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Coming out of lurkdom to ask questions and make recommendations.
Welcome back, we have been missing your wise advice.
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Imagine my surprise when I entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw a
painting of some lacemakers reproduced on a stancheon in the front hall. . To
see this promo picture, which unfortunately is only part of the painting go to
Currently there is an exciting costume exhibit at the Met in which mannequins
in 18th century attire are set up in salacious poses in the period rooms of
the Wrightsman Galleries. The emphasis is on seeing the costumes and the
furniture together. However an opera designer assisted with it and
Hi all - I almost never post messages. Usually I'm too busy and just scan the
chatter. Anyway, our family just moved from CT (where there is a wonderful group of
lacers!) to Spokane, WA. I'm thrilled, because as anyone in CT and Ithaca, NY knows,
I've been homesick the whole time we were in
Why don't we just call the group seven or sevenlace and then there will
no confusion with the arachne name; and some understanding of its purpose?
Sue
Bev said
Perhaps Avital can clarify, but I think that Liz the list owner owns the
name arachne-dot-com. 'arachne' is also the name of a weaving
on 6/5/04 1:49 AM, J.Falkink-Pol at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Spiders
The seven wifes could come from the seven continents, however, Antarctica?
A Japanese Kimono, an Indian from North America (the mens costumes are more
impressive), a colourfull South Amercian, from Europe many period
I've just returned from Poole Bobbin Lace Circle lace day, where I bought a
copy of Beryl Maw's Binche lace pattern pack A Snowy Spring Day in My
Garden.
Several of you were waiting for it to be published. She'll have it for sale
in Prague, but if you're not going and want to buy it, she's given
I've now been to the Herbert twice, on Sunday last weekend and today. On
Sunday I spent a little time talking to the staff as one my pieces of work
was upside down. It was rectified while I was there, but the resulting chat
was interesting. Apparently it had taken a great deal of effort to
A week ago, I promised to compile a report on the interest expressed in the
Arachne project, tentatively being called Seven. As a matter of fact, the
ideas flew fast and furiously, and most people address the list directly,
while a few wrote to me privately. I set up a separate file in my system
All your remarks about the time brought back memories about my struggles to
learn it the English way and now I have difficulty to get the right time
when in Germany or even when just looking at the German TV paper and missing
programmes.
Greetings from the Knotter,
who now after recovery thinks
Actually, I think it's more hazy than that. Liz owns the domain name
arachne.com because she pays to keep her listing up to date, but if she
lets the payments lapse, then anyone may claim it, as long as it's
registered and paid for. A domain name is not in the same category as a
copyrighted book
Hi,
I've managed to get pictures of my Myth and Mystery entries on the webshots
site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
Karen, in Coventry
who now needs to decide what lace to start.
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Karen, your work is simply beautiful!! I have such a high regard for
Honiton lacemakers... their skills elude me... But you have executed your
designs flawlessly (to my eye!!!)
Congratulations on your beautiful work! I know it brought you great
pleasure.
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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Thirdly, Gunnel
counted the bobbins on one pillow, only 18 bobbins and we opined that it
would be
unlikely that you could make a piece that wide with so few bobbins. Worse,
the
card on the piece
On Jun 5, 2004, at 11:42, Jean Nathan wrote:
She'll have it for sale in Prague,
Never having been to an OIDFA do, but remembering the *huge* number
of vendors who showed up for the Tonder Festival in '01... And having
reserved ony one day for shopping (the other two I'm taking day trips;
had to
Gentle Spiders,
I'll leave the setting up of the separate work-list for Arachne-7
Project to those who are 'puter literate; y'all decide whether the
yahoo route is a good one or not, set something up (if not; Jo's
already set up a yahoo one, if it turns out to be *the* choice) and
tell us
Malvary, I can also claim a weird family history - one of my ancestors was
reputedly a witch. The UK arachnes may have heard about the Pendle witches
in Lancashire; my ancestor was Alice Nutter who met an untimely end. I've
read various versions - hanged in Lancaster, burnt at the stake but Dad
Hmm. I don't have a flyswatter, but I use paper or such for flies, or
just open the window and try to get them to leave. I deal with
mosquitoes the same way you do. Especially effective when they're
trying to get at you in bed at night and you don't want to get up and
turn the light on. I'm
All I can remember is that a cat always falls on 4 legs, ie lands
safely. In
extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all g
and a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down.
So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back,
and drop the cat from a
Insects aren't really a problem, just the odd fly (most annoying if it's a
bluebottle with all that buzzing) or wasp. If they come indoors, they're
dealt with by a (probably) very evironmentally unfriendly insect spray
(although it doesn't contain cfc's). Drops a wasp in about 15 seconds. Then
I
Hmm. Narwhal? My spelling is probably wrong, but I'm pretty sure it
starts with an N.
Weronika
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:39:06AM +0100, Jean Nathan wrote:
I didn't get any further than thinking of a letter - I just couldn't think
of an animal that began with the letter N.
I could only
Weronika,
The culture confuses ME, and I was born and raised here by very
non-international parents!
I'm not sure whether I should be happy that my problem isn't abnormal,
or unhappy because that means it'll probably never go away... g
Except for The Lord of the Rings and Harry
Potter,
At 12:39 AM 6/5/2004, you wrote:
I didn't get any further than thinking of a letter - I just couldn't think
of an animal that began with the letter N.
You could try the newt, noctule (bat), nautilus, nutria, nighthawk or
nuthatch -- some of them stretching the meaning of 'animal' a bit. Or make
Sof a décidé d' écrire à ÒRe: [lace] sevenÓ.
[2004/06/04 21:52]
Carolina, the English must like cats more than the Spaniards, as they
say that cats have 9 lives, not seven!! I can't remember what we say
in Frnch, now, do you know, Dominique?
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
Hello
What a cool family history! I read about the Lancashire witches when I was a
teenager.
Best wishes,
Avital
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Malvary, I can also claim a weird family history - one of my ancestors was
reputedly a witch. The UK arachnes may
Help! I've found a lovely recipe for strawberry tarts, but the pastry recipe
contains a measurement with which I'm unfamilar, unless it's a misprint on the
website. The recipe calls for 2 dsps icing sugar. Can anyone tell me what
what or how much a dsps is?
Thurlow
Lancaster OH
where the
Help! I've found a lovely recipe for strawberry tarts, but the pastry
recipe
contains a measurement with which I'm unfamilar, unless it's a misprint on
the
website. The recipe calls for 2 dsps icing sugar. Can anyone tell me
what
what or how much a dsps is?
Thurlow, could you give us
Thurlow,
I long for strawberries reading your message :-)
This is in my book:
Tsp = teaspoon = 5 ml
Dsp = dessertspoon = 10 ml
Tbsp = tablespoon = 15 ml
Sonja Sillay
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Help! I've found a lovely recipe for strawberry tarts,
recipe calls for 2
I subscribe to a Polish-language e-newsletter (more to keep up with the
language than with the news) and the following snippet showed up
yesterday (forwarded in original, with a rough English translation -
mine):
From: Donosy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: June 4, 2004 10:08:23 EDT
W warszawskich
Dear all gentle spiders,
I've been catching up with my reading of digests (still have umpteen
lace ones to read) strangely enough I can sympathize with Tamara's
Weronika's observations about the way things are done in the USA.
The house that we have lived in here in Massachusetts for the last
If anyone wants to see the house that we are going to live in for the next
phase of our lives, you can go to : http://oruvilla.ee/eng/index.html
DH is wearing a blue shirt in the 3rd photo on the History page. A few
things
that appeal to us about living in Estonia, are the simpler lifestyle,
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