On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 03:12 PM, A Thompson wrote:
I can't help
wondering if finger braiding is not such a basic technique, that it
could
have been invented in more than one World area at the same time, like
weaving.
I have no knowledge of the history of finger braiding, but there has
What would lacemakers clamp with these?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3230773387
They look like thread reels to me, though I haven't seen them in clamp
form before. But that wouldn't restrict them to lacemakers - anybody
who didn't want to chase a spool across a floor
One difficulty with point ground bobbin lace is that every
pair splits up at each pin.
The 's Gravenmoer lace I recently took used Dieppe ground (CTT pin
CTT) in which each pair just zig-zags between the pinholes, but
carries straight down the lace rather than crossing at an angle. There
are
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 02:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but perhaps people in the UK (who should buy VHS format
videos) and USA (who should buy NTSC format videos) need a reminder.
Hi Jeri and anyone else who is interested:
The format used in the UK and many other countries is called
And as for finding a use for our wonderful laces??
Takes 12 to 15 yards of insertion...
Everyone always asks how I'm going to use up the 5 metres of lace that
I made for the 5-metre club, but if I made one of these hats I'd only
just be getting started:
While I was on vacation this year I
Dresden Embroidered Lace. This is an embroidery that was
done in the 18th Century on very fine muslin (modern-day embroiderers
use
coarser materials)
The book Danish Pulled Thread Embroidery has been widely available
for many years (I think it is a Dover book but I can't lay my hands on
it
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 07:11 PM, Nicole Gauthier wrote:
Well, the ribbon is pinless, it curls on itself and the join is made
by a twisted bar made with one thread. The bar is twisted with a
crochet in a way that is not easy to work on a cookie pillow. To help
keep the form , like in a
On Sunday, August 3, 2003 Bridget wrote:
However I must persevere, as I have booked for a Binche course in
February, and everybody says you need to grasp Flanders first.
Since everybody says this I guess I'm sticking my neck out here, but
here I go with my own personal opinion:
I think
Sorry I can't help with Canadian sourcing, but you should be looking
at
yardage fabric or maybe a good quality man's hankie which you can cut
down.
I think that if anyone had a Canadian source, he would have
posted by now.
I answered privately, but it just occurred to me that others may want
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 07:03 AM, Carol Adkinson wrote:
velvet is *not* a good fabric to use as cover cloth or pillow cloth or
for anything near to the threads, as the fibre nap from the velvet can
get
into the threads.
I used my velveteen-covered roller pillow for 20 years and did not
Alice wrote When the slightly domed 'cookie' pillow was developed,
the spangled bobbin was developed to lay better on the pillow. but
let's remember that the spangled bobbin was developed in just one area
- lots of other people managed without spangles.
I have heard that the careful and
Jean wrote:
And how many of
us have learned another language? We rather arrogantly expect everyone
else
to learn English and pander to us.
I have cheerfully written letters in bad German and not-so-bad French
in order to buy stuff overseas. Often I get a response in near-perfect
English,
While I was in England I bought a bobbin for a souvenir in a lace
store that was in the cobbles of York. BTWif anyone on the list
can tell me what the name and address of that store in York please let
me know. Years ago..I tried writing to York to find out and all they
sent me was
I am also in a quandry
because many of these items from the 20's have negligible value, but
they are now
80 years old. What should people be doing with them? Should they use
them, in
which case, can anything 80 years old actually withstand washing, even
let's
say 4 times a year after family
I knew when I sent the message earlier today that a few replies would
be posted. All of the copyright information you ever wanted to know is
on the Internet. First, international copyright legislation is for the
most part governed by the Berne Convention, which you will find at:
Several of us seem agreed that many bobbin laces, certainly floral
Beds, and some of us (at least me) floral Bucks, are for thinking
persons, what about Binche? It's generally thought the most complex
now widely made, and I should have thought at least as much brain
power goes into it. It
But compare the fully evolved (i.e. gorgeous)
Thomas Lester designs with the best of the Binche, and you may think
that
the writer of the above quote perhaps had a point
Of course, one person's gorgeous is another persons yuck. Not that
I'm saying Bucks is yucky, but different people have
I think the original term for this tool was lazy maidbut since
lazy
susan
As a point of absolute trivia, did you know that Susan was a typical
maid's name - back in the days when people had huge houses with huge
staffs, different servants were often referred to by standard names,
saving
Jenny wrote:
In Gabrielle Pond's book An Introduction to Lace she refers to
Bedfordshire as a Torchon lace.
