[lace] RE: lace-digest V2017 #34

2017-03-09 Thread lizlace
Very best wishes, Jeri, for your eye surgery. I hope all goes well for you. I am just recovering from “Back of the eye” surgery, - and he did the cataract while he was there! I had a filmy growth growing over the retina, and he was able to get most of it out. It should improve my vision he

[lace] Lacing for old ladies?

2017-03-09 Thread L. E. Weiss
Show your acquaintance some of the amazing contemporary lace that is being made all over the world-including some of the European textile and clothing designers incorporating lace in apparel-and she might change her outlook! I had many websites bookmarked from years of Arachne messages about

RE: [lace] Lacemaking

2017-03-09 Thread Lorelei Halley
This is the part of the article I enjoyed the most -- " I eventually discovered that there was a lace school and annual festival in Idrija, Slovenia. I barely knew where that was on a map but I booked a ticket there in 2012 for the lace festival, and I discovered that there was an entire universe

Re: [lace] Trip to England

2017-03-09 Thread Malvary Cole
I think it is the first weekend in May that there is a suppliers fair in Peterborough if you are still there then. Malvary in Ottawa who will just have returned from the Lace Guild AGM and Lace Society Rally so will miss it. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

[lace] Trip to England

2017-03-09 Thread Lyn Bailey
I will be taking a class in Peterborough in late April. What is there lace related to see in Birmingham, and/or Cambridge. Also London and environs. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA where even my daffodils are beginning to bloom. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

RE: [lace] Lacemaking

2017-03-09 Thread devonthein
Nancy, I love the idea of “off fabric embroidery”, although a different way to go with this is that needle lace is “looping”, a form of which goes back to the earliest human ancestors. The entire word “lace” is becoming confusing in regard to what we do. It implies something to the

RE: [lace] Lacemaking

2017-03-09 Thread devonthein
In fact, there is an uprising in interest among the millennials in Brooklyn. Whereas I am used to being the youngest member of many a lace group, I am undoubtedly the oldest member of the Brooklyn Lace Guild which is attracting young women who are for the most part graduates of the art and design

Re: [lace] Lacemaking

2017-03-09 Thread Karen ZM
I was only 19 when I started to learn lacemaking. As many of you probably know, our traditional Maltese pillow is a long, upright, bolster sort of pillow (perhaps like a roughly rolled cigar). I used to put this into a long bag and strap it to my back to ride on my little motorcycle to my lessons.

[lace] re: bowing off ?

2017-03-09 Thread d2oneill
Withof Lace by Trude v.d. Heijden-Biemans has a good diagram of this technique on page 11. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] Lacemaking

2017-03-09 Thread Jeriames
Dear Ann, You can always look to see what The Lace Guild in England is offering to children - on their website. And, I am sure they would appreciate patterns, supplies, teachers - for the publications produced for their use. Sometimes our members do not appreciate how important all forms