Re: [lace] Heelball
I have lways used the sticks of whatever they are that are used to make brass rubbings - I believe they are a similar composition to heelballs, bt made as a stick/crayon shape - much easier to handle! When I first started to make lace - more years ago tham I care to remember now! - that was how I copied my prickings. Imagine my delight weh ,y huisband's company were the guinea pigs for a new photocopier whach even copied in colour! I asked the MD if I could use it cometimes, and as the answer was always yes, I was delighted - and now I wonder how we ever managed without the scanners, copiers, and all the other techno-gadgets we can use. Carol - in a cold and gloomy North Norfolk, UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' From: Jean Nathan jean...@hotmail.co.uk To: Lace lace@arachne.com Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013, 12:39 Subject: [lace] Heelball I've got a stick of heelball from when I did my teacher training many, - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] Heelball
While soot is very messy, once mixed with the very hard wax to form heel ball it is stays quite clean. Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:29:16 + To: dmt11h...@aol.com CC: jean...@hotmail.co.uk; lace@arachne.com From: jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk Subject: [lace] Heelball Blacking would have been used in the household anyway, I can remember my grandmother having a range (combination of fireplace and about three ovens) which was blacked, and fire grates were blacked as a matter of course, especially in larger households where it was the job of the lower housemaids. To take a rubbing they would have rubbed the image onto paper, or similar material, as you cannot rub straight onto card (or vellum). This would give a mirror image of the pattern, as you rub the wrong side of the pricking, so the image would have had to have been turned over to prick onto new card - maybe this explains the difference in right and left footsides between regions when patterns were copied - so whatever was used for the rubbing would have had to be on something thin enough for the image to show through. The blacking may have transferred to the card when the pricker was pushed through, so they may have used something between the card and the rubbing to stop this happening? Dirty lace was more likely to have been rejected by a dealer - who was under no obligation to buy from the cottage workers s/he employed - so the lacemakers would have done everything possible to keep the lace clean. In message 6c87.43755fb5.3fc27...@aol.com, dmt11h...@aol.com writes Also called blacking It sounds a little messy to have around lace. Devon -- 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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Heelball
I've got a stick of heelball from when I did my teacher training many, many years ago. We had it for taking rubbings of tree bark, stone walls and other textured surfaces. Could be useful in getting natural patterns as inspiration for designing lace. As for my pen thickening, I've concluded that it's because I don't have fine feeling in my fingers, or hold it properly so I mash the point. My husband, who was a draughtsman, tried it and just Well, you've wrecked that! 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] heelball
I had never heard of heelball until I needed some to copy lace prickings by taking rubbings on the back of the pricking. I got ine from my next-door-neighbour, who was a cobbler. -- Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place South Africa - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Heelball
According to the on-line dictionary: A wax colored with lampblack that is used to stain and polish the edges of the soles and heels of shoes or to take rubbings of brass or stone inscriptions. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Heelball
According to the on-line dictionary: A wax colored with lampblack that is used to stain and polish the edges of the soles and heels of shoes or to take rubbings of brass or stone inscriptions. Which leads to the question, what is lampblack? Fortunately the online dictionary also defines lampblack: Fine soot collected from incompletely burned carbonaceous materials, used as a pigment and in matches, explosives, lubricants, and fertilizers. Also called blacking It sounds a little messy to have around lace. Devon - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Heelball
Blacking would have been used in the household anyway, I can remember my grandmother having a range (combination of fireplace and about three ovens) which was blacked, and fire grates were blacked as a matter of course, especially in larger households where it was the job of the lower housemaids. To take a rubbing they would have rubbed the image onto paper, or similar material, as you cannot rub straight onto card (or vellum). This would give a mirror image of the pattern, as you rub the wrong side of the pricking, so the image would have had to have been turned over to prick onto new card - maybe this explains the difference in right and left footsides between regions when patterns were copied - so whatever was used for the rubbing would have had to be on something thin enough for the image to show through. The blacking may have transferred to the card when the pricker was pushed through, so they may have used something between the card and the rubbing to stop this happening? Dirty lace was more likely to have been rejected by a dealer - who was under no obligation to buy from the cottage workers s/he employed - so the lacemakers would have done everything possible to keep the lace clean. In message 6c87.43755fb5.3fc27...@aol.com, dmt11h...@aol.com writes Also called blacking It sounds a little messy to have around lace. Devon -- 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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
