Re: [lace] Fanny Kemble

2008-05-22 Thread Dmt11home
Also, hand lacemaking was actually considered to be somewhat more enjoyable than other forms of employment offered women at the time, as witnessed by the tales of wealthy women urging their friends not to buy lace during times when it was hard to get domestic help. The idea was that the

Re: [lace] Re: [lace) OIDFA trip (was VA)

2008-05-22 Thread Dmt11home
There is a book by Mick Fouriscot called La Route des Dentelles Normandes which covers several lace places between Bayeux and Paris.such as Alencon, Argentan, Caen and Courseulles. I take issue with the statement that you have to visit Cathedrals in France because you can't find much lace.

[lace] Bobbin Lace Jewelry in sterling silver

2008-05-22 Thread Dmt11home
You could learn to make wire bobbin lace yourself, in sterling or other- actually the entire question of silver content is very complicated- at the IOLI Convention in Rockford, Ill, early August, from Susan Lambiris. Meantime check out _http://home.earthlink.net/~slambiris/_

[lace] Attention copyright fans

2008-05-20 Thread Dmt11home
There is an editorial about new legislation which will impact orphan artworks in the New York Times. I read it with interest since many of the works we discuss copying and not copying fall into the category of orphan works, since the owner of the copyright is often not to be found.

[lace] Plimoth project

2008-05-18 Thread Dmt11home
I spent the weekend assisting in the making of the metallic gold lace for the reproduction of the Margaret Laton jacket occurring at Plimoth Plantation, in Massachusetts. I am featured on the two most recent blogs as you can see.

Re: [lace] lace publicity

2008-04-10 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 4/10/2008 10:25:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p.s. Devon did a nice job of advertising when the convention was in Maryland. Would like to take credit for this one, but it is in NJ where I made my bones publicity wise. I composed a blurb

Re: [lace] lace publicity

2008-04-10 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 4/10/2008 11:53:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are right about getting publicity, especially if the budget is zero dollars - an ad or two might be well spent if that would open the door for a newsworthy article in the newspaper, a tradeoff (if

Re: [lace] lace publicity

2008-04-10 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 4/10/2008 2:42:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He seemed to like the fact that men wore more lace than women at one time. Yes, that is another popular factoid, as is the bit about making lace in cow sheds and going blind. The blindness one, I

Re: [lace] lace publicity

2008-04-10 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 4/10/2008 2:42:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He talks about mid-19th century but his male portrait I have been told is Sir Francis Drake, dead a long time before that. The female portrait was on the cover of an IOLI Bulletin I found for the

[lace] Janice is Famous-what next?

2008-04-08 Thread Dmt11home
So, the real question is... when TV stardom and the grueling challanges of organizing the IOLI convention are finally done in August - what on earth will you do with yourself? Time to write a book, maybe? ; ) Perhaps Janice could head a committee for the IOLI on the subject of

Re: [lace] convention classes

2008-01-23 Thread Dmt11home
I think it is splendid that the website is being used to expand on the information for the convention, since the space issue in the Bulletin, had formerly, put us in the position of having to make a rather expensive decision based on a very short description of a class. Along the same

[lace] Re: speakers at convention

2008-01-23 Thread Dmt11home
Actually, the knowledge that Lucie was going to speak, which I had received by informal channels was one of the major reasons I went to the Montreal convention. I was extremely eager to hear her speech. The majority of speeches and events at the convention are very good, and quite

[lace] Lenka type wire lace bobbins

2008-01-20 Thread Dmt11home
At one time I purchased some bobbins from Lenka and Libor with cup hooks on the side which I just love. After they stopped selling them, Jim and Paul Stavast of BeeUtahful Bobbins made me some, which were great. But now they seem no longer to be making bobbins. I would like to buy some

[lace] Puritans in silver and gold lace? Plimoth project

2008-01-18 Thread Dmt11home
I have received my package of goodies from Plimoth Plantation and I have made my sample and I have sent it in. While the organizers of the project are quick to reassure us that the production of the sample is not a test, it is not a race either. But, am I the first? Will mine be the first