Yes, um, ... that's the book I was quoting from. I just wondered if
everybody else did too or if it was just her. Since I wrote that
message I read a little in Emily Jackson's Old
Devon wrote:
Gwynne plays
it safe saying that The geometiric features could lead one to
believee that
this is a Venetian lace; however, according to one late C20 school of
thougth
this is an early Brussels lace.
Do my fellow Arachnids have an opinion on this? If you had the
resources of a
lace
Annette Gill wrote:
I've read that lace made with silk is softer and drapes better than
cotton
lace. Since I want to make lace for dolls house dolls' costumes, a
softer
lace would be better. Can anyone tell me if silk is difficult to work
with?
I'm a beginner and was wondering if it's
I think it's a stiletto. Take a look at this stiletto:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3241092100
the point is about the same size and shape.
About the hole in the end - possibly for threading a ribbon through, to
help you keep track of your stiletto? Maybe it went on a
I thought I'd mention that a copy of the book Chats on Old Lace
Needlework is for sale right now on ebay. It is at
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3554102670 I
thought I would bid on it but I see the seller only takes PayPal so I
decided not to. The auction ends tomorrow.
Just my 2 cents' worth:
Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I don't think lace is declining so
much as that it is in the downswing of a pendulum-like movement.
I find that all hobbies and crafts are subject to the same variations.
Remember how popular knitting was in the 1980s? In Vancouver in
Hi Arachnes:
My email program seems to have taken a dislike to AOL email addresses,
and is refusing to reply directly to either Tess or Devon, but as this
is of some general interest I'll send it to the list.
After Devon reminded me that there are other ways to buy used books
than on ebay
Devon wrote:
I think the ebay bidding often stops right at the price that you can
get things on Bookfinder. My approach is go right to Bookfinder and
eliminate the suspense.
Well, I use the Advanced Book Exchange ( http://www.abebooks.com )
because I think it has more books (14 copies of Chats
Well, here's a novel use for opening rings.
Thanks for brightening up my morning. I'm still laughing.
I wonder what cheap everyday household object will we next see touted
for sale?
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
PS: for those who missed it, the URL is
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Esther Perry wrote:
A quick reference to the book Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest
Coast
by Hilary Stewart shows as design motifs many animals, the sun, the
moon and
the human. No mention of the four elements. Nor have I ever heard
stories
Well, the turkey's ready, the stuffing is made, the pumpkin pie is
cooling and the kitchen is clean. (for those of you who haven't figured
it out yet, today is Thanksgiving in Canada)
At last I have some time to ponder a lacemaking mystery. It seems to me
that a couple of years ago there was
Marcie wrote:
... the Royal School of
Needlework recommends going without magnification for even the finest
work, tho a good strong light is crucial.
The original post on this (from Jane) also mentioned I did notice that
I am tempted to put in more
buttonhole stitches on the edge when I can see
A woman in the USA is crocheting my grandfather's baby bonnet and
tells me
that over there Coats no longer make the thread I recommended, which
was
Coats-Mercer crochet cotton #40.
It seems that Coats have renamed their crochet threads Floretta and
Eldorado. ...
Just thought I'd mention that
Not having heard the word before, I'd assumed that a cope was a cape,
probably to go round the shoulders, but I just happened across the word
'cope' this morning, and the definition given is priest's long
cloaklike
vestment. So the pricking isn't for what I thought it was, but that
doesn't
make
Among other things, she said that, in the US, she is called a slave
driver, because she pushes for perfection,
I have noticed a difference between what I'll call traditional
European teaching and the way adult students learn in North America,
and while I think that the self-indulgence Tamara
Hmmm...as always, I'm taking the eBay description with a grain of salt.
It may be that the person who used this thimble used it to make lace
(probably needle lace) but it is just a regular decorated sewing
thimble, possibly late Victorian (?). The coat of arms could be the
crest of a
Roslyn wrote:
I read this week a filler in the paper that said all the famous
lacemakers
were men.
Hey, I'm fascinated to know that where Roslyn lives they have a
newspaper that still needs to use filler! I haven't seen any since the
60s. I used to love those little bits of information! (For
Is a miniature lacemakers lamp of any practical use?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2582370085
Pardon my skepticism, but isn't this ... a vase?
