[lace] handmade shoes LOKK free content
Hello All! Thank you Brenda for posting about the shoe making classes. What a great idea AND theoretically you would get a pair that fit! My size (6.5 slim) is practically non-existant any more as all the companies rush to make wide sizes. None of the hand made shoe sites offered widths, so they are clearly making medium or wider that won't fit me. It is one of the reasons that I have considered buying painted needlepoint canvas having shoes professionally made to fit. Pricey to be sure, but in the end no more expensive than a pair of designer shoes that don't fit! In the meantime, there is a shop in Juno Beach that makes sandals I will check next week to see if they make shoes as well. One of my ANG (American Needlepoint Guild) friends has used them was satisfied. They advertise that they will convert a designer handbag into a pair of sandals. Presumably there is a market to recycle! Today I attended the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show in West Palm Beach w! here there was a gal (Nina Gelardi) who makes custom sandals. Surely with all this buzz about shoe making, we will find a source for making some in lace. The LOKK pattern for making cord using lacemaking techniques intrigued me finally I got a chance to give it a try yesterday. OMG--what fun!! For those of us who have other passions in addition to lace, this is a fab technique to make a cord for a special pendant: wire lace, beaded lace, beads only etc. etc. I was humming along nicely until one of my glittery needlepoint threads snapped--rats! I'm using a combination of Oliver Twist embellishment threads, various Rainbow Gallery metallics (the culprit) various weights of cotton for the passives, plus OT variegated machine thread for the weaver. I wish I could thank the person who designed posted the creation but there is no attribution on the LOKK site. Hope to make repairs restart shortly. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 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
[lace] handmade
Nancy and all These definitions are always a problem. I have trouble understanding why someone using a knitting machine would join a contest for hand knitting. The only reason that makes sense is when the machines first came out and were still very rare. A woman has one, uses it, and wants to show off what she can do. But the skill set for operating a knitting machine is quite different, I think, from the skills a hand knitter needs. Once the machines become common, comparing yourself to others who use the same machine makes more sense. As for lace definitions, myself, I have no problem with a very broad definition: any textile with holes is lace. ( I especially like the definition of holes surrounded by thread) . It doesn't matter to me if it incorporates some machine made elements, such as Battenberg or Carrickmacross (both of which are lace, I think). Embroidery on net is lace. Embroidery which makes holes in fabric is lace -- Hardanger, pulled thread, reticella, cutwork, drawnwork. A large part of the reason is that all these forms present similar problems for designing them. Lace is about juxtaposing dense areas and open transparent areas. It is about presenting a variety of weaves and textures in a way that keeps the eye moving and roaming all over it. It is about textures added to the density variations. Even though a lot of modern lace, of any description, uses color, the essential thing about lace is this variety of textures and densities. But I still would not put bobbin tape lace and Battenberg in the same competition, nor Carrickmacross and Limerick. Although it might be interesting to set up a competition for, say, collars. Specify a peter pan shaped collar, must be white or cream, must be 4 inches deep, use any lace technique whatsoever, including Hardanger and Battenberg, embroidered net, bobbin lace, needle lace. And judge on the basis of good lace design, good juxtaposition of dense and open. And specifiy that all the collars will be judged from a distance of 15 feet, the judges will not be allowed to get closer. (You would have to announce it far in advance, because the needlelacers need much more time to finish a piece than the others do.) 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
RE: [lace] handmade
Nancy and all These definitions are always a problem.. Lorelei === My personal definition of lace is string and a hole! No hole, no lace. No string, no lace. Patty - 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] handmade
Hi all, According to the definitions given so far a string vest or a sock with a hole in it could be lace. I feel the phrase 'and should be aesthetically pleasing' should be added;-)) Joepie -Original Message- From: Patty Dowden Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 9:28 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: RE: [lace] handmade Nancy and all These definitions are always a problem.. Lorelei === My personal definition of lace is string and a hole! No hole, no lace. No string, no lace. Patty - 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] handmade
Hey! Wotcher sayin' ? You no lika my lacy string vest?? From: J-D Hammett jdhamm...@msn.com To: Patty Dowden pa...@clowder.com; Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 5:18:18 PM Subject: Re: [lace] handmade Hi all, According to the definitions given so far a string vest or a sock with a hole in it could be lace. I feel the phrase 'and should be aesthetically pleasing' should be added;-)) Joepie - 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] handmade
