Interesting that nowhere do I see the simplest form of lacemaking stand. It is
a simple adjustable column (raises or lowers to any convenient height), is
steadied by a flat area for one's feet, and supports one edge of the flat
pillow while the opposite edge rests on one's lap. With the
I have a friend here in Maine who has been working on teaching herself tambour.
She has books and so on, but would really love to correspond with someone else
who is interested in making this kind of lace. If you respond to me privately
or on the list I will be happy to forward your email to
This is especially for Pene, but also for everyone else who may be interested
in putting old books etc up onto the Arizona website. The rule is that
anything published before 1923 is fair game. After that date all materials
come under copyright rules and need permission from the author or
My son in law, who is French, follows the auctions in France and he has just
sent me a link to an auction site which has an amazing collection of fine
laces to view. I tested the link with my friend Barbara, and she said it
worked just fine.
http://vimeo.com/32865904
The descriptions and
Our friend John Cropper has been busy in the last little while. There is a
website called archive.org which has scanned many old books. I was able to
sort out the lace ones from their amazing collection. These are what John has
put up on the website,
Most of what has been described have been tables. I have several of those
mentioned in the correspondence. But the stand I prefer, especially for
travel, is not a table but a stand. It was given to me by Jeannette Van Ord in
the Netherlands and is the kind that is used in Bruges and many
I have just found out that someone wicked has posted and sent out a change of
address for me which is fraudulent. My address has not changed. Do not try to
use the address this bad person is telling you. Sorry to have to tell Arachne
this, but so many people have my real address that they
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This book has indeed been put on the web site, thanks to Lori's generosity in
lending it to me for scanning. (You can't imagine how many of the old books we
have made available to us by generous lacemakers willing to lend me their books
to scan.) It has been posted on the This Month's section
I have just received an email from a nun who is doing a research project
which sounds very interesting. She writes:
My current project concerns early lace, primarily sixteenth century
Italian and French lace. I am using the actual patterns in illuminated
manuscript
borders and capitals to
The Professor wrote me this morning: Sometime you should draw a time line
for lace making with significant dates noted. I know you've told me, but I
don't have a clear picture. He is really interested in learning all he can
about lace and lacemaking. I guess this is why our work together
I talked to PayPal this morning and they have promised me that all the
problems have been taken care of and my account is now open to receive funds.
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In case there are any newbies out there who don't know what I am
In December, someone breached my PayPal account and caused me a great deal of
difficulty straightening it all out. I thought that the problems had been
taken care of and have told various people without US funds that they could pay
for their CDs through PayPal as usual. Now suddenly I have
The Professor, in his terse fashion, writes, Many thanks to you and the
Arachnids! The exclamation point represents the enthusiasm with which he
received
my email with all the translations made.
Thanks so much to all who made so much effort to get these titles translated.
Can you imagine
Thanks to everyone who wrote offering to help and to all those who sent me
the translations. I now have a lovely long list of translators in case the
Professor asks me again. Isn't Arachne marvellous! One has only to ask a
question and the answer is returned almost immediately.
The only
Can anyone help with these? They are both in the books section of
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
The first is Otviety ne obyknovennye voprosy diete for which we need a
translation into English.
The second
The Professor is trying to make translations of the titles of books and
articles written in other languages into English. Can anyone help?
Russian: Otviety ne obyknovennye voprosy diete
Italian: I Singolari e Nuovi Disegni (and is the spelling correct?)
Spanish: Catálogo de la Exposición de
At the risk of starting that copyright thread again, I want to answer a
private email which came from an Arachnid with the same question I once asked
the
Prof about copyright when we were first starting all this scanning. The
question was: Does the copyright date change where it concerns
Does anyone have an address for, or some way to reach Lillie Trivett? If
so, please write me privately. Thanks in advance.
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As you all know by now, one of the biggest problems we face on the
Professor's web site is the issue of copyright. It limits us to publication
dates
before 1923, and this cuts out a tremendous amount of information which would
be
useful to us all.
The only way we can overcome this is to
For those who might want to see early copies of the IOL Bulletin, go to
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_lace.html#periodicals
Thanks to the Professor, we have quite a collection.
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I have just taken a picture of a lace pillow I made after my trip to Venice
and Burano some years ago. We see pictures of bobbin lace pillows everywhere,
but I've only found one other needle lace pillow pictured (on Lori's
site--where else!).
This one is an accurate reproduction of the
Sorry! I didn't give you the whole of the Professor's monthly update site:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/this-month.html Thanks to those
who brought this to my attention. All the newest books are there: hope you
like them.
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The Professor has just sent this to me:
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As a general rule, the easiest place to find new documents is on
this-month.html. The new lace books are there now.
Once February additions are made, the January additions will
be on 2005-01.html, per the
I have access to an 1875 edition of Palliser's History of Lace. Cost: $100
plus postage. Is anyone interested? I need an immediate answer, privately
please.
