My wife and I were shopping at thrift stores and we found this very peculiar
lace fabric that we plan on using for a costume. On closer inspection I
noticed it was bobbinlace(either hand done or by machine, but obvious
threads with cloth stitch trails and twisted picots) and swiggling in a
The trails move around in this piece of lace very like Idrija lace. I
don't know whether the edging is typical of that kind of lace.
That's my two pennyworth for what that is worth.
Claire
Kent,UK
On 9 Feb 2005, at 5:39 pm, Mark, aka Tatman wrote:
My wife and I were shopping at thrift stores and
Whither Lace? asks Ann Collier. A provocative question that
obviously evoked Tamara's interesting response. I too found it
intriguing, particularly compared with the viewpoint expressed in an
article I wrote a quarter of a century ago. That article was also
entitled Whither Lace? and was
I heard Ann Collier's talk at Ithaca some years ago and it was a delight to
see all her fans in person and in slide form. One aspect of her fans is that
they tend to have extremely beautiful fan sticks. The subject of the sticks
came up, and Ann told us that she collects antique fans, and
Hello Mark and everyone
Your lace find reminds me of Cantu or Milanese, the early examples - could
be '3-pr. Flanders' - or something more obscure from one of the
Venetian workshops - some designs of Italian origin had that all-over/no
pattern appearance. Is the scalloped edge part of it or added
At 09:39 AM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
My wife and I were shopping at thrift stores and we found this very peculiar
lace fabric that we plan on using for a costume. On closer inspection I
noticed it was bobbinlace(either hand done or by machine, but obvious
threads with cloth stitch trails and twisted
Tamara wrote: Obviously, Travelocity engages in the war of nerves...
We'll see. If I
don't get anything half decent from them again before March 15, I'm
gonna go back to the local travel agent, and let her do the arranging.
If I'm gonna get screwed *anyway*, I'd rather let the local
An 8-year-old girl went to her grandfather, who was working in the yard and
asked him, Grandpa, what is sex?
The grandfather was surprised that she would ask such a question, but
decided that if she's old enough to ask the question, then she's old enough
to get a straight answer.
Steeling
Hi Tamara,
I would guess that it was probably a coincidence. I've been burned
by this, not by Travelocity, but by booking directly on the airline's
site. We checked prices on Travelocity, found the best fare, went
to American's website to reserve our seats, planning to call all the
travelers
Try Expedia. They include taxes and other charges, so at least what you see
is what you get (but the same caveat about booking if the fare is good and
not waiting applies).
Carolyn
Carolyn Hastings
Stow, MA USA
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Short and sweet, and covers the subject in a nutshell g
BTW, for non-US; the Groundhog Day is Feb 2nd. Supposedly, on that day,
he comes out from his underground cave to test the waters. If he sees
his shadow (ie the day's sunny), he pops right back in - the rest of
the winter is likely to be
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