Well, I don't want to rain on anybody's parade; and I do agree that Simon's
work is of superior quality and beautiful indeed. However, my own
experience was somewhat ambivalent: I bought a "portable" stand from him
some seven or eight years ago. It was certainly beautiful; and far from
portable (in
To those of you who can't get the pricking; or don't think the mat is
particularly attractive; or are getting rather tired of all the fuss...but
are left with the ghost of a vision of a mat... could I turn your attention
to a book (not exactly a book; more, a large booklet) which won't frustrate
an
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Well, since you ask... she was indeed "quite a character." Endless,
boundless energ
Thank you, Edith! -- There it is, Christine Agambar's wonderful
handkerchief, photographed in Barbara Underwood's "Bedfordshire Lace
Collection." There's even the pricking for it shown, taken from an original
Thomas Lester draft (and what a feat that must have been, to make a usable
pricking out o
Dear friends -- On this lovely, sunny, COOL, Sunday morning I am thinking
it's time to stop slicing and dicing irrelevances (copyrights; "stealing"
!) and return to thoughts about lace. One of the delights of actually
getting up and going off to take a lace course is seeing what other people
are d
Thank you, Diana! Guided also by another Arachne, I found Christine's
wonderful handkerchief in Barbara Underwood's "Collection." A truly
precious experience, almost like having the actual piece. It still seems a
miracle how Christine did it.
Yes, I used to run back and forth to England three or f
Could your annual Beds colleague from Japan be the talented and beautiful
Wako Ono, whom I met in 1999 during Pam Nottingham's farewell class in
Bucks design? -- Aurelia
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"I have in mind that what is developed might even be structured to become
the
beginnings of a journey toward a program eligible for a couple university
credits! Where, I don't know. I don't want to scare the Arachneans --
yet.
(Everything leads back to the concept of an International Lace an
I must say I read Christine Lardner's report with considerable surprise.
Making Barbara Underwood's beautiful Bedfordshire cuff, with its raised
tallies, its central rose, and the bit of Point Ground center, was one of
the most challenging, fruitful and delightful experiences of my lacemaking
life.
Your info about reprinting is very interesting, and I don't doubt that as a
partial result of it, the number of Arachne-novelists is going to increase
in the coming year! Good! Time we got past Montupet's "The Lacemaker."
But it's also time we got past Miss Channer's mat! For the last 3 or 4
weeks
Well, you would think so, from the amount of prayerful attention it got.
But what a tiger with words you must be, to have picked that up! --
Aurelia
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How right you are. Time moves, and so do the passions of lacemakers. Right
at the moment it's Binche Binche Binche or die. Would you be amused by this
quote from a beautiful catalogue published in 1988 by the Walters Art
Museum on the occasion of a lace exhibition there: "... Binche...never
fully e
I would remind readers that the root of the word "amateur" means "love."
If you have a choice of various meanings for a word, why choose the one
that's "insulting?" Rather, choose the most suitable meaning. If we're
talking about lace and lacemaking, "lover" would be the best meaning for
"amateur.
Anybody wanting a branch of Burning Bush can come by here and get one from
the big tree in my garden (and a cup of tea too, if desired). -- Aurelia
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And my copy of "Chats on Old Lace" is dated MCMVIII, and published in
London by T. Fisher Unwin. The pages have a texture like that of fine
blotting-paper, and if I think about "ripples" long enough (for 5 minutes
or so), then yes, I do seem to see something like rippling. Otherwise it
wouldn't hav
How about using an embroidery as decoration on a tote bag? I was given that
as a gift, and have loved using it. -- Aurelia
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Dear Jane -- Wonderful piece you wrote about Ithaca. Almost consoles us
forlorn types who couldn't get to go. What is "VBG?" I tried and tried. The
best I could do is: Very Bad Girl.
