Hi Sherry
I agree that the lace issue is worth having!
BTW, The Wedding dress was not Carrickmacross lace, but the Carrickmacross
technique of appliqué was used to transfer the machine made motifs in the
lace to the tulle of the dress.
Brenda posted this url last week which is a video clip of the m
Hello All! For those abroad, we are celebrating our national holiday of
remembrance here in the US--Memorial Day--honoring our fallen soldiers. So
before the picnic begins, I spent a few moments checking some of my favorite
sites & ran across an article (& archives) on needlelace from Cyprus--
Hello Again! On my way to pick up printer ink cartridges, I stopped by Barnes
& Noble to pick up the Piecework mag that Sherry mentioned--THANK YOU!!
Carrickmacross is just part of the story in this issue. Whoooeee--there's an
article on repairing an Orenburg lace shawl, an Orenburg scarf pat
One last (perhaps) comment on the use of fishbones. I worked as a
paleo-ichthyologist for several years, during which I made skeletons of
various
types of fishes, and handled the skeletons of many more. From this
experience I
offer the following observations:
1) The internal bones such as
ribs
Nancy;
What about Sturgeon bones. Were they not plentiful in the European
rivers? They habe a spiney back don't they?
Lauren in Washinton state, where it is FINALLY sort of sunny!
On 5/30/2011 1:43 PM, Nancy Neff wrote:
One last (perhaps) comment on the use of fishbones. I worked as a
paleo-
I'm starting a motif for which I have only a pricking... no picture or diagram.
The pricking has some word clues but I don't know the language.
I'm sure 'paru' means pair. The other terms are:
Polohod ... this might be half stitch
Platno
tocene
tocenych
Reticek ... this might be braid
Does an