Hi Sue,
Thank you very much for taking on this task. I have sent $5 towards your costs
via Paypal. I have not been very active in Arachne lately through personal
circumstances, but I always read all emails and love spending time with all
the eye-candy in our photo albums (especially when feeling
Another mystery. A piece presents itself as a Brussels applique, but
the droschel is actually worked around the motifs, sewing into the
edges of them during construction. However, when viewed from a
distance, there are faint lines indicating the droschel was made in
strips. I always thought that
I am tremendously grateful to Clay Blackwell for all the years she has hosted
this Flickr unlimited storage account. She has done so as a way of giving
back to the lace world. Thank you so much for doing this, Clay.
This morning I investigated having several free Flickr accounts. It would
I don't know much about lace in Sri-Lanka, but several years ago my son was
there for several weeks.
During one of his strolls into the woods he came upon a small hut and a
woman making bobbin lace. She allowed him to take her picture and he asked
her if she could sell him a pair of bobbins (for
I am so sorry for all of the confusion about the funding of our Flickr account!
I simply misread something and jumped to the wrong conclusion!
So please. Do not try to set up an account to reimburse me! The cost is
really not an issue for me, because it is very small. (Less than $20 a
Thanks for all the concern.  Some people responded to the request, and
found out that they were to buy a card, take a picture of it and send it with
the pin number from the back of the card. That's how the hacker would be
able to cash in the card. As far as I know at this time, no one
