[lace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Achim Siebert
For those that use a Mac and are still looking for an alternative to the expensive Adobe Illustrator as a vector drawing program for your designs, I might have found something. I for one would rather spend those 800 $ for bobbins, pins and threads. The application is called EazyDraw and has

[lace] lacemakers sought

2011-01-29 Thread Agnes Boddington
Hi all, Is/Are there any lacemakers from Southern Germany on this list? I email with a lacemaker from the Munich area, and she told me that she does not know of any other lacemakers or groups in the area. All offers gratefully accepted. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK - To unsubscribe send

Re: [lace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Claire Allen
That definitely sounds worth a look. Thank you for the heads up on this. Claire Claire Allen www.bonitocrafts.co.uk Crafty stuff I want to show off. On 29 Jan 2011, at 11:32, Achim Siebert wrote: For those that use a Mac and are still looking for an alternative to the expensive Adobe

RE: [lace] lacemakers sought

2011-01-29 Thread Jo
http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/Map/ Has at least one with an e-mail address only 30 km from Munich Jo I email with a lacemaker from the Munich area, and she told me that she does not know of any other lacemakers or groups in the area. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Jo
There is even a free (open source) alternative: http://www.gimp.org available for all/most operating systems, havent explored it myself for the purpose of lace yet, as years ago I bought http://www.knipling.de/knipling/knipling-kn30en.html and later I started to develop

Re: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Achim Siebert
Hello Jo, I also own Knipling - nice program but again in a different price category and not very Mac-like (it only runs as a standard Unix program under X11). And I think there's no development for it any more, so if it stops working in any OSX update we're lost (I just checked on their

RE: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Marianne Gallant
If you want a vector drawing program, you are better off getting the free open source Inkscape. It is a full fledged vector based drawing program similar to Illustrator. You can download it here: http://inkscape.org/. It runs on Windows, Macs and Linux based pc's. Marianne Marianne Gallant

RE: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Jo
Hello Achim I also own Knipling - nice program but again in a different price category and not very Mac-like It runs on windows too. I just mentioned it to explain why I did not try wether The Gimp could do something. After buying one of the first versions of Knipling I volunteerd as a beta

Re: [lace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Achim Siebert
If you want a vector drawing program, you are better off getting the free open source Inkscape. Yuck! ... dont get me started :). First of all, it's not a native Mac application - it's a Linux port that uses X11, so it doesn't even have a proper menu and doesn't use the standard Mac keyboard

Re: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Achim Siebert
I'm afraid the market is not that big. If no one pays nor participates in developing, nothing happens anywhere. Sad but true. There are too few lace making and/or designing people worldwide to make development of a specialized program worthwhile. Even more so for those using Macs. But

[lace] Russian lace brass fan frame

2011-01-29 Thread hottleco
Hello All! Thank you Rebecca for posting the picasa link to Russian lace dresses. Just drafting the patterns would be a challenge! Wouldn't it be lovely if a Project Runway contestant could use some of those artisans for the final competition during New York Fashion Week? H. And, if

Re: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Clay Blackwell
As someone who loves re-creating old lace, and yearns to design my own lace, I've found this discussion both fascinating and beyond my reach!! I am your average computer user: I don't have a clue about codes or vector based graphics or any of the other things that are lurking under the

Re: [lace-chat] A little weirdness.

2011-01-29 Thread Agnes Boddington
Now, that will get the doom-sayers out. It worked though for my husband, me and even for my dog Megan. Agnes Boddington - chilly, but sunny Elloughton UK This year we will experience 4 unusual dates ... 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11 . Now go figure this out -- take the last 2

[lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..

2011-01-29 Thread jeanette
It seems to be the season for silly e-mails. Fortunately I got the question wrong!! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.   Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has