[lace] Arachne pin/brooch/badge on ebay

2008-04-14 Thread Jean Nathan
It's been pointed out to me that the seller of the Arachne pin on ebay will ship world-wide. At the top of the listing it states: Post to: United Kingdom but in the description: Will ship worldwide - please ask for details of costs outside the UK I didn't read the whole description because

[lace] Findings - the Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing

2008-04-14 Thread Jeriames
In a message dated 3/15/2008 5:26:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I visited the needle museum in Redditch, Worcestershire. The museum was a working needle factory until 1958. What an enlightenment. I'll never look at needles in the same way again! (Those who sharpened

[lace] Findings - the Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing

2008-04-14 Thread Jane Partridge
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At its peak, Redditch supplied 90 per cent of the world market for needles. It might surprise you, but until fairly recently Studley (the area in which the Forge Mill Needle Museum is - Redditch is the large town next door, so to speak)

[lace] looking for Teneriffe teacher

2008-04-14 Thread Kim Davis
A local friend of mine passed this information along to me. She is part of the Embroiders' Guild of America. You can find their website and general info here: http://www.egausa.org/ My friend said, this person will write and teach a course by correspondence - could have classes all over the

[lace-chat] free rice

2008-04-14 Thread Janice Blair
You may remember I put this web address on Chat last year: http://freerice.com On the evening news there has just been a report that since last year, the clicks on the program have amounted to enough rice being donated to feed a million people for a day. So all those small bowls of rice add