[lace] Puritans in Lace

2008-01-15 Thread Dmt11home
I think that we have a very important topic here, ie. Did Puritans wear lace and if they did, when did they wear it? Over here, across the pond, this has tremendous ramifications, since we were settled by Puritans, at least in the New England part of the country, and they were Puritans who

Re: [lace] Puritans in Lace

2008-01-15 Thread Dmt11home
Dear Jeri and others, Thank you for the references you have provided. They have made for interesting reading. Not immediately finding my copy of Antique Laces of the American Collectors, I came upon a book that claims to be from that book, and which is entitled Notes on Laces of the

Re: [lace] Puritans and lace

2008-01-15 Thread Dmt11home
All is not lost! Our country was not founded by a sect determine to suppress lace. It was pretty scary to think that we owe our existence to people running away from finery. Fortunately they came around, at last. Devon **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.

[lace] Steel lace

2008-01-01 Thread Dmt11home
Cal Lane was one of the artists I mentioned in my review of the Radical Lace exhibit in the IOLI Bulletin. In that exhibit she had an entire lacy car with dirt sifted through the design like sugar through a paper doily on a cake. Devon **See AOL's top

Re: [lace] Girl Scouts Bobbin

2007-12-28 Thread Dmt11home
The issue of equipping a class of people who probably only want to get their feet wet in bobbin lace is a dicey one. They don't want to spend a lot per bobbin and probably won't take the class once they hear what the start-up cost is. If you use cheap and less than optimal bobbins, the

Re: [lace] Girl Scouts Bobbin

2007-12-28 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/28/2007 6:55:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In their defense, they were wonderful about calling me as soon as the merge was agreed upon and offered me the chance to back out gracefully I did not mean to impune any girl scouts. I am just

[lace] A public blog party on the Met's Costume exhibit

2007-12-19 Thread Dmt11home
I received an email encouraging me to notify all who might be interested that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is having a blog party about their upcoming exhibit Blog mode: Addressing Fashion at _http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/_ (http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/) The show includes

Re: [lace] Judging criteria

2007-12-13 Thread Dmt11home
Vis a vis framing, some people think that pieces submitted to the fair should be in such a condition that the judge should be able to examine the back to see if the joining is really neat. So, what do you do when the piece arrives framed with no way of examining the back? Devon

Re: [lace] Judging criteria

2007-12-13 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/13/2007 8:57:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think a handkerchief, for instance, wouldn't look very nice submitted loose Some people can fold a handkerchief very prettily and ingeniously, so that the join is presented on the part of the

[lace] judging criteria

2007-12-12 Thread Dmt11home
Beth writes: Some competitions allow a great deal of leeway to the judges, who too often allow unquestioned assumptions to support their judgement. There is frequently no way for an entrant to know what those assumptions are before entering! Before allowing this to happen, competition

Re: [lace] Judging criteria

2007-12-12 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/12/2007 10:27:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, weaver's knots are traditional, and, yeah, hand-made, too; I've seen the fan, and you have to really hunt around to find a knot, so they're nearly invisible as well. What was the problem?

Re: [lace] Judging criteria

2007-12-12 Thread Dmt11home
This is a good solution. It does create a situation where the person who mounts a piece of lace is taking additional risk. It is comparable to the situation that I faced when taking the driving exam in my teens. One of the incentives to use the driving instructor's car was that it was an

[lace] judging criteria

2007-12-12 Thread Dmt11home
I am really enjoying the thread on competitions and judging and often wonder why we need competitions. Do they not stem from the time where a woman's value was measured by her competence in the home What alternatives are there to reward people for exceptional handwork?

Re: [lace] Judging Criteria

2007-12-12 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/12/2007 11:01:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We seem to have several judges on the list - I wonder, what would be your thoughts if you were faced with: 1. a superb original artistic vision and fantastic original design, in either a simple

Re: [lace] Judging Criteria

2007-12-12 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/12/2007 11:31:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What may not be challenging for someone who has been making lace for ages may be a massive challenge for a beginner. Unless you know the level the maker is at how can you tell whether it was much

[lace] Hand or machine- emerging sensibilities?

