On Mar 14, 2006, at 9:18, Malvary J Cole wrote:
"Jenny Barron wrote: yes that's the exact same one I bought - except
here it costs the equivelent of $11.71 -- trying not to feel ripped
off"
But you would have to add postage to the $7.50 so you probably didn't
pay that much more.
You pr
Tamara P. Duvall wrote -
> Holland/the Netherlands (what's the difference?)
Actually, a lot of difference. Calling the Netherlands Holland is like
calling Great Britain England or the United States New York. North and
South Holland are provinces of the Netherlands and people living there are
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On Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, at 04:15 US/Eastern, Jean Barrett wrote:
Thank you Tamara, that is a super scan
I *wish* ... My Christmas '02 "haracz" (forced tribute) from my
men-folk (DH and DS) was an MFC (multi-function-center). It's supposed
to print, copy, scan and fax. But *not* in conjunction
Good morning All,
Thank you Tamara, that is a super scan of the picture from the
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The bulbous bobbins are very similar to one of
the Batavia bobbins. I have a reproduction set made a few years ago by
Kleinhout-Kantklossen the dutch suppliers. It is interesting to note
that
On Friday, Oct 24, 2003, at 17:01 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vibeke)
wrote:
Tamara will you share the photo you recently took of the engraving by
Jan
Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius? It should be from the 3rd quarter of
the
16th century.
Done; I've uploaded the photo to my web page (oooh,
While you find 17th century lacepillows on paintings you have to go to engravings
to find the few 16th century examples.
Lacemaking as we know it was getting established at that time. The lacepillows
are of very different forms, suggesting that the tools used for different
older types of plaiting
On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 18:04 US/Eastern, Kirrily Skud Robert
wrote:
Greetings all, I just joined this list last night.
Welcome :)
So far I have found a few 17th century Dutch portraits of lacemakers
showing them using half-cylinder shaped pillows and Bruges style
bobbins, but no informati
