Gentle Spiders
If anyone is visiting Normandy this month, there is a temporary exhibition of
lace (both hand and machine-made) in the Musee de Normandie in Caen until the
31st August. I visited it last week and although it's quite small (their
temporary exhibition space is no bigger then my
I'll get in in front of big sister here with the talk of wedding
anniversaries and ask, does anyone know what a 70th anniversary is? Apart from a
minor
miracle. I hope it has a recognisable colour theme.
January next year is our parents' 70th, and also next year they are both 90!
Both
In the Orlando newspaper today, a local businessman whose shop features
lingerie and swimwear is interviewed and this is what it says:
Brown will travel to Medellin, Colombia, this month. Medellin's handmade
lace, he said, makes its lingerie superior.
'Medellin, Colombia, has the most
Hi Both Jeans and those interested in Armenian Needlelace!
I did a beading class at the Convention of Irish Lacemakers recently with
Pat Trott who also taught Armenian needle lace to some of the class. I
Googled and came up with some examples on this page
Hi everyone and Annette who asked:
The bolster pillow -
is that a sausage-shaped (cylindrical) pillow, with the bobbins hanging off
it? Can this be used to make Torchon and Bucks Point?
In general household use, a bolster is a long stuffed pillow. The bolster
pillow for bobbin lace is also
I have to confess that I've done very little BL all summer! Nothing of any
consequence since finishing Lucy's wedding garter, though I've been
thinking about my Lace Guild luggage tag, and yesterday I got the bobbins
out to make a short length of torchon edging to put on a friend's 40th
In a message dated 8/6/03 4:35:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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This is a bit different:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3542965907category=463
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or search for item number 3542965907
Would have thought the appeal is a bit specialised.
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Hi Annette,
As an alternative to velvet under the bobbins to stop them rolling, you
could also try a piece of Chamois leather, real or man made. It is soft
and does not shed fibres.
Jean in Cleveland U.K.
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On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 07:41 AM, Annette Gill wrote:
I like the
I have just come back from my holday camping on the Scout campsite and
working on the Guide campsite at Bedford. I mention that because I know some of you
take Brownie Guides or Girl Scouts or whatever. Going to Bedford for a holiday
can only be exciting for a lacemaker and I enjoyed driving
There is a Canadian supplier called Trillium, which sells general lacemaking
supplies. I don't know if linen cloth is included in their stock.
Lorelei
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I have just come across a comment by Elisa Ricci in Old Italian Lace in which
she speculates that in the early days when pins didn't exist as we know them,
or were hard to get, the lacemakers may well have used the fine nails which
were in common use. She bases this idea on the large size of
Far from being limited to Southern Europe lavender is also grown in the north
east of Scotland - on Royal Deeside - and hand creams etc made with it.
Patricia in Wales
Fifteen years ago, a little town called
Sequim was dying due to being so far
'out of the way' . . . until some
Californians moved
Sending Cooling thoughts and wishes for our European lacers!
You have out done the heat here by far. It's only 85 F. with a heat index of
87 F. Not you 100 F by far. Blessings and many cooling thoughts to you all.
We have a swimming pool and I have an 11 month old miniature black poodle
named
because they wear padded undies ... VBG ...
dominique
Toni Hawryluk a gazouillé à ÒRe: [lace-chat] Lavender ? growingÓ.
[2003/08/11 17:47]
survive the winters wearing kilts ??: O~
since it seems the Russians wear
even fur *hats* . . . !!
Toni in Seattle
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:07:09 -0400, Clay wrote:
This is a funny little book, and I bought it not long ago
for that outrageous cover! And yes, we really did wear our
skirts that short in the 60's! (Well, maybe not THAT
short.)
There must be a lot of these books about, since one turned up on
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