Hi Noelene
I love it. Itâs just right.
Happy lacemaking
Akex
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Hi Linda and other Arachnids,
Is âdickey potâ a local name? What is it? (showing my ignorance?). My
Collins dictionary gives dickey or dicky as the false shirt- or blouse front;
the informal name for a donkey -especially a male one-; the outside seat on an
vintage car or as dickybird a
Evening everyone
In the book Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson, the chapter 'Survivals'
about Queenie - lace maker and beekeeper. They would gather in one cottage in
winter for warmth, each one bringing her faggott or shovel of coals for the
fire. In very cold winter weather the lace
I included a section about foot warmers for lacemakers (including an
elaborate Dickey pot) in my Collecting: Furniture for the Lacemaker post
on LaceNews, http://tinyurl.com/n69h3ux.
Laurie
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Laurie Waters
lacen...@gmail.com,
The stoof / wooden box to put the pottery bowl into sounds a much safer option
than just using a bowl of hot embers.
A stoof was a wooden box of about 10â wide, 10â deep and 8â high which
had five holes in the top and an opening -10 x4 inches) in the front. Inside
was a pottery bowl were
Yes, the stoof was still in common use in the Netherlands in the 1950s in the
Salland area when I was growing up. Both of my grandmothers used one when they
were sitting at sedentary tasks. The clay receptacle, called a test, held peat
coals. At church there was a row of them which could be
Hi again,
Sorry, but I cannot cut the answer from Linda below without losing meaning of
my note here.
This dickey pot sounds a like the STOOF (pronounced stoaf as in boat) A stoof
was a wooden box of about 10â wide, 10â deep and 8â high which had five
holes in the top and an opening
Greetings to One and All! I LOVE the poem! Who wrote it? And may I share
the poem with some of my lace making friends.
I've come in contact with a few of those, lace police that is.Â
And before the list police contact me about deleting the previous
message...yahoo won't let me do it this
Hi Linda
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/html/EXHIBITS/lace/lacehtml/14_firepots.html
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/html/EXHIBITS/lace/lacehtml/14_firepots.html
Thomas Wright âThe Romance of the Lace Pillowâ
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Romance_of_the_Lace_Pillow_Be
Hello to One and All!
On Sunday, my daughter Leah and me, went to an SCA fighter practice. I
haven't been to any event for well over 7 years. One of my students was
there. AND she's still making lace! WHOO HOO! As a teacher, it's really
great to see a student from years past, still
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