[lace] Lace events in Spain
Hello all, In Spain there are also many lace events going on, especially during the summer time. For example, tomorrow I am driving to the North West (Galicia) to attend the III Congress of Lace and Textiles, which will be held in Orense. I will attend a course of Freehand Lace, by Marianne Stang, who has been studying this kind of lace for a long time and is a real expert. There will be other well known national and international lacers teaching and speaking. One whole week full of lace. Have a look at their blog: click on the top, at the right side of the page, to read about the Congress. And.. bear in mind that, what you are going to read is not Spanish, but Galician, the language they speak in that part of Spain. Hope you find this interesting. Regards from Antje, in a very hot Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: Lace events in Spain
Hello again, Sorry, forgot to put the link: http://palilleirasbarrocas.blogspot.com/ http://ourensepuntodeencontro.blogspot.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Finland
Hello, I am travelling to Finland next August, and would like to know if there is somebody from Finland on the list that can give me some information about lace in her/his country, or anybody from another part of the world who knows what I should not miss while being there. Thank you very much in advance. Greetings from Antje, in a sunny Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Cluny lace.
Hello Liz, For me, the books by Mick Fouriscot are the best. Not only have they beautiful laces and pictures, but also very good colour diagrams. Cluny de Brioudehttp://www.amazon.ca/Cluny-Brioude-Mick-Fouriscot/dp/2841670902/ref=s r_1_5?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1283070676sr=1-5 by Mick Fouriscot http://www.amazon.ca/Mod%C3%A8les-dentelles-au-fuseau-Cluny/dp/2841670082/re f=sr_1_6?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1283070676sr=1-6 Modèles de dentelles au fuseau Clunyhttp://www.amazon.ca/Mod%C3%A8les-dentelles-au-fuseau-Cluny/dp/28416700 82/ref=sr_1_6?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1283070676sr=1-6 by Mick Fouriscot Both published by Ed. Didier Carpentier. But, you can also download a must in the Digital Archives, with technique: *Paulis*, Madame L. *Manuels Techniques la Dentelle aux Fuseaux: Premié Partie, Dentelles a Fil Continu. I. -- Cluny [Bobbin Lace Techniques: first part, continuous lace, Cluny] *, Maurice Lamertin, 1921, 102 pages. *Note: *Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Hope this helps. Best regards Antje, in Guadalajara, Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace experience in Finland
Hello all Arachneans. It seems that Laurie and me had the same idea in different places of the world! I have just created a blog where I want to include information on places where lace is made. In fact, the blog is intended for Spanish lacers, who have very little information of this kind in Spanish. But, not wanting to let you out of this, I have made an English version. The first article is about my visit to Rauma a few weeks ago. Another one about my visit to Eeva Liisa Kortelahti will follow soon. Thank you very much to Outi and Pene, who gave me a lot of advice about what to see in Finland! Hope you like the article. This is the link to the blog: http://mi-pequeno-taller-eng.blogspot.com/ Best regards from Antje, in Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Nanduti
So interesting, Lorelei! This summer I have been learning how to make Teneriffe lace, with the book by Alex Stillwell. The difference between both is that Teneriffe is made on a little pillow and is usually white, whereas ñanduti is made on fabric and is colourful. Making this lace has been for me a kind of relax of bobbin lace activity. Sometimes it is nice to make something that goes fast! Best regards from Antje, in Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Unusual Torah binder (bobbin lace)
Hello all, I have been looking at the book Carolina mentions, and what she calls flowers are kind of dots or round motifs, with pairs entering and going out... And these round motifs are repeated all through the lace. At a first sight, I couldn't see anything repeated on the lace, and I thought it was quite chaotic. But... looking carefully, we can see round dots in half stitch, round dots in cloth st., with a ring around the cloth st. area, and then we also see little stripes of tapes, crossing each other in some places... In my opinion, this is freehand lace. It has an irregular look, which possibly means there was no pattern underneath. Hope to have contributed a little. Best regards from Antje, in Spain, where it is raining at last! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Spanish felt lacemaker dolls on LaceNews
A really interesting article, Laurie. I remember having some of these dolls when I was a child. They were so typical! Unfortunately, I don't keep them anymore. Congratulations for your good web page. I follow it with great interest. Regards from Antje, in Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] lace dresses etc
Thanks a lot Lorelei. Very interesting. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Silly footside question
Hi Sister Claire, Here in my country (Spain), we put the foot side on the left. Good luck with your edging. I like Kortelahti very much. Her designs are so personal and different. Best regards from a delicious autumn day in Spain Antje - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] seeking help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
As far as I can see in the picture of the shawl, once she has finished the rose ground (don't forget to cross the last pairs to close the little square that forms the rose ground) she has to make a narrow trail of half stitch.This narrow trail borders the rose ground area, and the tricky part is the corner. As this narrow trail is worked with only 3 pairs (one being the weaver), you must change the direction of the weaver in the angle, working two times in the center, to make both trails look the same. The text in the book doesn't help much: it says that the trail is made in half stitch, and that the ending of the shawl is made with a braid. Hope this helps... Best luck Antje, in sunny Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] seeking help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
You can find some interesting information on how to make zig-zags in this site: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/diamonds.htm#zigzag Regards Antje - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Kortelahti Pattern
Hi Miriam, I would say you have to work it all in one. First you have to join section 1 and 2 (to form one triangle of the hexagon) and make 6 copies of this triangle. Once you join the 6 parts, you get the complete pattern. If you look at the picture of the finished lace, you don't see a joining of two patterns. To start, follow the indications of the little numbers. Where there is a little circle with no number, it seems to me you have to add one pair. Where it says 2, 2 pairs, and where 3, 3pairs. The patterns of Kortelahti are quite autoexplicative. Where you have two lines it means a braid is made. Sometimes you have three little lines: that means a braid with three pairs. One line is just one pair. Hope this help... Best regards. Antje, from Spain, and a great admirer of Kortelahti's work. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Cheers
Nice article and the work you do. I especially like the last paragraph: Bobbin lacemaking is a fine art, not a craft, Rice says. Its a gossamerits an art in that we develop a portrait when were making the lace. We are artists. Best regards Antje, in Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] everything!!!! and collaboration and thanks
Hi Brian, Although I am not able to collaborate with you, because I don't have nor use the bobbins you are studying, I am also very grateful to read all you are writing, as I had never thought there could be such a variety of one type of bobbins. Thank you very much for sharing your investigations with all of us. Best regards from Antje, in Spain, (where we use wooden bobbins, quite big compared with Midlands and with no spangles). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] re: lace photos (red prickings)
In most parts of Spain red was the colour used for prickings. And continues being. In other parts of Spain, yellow has been used, also green. Nowadays, it seems that most lacers continue using red or orange. But I myself use blue, as I find it more relaxing for my eyes. I started using blue after a German lacer told me. I suppose that, at the very beginning, lacers didn't think so much whether the chosen colour was good for their eyes or not. They used some natural product they had at hand to dye the cardboard. It's just a guessing... Regards from a Spanish lacer, Antje González - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Cipke - type of bobbinlace?
