Re: Re[2]: [lace] domain name change

2022-12-05 Thread Karen Bovard
arated from the non-lace chatter.  This is not the case anymore. Karen Bovard-SayreThe ShuttleSmithNeedle Lace ArtsTHESHUTTLESMITH.COM | | | | THESHUTTLESMITH.COM | | | Needlelacearts.com coming | | | | Needlelacearts.com | | |  soon. On Monday, December 5, 2022 at

Re: [lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2022

2022-11-30 Thread Karen ZM
Thank you Jean. Something to look forward to. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Lorelei Halley

2022-11-17 Thread Karen Bovard
It's a relief to know that Lorelei's work and heritage will continue on.  I am relieved that the IOLI has taken over this body of information. Karen Bovard-SayreThe ShuttleSmithwww.TheShuttleSmith.com On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 11:50:21 AM MST, N.A. Neff wrote: Thanks Dev

Re: [lace] DFZ22 Symposium?

2022-11-12 Thread Karen Bovard
I for one am really in the dark about DFZ!  When the tutorials were coming out several months ago and there was chatter about DFZ and Angharad, it seemed that several if not many of the participants knew what Angharad was dealing with.  This was frustrating to me because I did not have a clue as

Re: [lace] The Lace Dress.

2022-09-28 Thread Karen ZM
Does anyone have the email address for Kirsten Brinkmann, as I and perhaps some other Maltese lacemakers would like to participate in her project, so I would like to contact her as, I believe, registration had to be made until September (now). Karen in Malta. > - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Tønder Lace Festival

2022-05-03 Thread Karen Thompson
classes virtually from home. -Karen on the Atlantic Coast in Delaware - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] IOLI UnCon 2.0

2021-04-29 Thread Karen ZM
This sounds really, really interesting and makes it possibly for those of us who live very far from the USA to take part just the same. Waiting with baited breath for more details. Karen in Malta > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe

Re: [lace] How do you line a lace jacket?

2021-02-07 Thread Karen ZM
If your friend intends to use flat fell seams, she may need a tad more allowances than the original pattern for the lace. Karen in Malta On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 08:48, Alice Howell wrote: > I'm looking for advice. I hope there's someone on the List who has done > this. >

[lace] Lace: Arizona site for old books

2020-10-12 Thread Karen Thompson
Dear Arachneans, Does anyone know what the current procedures are for submitting scans of out-of-copyright books to the Arizona site? https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_lace.html Thank you. -Karen on the coast in Delaware, where we are having rain and strong winds today. Always

Re: [lace] Lace, Virtual lace classes

2020-09-29 Thread Karen Thompson
ir members can use the account for teaching. Since we are all interested in promoting lacemaking, we need to adapt. The virtual classroom is especially good for introducing younger students to lace. -Karen on the Atlantic coast in Delaware, USA. > > > > - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Lace, Virtual lace classes

2020-09-29 Thread Karen Thompson
pillow so the teacher can follow what I am doing, and give instant feedback. Hope this helps. -Karen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos

[lace] lace, Virtual lace classes

2020-09-27 Thread Karen Thompson
sroom. The price of virtual classes can be much lower as there is no travel, hotel, and room rental cost. -Karen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: Re[2]: [lace] Miniature lace pillow

2020-01-28 Thread Karen ZM
> > > The miniature lace pillow is awesome. Thanks for sharing the photos. Karen in Malta > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flick

Re: [lace] Photo sharing, Oz Fires and "house space"

2020-01-05 Thread Karen ZM
That is one amazing collection. Hope I remember to spend some time with it as soon as I can. Thank you so much for sharing it. Karen in Malta. > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.

Re: [lace] 2019-2020 Arachne 25th Anniversary Interchange

2019-11-13 Thread Karen ZM
I am intrigued...what is a silver lacer spoon? Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Lassen question

2019-06-23 Thread Karen ZM
Thanks Bobbi. and I also have the diagrams attached. I will print your message with the diagrams to keep for future reference. Karen in Malta > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.

