I begin my 8th year demonstrating early bobbin lace at the Virginia
Renaissance Fair on Saturday. If there are Lacemakers in the area or
anyone who enjoys a family friendly day out please come to the Fair.
The fair runs Saturdays and Sundays from May 7th through June 5th in
Spottsylvania County
Much as I feel every day can be (and often is) knit in public day
(yes, I had my knitting out at the cafe on Saturday for the 'official'
day), my lace pillow with the simple little nine pin edging comes with
me all sorts of places (mostly SCA events, but not entirely!).
Every day can be lace in
Whether there is a special day for it or not, we should all, especially in the
US, where they still almost universally think bobbin lace is tatting, do lace
in public places as much as possible. Kathryn Roberts and I demonstrated lace
at the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Makefest. The Guild
Dear Fellow Spiders,
To?the usual 'never have the patience' comment.
My response is that it gives me patience rather than taking it, and that I am
much more relaxed after I've been able to work on my lace..(-: ?
Next, no, it isn't hard. (To me, some things are tedious, but if I can grasp
them
I absolutely agree with Vicki on this one. The need to make lace backwards
when. You have a mistake and just can't ignore it taught me patience. I leant
in my early 20s and at that age I thought there was no time for anything. If I
made a mistake in may other craft I would work round it but
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Does anyone remember the spectacular fashion show the Puerto Rico
lacemakers held at the castle by the sea during their IOLI convention many
years ago? bBeautiful laces newly made for baptismal dresses, communition
dresses, weddings, quinceaneras and just
I am self taught and I started with Bucks-point since I learned a long time
ago that if I am not thrilled with the beauty of what I am making I will
never complete it. Thusly I do better by jumping into the deep end of the
pool (which by the way is how I learned how to swim as well) I have to know
One of the exercises that I did with my delegates at the weekend was to give
them insight I to how they prefer to learn. I use VARK and Honey Mumford as
the two learning style tests. Google them, you will quickly see yourself in
the descriptions.
What the delegates found interesting is
Liz I am amazed!!!
I took the test. You are right on the button!!! I am definitely kinaesetic.
Thanks for the information, It was quite enlightening, though I doubt I am
going to perform any brain surgery despite the possibility of a book out
there I could learn from LOL...
Cearbhael
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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 11:40:49 -0500 (EST)
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..At one point someone came to a lace class that we were
having and said
that she had been told that there were really only two stitches, cross and
twist and that after you
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Hi Arachnids
The answer is simple. Knitting has only two basic stitches â? plain and
purl
â? and you can make all kinds of patterns and garments. Lacemaking is the
same, two basic stitches and they used in many
I have been thinking about this. That is that the student thought this was
something vey easy, like gluegun crafts. I think the problem was with the
person, and not necessarily with the words of the demonstrator. Unless all
that was being shown was something akin to 'the bandage' or snakes.
For about the last century, most people have been making lace as a hobby
rather than to earn a living, and have had some choice as to what lace
to start with - some, because frequently that choice is dictated by the
teacher to start with. Some teachers throw their hands up in horror if
you
Lace is 'just' cross twist, in exactly the same way as knitting is 'just' knit
and purl. Â Why make things more complicated than you need to?
When you teach someone to knit you don't go sideways and immediately start
tellling them that although knitting is 'just' knit and purl, of course it's
in Lincolnshire
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Date: 08/12/2013 14:42 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject [lace] Demonstrating
For about the last century, most people have been making lace as a hobby
rather
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Subject [lace] Demonstrating
For about the last century, most people have been making lace as a hobby
rather than to earn a living, and have had some choice as to what lace
to start with - some, because frequently that choice is dictated by the
teacher to start with. Some
To draw in younger people you might also prepare a little card with links so
some good lace sites and online discussion groups, as a handout. There are A
LOT!