Hello Mark, I think that you were doing the same than me: googling for Lepoglava. Lepoglava is in Croatia. Cipke means lace in many Slovak languages. Have a look at this interesting video about this the lace in Lepoglava. Scrolling down the page you will see the huge dome pillow. I suppose they are doing a kind of lace marathon... all lacing at the same time in a big project... http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/lace.html Thanks to Laurie Waters for the information in your blog. Although I don't buy lace antiques, I love looking at them and, if I like them, try to find out something more about them. And this is the case of Lepoglava lace. Best regards, Antje González, from Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Brass fan frame
Hi Dot, The frame is amazingly beautiful. I would make a lace fan and put it between two pieces of glass (cut to size and shape) as it seems to me that there is enough space for it at the back of the frame. The difficult part will be to find a pattern that matches the space. You will probably have to make an adaptation of an existing one. Or design it yourself... which I consider much more difficult. This is my suggestion. Hope you have many more. Regards, Antje, in a sunny and cold Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] ?torchon lace?
Yes, it certainly looks like a pattern with spiders and whole stitch diamonds. Regards from Antje, in Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] free lace books
Hi Jenny and interested Arachneans, It is interesting to know that the patterns of this book from Galicia are free to download. And that the book is a recopilation of patterns from the area of Galicia, a very famous area for its laces. They are mostly torchon and guipur types, and intended to be made with a coarse thread (Finca 20 or 30, for example). In this book the typical laces have been collected and redrawn with a computer, giving the possibility to make an edging, an insert, a little piece... with the same model. The intention of this book is letting everybody know the lace that is made there. I hope you all enjoy it. Best regards form Antje, in a sunny and warm Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] lace photos
Hello all, As a Spanish lacer, I also want to make my small contribution to this discussion. Apart from what Carolina has said, there is also a tendency in Spain to take a pattern or design (which here normally has no instructions on how to make it), and work it in a free manner. So, you cannot trust, in fact, if this is a lace from here or there. The flower motif reminds me of the laces made in Almagro (Ciudad Real), a very important lace center in Spain. But.. neither the Brussels ground nor the outside picots are made in this region. So, I would say this hanky of picasa is a personal interpretation of a pattern. Best regards, Antje, from Guadalajara, Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Cast Your Bets Ladies Gentlemen
Six? Greetings from Antje, in a sunny Spain! - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Enciclopedia de las Señoras
Hello Susan, and Jacquie... Here comes some Spanish help for your inquiry. The book is not Therese Dillmont's. You would wonder if you understood what it says in the introduction. As a resume, I am making a quick free translation for you: This book is for general utility. It contains jobs which can be made easily and with pleasure by all women, whatever their education and social status. Our aim is to teach all kind of crafts which are proper of young women and that are in harmony with their natural disposition easy methods, so that women are able to put into practice the principal feminine works, without forgetting those made just for fun, offering the means of occupying their time, saving money, etc.(...) We have collected all works common to women (...) such as sewing, needle lace, knitting,(...) how to do the washing, how to eliminate stains, recipes to make tea, coffee, also cologne and soap (...) with little money. So, this Enciclopedia contains, without any doubt, the necessary knowledge, not only for those women whose destiny is to shine in today's world, but also for those who have to earn money to live (...). My mother has a little book with exactly the same information. And my sisters and I always have fun when reading it. I feel fortunate to be born later than those times. My mother's book must be from around the 30's. But I will have to check this date. Best regards and have a good Sunday. Antje González, from Spain. ___ *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view!* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Fwd: [lace] Little Urchin
-- Forwarded message -- From: AGlez antje.gonza...@gmail.com Date: 2011/4/3 Subject: Re: [lace] Little Urchin To: laceandb...@aol.com OK.. thanks for this explanation. As a non English speaker, I didn't understand the message completely. Now I do. And I really like the little Urchin. Good idea to use old samples of crochet I have in a drawer. Best regards Antje in Spain. -- Antje González ___ *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view!* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] making randa from OIDFA bulletin nbr 1 2011
Hello Gon, I have got in touch with the author of the article in the OIDFA bulletin to find out how wide the randa is. I think she has used old linen to make it. I will tell you as soon as she answers me. Randa is a term used in some parts of Spain to describe a type edging. In fact, the word comes from told times, and has a German origin (RAND=border or edging). When we talk of randas in Spain, we think of these laces made without a pattern (freehand) from the Pyrenees or also of some laces made in Catalonia. Best regards from a very warm Spain... real spring weather! Antje González - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Hinojosa
I got in touch with Hinojosa Lace thanks to Carolina's pattern books. I didn't know Carolina then, and met her through Arachne. That was many years ago.. perhaps 10? Carolina learned to make this type of lace from one of the few women that still knew how to make it in those times. Because this lace has been unknown, as it was also only made in some small parts of Spain, and unknown in the rest of the country. Carolina is one the first lacers who started to design her own patterns based on this technique and offer them on sale. And I must say they are all very beautiful. I must also say that old patterns were not available anywhere then, because the owners kept them jealously. So, Carolina´s patterns were in fact the only way to work this lace during a whole decade. At the same time, in another part of Spain, Mariña Regueiro, also fascinated by this lace, which she happened to see for the first time in 1984, started to make a deep research, searching for its roots. And the book Jacqui mentions is the result of many years of investigating. It has just been published. I have seen it, and it is a very very good book. A lot of history, old pictures of lacers, of laces... and finally a lot of patterns with diagrams (really important). With Carolina's patterns and Mariña´s book you will certainly have enough information and patterns for a whole life! Best regards from a really warm Spain. Antje González - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] birthday
