[lace] Happy Anniversary

2021-04-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
that many lacemakers on the net? I certainly wouldn't have guessed it back in 1995! Congratulations to all of us for bringing the old Renaissance art so successfully into the Information age. -Liz" -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia,

[lace] Re: Belgian color code

2017-09-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
That’s, probably, because they're are familiar with the *Danish* colour code, which is a simplified version of BCC (no orange, brown, or turquoise). It does have the blue for plaits, but plaits are used less in the Danish laces. Greet, what’s turn-over stitch? -- Tamara P D

Re: [lace] DMC Memory Thread CorrectionI

2016-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ce bit of texture. It also has a pleasant rhythm in making: *(simultaneously) T one weaver with the core thread/s on the right, T the other weaver with the core thread/s on the left, C the weavers in the centre* (repeat, * to *). T(T) C; T(T) C. Keep pushing the weavers up t

Re: [lace] Sari silk yarn question

2016-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jan 31, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Bev Walker wrote: > Salt sets dyes too, but I prefer to use vinegar. The rule of thumb I was taught as a child was that vinegar was for animal fibers (silk and wool), while salt was for plant ones (cotton and linen) -- Tamara P Duv

[lace] Early lace etc

2016-01-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
holesale thanks, instead of replying each one of you individually; a lot of the extra responsibilities that I had to take on after my husband's death aren't going away and, if I'm to have any time left for lacemaking, I need to manage it carefully :) -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Early Lace Books by Gilian Dye

2016-01-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Thanks, everyone, for prompt replies. Especial thanks to Bev Walker, for suggesting Barbara Fay; I just got a mailing from her (well...) and had two books (not Dye) on my bucket list already. Might as well add the three by Dye. -- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia

[lace] Early Lace books by Gillian Dye

2016-01-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
search... Is E-Bay really my only option? Yours, with teeth chattering, in a very cold Virginia -- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe la

Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin

2015-11-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
#x27;m in WA State and she's in Australia. > > Hopefully yours has now arrived, Sue. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: un

Re: [lace] Lace Identification/Translation of Label - Eastern Europe

2015-10-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
boots decorated with lace. http://snejinka.ru/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, writ

Re: [lace] Re: spiders in lace

2015-08-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
;s directions for "Plain Torchon Spiders". > "Pins are used in the center of the spider bodies only. These centers should > be raised to give an arched effect > Does anyone try for that raised effect in spider ground nowadays? -- Tamara P Duvall

Re: [lace] Arachne spider pricking

2013-03-29 Thread Tamara P Duvall
member what thread I used for it -- probably Madeira 50/2, with either some no-brand copper metallic, or else Sulky. But, of course, a pattern like that can always be scaled up or down, to the thread of choice. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA

Re: [lace] Tamara's Arachne Logo Lace

2013-03-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
as of now). > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets > > Nice work, Tamara!! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the lin

Re: [lace] anniversary logo

2013-03-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
se she was designing for wire, which would have held the shape without any help. Mine's made in thread, and needed more structure. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to ma

Re: [lace] anniversary logo

2013-03-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the job. Evidently there were other logos for > Arachne on anniversaries past. Could someone take a picture of what there > was and post it? > > Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (

Re: [lace] peccadilles

2013-03-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ly Circus connection was pointed out, I wondered just what sort of "monkey business" (if not, necessarily, a full circus) had been going on there, in 16th and early 17th century... :) Nothing, it appears; there was no Piccadilly Circus till (early) 19th century... -- Tamara P Duvall

Re: [lace] Lace in contemporary fashion

2013-03-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ypes of lace, > useful to us because > it's how the terms are used by the fashion industry, ie the users, not by us, > the makers. As ever, divided by a common language! The Mountbatten family should *sue* for that "Battenburg" lace. And Cluny should invade :) -- Tamara P Du

Fwd: [lace] Re: Christmas Ornament

2013-01-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ie Berg" > Date: January 25, 2013 12:30:01 AM EST > To: > Subject: [lace] Re: Christmas Ornament > > I am trying to purchase a Brigette Bellon bobbin lace pattern of 2 shephard, 2 sheep and 2 stars. By any chance can you tell we what book it is in? Thank you,

[lace] Re: working with black thread

2011-06-06 Thread Tamara P Duvall
p of it, before the whole is covered with plastic. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, writ

Re: [lace] everybody helped!

