I teach at a university and was able for several years to use for free a
classroom with large windows and lots of light. We also had use to a
kitchen and a large mezzanine where we could sit and chat.
Our problem was parking until a local church let us park all day for a
very reasonable fee.
The
Yes, categories. Also, maybe the categories relate to other forms of folk
art such as embroidery and carving on other wood pieces such as spindles,
door frames, knitting sheaths, ... love tokens ... with regional or
occupational speceficities such as anchors, fishes, fishnets, flowers,
etc.
Just
How did we get where we
are now what designs were discarded because they didn't work? There
seem to be lots of different styles that didn't make the cut beca
use the currently available selection is limited. Makes me wonder if
it's like shoes--some for show some for go! Sincerely, Susan
There is a copy on Ebay.com for $89 right now.
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
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Brush them off with a soft brush to get the dust off,
wipe with a moist cloth (not wet),
use a good quality wood wax (beeswax based like Renaissance
Micro-Crystalline Wax Polish which is used by museums)
and then use them as much as possible
the heat and moisture of your hands will help the wax
The Bonnet Preserver (item 13 under Knitting at
http://www.knitheaven.com/vintagepatterns/26_BONNET-PRESERVER_KNITTING.htm
)
Since women tended to have their hair in a low flat bun, could the ties go
around the bun? So the band would be covering the hair line at the front
and sides of the
Receiving mail from the USA has also become difficult and the extra
security imposed on packages at the border has beome onerous and
expensive. UPS charging $40 in brokerage fees and then the Canadian taxes
and charges of an extra $20 on a purchase of $75 of bobbins, thread, and
pins. And a wait
In some ways, digital libraries are a very good thing. In others, not.
Not everything ever published will ever be digitised. Only what someone,
somewhere will choose to find time, money and computer space to copy.
Electronic media are fragile in their own ways and they do need
electricity to
I have uploaded an album of photos I took at the Sisters of Charity museum
in Ottawa, Canada. All are mine except the first two: the sun dial on the
Mother House wall and the memorial card for Mere d'Youville. Those are
from the Sisters' webpage.
Look under 'Lucie DuFresne - Sisters of Charity'
Thank you! I need to know this because I am researching a 'atelier de
production (a workshop) in the local Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns)
Mother House in Ottawa. This is the book they have and I am trying to
determine the resourses available to them and when for their production of
liturgical
Dear Liz,
maybe you can help me date my Therese de Dillmont, Encyclopedie de
Ouvrages des Dames. Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave (n.d.) 826 pages + 44
pages of ads and contents. Olive green cloth cover, black and gold DMC
logo paper on inside cover, 560,000 printed copies, pocket size (9.5cm x
While perusing the arizona university site, I found these two articles
that might answer some questions that were posed on the list:
- for the person who was looking for Nouvelle France engageante
information, look here for patterns, how to wear and other various
information:
Lace Caps of the
A friend of mine who has been helping me with my lace research needs a
place to stay in central Philadelphia from the 17 to the 25 of this
october. She is looking for a safe and fairly inexpensive B B or other
lodging. She is not adverse to being billeted (and she will pay).
She is from northern
Hello,
A friend of mine just sent me this interesting site. Look at the pictures,
but also at the video included in the article.
Unfortunately, the site seems to be only in French. It announces the
opening of the Lace City in Calais. You need to type in the code given
in the shaded box at the
I am trying to figure out what kinds of lace would be extant and available
to American and Canadian women (urban and fairly rich, I guess) to
decorate their clothes (especially coiffes). I have a fairly good grasp of
the clothing styles involved (except for the difference between country
clothes
Oh do continue your travel diary! Such fun! I read it out loud to my
husband as we had breakfast this morning. Your observations are worthy of
an anthropologist in the midst of culture shock!
It really is the 'little' differences that really get us when we travel.
Thanks for the laughs and the
Yes, I agree with you Brenda: hand made and french
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
Further to Diane's query about whether her pieces of lace are hand or
machine lace she has sent me a scan which I've uploaded to:
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/dianes_lace/
I think both the nuns in the foreground (one left , one right) are working
at bobbin lace pillows: there are pins sticking out at right angles to the
bolster pillows in both cases. The seated nun in the centre back right
seems to be using a needle to embroider. The nun in the back right is
either
Don't know what it is, but to me there's something very appealing about
this
group and the way it operates - more so than any other group I belong to.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
So very true! Lets not change anything for as long as we can!
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
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If you choose 'plastic' on the side bar, the bicycle basket comes up.
Lucie
Ottawa Canada
On 4/11/09 10:06 AM, Diane Zierold wrote:
Crochet Bicycle Basket
http://aplusrstore.com/product_detail.php?show=productpid=314cid=57
I'm really partial to the black basket for my red bike
-- but $70
gum arabic is available at art stores that sell water colour supplies
Lucie
Ottawa Canada
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The Canadian/UK seem to be the old imperial sizes at least they
are when I look at the few I've got!!
