I've heard of that thing for years, but never seen itNow I know why
y'all call it the "horror kit!" Sweet Lord Above! What an utter waste of
money!
--Sue in Montana, submerging back into her lurking swamp ;o)
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I think Lacemaker sells colored, linen threads (at least, they used to).
Their website is:
http://www.lacemakerusa.com/
It looks like they're in the middle of re-doing the site, so there's
nothing on there at the moment, besides the "front page", but it looks
like you call still order a catalogue.
Just testingEmails have suspiciously dwindled to almost nothing
--maire
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Huh!
I would have thought, like you, that it's just a different name for
whole or cloth stitch!
--sue
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> Hi,
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> i'm getting ready to start Jana Novaks Crib pattern from her Nativity Set. In
> the instructions it says to: "Work with the 19 pairs on linen stitch,
> twist
With all due respect towards our common suppositions, the ebay item
doesn't say it's for lace bobbins. It said "thread bobbin," (my
paraphrase); and there's mention of "sewing stuff."
Without knowing much about antique sewing equipment, it sounds like this
thing was used for winding thread onto bo
The ones I've got have cotton velveteen covers, but I bought them that
way, and I'm pretty inexperienced with lace making, so I'm just assuming
that it's a preferred fabric because it's a little luxurious (i.e., just
a nice touch), or because the nap helps keep the bobbins still.
--sue in montana,
I agree whole-heartedly with Josette!
I know people who are historical costumers and needleworkers who might
be interested in copies for their "libraries" as well!
--Sue (from very hot and smoky Montana, so I sympathize with you guys,
although with our sparse population we aren't having the deaths
Hi, Jean.
I'm prefacing all of this with a big "I could be wrong, but"
1. You're right about the laces. I don't know of any evidence of tape
laces, let alone the other laces you mention at that time. The stuff
I've seen from the 16th c (whether in portraits or pattern books, or
actual sample
Could the camera software be incompatible with whatever system you're
using to run the computer? I ran into that with mine (a Nikon
CoolPix2500) and my computer at work. Software installed just fine at
home, but when I tried at work, nada. zip. nothing. I'd wanted it on my
work computer as we
I don't recall anymore just exactly from whom I purchased my copy,
although I suspect it was a bookseller at a reenactment event, but this
is the info I've got:
_Le Pompe, 1559: Patterns for Venetian bobbin lace_, by Santina Levey
and Patricia Payne. Published in the UK by Ruth Bean, and distri
Hello, Jean.
It sounds like you know what you're doing, for sure, and are wanting to
expand into some more experimental/modern techniques. Nothing wrong
with that, surely! I've seen some lovely "art" laces made into sculpture
using metals and such, so why not go for it?
The only constraint that
Me. I saw them all, just fine, although I don't believe I could
actually *type* them all. That may be because I can accept email in
various forms (plain and other), but only send in text
My computer uses Windows98, and I have chosen to use Netscape for my
mail and browser services.
--sue,
I had also heard that some of the "varieties" (for want of a more
accurate phrase) of truly fine linen plants went extinct around the time
of/during WWI.
--sue, another lurking list member who just really doesn't ever have
much to contribute
Edith Holmes wrote:
Having spent a great deal of
Hello, Pene, from a spider very far away from Estonia! ;o)
We have not yet got our first real snowfall here, although there were a
few flurries on Halloween. Everything's at that bare and grey stage.
I am not doing much lacing right now, except for a couple of knitted
lace things (2 scarves for
I've had mixed luck with sending/receiving packages from the UK and
environs, but it's usually not to bad for stuff coming, what, 7000
miles? I've mostly shipped books, so my experience may be a bit biased,
but the shipping time has averaged between a week and three weeks.
Quickest was a hug bo
Oh my, don't I wish I could be there! I've been to your lovely corner of
the island (albeit in September), and had a very nice time. I even
bought my first pair of fancy bobbins there--they are made of ebony, and
I put black and white spangles on them, to remind me of the old
buildings in your
I'm emerging from serious lurkdom, here
I took an online bobbin lace class a couple of years ago from Bjarne,
who, I think, also lurks on this list. If I recall correctly, he used
some of his own designs, as well as some historical ones. I also had
access to some books on bobbin lace that
It looks to me very much like a takeoff on lacis, but making the
background net with bobbins, instead of as a netting. Certainly the
"charted" aspect of it isn't new--some of the earliest extant lace books
rely heavily on charts.
--Sue (on a sunny Sunday in Montana, in the NW USA), emerging fro
And mine, as well, from the NW USA. God be with us all in these sad and
frightening times.
--Sue from Montana
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Elizabeth D Pienaar
Senior Scientist
South African Cochrane Centre
PO Box 19070
Tygerberg
I don't do much lace, lately, but I've heard that particular,
disparaging comment for decades, and in reference to a variety of forms
of needlework (quilting, monochrome embroidery, spinning, knitting). My
mother was a great one for saying it (more in honest bewilderment than
anything), but th
Or it may just skip a generation, Clay, like it did in my family. The
people in my parents' generation just were not fiber/textile crafty types,
although my mother minored in art in college (watercolors and such). But
there's me , and a wonderful grandfather who was a weaver, and came from
a long
I got into it through historical costuming (I seem to have a natural
tendency to like the styles of 16th century Europe) and historical
needlework (same basic time frame). Pretty much just a natural extension of
interests and skills I already was developing. It's funny, in a way,
because in every
It's not just a generational issue--the very worst "immediate gratification"
person in my family was my mother. I know what you're saying, though, and
it may not be *exactly* the same thing as my mom--with her, it was more like
she was *just* goal-oriented, and not in the *least* process-oriented
Shetland shawls are originally from the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
Traditionally, they're also made from yarns made from wool from Shetland
sheep (an actual breed). The two kinds of Shetland shawls with which I'm
familiar are the hap shawls and the lace ones. Both are knitted. Hap
shawls are s
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> "Sue Clemenger" wrote: "and the warmest of all, quiviut, which is *very*
> expensive, but a dream for warmth."
>
> There was an inte
off to do Christmas Eve-ish things in Missoula, MT
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Subject: Re: [lace] wool lace weight thread
> Hi Sue (in that swamp o
It's just 7:30 in the morning, here, and still dark and quiet. I can see a
few lights on, when I look through the front window, but they're mostly
exterior decorations on houses. The cats and I are enjoying the warm from
the heater, and will have a lovely breakfast in a bit. Someone's very nice
Batiste is also a really, really fine fabric--almost transparent, and
definitely translucent. Could the translator have been trying to use a word
that indicated very fine cotton thread?
--Sue in foggy/sloshy Montana (our snow is melting...weird winter weather!)
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There are a couple of good knitted lace (shetland subvariety ) books out,
but the only one my pre-caffeine brain is coming up with is Sarah Don's,
which I actually have (got it on ebay). And Shetland-inspired patterns show
up in most knitted-lace, and lace-shawl books. We've discussed others on
t
I use them, but for yarn and fiber storage--my spinning/knitting habit is
much more advanced than my bobbinlace habit. Come to think of it, though,
I've got almost all of my bobbin lace supplies in one, as well. I really
like the idea of re-using things, to begin with, but I also really like the
Missoula, MT.
--Sue, who enjoyed the IKEA she got to go to in SoCal, several years ago
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Hi, Clay.
Your tinyurl didn't want to work, but I did find the hankie you were
referring to, by doing a search on ebay. It is a very pretty piece of work,
indeed. And it definitely looks like drawn-thread embroidery. I don't know
why the seller would refer to it as "Scandinavian," though, unless
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