Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI

2015-05-13 Thread Karen Thompson
It has been gratifying receiving your responses to the War Laces website, both privately and on Arachne. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces It makes us want to continue our volunteer work with the lace collection. Regretfully it took a couple days for all

Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI

2015-05-13 Thread Karen Thompson
If you read to the end of the introduction you will find that you can click on a link to bypass further introductions, and concentrate on the lace http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces - and Commission for Relief in Belgium has been added to the introductory

Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI

2015-05-10 Thread Laurie Waters
What an astonishing archive! And the quality of the laces are amazing. I have no trouble with the photos. Laurie _ Laurie Waters lacen...@gmail.com, lwaters...@comcast.net http://lacenews.net/ http://lacenews.net - To

Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI

2015-05-09 Thread Web
Karen, I have just spent a pleasant afternoon on the porch looking through this site. I was not able to figure out how to enlarge the pictures and still have them be sharp. They looked very pixelated if I enlarged them to fill the screen on my tablet. Am I doing something wrong? I would

Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI

2015-05-09 Thread Sue Babbs
Liz I have no problem enlarging them on my laptop (Windows based - via Google chrome). I can get the footside pinholes of the first one TE*T14227 to be about 3 inches apart, and it is still not pixelated. Having expanded and enlarged it, I found I had to shrink it back to small to find the

[lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI

2015-05-08 Thread Karen Thompson
The first group of 37 War Laces in the Smithsonian American History Museum collection is now available for study on the web. Please give me feedback, as this is a work in progress, and we have much to learn from you about these important laces.