Re: [lace] Lassen question

2019-06-23 Thread Karen ZM
Thanks for the reply. Karen in Malta > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Lassen question

2019-06-23 Thread Karen ZM
Interesting to follow the discussion on lassen. What I am still trying to understand, though, is that once the extra piece of lace is cut away, what is there to keep it looking neat over time (i.e. not have a frayed edge)? Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] lace identification websites and books

2019-05-13 Thread Karen Thompson
Earnshaw's books on lace identification are all fantastic. There are certainly many more, but these are the ones I find most useful for most laces. -Karen on the Atlantic coast in Delaware - and sometimes Washington, DC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

Re: [lace] Arachne v. Facebook

2019-05-11 Thread Karen ZM
quiet, you could consider changing from digest settings to receiving each email as it comes. Karen in Malta. > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo

Re: [lace] the very start of Arachne

2019-04-28 Thread Karen ZM
then we only had limited dial-up at an exorbitant cost.our costs for internet and mobile phone here are still some of the highest in Europe and in the world too. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

Re: [lace] Bucks ornament & questions about false picots & Wiltshire area bobbins

2019-03-31 Thread Karen ZM
batches of different bobbins and do like to use the correct type of bobbins whenever possible. Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com

Re: [lace] re: Lace Hats

2019-03-09 Thread Karen ZM
Thanks for your reply Susan. I will try to source a book. Karen On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 22:49, Susan Vossier wrote: > Christine Mirecki has designed lots of hats, several of which are sold > published separately, but the ones which fitted Karen's description > (rounded crown, wid

[lace] Lizbeth thread

2019-02-18 Thread Karen ZM
stitch for stability. Another question. Would it be better to use a sinnamay base for this? I’d be grateful for any help. Thanks, Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

Re: [lace] New Web site devoted to Lace Bobbins.

2018-12-25 Thread Karen ZM
That is a fantastic piece of work and an excellent resource. Thank you. Hope your op in January will be successful and your recovery will be a speedy one. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] re: Ebb 'n' Flow

2018-10-12 Thread Karen Thompson
It is with great interest I have read about Jane Atkins' Ebb 'n' Flow exhibit. I will be in London on the last weekend of the exhibition and hope to somehow get there. Is it possible with public transport? -Karen on the Atlantic beach in Delaware where fall arrived last night.

[lace] New Zealand Lace happenings?

2018-10-12 Thread Karen Thompson
this, so nothing has been planned yet, including tickets. Karen in Delaware, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] 12 pair crossings

2018-09-10 Thread Karen ZM
That is very unusual. Usually we Maltese work a flower motif where the tallies would be crossed in the centre. It would be more likely to have a row of flower motifs, ‘sun’ motifs or Maltese crosses on one band that would be joined to another band of motifs or ground stitches. Karen - To

Re: [lace] 12 pair crossings

2018-09-10 Thread Karen ZM
That would definitely not be traditional Maltese. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Working with black thread [was "Thread"]

2018-09-05 Thread Karen Thompson
Ipswich, MA in the late 1700s, some were made with white or ecru linen. Regretfully we don't have those samples available to study. Only the black silk samples from 1789 have been located with correspondence to Alexander Hamilton. -Karen on the beach in Delaware - To unsubscribe send ema

Re: [lace] Cilaos needle lace

2018-08-27 Thread Karen Bovard
work linens.  It is used to embellish a corner. It appears to me that it is embedded in a fabric base, not a stand-alone piece of lace. Karen Bovard SayreThe ShuttleSmithhttp://www.TheShuttleSmith.com | | | | www.theshuttlesmith.com | | | Omaha, NE/Council Bluffs, Iowa On ‎Sundayâ

Re: [lace] Lace in England?

2018-07-17 Thread Karen ZM
Oops...sorry Girls (and some Guys).if forgot to trim before hitting send. Mea culpa, I usually trim before I type in the message. Karen in Malta >> >> >> >> >> >> >> - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscri

Re: [lace] Lace in England?