Joepie, I have to agree with you completely! However, (gloom and despair!), what pleases one does not please the other,and so... you have a very broad definition which includes the string vest and the sock with a hole in it. I, for one, have long since stopped putting my work in competitions. If it pleases me, that is enough. The eternal State Fair which occurs in the US in every state (I think?) in the union, has opportunities for exhibiting lace and competing for ribbons. I am not willing to put hundreds of hours of work on display on a table where the public can touch (and in the worst case, pilfer?). I am not convinced that the jurors in state fairs know anything about bobbin lace (although I know that for a number of years, our own Tamara Duvall donated her services for this). I'm always pleased when I hear that a lacemaker has taken a ribbon at a fair, but the risk isn't worth the prize for me. Sadly, I don't know of exhibits/competitions that rival the splendors of European exhibits which focus completely on lace and/or fine embroidery. I'd love to know about them if they exist!! Clay On 5/3/2011 5:18 PM, J-D Hammett wrote: Hi all, According to the definitions given so far a string vest or a sock with a hole in it could be lace. I feel the phrase 'and should be aesthetically pleasing' should be added;-)) Joepie - 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] handmade
The annual lace contest at the International Old Lacers Convention has been garnering some pretty impressive entries lately. Also the judges are knowledgeable. Devon In a message dated 5/3/2011 6:23:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, clayblackw...@comcast.net writes: Joepie, I have to agree with you completely! However, (gloom and despair!), what pleases one does not please the other,and so... you have a very broad definition which includes the string vest and the sock with a hole in it. I, for one, have long since stopped putting my work in competitions. If it pleases me, that is enough. The eternal State Fair which occurs in the US in every state (I think?) in the union, has opportunities for exhibiting lace and competing for ribbons. I am not willing to put hundreds of hours of work on display on a table where the public can touch (and in the worst case, pilfer?). I am not convinced that the jurors in state fairs know anything about bobbin lace (although I know that for a number of years, our own Tamara Duvall donated her services for this). I'm always pleased when I hear that a lacemaker has taken a ribbon at a fair, but the risk isn't worth the prize for me. Sadly, I don't know of exhibits/competitions that rival the splendors of European exhibits which focus completely on lace and/or fine embroidery. I'd love to know about them if they exist!! Clay On 5/3/2011 5:18 PM, J-D Hammett wrote: Hi all, According to the definitions given so far a string vest or a sock with a hole in it could be lace. I feel the phrase 'and should be aesthetically pleasing' should be added;-)) Joepie - 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
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Just as I hit the send button on that email, I realized that the IOLI competitions were always impressive *and* had knowledgeable judges. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Clay On 5/3/2011 6:37 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: The annual lace contest at the International Old Lacers Convention has been garnering some pretty impressive entries lately. Also the judges are knowledgeable. Devon Sadly, I don't know of exhibits/competitions that rival the splendors of European exhibits which focus completely on lace and/or fine embroidery. I'd love to know about them if they exist!! - 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] Handmade Lace: From Fine Art to Folk Art, exhibition in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Congratulations Laurie, I only wish I could attend. I am sure the lace is lovely and interesting and I would love to hear your lecture. Also it is 20 yrs. since I have been to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Lorri F Subject: [lace] Handmade Lace: From Fine Art to Folk Art, exhibition in Los Alamos, New Mexico I'm having an exhibition of my lace collection, December 2nd through the 29th at the Los Alamos, New Mexico Mesa Library in their Upstairs Art Gallery. I'm showing about 100 pieces of lace, mostly needle and bobbin, from my collection, which I have been working on for about 40 years. Pieces span from the 16th century to modern day. Also included are 28 bobbin and needlelace pillows, 13 (and growing) bobbin winders from around the world, coins, medals, dolls, stamps, lacemaking accessories (e.g., lamps, pillow stands, and more). This exhibit has been in the planning for almost 2 years. Los Alamos is about 35 miles north of Santa Fe. I'm also lecturing on lace collecting at the Wheelwright Museum on December 2nd, which is just down the road from the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe. Thanks! Laurie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Handmade or machinemade?
