Alex, was Pat's book your reference point or did you find the term
elsewhere?
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Jane Partridge
No. 1
Yes Jane, It was from Pat's book. I started writing my dictionary when the C
G guinea pig scheme started and we found there were more than one name for
the same stitch and more than one
Could the reason
why the earlier writers described the needlework as being curious be because
they hadn't come across lace before and it was as near a description as they
could make, especially to needlelace?
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Do we have any experts on the old use of the word 'curious'. I seem
I'm not an expert but remembered that this online dictionary gave
archaic meanings of words.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
4. Archaic.
a. made or prepared skillfully.
b. done with painstaking accuracy or attention to detail: a curious
inquiry.
c. careful; fastidious.
d. marked by
M, interesting.
These other definitions of curious would also put another meaning to A
Cabinet of Curiosities which these days we tend to think of as just a
collection of weird and unusual things, but which more correctly may have been
a
collection of the best of everything.
So Arachne
I like that, but wonder if it makes me personally a curiosity of a
lacemaker or a lacemaker's / lacemakers' curiosity.
Agnes Boddigton - Elloughton UK
So Arachne is a curiosity of lacemakers.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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My understanding is that the Cabinet of Curiosities contained items
which were tied to important events in the owner's life... So the terms
accuracy and subtlety seem to apply. I'm fascinated by this rediscovery
of this word!!
Clay
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M,
Hello Alex and everyone
I checked my favourite dictionary, the Gage, with its excellent etymologies.
Root word from Latin 'cura' meaning 'care'
The archaic meaning was 'very careful' or 'exact.' So yes, to intricate.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net
Hello everybody,
in Germany we have a word kurios - as a saying das ist ziemlich kurios,
what means something is a bit odd, strange, not really clear, something to
laugh about. Today it seems still a bit old fashioned. And as we all know, that
big parts of the German language came from the
I like a curiosity of lacemakers as a collective noun, as in a herd of
sheep, a murder of crows, a business of ferrets.
Is that what you meant, Jacquie?
So Arachne is a curiosity of lacemakers.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Leonard has just sent me an email telling me that my address book has
been compromised, so if you get spam email under my name it is
because Arachne is one of the addresses on the list of names that
Leonard sent me. I will try to erase everything, change my password,
and so on. I hope
In a message dated 30/03/2010 17:19:38 GMT Daylight Time, nnef...@yahoo.com
writes:
like a curiosity of lacemakers as a collective noun, as in a herd of
sheep, a murder of crows, a business of ferrets.
Is that what you meant, Jacquie?
In a way, yes, as I think Arachne has as members a
Don't go to the site and don't blame Tess, who is a long-standing
member of this list. Her addressbook has evidently been hijacked. It
could happen to anyone.
Best wishes,
Avital
Arachne moderator
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Tess - one piece of advice I give everybody is that the first address in
your address book should always be a ficticious one such as
a@aa.aaa. You can also include numbers, but it must always
remain at the top of the list. Since viruses that are spread by email are
usually passed
Never, would I blame Tess. I knew her and know she is absolutely ok. What's new
that such a thing happened to a MAC-user.
Till know I didn't get any bad and my Spam-filter works properly.
Ilske
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There are no recorded incidents of a mac being infected in this
way it would be a good idea for everyone using a pc who has Tess's
email address stored to check that it's not them that has been
infected. The virus hijacks email addresses and hides itself by
changing who it appears to
If anyone wants to forensic the message header, I retrieved the header
details...
Let me know.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk wrote:
There are no recorded incidents of a mac being infected in this way it
would be a good idea for everyone using a pc who has
My OH has just looked at the full message sent earlier today
purporting to be from Tess. The message originated from someone who
is an AOL user. So if you use AOL, please check your computer for
viruses.
BTW, my OH is a whizz with macs and, looking again at the message,
either
To all of you who sent the address - thanks for this. We jetisoned alot of
old lace magazines and things in the last move and unfortunately this included
Jannet Smith's address. I have to say these aren't cheap but they are worth
the money as they are so robust and well made.
Kind Regards
Liz
Guys,
After 10 years with aol I'm moving virtual home so I'm about to unsubscribe
from lace and lace-chat and resubscribe with my new email address. You can
find me at thelace...@btinternet.com which is just the same just without the
aol bit.