2018-07-17 Thread Karen ZM
Lynn Why not consider renting an automatic car? We always do that, especially if we are to drive “on the other side of the road”. It takes the headache out of shifting with the “other” hand and leaves us to concentrate fully on the road. Karen in Malta On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 12:29 AM

[lace] lace: IOLI Bulletin

2018-07-11 Thread Karen Thompson
some point in the future the old Bulletins will be digitized, and there will be a nice digital index of articles and patterns, so they can be searched. However, since I am not able to do it, it is just wishful thinking. Hopefully, we can get together at the IOLI Convention. -Karen in sunny, warm

[lace] Re: the archetype of the lacemaker- books

2018-05-28 Thread Karen Thompson
least a fascinating read. -Karen, usually in Washington, DC, or Delaware, but in Minnesota at the moment - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com

Re: [lace] Lace projects

2018-05-28 Thread Karen ZM
On Mon, 28 May 2018 at 9:10 PM, Sue wrote: > Wow Karen, (not something I often say). Incredible and it sounds > absolutely > fantastic. I just wish we could see pictures of the finished dress and > veil > and also the Mother of both brides in her outfits. > Between you an

Re: [lace] Lace projects

2018-05-28 Thread Karen ZM
worked a modern piece to put into a frame to take to the UK for a family wedding. I also have a traditional Maltese lace piece (a centerpiece) on another pillow Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

[lace] Lace: Making lace before diagrams

2018-05-22 Thread Karen Thompson
Karen: I have heard that color-coded working diagrams were developed in Belgium in the 1930s > Marianne Stang: may I make a little correction? The color code was invented in Bruges in 1911/12. > The lace school had more than 70 students, so it became necessary to solve this problem. That

[lace] Re: Lace: Making lace before diagrams

2018-05-21 Thread Karen Thompson
http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/torchon-lace-company-fine-line-between-entrepreneurship-and-fraud I am not using the umlaut and apostrophe on purpose to avoid the strange symbols that show up in the Arachne posts. -Karen in sunny Washington DC at the moment - To unsubscribe send email to majord

Re: [lace] Computer coding

2018-05-20 Thread Karen ZM
On Sun, 20 May 2018 at 10:20 AM, Gilian Dye wrote: > It is often forgotten that one of the earliest computer programmers was a > woman - Ada Lovelace... Ironic to this discussion that her surname was Lovelace 🙂 Karen in Malta > > > - > To unsubscribe se

Re: [lace] Duchess of Sussex veil

2018-05-19 Thread Karen ZM
On Sat, 19 May 2018 at 5:11 PM, Susan wrote: > What a knock out veil! I thought so too. Karen in Malta > > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.co

[lace] Re: Lace: Ipswich, Massachusetts

2018-05-14 Thread Karen Thompson
Liz, yes, the lace on the pillow in the first picture is the one I made. It is a reproduction from the pattern at the Smithsonian and the corresponding lace (number 9) in the Library on Congress. It has been on display since 2001. Karen, I enjoyed reading the article. Is the reproduction lace

[lace] lace. Ipswich, Massachusetts, lace

2018-05-12 Thread Karen Thompson
used bolster pillows). The point ground is used as a filling only in this one sample, not as a ground. The grounds are kat stitch (Paris ground) or variations on torchon ground. You are welcome to share the blog with your local guilds. Karen in either Washington, DC or Bethany Beach, DE - To

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

2018-04-17 Thread Karen ZM
can’t imagine my life without Arachne messages to read Karen in Malta. > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

2018-04-13 Thread Karen Bovard
ning--both vying for being the most memorable part of my trip.   I can only hope that at some point, something I said was appreciated a little bit to start to pay back for the huge amount of information and friendship I have received from this list!!! Karen Bovard SayreThe ShuttleSmithOm

Re: [lace] Lacemaker survey

2018-04-09 Thread Karen ZM
the time. > > 5. Why is lace important to you to preserve? It’s an ago old art and part of our Maltese culture and history. > > > I, too, enjoyed the recent discussion tremendously. Karen in Malta. > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the lin

[lace] Re: lace books from Lowell Textile Museum

2018-04-06 Thread Karen Thompson
e I have learned that most of the lace books went to >Cornell University Library. Most of the sample books went to Henry Ford >Museum. -Karen Currently enjoying a wonderful vacation in The United Emirates. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubsc

[lace] Lace revival of the 1970s

2018-03-26 Thread Karen
with learning in Europe or from European teacher. -Karen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] lace, Bayeux Tapestry

2018-03-26 Thread Karen Thompson
Thanks to Lyn Bailey for pointing out that I seem to have given you the general blog site. If you search Bayeux Tapestry in the search box you will come to this: http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2012/09/the-bayeux-tapestry-at-the-smithsonian-yes-but-who-made-it-when-where-and-why.html -Karen

