[lace] Lace display
Thank you for your help in making contact with the IOLI co-chair for the Display Room at the IOLI convention. I have not been sent a display room form, - and all is well!! How did we ever exist before Arachne?!!! : ) (I wish I knew why some marks come up as gobbledegook, though, when I send to this list. Grrr!! ) Some States in Australia have had their UK Lace magazines for nearly 2 weeks, now, but those of us in Victoria and South Australia are still waiting for ours to surface.More Grrr!!! Regards from Liz. In grey, cold, Melbourne, Oz. - 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] lace display in PA
Hello All! I completely forgot to post this earlier. :-( My friend Chris is the featured artist at the Deer Creek Winery in Grove City, PA during the month of Oct. The winery is located at 216A South Broad in Old Towne (Grove City). The opening event was last week she made a lovely pattern--St. Catherine--to be worked in torchon or 'sGravenmoer. Lots of folks visit Grove City Outlets at this time of year (shop 'til you drop!) the town itself is only 5 miles east of the outlets I-79. So if you're in the area, please support your local lacemaker! Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA - 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] Lace display and Christmas trees
On 26/10/2011 10:18, Lynne Cumming wrote: [snip] None of the bits were ones we minded losing but nothing went. The Christmas before last, our local parish church lost not just decorations but the whole tree was stolen. It was a really large tree, too! Linda Walton, enjoying the last days of a warm and beautiful Autumn 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Lace display question
I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People canât seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Might not deter all thieves, but at least itâs not something you can easily crumple into a pocket. (What a dreadful picture.) Perhaps even something that can come apart and be put together again with a different piece. Screws of a discreet nature? Does anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items? If I search online, what terms do I use in the Google box? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where fall days donât get better than this. - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
hi Arachnids, Glass might be somewhat fragile and heavy to carry around with all the other bits needed for a demo. I prefer to use sheets polycarbonate which can be 'clipped' together with upvc 'U' profile all round and is light-weight, virtually unbreakable, can be re-used and cut to size/shape with a fine-toothed saw (rub the edges with fine sandpaper). Also, as one would not leave the lace in it afterwards off-gassing should not be a problem. Happy lacemaking, Joepie, East Sussex, UK From: Lyn Bailey Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:36 PM I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People can’t seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Perhaps even something that can come apart and be put together again with a different piece. Screws of a discreet nature? Does anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items? If I search online, what terms do I use in the Google box? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where fall days don’t get better than this. - - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Talk to your local picture framer. I'm not sure of the correct terminology but you want to float your piece between pieces of glass/plexi. You might want to think about UV filters, too. They should be able to give you starting ideas. Cynthia On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Lyn Bailey wrote: I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People can’t seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Might not deter all thieves, but at least it’s not something you can easily crumple into a pocket. (What a dreadful picture.) Perhaps even something that can come apart and be put together again with a different piece. Screws of a discreet nature? Does anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items? If I search online, what terms do I use in the Google box? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where fall days don’t get better than this. - 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 - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
On 10/25/2011 6:36 AM, Lyn Bailey wrote: Perhaps even something that can come apart and be put together again with a different piece. Screws of a discreet nature? Does anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items? If I search online, what terms do I use in the Google box? What about CD cases for small items? I did that with some bookmarks I wanted to pass around at a class. It worked well. I put a neutral felt behind the piece and the button that holds the CD in place created enough pressure to keep the lace in place! It was easy to open if they wanted to see the back. There is a size limitation, but it's better than handing it around unprotected. Lauren - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Thanks Joepie, Cynce and Lauren, Floating picture frame, while not being frameless, which is what I had first contemplated, does fill the bill, and clearly is sufficiently popular (Walmart, anyone?) so I have lots of choices. And with 2 11 x 14 frames for less than $20 at Walmart, it won't break the bank, and clearly can be re used. Also, with glass, no gassing problems. Right, Jeri? I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People cannot seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. ... Does anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items? If I search online, what terms do I use in the Google box? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where fall days do not get better than this. - - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
