Jean Nathan jean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I use rOtring technical pens, around GBP8.50 (around $13) each so not a cheap
pen and intended for technical drawings. Guess I'm just ham-fisted.
Okay, if you're using a technical pen (the point is a metal cylinder with a
wire that shakes up and
Hi Arachnids
When I learned patterned drafting with Pam Nottingham she reprimanded me when
I was drawing the guidelines in pen. She told me to ALWAYS draw in pencil
first in case you make a mistake and you can correct it easily at this stage.
Then trace over it in ink and, when the ink is dry,
I've got a stick of heelball from when I did my teacher training many, many
years ago. We had it for taking rubbings of tree bark, stone walls and other
textured surfaces. Could be useful in getting natural patterns as
inspiration for designing lace.
As for my pen thickening, I've concluded that
In the 17th century there were laces made from premade tapes. The tapes
were tacked onto a pattern and filled with often very beautiful and elaborate
needle lace stitches. These tapes look to be of woven linen. When the
tapes go around a curve they are gathered, or turned over, so it is
During my University of Malta Diploma in Lace Studies course, we
explored needlelaces and made a tape for a motif ourselves using
bobbins and upright Maltese lace pillow.
Karen in Malta
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Karen wrote:
During my University of Malta Diploma in Lace Studies course, we
explored needlelaces and made a tape for a motif ourselves using
bobbins and upright Maltese lace pillow.
How did you make the tape with bobbins? Specifically what kind of edge
did it have? Was it a tape with
And having made Battenberg type laces using tapes where you have to gather
and ease the tapes around corners, I would much rather spend the time making
a bobbin lace tape to fit the shape first.
All the tapes I inherited seem machine woven to my eye.
Sue
suebabbs...@gmail.com
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I'm afraid I cannot answer many of your questions because we did not
go into depth on these laces.
What we did was a cloth stitch braid with a 'straight edge' (i.e. some
of you Spideys out there have referred to it as 'pin under four'). We
then gathered to go around curves. I preferred to have a
Hi
I probably got my heelball from you, have had it since I lived in Essex.
Just got back from a day of demonstrating lace in our local garden centre which
is based in an old commercial greenhouse. Well I didn't do a lot of lace but
several kids went home with fish. It was not as hot as last
i found many years ago while demonstrating that if i put my feet up on a
flat brick, that little bit saved not only my feet but my lower back too.
it is tense work sharing our lovelies. because of the weight, i didn't
want to carry 2 bricks with me so i got styrofoam and used that. you can
My husband made for me a folding wooden foot stool so I can put my feet up
while lacing.
Sherry
New York, USA
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I had never heard of heelball until I needed some to copy lace prickings
by taking rubbings on the back of the pricking.
I got ine from my next-door-neighbour, who was a cobbler.
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Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place
South Africa
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Dear Devon, Where to start on this one!? Not everyone uses the term
Mezzo Punto, for example.
You might like to reference my 2-volume 1913 set of Old Italian Lace by
Eliza Ricci. Volume II is about Bobbin Laces, and though she does not ever
use the term Mezzo Punto, you might see more
I know the use of heel ball for lace making, but how is it used on shoes?
Devon
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I have seen guitar foot stands used by lacemakers. They're usually quite
reasonably prices.
For example:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/On-Stage-Guitar-Foot-Rest/10298448
Lesley
On my way back from Cornwall to Stockport, staying at Taunton Holiday Inn
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The Embroiderers' Guild of America is staging an international exhibition
of contemporary embroidery that features COLOR as its main theme. This is
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American Needlepoint Guild
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According to the on-line dictionary:
A wax colored with lampblack that is used to stain and polish the edges
of
the soles and heels of shoes or to take rubbings of brass or stone
inscriptions.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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You only need to elevate 2 for the relief - surprisingly enough. anything
else is like an ottoman at home which does not lend itself to working
comfortably. i use my stool during tax season in the office under the desk
to alleviate a but of stress and tension. they used to have angled units
in
According to the on-line dictionary:
A wax colored with lampblack that is used to stain and polish the edges
of
the soles and heels of shoes or to take rubbings of brass or stone
inscriptions.
Which leads to the question, what is lampblack? Fortunately the online
dictionary also defines
Blacking would have been used in the household anyway, I can remember my
grandmother having a range (combination of fireplace and about three
ovens) which was blacked, and fire grates were blacked as a matter of
course, especially in larger households where it was the job of the
lower
Just noticed a Christina pillow for sale on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Made-in-Sweden-Lacemaking-Bobbin-Lace-Roller-Pillow-European-Knyppeldyna-/151168772630?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item23325c6a16
Sorry, don't know how to make mini urls.
April
In beautiful Edmonds Washington
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I just started a new board on the LaceNews Pinterest site for lace
appraisers, consultants, repairers, conservators, etc. I think it's a good
idea, but am a bit at a loss on what to pin. If you have any recommendations
please drop me a note. I'd like to work these up one-on-one with people.
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