On October 24, at 2:00 Sheila Mason, author of Nottingham Lace 1760-1950,
owner of the Cluny Lace Co. of Nottingham, and custodian of the Mason collection
of machine-made lace will be coming to the Ratti Textile Center at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for a viewing of about 10 pieces of
Dear Wired Lace Experts,
We have quite a few newbies on Arachne each year who do not have access to
the wealth of classes and books some of us have accumulated. The subject of
using wire to shape laces may be new to them.
In my collection are a pair of tatted lace mobiles, circa 1950 (a
Dear Arachnes,
Reading all the message about Ithaca, I thought to inform you about the
LOKK Festival held the 27th of September this year.
The LOKK, the Dutch Lace Organisation, was founded 25 years ago.
Therefore they organised a lot of activities. On the 27th of September
a Lace Festival was
Patty wrote:
Janice,
Congratulations! This is yet another method to accomplish a rolled edge.I like
Sister Judith's attitude Anything that makes the lace more beautiful.
Every method or technique had to be invented by someone, somewhere. Just because
there are four hundred years of
I like to come up with ideas I have not seen yet, (I don't pretend to
know everything about all the laces so someone might have done that before),
but I am not sure how the lace community feels about innovation.
Well, the Milanese Lace Police can say it's not Milanese if you have an
innovation,
I just wanted to say sorry to those who are kind enough to help me with my
various questions if I don't reply for several days. I'm really struggling
these days with RSI, and both typing and lacemaking make it worse. Often it's
not possible to answer email promptly. As a novice, I'm very
On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 16:33 US/Eastern, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
The Lace Guild sell a kit with one little wooden body plus a pattern
for choirister, angel or King, designed by Jean Leader. I've got a
few kits in the parcel for Tonbridge Fair on Sunday. For bodies only
I got a pack of
On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 16:54 US/Eastern, Jane Viking Swanson
wrote:
Hi All, Something else came up in Ithaca. I used a magnifier (fits
on my
head and the lenses go up and down) for my Needlelace class
like I did when I learned Carrickmacross. Sumac's Withof teacher,
Susie
Johnson,
Hi, Shirlee -
It's good to see you again. I'm glad you wrote My email name used to be
lv2lace. I recognised that before I got to your name at the end of your
message.
Maybe lacemaking is like riding a bicycle? Once you've done it, you always
remember? It never worked for me (the bicycle
