[lace] Exchange set up

Beautiful work , beautifully displayed, thanks to Jenny once again. Shirley in Corio, Oz. shirl200...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Bedfordshire lace

Thank you Nancy, Jane & Lorelei for setting me straight! And for keeping me from making a major error at the library. Unless there is some scholarly objection, I think "early plaited lace" could work when referring to English lace made in the 1500's. The object here is to make a brief

RE: [lace] Bedfordshire lace

Susan The story we are told is that the style called Bedfordshire was a result of an international fair in the mid 19th century, which exhibited Maltese lace. Supposedly, Bedfordshire-Maltese was an attempt to design laces using similar techniques and ideas, and supposedly it would be faster to

[lace] Fw: Bedfordshire lace

It is generally accepted that Bedfordshire lace developed somewhere around 1851-1852 in the wake of the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Crystal Palace, where Maltese lace was exhibited. The machine industry had taken much of the trade away from the East Midland lacemakers, so the designers like Thomas

Re: [lace] Bedfordshire lace

Hi Susan, That's an interesting question! especially given the similarities between Beds and the early mimics of Punto in Aria, as in LePompe. I personally have not handled a piece of lace that seemed to be older than the mid-19th C that I would call Beds, but "Beds" is a name based on a

[lace] Bedfordshire lace

Hello All! While working on signage for an upcoming lace exhibit at the library, I ran into a disagreement among lace resources regarding Bedfordshire. To my eye, all resources are equally credible but there is a three century difference of opinion. Should Bedfordshire be considered 16th or

Re: [lace] exchange site now online

Thank you Jenny for this site of all the lovely bookmarks and we'll done to all.  Carole >From  hot and sunny Malta Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 at 13:56, Jenny Brandis wrote: I know I was going to release it on the weekend but could not resist

RE: [lace] exchange site now online

Hi fellow Arachnids, Such wonderful eye-candy has been produced by all the participants! Thank you Jenny to once again have set up the gallery of all the bookmarks so everyone can enjoy them. Joepie in WARM, sunny Sussex, UK. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

RE: [lace] Computerized Embroidery Designs - Lace

I am very impressed with the link that Janice has provided. https://www.advanced-embroidery-designs.com/cgi-bin/cart/store.cgi?keyword=bo bbin+lace=search Someone has gone to tremendous trouble to produce bobbin lace like designs for machine embroidery. Usually, when artists produce a lace design

Re: [lace] exchange site now online

Thank you so much, Jenny, for all the work you have put into making the bookmarks visible to all of us, whether or not we were able to participate in the exchange (and, yes, once again, I was too busy). They are lovely - and such variety in them. Does Julie de Loe, CA, remember where the

Re: [lace] exchange site now online

Those postal pixies are having a dreadful time since security procedures became so strict. Funny how with all this checking they can't track an envelope from here to there. I hope it arrives soon. Jenny Brandis Brookdale, Western Australia > On 14 Jun 2017, at 8:23 pm, Jeanette Fischer

[lace-chat] OT: moved to chat: was: Arachne Convention Get Together

On 6/11/17 10:01 PM, Janice Blair wrote: Being a typist in my past, I automatically enter two spaces at the end of each sentence. Find it hard to break that habit. Don't try to break the habit. Clear divisions between sentences are more important now that you have no clue as to how your

RE: [lace] exchange site now online

I have just spent quite some time admiring all the lovely bookmarks! Congratulations to everyone involved and particularly to Jenny. I have not received my exchange yet, but saw what I can look forward to- if only the Post Office would oblige!! Jeanette Fischer, South Africa.

[lace] exchange site now online

I know I was going to release it on the weekend but could not resist LOL SO without fuss here it is http://brandis.com.au/arachne/2017bookmarks/index.html Hugs Jenny Brandis E-mail Jenny Personal Website

[lace] Bookmark and Thanks

Morning All I have just received my bookmark from Martina De Wille. It's absolutely gorgeous!! Thanks to you for it, and to Lin for her wonderful organisational skills, and of course not forgetting Jenny for her display and collation of these exchanges!! Sue in East Yorkshire where its sunny