I am also very happy to belong to this group. I have learned a lot here, and I like its seriousness and that there is always someone out there to give a very valuable answer. A few Spanish lacers tried to create something similar in Spain, and had a lot of problems with the people. We finally quit. But having had the experience of moderating, I know that it takes a lot of time and effort. So, thank you Avital for doing this job and answering immediately when we ask you something. And to Liz, for having initiated Arachne. Best regards, Antje González Spain ___ *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view!* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Norway
Hello all, Are there any members from Norway in the list? I would like to get in touch with you. Please, write to me privately. Thanks a lot. Best regards, Antje, in sunny Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat
Hi Chris, There are a few nice sail boats in Eeva Liisa Kortelahti's book Let's make bobbin lace, ISBN 951-99922-3-5, reprinted in 1995. The boats are inserted in a picture... I mean: it is not an isolated boat, but it also has a sea and a sky, making a square motive. I hope I have made myself understood. I bought my book directly to the author. But I suppose it is available in some lace material shops... Good luck. Antje González, from Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: Re:[lace] Lace Postcard
Hello all, As a Spanish lacer, I can say that the pillow of the postcard is like our vertical pillows. The bobbins are the traditional Catalonian boxwood bobbins used all over Spain. And even the pattern is a traditional model made in Camariñas and Almagro, a mixture of torchon and guipur. The picture looks quite recent, as the pillow stand is modern. Traditionally women didn't use stands but the back of a chair or the wall. Investigating a bit further in the picture... she could be a Spanish lacer. An old woman dresses like this woman and sometimes is combed like her. Also the pattern of the ground (to be seen just under the chair) is quite Spanish. But I don't know if you find this pattern in the sidewalks of France too. Best regards... Antje, in Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Terminology help
Hello Alice, A long time ago I bought an International Lace Dictionary, perfect for these cases. It says: Polohod: half stitch Platno: cloth stitch tocena paska: meandering tape tocenych: (must be something related to tapes, as the word has the same start)) Reticek: plait, braid, bar I bought the book to the author. Edith Spee, Ineke van den Kieboom, jophan Coene. GENT, 1998. Best regards. Antje, in Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] How do you sit?
Hello Ilse, The best place to sit is the place where you are comfortable making lace. But as a rule, I would say that you need to rest your back always on a surface (back of chair or of a sofa). You must feel your back relaxed. Usually, after making lace for a while, especially if it is a new piece where we need to put a lot of attention, we tend to tension our back little by little without noticing, and finally it becomes back ache. So, relax your shoulders and arms from now and then moving them in circles, for example, and check that you are sitting properly. (I work with a vertical pillow, so I sit on a comfortable chair and lean the pillow on the table. When I work with a roller pillow, I like sitting on the sofa, with pillows at my back and the lace pillow on my legs... that's for me the most comfortable place. I dont' know how lacers work on a flat pillow). I hope this information helps you. Best regards... Antje, from Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] books on demand/backing up files
Hi Bev and all, After having lost very important data several times because I forgot to backup, I am using now a program which backs up automatically. You can download it for free at http://www.rdcomp.net/ It is called EZBack-it-up. You can make the backups to an external hard disk or to a pendrive or to both for more security. You have to configure the program with what you want to back up and when, even several times a day if necessary. This lets me feel really more relaxed. I hope this is also useful for some of you. Best regards form Antje, in Spain - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] a very old lace book
Thank you so much, Tess. So beautiful drawings... and the sentences in the center... I have downloaded it, to look at it slowly later on. Best wishes, Antje González (Spain) - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Re: New bobbin lace magazine!
Correction! I am afraid that I have made a mistake in the letter I posted this morning. Twist and Cross is a magazine which appears every four months, with three issues a year. I am sorry for having used the wrong word (quarterly), which is so similar to a Spanish term that means 3 times a year. Sorry again. Best wishes, Antje González - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Mixing Linen and Cotton Threads
Hello, But what if we wash the lace? Doesn't cotton and linen shrink differently? Best wishes, Antje González, in sunny but cold Spain. ___ *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view!* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Antje's magazine
Yes, you are right Lorelei. This is a piece of the Spanish Hinojosa tape lace. Best regards, Antje González, from a very cold Spain (2º below cero at this moment)! ___ *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view!* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] beautiful website
Hello Arlene, Bev and Alice. As a Spanish lacer, perhaps I can answer you some questions. The person who runs the site is a man. The information of the lace meetings is collected mainly from the web. The pictures are made by people attending this meetings. For more precise information about the meetings I would check with the organisers directly. Best regards, Antje, from Spain. ___ *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view!* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] beautiful website
You are right, Bev. This is the name of the association of lacers he created. Best wishes. Antje, from Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] New Estonian BL Book
Hello Pene, Thank you very much for your information. I have the first book and it is really beautiful. It has such good ideas, with mixtures of threads and forms. I suppose we will be able to buy it soon at online suppliers. Have a good Sunday. Antje, from Spain. ___ *Was immer du tun kannst oder erträumst zu können, beginne es jetzt! (J.W. von Goethe)* - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Kensington Palace Lace
Incredible! Thanks for the link. By the way, eliminate the final *. Antje, from a sunny Spain. * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Lace in Majorca
Hi Janet, As far as I know, in *Palma de Mallorca (Baleares)* there is a Lace Demonstration on the *9th of June*. Best wishes, Antje, in a very windy Spain. * * - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: Spanish Lace Pillow Re: [lace] lace photos - what is it?