I place unframed laces flat on a table covered by a table-cloth size of clear vinyl that hangs well over the edge. People can poke at them all they like. I can put my beverage mug on the table, too ;) If you are concerned that someone would reach under the vinyl and take the lace, secure the vinyl in some way. I have a few lace pieces that can be handled, that wouldn't matter if they went walkies. So far they haven't. Clear page protectors in a binder hold other flat laces. I tape the opening of each page shut with magic tape to keep them contained. I have the binder open for display, and people can flip through it to see the range of laces. The binder contains assorted laces including examples of tatting alongside bobbin lace, traditional regional lace samples, a lace-trimmed hanky, animal motifs in different styles, contemporary lace - anything I can think of that would interest the people attending the demo. On 10/25/11, Lyn Bailey lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote: I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People can’t seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Might not deter all thieves, -- 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question - cover cloth
Dear Lace Demonstrators, For added security: Recommend you pin the cloth to your pillow around the outside edge. Something like pearl-headed corsage pins pushed all the way in (if possible), angled horizontally, will work and not be as tempting as some of the very decorative separator pins. Recommend, also, that you demonstrate in pairs (2 people) if at all possible. Then, you can take breaks from demonstrating, with less concern about sticky fingers, nasty scissors, etc. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 10/25/2011 12:46:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lacel...@frontier.com writes: At a demo, when some people leave their pillow for a bit, they cover it with a large cloth. If the bobbins are not visible, they are less tempting. When there's more than one person, we try to take turns so there's always a person watching the pillows. With a single demo, covering with a large cloth is probably a good idea. - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Google riker mount... these are shallow cases with a glass lid and cotton batting. They're used to store/display all kinds of things; you've probably seen them in antique stores being used to display things like projectile points or similar small items. For lace, I'd suggest a piece of finely woven cotton fabric over the batting to contrast with the lace so the design stands out. I wouldn't recommend them for long-term storage of lace, but for short-term display they'd be great since they'd resist casual pilferage. KW Katrina Worley kwor...@mac.com -- History: special people in special places at special times Anthropology: everyone else the rest of the time. K.Worley, 1997 On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Lyn Bailey wrote: I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People can’t seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Might not deter all thieves, but at least it’s not something you can easily crumple into a pocket. (What a dreadful picture.) Perhaps even something that can come apart and be put together again with a different piece. Screws of a discreet nature? Does anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items? If I search online, what terms do I use in the Google box? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where fall days don’t get better than this. - 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 - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Sorry I haven't been following all of this topic...so I apologize if I reiterate someone else's perspective. What I do is take along a piece of dark burgundy cloth and put my lace on that. Then I put a layer of clear plastic sheeting over it. Nobody can touch or take my stuff. I get my plastic at WalMart in the fabric/craft section. It is (or was) sold on a roll and comes in various weights. Karen Bovard The ShuttleSmith Omaha, NE - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Just make sure the clear covering hangs 'way over everything to keep the items in place. On 10/25/11, Karen Bovard k.bov...@yahoo.com wrote: What I do is take along a piece of dark burgundy cloth and put my lace on that. Then I put a layer of clear plastic sheeting over it. Nobody can touch or take my stuff. -- 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
[lace] Lace display question
When we demo and have a table that we can put pieces on, we cover them with a clear plastic dropcloth over a dark tablecloth. This works for the flat pieces that would be easily lifted by the light fingered. On top of this we put any framed pieces that hold it down or we pin the plastic to the tablecloth. The plastic cloths are from the dollar store and so are very thin when fully opened. It also helps if we are out in the wind or rain. Recently, I have been taking a few of my latest pieces to display before and after my yoga classes. Gives people an opportunity to see what I have been doing and I leave cards with my web address and where they can see more lace. They are quite excited to see the real stuff rather than just photos. Janice I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People canât seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Lyn Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Clearly the question of displaying lace has been solved in many ways. Thanks to all of you. I had a half off coupon at AC Moore, (a chain craft supplies store in the US) so I picked up a floating picture frame, 10 x 14 of display, with a black frame, and glass, and a gizmo to make it stand up on a table for $5. Not bad. And if I need more, I can get them, and they'd all match. I'll put something dark on the table, and I'm all set. I get my clear vinyl at JoAnn's (a chain fabric store, cheap fabric, both in quality and price, in the US) which has several thicknesses. Great to top a table, like my new cherry kitchen table, so the wood shows through and only the plastic needs cleaning. The glass is fine for me, as I'm doing car demonstrating mode right now, so I've got a car, then a rolling crate to carry stuff in, portable tables, etc. should be no problem. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where it has, indeed, been a beautiful fall day. They are talking some snow on the weekend. - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
