I received a lovely Christmas card from Sheila Brown yesterday, together with a
wonderful Torchon bookmark in Christmas colours with a sparkly gimp.
Jill, in sunny but frosty Milton Keynes
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I have just acquired from a deceased estate a quantity of reels of Bull
brand Irish Linen, 100/2 - Brenda's book says it is 33 WPC. I gather it is
no longer available, a Google search did not turn up any hits.
It is a very smooth thread, no slubs, compared to the 100/2 Fresia I have
been using
Treasure it Noelene.
Today's linen thread will never be as smooth and strong as this.
I do not know the Bull Brand linen but I recently acquired some 'Square
Sail' linen 60/2 and am using it at the moment for a torchon runner. I
wound it from the wooden reel into a hank and washed it first and it
Today I also received a card from Ilse in Belgium.
Thank you to Janet and Sallie for organising the exchange this year.
Penelope in Tartu, Estonia,
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Lucky you, Jill! People like Sheila Brown will be remembered for years
to come as one of the women we esteem for encouraging the revival of lace
making after WWII. She and Alan, republished four 19th C. reports by Alan
Cole, so we have access to very good information about the lives of
Jeannette
Thank you.
Lorelei
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Thank you everybody who replied to my message about the Lace Place, isn't it
wonderful to think that my enquiry arising from my sons visit brought back so
many memories from far and wide to be shared by us all. Arachne has done it
again.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk U.K.
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Hello All! Is there a techie on Arachne who could help me make this Power
Point presentation into a continuous slide show? Or let me know that I'm
barking up the wrong tree? There's a possibility that I will participate in a
lace demo at a library it would make a great background, playing