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Dear Jane -- The needle holes need not be a problem, since all they are
are the holes made by the couching stitch. You bring your needle up through
your working base, over the cordonnet that you are couching down, and then
the needle goes back down into the hole. I have used the same holey pattern
Well, thank you, thank you, dear Tamara, for sharing your Polychrome de C
experience with that astonishing, ample and altogether wonderful e-mail!
Next best thing to having been there personally, and not so far off, at
that. However, now that I've had that experience, I guess I'm more
stodgily con
"Rolled edges" is a technique used in Withof lace, and is beautifully
described and diagrammed in Yvonne Scheele-Kerkhof's book "Dutch Bobbin
Lace Patterns." It isn't difficult to do, and to my mind forms a nicer edge
than the regular sewing edge. It is done around a motif after the motif is
finish
I have tried and tried, but no luck, I keep getting "URL not found"
messages. Do I have the wrong URL?
http://www.gis.net/"scbarry/online_catalog.html
Help! -- Aurelia
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I have dozens of inscribed bobbins. The message starts at the bottom of the
bobbin and as it rises, the words read from left to right just as they
would in a book; and they finish up at the top of the bobbin. I hope this
helps! -- Aurelia
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Dover puts out a very interesting book of designs, "Celtic Art -- The
Methods of Construction" which has quite a number of Celtic crosses in it.
You might have a look at page 74, the "Aberlemno Cross;" or "The
Eight-Circled Cross" on page 54; and there are numerous other crosses in
the book. Page
Oh, no, Tamara, no, no. You have to set "embroidery and lace" or "lace and
embroidery" into a larger context, such as a phrase or a clause, in order
to get any good music out of them. You are a good writer: try making up a
couple of sample sentences that will open up the rhythms implicit in those
w
Springetts are the most marvelous people in the world. For many years they
ran the British College of Lace, in Rugby; and they made the most beautiful
bobbins. Christine's specialty is Beds lace, and there are some excellent
videos by her, for beginner, intermediate and advanced Beds lacemakers. Sh
I think the "Madam/Sir" letter is rather touching, at least in its earnest
(and on the whole, very successful) effort to cope with English. Don't you
think the word "static" (the "unique static bobbin lace exhibition") must
have been fished out of some Russian-English dictionary as a meaning for
wh
And ditto Robin's welcome, from Aurelia. I have done some Aemilia-Ars type
of lace, from patterns in an old magazine; but I couldn't be more ignorant
than I am as to the history, the range of types, the particulars of
individual pieces...and I imagine there are lots of lacemakers like me, who
woul
Dear Bianca Rosa -- The article I mentioned is a two-page piece entitled
"Aemilia-Ars Lace." It appears in a little volume called "The Gentle Needle
Arts," pages 19-20. This is not quite a magazine, but not exactly a book,
either. It was published in 1977 by Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd, 58
Compt
Dear Arachnes -- Might anybody have an e-mail address for Dessain et
Tolra? They are the publishers of "Dentelles de Notre Temps," a wonderful
book of photographs of the gorgeous work of Elena Holeczyova. I would be
very grateful for the info. -- Aurelia
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Thank you, Dora. That book ("Dentelles de notre temps") is the one that
Doreen Wright gave me as a present, that I mentioned some weeks ago when we
were remembering Doreen here. The book still electrifies lacemakers when
they come in for a visit and I take the book out and show it. What a genius
wa
Oh, I can't agree with you, Robin, that Christine Springett's spangles are
"loose and floppy." I have dozens of her bobbins, and they are perfect. If
there were anything the matter with them (and there isn't), it would only
be that we amateur spanglers have a hard time matching their perfection.
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Thank you, thank you, Sof! You sent me just what I was frantically looking
for and couldn't find. I called everyone I could think of, I even called
the French consul -- no luck. You really came to my rescue! Thanks again!