2007-12-11 Thread Dmt11home
Clay speaks of doing laborious hand mounting only of things to be judged. Speaking from the perspective of a person who has been called in to judge lace on occasion, I find the hand-finishing issue troubling. Some pieces are very beautifully hand finished, representing a huge amount of time

[lace] Bobbin Lace Survey

2007-12-08 Thread Dmt11home
The best part is the excitement of starting, when you can see the perfect beauty of the piece in your head. The worst part is when it is finished and it doesn't match your dreams. Fortunately, you can have the first without the second if you shake the theory that you have to finish

[lace] 17th cent.metallic lace recreation at Plimoth, MA

2007-11-29 Thread Dmt11home
Fellow Spiders, Amid complaints of a paucity of postings and a suggestion that interesting topics be introduced, I would like to draw your attention to a project now in its infancy at Plimoth Plantation. Plimoth Plantation is a non-profit enterprise in living history. Here there is a

[lace-chat] what kind of mattress do you like?

2007-11-29 Thread Dmt11home
I am suffering from aches and pains and think that buying a new mattress might help. I need one oriented toward the aging body, and in my case, the heavy sleeper by which I mean not a deep sleeper but a sleeper who weighs a lot. My leg has been very sore and cramping due to other

[lace] Tapestries with lace in them

2007-11-10 Thread Dmt11home
I feel it incumbent on me to mention that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is holding a Tapestry Show, Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor, on until Jan. 6, 2007. There are about 45 Tapestries, from all over the world, only two from our collection. It is a spectacular exhibit.

Re: [lace] Elizabeth: the Golden Age lace

2007-11-05 Thread Dmt11home
Yes, and there was a ruff inappropriately made of late 18th century lace in an ad in the New York Times. Where is the outrage? :-) Devon ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] A trip to Washington, DC

2007-09-10 Thread Dmt11home
I have the opportunity to accompany my husband to Washington Sept. 24,25, and 26th. I note with interest that the National Textile Museum is having an exhibit of Textiles of Klimt's Vienna, although I dare not hope that the laces of Dagobert Peche may be on exhibit... Does anyone know.?

[lace] Fulvia Lewis's son

2007-09-09 Thread Dmt11home
I seem to recall some years ago that the death of Fulvia Lewis was announced on arachne by her son. I have searched in vain for the original post, which may have preceded our archive. Does anyone know how to contact her son? I have a question I would like to ask him, or whoever is handling

[lace-chat] cookware for daughter

2007-09-08 Thread Dmt11home
Thanks to everyone for their sage advice! Devon ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] cookware for daughter

2007-09-02 Thread Dmt11home
Fellow spiders, Many years ago I abandoned my original dime store set of cookware and bought a 1 qt, a three quart and a double boiler of Revereware. It was stainless steel clad and I am inclined to think it wasn't copper that was in the middle of the cladding, but possibly something

Re: [lace] Re: Digital archives - url

2007-08-24 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 8/24/2007 11:09:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I give Kris and his young family a lot of credit as he does manage the website on his own time. He is keenly interested in the textile arts. Definitely. We are so fortunate to have found someone

[lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Dmt11home
Gentle Spiders, On my Campaign for Modern Lace Site at the Arachne Webshots, _http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK_ (http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/244348757BRJzVK) there have been two new pictures posted. They are the second and third pictures on that

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Dmt11home
I feel that there is sufficient lack of uniformity in the mesh that tulle is not being used, but rather handmade needle mesh. This is particularly clear in the mesh which has double stitches and such in it. But the plain mesh is also does not appear to be machine made to me. I have the

Re: [lace] Can anyone identify this lace?

2007-08-09 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 8/9/2007 1:24:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do they define guipure nowadays? As a kind of tape? Or what? Ah terminology again. Well, I don' t know how they define guipure, but I use it to mean decorative elements connected with bars,

[lace] no more dreams-just plans

2007-08-01 Thread Dmt11home
Jane writes: The question there would be that if we took a traditional design, and enlarged it way beyond the original design purpose, would it be considered contemporary? Even the use of colour isn't new, as the old pattern books show Yes, I think that by making a traditional design

[lace] modern lace -the prequel

2007-07-29 Thread Dmt11home
Tamara writes: Don't know how this -- what looks like a part of a private correspondence -- wound its way onto Arachne, but I find the subject fascinating and am grateful for the mysteries of the e-space which made it public :) To explain, Aurelia sent me an email that, in retrospect, I

[lace] modern- more

2007-07-29 Thread Dmt11home
Let us not forget that there is some very interesting work being done by Japanese designers. I believe Wako Ono has had an exhibit. Also Junko Samejima was due to have one. Many of these designers are employing Flemish or English technique but producing designs with a Japanese eye.