[lace] lace, Bayeux tapestry

2018-03-26 Thread Karen Thompson
de l’union centrale des arts décoratifs - Paris. They also stated in another catalog from the early 1900s they had difficulty keeping up with the demand from Americans for this type of lace. Just another interesting tidbit of lace history. Karen in sunny but cold Washington, DC - To unsubscribe

Re: [lace] Valencienne bobbin

2018-03-13 Thread Karen ZM
The hole in the bottom of the bobbin (to reduce weight?) sounds rather interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever come across one before. I’d like to know more. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

Re: [lace] Threads for Lace book

2018-02-13 Thread Karen ZM
Well done. I just love it.invaluable when starting any project. Karen in Malta On 13 February 2018 at 17:46, Brenda Paternoster wrote: > Dear Spiders > > After a long wait I’m pleased to tell you all that I expect to be > collecting > Edition 7 from the printers tomorrow.

Re: [lace] re vintage pattern books

2018-01-21 Thread Karen ZM
where to find it. We are moving to a much smaller place, so I may need to (very sadly and unwillingly) say goodbye to a number of my much loved books, but this will not be one of them, unless my mother passes her (probably older one) on to me. Karen in Malta. > > - To unsubscribe send

Re: [lace] Newsletter of Bizzilla (Malta Lace Guild)

2018-01-20 Thread Karen ZM
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 at 3:51 PM, Clare Lewis wrote: > Does anybody know if Is-Seher tal-Bizzilla is still being published? I’ve checked for you and have been told that apparently, for the time being, it is not being published. Karen in Malta > > - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Date for Bucks point

2017-12-12 Thread Karen
adapt and soon Lille lace came to dominate production in Toender.’ Still no closer than at the end of the 18th century. -Karen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site

[lace] date for Bucks point

2017-12-11 Thread Karen Thompson
ngs of the machine made point ground like nets. Hannover and Eslykke both say the point ground Tønder laces are imitating Arras lace around 1800, but I cannot find reference to Arras lace history. Karen - currently in Washington DC, where my lace books reside. - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

2017-12-11 Thread Karen Thompson
ce to my knowledge have a right hand footside. Maybe Karen can explain why the change of side if the lady who produced the lace originally came from England ​." Elizabeth Lord Lakeman was born in Ipswich​, MA in 1767 and moved to Hallowell, Maine upon marriage. She worked one of the origin

Re: [lace] Winding Idrija bobbins for use "palms up" on a bolster

2017-12-11 Thread Karen ZM
In Malta and Gozo we wind clockwise and work palms down. Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bucks Point-Hallowell, Maine

2017-12-09 Thread Karen Thompson
he Ipswich Museum are about 30 in or 77 cm long to fit around the Ipswich bolster pillow. See http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_645070 or the last object on the webpage for the Smithsonian lace collection. -Karen On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 3:42 PM, DevonThein wrote: > Not

[lace] Smithsonian Ipswich lace pillow

2017-12-09 Thread Karen Thompson
ind it was. The lace on the pillow is made with cotton thread, which was not commonly used for lace until the 1830s after gassing (burning off the fuzz of spun cotton thread) became common. This was well after the Ipswich lace industry had lost out to machine made laces. -Karen - To unsubscribe sen

[lace] Bucks Point

2017-12-09 Thread Karen Thompson
been making lace to sell after she was married, so she would have changed to a pattern that would be in demand at that time, such as point ground lace. Moreover at the age of 90, her eyesight might not have been good enough to work the more complicated patterns she had worked earlier in her life.

[lace] Re: Ipswich lace

2017-12-09 Thread Karen Thompson
helps. -Karen F ​rom Devon:​ On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 2:19 PM, DevonThein wrote: > Karen writes: > > Ipswich Massachusetts lace is NOT a point ground lace. From a distance it > might look like it, but as it now has been pointed out, the grounds are > Torchon variations and Kat st

[lace] Ipswich lace

2017-12-09 Thread Karen Thompson
filling in a motif. You may want to see them in my book The Lace Samples From Ipswich, Massachusetts 1789-1790. It is available through some lace dealers as well as Amazon. Since I subscribe to the digest version I have not been able to respond immediately. My apologies. -Karen - To unsubscribe