Lorelei
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Hi Spiders All,
If the demo was in England, I could well have been the person who told the lady
that there were two actions in bobbin lace! Once you have mastered the cross
and the twist, those are the movements you make, with variations on numbers and
twists etc. I also tell people that
Hello Carol and everyone
I agree with Carol and others, it really is useful at a demo to be able to
show the range of bobbin lace. I would take a simple project to work on, if
not the have-a-go pillow itself, as well as another pillow with something
more elaborate on it for comparison (also
I agree with Robin - I usually don't take a practice pillow, either - I
let them do a few stitches of whatever I'm doing, after all, cross and
twist are the same regardless of whether it is a bit of tape you are
making or something that looks like (and is) lace! If a newspaper
photographer
jeria...@aol.com wrote:
A large fully-dressed pillow with many bobbins and dense
pattern is discouraging and elicits the usual I don't have the
patience!.
Speed reading slays my intent every so often. The word dense is
important in above sentence.
I have seen lacemakers with so
Since we older lacers using paper books and such are geared to that, it is
not surprising the younger generation has no interest. I found if i can
trust my Xyboard not to fall, i have my pattern and pricking on it.
Younger people wonder how you can use a tablet with a pillow so wander
over and
I am of two minds on the whole demonstration idea. On the one hand a
simple piece like the snake or fish that a visitor could work is a nice idea.
On
the other hand, I showed a photo of my daughter working the snake to her
grade school teacher, and the teacher, puzzled, said, where is the
In effect, though, she was right. Once you know which move is cross, and
which is twist, then by using combinations of those two moves you can do
anything - even a tally or picot. Once you know the sound that letters
of the alphabet make, you can start to put them together to make words -
same
For our Newbies: It has been a few years since we discussed Gossip
Pillows on Arachne. Suggest you go to archives and search Gossip Pillows.
Two
of my memos are near the top, and describe, with directions on where to
see a photo on an IOLI Bulletin cover.
A couple of years ago at a demonstration, one of the lace makers brought a 24
cookie pillow for beginners to make a snake. The enterprising lace maker had
put 4 prickings on the pillow (along each point of the compass: north, south,
east and west) and had 4 children work at the same time. It was
I agree that a few bobbins, not uncountable numbers, is a much less
intimidating picture. Also a relatively clear pillow. Not a lot of pin
cushions or tools around. Few tools or other paraphernalia in view.
I am demonstrating most Sundays at church so people have a better
understanding of
...Demonstrating is teaching and theater, and anything you can do to set the
stage for the point you want to prove is a good thing to consider
Love this statement! It is so true.
I have done the wide lace with 126 bobbins (see
http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/Lace/201305.html and it is the
I set up the Springett snake because it gives an alternative color down the
middle and can be made rapidly even for new triers. it lets them follow
the path of the bobbins. it has few bobbins and i use a metallic thread in
the middle to give glitter to it which also is appealing. i pre-wind
Good morning all
I am pleased to tell you that on Sunday 17th June 2012, 10.a.m until 4.p.m.
several ladies representing Wolds Lacemakers will be demonstrating their
lacemaking skills and will also have a display of various types of lace set up
at Olde English Furniture, Sands Lane, South Cave,
Good morning
I am pleased to advise everyone that Wolds Lacemakers, which is based in the
UK, East Yorkshire/Lincolnshire area, will be demonstrating our
lacemaking skills at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull from 12 noon to 4.p.m. as part
of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations that are being
Hi
It's nearly 2 weeks since I did my demonstration at our church's Christmas
Tree festival and I thought I ought to let you all know how I got on. It was
an interesting experience. I was there all day on Saturday, apart from going
home for lunch and for about 4 hours on Sunday afternoon.
I
In message
c546551ff307cf428001639e689f106f04a03...@mbx2-node2.essex.ac.uk,
Gray, Alison J ag...@essex.ac.uk writes
I was using one of my own designs. But I was wondering whether anyone knows
whether it would be violating copyright if I were to use someone else's design
and sell it for
Don't give up - enquire as to next year, or the year after - museums
often book schedules 18 months to three years in advance, so that they
can get their publicity material printed and distributed in time. Write
to them with your proposal, and suggest that you could arrange to call
in if they
Oh well, I tried. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA
Dear Susan, et al,
Don't give up yet. The other question is whether there is a place in public
where you can make lace. Is there a place at the Flagler that has benches?
I can virtually guarantee there are no signs saying, NO LACE
In a message dated 10/21/2011 9:16:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lynrbai...@desupernet.net writes:
Or outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, especially on a
weekend. There are vendors out there, and I don't know if a permit is
required, nor do I recall if there are benches, but it's
away, and maybe the
weatherman was right after all.