Hello all those interested in Spanish lace, Sorry for not having got in touch before. But I have a good excuse: I have been at the Diada of Arenys, and afterwards took a few days off at the Mediterranean coast. As Carolina has already told you, in Spain there are now so many lace meetings, that it is sometimes difficult to choose which one to attend. Not all of them are interesting. It all depends on what you are looking for. The Diada of Catalonia is, evidently, the most interesting of all, not only because of the number of participants, but also because it has an international presence. For example, in Arenys we could see an exhibition of important lace centers of Europe, such as Peniche (Portugal), Bobowa (Poland), Idrija (Eslovenia), France (sorry, but can't remember now which lace center was there!). And from Spain, our most important lacemaking centers were there: Arenys de Mar and Arenys de Munt (with a long tradition and a museum), L' Arboc (also long tradition, specific type of lace and also a museum) - both in Catalonia-, Almagro (also long tradition and a museum), Camariñas (also long tradition and museum)... Apart from this exhibitions, and conferences and courses held in Arenys along the whole week, the meeting itself gathers thousands of lacers from all over Spain. They sit at those big tables you have seen in the pictures, and make lace. Each group of lacers brings their best laces with them... But... not all lace meetings of Spain are the same. You are only seeing a selection of laces in these Picasa albums, usually the best pieces. But, normally you only see lots and lots of torchon and not so well done works. Something I like at the meetings is that there are many selling points: here you can buy many things you don't easily get in your local shops. I am going to write a short text about The Diada in my blog. Coming soon. I will tell you about it, so that you can read and see. Hope this answers some of your questions about lace in Spain. Best regards from Antje, in Guadalajara, Spain. www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Mirecourt
Hello all, There is also a book on this lace, called Dentelle de Mirecourt, from the editorial Didier CARPENTIER, published in 2008, with beautiful patterns and diagrams. Also a short introduction on history. As far as I understand (I only read French, but don't speak it), it says lace in Mirecourt was introduced in the 16th century by the dukes of Lorraine. In 1981 an association to promote the lace was created I think you can have a quick look to the book here: http://www.ebookdz.com/forum/showthread.php?33172-Dentelle-de-Mirecourt-La-seconde-vie-d-un-cahier-de-dentelli%E8re-du-XIXe-si%E8cle Best wishes. Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] OIDFA Lappets book .. errata on 14
Hi Alice, I have been looking at the pattern you mention and I think you can simply join Number 2 of the first pattern with Number 3 of the second one. And this would make the whole half lappet. As the second pattern seems to be identical at the beginning and at the end, it seems that the direction of this patten makes no difference. Would this help? Best wishes and good luck! Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] the Queen's outfit with lace
Hello all, The very moment I saw the Queen with this blue outfit, I thought of the typical English blue china of Wedgewood. Have a look at https://www.google.es/search?q=wedgewood+blue+chinahl=esrlz=1G1GGLQ_ESES271prmd=imvnstbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=4QLsT4_CNMPA0QWZ56z6DAsqi=2ved=0CGAQsAQbiw=1280bih=907 or search Wedgewood blue china in Google - Images. Have a nice day, Antje, from a boiling hot Spain. * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Early laces book errata
Thank you very much, Liz, for this information. I have already printed the pages. So, in the future, if I want to make something of the book, I will have the corrections there. On the other hand, although it is very probable that I never do anything of the book, I must say that it is an excellent study of the early laces as well as of the materials used for making bobbin lace. And, although many things said in the book we have already heard of them separately, the good thing is that we are able to read them all together in a same text. So, after reading the book, I have been able to connect ideas I had read, and that are now linked. I am always happy when somebody publishes a book like Rosemary Shepherd's, as there are not many new books on bobbin lace research. I really like this one. Best regards from Antje González, in Spain. - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Peacock necklace
Hi Sue, I have seen this piece of lace in the Czech Republic this summer, at a wonderful exhibition of laces from the school of Iva Proskova. The coloured part of the motives is needle lace, or at least the original lace is. I don't know if the pattern is on sale. Perhaps getting in touch with Iva could be a good way of getting information. Good luck, Antje González, in Spain - 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: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Eva Schaefer
I am very sad of the loss of Eva Schaefer, whom I met through Arachne, and with whom I had lost touch a few years ago. Thanks to her, I had the opportunity to learn a lot things related to bobbinlace. She put me in touch with Mariña Regueiro, whose courses I have been attending for many years. She tought me not to put a flowery cover to my pillow (so typically Spanish). She taught me to make a crochet strip to hold the bobbins to the pillow in a safe way. She showed me bobbins of regions I had never seen before. She showed me her collection of lace books when I only had two or three: she also transmitted me the passion for buying lace books and now I also have a large collection. I learnt from her to wetten the linen threads while working, so that it did not break. To make picots differently to left and right. To make a star crossing the way they do it in Almagro (Spain). And many other things which I will possibly remember after finishing this writing. That's why the fact that that she could never see the magazine I have founded and edited, because she couldn't see anymore in the last years, makes me also very sad. I will always remember her. For those who did not know her, Eva Schaefer was a German Lacemaker who lived in Spain. That's why I could get to know her personally and meet her in several occasions. Antje González, from Spain. - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Where can I buy this pattern?
Hello Ann Marie, The butterfly pattern is designed by Pam Mattioli and is included in Vuelta y Cruz /Twist and Cross Number 2. The web site is www.vueltaycruz.es If you want more details, I am the editor of the magazine and can inform you. Best wishes, Antje, from Spain. Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * 2013/4/29 Ann-Marie Andersson a-...@telia.com Is this pattern familiar to any of you? I would like very much to buy it. https://picasaweb.google.com/bolillos.marixa/MirandaDeEbro13#5867527567494818 994 Ann-Marie Andersson - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Where can I buy this pattern?
