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>From : lizl...@bigpond.com
Subject : [lace] Colour in Lace.
Texture or colour? One does seem
to override the other. Yes I agree.
Catherine, I worked your Strawberries â and learned Such a Lot while working
the pieces â flowers wired, leaves with wired ve
Wow! Alex, that hits it right on the head!! Texture or colour? One does seem
to override the other. Yes, I agree.
I do a lot more monochrome lace, and I know just what you mean about the
texture showing up when it is not distracted by colour.
Catherine, I worked your Strawberries â and learned
Regarding Alexâs insightful comment, I have to say that I go back and forth
about color in lace myself. On the one hand, I like color. On the other hand,
the palette of lace making is texture and pattern. When you are using pattern
and differences in density for your palette you tend to use the
Hi Arachnids
Here is a comment I found interesting regarding lace. When I became involved
in teaching a pilot scheme for City & Guilds I tried to get on a BTECH course
for design but unfortunately it was on the same days as I was teaching.
However, when I discussed why I wanted to attend the
Kathleen wrote:
Some years ago I visited a village in southern Belgium which had specialised
in making black Chantilly lace. Itâs name escapes me. The lace we saw was
fantastic, but we were told that there was little of it left, because the
black dye used to colour the thread, (or maybe the
Yes I've heard that too Kathleen - Perhaps it was Nenia Lovesey who told us?
Catherine Barley Needlelace
www.catherinebarley.com
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Subject : [lace] Colour in lace
Some years ago I visited a village in southern Belgium which had specialised in
making black Chantilly lace
Some years ago I visited a village in southern Belgium which had specialised in
making black Chantilly lace. It’s name escapes me. The lace we saw was
fantastic, but we were told that there was little of it left, because the black
dye used to colour the thread, (or maybe the process used)
Historically linen was difficult to dye and to get the dye to stay. I think
thatâs why the fabled bright yellow starch was so popular - you got a good
colour that mimicked gold, and because the dye was in the starch, every time
the lace was washed, it was re-coloured by the starch.
Adele
> I
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Subject : Re: [lace] Colour in lace
Is coloured lace as non-traditional as most people seem to think it is, though?
--
There were most certainly examples of coloured lace produced in the East
Midlands as Alan S. Cole found and mentions in his Report
Is coloured lace as non-traditional as most people seem to think it is, though?
--
There were most certainly examples of coloured lace produced in the East
Midlands as Alan S. Cole found and mentions in his Report on Northampton, Bucks
& Beds Lace-making in 1891.
When we were
Is coloured lace as non-traditional as most people seem to think it is, though?
In the V collection there is (or at least, was) a Spanish altar frontal,
worked in needlelace, in full colour. If memory serves me well, it dates back
to the late 1600s. There is a black and bright, topaz/kingfisher
of working.
Basic, illustrated, thread changing pattern booklets and more advanced
patterns are available from my website:
www.sandiwoods.com
where I may also be contacted (via the website).
I will be tutoring a workshop 'Changing Colour in Lace' at The Lace Society
AGM on 29th April 2017 - for more
> I am making a bookmark from Technique of Bobbinlace. For anyone that has
the
> book it is decoration b on page 46 and I would like to make it in white
with
> the three outlined motifs in blue. I have never used colour before and
would
> like some help from anyone who can tell me how to change
I am making a bookmark from Technique of Bobbinlace. For anyone that has the
book it is decoration b on page 46 and I would like to make it in white with
the three outlined motifs in blue. I have never used colour before and would
like some help from anyone who can tell me how to change from
In a message dated 25/03/2004 19:31:33 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
how does Fimo work for making beads for spangles?
Some of my very first painted bobbins bought in the early 1980s came with
Fimo beads colour co-ordinated with the painting and they still look like new
after
Hi Sharon,
I'll answer your questions instead of having it go through Angela.
I used Pipers Silk 210/2 in very light yellow for the rose petals and
green for the leaves. It was worked in raised and rolled technique.
Idid enlarge the pattern by 10%, but now that the rose is finished and off
On 25 Mar 2004, at 19:20, rick sharon wrote:
I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her
Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle
colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If
there
is, I wants it!:)
The finest coloured cootn
Sharon wrote:
I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her
Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle
colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If
there
is, I wants it!:)
The finest coloured cootn thread I know of is
Sharon wrote:
I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her
Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle
colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If
there
is, I wants it!:)
The finest coloured cootn thread I know of is
Angela, I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her
Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle
colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If there
is, I wants it!:)
Another point that I thought interesting in the last digest..how
. . .
About green threads. I knew a lady who wanted to clean an antique
embroidery, which she did very gently and very carefully in distilled water.
The whole thing turned out beautifully except the green. It just
disintegrated and not a hair was left. At the time I wondered whether it
was the
both in appearance and the drape. I have looked without success for
thread to work a similar one.
Barbara Ballantyne
in Sunny Sydney, australia
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From: Patricia Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: Re [lace] colour
it's
always the green thread that falls apart.
I have found this with wool, too: if you work with the Appleton crewel
wool (for embroidery), the sea-greens are much thinner and more prone
to breakage than any other colour. The greens that are not sea-green
are just as strong as the other
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