I, to have never lost anything I've displayed. Partly because I took to heart what I encountered in Phoenix when I participated in a display at a museum by the Desert Valley Weavers. It was a Pioneer museum and the pieces were to be displayed among the exhibits of household furnishings. Everything was sewn together with thread or monofilament from underneath and thus attached to the furnishings. That stuff was going nowhere without taking the whole display!! It takes only a stitch or two over one or two threads and does no harm to the piece or the display. Linda, the string-a-holic in Oregon where the leaves are blazing and the weather is fine (for now!!). -Original Message- From: Janice Blair Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:00 PM To: lace Subject: [lace] Lace display question When we demo and have a table that we can put pieces on, we cover them with a clear plastic dropcloth over a dark tablecloth. This works for the flat pieces that would be easily lifted by the light fingered. On top of this we put any framed pieces that hold it down or we pin the plastic to the tablecloth. The plastic cloths are from the dollar store and so are very thin when fully opened. It also helps if we are out in the wind or rain. Recently, I have been taking a few of my latest pieces to display before and after my yoga classes. Gives people an opportunity to see what I have been doing and I leave cards with my web address and where they can see more lace. They are quite excited to see the real stuff rather than just photos. Janice I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of lace. People can’t seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Lyn Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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 - 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
Re: [lace] Lace display question
Most of the ladies in my guild have small samples in a 3 ring binder. They get those clear plastic sleeves and put in a nice piece of paper that contrasts with the lace thread. Most either leave them unattached or use a bit of acid free tape to keep them from shifting. One lady has a whole range of laces from netting to torchon to tatting. That way the people can flip through the book not getting dirty hand stuf on the acutal lace and it's hard to walk off with. One person I know puts it all up on a board at the back so people can touch it, but it's so far back it's hard to see. Also at one park demo they put us right next to the dutch oven cooking...smoke everywhere! Lots of a hand washing that week. Me I just take stuff I don't care if it gets a little dirty etc. RLD -- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams - 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
[lace] Lace display question
One thing my local group used to do to deter light fingered visitors was to cover the entire display table in transparent plastic (either cheap plastic tablecloths or drop cloths for painters) and then fold the hanging edge of plastic under and clamp it down. The result is not 100% secure, but removing a piece of lace involves some really obvious and visible behavior which can be easily spotted. 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Lace display question
When doing a demonstration, I usually have a display board on legs behind me with my lace pinned on it for display. I feel it is safer that way. If I have to leave my pillow, I slot knitters stitch-holders through the spangles (like I do when carrying the pillow from A to B,) then cover them over with the cover cloth, leaving the lace and working area still on show. If anyone tries to nick a bobbin, - well, they have to take the whole bunch! Each stitch holder holds about 9 Pairs of bobbins. They are not too easy to undo to remove just one or 2 bobbins, - especially if they are stacked overlapping each other. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Lace display
Hi all, I so agree with Jean's sentiment. I too have not only a 'lace display bossom'. but also 'lacemakers bottom'. ;D) And as you can see more chins than can be found in a Chinese telephone directory. This was what I was intending to send earlier, but was dropped off my email by Hotmail. Joepie, East Sussex, UK Jean Nathan wrote I like to think that I would show lace off better than she does because, being much larger, there'd be more of it to see on me! - 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
[lace] Lace Display, Not in a Museum
Greetings, Avital suggested writing about a lace in a museum. It brought to mind my visit to England for the Arachne 98 conference. Before the conference, I took a tour of Scotland. I kept watching for lace in the various places we visited, and finding very little. Near the end of the tour, we stopped in St Andrews at the Woolen Outlet. It is across the side street from the teeing-off end of the famous gold course. Upstairs over the outlet store was a tea shop. Mounted on the wall of this small tea shop was a large display of knitted lace patterns. There was on large square scarf, and many stitch sample squares. Of course, by the time I found this, I only had ten minutes to catch my tour bus so there was no time to study it. I took several pictures with my zoom camera and hoped they would be clear enough to look at later. I don't know if this tea shop and display are still there, but if you are in St Andrews, take a look and let us know. Alice in Oregon -- still trying to cat proof my house for the two new black cats, who seem to be growing bigger every day. Cat-snuggling time is slowing down my lacemaking. Pillow dumped only three times so far. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace display room, Ratti Center
At 05:59 AM 1/31/2004, you wrote: Ratti Center is ...still providing the access to our computer data base of 36.000 textiles, 5,000 of them laces, ... I wonder, if we emptied the Metropolitan Museum of Art of all those other things, ., if it would even be possible to display it all in this, the largest museum in our hemisphere. This made me think about the lace exhibit I had last year. I filled a school classroom-sized room -- walls, displays, tables, etc-- with a bit under 200 pieces. The space 5000 pieces would need would be enormous. I also can appreciate the time needed just to set up the displays. I worked steadily for 3 months to get my exhibit panels prepared for hanging. 5000 pieces -- wow! But I wish I were close enough to see at least some of them. Anyone in the area please make a point to view some so they will know people are interested. Take a look for me while you're there, please. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- still raining, and flooding in some area. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
