Elizabeth,
Congratulations to your mother on her Highly Commended! I remember the
Crinoline Lady, and it was very good. I hope the seahorse goes well too. I'm
impressed at the way people can make lace in spite of various physical
problems - I always assumed you had to have dextrous hands and
An alternative method is to cut the pricking slightly smaller than the
card,
and take a piece of 'blue transparent film' slightly larger, and use this to
attach the pricking to the card. You then have to prick all the holes, as
before, but you don't have to draw any lines. The main disadvantage of
A few weeks ago, someone was talking about the fact that you can't post
pictures to this list, and mentioned that this had been discussed a lot in the
past. As a newcomer, I don't know what solututions were proposed and
rejected, but wondered whether anyone had suggested setting up a Yahoo Group
Is the FAQ for the Arachne list still available? I've tried several times to
get it, both by ftp and by requesting it from Majordomo, but always get an
error.
Regards,
Annette,
London
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Linda,
Laminating - what a brilliant idea! My office has a photocopier, a lot of
blue paper and a small laminator - I'm all set!
Thanks for the idea.
Annette,
London
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I have also tried the FAQ to no avail. I don´t know if anything old works
anymore. And I still have to agree with the newcomber who thinks we should
use a server that can show our pictures. I don´t won´t to start the
discussion again as we had it this spring. I am just soo curious about
others
I am Helen's Mother, and thanks for the nice words about the Bucks Fan. It
was made from a Springett pattern. I felt, afterwards, that the thread
should have been a bit finer - but I feel that way with all Bucks Point.!
50 cotton seems a bit heavy. - Just my personal view.
It has been a
Arachne information is available on Lori's lace fairy site:
Do's and Don'ts
http://lace.lacefairy.com/Arachne/Arachne.html
FAQs on various aspects of lacemaking (but not on Arachne):
http://lace.lacefairy.com/FAQs.html
The Arachne web page is:
http://www.arachne.com/
Jean in Poole
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Following recent local talk about the method of doing prickings, may I ask
what is your normal / preferred method?
I usually use the first of Milada's two methods - although as I mostly
work my own designs, I rarely use
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:26:16 +0100, Annette wrote:
I don't have anything to prick onto yet, so I use the bottom of my polystyrene
mushroom pillow. I've just bought a block pillow, and intend to use the side
of the blocks to prick. I suppose I ought to go and get a polystyrene ceiling
tile from
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:34:04 +0100, Milada wrote:
Following recent local talk about the method of doing prickings, may I ask
what is your normal / preferred method?
I use 2 methods, depending on whether I need to work repeats on the same
pricking for that piece of lace. My choice of methods is
Hi, can I suggest you are not using the right sort of blue film. The one me
and my friends use is not shiny but matt and does not make your pins sticky.
KEEP LACING, VIVIENNE, BIGGINS
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Now this may seem a strange question for you all, but, still I would like to
know. How is handmade bobbin lace cut in lengths for dressmaking?
Here is what I have in mind. I found a place which will hand make lengths of
11 yards of lace for me for my Elizabethan dress I am making, BUT, I need to
If I'm going to use the pricking only once, I photocopy it on blue paper
and iron fusible interfacing to the back. There's no need to prick and
I've had good results with this easy method.
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
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I was taught how to join lace when I did a City Guilds in Dressmaking and
Pattern Cutting, taught by a lady who, in 1934, worked on the hand-sewn
trousseau for the Princess Marina who died in the UK in 1968.
The method was to place right side to right side, and using a thread of a
colour to
Dear Ann
It never ceases to amaze me how our lives entwine like one big piece of
lace. I'm very interested in the friendsreunited site at the moment and
wonder how many of my class-mates took up lacemaking - there were a couple
of girls I taught to crochet when we were in the 6th form (in the
Hi all
I have begun to laminate patterns which are either on coloured light card or
paper (the colour determined on the thread to be used) - depending on
whether the pattern is likely to be used more than once - and it is quite
easy to put the pins in without pricking beforehand - I have found
At 08:32 AM 8/16/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Laminating - what a brilliant idea! My office has a photocopier, a lot of
blue paper and a small laminator - I'm all set!
A word of caution -- there are different weights of laminating film. Be
sure you have the very lightest/thinnest weight for
Hi everyone and Annette
I will be posting the picture of my bolster to the Lace Forum, in the
thread on pillows. It is a yahoo group. Yes, these groups are easy to
join. and yes I'll let the list know when I've posted it. good plan :)
bye for now
Bev in Sooke BC (west coast of Canada)
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I use a cork mat, and pricking parchment that I get from lace suppliers. I
have two sizes of cork mat, as it's not easy having to move large prickings
halfway through. I put a photocopy of the piece on top, fixed with paper
clips and use drawing pins to hold the two sheets firmly in place on the
The inner packet of cereal boxes used to be grease-proof paper (nice and
waxy), but now they all seem to be going for foil.
Jean in Poole
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I have found the book Milaca Lace - An Introduction
by Patricia Read and Lucy Kincaid for
8 pounds and 50 pence. Of course there would be
postage as well, if you want to know where to get this
book please contact me privately.
Jean in Newbury UK
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As you've surmised, Panix went down in the blackout. Their part of
manhattan didn't get power back till Friday night. The system message says
mail had more problems coming back up than most other services, and that
messages will may take a while to deliver while the backed-up queues
gradually
I think you want to try something like MS Access - it's a pretty slick
little tool, and fairly straightforward to use, and teach yourself to
use.
I taught myself with Access 1.0 many eons ago, and created my own dbs
for my bobbins and books.
Access's gone through many updates since 1992/3,
Sure, it's possible to put together a database for your employer, but I
wouldn't recommend MS PowerPoint. MS Access would be more appropriate and
accessible. You may be a bit out of your depth if you've never designed a
database before, but it can be done. I recommend that you do some homework,
My son sent me this. Thought some of you might like to know where I'm
coming from... :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/travel/17warsaw.html
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Lexington, Virginia, USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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As you've surmised, Panix went down in the blackout. Their part of
manhattan didn't get power back till Friday night. The system message says
mail had more problems coming back up than most other services, and that
messages will may take a while to deliver while the backed-up queues
gradually
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