I found a picture on the photostream tab of Arachne Flickr. If you are looking
at it on a phone then you need to scroll across to the left to see this
option. I hope this helps.
Regards, Helen.
> On Oct 9, 2021, at 18:03, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
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> Where do I find Carmen’s lace, please? I cann
Hi,
I have a lot of midlands bobbins that were from the ‘bobbin a month’ sets that
were sold by Springetts and then Fountains. Some of the sets are quite obvious
but I need help with others. Does anyone have any old catalogues that list what
was in each set? My collection includes bone, ebony a
Thank you to Sue and Jocelyn for explaining that there are options to the left
of Albums. My logical, right-handed mind tends to assume that we are shown the
leftmost options.
> On Apr 14, 2021, at 17:56, Sue Babbs wrote:
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> Hi All
>
> When someone writes to say they have just posted a pho
Am I the only one who struggles to find specific pictures in the Flickr albums?
Despite looking several times I still can’t see the mythical hankie. This isn’t
the first time I have had this problem either.
Helen (on the west coast of mainland Canada where the weather people seem to
have turne
I don’t know where my copy of Le Pompe is at the moment so I cannot check. It
is an interesting quote though I would question its accuracy. In what way does
anyone need lace? Or even find it useful? Unless you have to make a lace
trimmed dress, lace curtains, or similar? Lacemaking was useful in
I agree with the first part of Adele’s message. There isn’t a goddess of lace
because lacemaking postdates the age of specific gods and goddesses. Even in
more modern polytheistic cultures this would be the case because there is no
evidence (as far as I’m aware) of any lace existing prior to con
For more information on Mrs Dazeley:
https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dazley-sarah.htm
I would have thought that these bobbins would have been of extra interest
compared to the other hanging bobbins. Someone must have one! Perhaps Brian
could write a special page on his website in such a way th
I would be the last person to suggest that I have any more knowledge than the
rest of you. That doesn’t stop me pretending sometimes so here goes ...
I would like to put the idea out there that many of the antique handkerchiefs
were used by men. Their fashions were more ornate and eye catching t
Hi Adele,
That does sound like an oversize lady’s handkerchief, even today. My ‘antique’
hankies are far smaller, less than half the dimensions including significant
amounts of lace.
As for the wedding part of it, I was not aware of any such tradition until I
emigrated and found local lacemak
Thank you Jean and David. I just checked out your website while walking my dog
on the beach (life is tough, sometimes). It all looked wonderful and each page
loaded extremely quickly. I appreciate the efforts that went into it all. Good
luck with finding out the mystery item’s provenance.
Rega
Thank you to everyone who participated in the lassen discussion. It brought up
more questions than answers but that is what historical topics tend to do. I do
hope that some of our silent majority also found it interesting.
If anyone has anything further to add then do please pipe up. Or if it
Hi,
Since the list is silent, I would like to ask an historical question. I will
state here that I have asked the question before years ago but didn’t get a
satisfactory answer so here I go again ...
For lassen (I think that is the word), where the ends of lace are overlapped
and (almost) invi
I have been overwhelmed by stuff recently and I have been detrimental in
thanking all the wonderful people who replied to my question. Some were private
and others sent to the list. I am very grateful to you all and I am now clear
on the book’s contents. I haven’t had a chance to look at his web
Greetings, oh wise lacemakers.
I am interested in David Springett’s book “Turning Lace Bobbins”. Since it is
long out of print, I am unable to look at a copy first. I am looking for the
‘tricks of the trade’ for doing the different decorative styles rather than
topics such as ‘how to turn a ba
Hi,
I have a question for those of you who do, or know about, the finest needle
laces. What size needle do you use? I’m thinking about when you use really fine
thread (180 cotton, maybe).
Thank you in advance, Helen (on the sunny west coast of mainland Canada)
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There are many crafts who have made the journey from employment with its
associated training to a hobby with groups of likeminded people gathering and
sharing their knowledge. I suspect that many of us have multiple interests in
this way.
Guilds come together because of an existing interest ra
I started out as a programmer in 1983 (I did a sandwich degree in maths and
that was my year ‘in industry’). I had been introduced to lacemaking in the
1970s since one of my grandmas made lace (btw, I’m still tracking down
information to send to Suffolk).
I worked in the defence industry using
To ask what is the most difficult lace is like asking what is the most
difficult school subject. It is subjective (sorry!) and dependent on many
factors, only some of which are related to the innate abilities of the
individual.
It is important to remember that lacemakers didn’t dart about the
Speaking from my family’s perspective, my grandmother learnt as a child in the
1910s. This was at some local girls’ club in Suffolk. Then she married and had
a family (obviously!) and lace was put away. When she was sadly widowed in the
early 1960s she went back to making lace. She showed my sis
I'm wondering what you all do with your lace samples? I'm thinking of segments
of a piece that you decided not to complete; short lengths of continuous laces
where you may have been testing threads, colours or whatever; working out
certain techniques before progressing to the final piece; and si
Hi,
I was excited to see that the old Cecil Higgins gallery in Bedford had
reopened. I took a look at their website but saw no mention of lace. I
contacted them to ask where all their lace is now but I got no reply.
Does anyone on the list know the situation? Do they still have a lace section
I am still trying to work out what specific needs a lacemaker had that would
end up with a dog breed especially for them. Were the key lacemaking areas
popular with bulldog breeders who could provide the runts of the litters? I
also can't imagine someone working hard on their lace would want to
Thank you all for your wonderful replies to my question about dog patterns. A
good friend, who is also owner and training director of my dog's daycare and
school, is going through an increasingly difficult time. I thought it would be
good to make her a small something.
Given my own health chal
Hi,
I am looking for dog patterns in both lace and blackwork. If you know of any
then could you please let me know how to find it/them.
Many thanks in advance,
Helen (on the dark and windy west coast of mainland Canada)
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Wow, and people wonder why the list is so quiet these days. Sadly the animosity
remains. I have been on this list for a very long time and have seen many ups
and downs. Each down causes long term impact to the list members.
I'm bringing the, totally voluntary, survey to an early end. I will sen
I would like you please to send me your answer to the questions below. I will
collate them all and send a summary to the list.
1) Can you 'see' a picture in your head?
A) Yes, but only if I have just seen it in reality
B) Yes, but only if I have ever seen it
C) Yes, even if I have to imagine w
Firstly, a huge thank you to the very kind people (and Adele ;-) ) who answered
my question about Lutac lace. It would seem that this is a modern lace that has
some devoted followers but has never made it to the main stream. Who knows,
though, what the future holds - perhaps one of the devotees
Hi there, oh knowledgeable ones.
I had the privilege to go to Anchorage for a lace class way back in, I think,
1998. I did Bruges but I seem to remember that a few people were learning lutec
(?) lace. I think it was a bobbin lace that made use of padding techniques from
some needle laces. I ha
Thank you, Brenda, and the other kind people who helped to answer my question.
I hadn't thought about the bulbous nature of the continentals. It is
interesting to read though that there were some bone continentals.
I wonder whether it was the fact that bone was used for English bobbins that
en
This must be quite a wrench, you have collected a wonderful set of books there
on a variety of topics. I note that you will only ship to the US, I can
certainly understand why you don't want to deal with international postage.
Given my total lack of income, I can't decide whether I'm sad or reli
My main reason, on the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli, is to thank the
Australians - one of your forebears saved my grandfather's life there. How? By
giving him a drink of water.
I don't know the details, sadly he was killed in a car crash weeks before I was
born. I do know that he had had to
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