[lace] Fans
A few days ago, Lorelei sent the message, (below), giving a link to some pictures of a beautiful album of lace pieces - and thank you, Lorelei, for such a delightful gift. As it happens, I've never before paid any attention to lace fans, so it came as a surprise to me to see the several fans there. It had never before occurred to me that the fan sticks were simply a way to display a piece of lace of a particular shape. That's because I'd always thought of fans as meant to be useful as well as decorative. All the ones I have myself are simple souvenirs, and more useful than otherwise. They are not lace but paper, (or some such, I think), and I keep one in my handbag in hot weather. So I wondered, is it possible for a lace fan to be useful too? Especially, could it fold and unfold - lace is thicker than paper and might not go tightly around the corners of the sticks. Would folding damage the lace? Were lace fans ever made that were intended to be opened and closed in use? Linda Walton, (in dark, damp High Wycombe, Buskinghamshire, U.K., but where it's warmer than of late, the snow is almost all thawed, and the fog has gone - can Spring be far behind? I wish A Happy New Year, full of interesting possibilities, to everyone). On 26/12/2010 23:53, Lorelei Halley wrote: Here is areally nice Milanese fan. The same lacemaker has a lot of nice pieces in the same album. http://picasaweb.google.com/samag5180/MisTrabajos03#5359529389873792754 For all our arachneans I wish a new year full of long, bright lacemaking days, and may your threads never break. Lorelei - - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
I think we should all congratulate Kitty Mason who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for Services to Lace Making. Is there anyone on Arachne who knows her who can pass our congratulations on? Kitty is a well known teacher in Edinburgh. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
Indeed I do. I will pass the message on. Maureen E Yorks - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
Linda, I have two very inexpensive fans with machine made lace on them. They both fold and unfold very smoothly and easily. In fact they both have much smoother actions than some of the paper fans that I have. Both were purchased for me by friends on trips to Mexico. I should probably also mention that they were purchased in the 1970's. Liz Redford Raleigh, NC, USA Linda Walton linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: So I wondered, is it possible for a lace fan to be useful too? Especially, could it fold and unfold. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] Fans
If you go to the fan museum in Greenwich London when they are displaying the lace fans (you will have to check with them as they are not always on display) you will see plenty of lovely lace fans that were actually made to be used. Unlike mine that sit in tissue paper in a box. I highly recommend this museum at any time but when the lace fans are out it is spectacular. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
How right you are, Sue. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Admin: off-topic postings
...however the shipping discussion was to do with ordering lace supplies, and giving and receiving lacemaking items to lace friends yes? The textile-related books is hazy there, but I for one didn't mind. On 12/30/10, Avital spind...@gmail.com wrote: lace-making. Lace Chat is for non-lace-related topics. When discussions on Lace spin off into books, shipping, or whatever, you are strongly encouraged to move the thread over to Lace Chat! -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
On 31/12/2010 10:26, laura forrester wrote: [snip] John Beswick of Torchon House makes beautiful fan sticks using the lace (or scan thereof) as a pattern. He always asks if you want your fan to fold or remain open for display, and will work out the fold pattern from your lace scan. He also incorporates the lace design into the sticks where possible. [snip] Thank you very much for writing, Laura. I'm most interested to see that the fold pattern is not necessarily part of the original design, but can be worked out later. I suppose that it must be partly to do with how many sticks would look best with the pattern, or perhaps how many would be needed to support the lace properly. But is that where possible the give-away? Are fan patterns created sometimes with the intention that they should fold and sometimes that they should not? And, if a pattern is designed so that it could be folded, is it part of the idea that it should look good with folds, or that it should fold completely and be used? Of course, I imagine that all these are possible! So how would you know, when choosing, which one you were going to get? Is there some way to tell, if the pattern does not come with a description? With best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