Hi Pam and Arachne colleagues, Pam and I know what is going on on in many of our lacemeetings. So, no wonder her reaction. There are indeed quite many people who sell patterns taken from books and magazines here in Spain. A subject very difficult to avoid and to fight, because not even the organizers of the meetings care to put an end to this. A situation which is seen very differently depending on the point of view: the person who sells copied patterns is really happy to make money with no effort and the person who works the pattern feels really unprotected and underestimated! Apart from this, Pam, I imagine the lacemaker of the photo we have seen is making your pattern from the magazine. Best wishes, Antje, from Spain. Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * 2013/4/30 p...@cyberlink.co.uk Hi All As Antje has stated the pattern is available in Vuelta y Cruz. Now I would like to know who is selling it? I give my time freely, designing for the magazine. To see that someone is profiting from my hard work is galling to say the least. It´s obvious from the photo that it taken in Spain and from the style of the pattern/pricking I suspect I know who the seller is. How does one go about stopping copyright being violated in this blatant way, both Antje and myself are having our intelectual rights compromised. Any suggestions? Pam In overcast southern Spain Quoting Ann-Marie Andersson a-...@telia.com: Is this pattern familiar to any of you? I would like very much to buy it. https://picasaweb.google.com/**bolillos.marixa/**MirandaDeEbro13#** 5867527567494818https://picasaweb.google.com/bolillos.marixa/MirandaDeEbro13 #5867527567494818 994 Ann-Marie Andersson - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/**lacemaker/sets/http://www.flickr.com/photos/l acemaker/sets/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/**lacemaker/sets/http://www.flickr.com/photos/l acemaker/sets/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Need help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
Hello Vila, The pattern is beautiful, and I have made a scarf from the same book, which is made very similarly. I think there is nothing wrong in your piece of lace. (And there wasn't either in the one you cut off, as I can see). Number 2 is ok: you must leave the 2 edge pairs plus the guide waiting until you reach that border later again. Now you have to continue working the complete triangle in roseground, which may not offer difficulty because there is a diagram for the unfinished border in the pattern sheet to indicate you how to make it. Once you have finished the triangle, make the narrow cloth stitch trail that follows, then a row of whole stitches and again a row with a trail. You will have to make a joining at the first top stitch of this trail. I think that you have to keep working, because it does not look as if there are pairs missing. Ask again if you arrive to a problem later, but you should not have it. The patterns of this book are very accurate and in torchon everything matches. Keep telling us if these explanations were useful for you. Best luck! And don't cut the lace off! AS soon as you overcome this part, you will see it is not difficult at all. Antje González, from a rainy Spain with a winter atmosphere again. * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Widwives - knitting versus crochet
It is amazing! But I am sure that a very low percentage of watchers found out the difference! Don't you think so too? Best wishes from Antje in Spain, where spring does not want to settle down. Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * 2005/12/31 David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au Dear Friends, I am now home in Ballarat from Vietnam and yesterday watched the final 3 episodes of Call the Midwife (series 2). After they had been s accurate with all aspects of the 50s, I was amazed to see that when the elderly nun began knitting her squares for a blanket, it was crocheted squares which hung down from her knitting needles (which were well hidden by her hands). Later on when they were all sitting around sewing them together, the close up shot definitely revealed that they were all crocheted. Apart from that, a wonderful show, and another box of tissues but the dust, David in Ballarat, AUS - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/**lacemaker/sets/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: Fw: [lace] Protection of intellectual property
Hello all, After a busy weekend in lace meetings, I want to share with you more complaints of some happenings in my country. Instead of repeating all my words, I hope you don't mind to have a look at an article I have written in my blog. Thank you very much. http://mi-pequeno-taller-eng.blogspot.com.es/ Best wishes from Antje, in a stormy Spain (stormy weather, I mean, not just copying problems!) Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * 2013/5/26 Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net ** - Original Message - *From:* bertra...@gmail.com *To:* Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net *Sent:* Sunday, May 26, 2013 5:01 PM *Subject:* Re: [lace] Protection of intellectual property Alex, The best thing is to call them and just talk to them as to whether they are a fit for you. They are very nice and easy to talk with. You may find they are a perfect fit, or they may say they can't help but can refer you to another small publisher within their group. Good luck - hope this lead works for you all. I would love to see the older books back in print for less than $200+ a copy as some are. I am just starting to really learn lace and it is quite an expensive undertaking especially when the books are so expensive. Sallie Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2013, at 12:50 AM, Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net wrote: Thank you Sallie. I have looked at their website - at first glance not what I was expecting! They sound interesting, I will certainly put this to the group. Happy lacemaking Alex - Original Message - *From:* bertra...@gmail.com *To:* Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net *Sent:* Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:34 AM *Subject:* Re: [lace] Protection of intellectual property Alex, It would be nice to know if Crippen Landru can help you. They are a very small publishing company and may even be thankful for the work. I haven't ordered from them in some time as the author I really liked passed on, but they were always helpful to me when I called or e-mailed them. Good luck Sallie Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2013, at 12:28 AM, Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net wrote: Thank you Sallie. I will pass this on to the lace authors. Happy lacemaking Alex - Original Message - *From:* bertra...@gmail.com *To:* Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net *Sent:* Saturday, May 25, 2013 6:47 PM *Subject:* Fwd: [lace] Protection of intellectual property Alex, I sent this to Clay as I mistakenly thought the original posting came from her. So am resenting it to you. Sallie in WY Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: *From:* bertra...@gmail.com *Date:* May 25, 2013, 11:25:02 AM MDT *To:* Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net *Subject:* *Re: [lace] Protection of intellectual property* Clay, Have you contacted any local printers? The following printer does small orders. They do mystery books, but may be interested in your book. Just a thought. I have several of their books and they do a very nice print job. Believe they may be near you as well. Crippenlandru.com. Sallie in WY Sent from my iPhone On May 25, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net wrote: I am finding the discussion of other ways to publish to be very interesting! I would love to see viable ways for our very talented authors and designers to make their work available to us. On a related subject, I would like to complain about the lacemaker who takes another person's design, modifies it in some way, and then calls it her own design without adding, after (name of original designer). If the design is for her own use, so what, but if she enters it into a competition as her own work...? Several years ago, this happened at the competition at IOLI, and the winner had copied a published pattern, without attribution. I recognized the pattern and thought the modification was so slight that it amounted to plagiarism. So yes, while there are mostly good and decent people in lacemaking, there are bad apples in the bunch as well, and we need to protect the intellectual rights of our designers! Clay - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Intellectual property
