Hello Everyone and Janice,
I too was disappointed more lace made by lacemakers was not included in the
exhibit.
By the time I had heard about the exhibit, space and lace had been pretty
much decided. So, my influence was minimal.
Still... it is a nice exhibit...
debra Jenny
Green Bay, Wiscon
On Apr 1, 2007, at 13:50, Janice Blair wrote:
I think mohair might be a nightmare.
For the scarf, I'd be inclined to use silk (a different sort of
nightmare ) For a belt... Probably linen. I'll be sending off for
the Habu Textiles sample book tomorrow to see what's what in the world
of thic
Hello Alix!!
I had no idea this thread was still available.. I would think it is very
scarce, and therefore quite expensive (as you suggest). I would love to find
some!!
Clay
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From: Alix Hengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hallo Daphne and other spiders
Yes the lady was my friend Christine Cooper because initially it was a
trial piece she did not want to spend a lot of money on large bobbins so
her husband made the bobbins out of dowelling which he turned on the
lathe. I believe that he got about three out of each le
Hello one and all
Further to what Janice was saying about dowels. A lacemaker at a
laceday I was at recently had bobbins made out of thickish dowelling. Her
husband had turned the necks I believe it was. The lady in question was
doing a picture with different yarns of many thicknesse
On 3/31/07, Tamara P Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a question for those of you who have made things like Bobbin
> Lace scarves and belts/sashes. Since the thread/yarn for those is
> likely to be thicker than usual, did you use bobbins that are larger
> than "normal", or did you just r
Tamara,
You could make 'large' bobbins with dowel and beads. Just scale up the bead
and thread section of the bobbins. I made some a few years back that turned
out to be too large for most threads but would work for yarns etc. Maybe I
should dig them out and try a scarf.
Lorri Ferguson
This
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 00:55 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To answer whether you should break the wrapping threads, you'd have to decide
> what your intention really is for these threads: Will you preserve them
> "as-is" for historic reasons, or would you use the thread for a
> reconstructio
When I made my first stole (using ribbon, chenille, wool and everything
else but the kitchen sink for thread), I had enough very large Czech
bobbins to do the job. Now I want to make another one, twice as wide.
So I made a bunch of extra large paper bobbins. Some of the wool is too
thick to
Hello Tamara
There's an article about big bobbins on Jane Atkinson's website
http://www.lace.nildram.co.uk/html/articles.htm
I have about 100-120 (never really counted them) of the 'Large
Continentals' imported by Tim Parker. 2nd left in the pic on Jane's
website. If I need still more then I
My husband actually makes double shank midland bobbins, i.e. 4cm long
rather than the more usual 2cm.
He did this firstly for myself to be able to have worker pairs that
needed a lot of thread for larger projects as I hate having to bring in
a new thread. I suppose they could also serve for thic
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