[lace] Thread conundrum

Peg wrote: Could someone please point me to a chart of how threads compare? I had a chart at one time, but it has disappeared. The best thread chart is the book produced by our own Brenda Paternoster, available direct from her: Threads for Lace, Edition 5 by Brenda Paternoster

Re: [lace] Thread conundrum

Couldn't agree more, Brenda's book is a 'must have' Regards Angela in Sussex where the sun has just come out. On 11 Sep 2011, at 08:17, Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk wrote: Peg wrote: Could someone please point me to a chart of how threads compare? I had a chart at one

[lace] Out of print books

Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:49:53 -0400 From: Lyn Bailey lynrbai...@desupernet.net Subject: [lace] A suggestion for authors Iâ?Tm getting ready for the Ithaca Lace Day in October. Iâ?Tm taking Binche, and am all set with sufficient books. But a friend is taking a different course, and scrambling

[lace] Out of print

Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:36:37 +0100 From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Subject: [lace] A suggestion for authors I don't know what the contracts of other published authors are, but I've an already had of 3 books (not lace) published, the first in 1983 and the last around 2000 -

Re: [lace] Out of print

I would like to share with you my own experience on the subject. When in 2004 I first published the first of 3 books on Hinojosa Lace (Witch Stitch lace) I found myself facing this same problem: self publishing or publisher. I inclined to self publishing, which let me controlling the quantity

[lace] Re: Windmill Crossing of two colours.

HI Jen, I would agree with Bev in her message below. Do the windmill crossing but add an extra twist in the middle, cross twist, twist cross. This should bring the colours out of the crossing on the same side of the crossing as they were on before the entered the crossing. Just make sure

[lace] Returning to the list Lace Exhibition.

Hello everyone, I have just re.subscribed to the lace list after a few years break. Today, 11th Sept. is Catalunya day, the region in which we live in Spain. It is the major Fiesta for the whole region, made up of the four provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona and Lerida in he North

Re: [lace] Returning to the list Lace Exhibition.

Hi Jenny! It's nice to have you back! And thank you for your report on the Exhibition! It always makes me envious when I hear of the wonderful fairs and exhibitions that are going on all over the world... but rarely in the US... Clay On 9/11/2011 10:37 AM, Jenny De Angelis wrote: Hello

Re: [lace] RE: lace-digest V2010 #445

Jane Atkinson wrote: Nigel Nicolson, son of Vita Sackville-West. Asked to enthuse about this particular painting, he did his best to describe the sitter's absorbtion in her task. 'She's sewing, or something...' was as close as he got. Just shows what you're up against! Dear Lacemakers I

Re: [lace] Returning to the list Lace Exhibition. Thankyou.

HI Clay, Thankyou for your message. In the 26 years I have lived here we have only had two actual lace exhibitions in our town. this years Lace Day was the 10th annual lace day we have held but there in 1992 and back in 2005 or 6, I can't remember which year, we held the Annual Lace day for

[lace] Empress Mills cottons

Hello spiders A couple of years ago a friend gave me samples of all the Empress Mills 100% cottons which she had in her stash. The measurements were: 60s (white) 3Z 32 w/cm 60s (ecru) 3Z 31 w/cm 50s (white) 3Z 29 w/cm 50s (ecru) 3Z 27 w/cm 40s (white) 3Z 27 w/cm 40s (ecru) 3Z 26 w/cm

[lace] Bayeux Tapestry Lace

.There are three large point de Venise lace panels in my own collection, for which I have much information, but not as to their place of origin. The style is somewhat like the lace in the July 1976 IOLI bulletin - floral, Art Nouveau-ish - surrounding a reproduction (in finer thread)