Hi everyone,
A little while ago someone on Arachne asked about Binche bobbins. In sorting
through some of my -extensive- bobbin collection I came accross some packs
of new Binche bobbins. They were bought a while ago for my own use but I use
the slightly heavier Duchesse bobbins. I have
What can one add to Gil's authoritative accounts? Gil, I have loved your
articles on early lace for the Lace Guild. I hope there will be more.
I have been reading some of the old lace books from the digital archive -
including the Romance of the Lace Pillow - I can't remember whether it is
Hi
Queen Victoria got married in 1840 and it took until 1899 for the fashion to
get to Mountfield, a small village in East Sussex England.
My 101 year old Mother in Law often tells the tale of her Aunt Flora who was
the first person in the village to wear a white wedding dress. As you can
imagine
agree...except white wedding dresses... Lyn
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In reference to the white
wedding dress, I didn't mean as far as long term tradition, or
ties to wealth
or royalty...just that white indicates purity, something difficult to attain
or not worn daily (white) or perhaps
some form of exalted state
I would like to thank Laurie for making this site available. I thought I have
seen all of them but there are many I have not found until now. Thank you
From: Laurie Waters lswaters...@comcast.net
To: lace@arachne.com
Cc: Laurie Waters lswaters...@comcast.net
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Hello All! Thank you Laurie for your excellent lace video library! WOW!!
Where do you find the time to track down all this material? I got caught up in
the Roumanian point lace Irish crochet modules yesterday. One could be in
there for days not come up for air! What's really nice is
Dear Jean
Thank you for posting these links for us all to enjoy.
I was particularly fascinated with the article on the lace from the Wedding
Dress as I have been following all the posts and magazines and wrote a
summary for our Embroiderers Guild magazine which received a lot of comment.
It is a
Just wondered if anyone here is going to the Edinburgh Lace Course next
week? I'm looking forward to learning a new (to me) style of lace and
being able to concentrate on just lacemaking for a few days.
Lesley
from Marple, Cheshire, UK
currently holidaying in Northumberland!
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This would be really great -- but I'm not computer literate enough to find
it on YouTube. I find wigs on lace news channgel -- but that's it. Can
someone help please with direct instructions?
Thanks,
Diane Z
Lubec, Maine
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From: owner-l...@arachne.com
Hello All! Mary Corbet just reviewed this book on her site
www.needlenthread.com she says there is a section on bobbin lace with
patterns! Lots of other stuff that might interest Arachne members: gloves,
embroidered waistcoats, coifs, sleeves etc., including pics of x-rays of museum
Thank you,. Jean for both of those articles on your web site. How
interesting to get to see where the Wedding Dress lace was made, - and
especially to see the lace after it had been trimmed from the whole piece,
and then displayed how it was on the dress.
Also the article on Bucks point. I
Here is a game to test your alertness?? I must say my score was not very
good!! I just wish the numbers would keep still then my score will be so
much better!!
Move your cursor numerically over the numbers starting with 1, then 2, etc.
And see how fast you can get through 33.
You don't need to
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