[lace-chat] Re: Archaic Saying

2007-04-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
used to call hermetic idiom). Some of them remained the property of the inventor, and the inventor *only*, forever, with nobody else using them in the same kind of need... There's no telling which of the 3 categories this one belongs to. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n

[lace] Re: Lace Moire lamp

2007-04-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, it's *fantastic*; both beautiful and clever... It -- sure as sure -- should have been included in a museum exhibition (like the MAD or the Kohler), so it could get a larger audience. PS I bet you'll hate roseground for a long while:) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n

[lace] Re: Large bobbins?

2007-04-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
to be tested the old-fashioned way, by making a sample, because those variables (like the number of plies) often change the way a piece works up, even if the number of wraps is identical... Lacemaking is an inexact science, when all's said and done :) T -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Large bobbins?

2007-04-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, the discussion may have also been of use to others -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write

[lace] Large bobbins?

2007-03-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
is what I'll be doing for pattern publication. But there's no way I can wind enough of thick thread to make something that's a yard or more in length, onto my everyday bobbins... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: There's drunk... And then, there's DRUNK

2007-03-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
flashing. True story, told by the driver at his first AA meeting. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Rainy Day Story

2007-03-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, The weather out there is terrible. My loving wife of twenty years replied, Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that shit? I still don't know if she was joking... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw

[lace-chat] Re: electricity

2007-03-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
). Batteries, OTOH, are the same here as there, and they can buy them anywhere. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat

Re: [lace] Exciting News - Exhibition.

2007-03-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
on a pastel drawing of a male nude body. Appropriately because... It's also called Netted Stinkhorn? Yours, still giggling from her Google-trip -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: The Old Cowboy and the MBA

2007-03-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
don't know shit? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: fascinate

2007-03-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
with ten buttons; but her tits are so big, she can only fasten eight. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace-chat] Re: Suggestions needed from a user of Earthlink ISP please

2007-03-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
that he was a sysad for his club and dorm networks, I dug and dug through various dictionaries (including OED) for hours, trying to find sysad, before collapsing in total defeat... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw

[lace-chat] Dog and cat food recall (US)

2007-03-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
names they sell their products under are very common. And please pass it on to other people you know who have pets. http://www.menufoods.com/recall/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: HILLBILLY MIRROR

2007-03-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
to the barn. One day after her husband left, she searched the barn and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, So that's the ugly bitch he's runnin' around with. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Entering paradise

2007-03-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
.  -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Beginner's Lace Class

2007-03-06 Thread Tamara P Duvall
-- ones to the ones previously published in the IOLI Bulletin). Each is simple, each is quick, and each can be taken home as a finished project. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: driving

2007-03-06 Thread Tamara P Duvall
when you're driving. And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, WHY DON'T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP?? The officer looks over at the woman and asks, Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am? Only when he's been drinking.   -- Tamara P

Re: [lace-chat] Test

2007-03-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Mar 3, 2007, at 20:53, Betty Ann Rice wrote: I haven't had any lace or lace-chat all day. Has anyone else? Nope; yours is the first. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email

[lace-chat] Re:the tall Dutch and conversion factors

2007-02-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
never had any problem with bathrooms :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Fwd: Lacemaking in Russia

2007-02-26 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the names of lacemakers -- all in UK -- who'd been to Russia. I know all of them by name but not personally, so have no way of contacting them. I have passed their names on to Vera -- maybe she does know some of them and can ask her questions directly. -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Spangles

2007-02-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
are meant not to be attached at both ends but will dangle off whatever item they're attached to. We do not have an equivalent of the English spangle. At least I don't know of any. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw

[lace] Re: How far should I leave pins in?

2007-02-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
do any harm :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Fwd: Lacemaking in Russia

2007-02-24 Thread Tamara P Duvall
these?   I really appreciate your help and time and effort.   All the best and thanks Vera Cockuyt -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line

[lace] Re: blog

2007-02-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, in the introduction, that making a irror image of the swan, in black, would be a nice idea. And that's what the lady did. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Re: Is this real?

