[lace-chat] :-) More bumper stickers

2003-09-29 Thread Jean Nathan
MORE BUMPER STICKERS If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em! Jesus loves you...but everyone else thinks you are an asshole. Impotence...Nature's way of saying No hard feelings. The proctologist called...they found your head. Everyone has a photographic memory...some just don't have any film. Save

Re: [lace-chat] Language question

2003-09-29 Thread David Collyer
As a draughtsman, we just usually called it the North Point. David in Ballarat What's the English term -- *is* there an English term? -- for the do-dad that used to show up on old maps? It looks like what one sees on a compass: a convergence of rhombuses (rhombi?), usually 8, sometimes 16, but

[lace-chat] hoops under dresses

2003-09-29 Thread Helen Bell
Didn't they have hoops under their skirts (in the US) from about the very late 1850's to about mid to late 1860's? The Antebellum period? (Scarlet's dresses during the Civil War era?) Seems like they may have been a couple of years earlier in Europe, as it might have taken some time for fashions

Re: [lace-chat] hoops under dresses

2003-09-29 Thread alice howell
At 01:08 PM 9/29/2003 -0600, you wrote: Didn't they have hoops under their skirts (in the US) from about the very late 1850's to about mid to late 1860's? The Antebellum period? (Scarlet's dresses during the Civil War era?) Seems like they may have been a couple of years earlier in Europe, as it