2011-05-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
shed in the IOLI Bulletin vol. 23 #3 (Spring 2003), when IOLI was celebrating its 50th anniversary. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containi

[lace] Re: Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat

2011-05-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
OLI members. To join IOLI: http://www.internationaloldlacers.org/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. Fo

[lace] Re: Bulletin

2011-04-12 Thread Tamara P Duvall
s not taking on the official title of BL Editor -- I feel quite comfortable saying: Don't cry for me, Argentina :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com con

[lace] Re: Fiberglass Safety Warning

2011-04-11 Thread Tamara P Duvall
scraps for a couple of days, in the courtyard of our tenement. A whole lot of us kids got to play with the pretty, shiny, "cotton wool". We all itched and scratched for days, not to mention that all the myriad cuts we had took forever to heal. -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Fwd: Lace mailing list - LaDearl (Dearl) Kniskern

2011-03-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
y before she hit the floor. So > typical of her to go down laughing. > > I know she would like the on-line groups to be aware of her passing. She had > many friends and acquaintances there. I'd appreciate it if you would pass the > information on to them. > > Best

[lace] Re: British symbols in lace for wedding

2011-03-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
be available. Apologies if all of this has been mentioned before. For several weeks, I have not had the time to read arachne and am just trying to jump back in now. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) -

[lace] Re: Clamp bobbin

2010-10-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
they're as much of a nuisance as help. But, seeing this... I have a couple of bobbins where the neck/head broke off but I haven't thrown away the body. Double "hmmm" :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly

[lace] Re: Tying thread on bobbins

2010-10-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ally do this when getting beginners to do the Springett Snake. > > I don't like thread tied to bare bobbins, too much trouble to get the off. Nothing to add, nothing to take away (as we used to say in Poland). That's what I do, too, and for the same

Re: Subject: Re: [lace] bobbins... and now, teaching?

2010-09-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Janice Blair wrote: > The heart bookmark pattern is useable now and available if you email me off > list. Call it "Key To My Heart" :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly o

[lace] Thanks, Kim!

2010-09-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
in and let them play; take them out at the end, not in the middle -- are much more in harmony :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the lin

[lace] Re: Thanks Jeri PS

2010-09-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. I haven't seen the book myself but I think all the angels there are in white. Vera Cockuyt has been working them in colour and they're *stunning*. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) -

[lace] Re: Thanks Jeri

2010-09-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
le, but that one I got the pattern for in class) or when it's likely to be available. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the l

[lace] Re: Variations

2010-09-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
doing it on purpose and *for* a purpose. But first, you need to know what the standard is... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsub

[lace] Re: thread sizes and pricking

2010-09-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
d, I'm moving to Gutermann's silk myself. And found that it gives me the same density and overall look, when the pattern is copied @150%. Yes, it's quite a bit bigger than the original... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA

[lace] Looking for a lace-reporter in Ohio

2010-09-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ine whether "Our Woman in Ohio" (Ruth Rocker) is within a reasonable driving distance of the event... Ruth? Or anyone else in Ohio? Any chance someone could go, take some photos and write a report for the Bulletin? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexing

[lace] Re: Working Bobbin Lace PAtterns using Wire

2010-09-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
e-chat will have to wait ) and most of what I'd read is a blur but I seem to remember that you mentioned 28 gauge wire. That's fairly thick for some of us (I use 32) and you don't even mention what kind of wire it is (copper, steel, brass?) you're thinking of using... Or w

[lace] Re: Washington, DC based lace pattern themes/Bethesda

2010-09-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
> think turkeys and bald eagles in Bedfordshire, ala Thomas Lester. How about Presidential ivory teeth clamping a twig with cherry blossoms for Gros Point and wooden teeth chomping on a turkey for Beds? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, V

[lace] Re: dentifying a piece of lace

2010-08-15 Thread Tamara P Duvall
o come and change the scenery. The lace technique and style was primitive/coarse but, because it was made in fine thread, we were supposed to think it "fine". Natalie's piece: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4889690935_fddc9ecd98_b.jpg -- Tamara P Duvall

Re: [lace] RE: fioretombolo

2010-07-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
e Swan is in Milanese technique... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Re: Sunday Edition, CBC One

2010-05-24 Thread Tamara P Duvall
sistants and that it was "Koniakow lace" by another. In fact, it was needlelace, probably made in China (but still very nice and worth the low price) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) -

[lace] Re: Sunday Edition, CBC One

2010-05-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
s told by the workers. Everyone wants to be "unique" and "exceptional"; if you can't be the first, you take pride in being the last :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsub

[lace] Re: Looking for a pattern

2010-05-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ana Van den Herik. Russian tape, fairly simple (straightforward and not too difficult) and, like all her patterns, very effective. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send emai

[lace] Re: Tatting bikers

2010-05-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ntion. So, anything is possible and Irene's sighting could have been for lace. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace] Re: How do you call?