Hi Brian, Regarding your suggestion, I must explain that my magazine is only sold printed. And what Spanish people are doing, with most books and magazines on sale is scanning and/or photocopying them and selling them or exchanging them for free download on the web. To Jacquie's question why someone would be so 'altruistic' that they would want to do this: I ask myself the same. It is a false concept of being generous. Thank you very much to all for sharing your opinions. Somehow I feel more in company this way. Best wishes, Antje, from Spain (stormy weather again, but not yet raining). - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Idrija lace pattern book
Thank you very much for this information. I hope that the translation is soon on sale so that we can buy it. The book looks very interesting. Best wishes, Antje * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Old Beds
I did not want to disappoint David in the first moment, so kept quiet. But now that Lorelei and Clay have given their opinion, I agree that this piece of lace is machine made. As Lorelei said, the cloth stitch area and the tallies reveal that it is not hand made. Nevertheless, it is a beautiful and interesting piece. Greetings from Antje, in Spain. - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Blue film
In Spain it is also difficult to find blue film. It is sold in lace meetings and is very expensive. I also agree with Devon that we should print on blue paper. It is easy to print the pattern in our home printer. We do not need to print on cardboard, because we can put cardboard under the blue photocopy tp have the pattern hard. That is how I usually work. I never use orange paper, because it is not relaxing for the eyes. Although it was common practice in many parts of Spain, now you can find many lacemakers using blue. Best wishes, Antje González, from Spain. www.vueltaycruz.es Antje *Por muy larga que sea la tormenta, siempre acabará saliendo el sol. * 2013/11/20 Jill Hawkins j...@myhawkins.co.uk It seems like the way to resolve this is to get the teachers to change their habits. Jill - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Arachne
*Né fur tai tele per Aracne imposte* It seems to be part of a poem of Dante's Inferno. Here is a translation of the poem and some information. I imagine there must be more in the Internet, but not easy to find. Antje, from central Spain, where it has been snowing tonight! - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Arachne
Sorry, forgot the link: http://www.dantepoliglotta.it/en/premessa-39/ - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Arachne
Reading this text, I understand that the poem describes a monster (Gerione), whose body is flecked with knots and roundels of such bright colours that they exceed the phantasmagoria of the multicoloured drapes made by Turks and Tartars http://www.dantepoliglotta.it/en/premessa-14/, *besides the precious cloths woven by Arachne*. - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Freehand Lace Power Point
Hello Susan, There is a German book called Freihandspitzen von der Schwäbischen Alb, edited by the German Kloeppelverband, which starts with very narrow edgings with 5 -7 pairs. In fact it is a very simple edging, which you can also find in patterns of Le Pompe and this type of laces. If you want, I can send you a drawing of this 6 pair piece of lace. Best wishes, Antje González, from Spain. - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Another Bobbin Lace animation
Thank you Jean. An amazing concert! Happy New year! Antje, from a sunny but freezing cold center of Spain. https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace bobbins?
At first sight, I thought they could be flutes. But after seing that the holes are different in each stick... I think my guess is incorrect. Then I thought the sticks can be part of a mobile that emits relaxing sounds, kind of this: http://www.maykaesoterismo.com/images/moviles/PERFUMES%20005.JPG Well, just thinking aloud Have a Happy New Year 2014! Antje, from Spain... cold and misty. https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCrosshttps://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross?ref=pr_shop_more - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace bobbins?
But then, David, why are there different number of holes? Antje González, from Spain. - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Photos
Hello Sue, I am outside the USA and can enter with Arachne's password. There is no difference depending on the place you live. As far as I have experienced. Antje González, writing from Spain. ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Fwd: [lace] Photos
Sorry Joepie and all who read my last message. Wrong information: what I should have said is that you have to close the session of Flickr if your name appears on it, that is, if you are logged in with your name (you can see this on the right top of the screen) and log in again with Arachne's ID: arachne2003 Passw. Honiton. But now it seems that Yahoo asks also for a security code (deciphering funny letters and numbers) and makes you answer a question: Clay's youngest son nickname. Why Clay's? I imagine that it was Clay who opened this Arachne account (is it so?) and I guess that we need this name to enter Flickr now! Antje, from a rainy Spain... ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] filing notes away
Great idea. I also do it sometimes. Regards from Antje, in Spain ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Christian Church Lace
There are about six or seven patterns for church clothes in one of Koretelahti's books. They are lovely, and different, if you like Korthelati's designs and don not mind it not being Bucks. The book is Nyplättya pitsia (bobbin lace) ISBN 951-99305-9-0 You can probably buy it directly form her or I have also seen it second hand somewhere. Her web site is http://www.pitsipirtti.fi/ Good luck! Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] This is cute! How to make a ball of lace.
Hello Delors, Ann Wild has a book: http://www.ann-wild.de/Buch.html But it does not seem to be available now. Perhaps in some other distributor. Good luck and have a nice weekend. Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Translations of lace books
I am a translator too and have translated two lace books into Spanish. After that, the editor did not ask for more translations, because not many Spanish lacemakers bought these books and it was a big expense for them. Actually, it is an immense work to translate a lace book because it is, in fact, a technical translation. Not anyone can translate a lace text. The translator has to know how to make lace, apart from speaking or reading languages. And this is not easy to find. You can verify this by using Google translator. It is prepared to make a translation of a simple and everyday text, but not at all a text about instructions on how to make a certain stitch or technique... Not even a non lacemaker could understand this in his/her own language! So, although it is sad that we cannot get all the books that exist in our own language, a good idea for us is to try and learn a bit of the languages in which the books are written. At least the important words, to know what the texts are about. English is a must, of course. And German too. ... Well, we should have learnt all these languages when young! Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Footside
I could read it completely, as always. Antje González, in Spain. ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lacemakers in Leeds (UK)?
