Sharon wrote:
Turns out it is a piece of torchon! The pricking is ½ inch wide and the
footside holes are 1mm apart. Who on earth would do such a fine piece of
work...in torchon?
I would! I love the shapes and patterns of fine torchon ( but can't stand most
of the coarser patterns ), and
This is the recipe for Cattern Cakes given by Hertfordshire Lacewings in
October 1991. (Have I really been making them every year for so long? VBG)
9 oz (275gm) self raising flour
4oz (100gm) melted butter
2oz (50gm) ground almonds
7oz (200gm)caster sugar
1oz (25gm) currents
2 teaspoons caraway
I can vouch for the fact that the lace came off the machines in a very
grubby state. A friend of mine, some years ago showed me a sample piece of
lace which had been cut from a lace machine in Nottingham during one of his
visits and it was a dirty grey colour. I remember him explaining that this
Thank you, Devon, for the Met Museum link. Its a wonderful piece and the
photography is awesome.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=20viewmode=0item=1987.277
A few years ago I saw a similar peice of Chinese needlelace at an antique
dealer's in London. It was dated early
I'm sure Annette is right about the possible delay being within Pipers -
waiting for new stock to come, for example. It is common practice here for
mail
purchases to come with the rider Allow 28 days for delivery. Things are
certainly not being sent out on packhorse :-) It simply alows
http://www.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dorte_zielke/my_photos
Sorry by mistake I did send it private.
. Turns out it is a piece of torchon! The pricking is ½ inch wide and
the
footside holes are
1mm apart. Who on earth would do such a fine piece of work...in
torchon?
I would, torchon can
Hi All,
I would agree with the methods for the making of the dough, but when that
has been done, the dough is rolled out flat, caraway seeds are sprinkled
over the dough, and then the dough is rolled into a large Swiss-roll
fashion, cylinder-shape, and the biscuits are cut from the 'Swiss roll' -
Since things are quiet and you are encouraging newbies, I have method that I
would like feedback on and it might help those of you who don't have much
time. I never prick patterns. I copy them on heavy blue cardstock (heavy
paper) and then put clear contact paper over the top. They seem to hold
In spite of the time it takes to actually prick all the holes, I find that
I learn a lot about the pattern if I prick them before making the lace.
I try to prick them in order of work (footside, ground, motif, next motif,
headside, back to footside, etc). I often find myself figuring out the
Apparently it wasn't just Irish immigrants who grew their own flax
in order to produce their own cloth; while on a nostalgic surf
through the website of Historic Bethlehem (PA, where I used to live)
I found the following snippet:
Linen comes from flax and almost every Pennsylvania German
Hi everyone and Carol who wrote:
fashion, cylinder-shape, and the biscuits are cut from the 'Swiss roll' -
that then gives them the characteristic *wheel* look, commemorating the
wheel on which St Catherine was martyred
and the caraway seeds supposedly represent the spikes on the wheel,
chilling
Hi everyone
Check out the Piecework issue here:
http://www.interweave.com/needle/piecework_magazine/default.asp
There are a couple of nice freebies from the web, too. However if I was
feeling cranky I would take issue with them about their 'holiday bells in
filet crochet' - the crochet isn't a
Thanks for the recipe, Lynne. I might try that for next Saturday - when it
is a Bring a Plate Lace Day!
It looks like a nice version of the recipe.
And Happy Birthday, when it arrives!
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz,
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I have been lurking on this list for awhile now - seeing all the posts
about a quiet list - maybe you won't mind my asking a few questions. I
am a wannabe lacemaker, not even a beginner - I have bobbins, some
thread and pins, even a few prickings - I have balked at the purchase of
a pillow and
Dear Sherri,
Welcome! And let me, on behalf of the Arachne list, assure you that we don't
mind questions of any sort!! Asking questions is how you learn.
Pillows: there are all sorts of pillows around the world, and, depending on
where you live, I'm sure that someone will be able to recommend
I've had mixed luck with sending/receiving packages from the UK and
environs, but it's usually not to bad for stuff coming, what, 7000
miles? I've mostly shipped books, so my experience may be a bit biased,
but the shipping time has averaged between a week and three weeks.
Quickest was a hug
I have been lurking on this list for awhile now - seeing all the posts
about a quiet list - maybe you won't mind my asking a few questions. I
am a wannabe lacemaker, not even a beginner - I have bobbins, some
thread and pins, even a few prickings - I have balked at the purchase of
a pillow and
have just started to read another book and I have found some
illustrations of the bobbins. They are not really good enough for me to
speculate further than to say that one is a South Bucks with the neck and
head missing(?) but the design is just the tiniest bit suspect. At first
I was going to
In a message dated 11/19/04 8:07:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Again, depending on where you live, someone should be able to tell you
where
you can get Rosemary's book, or some other substitute.
Dear Newbies,
This is key to helping you. We cannot tell from some
Sherry,
Welcome to the wonderful, addictive, world of Lacemaking.
Ruth and Patty have given you excellent advice. I, too, would have
recommended the Rosemary Shepherd book if they had not got in first!! A
group of ladies in Darwin - right up in the top end of Oz, used a copy of
that book to
Helene wrote: It was beautiful, but I can get those metal
containers anymore, they're all plastic now, and the inside stays where it
is. Maybe I could try icecream cubes?
No need for any magic containers, just pick up a chap plastic container that
holds two litres from the grocery store, put the
Gidday all,
A strange question for you - here in Suriname we can buy very cheap good
brand clothing that is imported from the US, including excellent quality
denim jeans. I want to buy my 13 y.o. son clothes for Christmas, but as he
lives in Australia and is growing at a huge rate of knots I
Having noted what everyone said, and sat in just about every smallish car on
the market, I came back to the Ford Fusion. Finally test drove and ordered
one today. DH agreed that it was the one that I got into and out of with the
most ease and thought that I seemed most at ease driving that than
At 11:19 AM 11/18/04 +1100, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I found that most of the foods in the United States were SO sweet - loaded
with sugar, - even Allbran, plain cornflakes, - and bread. - Try having a
vegemite sandwich on sweet bread Yuk!
I grew up on it, and all that sugar
On Nov 19, 2004, at 23:44, Joy Beeson wrote:
Perhaps it would be better to ask for measurements of his trousers.
*Definitely* the best idea... The fashion trends (at the waist, on the
hips, half-way-down-the-butt) vary almost from locality to locality,
and many teenagers want to stay hip -
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