[lace] Modern Lace Dream Team

2007-07-29 Thread Dmt11home
Also, there was a piece at the Convention in Montreal made by a Canadian artist which was very modern. Now, I can't recall her name. But she had made a free standing piece out of wire of Honiton type grounds which looked like it had been cut jaggedly, also a wire lace bird. Devon

[lace] Modern Lace Dream Team/more

2007-07-29 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 7/29/2007 10:44:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity... How will you decide which names should or should not go into the virtual gallery of the modern/contemporary/cutting edge/creative lace designers? Since clumsy/ugly vs elegant

[lace] modern/ Jane Atkinson

2007-07-28 Thread Dmt11home
Brenda wrote in response to Aurelia's query about Jane Atkinson, You'll find the answer at http://www.lace.nildram.co.uk/index.htm Do note that Jane is actually having a gallery show of her modern lace work (Pinned in Place) which is something that we devotees of modern lace have been

[lace] What is this?

2007-07-28 Thread Dmt11home
Assuming it has anything to do with lace at all, could it be the measuring device for an ell of lace, which was the increment in which lace was sold. Someone once told me that lacemakers of the past made it by the ell and often lace borders sewn together in ell long lengths if you look at it

[lace] URL for Devon's Salamander

2007-07-26 Thread Dmt11home
_http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date_ (http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date) is the site for webshots albums and mine is in the second column, down some. When I click on it, I find that I am actually at the following site:

[lace] Lace Salamander on Devon's Campaign site

2007-07-26 Thread Dmt11home
Susan has put the pictures on Devon's Campaign for Modern Lace site. Devon ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL

[lace] Bobbin Lace Dragon

2007-07-26 Thread Dmt11home
Let me suggest that the dragon- or rather salamander and the hedgehog might hail from Retournac, France. Susan Lambiris has agreed to post some pictures of a similar salamander and a hedgehog that I took there on the arachne website since I am a mechanical dolt. These are among the

Re: [lace-chat] Re: IOLI Membership Message/e-mail list

2007-07-25 Thread Dmt11home
Tamara is correct that older members will undoubtedly rise from the grave to renew in August, having learned the hard way that failing to read the August issue, cover to cover, will result in a nagging feeling in October that something is missing. Most of the people on arachne probably fall

Re: [lace] Retournac Lace Manufacturers Museum to reopen-exciting

2007-06-28 Thread Dmt11home
Yes, this is very exciting news. I had the pleasure of meeting Bruno Ytheir, head of the museum last year, and I think this could be a fantastic museum and aid to our understanding of the history of lace. Bruno specifically asked me to encourage all the American lace clubs to provide

[lace] new posting archives- lacemaking in convent

2007-06-21 Thread Dmt11home
_http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=22item=1982%2E60%2E13; viewmode=1isHighlight=0_ (http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=22item=1982.60.13viewmode=1isHighlight=0) Check this out at the MMA site. It is entitled Nuns at Work. It is actually on view at the

Re: [lace] Late Georgian/Regency Lace

2007-06-20 Thread Dmt11home
Would it be too obvious to suggest Regency Lace? It was, I think, named after the Regent in question. In my Dover edition Palliser it is depicted on p. 389, figure 145. It appears to be a point lace with the rather weird characteristic of having the gimp inside, rather than around the

Re: [lace] Befriending

2007-06-07 Thread Dmt11home
I suppose it would be best if the official befriender were to be someone with superior social skills who would be able to read cues enough to back off, or be able to tell when smothering was occurring, likewise, when remarks that might inadvertently offend, are offending. Sigh. It is hard

[lace] Ex-pat Lacemakers- how do you find a club?

