Hello All! Thank you Brenda for posting about the "shoe making" classes. What
a great idea AND theoretically you would get a pair that fit! My size (6.5
slim) is practically non-existant any more as all the companies rush to make
wide sizes. None of the "hand made" shoe sites offered widths,
Just as I hit the "send" button on that email, I realized that the IOLI
competitions were always impressive *and* had knowledgeable judges.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
Clay
On 5/3/2011 6:37 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
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> The annual lace contest at the International Old Lacers Conv
The annual lace contest at the International Old Lacers Convention has been
garnering some pretty impressive entries lately. Also the judges are
knowledgeable.
Devon
In a message dated 5/3/2011 6:23:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
clayblackw...@comcast.net writes:
Joepie, I have to agre
Joepie, I have to agree with you completely! However, (gloom and
despair!), what pleases one does not please the other,and so... you
have a very broad definition which includes the string vest and the sock
with a hole in it.
I, for one, have long since stopped putting my work in competitions
Hey! Wotcher sayin' ? You no lika my lacy string vest??
From: J-D Hammett
To:
Patty Dowden ; Arachne
Sent: Tue, May 3,
2011 5:18:18 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] handmade
Hi all,
According to the
definitions given so far a string vest or a sock with a hole i
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Subject: RE: [lace] handmade
Nancy and all
These definitions are always a problem..
Lorelei
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My personal definition of lace is string and a hole! No hole, no lace. No
string, no lace.
Patty
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Nancy and all
These definitions are always a problem..
Lorelei
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My personal definition of lace is string and a hole! No hole, no lace. No
string, no lace.
Patty
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Nancy and all
These definitions are always a problem. I have trouble understanding why
someone using a knitting machine would join a contest for hand knitting. The
only reason that makes sense is when the machines first came out and were
still very rare. A woman has one, uses it, and wants to sh
Hello Laurie,
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I'm sure our guild will make a
couple of fun field trips.
Laura Sandison
Lace! in New Mexico, USA
Laurie Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm having an exhibition of my lace collection, December 2nd through the 29th
at th
Congratulations Laurie,
I only wish I could attend. I am sure the lace is lovely and interesting and
I would love to hear your lecture. Also it is 20 yrs. since I have been to
Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Lorri F
Subject: [lace] Handmade Lace: From Fine Art to Folk Art, exhibition in Los
I'm having an exhibition of my lace collection, December 2nd through the 29th
at the Los Alamos, New Mexico Mesa Library in their Upstairs Art Gallery. I'm
showing about 100 pieces of lace, mostly needle and bobbin, from my
collection, which I have been working on for about 40 years. Pieces span f
Well, I can't claim to be an expert on anybody's needlelace but my
own, and even then it's a stretch. Still...as I've been making NL for
at least half a century (and even won prizes for some of it, imagine
that!), I am moved to express an opinion and even describe how I got
to it:
Yes, I do t
Hi Jeri and All,
Sorry to be so late following this up, could not find the info. Carole
Morris of Spangles,
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has had made a reproduction of a lace bobbin found in the excavation of
a town house in Gloucester. The original was in bone and the objects
found with it suggest a date
Dear Lacemakers interested in early pins,
This is a continuation of a discussion we had about a month ago.
At IOLI, I was given the gift of a 1990 Lace Guild calendar from the U.K.
The month of May had text about the Gloucester Folk Museum at 99-103 Westgate
Street, Gloucester: "Fine medieval
Not being anything like an expert in telling hand-made from machine-made
lace. These two pieces just don't have the "feel", if you know what I mean,
of hand made. The yardages being sold also make me suspicious.
Jean in Poole
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At 11:00 PM 8/7/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>I joined some time ago and have been lurking, reading the digest. .
>Within the past year I decided that I'd like to learn tatting. .>
>How can you tell, by looking at photos such as the ones in these auction,
if a
>lace is handmade or machine ma
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