Hi everyone
It's such a long time since we had a raffle and I thought it would be fun to
do one at Christmas time.
I had an enquiry asking me where to get the thread used to make the snowman
which is on the Lace Guild's Advent calendar, on December 10th. The pattern
is online if you click on
I hope to go to Japan next year (Nagano ken). Does anyone know where I can
buy Jpanese silk thread for lacemaking?
Liz Greef in a dull and wet Cromer
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I went to the auction today, many lots did not meet the reserve price
for the Springett's. The lace did not do so well either. I am tired so
will sign off. Yes I wrote down all the prices.
Jean in Newbury
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Dear Lacers,
In line with the comments on demonstrating, I just did a demonstration for our
local historical society and the annual candlelight tour of their collection
of historic houses. Along with the usual 'tatting ladies' a young man stopped
by. He said he had seen us demonstrating at this
Hi All,
Yes - I have been away for several weeks, *celebrating* a birthday, and have
come home to umpteen weeks of messages - but I had to chuckle when I ready
the piece about coloured gimps.
Several years ago, I went on a course in Milanese lace, at Christine and
David Springetts, and my chosen
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I wound
the bobbins and, as I thought that a pale pink gimp would look well with the
ecru lace, I wound several pairs of said pink gimp.
I had similar with my first attempt at designing a piece for a pendant
in Bucks - in
Plants and Flowers in Lace by Bridget Cook is on sale by Edward Hamilton
Bookseller in the US. This is a Batsford book, paperbound now at $7.95.
I would also like to wish all a very Happy Holiday Season and to thank
everyone for the wonderful lace help and information over the past year.
Diane
The challenge is to make lace relevant
to people in some personal way -- the beauty, the crafting process, the
engineering aspect of design, the links with history and literature, beauty
of the tools -- the food traditions or nursery rhymes if nothing else
works!!!
Hear,hear, Lorraine. I like
Today at the Ratti Christmas party I found myself talking to a woman from
Textile Conservation. I mentioned that I had had an inquiry about finding
someone to repair tatting. She said, There are people who do that sort of
thing.
I asked her for names and she provided two that I had already
It is hard to tell from the picture, but am I the only person who thinks
this may not be a lappet? It looks to me like it might be a dress ornament
from
the late 19th, early 20th century. I am a little out of my depth in costume,
I'm afraid, but didn't they wear things like this in the
On Dec 16, 2004, at 21:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
What do you think it would cost? I asked. She said, several hundred
dollars.
The conservator would have to look at the piece, decide what needed to
be done,
write it up and have the client sign off on it.
What do you think the hourly
On Dec 16, 2004, at 21:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
It is hard to tell from the picture, but am I the only person who
thinks
this may not be a lappet?
No, you're not g I'd have expected a lappet to, either: be straight
except for the wider ends, or: widen out at both sides in the centre,
The problem stems from my previously announced ignorance of all things
antique. I was under the impression that a lappet went around the neck, like
a collar, but with the long thingies hanging down in front.
Now I understand that a lappet is worn on the head. Sorry!
This piece is clearly not
Many years ago I demonstrated lace at a Craft Fair in my hometown
Betty Ann in Roanoke Virginia
Me too. During the rain people took shelter under my roof with their back
turned against me and what I was showing. But more showed interest, some
sighed they would never ever have the patience, but
A few months ago our Guild demonstrated lace at a large tourist shopping
centre in Cape Town. A young Hawaiian girl working as an au pair for an
American couple visited the demonstration and said she was getting married
in March 2005 and would love a lace garter for her wedding. One of the
I have recently experienced selling some of my lace at a local craft fair.
They were very simple lace outlines of a rocking horse, dala horse and a
reindeer, all of which morphed out of the rocking horse design. You can see
the first two at the bottom of my web shots page but the dala horse
Hi All,
Ruth wrote:
Dear Bev,
Your question brought back memories! Let me say upfront that I understand
the need for strings to connect mittens, especially for a young child, but
as a young child, I *hated* having a string
To keep my little hands warm in an English winter, I had a pair of
MEMORANDUM
FROM : Patty Lewis, HR Director
TO : All Employees
2nd December
HOLIDAY PARTY
In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees. We
recognise that Chanukah is an important holiday which often coincides with
Xmas, though fortunately not this year. However, from
Some years back a Christmas story was posted regarding Louise would anyone
still have a copy on hand???
Thank you
Faye Owers
Shearwater
Tasmania
Australia
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As we're exiting the era of PC (as in: political correctness, not
personal computer), enjoy the times when it was prevalent and gave us
something to laugh about... Season's Greeetings (bland and blah) to you
all.
From: M. A.
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes
The *one* spot where our prex and I somewhat agree is the matter of
the outrageously large awards our judiciary system sometimes gives to
the non-deserving (where he and I do not agree on the same subject
would take a volume the size of Windows for Dummies to write, so I
won't burden y'all
And thank God for that!! I'd like to find the idiot who coined that
phrase and beat him/her/it with a person-hole cover grin. Thanks for
the grin.
Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
As we're exiting the era of PC (as in: political correctness, not
personal computer), enjoy the times when it was prevalent
First time I saw it, the clever one was a jailbird. Now, the times they
are a-changin', so there's been an adjustment. Next thing you know, an
Arab and a jailbird will be listed as synonyms in every American
dictionary :( Still, the *idea* is amusing, however much my PC guts
are revolting...
Ruth,
I'm with you! My Mum did that to me, and I loathed it, and it drove me
nuts. And then you'd take your hands out of the mittens or gloves
(mittens I think mine were), and the darn things's dangle and flap in
the breeze and still irritate me by getting in the way.
I tried it with my son
Dear Helen,
Parents do awful things to children, albeit with the best of intentions, but
joining mittens together was something I felt so strongly about that I
*never*, *ever* inflicted that on my children.
I presume that your Mother has now gone off on her annual pilgrimage in
pursuit of
Dear native speaking friends,
passed a little funny test which asks for your beahviour while suffering
from a cold and other simple silly questions and gives as a result, what
kind of herbal tea you are.. while some others turned out to be chamomille,
what I understand, I seem to be moly. none of
Aurelia wrote:
Dear Devon -- I think that long before we can find buyers for
recently-made (contemporary?) lace, we have got to educate our public
about the artistic value of lace; and that thread is just as
interesting and beautiful as paint or marble. When the public has got
that idea into
And now they don't recommend strings - at least not the kind that run from
one mitten to the other through the coat, because of the danger of
strangulation. We sometimes used the commercial mitten clips - two grips of
the sort used for suspenders connected by a short piece of wide elastic. Or
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