See you all there.
L
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
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In another group I just got a link to a Halas lace website, and one of the
pieces in the gallery is a really interesting bobbin lace.
http://www.halasicsipke.hu/start_eng.html
Lorelei
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Tess, please be assured, your computer is probably *not* the problem.
Spammers pick up email addresses from anyone's computer and then they make
it appear as if the messages come from your address. They may never have
been near your computer or your email address.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
I, too, did this a long while ago but snopes says it is a false assumption.
The link with the explanation is below.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.asp
deanna in Texas
And in the end it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
My
Thank you Lorelei, what a lovely website, I like Carrickmacross Lace and
think some of the Halas lace looks very similar I wonder if there is any
connection between the two? I also noted that Pat Earnshaw had a book called
Outlines and Stitches on Halas Lace in 1992 must look and see if it is
To all who wrote with good advice and comforting messages: many, many
thanks! I hope that the problem is now over for any of you who might
have been struck by this odd message from me. It wasn't, and you have
helped me understand a lot more about how the world of computers,
email, and
Dear Gentle Spiders, Do any of you Gentle Spiders know Beverly Gamble of
Westfield, MA? I don't know if she is on Arachne. I just had the nicest
thing happen to me... Arriving in the USPS was my Lace Circle magazine in
a brown mailing envelope. Enclosed was a note from Beverly Gamble saying
that
The best collection of plioirs, aunes, and other French wooden lacemaking
equipment I've ever seen is at
http://lezardpremierauvergne.skynetblogs.be/tag/1/plioir
Laurie
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Fantastic site, Laurie. Thanks for the posting. I really enjoyed
looking at all the photos. It appears to be focused on chip carving,
since after the plioirs, etc. are boxes, etc. including a salt box
(boite de sel) similar to one my grandfather made as a replica of an
American colonial
All I can say, Maxine, is wow! That's a spectacular piece, and you finished in
time for the birth. Congratulations, you should be proud.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
robinl...@socal.rr.com
=
Some time ago I asked about sourcing circular knitting needles - had lots of
That is beautiful. A real family keepsake for your new grandchild too.
Congratulations on your creation and your impending granparenthood.
Claire
Kent, UK
Wet and windy...Again!!!
Claire Allen
www.bonitocrafts.co.uk
Crafty stuff I want to show off.
On 31 Mar 2010, at 05:04, Maxine Diffey
Sorry Tess,
But this sounds like a con to me.
Agnes Boddington
hi all ,
Today i have a story news ,
just go to http://cashing.fateback.com/free-money
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GOOD LUCK!
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My browser blocked the web site, but when I searched Symantec for fateback to
see if it was a threat, I got:
Discovered: May 14, 2004
Updated: February 13, 2007 12:23:06 PM
Also Known As: Backdoor.Throd.a [Kaspersky]
Type: Trojan Horse
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Le 30/03/10 10:42, Jean Nathan a écrit :
My browser blocked the web site, but when I searched Symantec for fateback to
see if it was a threat, I got:
Discovered: May 14, 2004
Updated: February 13, 2007 12:23:06 PM
Also Known As: Backdoor.Throd.a [Kaspersky]
Type: Trojan Horse
Systems Affected:
Don't go to the site and don't blame Tess, who is a long-standing
member of this list. Her addressbook has evidently been hijacked. It
could happen to anyone.
Best wishes,
Avital
Arachne moderator
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
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There are no recorded incidents of a mac being infected in this
way it would be a good idea for everyone using a pc who has Tess's
email address stored to check that it's not them that has been
infected. The virus hijacks email addresses and hides itself by
changing who it appears to
My OH has just looked at the full message sent earlier today
purporting to be from Tess. The message originated from someone who
is an AOL user. So if you use AOL, please check your computer for
viruses.
BTW, my OH is a whizz with macs and, looking again at the message,
either
Guys,
After 10 years with aol I'm moving virtual home so I'm about to unsubscribe
from lace and lace-chat and resubscribe with my new email address. You can
find me at thelace...@btinternet.com which is just the same just without the
aol bit.
See you all there.
L
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
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