Hi all,
As many of you may have guessed my email address was hijacked and a rather
unpleasant email claiming to have come from me was sent to my whole address
book.
Please ignore/delete any email you may have received from
andreal...@hotmail.com or andrealam...@hotmail.com in the last 24 hours.
From: Nancy Neff
If I had known how much usable pillows and bobbins (even Continental bobbins)
were going to cost me eventually I might never have started. Thank heavens I
didn't know! Now it's too much fun to stop.
The cost of the art can sneak up on you. I know some people have one
There's even a shop in the center of Berlin, selling lace supplies and
handicraft from the Erzgebirge:
http://www.kloeppeln-berlin.de/index.php
Klöppelstube
Rathausstraße 21
10178 Berlin Mitte
Tel. +49-30-27576669
Best, Achim.
Am 15.04.2011 um 13:56 schrieb Ilske Thomsen:
the question
Hi Sue,
the very best thing I have found is Granny Almans Old Fashioned Furniture
Polish Reviver. It is a mix of linseed oil, distilled white vinegar and
sugar! I don't know what the proportions are and have never bothered to try
to work it out as it's not expensive. Phone 0116 255 8854 to
I recommend Renaissance Micro-cristalline Wax Polish. It's recipe stems from
the British Museum to be used for conservation and is acid free. I used it on
bobbins, leather and marble already with very good results. Not cheap, but one
of the 200 ml cans is probably enough for a lifetime of
I have wondered the same thing at one time or another. I asked my
insurance agent about whether my supplies were covered under my
homeowner's insurance, and the answer was that I would have to compile
an inventory (preferably with photographs) and get a rider on my
insurance to cover these
My first lace pillow was a 60cm straw-stuffed Belgian cookie pillow. It was
*far* more pillow than I needed and in the years since I have only rarely
used much of its surface.
I had never done bobbin lace, never seen it done in person, but dearly
wanted to try it. So I contacted an online dealer
The guild I first joined had loaner kits which newbies could take home
with them and keep for two or three months, which gave them enough time
to decide whether they wanted to continue making lace. I had only had
my loaner kit a couple of weeks before I started looking at suppliers so
I could
When this came up on Arachne in about 2002, I decided to buckle down and do
my inventory, for insurance purposes. I store it in Excel, with details of
spangles, inscriptions, costs, supplier etc. It was a lot of work - and
revealed a huge collection of bobbins! Now, the collection grows slowly
On 16/04/2011 09:02, lacel...@frontier.com wrote:
From: Nancy Neff
If I had known how much usable pillows and bobbins (even Continental
bobbins) were going to cost me eventually I might never have started. Thank
heavens I didn't know! Now it's too much fun to stop.
The cost of the art
On 16/04/2011 15:29, Alan Sheila Brown wrote:
[snip]
The list is endless of the extras we collect.
A nightmare when we came to downsize yet again to a much smaller house.
My solution was to give most of my antique laces to The Manor House
Museum in Bury St. Edmunds together with books on
--- On Sat, 16/4/11, lacel...@frontier.com lacel...@frontier.com wrote:
The cost of the art can sneak up on you. I know some people have one pillow
and one set of bobbins, and are happy to keep to that. I tend to get over
enthusiastic when I'm enjoying myself.
I think back to Arachne 98 when my
Dear Friends,
My first lace pillow was the seat of a hideous vinyl arm chair in a
rented flat in Darwin, Northern Territory, way back in 1981. I left
it full of 1000 pin holes and only succeeded in making a fine macrame
bookmark!! Still Mum treasured that in her Bible till she died.
David
Dear Friends,
I am currently working on a complex piece of Chantilly from Ulrike's
Schwartzarbeit. It's the one where the working diagrams are on pp.61-63.
Firstly I'd like to warn anyone who is attempting this piece in the
future that those working diagrams are upside down and thus have to
Mine was a strange, straw-filled, rectangular pillow about 12 inches x 8
inches x 3 inches, which I was given by a friend before I even knew about
bobbin-lace. She came from Bedfordshire and told me this was what the pillow
was used for. It is nicely covered in blue cotton, and would be a lot
Hi Sue et all,
Yes, I have a rectangular pillow, which was my first. I made it myself by
using a piece of plywood with the corners rounded and a blue 'duck' (sail
making canvas)bag fitted over it. It took me a whole weekend to chop straw
and remove the nodes from it. Then stuff the canvas bag
Hello David,
But having used them now for a week or so, I began to wonder who that
wonderful person was who actually drew them. They really are perfection in
their intricacies.
As far as I know Ulrike draws them all by herself.
Lucky you to have a copy of her first Chantilly book - I'm
I still have my first lace pillow from back in 1990. It is an 18 SMP
polystrene which my lace teacher sold to me for £8 together with a cover and a
cover cloth.
It was only when I went to my first Springett's fair that september did I
realise that I could have bought direct from them and got it
Hi Arachnids
I was interested in the replies to the query about cleaning antique bobbins.
The polishes recommended all sound very useful, especially Grannys Old
Fashioned Furniture Polish, I am allergic to many of the solvents and this
sounds like it might be my answer.
One additional comment I
Many thanks for all the suggestions on how to revive my old dusty bobbins, I
will try a few of them and see what comes up the best.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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There's a new book out here in Australia of Torchon lace designs - see
http://tinyurl.com/42b8nbn
I've got my copy, and am delighted with it.
Noelene in Cooma
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Sue,
Your pillow sounds very much like the dimensions of a needlelace pillow like
the
one I was given recently. It is very hard and heavy.
Janice
Mine was a strange, straw-filled, rectangular pillow about 12 inches x 8
inches x 3 inches, which I was given by a friend before I even knew about
Tamara,
You're too clever to be taken in by this kind of spam. ;-)
Unfortunately, there are people out there who don't think these things
through and unfortunately they send payment ... only to get an
embarrassed email a few months later saying, Hi, everyone, my account
was hacked. Hope no one
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