2010-03-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
d can be used on any grid. Honeycomb ground, to me, is the one where some of the pins are missing (Jane's 2nd grid) PS to Antje. I'll get back to you; promise (ha ha ). Just swamped with "stuff"... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington,

[lace] Re: Shredding threads

2010-02-24 Thread Tamara P Duvall
at all for someone else. But we don't know what works and what doesn't until we try. And Arachne is the best place I know of to find out what others think is "perfect". Some of those suggestions I have adopted, wholesale. Some, I have adapted to suit me better. Some, I hav

[lace] Re: A Challenge: was... Tallies in 17th c lace

2010-02-15 Thread Tamara P Duvall
I wanted to study on line was the little matter of the cost of getting to NYC and staying there for a week or longer, I realised that his idea of "substantial donations" and mine were not even in the same ballpark... Nothing's ever as simple as it appears at the first glance :) -

[lace] Tallies in 17th c lace (was: 17th century Genoese lace on Ebay)

2010-02-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the earliest laces, is in the area of half-stitch; I haven't seen any motifs made using it (never mind grounds, which are later). But, given that we seem to have forgotten, since that time, some other -- equally clever -- tricks, the honours are at least even :) -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Tatra Mountains Museum

2010-02-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ce or, at least, not of the type pictured. So, the question arises: just where did they get those pieces? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the li

[lace] Re: Breaking threads

2010-02-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ntical-same problem with the same colour/shade in two other "lines" -- one other cotton and one linen. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com cont

[lace] Re: Lace reference in Literature: LONG.......

2010-02-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
g negligently against a chair-back. In the early Middle Ages). So, it's (as we say in Polish): "the wisewoman predicted: (it could be) this way, or (it could be) that way" :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (F

[lace] Re: Breaking threads

2010-02-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, you might want to check the *bobbin head*. Sometimes, a tiny nick in the head will develop which will fray the thread as it's unwound off the neck and "fed" into the lace. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of W

[lace] Re: lace at the Cleveland Museum of Art-Schiff Collection

2010-02-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
oxy 'puter mysteries :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Re: My lace

2010-01-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
in between. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Re: Christmas bauble cover

2010-01-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
"background" to your lace. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Re: IOLI Bulletin - Devon does it again!!!

2010-01-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ace techie" (rude mechanical), I find of particular interest. We're growing; if not in size, then in poise. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com conta

[lace] Re: Happy New Year and another BL project done!

2010-01-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
quot; will apply. Didn't finish the project -- it's got at least another day or two to go, what with all the tallies -- but made some visible progress. Happy New Year everyone! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of W

[lace] A Lace Tree

2009-12-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
A friend sent this to me and just in time, too. What an excellent idea! :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolly_fabulous/3511417616/in/photostream/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To

[lace] Re: Dated Lace on Synagogue Textiles

2009-11-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
That's what I love the most about Arachne -- the team work. What one person doesn't know, another one does and, brick-by-brick, a solid "house" of knowledge gets built :) Thanks, Gina. And, to think that I almost didn't reply to the original post.. -- Tamara P Duval

[lace] Re: Dated Lace on Synagogue Textiles

2009-11-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
LI holdings and, if they don't have it, an ordinary library (library loan) is even less likely to. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing t

[lace] Re: Good news for Brugge!

2009-11-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
g 50 wealthiest Belgians for "big ticket" support is great but I'm sure that some grassroot, small donation, support could be helpful too, if there's some way of doing that (charge my Visa, with the help of the 'puter) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp:

[lace] Fwd: lace exhibit

2009-10-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Arlene used to be on Arachne, years, and years ago. Does't have the time anymore, but still makes lace and pays attention to "things lace": From: Arlene Essex Date: October 28, 2009 15:15:23 EDT To: 'Tamara P Duvall' Subject: lace exhibit Hi T – here’s some info ab

[lace] Re: Book: Neue Weihnachts-Klöppelmuster

2009-10-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
a Fay Verlag usually carries them (and some of them have been published by her house). One of my favourite books suppliers -- competitive prices and reasonably priced shipping (used to be free. Ah, the good old days ). http://www.barbara-fay.de/j/ -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Flowers and stiffner

2009-10-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
gh to make lace with), in UK: http://www.wires.co.uk/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For

Re: [lace] Chantilly question

2009-10-12 Thread Tamara P Duvall
very kind/technique, with the exception of Torchon (the Queen of Strait Jackets ) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: uns

