Hello Shirlee
Others have already replied suitable alternatives- Linkatex Goldrush is
the nearest substitute.
Both are chained threads - if you find the end it will unravel like a
long length of crochet chain/single crochet. It's about the thickness
of Perle 5.
Brenda
On 30 May 2008, at
The following is described on ebay:
VINTAGE LACE MAKERS STAND
Description:
Solid wood bottom weighted stand and pillow shelf. Leather lace apron.
Used for a bolster pillow,
Size: 36 high. Shelf 8 x 7 Apron 14 x 11.5
I haven't heard of lacemakers wearing a leather apron, but I
Making Lace Original watercolour of Daniel Powers, described as:
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Item number: 260246356898
This
Hi all
Ages ago someone showed me an easier way of making tallies and leaves,
but I think I
wrote it down wrongly as I just end up with a kind of plait-gone-wrong.
Any help out there?
Agnes Boddington - Ellougthon UK
(www.sixpennybobbins.co.uk)
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And I doubt if someone whose hands are as arthritic as those would be
able to handle tow bobbins in each hand at the same time!
Brenda
On 31 May 2008, at 09:11, Jean Nathan wrote:
Making Lace Original watercolour of Daniel Powers, described as:
Agnes
I think you may be thinking of the continental method of crossing the
two centre bobbins, two twists oon the left hand pair, cross the middle
two then two twists on the right hand pair but whichever way you handle
the bobbins it's down to tensioning the two outer passives correctly.
I would have thought the leather apron was to go over the pillow (like a
cover cloth) to prevent the bobbins/threads catching on the edges of the
pricking. Or perhaps it's used to fasten the top of the bolster to the stand?
The shelf wouldn't be big enough to sit the whole pilow on, but it
Hello everyone
I forwarded Ewa's message to my friend Barbara who also moved to Cyprus
a couple of years ago and here's her reply:
I have just switched on the computer to send you an e-mail regarding
Sandra when I had one from you.
It has been quite a shock to us all here in Cyprus as it
Thank you all who sent me get better wishes. I can't get to the main
computer but Iain has brought me the lap top. Those who are medically minded I
have
a Weber C fracture. To the rest of us I have dislocated my ankle, broken a
bone in it and in my leg. I had an op on Wednesday and next
After viewing the ebay site picture, I wrote a short note to the seller
stating it was too bad he had not made at least a brief study of how lace was
woven before painting the picture. It will be interesting to see if I get a
reply. I think the details of the hands, etc. is very detailed, to
How nice to get such a positive reply from the painter to explain what he
was aiming at. Makes a change from some of the abuse we get when trying to
be helpful.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Yes, he seems like a nice person. We must try to remember that people can be
good, and still not understand how lace is made. A hard concept to accept,
sometimes :-)
He seems very fearful of antagonizing the lace community. Perhaps we are
becoming known as the Scourge of Ebay. As
Yesterday I was in Hobby Lobby and found the magnifier I mentioned about a week
ago. It is a Vusion craft light and cost $29.99 but with the 40% discount it
was just under $20 including tax. My intent was to use it on my lace pillow
but just after I got home our power went out at 2:00 pm.
I wondered if the leather apron was actually the cover for the bottom
half of the pillow because the thing that first took my eye (and ears)
was an old lady making honiton lace in a shop in Honiton itself in about
1975, I remember well going into the shop and hearing this beautiful
rhythm of
I blinked and missed this one Vivienne.
Good luck, make the most of being able to do nothing!! It's typical
of a man to try and give you away as soon as you need looking after!!
Tell him it could be worse, it could be the other way round! I'm sure
Iain didn't really mean it...
Anyway,
I wrote to the seller asking for clarification about the leather, and if he
had any pictures taken from the side to see if there is a ratchet system. My
poor copy of Kloppel/kissen/stander is almost worn out because I use it so
much, but it doesn't illustrate something exactly like this; and no
Hi Laurie -
This is an interesting pillow!
I question whether the surface is really leather. The way that it has slightly
split at the corner of the roller box makes me think it it one of those
oilcloth type covers, which were so often used in the French pillows.
But what struck me as most
This is one of the illustrations from the multi-part story in Cricket
magazine that I mentioned back in January. You can probably find it at your
local library, in the children's magazine section. I believe the serialized
story began in the November or December 2007 issue.
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Hello all-
A friend passed along an article about a lace factory still operating in
Amsterdam--
Amsterdam, New York State, that is!
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From Schenectady, NY The Daily Gazette, March 28, 2008
JESSICA HARDING Gazette Reporter
Lace mill stands alone in state
Tucked into
I blinked and missed this one Vivienne.
Good luck, make the most of being able to do nothing!! It's typical
of a man to try and give you away as soon as you need looking after!!
Tell him it could be worse, it could be the other way round! I'm sure
Iain didn't really mean it...
Anyway,
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