Re: [lace] Needlelace at the RSN

Even though it's for beginners, I would jump at the chance to go there. If only I had money for airfare and accommodations. Oh yeah, and a passport. LOL Jennifer All this discussion of needlelace so I had to smile when the latest > post from the Royal School of Needlework popped up on

Re: [lace] Color in lace

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:29 PM, wrote: > Linen shifts and shirts were the next to the skin layer, and were meant > to be washed, so white would have to be the color of choice. Remember that > in Germany clothes have been boiled in recent memory. How this explains >

Re: [lace] Sue's Clock

I had a day of running away from dental issues today, so had the desire to look at pretty things and find the direct link to the clock face before I left for the dentist. :\ Bronwen who spent three hours in the dentist's chair today, and will probably have to go back tomorrow as one of the fills

Re: [lace] Announcement: Gems of European Lace, Met. Mus. of Art

If you can't get to the Met before the display closes, you can go to the Met's website, click the collections button, then put lace into the search field and bring up all sorts of lovely items. I found a piece of needle lace (probably Amelia Ars) that is not on display, but the resolution is so

Re: [lace] Rembrandt and lace

The whole 2 volume set is online, hosted at the University of Arizona's website. Here's the link: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/oilace.html Volume 1 has more to do with the needle laces, with Volume 2 concentrating more on bobbin laces. It's fascinating to read, and tons of pretty

Fwd: [lace] Photos of Reticella Lace

It really messes me up that reply sends to author, not to group. I meant this to go to the list, not just the person I was replying to. Sorry! B -- Forwarded message -- From: Branwyn ni Druaidh welshw...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Photos

Re: [lace] Re state fair exhibit (was Handmade)

I understand that I may not know what I'm talking about (or view things in a very different way, because I do that for sure), but I have to wonder: Re: judges not touching the lace Are people afraid that the judges are going to be so rough with the lace that they are going to tear it or destroy

Re: [lace] Lace in literature: a new find - moving bobbins with one hand

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, bev walker walker.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hold the hands downwards as though playing the piano. Practise lifting the bobbins between the 4th and 3rd, 3rd and 2nd, 2nd and 1st fingers of the left hand until the muscles ache. ... Now I'm wondering, is

Fwd: [lace] knitting

Knitting is not really ancient, as having been around during Jesus' time. Naalbinding, the predecessor to knitting, was developed much earlier than that (and may be a few thousand years old). Knitting as we know it (involving two needles and pulling loops through loops) was first seen around

Re: [lace] Nanduti

I wish they would have shown the lace completely off the frame! That was beautiful work she was doing. Branwyn On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.comwrote: I came across an incredible video on the process of nanduti. 9 minutes. You can see her starting a motifs

Re: [lace] Bethesda

I know in Chicago there's tons of good fiber stores. Maybe not in your suburb, but there are many weavers, spinners, and other fiber people in the Chicago area. I live in Colorado Springs, and we have 4 fiber stores in the Springs proper. One of those stores caters to weaving (called Green

Re: [lace] yoga in thread

Cafe Press. It's an online market in which people can upload graphics and put them on shirts, mugs, hats, notebooks (the paper kind), pins, just about anything. The service takes a certain amount out per item sold, and creates the item upon order. They have reasonable prices for their items,

Re: [lace] Re: Yoga in Thread

Heh. Never mind my other email. I didn't read far enough ahead. I love the variety you put up at your Cafe Press shop! Branwyn On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Tatman tat...@tat-man.net wrote: I was thinking that too. :) I have a cafepress.com account and already have some tatting related

Re: [lace] Re: Fiber familiarity

A couple of years ago, at a Society for Creative Anachronism Arts Sciences event for the Kingdom (region), I had entered some reticello I'd worked on. As I was sitting and talking with people, one man came up to me (who is really into making chain mail items), picked up my piece of lace, and

Re: [lace] Definitions

Try researching needlelace to it's beginning, where a lot of times, in books, it was called all sorts of things, including by the embroidery terms. It gets very confusing. I'll think I'm reading about needlelace, then suddenly realize I've been reading about embroidery of some sort all along!

Re: [lace] ivory test?

That's actually the test for amber. And the scent you are looking for (in amber) is a pine scent. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote: Hello All! Do I recall that there is a test for ivory--something about heating a pin touching/lightly piercing the item in an

Re: [lace] Bamboo yarn

One of the things about bamboo yarn or thread is that bamboo is an extremely fast growing plant, in both ways. Some bamboo strains grow as much as 4 feet in a 24 hour period, and all bamboo has the potential to grow to full height and girth in one growing season of 3 to 4 months (

Re: [lace] Arachne'sWeb

Due to the wording, it looks like it's talking about one of the many lace guilds in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). There is an SCA wide lacemaking guild called Arachne's Web and then at least 3 different Kingdoms (geographic locations) have guilds also named Arachne's Web or

Re: [lace] Lace Christmas Tree

Wow. Now I want to do something like that for next year, only on a much smaller scale. I can just imagine it, a needle lace tree like that. H. Might have to finish a couple projects then start working on it. Branwyn On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Clay Blackwell

Re: [lace] needle lace

Oh wow! Following a link from your link, I found this: http://www.fioretombolo.net/reticelloantico.htm It's very picture heavy, and not all the pictures loaded for me. But all the reticello lace, on all the different items! Wow! When I get done with a couple of recreation peices (when I get

[lace] Thank you everybody

I received many wonderful responses from the list. Thank you all for taking the time to answer me! Mostly I was given the advice to ask questions, so I will. Good thing I'm not shy, right? A little background info, first: About 4 years ago, I had the chance to learn pulled thread embroidery,

Re: [lace] gasoline lace followup

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Mitchell sky...@macnet.com wrote: Linda, the string-a-holic in Oregon where I definately NOT looking forward to the next several days of high 90's and low 100's - even if I did grow up in Phoenix! There's a big difference between the 100's in Phoenix (which