On 31/12/2010 15:03, lbuy...@nc.rr.com wrote: Linda, I have two very inexpensive fans with machine made lace on them. They both fold and unfold very smoothly and easily. In fact they both have much smoother actions than some of the paper fans that I have. Both were purchased for me by friends on trips to Mexico. I should probably also mention that they were purchased in the 1970's. Liz Redford Raleigh, NC, USA Linda Waltonlinda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: So I wondered, is it possible for a lace fan to be useful too? Especially, could it fold and unfold. Thank you very much for writing, Liz. It is most interesting that the lace fans should operate better than paper fans, and that they should have done so over a long working life. I did not know that this was possible. In fact, (if I'd given any thought to it), I'd have imagined that the lace would be too delicate to stand up to so much. With best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
On 31/12/2010 15:25, Sue wrote: If you go to the fan museum in Greenwich London when they are displaying the lace fans (you will have to check with them as they are not always on display) you will see plenty of lovely lace fans that were actually made to be used. Unlike mine that sit in tissue paper in a box. I highly recommend this museum at any time but when the lace fans are out it is spectacular. Thank you very much for writing, Sue. I would like to see this museum: I love lace and I love visiting museums, so this is a winner! But I don't find it so easy to get out these days, so I 'googled' to find the museum's website: http://www.fan-museum.org/ I looked at some of the pages quickly, (and I will certainly spend some time reading the information), but I couldn't see any images of early fans made with lace. Although I must admit that the painted ones are very beautiful indeed. Does anyone know of any images on-line of antique lace fans? It would be interesting to see if there differences in their design. With best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] Thanks from LaceNews!
Laurie and all, Regarding the Australian Torchon Lace Machine: I have one of the US made/sold Torchon Lace Company pillows/machines, unfortunately minus the bobbins they were cut off leaving the pattern and lace pinned to the roller. It also includes the original booklet. The bobbins shown on the Australian pillow are not at all like those pictured in my booklet. The bobbins pictured are more like the 'Danish Beginner' bobbins we see today. Is there any documentation as to the 'straight shaft' bobbins shown here? I can see that these straight bobbins would be easier/cheaper to make, but it leaves me wondering. Lorri Just now LaceNews broke its previous record of 248 views in one day - and the day isn't over yet! I've had a lot of fun over the past 4 months with the project, and I would like to thank everyone for helping to make this such a success! I hope to keep it going for a very long time. Thanks again, and best wishes for a Happy New Year (it's snowing hard here in New Mexico). Laurie - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Lace fans
Hi, Now and again there are good antique lace fans on eBay. Have the occasional look. A while ago I was fortunate enough to bid for and win a lovely Duchesse lace fan on mother-of-pearl sticks, but some go for silly prices. Some traders frequently have fans including lace ones. Prosperous New Year to all Joepie, East Sussex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
On 31/12/2010 15:32, Ilske Thomsen wrote: [snip] Hello Ilske, and thank you very much for writing. since more than 300 years exist lace-fans, bobbin- as well as needle-lace, all folded correctly. I had not realised that fans could be so old; I imagined that they were a fashion of the mid-Victorian period. (At least, the western - Spanish? - type of fan, rather than the eastern - Chinese? Japanese? - type. If these were actually different, that is.) Have you never seen a lace-fan in origin how fine, for example, the Chantilly-lace is? No, sadly I've never seen any real lace fans, and had not even paid attention to photographs, until I saw those in the album shown in the link that Lorelei sent: http://picasaweb.google.com/samag5180/MisTrabajos03#5359529389873792754 Why do you get the impression it wouldn't do? A good question . . . It's probably something to do with the kind of lace I make myself. My Bucks lace is made with linen thread, which is relatively thick and stiff, giving a lovely crisp lace, but which might be hard to fold, hard to fit between the sticks, and hard to unfold, (especially with that sudden snap which is one of the joys of being able to express yourself by your use of a fan). It also has gimps which I thought might suffer by being compressed when folded, pulled out of shape where they went over the sticks, and frayed by opening and closing the fan. Perhaps you could write about your experience with other kinds of lace and types of thread? If you have the chance to come to Germany in summertime try to visit Munich. Regretably, I think that it is very unlikely that I would ever be able to visit Munich again. These days, I find it hard to get so far as the local shops and the library, without a lot of help. There will be a fan exhibition and I am sure with lace-fans too This museum has wonderful ones. And I regret even more that I did not take the opportunity to see the museum when I was there - but it was a long time ago, before I knew anything at all about making lace. Does it have a website? Or visit me and I'll show you mine. Thank you for your kind invitation - I wish that I could! With best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Lace fans