Yes, they are! We even had for a while conversion gauges made of metal or
plastic with graduated holes in them listing the US, CAN and MM sizes on
them. CAN equaled BRITISH.
I have a few
The Canadian/UK seem to be the old imperial sizes at least they
are when I look at the few I've got!!
Yes, they are! We even had for a while conversion gauges made of metal or
plastic with graduated holes in them listing the US, CAN and MM sizes on
them. CAN equaled BRITISH.
I have a few
Orvus is available in Canada in feed stores, but only in industrial
quantities (by the bucket full!).
Our lace guild bought one bucket and we are in the process of decanting it
into small recycled shampoo bottles so our members can bring some home for
their own use.
I've used it. It rinses out
I store my linen and cotton threads separatly and have a filing card in
each box with the list of threads by brand and size on it. I keep track of
how many spools as well.
I also put a star beside the listing of the thread in the book : Threads
for Lace by Brenda Paternoster. That way, I know
Robyn said in part:
I have a suggestion--we recently had a discussion of the positive and
negative aspects of publishing a lace pattern book as a CD. Those who
objected to a CD pattern book seemed mostly interested in being able to
browse the pretty pictures somewhere other than at the
I have one ivory midlands of the 'spinster' type, very small, smooth
without surface decoration or embellishment, and one ivory honiton bobbin.
I've always suspected they were gifts from India during the Raj.
I'm trained in museum conservation so I did learn how to tell ivory and
bone appart. One
What is the source of the silk thread used for Maltese lace? That
wonderful luminous cream silk ... and has anyone tried to repair a piece
of Maltese lace?
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
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Part of my love of lacemaking is that it is a form of weaving that can be
done in a small appartment. I still have some small looms, including a
folding one patented in Scarborough, Ontario Canada in the 1920's. That
one is too odd and wonderful to part with. Its also my first ...
I've knitted
The Ottawa Guild of Lacemakers - 20th annual Ottawa Lace Day
When: Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Time: noon to 4PM
Where: Clark Room, RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cost: $3 adult / children under 12 free
Vendors from Canada and the USA will have merchandise for the
Miriam asked:
I have read most of your letters on this subject. But what do you do when
you don't have a staircase, a balcony or a second floor. Do I have to go
up on the roof? BG
What I have done is wind the full skein on a knitting bobbin (those flat
plastic holders used when knitting in
Along the same lines, I would find it interesting, and possibly a
tie-breaker when planning how to spend my discretionary money and time,
to know who the speakers were going to be at Convention and what they
were going to speak about. For some reason it seems to be traditional
to never
Yes the upper piece, for storing the lace as it comes off the pillow, is
called a plioir. Hard to pronounce with English-shaped vowels
Try this:
pli = plea
oir = why + ar(t)
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
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I would take a photo of the pillows with lace attached, then remove the
lace
and buy a frame and use the picture as the background (made half
transparent) and add the pieces of lace in front with a few of the
bobbins
still attached. The finished picture (collage) could then be given to the
It was in the Canadian Lacemakers Gazette when Ottawa was the editing
team. I have spare copies if anyone would like one.
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa
I have worked a bookmark in the shape of a Dachshund. Can't remember who
designed it, but I think I got the pattern off the internet.
Malvary in
I have been following this thread and wonder about the 300 or so books
that belong to Norfolk Lacemakers where we all borrow them and I may
honestly say I think everyone of us have copied patterns out of them to
work else where would be the point of us buying them for the use of our
members?
How wonderful if there was an infinite number of new books available to be
bought and an infinite amount of money to be spent. But such is not the
case. How horrid if second hand books had to be destroyed. How horrid if
public libraries could not lend books for fear that copyright might be
Wow! I really needed that laugh! Oh, have I ever been there, and knitting
too! One Alpaca wool scarf of my husband's that was knit in sheatland
pattern at 14 stitches an inch, doubled sided, took a year to knit at
about an inch in length per 6 hour session. The neverending scarf got
finished on
As some of you know, I have been trying to piece together what information
exists on lacemaking in New France and later Canada. Some of you may even
have heard my talk at this summer's IOLI convention in Montreal. Now I'm
trying to get governmental academic funding to do the research in earnest.
Since I am driving to Montreal with friends, I could bring a few (3) pink
styrofoam pillows with me for others to use. They are not fancy but they
are large and octogonal. Let me know if this could be of help.
Also, the Ottawa Lacemakers Guild has a display table in the vendors room.
I will be
Second thought, my french lessons will be put to the test.
Don't worry, most classes will have someone there to translate. I'll be in
the lace ID class to make sure the francophones understand their
anglophone teacher (it goes both ways , you know, the need to understand
...). The organisers
Some of you might like to see a blog put together by one of our lace guild
members, Judith DuFresne (no relation to me). In it she shows some
wonderful pictures of lace made by our guild members for this year's show
which had TULIPS as its theme. As well she shows some of her own work. She
is one
Oh do I have news!