2007-06-04 Thread Dmt11home
Last year I visited Retournac, France and met Bruno Ythier. Bruno Ythier is now poised to open what may be a really spectacular lace museum about lace. He contacted me and told me that he would like to have an electronic map that shows all the lace clubs in the world and asked if I could

[lace] Turned away by torchon remark

2007-06-04 Thread Dmt11home
I have always felt that it is best if there be someone in the group designated to befriend any person who is at the group for the first time or actually perhaps the first year. This person should be a long term member who recognizes a new face, or should receive the information that there is

Re: [lace-chat] lap pillow .... Not

2007-04-10 Thread Dmt11home
Hi Alice, Actually, when I took Venetian needlelace with Irma Osterman, she suggested we use a Dritz tailor's ham to attach the pattern to and as a working surface. Personally, my tastes run to beautiful and elaborate equipment, and it seemed a little common place to me. But it did work

[lace] visit to Bowes sent by Carolyn Hastings

2007-02-11 Thread Dmt11home
Hello, I've just returned from viewing the wonderful lace exhibit, Fine Fashionable. Lace from the Blackborne Collection, at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle in north England -- a fabulous collection that is displayed in a very effective manner. I've seen a few exhibits, and I honestly

[lace] Bobbin Lace Lamp

2007-02-07 Thread Dmt11home
One of the Fiber Optic lamps by the same artist is currently on display at the Museum of Arts and Design's Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting show in New York. It is nicely displayed so that you can see the braided structure of the top of the lamp. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Regional Lacemaking in Art Nouveau time--thoughts

2007-02-05 Thread Dmt11home
Now that I am thinking about it, I recall that there was a movement to improve the design of Honiton lace and some nice Art Nouveau looking designs were produced and encouraged by Lady Trevelyan. I guess the fact that my trip is a northerly trip, not going to the west country, where I

Re: [lace] Innismacsaint lace

2007-02-04 Thread Dmt11home
There was an article about it in OIDFA a few years ago. I believe it claimed that the author was unable to find any existing examples since some had been destroyed in the fire in Buckingham Palace. There are a couple of examples of it in the Blackborne Collection at the Metropolitan Museum,

Re: [lace] Innismacsaint lace-Hamilton Lace

2007-02-04 Thread Dmt11home
Vis a vis your question about Scottish lace. Well...also in the Blackborne Collection at the MMA is a single piece of something called Hamilton Lace which is explained on pages 430 and 431 of the Dover edition of Palliser. (The piece in our collection might well be classified as torchon if

[lace] Le Pompe patterns/wire

2007-02-01 Thread Dmt11home
Some of the interest in the Le Pompe patterns is being spurred by the desire to use wire in lace making. Some wire is very beautiful, it works up nicely, doesn't unravel and there is a general feeling that lace was originally made in wire of precious metal, but it has not survived. In

Re: [lace] Le Pompe patterns/Wire Lace

2007-02-01 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 2/1/2007 5:00:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How far do you want to go with the wire lace exploration? Maybe Arline Fisch (about whom I've written to Arachne several times) has some answers in her research. She is a foremost international

[lace] The Tudor Tailor

2007-02-01 Thread Dmt11home
Good heavens, I had no idea that Jeri and I were practically on the same wavelength in that we were simultaneously writing about the Tudor Tailor. My first contact with the book was when I was ordering something from Amazon and Amazon, in its almost supernatural way, told me I would want to

Re: [lace] Le Pompe patterns, shorter

2007-01-30 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/30/2007 11:15:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally don't have (at this time) much interest in recreating authentic lace for SCA. I am probably not entitled to an opinion on this subject because I am actually a staffer of the IOLI

[lace] Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting

2007-01-29 Thread Dmt11home
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting was reviewed by the New York Times and available here. _http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/arts/design/27lace.html_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/arts/design/27lace.html) My own review will be appearing in the IOLI Bulletin. Also on the same page

[lace] fiber optic site provided by Jane Atkinson

2007-01-24 Thread Dmt11home
I can't seem to get on the site to see the fiber optic without providing a password. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Strange question from a tourist- myself

2007-01-03 Thread Dmt11home
According to Wikipedia, the town of Congleton in Cheshire, whose primary fame was as a Bear Baiting center was also known for making lace and gloves _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congleton_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congleton) . What kind of lace would they have been making in Congleton?

