html
they're called carrickmacross scissors ?3.75 I've got a pair and they have
a little lip/bump at the end of one blade to enable you to lift the
cordonnet? so that you can get at the thread that attaches it to the backing
t
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