2007-02-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
hold water (literally)? Otherwise it's lovely. Though, £600 worth of lovely? I don't know -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line

[lace] Snowflakes, again

2007-02-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
? Excitedly yours, -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: Looking for a pattern

2007-02-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
? A simpler, smaller, more repetitive and more traditional one (bells,hearts, etc) might be better in that particular case. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: horse race

2007-02-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. Three days later he's again sitting in his chair reading when she nails him with an even bigger frying pan, knocking him out cold. When he comes around, he asks again, what was that for?! She responded, Your bloody horse phoned!!!   -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n

[lace] Snowflake raffle -- results

2007-02-15 Thread Tamara P Duvall
flake. Anything more than that and I think I'd have to charge you -- via PayPal -- for the cost of the donation to the Lace Museum ($3.85) Thanks for participating, sorry I couldn't do more T -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly

[lace] Re: making lace for a historical costume

2007-02-12 Thread Tamara P Duvall
for the next two days. I'll try not to think about getting my car cleared off once the weather assault is over :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Confession

2007-02-10 Thread Tamara P Duvall
slides over and whispers, What'd you get? Four months vacation and five good leads. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Flight self-defense

2007-02-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
on a plane, and they irritate you: 1. Open up your laptop case. 2. Remove your laptop. 3. Turn it on. 4. Make sure that person who won't leave you alone can see the screen. 5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky. 6. Then hit this link: http://tinyurl.com/e8efm -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace-chat] Theatres of the absurd

2007-02-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Not *really* funny, but worth reading: http://tinyurl.com/ytvfws -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat

[lace] Re: Lace Buttons

2007-02-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
cents a button... :) I've often been envious of people who can (and even like to, much to my amazement) make NL, because of the rich, 3-D texture that NL has. Could be why I fell so hopelessly in love with Rosalibre, which imitates the same feats with plain, old, bobbins. -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Snowflake raffle - correction

2007-02-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
to the list. But I *am* checking my Spam-box *very carefully* (have weeded out 2 'flake raffle ones so far, out of over 100 junk ones), so your entry shouldn't get lost. I'm flattered and humbled by such great response. Again, best of luck to everyone, T -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace-chat] Snowflake raffle - correction

2007-02-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
to the list. But I *am* checking my Spam-box *very carefully* (have weeded out 2 'flake raffle ones so far, out of over 100 junk ones), so your entry shouldn't get lost. I'm flattered and humbled by such great response. Again, best of luck to everyone, T -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Snowflake raffle

2007-02-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the winner on Wednesday. Good luck everyone, T -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace-chat] Snowflake raffle

2007-02-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the winner on Wednesday. Good luck everyone, T -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Re: New Book/Lace Fans?

2007-02-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
silk 2/60 (ditto) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-02-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
some time in Holland, I know the folk there tend to be pragmatic; if the market didn't dictate the change, they wouldn't cave in to some high-fallutin' philosophical theory any more than the people in the Tatras (or Scotland) did...:) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n

[lace] Morphic resonance?

2007-02-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, morphic resonance. Others call it synchronicity. Call it what you will, I find it freaky-scary :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Re: New Book/Lace Fans?

2007-02-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
://www.annkellerireland.com/home.htm -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Fwd: [lace-chat] Help with French Lace Museums

2007-02-02 Thread Tamara P Duvall
is at: http://www.gailcreativestudies.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly

[lace] Re: Horizontal bars in Le Pompe

2007-02-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
can be transcribed into the full-blown version later. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help

[lace] Re: Le Pompe patterns, shorter

2007-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
and then and I'm not gonna make it. In which case, look for it in the August issue. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL

[lace] Re: Horizontal bars in Le Pompe

2007-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
explain to me what it is I'm missing. But, for the moment, I'm quite happy with the effect produced by following the upper diagram. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: Batavia lace (was: SCA lace)

2007-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
it faithfully, I must conclude that there had been a tremendous change in the space of 50 years or so. Not so much in the design itself, but in the execution methods. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland

[lace] Re: Horizontal bars in Le Pompe

2007-01-31 Thread Tamara P Duvall
of a cleverly manipulated pair than anyone else I know. Great fun and learning made easy :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace] Le Pompe patterns, very long again

2007-01-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
is a perfectly reasonable excuse for having something from a previous era. The SCA is the most hemmed in; the others less so. The time seems to be right for exploring the mysteries of the early laces :) Back to lurking! Please, don't. *Pretty* please? -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Le Pompe laces

2007-01-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
of the creature as witch's familiar g -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: Le Pompe patterns

2007-01-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
*and* seek connections to later laces. *They* are the scholars. Me... As much as Devon dislikes my saying so, I'm still, and always will be, a rude mechanical; I want to know how, in a very limited area. I leave why to others :) Cold (finally! g) in Virginia, -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Le Pompe patterns, part 1, long