[lace] Ipswich Lace pillow

2017-12-08 Thread Karen Thompson
t;She lived to be over 90, worked on this pillow the day she died. She feared she lacked "dying grace" but God took her while she knelt in prayer". Hope this clarifies. Karen, currently at snowy Bethany Beach, DE, but as often in Washington, DC Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 21:46:33 +

Re: [lace] Bucks point - on Ipswich-style Pillow at Smithsonian

2017-12-07 Thread Karen Thompson
There is not necessarily a relationship between American Ipswich Lace and England's Bucks Point, except that Mrs. Lakeman, who had made Ipswich lace in the late 18th C, used her equipment from that period to make the newer Point ground lace later in her life. -Karen - To unsubscribe send

[lace] Bucks point

2017-12-07 Thread Karen Thompson
45 objects currently on the website, search: Smithsonian lace collection, plus the War Laces at: Smithsonian War Lace Yes, regretfully still only very few of the approximately 6,000 lace objects... I keep working on it, trying to get past the bureaucracy... -Karen in Washington, DC - To

[lace] Re: [lace] Buck’s pricking

2017-12-06 Thread Karen Thompson
I have tried working without the pins in the ground, and find it hard to keep the right tension, but I am sure with practice it would be fine. It certainly would be much faster and cheaper. Karen On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Devon Thein wrote: > > Karen, have you tried working it witho

[lace] Buck’s pricking

2017-12-06 Thread Karen
have reconstructed it. -Karen in sunny but cold Washington DC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bucks Prickings

2017-12-03 Thread Karen ZM
take this opportunity to wish everybody a happy festive season. Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Advice wanted please

2017-10-26 Thread Karen ZM
verlap. I hope you can understand my explanation. Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] FW: Quaker samplers from Ackworth, Doing Research at Museum Sites

2017-10-10 Thread Karen ZM
Thanks for those links Jeri. I usually put them aside for times when I am not too busy and can afford to spend time browsing. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

Re: [lace] Twelve years is a long time

2017-09-12 Thread Karen ZM
I will miss your informative emails very much, as I'm sure many others will too. Karen in Malta > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www

[lace] re: Ipswich Lace sampler book

2017-06-08 Thread Karen Thompson
of the reproductions (Thanks to the Lace8 program). Besides, corners in lace were not common in 1790 in this type of lace. Straight borders were gathered or folded for corners. Happy lacing -Karen on sunny and warm East Coast of the US - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Book on the Ipswich Samples from 1789-1790

2017-06-06 Thread Karen Thompson
ISBN 978-0-9990385-0-5, by Karen H. Thompson is now in print!! Over the last many years I have been working on and off reconstructing these wonderful samples, and have now made the complete set available in a book format for everybody to enjoy. The soft-cover book has a short introductory history, b

Re: [lace] "Continental Lace Bobbins" (Lace Bobbins of the world?)

2017-05-26 Thread Karen ZM
while till I come down off my adrenaline high..it always happens to me after a big job! Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flick

Re: [lace] Rauma lace

2017-05-03 Thread Karen ZM
l and that I have explained myself clearly enough. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Malta

2017-03-13 Thread Karen ZM
display - it would have to be brought out specially. Also, if you have enough time to go to Gozo (sister island), there is a small museum with a wonderful collection there. If you wish, you may write to me off list. Karen in Malta. > > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@ar

Re: [lace] Lacemaking

2017-03-09 Thread Karen ZM
. Whenever I met a friend on the way, they would ask what strange thing I was carrying and whenever I replied that it was a Bobbin lace pillow, the retort always was, "But you're too young to work lace!!!" Nobody says that any more since I am now 54 🙂 Karen in Malta - To unsubsc

Re: [lace] Lace: Point ground laces

2017-02-17 Thread Karen Thompson
Devon, Thank you for correcting this. I am away from my books at the moment. It makes much more sense that he studied the point ground laces in the early 1800s, when there is no question they were made. Another sample of disinformation in some of the old articles. Karen - in sunny and cool

Re: [lace] Lace: Point ground laces

2017-02-16 Thread Karen Thompson
Lorelei, I agree completely. I have never read anywhere that the lace made in Buckingham in 1750 was point ground. What made me pause on this article was that Mr. Heathcoat supposedly learned to make lace from the Buckingham lace makers around 1753 and imitated the point ground on his Loughborough