Re: [lace] Strange question from a tourist- myself

2007-01-03 Thread Dmt11home
It would appear that a bear, accompanied by some sort of bear handler arrives in town, or perhaps in Congleton, there were several resident bears. Local people have dogs that they set on the bear and there is some form of wagering going on. I confess I am not totally conversant with the

[lace] Congleton lace/ Gallery of English Costume Manchester

2007-01-03 Thread Dmt11home
I was afraid that it might be that kind of Lace. That area of England does not seem to have much of a lacemaking tradition. I am planning a trip to include Bowes Museum which will probably start and end in Manchester reaching Glasgow and Edinburgh if all goes well. Also hoping to hit the

Re: [lace] Re: It's all over now and Making Patterns

2007-01-01 Thread Dmt11home
When I tried to reconstruct a pattern from the 1600's which attempt I chronicled in the Bulletin of the International Old Lacers, it was a Point as opposed to a scallop. A scallop, I think represents a more complicated point. (In fact, I wanted to do a scallop but decided a point would be a

[lace] fiber optic filament for lace?

2006-12-28 Thread Dmt11home
I went to the Cooper-Hewitt to see the Design Triennial. There was a weaving by Suzanne Tick _http://www.peoplesdesignaward.org/designlifenow/designers/suzanne-tick-inc_ (http://www.peoplesdesignaward.org/designlifenow/designers/suzanne-tick-inc) of double woven fiber optics and

[lace] Knotted Chair

2006-12-26 Thread Dmt11home
I actually just saw this chair because it is on display now through Jan. 14 at the Museum of Arts and Design, (MAD) formerly the American Craft Museum _www.madmuseum.org_ (http://www.madmuseum.org) (New York) in the Droog show that they are doing now. If you go to their website and look

Re: [lace] Start spreading the news....

2006-12-03 Thread Dmt11home
Dear Jen, I am sure you will have a good time in New York when you visit in February. However, I hope you did not get the idea from Aurelia's email that the Ratti Textile Center is a place that you can arrive at and see textiles without advance appointment, like for instance, the Victoria

Re: [lace] Did Dali praise Needlewomen?

2006-11-22 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 11/22/2006 5:21:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently Dali was fascinated with the organic and mathematically interesting shape of a rhinoceros horn at the time, so that makes an appearance in the exploding lacemaker. So...then... you think

Re: [lace] Exhibition at Bowes Museum - another review -thanks!

2006-11-12 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 11/12/2006 1:33:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For other amrchair travellers, at the digital archive there are documents by M. Jourdain, Parts I - IV Lace Collection of Mr. Arthur Blackborne Actually, I think the lace in these articles is to be

Re: [lace] Fine and Fashionable: The Movie :^)

2006-11-05 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 11/4/2006 9:41:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would there be a CGI explosion of said coffin, with a computer effect of the evidence, viz. contraband lace splaying across the screen in pixellated bits to land here and there among the audience?

Re: [lace] Fine and Fashionable: Lace from the Blackborne Collection (long)

2006-11-04 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 11/3/2006 5:55:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do wish that when these events occur, someone would have the foresight to film the lectures and provide a series of DVDs of same with catalogues of the exhibit. They would make a fortune!!! I

[lace] Josephine's wedding gown

2006-10-16 Thread Dmt11home
Can anyone direct me to a painting of Josephine and Napoleon's wedding which would have clear detail of the appearance of her dress, or perhaps a verbal description. I have run across something that claims to be part of that dress, but I am unable to locate any information about Josephine's

[lace] Russian lace with tractors and other propaganda

2006-10-10 Thread Dmt11home
I have received an inquiry from a student on the West Coast who is writing a senior thesis about Vologda lace especially of the 1920's-1940's with propagandistic themes ie. tractors, parachutes, Red Army soldiers. Does anyone know where in the US she could see some of this lace? Most of my

[lace] Blackborne Collection at Bowes Museum

2006-09-13 Thread Dmt11home
The Blackborne Collection exhibit at the Bowes Museum opened on Sept 9. Has anyone gone to it? I am anxiously awaiting reviews because it would take quite a lot of scrambling, husband persuading, and even perhaps compromises on the features of a new car, in order to get there by April 29th.

