Sewing machines that can do embroidery stitches are relatively new,
although my mother's old (early 1950's) Necchi can do a whole lot of
neat designs. But the Singer manual for treadle machines included
instruction for making "lace" and embroidering with the straight stitch-
only machines.
Rob
On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We all need to remember that when what we call sewing machines were
first
invented, much emphasis was placed on the features for embroidery and
lace
techniques,
Are you certain-sure of that? I come from a long line of
taylors/dressmakers (g
Dear Arachne sisters and brothers,
I can't begin to tell you what a wonderful day I've had today, the hottest
day of the year so far with temperatures around about 30C ( 83/84F) We were
inside a 13th century church, cool and peaceful.
Poole Bobbin Lace Circle were invited to put on a small displ
Hi
I'd say it refers to the currency unit, in both cases.
dix sous par livre pour tous droits de
sorties du Royaume à l'étranger" : 10 "sous" per £ for all export duties
from Kingdom to foreign countries. We'd now have a 10 % duty.
Le Havre expédie annuellement pour 630 000 livres
de dentelles d'
Bonjour Adele,
You are right, it is confusing.
ne payeront que dix sous par livre pour tous droits de sorties du
Royaume à l'étranger
Here, I would say ten sous by pound and
Le Havre expédie annuellement pour 630 000 livres
de dentelles d'or et d'argent et pour 70 000 livres de dentelles de
Hi everybody:
I'm reading the book "Dentelles Normandes: La Blonde de Caen" and I
keep running into one problem.
Like the English, the French historically used the same word, "livre"
to refer to a pound in weight and to refer to a unit of currency (which
I think is the same as what is now called
In a message dated 6/30/06 3:59:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Antique MARVEL HAND EMBROIDERER Embroidery Sewing Tool
> > *** Item number: 290002437572
> >
> > Even from the pictures, I'm not sure how it worked to
> > embroider something. It looks more like a punchin