2007-01-29 Thread Tamara P Duvall
in the same period (if not, necessarily, on the same patterns), gaining insight into the techniques used at the time. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

[lace] Le Pompe patterns, shorter

2007-01-29 Thread Tamara P Duvall
belong to IOLI? Would they be interested in having more patterns which are in period both visually *and* technically? Let me know. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send

Fwd: [lace] Oya

2007-01-29 Thread Tamara P Duvall
at the type of lace it is. Thanks in advance, Shirley in Corio Oz. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace] Re: Other lace in You Tube

2007-01-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
get the pattern? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Les Lauriers - Really Finished at last

2007-01-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
to feel pleased with yourself! Curiously, the plaits shrank more than the leaves, so the leaves are trying to be raised/rolled ones now! Could it be that, in a plait, all threads move in the same direction, while, in a leaf, there's the weaver counterbalancing that? -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: miniature lace pillow

2007-01-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
/12 scale ones, for dollhouses, which are harder to make but easier to find for sale. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace-chat] Re: Tatra mountains

2007-01-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
, I'd advise not counting on seeing much lace. OTOH, the embroideries there are still thriving, as is wood carving and silversmithing(all of which used to be taught in Kenar's highschool too) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly

[lace] Re: Raffle for stamps

2007-01-26 Thread Tamara P Duvall
find the Swiss one -- it slipped and hid behind a stack of (non-textile) albums -- but, in the future, I'll keep more than one, especially if it's unique (or pretty much so) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland

[lace] Re: JMK Arts Center and lace for children

2007-01-25 Thread Tamara P Duvall
if anyone is interested. Send a postscript story to IOLI? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: MILITARY WISDOM

2007-01-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
hard look. Then he quietly explained, Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach in '44 I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Re: JMK Arts Center Lace Exhibit

2007-01-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
the forsythia which had lost its count of seasons and started blooming, and bowing down the tree branches... A power outage can't be far behind :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Happy birthday, grandma!

2007-01-21 Thread Tamara P Duvall
late, came up to Grandma and said, Hi, Grandma, you're looking good! How are they treating you? Grandma took out her little notepad and slowly wrote a note to the grandson. . . They won't let me fart -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia

[lace] Fwd: JMK Arts Center Exhibition

2007-01-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
] web: http://www.jmkac.org -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Redneck Man's Pick Up Lines-- If you've lived in the South you've probably heard a few of these already

2007-01-18 Thread Tamara P Duvall
-- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: aficot

2007-01-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
leather one is better than one made plastic leather/skai (such as I used while in Montreal but didn't bother to bring back with me) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: finishing question

2007-01-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
rather than 3D format! Leaves are inherently 3-D and therein lies their charm :) T, in yo-yo weather Lexington. 63 (F) one day, 29 the next... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Re: aficot

2007-01-16 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Angle of corner

2007-01-15 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. Milanese doesn't seem to need that extra twist to the lazy-bones, for some reason... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Too Much Computer Dependence

2007-01-15 Thread Tamara P Duvall
it :) From: M.A. This question illustrates how much we've become dependent on our computers.   Are you male or female? To know the answer, look down...   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   /   Not here, stupid! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t

[lace-chat] : ) Fwd: Marriage counseling

2007-01-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
and replied, Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace] Re: Lace joining - magic thread

2007-01-13 Thread Tamara P Duvall
of it, the magic loop below), then you'll have enough wiggle room, once that pin is removed, even if you managed to tension your working pairs more than you meant to. Well... It's true with most pins; don't know how much extra room an insect pin would add :) -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Lace joining

2007-01-12 Thread Tamara P Duvall
as precious and neither is thread, should it break) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write

[lace] Re: Antique Toender Pattern

2007-01-11 Thread Tamara P Duvall
pairs are added and taken out. The ground hole gets to be either slightly smaller or slightly larger than normal, but not glaringly so. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Rauma lace corners

2007-01-11 Thread Tamara P Duvall
sitting in class, weeping) is something that nearly kept me in highschool forever, so I could be wrong... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line

[lace] Re: academic study on bobbin lace

2007-01-10 Thread Tamara P Duvall
for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She has organized four major lace exhibitions, most recently at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. So she should be a respectable enough source for an academic paper :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA

[lace] Re: Antique Toender Pattern

2007-01-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
for the flower centre in Rodtjorne (p 78) is not at all the same as the pricking David had sent Barbara (don't have that URL anymore, sorry)... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Re: Antique Toender Pattern

2007-01-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
subsciption to Kniplebrevet started with issue #60 (and ended with issue #84, when the tanking of the US dollar made it prohibitive) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace] Sending patterns -- reprise

2007-01-08 Thread Tamara P Duvall
remember -- all to well -- how many times I cursed people whom I considered my friends but who sent me messages over 250KB :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Patterns' sending -- help?

