[lace] the Queen's outfit with lace
At Poole Bobbin Lace Circle a while ago we had a talk from Maureen Rose who was a dressmaker to the Queen under Norman Hartnell. Really interesting about the processes involved in producing clothes for the Queen, how designs are approved and fabrics chosen, how fitting takes place and how she behaves towards those involved in it. One incident was when Norman Hartnell tried to put the blame Maureen when a piece of fabric given to the Queen by a foreign royal turned out to be too short for the skirt he decided to make from it. The Queen's response was to take her shoes off and say that she'd just have to wear flat shoes with it. Naturally all the fabrics used are top quality and you certainly couldn't buy the lace from places like Walmart. Jean in Poole, Dorset, 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] the Queen's outfit with lace
Hello all, The very moment I saw the Queen with this blue outfit, I thought of the typical English blue china of Wedgewood. Have a look at https://www.google.es/search?q=wedgewood+blue+chinahl=esrlz=1G1GGLQ_ESES271prmd=imvnstbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=4QLsT4_CNMPA0QWZ56z6DAsqi=2ved=0CGAQsAQbiw=1280bih=907 or search Wedgewood blue china in Google - Images. Have a nice day, Antje, from a boiling hot Spain. * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Queen's Blue lace hat
Yes, I'm sure it is machine made; possibly chemical lace neatly snipped apart and stitched to the hat. Brenda On 28 Jun 2012, at 02:47, Robin D wrote: http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article940892.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Queen+Elizabeth+II+leaves+a+Service+of+Thanksgiving+in+Saint+Macartin%27s+Cathedral+in+Enniskillen Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Fw: Re: [lace] the Queen's outfit with lace and no wrinkles
Dear Adele, et al, Combinations, indeed. My grandmother, born 1880 wore them. With a corset. Anyhow... Don't forget that Elizabeth II also has a staff specially trained to care for her clothes. Combine that with the proper fit, carefully calculated, the best fabrics, no short staple fluff there! and voila. And possibly the wrinkle-free mojo. For lace content, I wonder if she'd be willing to wear handmade lace incorporated into her outfits. What she has on could easily be translated into a guipure of some sort. And the Honiton ladies should have a field day. Making jabots for the head of Parliament is a wonderful endeavor, but having the Queen wear handmade lace is an advertisement that is unparallelled. I assume this has been tried? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where it's going to be 91F 29.5 C. And we leave for France and OIDFA tomorrow. I have made the OIDFA Outfit with special pocket for a lace hankie. Dorset buttons that could be counted as needlelace, maybe. And I even mounted the Flanders edging and it's ready to wear. OhboyOhboyOhboy Adele wrote: Some people just have wrinkle-free mojo. I think probably the Queen wears traditional wool, silk, linen, and cotton. And better-quality fabrics develop fewer wrinkles. So I think she's just got a winning combination. (pun intended for people who know what combinations are) and she never ever has a crease from sitting down! http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article940892.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Queen+Elizabeth+II+leaves+a+Service+of+Thanksgiving+in+Saint+Macartin%27s+Cathedral+in+Enniskillen My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Queen's Blue lace hat
At 11:47 AM 28/06/2012, Robin D wrote: http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article940892.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Queen+Elizabeth+II+leaves+a+Service+of+Thanksgiving+in+Saint+Macartin%27s+Cathedral+in+Enniskillen I do love that you can make out her hat pins. Thanks Robin for that gorgeous closeup. I wonder if she's allowed to put her own lippy on yet LOL David in Ballarat, AUS - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Wrinkle-free mojo???
Adele, I once worked with a Miss Perfect. She could sit at her desk all day long in a 100% silk dress, and when she got up there was nary a wrinkle on it. Some people just have wrinkle-free mojo. That made me smile as I remembered back in the 70s in London and we were all heavily into astrology. Linda Goodman's Star Signs said that one of the signatures for a Cancer person is that the minute they wear new clothes it looks as though they've owned them for yerears. That's me to a tee!!! Definitely NOT a wrinkle-free mojo (whatever a mojo is???) LOL David in Ballarat, AUS - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Re: Queen's Outfit with Lace
Perhaps this is another instance of machine-made trim, hand-sewn in place - but it looks very nice. Bev It is machine made trim yardage and/or medallions, and they are cut and pieced and applied to create the effect of lace, similar to passementerie (but the latter is typically done with scrolling designs made of fine tape such as soutache, etc.). The pieces create the effect of lace, but much of it is not interconnected (other than sewing thread to hold it in place to create the effect of continuity and design, free forming the separate pieces). It creates a lovely lace effect, but is hand applied machine made trim for embellishment. Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] the Queen's outfit with lace
Dear Bev, Queen Elizabeth's outfit for her visit to Northern Ireland has some sort of lace on it. I can't tell from the photos. Here is one: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/26/article-2164920-13CBDF7B05DC-131_306x423.jpg It's a stunning outfit - one of her better ones, but I can't make out the lace. I'd say it's quite possibly Irish crochet - given the occasion. I often wonder who gets these outfits after she's worn them once. Don't think I've ever seen her wear anything a second time. That's exactly my shade of blue - LOL David in Ballarat, AUS - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Wrinkle-free
All this talk about the Queen's clothes always looking wrinkle free has finally rung faint bells in my head. I wsa reading an article about HM's clothes and I think it was said that the amount one's clothes wrinkle while worn reflects your inner body temperature. Cool people keep their garments wrinkle free while hot people, like me, wrinkle them quickly. Apparently the Queen is a cool person, in the literal meaning. I hope this memory of mine is correct; it isn't always! Patricia in Wales - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] the Queen's outfit with lace
Hello Antje and everyone Yes! It is Wedgewood-inspired, perhaps in part because Josiah Wedgewood urged equality. Another outfit the Queen wore is that special pale green of Belleek porcelain of Northern Ireland. The green outfit doesn't have lace although in the several pictures I've seen there is something net-like on her matching hat. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:25 AM, AGlez antje.gonza...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, The very moment I saw the Queen with this blue outfit, I thought of the typical English blue china of Wedgewood. -- 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] the Queen's outfit with lace
Hello David and everyone I have read that her outfits are given to charity. I do not know in what way (to remake into other garments?). Certainly the trims could be repurposed. I like the connection if this is meant to look like Irish crochet. David, the blue is perfect for you ;) On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:50 AM, David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.auwrote: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/26/article-2164920-13CBDF7B05DC-131_306x423.jpg It's a stunning outfit - one of her better ones, but I can't make out the lace. I'd say it's quite possibly Irish crochet - given the occasion. I often wonder who gets these outfits after she's worn them once. Don't think I've ever seen her wear anything a second time. That's exactly my shade of blue - LOL -- 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Rosa Libre
For all of you who have never seen Rosa Libre go to http://community.webshots.com/slideshow/583034971eafRtN The second photo is a completed rosa libre worked by a past member of our lace guild, L.A.C.E. Jane O'Connor jjo...@sbcglobal.net New Lenox, IL USA Lacemakers and Collectors Exchange Good friends are like stars, You don't always see them, but they are always there. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Good old days
Couldn't resist sending this BTW I am ancient!!! VBG Bring back any memories? Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite 'fast food' when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. ! 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card. My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people... Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers--My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive. If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it..I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom 1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels[if you were fortunate]) 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records 9. 45 RPM records 9a. 78 RPM records and wind-up gramophones 10. Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with levers 12. Blue flashbulb 13. Cork popguns 14. Wash tub wringers 15. Bucket system ??? If you remembered 0-3 = You re still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient! I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friendsI just did! (PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) Regards Sue. 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
