Thank you for your help in making contact with the IOLI co-chair for the
Display Room at the IOLI convention. I have not been sent a display room
form, - and all is well!!
How did we ever exist before Arachne?!!! : )
(I wish I knew why some marks come up as gobbledegook, though, when I send to
Hello All! I completely forgot to post this earlier. :-( My friend Chris is
the featured artist at the Deer Creek Winery in Grove City, PA during the month
of Oct. The winery is located at 216A South Broad in Old Towne (Grove City).
The opening event was last week she made a lovely
On 26/10/2011 10:18, Lynne Cumming wrote:
[snip]
None of the bits were ones we minded losing but nothing went.
The Christmas before last, our local parish church lost not just
decorations but the whole tree was stolen.
It was a really large tree, too!
Linda Walton,
enjoying the last days of
I was listening to some lace makers discussing the perils of showing pieces of
lace. People canât seem to keep their hands off. To say nothing of the
light-fingered. One person suggested putting the lace piece between two
pieces of glass. Seems like a winner to me. Might not deter all
hi Arachnids,
Glass might be somewhat fragile and heavy to carry around with all the other
bits needed for a demo. I prefer to use sheets polycarbonate which can be
'clipped' together with upvc 'U' profile all round and is light-weight,
virtually unbreakable, can be re-used and cut to
Talk to your local picture framer. I'm not sure of the correct terminology but
you want to float your piece between pieces of glass/plexi. You might want to
think about UV filters, too. They should be able to give you starting ideas.
Cynthia
On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Lyn Bailey wrote:
I
On 10/25/2011 6:36 AM, Lyn Bailey wrote:
Perhaps even something that can come apart and be put
together again with a different piece. Screws of a discreet nature? Does
anyone have experience with such things, and where does one obtain such items?
If I search online, what terms do I use in
Thanks Joepie, Cynce and Lauren,
Floating picture frame, while not being frameless, which is what I had
first contemplated, does fill the bill, and clearly is sufficiently popular
(Walmart, anyone?) so I have lots of choices. And with 2 11 x 14 frames
for less than $20 at Walmart, it won't
I place unframed laces flat on a table covered by a table-cloth size
of clear vinyl that hangs well over the edge. People can poke at them
all they like. I can put my beverage mug on the table, too ;)
If you are concerned that someone would reach under the vinyl and take
the lace, secure the
Dear Lace Demonstrators,
For added security:
Recommend you pin the cloth to your pillow around the outside edge.
Something like pearl-headed corsage pins pushed all the way in (if possible),
angled horizontally, will work and not be as tempting as some of the very
decorative separator
Google riker mount... these are shallow cases with a glass lid and cotton
batting. They're used to store/display all kinds of things; you've probably
seen them in antique stores being used to display things like projectile points
or similar small items. For lace, I'd suggest a piece of finely
Sorry I haven't been following all of this topic...so I apologize if I
reiterate someone else's perspective.
What I do is take along a piece of
dark burgundy cloth and put my lace on that. Then I put a layer of clear
plastic sheeting over it. Nobody can touch or take my stuff. I get my
Just make sure the clear covering hangs 'way over everything to keep
the items in place.
On 10/25/11, Karen Bovard k.bov...@yahoo.com wrote:
What I do is take along a piece of
dark burgundy cloth and put my lace on that. Then I put a layer of clear
plastic sheeting over it. Nobody can
When we demo and have a table that we can put pieces on, we cover them with a
clear plastic dropcloth over a dark tablecloth. This works for the flat
pieces
that would be easily lifted by the light fingered. On top of this we
put any
framed pieces that hold it down or we pin the plastic to the
Clearly the question of displaying lace has been solved in many ways.
Thanks to all of you. I had a half off coupon at AC Moore, (a chain craft
supplies store in the US) so I picked up a floating picture frame, 10 x 14
of display, with a black frame, and glass, and a gizmo to make it stand up
in Oregon where the leaves are blazing and the
weather is fine (for now!!).
-Original Message-
From: Janice Blair
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:00 PM
To: lace
Subject: [lace] Lace display question
When we demo and have a table that we can put pieces on, we cover them
Most of the ladies in my guild have small samples in a 3 ring binder. They
get those clear plastic sleeves and put in a nice piece of paper that
contrasts with the lace thread. Most either leave them unattached or use a
bit of acid free tape to keep them from shifting. One lady has a whole
One thing my local group used to do to deter light fingered visitors was to
cover the entire display table in transparent plastic (either cheap plastic
tablecloths or drop cloths for painters) and then fold the hanging edge of
plastic under and clamp it down. The result is not 100% secure, but
When doing a demonstration, I usually have a display board on legs behind me
with my lace pinned on it for display. I feel it is safer that way.
If I have to leave my pillow, I slot knitters stitch-holders through the
spangles (like I do when carrying the pillow from A to B,) then cover them
Hi all, I so agree with Jean's sentiment. I too have not only a 'lace display
bossom'. but also 'lacemakers bottom'. ;D) And as you can see more chins
than can be found in a Chinese telephone directory. This was what I was
intending to send earlier, but was dropped off my email by Hotmail.
Greetings,
Avital suggested writing about a lace in a museum. It brought to mind my
visit to England for the Arachne 98 conference. Before the conference, I
took a tour of Scotland. I kept watching for lace in the various places we
visited, and finding very little.
Near the end of the tour,
At 05:59 AM 1/31/2004, you wrote:
Ratti Center is ...still providing the access to our
computer data base of 36.000 textiles, 5,000 of them laces, ...
I wonder, if we emptied the Metropolitan Museum of Art of all those other
things, ., if it
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