[lace] Re: Super-Supreme Jabots

2009-10-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
r wear a pretty lace jabot, if offered a gift of it. For the current Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) membership and what they look like, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Current_membership -- Tamara P Duvallhttp

[lace] Re: finding books etc in the Archives

2009-10-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
r pictures of the snowflakes go to my "website" (URL in the signature) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Re: finding books etc in the Archives

2009-10-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
uot; (Two-Pair Inventions pamphlet) available for everyone. Only, to find mine, you have to go to "Monographs" (rather than "Books") to find it. And, of course, it no longer makes any money for The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale... -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Tenerife Lace books

2009-10-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
roken" and would get straightened out. By-and-by. It may have been -- the "event" happened about 2 yrs ago -- but, by now, I've lost all interest in contributing to it; I'd rather make lace than fight with user-unfriendly sites. -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: UK Lace Day-lacemakers at Parham House

2009-10-02 Thread Tamara P Duvall
bozo de bolita" mean "bobbin rebozo"? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. Fo

[lace] Re: Saving Making a Leaf tally

2009-09-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
in '06, in Montreal, I took the Cluny class and the teacher (Nathalie. Nathalie... what? Can't remember) tried to teach us that one. I failed, miserably. But I was as fast and as effective using Tess's *old* (and my favourite) method -- TTC, tension; TTC, tension -- so Natha

[lace] Re: box folders

2009-09-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
-- two parts, each with a little pocket at the bottom -- it's more like an envelope. There's a little flap on top and the "envelope" is held closed with a piece of elastic , which slides over a corner. Very efficient, very simple and I don't know wh

[lace] Re: Cost of linen thread

2009-09-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ty of getting better and better (shiny and soft) with repeated washings. Though a bit would depend on how easily available it would be (shipping is expensive here but shipping from abroad is prohibitive) and what the range of colours was. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp:

[lace] Re: lace (pins) in fiction

2009-08-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ilarly double-edged and textile-related term, used (though not by Pratchett, so far as I know) in reference to annoyingly stupid people: "a pinprick". -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubsc

[lace] Re: threads - sizes and plies

2009-08-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ent :) The newest edition of the book is listed on Holly's website: http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/1Books.html#New%20Books! Last book in the second row, @ $24.95. I think all American suppliers carry it; it's indispensable for anyone serious about lacemaking.

[lace] Fwd: Re: Where does your lace guild meet?

2009-08-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
h Date: August 23, 2009 23:04:20 EDT To: Tamara P Duvall Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Where does your lace guild meet? We decided not to have a permanent library.  We met a local restored college building that is attached to the library.  It is a beautiful building.  Academy Square in Provo, UT.  It is

[lace] Re: Where does your lace guild meet?

2009-08-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
The only time I've seen one was in Pittsburgh, where one of the guilds (they had two, IIRC -- Robin Panza will straighten me out, if not) was meeting in a church basement/vestry. All other guilds I know cart their libraries with them evey time... -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Fwd: Lace in Translation Exhibition

2009-08-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
st regards,     Tina Allen -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Fwd: Ipswich Lace

2009-08-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ow to post a message. I just finished Marta Cotterell Raffel's book on Ipswich lace. She states that the lace was sold in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia and Virginia. I would not consider that local use. Judith Lamp -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-

[lace] Re:Lace songs

2009-08-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ical notes into coloured motion and filming it... Can't remember what piece he used for his first experiment -- something by Beethoven; a sonata, maybe? -- but the natives, seeing it, decided that the Earthlings, afterall, weren't the uncouth clods everyone had thought them to be

[lace] Re: period lace

2009-08-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
t;, we think "Point Ground, very fine, large Copenhagen holes". But, given that the laces of the Tonder area were made over a long period of time, there's more to them than that; they changed along with the demands of fashion and taste. -- Tamara P Duvall

Re: [lace] 1810s vs 1860s

2009-08-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
es than it did in the boondocks, even in countries where the population was native and (mostly) monolithic, not immigrant and mixed, as in US and Canada. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscr

[lace] Re: Early laces

2009-08-12 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ns didn't look anything like the extant laces; some of Shepherd's could fool a museum curator... Not that *Shepherd* has all the answers, though :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscr

[lace] Re: Lace teaching happened!

