Re: [lace] Fixing lace to a background

2020-10-01 Thread Pierre Fouché
Hi Liz, Everyone A conservator friend once suggested using a water-based paper glue for anything that you'd want to last a long time, simply because it is the easiest adhesive to remove when restoring an artwork. Craft paper glue sticks are usually pH neutral too, but do check with the

RE: [lace] Fixing lace to a background

2020-09-30 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Thank you for your replies to my question about glueing lace to a background. It is for a picture, made up of small, separate pieces, and eventually framed with glass in front. I had not thought about glue changing colour with age. Hmmm! It is certainly not something that will Ever be seen from

Re: [lace] Fixing lace to a background

2020-09-30 Thread Lorri Ferguson
be a very bad thing later. Lorri Ferguson From: owner-l...@arachne.com on behalf of Elizabeth Ligeti Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:23 PM To: Lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Fixing lace to a background I have just be studying my copy of “Tatting Artistry

Re: [lace] Fixing lace to a background

2020-09-29 Thread Alice Howell
I suggest checking the rules of the contest you are interested in entering.  Some do not want the work mounted.  They want to be able to see both sides of the work.  Judges have to follow the rules in effect even if they don't like the rules. I think glue on a contest item would make a judge

[lace] Fixing lace to a background

2020-09-29 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I have just be studying my copy of “Tatting Artistry in Threads” by Helma Siemann, and see that she has glued her multitude of Josephine Knots etc, to Art board, to form the pictures (which are lovely) Is this an acceptable way of fixing tatting to a background – and would it be accepted by