Hello to all, I am staying in Leeds from the 28th to the 31st of May and would like to know if there are any lacemakers from this group living there and if it would be possible to meet. It is always so nice to meet up and put faces to the names we usually only read. Looking forward to your answers... perhaps it is better to answer privately. Best wishes, Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace style sheet, was lace proof readers
Hello all, Although my English may not be correct in many ways, I want to give my opinion, based in what I have studied a long time ago. In fact, we can use the word LACE in singular or plural depending on its meaning. If we use lace (in singular), we are using the word with a collective meaning, that is, lace as a group of laces, in a general sense: for example, lace is made in my country, I like making tape lace, lace lessons, etc. But if we use laces (in plural), we are being more specific: the laces made in our workshop.., or the ones made in England, laces made in such technique... . For this reason, in many cases we can use either the singular or the plural form, depending on the meaning we want or need. And often, we can even use both forms without making an important change in the meaning. Hope this helps to all those language lovers! Best wishes from Spain (where we finally have rain!) Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] For Lace Tell Collectors - Jack be Nimble
Hi Jery, Thanks a lot for this nice lace story. And for all the other interesting posts you send regularly to this list. In fact, I usually do not have enough time to read them all! But I keep them to read in a quieter moment. Best wishes and thanks again for all your information. Antje González, in Spain, where it is raining today and looks like winter. ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Noelene's Poems - Inspired by Lace
Same happens to me! I thought is was a problem of my computer. I must always check my junk box in order not to loose any of the interesting emails from Jeriames. Antje González, in sunny Spain ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Messages not getting through
The messages sent by Jeri Ames, Celtic Dream Weaver and Devon go to my Junk Box. There are no capital letters in these messages nor strange signs. It has been happening for many weeks now, and I always mark it as no spam. But nothing seems to change. Thank you very much to all those who are trying to find solutions for this. Best wishes and happy lacemaking! Antje, from Spain www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Jeri's posts
Hello Jeri and all, I have just started reading this messages about Jeri's postings and I must say that I am a bit puzzled. I cannot find the initial query, but have found the sentence people do not read what I write on Arachne, supposedly written by Jeri. And the first thing that comes to my mind is that those people mean that Jeri's emails continue going to their spam box (as mysteriously happens to me), and that's why they don't read them. Don't you think it is all a mistake of interpretation? I cannot believe anybody saying that Jeri's emails are not interesting, because in fact they are between the most interesting and useful ones in this group (please, don't get offended the others). Please re-read the initial message, Jeri, and perhaps you will see that nobody meant something bad about your messages. And if they did... listen to the rest of the group who really love to read your posts even if we do not always say so. We have often spoken of the different reasons for being quiet, haven't we? So cheer up and keep writing for your many admirers. Happy lacemaking and happy summertime. Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace salamanders
I like all these kind of initiatives. The problem is that we cannot participate in all of them, as we don't have enough time to make all we want in bobbin lace! Anyway, is there a place in this web where we can see the requirements to make the salamander? Being able only to read the basics in French, your link takes me to a page where it only says that the salamanders are travelling to the Retournac Museum. Antje from Spain, with a perfect summer temperature this year: not as hot as usual. ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: RE: [lace] Annoying pnctuation.. test two in html
We must all be really proud and happy because, as far as I know, this is the only list only lace related, which makes it so interesting for most of us. There is the chat alternative for those who also want some other kind of socializing, and it is really nice to have this option too. Have a nice weekend! -- Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace salamanders
I am also very sad to hear this piece of news. His patterns and his name are well known by me too. Now I have an extra desire to make the salamander: a kind of memorial to Michel Jourde. Thanks a lot to Susan who has so kindly sent me the pattern. Best regards. Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Photos from OIDFA Adelaide Congress
Hello Jean and David. Thank you very much for this link to the pictures in Adelaide. It is a pleasure to be able see all what was happening there. I like the Irish participation with all the lacey doors! So original. Best wishes from Antje in a very hot Spain, after a nice and cool summer. ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Salamander group
Hello to all those interested in working Jourde's salamander. Last week somebody asked how to start the salamander. And I cannot remember who sent this SOS. But it made me think that, as we are quite a few interested in working it, we could form a kind of group and help each other as we go on working. I haven't started it yet, and have only the pattern printed but would love to work in company. If it is not an interesting information for Arachne, we could add all our emails in one and keep answering to this email. I offer myself to organize it. In the end, we can send a group participation of Arachne members. What do you think of this? Best wishes, Antje González , from Guadalajara, Spain: sun and 34º. ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Majorca bobbins
Hello, I agree with Maria: what we call in Spain Majorca bobbins are the normal Catalan bobbins but with a pointed end. See here: http://www.lamerceria.com/productes.asp?idsubfamilia=2 , fourth item of the list. What I do not know is if they were traditionally used in Majorca or if they are called like that because they are used now there. Now you can get these bobbins thick and also a bit finer (but never as fine as Honiton, though). Hope this helps. Antje González ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] AOL mails
So do I. Emails from certain persons always go into my spam folder. But... not only AOL ones. Carolina, yours went into my spam box too! Perhaps because the message itself included the word AOL? And.. does it happen to everybody? Greetings from Antje, in Guadalajara (Spain) ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace curtains
Congratulations on your curtains, Tess! I am also a fan of curtain-making, although I have never made so big ones! Yours look beautiful! Antje González , from a cold wintery Spain. ww.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Christmas Raffle
Hello all Arachne friends, I have been putting some order among my lacemaking magazines and have found some duplicates, which I would like to raffle among all those of you who are interested. The three magazines for the raffle are old La Encajera magazines (numbers 1, 10 and 21). I am putting a picture in Flickr Arachne for you to see. The magazine La Encajera does not exist anymore, but was one of the first Spanish magazines with interesting articles inside. I do not have the translations, but perhaps some of the subscribers can facilitate it. All interested Arachneans please send a private email to me with the subject Christmas Raffle: La Encajera. I will give a number to each email, in order of receipt, and on the 24th of December I will play Santa Claus and draw three numbers (with an innocent hand, believe me). I will send anywhere in the world. Good luck to everybody! Antje , from a cold, but sunny Spain ww.vueltaycruz.es https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwistAndCross - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Christmas greetings
