[lace] Atkinson lace collection exhibition

2011-08-17 Thread Nathalie
Is there an email address from Art Holevoet? Art Holevoet will be pleased to hear from you if you are planning to attend or if you have questions. Art Holevoet phone number is: (309) 936-7621. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Got long hair?

2011-08-17 Thread David C COLLYER
At 05:44 AM 17/08/2011, Sue Babbs wrote: I did that with a banyan tree's aerial roots in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico this spring! It was hard going as there weren't any bobbins to keep them in order as I worked! God Sue - with a decent Banyan you could make a whole point ground screen!!! David

Re: [lace] Antique Pattern Site

2011-08-17 Thread Jeriames
Wow! Who is really behind this site? I took a quick look and it did not jump out at me, though I saw Cornell University mentioned. How lucky we are that Tess and the University of Arizona do not request donations, as this site does. It looks like we should stop buying expensive

[lace] Spider Sock pattern

2011-08-17 Thread Susan Reishus
Arachne members may be interested in a new spider and web sock pattern offered by Jackie Erickson. http://www.heartstringsfiberarts.com/a68.shtm Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Antique Pattern Site

2011-08-17 Thread Dmt11home
Interestingly, I notice that some of the scans are donated by Digital Archive. In fact, when I download the PDF of Egenolf, Christian, Modelbuch/aller art:... the first page is quite clear that it has come from the Digital Archive that Tess and the Professor started. Perhaps the

Re: [lace] Got long hair?

2011-08-17 Thread Bill Linda Mitchell
This thread reminds me of my braids (and Buster Brown bangs). They were to my waist when I was five years old. Mom had them cut off when I started first grade because my hair is so fine and she had new-born twins and didn't want to have go through that every morning. The thing is, I still

Re: [lace] picots

2011-08-17 Thread Nancy Neff
I copied Alice's description below because it will make my explanation easier :-)   I have found a way that completely prevents bunny ears but doesn't require carefully repositioning the pin (which would drive me crazy and be slow).  Pin the bottom thread in the target pin-hole. Lift up the second

[lace] Digital Archives

2011-08-17 Thread Dmt11home
Tess has informed me that there are a number of things that my memory appears to be faulty about regarding the Professor and his site. Notably, John Cropper saw the professor through his final illness and took over the site afterward. I recalled someone named Chris, but we think that this

Re: [lace] Pillow holder - conservation concerns - 3rd reply

2011-08-17 Thread Nancy Neff
I'm a little late jumping in on this one, so forgive me if I'm duplicating someone else's caution, but don't use plywood!  If you must use wood, use a solid wood, and in general a hardwood. Plywood itself presents problems from off-gassing from the adhesives and other treatments, some of which can

Re: [lace] Digital Archives

2011-08-17 Thread Cynce Williams
Kris Bruland originally had a separate web site: Handweaving.net Hand Weaving and Draft Digital Archive Home http://www.handweaving.net/Home.aspx I'm not sure if he linked it to Ralph Griswold's site while he was still alive or not. At one point some members of Complex Weavers were adding to the

[lace] OIDFA 2011 Membership Time

2011-08-17 Thread margaret palen
Now is the time to join the International Bobbin and Needle Lace Organization. acronym OIDFA, and there's still time to receive all the 2011 Quarterly Journals (OIDFA Bulletin) including the special issue of the 2012 World Lace Congress in Caen, France. The full color quarterly Bulletins,

[lace-chat] Passport application

2011-08-17 Thread Agnes Boddington
This was actually taken from a passport application and a member of staff copied it, as it made her laugh all day. Subject: Passport Application Dear Minister, I'm in the process of renewing my passport but I am a total loss to understand or believe the hoops I am being asked to jump through.

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Got long hair?

2011-08-17 Thread Agnes Boddington
Hi Linda I went to the hairdresser at one point (I think I was about 10-11) and had my plaits - which hung down to the back of my knees - cut off, and came out with the shortest hair I have ever had in my life. I did it on a whim, using my piggy bank money to pay the hairdresser. S/he did ask

Re: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] Got long hair?

2011-08-17 Thread Martha Krieg
I'm not on Lace, so have missed the rest of this thread - but I can almost sit on my hair now. It used to stop growing when it hit my bra-band, but the grey hair seems to be less fragile... I'd had it fairly long as a teenager, but cut it after my first child was born because the new hair