On 31/12/2010 19:19, J-D Hammett wrote: [snip] Thank you for this suggestion:- Now and again there are good antique lace fans on eBay. [snip] That's a very good idea! I'll see if I can work out how the eBay site works and search for fans - I'd love to see them. With best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Admin: off-topic postings - ps
Just remembered,..another plus, the book topic offered a rather nice idea for lace clubs to fund-raise (thanks Shirley T. in Oz) Agree we have to be careful not to stray too far off lace, otherwise ;) On 12/30/10, Avital spind...@gmail.com wrote: lace-making. Lace Chat is for non-lace-related topics. When discussions on Lace spin off into books, shipping, or whatever, you ... Happy New Year to those of you who celebrate it at this time. -- Bev celebrating New Year's with the sound of bobbins on the pillow on crisp, green southern Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Princess lace machine bobbins
Lorrie Laurie, I have an old Princess Lace Machine, although of what date I'm not sure. However bobbins did come with it/on it, and they matched the bobbins pictured in the advertisements for the Torchon Lace Machine in needlework magazines of the early 1900's--which are more like Lorrie's description as looking like Danish Beginner bobbins, and not at all like the bobbins pictured in the ebay listing. To make things more confusing, however, I do have some straight bobbins that I was told are Cuban, although I'm not sure anymore by whom I was told that. (perhaps irrelevant, don't know). Nancy Connecticut, USA Regarding the Australian Torchon Lace Machine: I have one of the US made/sold Torchon Lace Company pillows/machines, unfortunately minus the bobbins they were cut off leaving the pattern and lace pinned to the roller. It also includes the original booklet. The bobbins shown on the Australian pillow are not at all like those pictured in my booklet. The bobbins pictured are more like the 'Danish Beginner' bobbins we see today. Is there any documentation as to the 'straight shaft' bobbins shown here? I can see that these straight bobbins would be easier/cheaper to make, but it leaves me wondering. Lorri Just now LaceNews broke its previous record of 248 views in one day - and the day isn't over yet! I've had a lot of fun over the past 4 months with the project, and I would like to thank everyone for helping to make this such a success! I hope to keep it going for a very long time. Thanks again, and best wishes for a Happy New Year (it's snowing hard here in New Mexico). Laurie - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] work in progress
Here is a photo of somebody's bobbin lace in process, taken at a lace day or convention. It looks like Withof, stylistically, but I can't see enough detail to be sure. In any case, it is a very large and ambitious project. http://picasaweb.google.com/serranoram/IIEncuentroBolillosAlcalaDeHenares#516 0885028716132130 Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Lace Fans
Happy New Year to everyone. Christine Springett's fan patterns come with a pattern for pleating the completed lace fan leaf, and her great little book on making fans give the instructions on how to do the pleating. However, I think it is Ann Collier who does not pleat her fan leaves, but lets them form the pleats naturally Liz still on holiday, where it is a bit cooler today, - thankfully. The 36C yesterday was a bit too warm - especially when it did not cool down very much overnight. lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
On 31/12/2010 13:09, Jane Partridge wrote: I think we should all congratulate Kitty Mason who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for Services to Lace Making. [snip] This is brilliant news - I'm so pleased at this recognition. Is it a first? (That is, that someone has received an honour for something to do with lace - making it, teaching it, whatever.) A very happy new year to everyone, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K. where we've just noticed that the airliners lining up to land at Heathrow have been recognising the New Year by flying with their landing lights on - more than a dozen orange fireflies drifting through the night sky!). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
Rosemary Shepherd was awarded the Order of Australia many years ago for her services to lace. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Linda Walton Sent: Saturday, 1 January 2011 11:32 AM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE On 31/12/2010 13:09, Jane Partridge wrote: I think we should all congratulate Kitty Mason who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for Services to Lace Making. [snip] Is it a first? (That is, that someone has received an honour for something to do with lace - making it, teaching it, whatever.) A very happy new year to everyone, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K. where we've just noticed that the airliners lining up to land at Heathrow have been recognising the New Year by flying with their landing lights on - more than a dozen orange fireflies drifting through the night sky!). - - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