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Lacemakers sure are eager! I have just heard from someone who wants the book I
mentioned, so she's first on the list just in case anyone elseout there thought
they might want it. However, this does tell me that there are people out there
who are interested not only in reading the books on the
Well, the offer is still open: change of plans from my first correspondent.
Let me know privately if you are interested. This is the 1875 copy of
Palliser's History of Lace.
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The Greek lacemakers on Aegina use a wrapping method to carry their threads
from one place to another. It was interesting to me to see that they didn't
seem to bother about which side was up: the wraps were on made either side.
It requires a bit of skill, but done right it looks very sleek.
The Professor is working on Webside number three, his latest adventure on the
website. For those who haven't taken a look at this yet, try
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/ and click on Newsletter.
He has just written me asking if anyone has anything they would like to
comment on,
For those who might be interested in exploring the Professor's website a bit
further, the second issue of his newsletter, Webside, is now available at
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webside.html
He has asked me to write a regular lace column, so you will see my first
Interlibrary Loan has just come through for me with a copy of Lace Making and
Collecting by A. Penderel Moody. I find that she also wrote Devon Pillow
Lace and How to Make It, published by Cassell and Co. Ltd, 1907. Does anyone
have a copy of this that I could borrow to scan so that the
The Professor is trying to make order out of chaos, which is why I have been
sending so many recent messages to you about his site. The latest is that he
has finally installed a search engine onto the site, which should be a great
help. If you try it and have problems, let me know. Just
As some of you may know, I scanned the Hoare book on tatting some time ago
and sent it off to the Professor. I was looking for it today and couldn't
find
it. Seems he has set up a special site for tatters. Here is what he says:
Tatting isn't lace, so it's not on the lace page. See
Devon has suggested that I ask any of you who might have lace books on your
shelves with publication dates before 1923 if I might be able to borrow them to
scan. As you well know, I have done a lot, so if you were interested in
helping and would be willing to let them go for a month or so, I
There is so much to be found on the Professor's web site, but if you are like
me it is overwhelming and I, for one, have real trouble finding things. I
was talking to him about this, and here is his response:
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Check out the Prof's site: He has just posted the old DMC needle lace book.
There are a couple of other new ones too, thanks to Devon.
To see the postings of the month, go to Postingsof the month:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/2004-11.html
I'm scanning a lovely old book right
Miriam wrote me that she couldn't find Marie Schuette's Alte Spitzen on the
lace website. I knew he had posted it, but I couldn't find it either.
However, by dint of a bit of scrounging around I finally located it by doing this:
Go to : http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/
Then click
Yes, this is the Professor's site, copied verbatim and for sale on Ebay. I wrote him
about it, and he said, Never mind: it has happened before. Forget it. Whatta guy!
I have told many of you that the CDs you get from me cost only what I have put into my
share of the work, supplies,
I am about to scan The Art of Making Altar Laces, a very nice little book
of crocheted laces sent to me for scanning by a generous friend. It will come
out (eventually) on CD#5, but will of course be on the Professor's web site
long before that, when I get the scanning done and he finishes the
I will be arriving from Paris at the Prague airport on Sunday July 11 at 2:50
pm. If anyone is interested in sharing a taxi, I would be glad to hear from
her. I will be staying at the Campus hotel**.
Thanks.
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Here is the web site URL in case you want to see what we have put on the CDs
and what has been scanned since the last ones were published.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
A number of people have asked if I will be bringing CDs to
I will be leaving for OIDFA and France on July 8. If you are planning to
order CDs, please allow enough time for me to receive payment from you and get
them sent out before I leave. I won't be back home until August 6, so
although I will certainly be able to receive orders (which will
Some time ago the book on Cantu Lace (Punto Venezia/Venetian Lace) was
mentioned. I have just been asked to review it for Halcyon
(http://www.halcyonyarn.com/), which as some of you may know is a very good weaving
supplies,
knitting, etc etc shop here in Bath, Maine. They also carry some
At long last, CD3 and CD4 are ready for shipment. This time, they will be sent
together as a pair, packaged in a double jewel case. The cost is the same as before,
but as a pair, not singly. So total for both would be $20 plus postage ($2 for
domestic, $4 for international), a total of
When I was in both Germany and France, the same question came up from local
lacemakers: We don't read English, so why should we bother with the Professor's
site? (Of course, they didn't say it quite like that, but the meaning was
pretty clear.)
So I wrote the Prof and asked him if there was
Thanks to Ilske, I was able to spend a perfectly delightful time at the
German lace Kongress. The weather was consistently beautiful for the five days
there and for the rest of my stay in France afterwards.
I like what the German group does, and the workshop we took was very much
what I
This is my last posting, I promise.
But I wanted to tell you about the little trick I saw one of the members of
my class using when she wanted to wind heavy thread--lumpy knitting yarn,
actually--onto a standard-sized bobbin. You know the clips that we are all using
in our hair these days?