With my preferred Christmas song, I want to wish all Arachneans a Merry Christmas Season and a Happy New Year, in which health and love may be with you. I also hope that you continue enjoying lacemaking as much as until now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S84RLgnz7Rs Arachne is the best bobbin lace group I know, with so many people always ready to answer and solve our lace problems. I have been on Arachne for over 10 years and I must say that I have learnt a lot. I also try to collaborate when I have a good answer or the time to do so. Unfortunately there are many emails a day, and sometimes I have to delete them before reading because of lack of time. But this does not mean they are not interesting. Best wishes from SPAIN (cold temperature, bright sun and Christmas carols on the background...!) A ntje González www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Winners of the Raffle La Encajera
Thank you very much to all of you who have participated in the raffle. There have been 21 participants and I have 3 magazines. The three winners are: Number 03: Amanda Dorrell Number 14: Tammy Padilla Number 17: Vicky Bradford Congratulations to you! I will send your magazines after this feast days are over. Meanwhile, could you please send me your postal address privately? Thanks a lot and best wishes to all! Antje González www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Vemeer
Hello Rose, The painting is fantastic. I love Vermeer. And to your observation I want to add that I imagine that this system of heating was used by many people in those times, including, possibly, lacemakers. Here in Spain, for example, many years later (around 1950), my mother, who was a school teacher in a small rural village in the center of Spain, had a tin with hot coal or wood, and also with holes. Everyday a different child had to take this heater from home to heat the school room! A big difference with today! Best wishes and a HAPPY NEW YEAR full of bobbin lace projects to all Arachneans!! Antje González, from Spain, after a freezing night! (-6º) www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Identification of a type of lace
I would say it is a machine made lace. The borders of the motifs look weird to me, making me think that they are not made by hand. But I would need to see a more enlarged picture. Does nobody else think it is machine made? Best wishes, from Antje in Spain. - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Threads Book
Fantastic work, Brenda. For me your book is also a basic side table book! It saves us lacemakers so much work! Thank you very much! Best wishes from a cold Spain... Antje González - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Idrija Lace Books
The Lace School of Idrija has recently published two books: one of narrow tape and the second of broad tape lace, with very good technical instructions. Well, all of the books they have published have good technical instructions. But, if you want to learn and follow the steps to their technique, these two books are really worth buying. Idrija tape lace has a lot of peculiar ways of making the tapes, which are worth knowing well from the beginning. I have always bought directly from them. I don't know if these books are sold somewhere else. They speak English, so writing to them is not a problem. http://www.cipkarskasola.si/en/cipkarska/84/siroki-ris-1-broad-tape-1/ http://www.cipkarskasola.si/en/cipkarska/83/siroki-ris-2-broad-tape-2/ Have fun making Idrija tape lace: I love it! Best wishes, Antje González , from Spain. www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Commemoratives
Alison Tolson, in the UK, also paints beautiful bobbins, commemorative too. http://www.alisontolson.co.uk/ Antje González, Spain - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Arachne Commemoratives
Hello all, I have been speaking with Alison Tolson and she can supply all the types of bobbins listed and will be able to supply tatting shuttles too. She can take payment by PayPal and as an alternative, credit or debit card can be used via her Etsy shop. She ships worldwide. She paints lovely bobbins. Here you can see her work: http://www.alisontolson.co.uk/ She is also on facebook https://www.facebook.com/PaintedBobbins?ref=tsfref=ts Have a nice week!! Antje González - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] bobbin weight
I think we tend to work best with the bobbins we are used to work with. In my case, Spanish continentals, which most of you may find too big. Mine are 10,5cm long and woodbox. The first course I did of a technique different to torchon (many years ago) was a Tonder course. I had been told that each technique requires its specific bobbins and pillow, so I got borrowed a Danish pillow and bought the bobbins. The change of type of bobbins mixed with the technique I had never worked, made me go really slow! The next courses I did of a new technique, I took my most comfortable pillow and my own Continental bobbins. And I could work much faster. When attending a course, we want make the most of it, and if we are struggling with bobbins we are not used to work with, we really loose a lot of time. So, my opinion is that the best bobbins are always the ones we are used to! Best wishes and have a nice start of the week! Antje González www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Candida's lace
Yes, Mariña's book has been published a few years ago. This is the book: http://www.roseground.com/images/product/e2af6568c737eb554f12fc6122b19721.jpg I think it is fantastic. Barbara Fay sells it. But I don't know about distributors in the USA. In case you do not find it, get in touch with Mariña personally. Good luck! Antje González , from Spain. www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Bolster Pillow
I love the feeling of pinning on wool layers. Much better than using Styrofoam or other synthetic material. It's true that these pillows made of wool blankets are heavy and not appropriate for travelling. But I don't travel with them anyway, so for me they are the best choice! Interesting this thread about making our own bolster pillows! Greetings from Spain, where summer seems to have come earlier than wished! Antje González www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Copying a brown pattern
And why not photocopy in colour, keeping the practical brown background? Then you would not need to make all that extra work of eliminating it and would not have to use the blue film. Well, I would do that. Greetings from Spain, where summer temperatures have come too early! Antje González www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Bobbin storage
What a good question! I see that we all have the same storage problems! I have kept changing the way I store my bobbins, and now I have them in transparent plastic boxes (in fact, those for chocolates of Ferrero-Rocher, http://idealgift.com.my/add-on-gifts/ferrero-t16.html). They are the perfect size of my bobbins (all continentals, of different nationalities). I have many of these boxes and it is really practical to be able to see which bobbins are inside each box. I keep the thread in metallic boxes, usually nice painted ones, belonging to biscuits or chocolates. They are so nice, that I do not want to throw them away. But they are not transparent, so I have to glue a sticker at the front indicating what kind of thread is inside: linen, cotton, silk, white, colour, metallic... etc. I find transparent boxes more practical. As a matter of fact, I think the best solution is a cabinet, as Alice mentions. But again... we need the space for the cabinet! My pillows do not have a specific place, they are all around the house: on top of book shelves, on pillow stands in the sitting room, in my studio, on the dining room table... By the way, a good solution of getting some more space in your home is borrowing the pillows not in use! I have borrowed a big bolster pillow and am really happy not to see it around all day! I hope my friend takes a lot time to finish her project!! Have a good weekend and happy lacemaking! â Antje González, from Spain, where we will reach 38º today! â www.vueltaycruz.es - 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
