Dear Arachnids
I have also heard of teachers who show a technique quickly and say they cannot
do it slowly. We learn lacemaking with the left side of the brain that works
with speech and this transfers to the right side that does not. (Try
explaining how to ride a bike so that the person learning
that my first few designs are real clunkers, duds, yuk. But I don't let
myself be stopped by these failures. I just keep slogging away at it
until, eventually, I get good at it. I don't want anybody else to be
intimidated or think there is some kind of magic that people are born with.
Lorelei
This reminds me of a student internship I once had. I was a dorm counselor
for blind, developmentally disabled young adults. One of my tasks was to
teach them to tie their shoes. What a challenge! No visual aids, obviously,
some of them did not have the concepts of left and right clear, and their
Certainly David is correct about what pewter will last. The better the
pewter the shorter it will last if not kept correctly.
I will have to research the catching degradation from and poor pewter
bobbin. As it stands, I do not see how a poor pewter can infect an intact
pewter. My chemistry
After seeing Alice's newpaper article of a few years ago, I thought you
might like to see the article about me and my laces done for a new local
website. I felt like I had been written up by Victoria magazine! The slide
show of my lace is very nice. Unfortunately, Vicki did not identify the
Halas
Looking on Google to try and resolve this discussion, and to start with I
couldn't find any mention of pewter and cold.
First I looked at the various types of pewter and found that:-
Going back to the 15th century, by then it appears that by then there were
three 'recipes' of pewter regulated by
I have been reading these stories about teachers and students and now
designing! How do you even begin to design? Or is this something you think
about when you have more experience? I have a good teacher/class but
unfortunately these are only evening classes so in the summer I have nothing.
She
I have found a copy of my original article about pewter and degradation. I
find that it lacks the detail of Jacqui's research. Great stuff... thank
you.
I do remember doing quite a lot of research and and members of Arachne
contributed greatly to the discussion. I think I just summarized
Lovely, and I liked the way she wrote it. Real appreciation for the work.
Sue T, Dorset UK
After seeing Alice's newpaper article of a few years ago, I thought you
might like to see the article about me and my laces done for a new local
website. I felt like I had been written up by Victoria
In a message dated 4/8/2009 7:11:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nancy.nichol...@hotmail.co.uk writes:
I have been reading these stories about teachers and students and now
designing! How do you even begin to design?
This is a subject that I have been thinking about for some years, and no one
Alex,
My art teacher in high school taught from this book and I thoroughly enjoyed
it. I love blind contour drawing. Now just wish I could do blind
lacemaking. I might get a book read at the same time HAH. Thanks for
mentioning that book. Brought back good memories.
--
Mark, aka Tatman
The harder I practice, the luckier I get... EXCELLENT! Thanks for
that one!
I also like the analogy with the violin. You don't need to say more.
Clay
Catherine Barley wrote:
that my first few designs are real clunkers, duds, yuk. But I don't let
myself be stopped by these failures. I
Dear Arachnids
My answer to students who look at my lace and say they cannot do as well it
'When you have been making lace as long as I have, you will. I agree with
Cathy Barley about designing. My first attempt was at a 2-day course on
Macrame (before it became popular). At the end of the first
Yes Sheila. Copying is a good way of getting started with designing. Start by
copying a pattern, then draft a pattern from lace or a photograph, then try
altering an existing pattern. It's a good progression and you can learn a lot
from looking at how the different components of a pttern work
Sherry meant for this to go to the lace list as well. Her email below.
--
Mark, aka Tatman
blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/
email: tatmant...@gmail.com
-- Forwarded Message
From: Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com
And since I am left handedI use the right side of my brain more
Hello All! Snow--After last night's snow, we are now at 145 on the season,
the 2nd snowiest in Erie, PA history. Using bobbins with Pewter--Is anyone
concerned about the lead content potential contamination? Just think of how
we work. Hands to bobbins, hands to push up glasses that have
Devon wrote:
People who read the IOLI Bulletin can read the process that I used for the
piece that was on the back cover. As a not particularly good designer, I
would offer the following ideas.
This was the first article I read when the Bulletin arrived on Monday. I know
that Devon always
In a message dated 4/8/2009 2:09:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jbl...@sbcglobal.net writes:
Did you put
a high price on the piece if the pieces were for sale?
I put a price of $350 on it. I wasn't particularly interested in selling it
because I thought I might enter it in the employee art show
I won't be on line for the next 2 weeks , off climb hills(maybe) in The
Peak District and then the Lace Guild Convention.
Sheila
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I have a couple of yards of lace edging to make and I don't have a roller
pillow. Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep the worked lace neat and
tidy apart from just folding it over? My DH is a dab hand at woodwork so
could make something if he had a picture or a diagram.
Ann
UK
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I use a smooth, circular piece of wood, with holes drilled at each end for
hat pins (or equivalent ) to go through and pin it to the pillow. Wind the
lace around the wood as it is completed.
See:
http://www.smplace.co.uk/sfr_cat.htm
for a picture of the sort of thing I am talking about. They
If your husband works with wood, here is a link to plans to build a
little roller pillow/travel pillow:
http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/PillowsBobbins/PuertoRicanPillow.html
It didn't take him long to make it, and all I had to do was find some
wool and cover the roller.
I have enjoyed using it
Hi Ann,
I have something that looks like a mini rolling pin that you wind the lace
around.
I bought it many years ago at a lace day but sorry I can't remember who it
was from
Hope this helps.
Anne Nicholas
Middx
England
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I have a couple of yards of lace edging
How about an empty toilet paper/paper towel tube? The cardboard is light
weight easy to pin to. I use them for the crocheted cording for Romanian
point lace. Wonder if it would work for you as well? Susan, Erie, PA
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How about a wooden roller? Put some holes through at either end to put
divider pins through and pin to your pillow.
See: www.sixpennybobbins.co.uk/index.php?p=6
I am using one of these at teh moment for a long length of Beds. lace.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
ann.humphreys wrote:
I have a
As a leftie also, I will say that I find it fairly easy to follow
written instructions (unless it involves housework) I like the
message on Clay's sisters teeshirt too! For those of you who are not
left handed I say this.
Don't try to understand us, you'll never manage it.
Hi everyone, and especially those who applied for my old copy of Threads for
Lace, edition 1.
I have sent it now to the next owner, and I thank everyone for writing who
expressed an interest in it.
I'm sorry I don't have one for each of you! I know you would all have
benefited.
To anyone not yet
Thank you all for your wonderful reflections regarding teaching lace.
I just finished my first teaching of beginner lace using Gillian Dye's
Beginning Bobbin Lace book. I had 7 students, including one with
macular degeneration and one that had had 2 strokes. I discovered that
some students
That was very interesting about pewter.
I have an old wooden bobbin with pewter spots, - that is no longer nice to
use, as the pewter spots have expanded, and are very rough on the fingers, as
well as snagging on other threads.
I was told it was corroding pewter, which expands as it corrodes.
In
I figure I'll be hit by a bus before I get brain damage or die from the
lead in the pewter my bobbins contain!
Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA who is back on line after a
battlefield tout of Middle Tennessee.
Apr 8, 2009 01:23:00 PM, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:
(snip) Using
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