I have several boxes, and I am fairly certain I hit them at my local quilt shop!
Clay
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> Quick update--I have asked a friend in the quilting/notions supply business
> about the Bohin #4 30x0.85 pins that Lauran recommended to see if
Dear Brian
There are a couple of pictures in Gertrude Whiting's old time tools and toys of
needlework (Dover 1971) the Venetian ones are glass headed some with spherical
heads and others shaped as animals and birds p143
On page 145 are East Midlands pins described as King pins, Bugles or Limi
Hello everyone
Some comments - I usually leave at least an inch-worth of pins in, not
really to let the lace set, but to mind the finished work against, for
example, tensioning too firmly and bunching the lace out of shape. Some
patterns have a particular passive that can be a culprit. If I notice
I agree that you cannot always leave the pins in if working a narrow edging on
a roller pillow. For that reason, I changed to a block pillow. But I do think
that thread sets in its position in lace. If you come to your lace one morning,
and find that you made a mistake the previous day, and take
Kathleen wrote The pin question isn't the sort of thing that is
taught - except that I was told always to leave pins in for 24 hours, to
allow the thread to"set" in place.
I would make a couple of points - this is a question which crops up from
time to time and usually generates lots o
Hi Sue,
I don't belong to a class or group, so I have developed my own way of working
over the years. I was curious about how other lacemakers worked. The pin
question isn't the sort of thing that is taught - except that I was told always
to leave pins in for 24 hours, to allow the thread to"se
Hi Nolene
Iâm using size 0 pins for Floral Bucks using 100/2 Egyptian cotton. I will
be using the 00 pins with 190/2 Egyptian cotton and finer. I bought the 000
pins to see what they are like to use â but I think they will be too fine;
they are like hairs.
Happy lacemaking
Alex
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With my Chantilly as well as Binche laces with the Danish silk I used those
insect pins too. But they weren't easy to find and expensive too.
At the beginning they aren't easy to handle.
Ilske
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I also use those fine insect pins. I make Binche lace, and when the long and
very fine pins went out of production several years ago, I bought every
(expensive!) vial of them that I could find. So I still have a good supply,
and guard them like Gollum "my preciou")!
I discovered the insec
Wow, Alex, what type of lace are you using such fine pins on?
Noelene in Cooma
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I have been using the Watkins & Doncaster stainless steel pins no.0. They
are the finest I have used and, although they are very long I have had no
trouble with them bending as they are very s
On 21/05/2011 22:57, Alex Stillwell wrote:
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I think we have had plenty of evidence that
thorns have been used as subsitutes for pins
[snip]
Sorry - I think I must have missed a bit among all these fascinating
messages: so what was the original evidence for the kinds of things
used wher
In fact, I have often wondered if it wasn't some kind of technical or
commercial development regarding pins that was responsible for the switch to
point ground laces from those with Flemish or plaited grounds. Point ground
laces take less time to make. If you have more pins than time, why not
itting, clothing.
Yours,
Dora
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Subject: Re: [lace] Pins, thorns and bone slivers
Alex Stillwell wrote:
These ideas about using thorns and fish bones have been around for a long
ti
The Brazilians do use thorns from a tree to use as pins. They are very sturdy
and quite effective. After a while, the blunt end tends to get a little mushy
and looks a little like a fuzzy top. Some use bobbins that have had a nut
stuck onto the end of a thin stick. I've tried to use this type o
5/11, Anna Binnie wrote:
From: Anna Binnie
Subject: Re: [lace] Pins, thorns and bone slivers
To: "Alex Stillwell"
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Date: Saturday, 21 May, 2011, 1:10
The point is well made. Pins have been around since the bronze age so the
question begs to be asked why use thor
very fine linen
used in 17th century. It's my science background that always asks for proof.
Happy lacemaking
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Alex Stillwel
Hi Anna
You make a valid point. This is why I like Arachne, we can pool our ideas
and develop them.
Happy lacemaking
Alex
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Pins, tho
Alex Stillwell wrote:
These ideas about using thorns and fish bones have been around for a long time.
Has anyone actually tried using thorns or fishbones to make lace? I mean the
very fine lace made at the time the thorns were supposed to have been used. Did
they work or not?-
Still
The point is well made. Pins have been around since the bronze age so
the question begs to be asked why use thorns, fish bones etc when you
have access to pins. Now since lace making as we know it came into being
around the 15th century (please correct me if I'm a bit early here), but
pins of
In the US the Hawthorne tree has thorns about an inch. I have one so I see
if I can struggle through the wild roses this weekend and take a look. I
don't think the tree is in good shape as it has old man's beard moss growing
all over it. If I get there, I'll clip the thorns.
Diane Z
Lubec, Main
My brass pins don't seem to have tarnished (or certainly not enough to
bother me). I also have enough pins to keep me in my bent pins for many
years, so I would not be interested in these gold-plated pins.
I stock up with pins for any pupils I have when I visit the UK, as I don't
find that the
I had a diagram on a spare piece of styrafoam that I followed with berry
pins when I first started to learn Bucks Point I remember several lacemakers
coming over to me at a lace day to see what I was doing with the berry pins.
It was a complete success and have taught a couple of others Buck Point
On Aug 30, 2009, at 22:12, Su Carter wrote:
A No. 3 Broad-headed Extra Long would grace any true pinhead's
collection."
-- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Su, recovering from her unexpected overdose of endorphins
To help you recover in a hurry... You owe me for a keyboard (and Mac
ones don
Well that is two of you suggesting this as a possible cause and although
I have been using this pricker for several years I have had a new pin
put in and it is further in than before. Better for some things in
preparing patterns but I wonder if the part of the pin in use is thinner
than before
Hi Clay, and thank you for your suggestion, I am always interested to
hear peoples thoughts and opinions, because something obvious to one
isn't always obvious to all. But, yes I do pre prick my patterns, I try
not to make too big a hole in case that were the wrong move leaving a
pattern with
Hi Sue -
Our skillful friends have given you lots of good ideas, and I don't want
to offend you by bringing up the obvious, but can't help pointing out
one possibility... I trust that your are pricking your pricking before
it's pinned to the pillow, but I wonder if you've tried using a larger
Thank you for some good ideas on this problem, I think I might try this
liquid bandage one first and see how it goes.
Some of the others I would find very impractical, I do have a pin pusher
tool, but when working lace I do the stitch, pick up the pin and push in
and then continue to work, if
le 13/11/05 23:09, Jo Falkink à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
>> We just have to be sure we don't leave any pins in the carpet.
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>> Alice in Oregon (previously [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> Seems impossible to me. We've been guests in the town hall for quite some
> time and they collected a box full of
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Method might be relevant, so I say that I am using a big octogonal block
pillowThe bobbins, all spangled Midlands, lie flat on my pillow while I
work( ie hands-down). <<<
First of all, the threads looping over the top of the pins. Part of
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When making lace, do the pins get pushed all the way in? Is this done for
certain types of lace? <<<
If you make lace that doubles back on itself, or motifs and small mats
(because you work around them), you should push the pins all the way in
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<< For rust to occur on steel, there has to be moisture and oxygen present
(most people did the iron nail in the test tube experiment to find the
conditions necessary for rusting at school), so I keep all my
Aren't most high-quality (modern) stainless pins nickel-coated to
inhibit rusting?
Marcie
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try this Jeri and see if it looks familiar
http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/worcestershire/museums/forge-hill.htm
jenny barron
Scotland
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