[lace] Macrame history specialist?

2021-03-06 Thread Elena Kanagy-Loux
Dear Arachnids, I am in search of a historian who has expertise in the history of macrame to potentially contribute an article for the encyclopedia project I am working on. Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Best Wishes, Elena - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Macrame

2012-10-10 Thread Janice Blair
Hi Sue, Very colorful jewelry and nice work. Some of the earrings looked like they would work in bobbin lace. In fact, the spiral ones look similar to the ones that Ulrike Voelcker does. Ulrike might be teaching a short jewelry class next summer in Salt Lake City but so far, I have no idea

RE: [lace] macrame

2012-10-09 Thread Diane Z
Re I'd also like to draw your attention to Le Macrame by Th. de Dillmont. THe book is from 1922 and is on the Professor's site. Robin, could you give me the actual website to find this book? I've spent 1/2 hour trying to find it on the Arizona site -- to no avail. At some point I did find

Re: [lace] macrame

2012-10-09 Thread Sue Babbs
Puzzling, I simply googled Le Macrame by Th. de Dillmont and it came up as about the 6th item down! Anyway here's the url http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/macrame_dmc.pdf Sue sueba...@comcast.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

Re: [lace] macrame

2012-10-08 Thread robinlace
jvik...@sover.net wrote: I'd also like to draw your attention to Le Macrame by Th. de Dillmont. THe book is from 1922 and is on the Professor's site. I don't have that URL at my figertips either. The book does have two sculptural flowers but the rest are borders or insertions - just

Re: [lace] macrame

2012-10-07 Thread jviking
Hi All, Thanks Lorelei for this great site. I also was not aware of this kind of macrame! Sorry but I'm not up on changing it to a tiny URL : (

Re: [lace] macrame

2012-10-07 Thread Jeriames
Yes! I was given a piece for the lace collection here while visiting in Budapest after the OIDFA Caen Congress. So much of my collection is old, and it is fun to add newly minted pieces from time to time. Even very little ones. Mine is similar to the pink flower center-top on the

Re: [lace] macrame

2012-10-07 Thread Clay Blackwell
Very pretty. It does have a very different (robust!) look, but still pretty! Clay On 10/6/2012 4:13 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote: I just came across some new macramé. I had no idea this kind of work was possible in that technique.

[lace] macrame

2012-10-06 Thread Lorelei Halley
I just came across some new macramé. I had no idea this kind of work was possible in that technique. https://plus.google.com/photos/111439440412818161591/albums/57832759499743178 89?banner=pwagpsrc=pwrd1#photos/111439440412818161591/albums/578327594997431 7889?banner=pwagpsrc=pwrd1 Lorelei - To

[lace] Macrame book

2008-11-16 Thread tess parrish
I am trying to find a DMC book called Le Macrame. It is not the encyclopedia that often pops up when one is looking for something DMC, but comes in two forms: a green cover which I think might be the original, or a whiteish cover with macrame on it which I think is a reprint. If anyone

Re: [lace] Macrame book

2008-11-16 Thread silvia gardiol
I think you can find it at: http://www.tuttoricamo.com/trServizi/Libri/DMCBiblioteca.asp Please, scroll down the list till the end. Best Silvia (from Italy) 2008/11/16, tess parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to find a DMC book called Le Macrame. It is not the encyclopedia that often pops

Re: [lace] Macrame book

2008-11-16 Thread Jeriames
Tess, You don't need this info, but am sending for the sake of our Arachne newbies: If you select Prominent Characters, a option given in left column menus of the site in letter below mine, you will find Tess Parrish, and a description of the University of Arizona site. If you are

[lace] macrame in Italy, Spain, France

2007-12-31 Thread Tess Parrish
I have been invited to join a friend to travel to Genoa in March, where she is in touch with someone who knows where macrame can be found, apparently in Genoa and perhaps Liguria. The idea is to hire a car and go to wherever we can find macrame and bobbin lace, preferably folk rather than

[lace] Macrame Crochet Lace - longish

2004-07-01 Thread A Thompson
As usual - I am behindhand with reading the Digests, so hope it is not too late to contribute to the Romanian Point Lace 'thread'. My life is overfull at the moment, which of course is better than being bored. I have just finished one year of my City and Guilds Creative Computing and am now