Re: [lace] Lace: Point ground laces

2017-02-16 Thread Karen Thompson
s is true, lace makers in Buckingham made point ground lace in 1753. It would be great to ascertain this from other sources. Mr Heathcoat's fist successful lace machine making bobbin net was set up in 1809. -Karen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

Re: [lace] Lace: Point ground laces

2017-02-16 Thread Karen Thompson
distorted by having been copied a number of times - or from the snippet of lace they made the pricking from. -Karen - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] Lace: Point ground laces

2017-02-16 Thread Karen Thompson
guess is that point ground was fairly new, but one of the lace makers figured out how to make it from a snippet of imported lace. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -Karen - usually in Washington, DC or Delaware - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

Re: [lace] Lace on my window

2017-01-23 Thread Karen ZM
or design a piece myself. I have been to Camarinas to participate, on behalf of Malta, in the Easter week lace fair about 9 years ago and it was a wonderful experience. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here

Re: [lace] posting issues and a new lace adventure

2017-01-17 Thread Karen ZM
pam box to read her (very interesting and informative) messages. Karen in Malta > > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Re: Pincushion

2017-01-12 Thread Karen ZM
Joy Beeson - I loved reading all about your pincushions. The account reminded me a little of the essays we would sometimes be asked to write in lower secondary school, e.g. I Am a Pencil 😊 A very colourful account indeed. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

Re: [lace] Re: "Lace" Magazine Number 164 Raffle Winner

2016-12-11 Thread Karen ZM
Congratulations Amanda - enjoy the magazine. Thank you for organizing this Sue. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos

Re: [lace] Re edgeing

2016-09-19 Thread Karen ZM
It's a lovely piece of work. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Gertrude Whiting - Potted Biography?

2016-09-07 Thread Karen ZM
​Well done Brian. I am sure that this will be a valuable resource for lacemakers worldwide. Thank you. Karen in Malta​ > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo s

Re: [lace] Dividing pins help

2016-08-30 Thread Karen ZM
I use super glue. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Translation help?

2016-08-28 Thread Karen ZM
Although I have no idea of this pattern or the translation, you have me intrigued. What is a kiss stitch? Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] Needle Tatting

2016-08-26 Thread Karen ZM
. Grateful for any help. Thanks, Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Lace on display in London?

2016-08-22 Thread Karen ZM
r an informative visit on how they store everything, but never managed to secure a date for a study visit as I would only know I was going from four to six weeks before, and it was never enough! Karen in Malta PS - Hope this message has former messages trimmed off as I cannot see them anywhere to delete them

Re: [lace] Wearing lace

2016-08-02 Thread Karen ZM
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good one Brian. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Lace The Torchon Lace

2016-07-23 Thread Karen
Dear Antje and arachneans, Mr. Lewis copied most of his material, including the lace pillow from the Danish author Sara Rasmussen's Knipling (also published in German at the same time). And maybe the Swedish lacemaker he saw was using a Danish style pillow. -Karen > On Jul 23, 2016, at

[lace] Lace The Torchon Lace

2016-07-22 Thread Karen
This is my blog about the Torchon Lace Company, which made the Princess Lace Loom in the early 1900s in the USA and later also Australia http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/torchon-lace-company-fine-line-between-entrepreneurship-and-fraud Still at the IOLI Convention in Indianapolis -Karen

Re: [lace] finishing lace garters.

2016-06-29 Thread Karen ZM
meets to hide the joint. Karen in Malta. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] 2016 Bookmark Exchange website now open

2016-06-25 Thread Karen ZM
Well done to all who participated, and thank you to Jenny Brandis for taking the work to update the site. There are many lovely bookmarks. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] ​ [lace] "Tribute to Ardoye" war lace

2016-06-13 Thread Karen Thompson
he back of each emblem has a 1/16th inch wide (about 1.5 mm) tightly woven(?) ring, possibly made with bobbin lace, to which the ground and emblems are whip-stitched. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces -Karen in Washington, DC​ - To unsubscribe send

Subject: [lace] "Tribute to Ardoye" war lace

2016-06-08 Thread Karen Thompson
for some of the laces. These images can be enlarged on your screen. Many more will be added to the lace-collection group. ​-​ Karen ​in sunny Delaware on the Atlantic coast​ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For

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