Hello Pat, the EB on the left of the name of the
lacemaker who did the nativity, stands for Encaje de
Bolillos - a spanish forum of lacemakers, which is
moderated by Antje Gonzalez, who is on arachne, so I
suggest you get in touch with her. She speaks
english, and I am sure she would help you get
Tenerife is one of the Canary Islands and belongs to
Spain.
http://www.puntoinfo.idecnet.com/index.php?sectionID=80s=1lang=2
http://www.abouttenerife.com/tenerife/history.asp
Regards, Eva in Spain
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I recently lent my copy of this wonderful little
book to Tess to scan for
the CD's. I don't know if it made the last scan or
not.
Tess scanned it before she left for the holidays.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html
Click on 'This month'
No translation, but most
I'd not heard of this use of saffron before. It
could only have been common
in countries like Spain where saffron is cheap.
Just had to come out of lurkdom for a moment - saffron
is not cheap in Spain. I spent some days eight years
ago with a family who picked the flowers, separated
the
--- Jo Falkink [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
In a village in the Aosta valey (in the Alps) they
are traditionally making
some kind of free-hand lace,
That is Cogne Lace - good information on
http://lace.lacefairy.com/International/Cogne.html
Greetings, Eva in Spain
--- Lenore English [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
hello - I just read this in your blog
The pillow wanted to roll toward me as I laced, and I
finally wedged my pincushion between the pillow and my
leg. That was perfect.
In Portugal they pin a small bag of sand in the back
of the pillow as a
Evidently a universal problem:
yes, except in France it's embroidery
In Spain it is crochet - the mothers, grandmothers
aunts etc. always did the same thing I do at demos -
but one person told me that they were better at it -
only needed one of those things (crochet hook) instead
of as
--- Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
schrieb:
This is an intriguing description for an item on
ebay.
It is a spanish mundillo, a pillow based on the
french pillows, not used by professional lacemakers,
but by ladies who made lace for their dowry or the
church.
Original retail $350.00
350
The german word Stiel is pronounced the same as Stil,
and means stem. Bluete (u Umlaut) means blossom
(flower = Blume)
Stilbluete is, what years ago anyway, in America was
called a blooper - and/or, as already mentioned, a
stylistic error.
Ulrike
plays with the words and
her book tittles
--- Antje González [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Antje González, in center Spain, 0
Eva (near) Madrid, Spain 1
Antje knows me as her cold shower - loses a bit in
the translation, but here I go again! Geographically
we are in zone 0, but Franco changed the time to
coincide with Europe and not
--- Susan MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
I know I've seen pictures of this type of pillow
before,
This pillow is from Spain - it is the traditional
pillow from the area around Barcelona. It is used in
an upright position, usually on a stand. PLEASE do
not take the information sent to
and, while you're at it - please, what kind of wreath
would you store - and why - in a box
--- Dorte Zielke [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Hi all
Well now I have to get to know, what is a wreath
box, I looked the word up
in a english/danish and couldn't put the translation
together with
Sorry - but I had written a last line
just curious - Eva
and when I went to erase the original mail, my PC
decided to go off on his own. I apologize - Eva
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Hello Jen and all
there is no such thing as a dumb question! If you
don't ask, how are you going to learn!
Cannot help with the wire, and not much on the thread
one, but: at an OIDFA meeting in Sweden, we had, let's
call it a lively discussion, with a representative of
a linen thread
The other lacemaking centre in Portugal is in Vila Do
Conde - near Oporto. Unfortunately I have not been
there myself, but I know that the traditional lace
there is completely different from the Peniche Lace.
Greetings from Eva in POrtugal's Neighbour
Dear Spiders, well, here goes a perfect record of
lurkdom! These are all spanish bobbins - the first
batch is from Galicia - northwestern coast of Spain,
the best known centre being Camariñas. The same goes
for two of the bobbins of the second batch. Both of
those, being antiques could perhaps
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