-- Aurelia
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Thank you. I have the book. It is indeed "Dentelles de notre temps," by
Pavel Michalides, published by Dessain et Tolra. All I need is the
publisher's permission to reprint one picture, a tiny little minuscule
fraction of what is in the book. I have written three times to this
publisher, without
Bev driving with square wheels -- who could ever forget that image? --
Aurelia
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Well, I'm not sure where "central" Kentucky is (remember that long-ago New
Yorker cartoon about a map of the U.S. being about 85% New York and then
all the rest of the country occupying the remaining 15%?). I'm no longer a
New Yorker, but the mindset remains the same. However, we do have a
Kentucki
I got mine with no trouble at all from Susan Wenzel, e-mail address:
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There's a discussion of this subject on pages 26 and 27 of "The Art and
Craft of Old Lace" by Freiherr Alfred ven Henneberg. It is called "The
Fineness of the Thread," and is written with the same smitten, passionate
devotion with which this man wrote everything. Well worth looking up, both
for the
Yes, I agree with Tamara about not using two sizes of pins, and also about
leaning the pins well outward. (To tell the truth, I did not know that
there was a problem with making picots! I learned picot-making from -- of
all people -- Doreen Wright, and I would certainly have been too scared to
fail
Lynn, get a book! Get a good start-out book, f.i. Pam Nottingham's "The
Technique of Bobbin Lace," which I wouldn't leave home without! And there
are others. -- Aurelia
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Yesterday's e-mail carried an exceptionally rude message, challenging the
sanity of anyone thinking about putting a new line of lace-designed
T-shirts out on our limited market. I thought I would sleep on this before
responding; and I did; and still feel the same way this morning on the
matter of t
Dear Sharon -- I will tell you what I know (which is very little!), and if
you have access to a fax machine, I would be happy to fax you the four-page
article which I mentioned a couple of months ago; it is really quite a
perfect reference for a beginner, as it includes diagrams and
stitch-by-stit
Yes, I cut the threads Grimwood's way (between the backing fabrics). It's
easier than it looks. But the little cut ends are a pain, at the end,
because they have to be taken out one or two at a time (sometimes with
tweezers!). Still, it's worth giving it a try. -- Aurelia
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Have been reading with much interest all the letters that Devon has
inspired with her original query about valuing machine lace. Although it is
nearly 200 years since the struggles with the machine first began to yield
anything like lace, categories of thought do die slowly; and the antithesis
that
In case anybody surfing around has come upon my needlelace fan "Starry
Night" described as having been made in 1986 (!!! where, oh where did they
get that date from? I made it in 2001-2002), and located in the "Aurelia
Loveman Gallery" (what gallery? I haven't got a gallery!), I would just
like to
Dear Magda -- I think what Tamara was referring to is a three-day workshop
on beginning Mechlin, to be given by Ulrike Loehr on July 31, and August
1st and 2nd. This is a sponsored workshop of the Chesapeake Region Lace
Guild, and the cost is $100. As non-members have to pay an additional $8 to
tak
Dear Laura -- I will be writing more in the coming weeks and months about
the October 2004 Lace Day at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and just at the
moment I must, must, must get to bed or I will fall asleep over my
computer; so forgive me for being so brief. The date is October 30, 2004,
it's a Sa
Tess, I would suggest that you contact the Metropolitan Museum (maybe even
our own Devon). As you know, the relationship between the N&B Club and the
Met was very close, and they would be likely to have the early issues of
the magazine. -- Aurelia
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I have made a lot of bookmarks, each one different and each one pretty
gorgeous (even if I do say so myself!), using the same pricking for all of
them, namely, Christine Springett's fan bookmark on p. 81 of her book "The
Christmas Lace Book," published in 1991. I think the book was
self-published;
Dear Devon -- Janya from Thailand is an old friend -- an old, old friend
from the time that the CRLG was organized, and before that even. She was
trying (it did not work out) to start some kind of handmade-lace industry
in Thailand; and was studying Bucks and Honiton in England at the same time
th
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