I can remember those days as well. My first lace teacher used to have the lace
patterns which we pricked through them, there were no instructions, no
technical drawings and sometimes not even a sample of the lace to look at.
Those were the days before Pamela Nottingham books, my first lace
Geesh Maureen
Had to look up what heelball is!
You taught me something today.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Then I went to a teacher who taught me to draw out patterns on graph paper
and never looked back. I Even have some heelball in a box somewhere.
Maureen
E Yorks UK
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I also have a 'stick'? of heelball stashed away somewhere.
In the days when museums were less fussy it was allowed to take rubbings of old
prickings in their collections. This was when patterns were harder to come by -
out of the question nowadays!
I have used the Matt film but must confess
Yes, Hazel, there should be at least three of us there, (myself,
Jacquie Tinch and Andrea Gaskell) on The Lace Guild's stand, as well as
other Arachnes who are also suppliers. Do come and say hello. The Lace
Guild will also have the display space (opposite our stand, so you'll
probably see
I also started my lacemaking (in 1970) with pre-prepared prickings on glazed
card. These were sometimes bought, or made by pricking very carefully and
accurately through another pricking. The books I started with were Maidment,
and Mincoff and Marriage. Then came new books by Doreen Wright and Pam
Sorry - that should be linen ends, not line ends!
Kathleen
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Is anyone else as ham-fisted as me? I can turn a 0.1mm drawing pen into at
least a 0.3mm one in the time it takes to put the markings on one pricking?
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Yes, Devon, I am young enough (old enough? :-) ) to remember pre-blue film
days. I still have some of my early prickings that were done on blue
cardboard (maybe it's the glazed kind that someone - Mary Carey maybe? -
referred to a couple of days ago). One side of the card has a 'matte'
finish
I guess you must be using a soft-tipped pen? There are some that are
hard-tipped - I think the one I found was from Staedtler (pigment liner). It
made very fine line (.05) and the ink was permanent. I think it was pricey,
though - maybe $10.
Adele
West Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
When I first learned to make lace at Kempston School's evening classes,
near Bedford, UK We had to first trace the pricking from the original,
then prick through onto brown pricking card, mark in the relevant lines
with pencil(which could be rubbed out in case of a mistake) and then go
over it
Adele wrote:
I guess you must be using a soft-tipped pen? There are some that are
hard-tipped - I think the one I found was from Staedtler (pigment liner). It
made very fine line (.05) and the ink was permanent. I think it was pricey,
though - maybe $10.
I use rOtring technical pens, around
Called 'eaches' (sp?).
:)
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Kathleen Harris ec...@cix.co.uk wrote:
...I have forgotten what they are called
Sorry - that should be linen ends, not line ends!
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Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of
Canada
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Some time ago I was also searching for a local source of laminate film. I
found a kind of film for sticking on windows (I never knew anybody did that!).
If you look through all the pages on this site, you will find several solid
colors. It is a U.S. source. I never bought any because a 49.5
Found some others, now that I know what to call it.
http://www.windowtint.com/Blue-Matte-Window-Film.html
http://www.windowtint.com/Blue-Car-Film.html
Lorelei
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