This is not a first, but is still a wonderful recognition! In 1997, Elsie Luxton was awarded this honor for her work in Honiton Lace. There may have been others prior to that, but it would have been before my time! Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA, USA On 12/31/2010 7:31 PM, Linda Walton wrote: On 31/12/2010 13:09, Jane Partridge wrote: I think we should all congratulate Kitty Mason who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for Services to Lace Making. [snip] This is brilliant news - I'm so pleased at this recognition. Is it a first? (That is, that someone has received an honour for something to do with lace - making it, teaching it, whatever.) A very happy new year to everyone, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K. where we've just noticed that the airliners lining up to land at Heathrow have been recognising the New Year by flying with their landing lights on - more than a dozen orange fireflies drifting through the night sky!). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
And, prior to that (thanks to Google!), Pat Read and Pamela Nottingham were also recipients! So, this seems to bring the total to four. Clay On 12/31/2010 8:14 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote: This is not a first, but is still a wonderful recognition! In 1997, Elsie Luxton was awarded this honor for her work in Honiton Lace. There may have been others prior to that, but it would have been before my time! Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA, USA On 12/31/2010 7:31 PM, Linda Walton wrote: On 31/12/2010 13:09, Jane Partridge wrote: I think we should all congratulate Kitty Mason who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for Services to Lace Making. [snip] This is brilliant news - I'm so pleased at this recognition. Is it a first? (That is, that someone has received an honour for something to do with lace - making it, teaching it, whatever.) A very happy new year to everyone, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K. where we've just noticed that the airliners lining up to land at Heathrow have been recognising the New Year by flying with their landing lights on - more than a dozen orange fireflies drifting through the night sky!). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE
Please for those of us on the other side of the pond, what do the initials MBE stand for? Lorri Subject: Re: [lace] Kitty Mason, MBE And, prior to that (thanks to Google!), Pat Read and Pamela Nottingham were also recipients! So, this seems to bring the total to four. Clay On 12/31/2010 8:14 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote: This is not a first, but is still a wonderful recognition! In 1997, Elsie Luxton was awarded this honor for her work in Honiton Lace. There may have been others prior to that, but it would have been before my time! Clay - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Fans
Dear Linda, You wrote from England, and I will reply from that perspective. Of course, lace fans were to be used. Fans of any type were welcome accessories before air conditioning was invented. Before the 20th C. they were often presented in beautiful oblong fan boxes. The fans were closed, when presented. Today's fans sometimes have features that make it necessary to present them in an open position. Today's fans tend to be displays of a lacemaker's skills, and often are made as contest entries. An example would the be the fan featured on the cover of The Lace Guild's (U.K.) July 2010 (#139) bulletin/magazine. The story of the making of this fan, with 3-D butterflies, is in the October 2010 (#140) issue. I am singling out this organization, because you wrote from England. Perhaps you know a local group of lacesmakers, and one of them can show you these. This year, I have seen fans within issues of torchon, knitted, needlelace, Bucks, and other laces. There are a number of lace books devoted just to fans. There are many other books that feature fans in general, and lace is nearly always included as a medium. Fans worthy of being preserved may date back at least 4 centuries, but a lace one may not have survived that long. You can see them in portraits, which have usually been researched and given a date when the painting was made. To read a couple Arachne book reviews, go to _http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html_ (http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html) and search Fans in the Royal Collection and Fans from the Royal House of Orange-Nassau. Both collections have lace fans of the best quality. In 2006, Liz Pass told us the Royal Collection fans can be seen at _http://tinyurl.com/h8r78_ (http://tinyurl.com/h8r78) The address still worksl Lace fans are not always identified as lace, but you can enlarge them to see. The Royal House of Orange-Nassau