If anyone doesn't know what Cattern cakes are supposed to look like, I've
just uploaded a small picture of some taken from Luton Council's web site
into my album on Arachne webshots (Jean Nathan).
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Described as ANTIQUE HAND MADE LACE BOBBIN HONITON NOTTINGHAM Old for sale
on ebay:
http://tinyurl.com/6kata2
Item number 220299471215
Is any of this hand made? I don't think any of it is, apart from the tape
lace doily. I'd say the rest of it's machine made - the broderie anglais
most
Thanks Sue,
I had recognised that fact from the obvious different look along the
short sides of the rectangle to the long, but I thought it was just me
and was hoping that it could work right by using another grid (apart
from 45 deg). I was hoping to make this as a bucks point pattern
Morning gentle spiders
My computer is about to be switched off for the last time before I
return from holiday. It's going into Apple to have the case
repaired! So, I would like to say a huge thankyou to both Carolina
and Antje for their help with the above museums.
Unfortunately (for
Sue
If your Bucks grid has a working angle of 58 degrees you can make five
corners for a pentagon shape or if it has a working angle of 60 degrees
six corners will make a hexagon. Otherwise you have to cut and paste
and do all sorts of odd things or design a proper Bucks corner which
takes
Brian,
What is your source for the reference? a book?
Lorri
Subject: [lace] What is worsted Lace please
I have found a reference to a footman ...strutting in worsted
lace..
Have you any idea what that might be? I do not have any other information
to add to it except
A word of warning - I have just opened a reel of Finca thread which I
admit that I bought about two years ago, but if you buy any please take
care to remove the sticky round tag that holds the end of the thread in
place because I have just had to remove yards of thread and discard
because the
Hi, yes there did used to be a problem with a sticky dot. However when we
became the Uk supplier of Finca we got them to drop it. So now it is only on
the
Metallic as it doesn't cause a problem on that. I would point out that as
you get 900m on any reel of Finca Lace thread you actually get more
Hi Sue
No you wouldn't need 72 degrees to get a pentagon. The working angle
is the angle between a line of ground pins and the line of foot edge
pins, not the angle that the corner turns.
Draw a pentagon, mark the centre and divide it into five triangles
around the centre point.
If
Most of the edgings are Leavers machine, number 2 is Barmen machine, 6,
8 9 are chemical lace and 10 is Swiss embroidery.
The smallest doiley is machine tape put together by hand, the circular
doiley beside it could be anything, the picture isn't good enough to
tell, the oval doiley is
Brenda wrote:
It's a pity the Trade Descriptions Act can't be enforced against Ebay
sellers!
The Unfair Trading Practice Regulations 2008 replaced the Trades Description
Act in May of this year and can be enforced if a seller on ebay is
registered with them as a business. Basically, it covers
It's also a pity that we can no longer send a post to people bidding to let
them now what is actually for sale - all we can do is to communicate with the
seller who is probably just raking up any lace word they can find, and trust
that they will adjust the listing. Some do, some don't.
But
Thank you Vivienne I appreciate the thought but I have now wound the
bobbins and I am happy, just had a bad grump on this afternoon when I
opened the thread but now happily lacing and all forgotten
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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