[lace] Calling Lace Makers in New York City and Saltash, UK

2006-08-20 Thread Dmt11home
So - please could all you NY lacemakers please contact me, and I will send on your names and eMail addresses to her Let me hazard the guess that there will be more lacemakers reporting in from Saltash, UK than from New York City. The strange lack of lacemaking groups, instruction, and

Re: [lace] Lace Maker Plays.

2006-07-20 Thread Dmt11home
This was Dona Rosita by the Catalan playwright Lorca. While I was setting up the pillow for the New York version, the director sat with me telling me all about the play. (I had actually already read it, because I wanted to be prepared.) I had thought there might be some fodder for an IOLI

[lace] Arachne lunch in Montreal

2006-07-19 Thread Dmt11home
Please keep me informed of Arachne lunch plans. I suppose one way of handling this would be for Janice to post something on the Bulletin Board if there is one, or near the registration, mentioning the time and place and for the rest of us to try to remember to look for the announcement. Then

[lace] plays about lace

2006-07-17 Thread Dmt11home
A few years ago the call went out for someone to come and show an actress how to act like she was making lace. The play, performed in the Bowery Theatre in New York was Dona Rosita la soltera or Dona Rosita, the spinster by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Since I have tried to position myself as

[lace] curious and curiouser- scholars comment please

2006-07-12 Thread Dmt11home
What do you think Lewis Carroll was talking about in the poem when referring to the lace making beaver, he said: Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride And vainly proceeded to cite A number of cases, in which making laces Had been proved an infringement of right I'm supposing

Re: [lace] What is everyone up to?

2006-05-18 Thread Dmt11home
Elizabethan court gown? I for one, would be interested to hear more about this project and perhaps see a picture? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Re: Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-17 Thread Dmt11home
The only other dress with lace was from the 1870s or 1880s and was definitely machine lace. Does anyone know when chemical lace started because that's what it looked like. According to Pat Earnshaw, In the late 1880s... the Schiffli began to emerge as a formidable power. The Schiffli is the

[lace] Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-15 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 5/15/2006 11:22:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now for the question. I have been asked to speak about Bobbin Lace at a meeting of the Coutiere Society. I have never spoken to a large group about lace but do a lot of demonstrating. I would love to

[lace] Beau Brummel-the enemy?

2006-05-05 Thread Dmt11home
There is a review in the New York Times of the new Costume show at the Metropolitan Museum, Anglomania, situated in the English period galleries. _http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/arts/design/05angl.html_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/arts/design/05angl.html) It claims that there is

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Convention - Bowes Museum

2006-04-22 Thread Dmt11home
Do I understand then, that the lace belongs to private individuals unassociated with the museum, not the Bowes family? The 1908 article in an American newspaper may be about the acquisition of the collection by the Metropolitan Museum. It was in 1908 that a group of lace lovers and museum

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Lace Guild Convention - Bowes Museum

2006-04-21 Thread Dmt11home
I am quite interested to hear that there is a collection of a lace at the Bowes Museum that is called the Blackborne collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also has a collection of lace called the Blackborne Collection. The catalogue of the auction at which it was bought said

[lace] visiting LePuy area

2006-04-19 Thread Dmt11home
I am planning a visit to Le Puy, Bioude, Arlanc and Retournac and am interested in any insights that can be offered about visiting the area. I am particularly interested in hearing about a hotel in or near Le Puy or the other lace sites from which to launch our lace travel. As those who know

[lace] Michel Jourde runs B B?!

2006-04-19 Thread Dmt11home
Thank you Sof for this information. I can't believe that the lace designer Michel Jourde, whose establishment I was hoping to visit, actually runs a chambre d'hote. I am very excited. Has anyone stayed there at the Chambre d'hote La Paravent? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace] Neo-Classical Loves of the Gods Lace series?

2006-04-17 Thread Dmt11home
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a huge lace coverlet composed of handmade droschel strips and applied Brussels Bobbin lace dating from the Napoleonic era which depicts Diana and her shepherd lover Endymion (plate 76, Marian Powys, Lace and Lacemaking). In the Brussels Musees Royaux

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