2009-08-11 Thread Tamara P Duvall
with prickings and diagrams) on the earliest laces. So, join us. Subscribe to IOLI, which will allow you to borrow the old issues and will assure you of getting anything new that comes out as well. By-and-by, you should be able to assemble a library of patterns for every occasion to choose

[lace] Re: was Shops - now Tools and restorations

2009-08-06 Thread Tamara P Duvall
e, smooth-cord, fishing line. Makes for the strongest magic loop, ever. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@ad

Fwd: [lace] Lacy mosaic

2009-07-29 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Not me, but I think the challenge might be of interest to others... Begin forwarded message: From: "J. Falkink" Date: July 29, 2009 11:59:16 EDT To: "'Tamara P Duvall'" Subject: RE: [lace] Lacy mosaic Challenge: make it with the chaos ground (ct - ctct, re

[lace] Lacy mosaic

2009-07-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
king at his opening screen, with things he's a fan of, I noticed a non-profit, called Counter Pulse, that *did* open (up to a point). And there, I found this mosaic, with lacy, spidery, hearts... Had to share: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelrodimosaics/3255538665/ -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Sue Carter?

2009-07-26 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Hi, and sorry to bother everyone... If Sue Carter (of Williamsburg, VA) is still on Arachne... Would she please get in touch? My e-mails to her get returned with the dreaded "unknown user" explanation... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington

[lace] Re: Something for you all to look at

2009-07-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
netting now is "plastic"), through the quality of the beads (uniform, among other superiur qualities)... Oh, and somewhere (on your website?) you asked about the technique. In all likelihood, it's tambour work. We think of "tambour" and envision Liers or Carrickmacro

[lace] Re: Favourite pattern

2009-07-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
except when it goes into a hissy fit at Lace Days and such. But it's grown much more tolerant of lacy and book (especially lace books) expenditures, over the years. We have a truce of sorts now: I don't spend much on clothes and eating out and it allows me to buy almost as many books as

[lace] Re: Favourite pattern

2009-07-12 Thread Tamara P Duvall
; and translating the very strange words... Good times :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

[lace] Re: Novel: The Lace Makers of Glenmara

2009-07-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
g, and at the end I give the book to the library, for others to enjoy. But, obviously, "less is more"; a closer look at the book (via the fuller review you provided) suggests that there might be better ways to spend my limited resources :) -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Lace query (not Torchon but Cluny)

2009-06-24 Thread Tamara P Duvall
and and keep it locked in a drawer somewhere. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write t

[lace] Re: Rubberbands for the Pocket Bobbin Winder

2009-06-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
le of engineering, made of lucite -- not the home made one... See you both tomorrow at Sweet Briar. I'll be parachuting in for the afternoon, to "woman" the registration desk :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of W

[lace] Re: winding bobbins - a comment

2009-06-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
another side effect of being a libra :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, wr

[lace] Re: Bridesmaid gifts

2009-06-10 Thread Tamara P Duvall
ew would be used in the wedding and told her it was a Christmas ornament, "the better to remember the year by". She opened the box and went around the entire wedding party, bragging about it, so I knew she liked and appreciated it. -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Sandra Day O'Connor's lace scarf-judicial lace

2009-05-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
something crazy?) But I'm not up for making something the size/fineness of Justice O'Connor's scarf by hand, never mind two of such "somethings" :) One, and coarser - Milanese or Cluny, or something based on 16thc plaited lace (but no ruffs ) -- would be my limit. And wh

[lace] Re: April Lace magazine- and another dumb question

2009-05-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
rom whenever you suscribe" (as IOLI does now). So, you'll get some back (old) magazines, if you subscribe now, or you can wait till their subscription year runs its course and start with the first issue of the year. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ L

Fwd: [lace] Re: Aluminum Bobbins

2009-05-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
she reads our list occcasionally. Begin forwarded message: From: "L.Snyder" Date: May 21, 2009 23:36:27 EDT To: Tamara P Duvall Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Aluminum Bobbins Nothing wrong with your memory, Tamara! Tregellas is right. I have some, too, way cool! Lauren Snyder in WA I used

[lace] Re: Aluminum Bobbins

2009-05-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. Tregellas, maybe? I'm pretty sure that the same supplier made "straight" bobbins as well. Sorry not to be of more help but, if we keep your query on the front burner, perhaps someone's memory (better than mine) will be jogged? -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: collar

2009-05-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
As a trained linguist (in a long-ago past), I do admire the seller's skill with semantics :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containin

[lace] Re: Odd request: value of lace bobbins

2009-05-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the same bobbins today, today's price of (new) bobbins isn't what you'd go by. Since your bobbins aren't antiques (100yrs old or more), they're just *used*; you'd need to have *way* more than a 1000 of them to be worth $10K. So don't let your "almost ex" ge

[lace] Re: Beds lace in silk

2009-05-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
of rayon these days), so it drapes :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

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