2007-01-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
little hope for the HTML option (plus I have a dislike of spending 120 KB for a message which, in plain text, needs about 5) but, if y'all think *that* would work... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland

[lace] Re: new person wishing to join Arachne.

2007-01-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
in, she waves her magic wand and presto! :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: Question re Old Toender Pricking

2007-01-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
to David directly, too. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Patterns' sending -- help?

2007-01-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
happened), so, who knows... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: the continuing Katrina saga, and you THOUGHT it was over...

2007-01-06 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. As the owner of a local needleshop (long since gone) once told me: you get better value, hour for hour, from a handcraft than from a psychiatrist. Best wishes for speedy and painless resolutions of all your problems, -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington

[lace] Re: frames (was: Lace with paper strings revisted)

2007-01-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
gave up the pursuit of that idea. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Scanning

2007-01-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
like (but don't have), write me and I'll try to e-mail you the -- ta da! scanned! -- pricking and the diagram/s as well as the verbal instructions. Hopefully, that will help me fix the procedures in my defective mind before they flee... Yours, -- Tamara P Duvallhttp

[lace-chat] Re: Buttermilk (was: tourist question from me)

2007-01-05 Thread Tamara P Duvall
on the toilet -- the best of both worlds... Is it a Dutch version of buttermilk (churn milk, maybe?)? Or something else? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Re: tourist question from me

2007-01-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jan 4, 2007, at 21:38, Joy Beeson wrote: I've forgotten what the merits of a pancake the size of a large coin were supposed to be. Um... So that the boys could eat more of them and then brag about it? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia

[lace] Re: Sorting database

2007-01-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
. But author... no, and no, and no. Torenhave wants to be first, with Burkhard below her, etc... G. Very discouraging; what's the point of sitting here and typing in all that info, if all I get is a mish-mash? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia

[lace] Sorted out

2007-01-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
entries under Torenhave (the book and its translation); my finger might have slipped once but chances of it doing the same thing twice were less. And it still wouldn't have explained why Stang was before Kortelahti and Voelcker before Löhr... -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace] Re: Building a catalog in Excel - html

2007-01-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
enough. Am waiting for my son to come back (tomorrow) and teach it Virginia manners :) Mimi, I'm *so very happy* to hear from you, even if indirectly. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send

[lace] Re: Advent Calendar Competition results

2007-01-02 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Year, and all that jazz g) and came accross a pattern (yours; a variant of a Skovgaard's snowflake) from, I think, last year (or it may be older; my paper towers do hide some interesting things for *years*, sometimes). It's on my pillow as of today. Scaled for wire... -- Tamara P Duvall

[lace-chat] Re: Christmas too early

2007-01-02 Thread Tamara P Duvall
have Christmas all year r'round, then there's nothing special about it, is there? That's what I mean by feeling deprived of the magic of it. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Re: Making Patterns from photos

2007-01-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
as to size *and* clarity (at least in my -- puter helpless -- hands g) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace] Re: Its all over now!

2007-01-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
in thousands; the inscriptions are not machine-made. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write

[lace-chat] Re: Christmas too early

2007-01-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
declaring a war on Christmas it's the theofascists, driven by profits, who have taken both the meaning and the magic out of the holiday. I used to love Christmas but don't anymore. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly

[lace] Re: Mathematical textiles

2006-12-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
), but now I'm ecstatic :) Got the images captured, in full colour, as the first step to playing around... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line

[lace] Confused

2006-12-29 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Speaking of which... If you place your straight line dots at every crossing, then your diagonal ones go into every centre of every square *and* at every crossing... Teach me to write in a hurry... :) Back to cooking. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington

[lace] Re: lace in 16th century Salisbury

2006-12-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
then it was several steps before she was actually supervising the machines which wove patterns. Of course, her progress on the factory ladder was slowed down considerably by her frequent stints in jail, for communism g... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net

[lace] Re: Thread conversion

2006-12-26 Thread Tamara P Duvall
metallics, rayon etc). It's an absolute must have for anyone who is caught with a must make project which recommends a thread that's no longer available. Go to :http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/threads/threads.html And get yourself a copy. It's not expensive but invaluable. -- Tamara P

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