Well, I can't claim to be an expert on anybody's needlelace but my own, and even then it's a stretch. Still...as I've been making NL for at least half a century (and even won prizes for some of it, imagine that!), I am moved to express an opinion and even describe how I got to it: Yes, I do think, Brenda, that your lovely mat is machinemade. I can't think that a human lacemaker, no matter how skillful, could produce a cordonnet of those dimensions without at least microscopic variations in the spacing of the buttonhole stitches that cover the cordonnet. There are a number of influences on the human hand and wrist that the machine is not subject to. For instance, a handmade cordonnet will be using up lengths of thread that are about 15 or if the lacemaker is very naughty and willful, maybe 20 long. The ending-off and the joining-on, no matter how beautifully executed, are going to produce tiny changes in rhythm, if only because the length of thread, nearing its end and twisted and untwisted many times in the course of the work, is going to be somewhat more tightly plied by the time we get to the end of the 15-20 inches than it was at the beginning; whereas the machine doesn't have to cope with joins for maybe a thousand inches or more. Another thing is changes in finger tension and muscle tension over a period of an hour or two of steady stitching. Those changes will produce tiny changes in stitch tension! whereas the machine can go on for hours and hours without having to stop and stretch and relax and go get a glass of water, etc. etc. Looking at your mat, Brenda, I can just see that machine sawing away in a blissful monotony, cloning perfection by the yard! Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Handmade Antique Pins
Hi Jeri and All, Sorry to be so late following this up, could not find the info. Carole Morris of Spangles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has had made a reproduction of a lace bobbin found in the excavation of a town house in Gloucester. The original was in bone and the objects found with it suggest a date of late 17th or early 18th century. this would make it one of the earliest lace bobbins used in England. It is quite short and dumpy with an interesting double head, perhaps used to run 2 threads together. Carole is an archaeologist herself and has written a large book on historical wood turning which youm can aslo read about on her web site. Jean in Cleveland U.K. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Handmade Antique Pins
Dear Lacemakers interested in early pins, This is a continuation of a discussion we had about a month ago. At IOLI, I was given the gift of a 1990 Lace Guild calendar from the U.K. The month of May had text about the Gloucester Folk Museum at 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester: Fine medieval timber-framed buildings associated with the martyrdom of Bishop Hooper and the manufacture of brass pins by hand. A search for Gloucester Folk Museum yielded many addresses to pursue. A very good start for information about early pins can be found at the following address: http://www.livinggloucester.co.uk/made/pin_making/ Do read all the sections, because they will take you back 400 years to the apprenticeship of John Tilsley to a Gloucester wiredrawer, in 1600. Those interested in child labor history will find some sections of the history very illuminating. Perhaps from this, someone in the geographic area can learn more about pin production for lacemakers? Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Handmade????
Not being anything like an expert in telling hand-made from machine-made lace. These two pieces just don't have the feel, if you know what I mean, of hand made. The yardages being sold also make me suspicious. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Handmade???
At 11:00 PM 8/7/2003 +0200, you wrote: I joined some time ago and have been lurking, reading the digest. . Within the past year I decided that I'd like to learn tatting. . How can you tell, by looking at photos such as the ones in these auction, if a lace is handmade or machine made? The seller claims that they are handmade, but they look just like pieces of lace that I have that are machine made. ... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2548022631category=2219 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2548023820category=2219 Debbie in Jerusalem Hi Debbie, Welcome! I can't help with the tatting question. However, I'll stick my neck out on the handmade lace. This will be mostly personal opinion so someone else may have a different viewpoint. I believe that both of these lace items are machine made. It is very common for lace sellers (who often don't really know much about lace) to label any lace item as 'handmade'. As is often said, let the buyer beware! It behooves each bidder to assess the item (as best you can from the pictures) to confirm or deny any claims. Somewhere in the mid 1800's, the machines were developed that could duplicate the look of Torchon and Cluny type laces, though not always the techniques. Millions of yards of this lace was produced. The quantity so overwhelmed the production of handmade lace yardage that I start out assuming this type of lace is machinemade, until proven beyond a doubt that it's handmade. If the item is not clearly shown, with an enlargement of a piece of the lace, I sometimes ask the seller for an additional picture. Sometimes I get one, sometimes not. Back to the techniques comment. Look carefully at the center of spiders. Machines had difficulty making spiders the way we do in BL. Use your magnifying glass on the first item listed. The center of the spiders have the threads combined into groups which have a square, basketweave look to them. I can't speak for the other lacemakers in the group, but I don't make my spider centers that way. One key question to ask yourself is: Do the threads move through the lace in normal BL patterns? Do the shapes look like they should in BL? In the second lace, there's some threadpaths along the scalloped edge that don't look quite right. Also, the 'leaves' are long rectangular tallies. The oval leaf shape is more difficult to duplicate. If the leaf/tally has 2 or 4 passives, then it's very likely machinemade. Another clue is to look for a flaw or mistake in the lace. Look along the repeats for 1-3 feet to see if that same flaw is repeated. If you can find it at regular intervals, then it's a machine lace. People mistakes are not usually repeated the same at regular intervals. (I know this clue won't usually work on eBay sales since you can't examine that much lace.) Most important is to get accustomed to the look of handmade lace. Most machinemade lace has something done differently to produce the 'look' of the lace within the limits of the machine action. Half stitch might be done differently. Clothwork may be done in a single direction instead of following the flow of the design. Developing an 'eye' takes time and work. One person once told me that on some laces that did such a great job of duplicating a lace style, only an analysis of the thread could determine handmade from machinemade. When she saw laces like this, she treated them like machinemade since the chances were greater that they were MM. If you are serious about learning more, there are books out that are great references. Elizabeth Korella's Guide to lace and Linens is a good start for learning to recognize the techniques and features of handmade lace. Lace Machines and Machine Laces by Pat Earnshaw deals with the machine laces. There are other books around also. This may give you a few clues. Study and exerience will be the biggest teachers. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon - 9400 lightning strikes in 24 hrs. 65 fires. Oregon Country Lacemakers Arachne Secret Pal Administrator Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