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In a message dated 10/21/2011 9:16:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lynrbai
Another place without quite as much traffic... the car dealership! LOL
My car needed some work so I brought my tatting and sat in the waiting
room, in the sun, and tatted!
Time passes a lot quicker that way, as well :_)
Lauren in WA
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I've done tatting at the dentist
And the doctors, in the queue.
Now I'll add tatting in my pocket
When the car is serviced, too
...Noelene in Cooma
nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au
Another place without quite as much traffic... the car dealership! LOL
My car needed some work so I brought my tatting and
Hello All! Looks like everyone was thinking about how to promote
lace/lacemaking today--Bravo! Well I took the plunge contacted Flagler
Museum. There is a lovely place to make lace on the south porch in the shade
of the bougainvillea. Their schedule is already booked for the season. Oh
Had a good three days of demonstrating bobbin lace at the community building
where the handicrafts exhibits were located at our local fair. I am working
on Bucks Point Lace in black thread. I know.not traditional for Bucks,
but I like black lace! I a using a Danish style roller pillow that
That looks like a very soggy weekend, Mark. What an interesting place,
though. Loved looking at the photos.
And your lace looks Very Nice, too.
Regards from Liz in Melbourne
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Rain, Rain, Go Away!!!
That is what it did all last weekend while my wife and I demonstrated at the
Lincoln Log Cabin near Lerna, IL. YUCKY!! MESSY!! Saturday wasn't too bad.
There were some breaks in the spitting rain. No real downpours. And we did
have some visitors. We were set up at the
On Saturday and Sunday six of the Land of Lincoln Lacemakers in Illinois did a
demonstration on behalf of the Illinois Arts Council. We had a great time,
made even more pleasant in that we were paid to demonstrate, plus our meals,
travel and hotel were paid for by the Arts Council. Everything
Further to Carole's comment about being asked to pay to demonstrate. I
belong to the Isis Lacemakers, and we like to demonstrate lacemaking
wherever we are asked. We occasionally get asked to pay for our tables, but
when we explain that we do not sell, and in fact will be out of
In a message dated 04/04/2005 23:41:55 GMT Standard Time,
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One woman came up and said that she used to make lace, but couldn't now as
her grip has gone and the bobbins slide through her fingers. Off the top of
my head I passed on the thought that if something like
I spent yesterday in Doncaster, (South Yorkshire, UK) demonstrating lace
at a Card, Craft and Stamping Show with Anne Weston (Chairman of The
Guild of Needlelaces) - Anne takes her needlelace, I take bobbin. (Next
Sunday we'll be at Edgbaston Cricket Ground if anyone is in the
Birmingham area and
In a message dated 18/12/2004 18:06:28 GMT Standard Time, Betty Ann writes:
I surely wasn't negating demonstrating lacemaking *anywhere* when I made my
comment about doing so at Craft Fairs. I love being able to sit and make
lace all day, have all the attention focused on my art, and enjoy
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Betty Ann in Roanoke Virginia said
Many years ago I demonstrated lace at a Craft Fair in my hometown - only
'cause it *was* my hometown. One of the comments that has stayed with me
came from a teenager who
Diana.Pickford writes:
Betty Ann in Roanoke Virginia said, Many years ago I demonstrated lace at a
Craft Fair in my hometown - only
'cause it *was* my hometown. One of the comments that has stayed with me came
from a teenager who stood
and watched me do bobbin lace for awhile then said,
You never know what impact a demonstration will have on someone. I received
a phone call a few weeks ago from a gentleman whose wife had died recently.
She had seen us demonstrating and had tried it herself. He had 2 pillows and
some accessories to donate to the Lost Art Lacers knowing that we
Dear Lacers,
In line with the comments on demonstrating, I just did a demonstration for our
local historical society and the annual candlelight tour of their collection
of historic houses. Along with the usual 'tatting ladies' a young man stopped
by. He said he had seen us demonstrating at this
Hi All,
My apologies if this isn't lace-y enough to be here.
I was recently in the US to give a presentation on European bobbin laces at
a textile/needle arts festival that my mother helped organize in
Hammondsport, NY, and also took one of my pillows and some bobbins so that I
could do some
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