The Professor has just sent the following on to me, thinking someone might be
interested. It sounds quite intriguing, so I thought I should pass it on:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 27 08:46:28 2004
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For anyone who may not have the site address handy, it is:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
Please do check it out, because there are lots more books newly added to the
list. The Professor scanned a number of very interesting articles from the
early part
The Professor has just done a marvelous job of getting all ten of the books
that Vibeke sent me onto his web site. He suggests that those who want to see
the whole collection at once go to his Page of the Month at
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/this_month.html It is really a
Once again,the list has come up with a subject I am working on! Vibeke lent me
several books on filet to scan and they are all very interesting. There are even
pattern sheets to go with three of them.
They won't appear on the site for a little while yet--I'm still in the middle of
scanning and
Interesting that this subject should have come up just now. I have received a group
of books through the kind offices of Vibeke Ervo and Karen Thomson, and one of them is
all about the Armenian lace of the 19th and 20th centuries. Lots of nice pictures and
part of the text has been translated
This should help all of us keep abreast of what is going on. From the
Professor this afternoon:
All the recent books are on the Web, via the Page of the Month.
The Arachnids should look at
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html
every so often.
I think you will find some
I hope that there is someone in Quebec who can help a French-Canadian lacemaker find
her way onto PayPal. She wants very much to get the CDs, but I don't know that she
can work her way through the directions on PayPal. It would be much easier for her, I
think, if someone whose primary
Dear Jenny on the lookout for old books for us)--
Thanks so much for spotting that book. These sorts of things seem to have been put
out by various thread-making companies at that time: we've seen others, but probably
not as nice.
The thing is, we can get so many books through InterLibrary
The orders are pouring in! Thanks to all. I hope you are happy with both
CDs. And keep on checking the Professor's site: he adds more every day!
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
There is one thing I would like to reiterate. I have set
One of the most delightful results of all this CD business is the new people
I am meeting. Bianca is a specialist in the works of Elisa Ricci and we have
enjoyed a very happy correspondence. Here is the note she sent me when I
told her that she would enjoy Arachne and would make valuable
As some of you may know, the Professor is trying to assemble a complete
collection of the Needle and Bobbin Club publication. He has done a marvelous job
so far, and we have been lucky enough to receive a few from generous friends.
But I thought there might be someone on Arachne, or someone
As you all know, I have been posting the address for the Professor's site to
all lacemakers as
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
This is still correct, but when I sent him a copy of the article which just
came out in OIDFA, he wrote me the
of the book I have seen. If anyone has a copy which
doesn't have the ripple, I would love to borrow it to scan for the Professor's
site. Agnes offered it to me, but hers is like the others.
Tess (tess1929)
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Does anyone have access to any lace sample books which might be scanned for
the Professor's site--and subsequently for CD 4? He has just asked me if I
could find out, and I thought that perhaps some of our English or European
friends might have a suggestion. He found one listed for sale--
Thanks, Sue, for the suggestion. That certainly is just up my alley for inclusion on
the Professor's list. However, any books or articles, or patterns for that matter,
have to have been published before 1923 to be eligible for the site, in case you find
something you think I could include.
Didn't I just see something on Arachne about this? I am trying to find a source for
the Needle and Bobbin Club collection. The Professor says we can scan it. Does anyone
have any ideas? Anyone who might lend it to me?
I photocopied all the lace articles some years ago, but the illustrations
I have the great pleasure of announcing that both volumes of Ricci are now on
the Professor's site.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html#R This has been a
very long effort for both of us, and he has been more than patient with my
computer ignorance.
Besides being grateful
The Professor has asked me if I know anything about lace stamps. He says:
Tess:
It's not so much that I'm interested in stamps as it is that they are
considered important ephemera. The American Textile Association even
has a membership category for it.
I will put any images I can get on my
Again, thanks to you all for your comments and encouragement. I know a
little about lace, but not anything about computers, so when something doesn't
look right to me I hesitate to tell the Professor what I am thinking.
However, armed with your emails, I told him that his first efforts
I just checked with Halcyon in Bath, Maine, USA, and they still have four new
copies for sale: $20 plus $6.95 shipping (sounds like a lot for shipping--oh,
well). You can call them at 1-800-341-0282 or email at www.halcyonyarn.com.
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I have just come across a comment by Elisa Ricci in Old Italian Lace in which
she speculates that in the early days when pins didn't exist as we know them,
or were hard to get, the lacemakers may well have used the fine nails which
were in common use. She bases this idea on the large size of
The Professor has just sent me the following:
I just did a quick check on downloads for this year through the end of
July.
The book downloaded the most number of times was Parasole -- 219 copies.
Other books range from the high 100s down to 29 each.
For periodicals it ranges from 286 down to 6
Before I tell you of my success at the library, I think this will be a real
test of the new system of sending and receiving emails to Arachne. I have the
hardest problem of all: a Mac running OS 10.2. I sure hope it will work.
But be warned, if it does work, you'll be hearing from me more
For those who are interested in bobbins, be sure to check out the Professor's
web site: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html We are all
very fortunate that Brian Lemin has donated a number of articles he has written
on the subject. They can be found by scrolling down to the
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