refers to The Netherlands. I found this book while on a OIDFA lace tour in 2008. You will note that it was written by Helene Alexander, founder of The Fan Museum in London. It may still be available for purchase. We have also written on Arachne about Inter-Library book loans, which exist in many countries, including yours. This means you can go to a public or university library and borrow books that they may have to borrow from the nearest library that has a copy of the book. If the book is very rare, they may ask that you read it in the library. Otherwise, normal borrowing policies apply. This service is necessary for scholars. You are a lace scholar, so don't feel you cannot use this resource. Also, I recommend the many art collections in museums and house/palace museums throughout the UK. Nearly all collections have portraits containing lace. Some painters put fans in the hands of the queens and princesses, etc. They are sometimes closed, and sometimes open. Look at art, and you will learn a lot about lace history. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 12/31/2010 3:00:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com writes: As it happens, I've never before paid any attention to lace fans, so it came as a surprise to me to see the several fans there. It had never before occurred to me that the fan sticks were simply a way to display a piece of lace of a particular shape. That's because I'd always thought of fans as meant to be useful as well as decorative. All the ones I have myself are simple souvenirs, and more useful than otherwise. They are not lace but paper, (or some such, I think), and I keep one in my handbag in hot weather. So I wondered, is it possible for a lace fan to be useful too? Especially, could it fold and unfold - lace is thicker than paper and might not go tightly around the corners of the sticks. Would folding damage the lace? Were lace fans ever made that were intended to be opened and closed in use? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Princess lace machine bobbins
-- Nancy Neff nnef...@yahoo.com wrote: To make things more confusing, however, I do have some straight bobbins that I was told are Cuban, although I'm not sure anymore by whom I was told that. (perhaps irrelevant, don't know).- A number of Spanish and Spanish-colony lace bobbins are straight-sided cylinders. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Fans
Dear Arachnids Lace fans made in the 19th century would have been made so they would fold. I was given a pricking of a beautiful Bucks fan leaf (the the piece of semi-circular lace, fabric or paper that is attached to the sticks) and made it in 50 DMC Retors d'Alsace thread. It is sewn to the sticks and folds and unfolds without a problem, including opening and closing with one hand. If you are thinking of making a fan check that you have fan sticks of a suitable size first. It is easy to adjust the size of the pattern, but it is not easy to find sticks to fit a fan leaf. My no 8 perle gimps are not a problem, but if you want it to fold the fan rather than display it open then avoid the types of lace that have large holes, e.g. Beds, as these will stop the fabic of the lace from folding properly. If you are making it in sprig lace, e.g. Honiton, it needs to be grounded so that it will fold properly. When you are ready to mount a fan leaf on the sticks there is an excellent booklet by Christine Springett called 'Designing and Mounting Lace Fans'. Happy lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace-chat] postal services
When I send parcels to USA or Canada, I have to fill in a custom's form specifying the value of the item(s) and description. I normally put on lace craft items, mark it as a gift, and enter a value-amount. If the value goes over £36, I split the content over two parcels. According to the UK post office, you can send up to £36 as a gift without it incurring additional import duties etc. Can anyone tell me if this is indeed the max. amount allowed as a gift? The main problem I have at the moment is that quite a few ebay items I posted on 25th Nov (when the snow hit the UK) have not arrived at their destinations, incl in the UK. So I get emails from people asking me where there parcel is, and the post office telling me to tell them to be patient as it will all be sorted in the end. G.. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK Wishing all of you a good and healthy 2011. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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Someone wanted ISNB #s on the Monica Ferris books. I have located a few of my copies (I have them all I believe) so here goes: A Stitch in Time 0-425-17511-1 Unraveled Sleeve 0-425-18045-X A Murderous Yarn 0-425-18403-X Hanging by a Thread 0-425-18714-4 Cutwork 0-425-19389-6 Sins Needles 978-0-425-21636-1 Knitting Bones 978-0-425-22301-7 Embroidered Truths 0-425-20301-8 Thai Die 978-0-425-22346-8 These may not be listed in the order published, but this should give you a way to track down the sequence (they do not necessarily need to be read in sequence and the remaining #s. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