I am giving one of the conference talks at the IOLI. It'll be on the
evidence for lace making in New-France. Lots of preparation and many, many
photos and illustrations. Its a progress report on a larger project I'm
doing researching lace making in early Canada using historical
One possibility that has not yet been mentioned is that England had a
number of its men in the Indian subcontinent at some point (the Raj). It
is not inconcevable that some of these men had ivory and exotic wood
bobbins made for gifts to sweethearts and family back in England.
Certainly, a lot of
By which time, the Canadian elections -- which seem to be riding,
mostly, on anti-US sentiments -- will be long over, and we might know
how easy/difficult it will be for us to enter the country (will the new
government give us tit for tat?)...
Tamara,
As a Canadian and one living in the
provenance from the french meaning 'where it comes from'
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
I think the word that Brian was looking for is provinance - it's a good
art and antiques word, but I can't even find it in the OED!!
Clay
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I know that for those of you who were able to go to Denver it will still
be
fresh in your minds, but the post from Janice yesterday about the 2008
convention has made me stop and think that everything is very quiet about
Montreal.
I'm sure that they were being diplomatic and waiting for
How unfortunate that a less than felicitous translation is causing such
strife. Yes, table runner is most probably the more standard english
language name for the item required for the next IOLI competition.
Some thoughts:
- no less than two colours can also means two shades of natural
This summer, I am starting in earnest a project I have been preparing for
some time: a study of lacemaking in Canada as evidenced by its museum and
archive collections. I am starting with Ontario and Quebec (from Toronto
to Montreal) as these areas are close to home (Ottawa). I am hoping some
of
While googling 'holland lace', I found this. Enjoy.
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). An American Anthology,
17871900. 1900.
758. Old Flemish Lace
By Amelia Walstien Carpenter
A LONG, rich breadth of Holland lace,
A window by a Flemish sea;
Huge men
Yes! I too could use a lets close the books and make lace bobbin! Any
makers out there?
Lucie DuFresne
(way to busy grading exams and getting a conference paper ready to be
making lace - harumph!)
If someone finds (or makes) one of these - please let me know - I'd love
to have one! I'm
Simon Toustou is a member of the Montreal Guild of Lacemakers. So am I. If
you know what kind of pillow you would like and would trust me to buy it
for you, I could arrange it with him.
It is much easier to buy a pillow that is already made than to order one
and wait (sometimes extremely long)
To Canadian Arachneans:
I have a request from a woman in Cornwall, Ontario who would like to take
lace classes. She already has her tools, just no teacher. Can anyone help?
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Ontario Canada
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In spite of the time it takes to actually prick all the holes, I find that
I learn a lot about the pattern if I prick them before making the lace.
I try to prick them in order of work (footside, ground, motif, next motif,
headside, back to footside, etc). I often find myself figuring out the
I have seen in various museum collections (Trois Rivieres / Quebec City
Musée de la civilisation / others) a small weaving loom that is identified
as a tape loom. It is a small shallow rectangular wooden box. The front
narrow short side has holes in it near the bottom edge held closed with
pegs.
Well, the storm on Thurday dumped 140+mm of water (over 50 inches) on
Ottawa, some regions west of us got 20 - 30 mm more!
The community centre where our guild meets had a power outage so we are
rescheduling:
The Ottawa Guild of Lacemakers (Ottawa Canada) is combining its Sept
meeting and its
I will be going to Philadelphia, specifically Bryn Mawr, to do research
with an elderly colleague. She can not put me up in the senior residence
where she is and I do not know the area well enough to find a suitable BB.
I also dont drive so this is an added difficulty.
Any ideas about suitable
I too am VERY interested in historical forms of lace and always read any
and all information which is shared on this subject with great interest
and enjoyment.
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
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24 bobbines en bois doliviers qui servaient à fabriquer les broderies
sur un metier de passementerie??
24 bobbins in olive wood which served to make embroideries on a trim
making loom (literaly)
bobinnes is used in French, at least in Eastern Canada. Yes, it means
spool but it also means
I think the needle lace found on head scarves is called 'bebilla'. The
examples I saw (when I was studying Middle Eastern women's dress) was
multicoloured and floral in design. Very pretty!
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa Canada
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I have one of these that I was given in the late 1960's by an Indian goods
store owner (I worked there one summer). Its a little bone pomander. It is
meant to have a tiny piece of cotton wool inserted inside the channel for the
handle on which one can put a drop of sented oil. The whole thing
Thank you so much for taking the time to research and contact a local expert
and send us this information. This is one of the reasons why I so very much
enjoy Arachne: an openess to share. Thank you again.
Lucie DuFresne
Ottawa
Canada
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