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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Hi all:
Regarding the Battle of Britain panel, a few people have mentioned its
historical connection, but nobody has yet mentioned the huge difference
that may make in price. The Battle of Britain took place before the US
was involved in the war, so some may not understand its importance, or
then using a glue stick on the right side of
the pattern, stick it to x ray plate. You could use us
all the old xrays you had lying around or get waste
plates from the local hospital through contacts.
Hi Jan -
I think the situation is reversed now - you can get sticky film but can
you still get
They're listed as lace making bobbins, they've got thread wound on
them and
they could be used as lace bobbins. But if they are lace bobbins,
where do
they come from? If they're not, what are they? The only impression of
scale
is the thread.
a new book - Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli, by
Dilys E. Blum, Curator of Costume and Textiles at the Philadelphia
Museum of
Art.
Hi all -
sounds like a great book. I have always been a big Schiaparelli fan,
ever since I saw her famous lobster evening gown.
I don't recall
Another topic I haven't seen covered yet is what to do with the piece
of fabric you intend to sew your lace to.
Your description of how you plan to attach the lace to the fabric is
great. *But* - and this is a really big but - very few framers,
anywhere, will properly attach the fabric to the
but
even out in the sticks here we have framers who are using modern
framing
techniques.
One thing I wanted to make clear in my last post is that I am talking
about framers **who specialize in textiles** and use the sticky
mounting board. Framers who have testimonials from museums, people who
Would it be appropriate to move this entire discussion to chat?
The topic isn't really about lacemaking and this list has lots of
members who don't get the IOLI bulletin anyway.
Adele
Curmudgeon in Training
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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So far all I've
thought of is pre-winding all but one pair of bobbins (I feel they
must know
how to wind a bobbin properly) and perhaps starting with the Springetts
Snake? Any idea what's the average length of time that should take
for a
beginner? I was hoping that I'd get that done in the
Jeri, I know you said you thought your message wasn't worth commenting
on, but I feel that since you posted it I ought to mention: I have one
friend who became a successful published author that way. I have
another friend who became mentally ill from lack of sleep. Voices,
suicide attempts,
Did the Prince of Ligne double as the Princess of the same area?
'cause his wardrobe doesn't seem to be very masculine overall...
I took the trouble to look the Prince de Ligne up on the Web. Very
interesting when you look at the costumes, because you can see they
mainly come from 3 different
Hi, Jean and other Arachnes
Just wanted to add that if you do decide to reduce the prickings, it
would be a kindness to include on each pattern a straight line that
was, say 5 cm (2 inches) long when the pattern was full size. That will
give the photocopy-enlargement-challenged some way to
Does anyone know anything about this kind of lace?
I have a few pieces, but know little about it. Any
knowledge is appreciated!
Try http://lace.lacefairy.com/International/Mirecourt.html
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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The various names I've seen are: lacis, filet lacis, guipure d'art. I
have
the impression that the words filet refers to a square mesh (since
it is
also used to describe the form of crochet which imitates true filet
lacis.
I agree that you will see filet and lacis referring to the same thing -
I agree. I have been looking at digital cameras was afraid of just
what was
discussed here.
When I was looking to buy a digital camera, I went to some of the
digital camera review pages. Examples are: http://www.dpreview.com ,
http://www.pcphotoreview.com and http://www.megapixel.net
If you go
I was attempting to photograph some lace with my new digital camera
specifically bought for lace photography- can get within 1.3 inch. My
problem was that
my shadow keeps marring the picture as I bend over the lace. How do
others
deal with this?
The great thing about digitals is that you can
deluge the museum with irate e-mails demanding to know whether no
doilies were hurt in making this art?
Yes, definitely. If they're linen, let's also include a diatribe about
how many flax plants were killed to make the fibre ;-)
The artwork I've seen that destroys lace seems to rid the world of
Apart from learning to make lace she had to go to an art school and a
textile school ( higher education).
I don't know why the countries behind the Iron Curtain put such an
emphasis on art and craft skills, but there is no denying they did.
I was a museum docent during an international tapestry
Clay wrote:
I don't know if the weather is the culprit or not. But I do
know that in the last month, several people have gotten fed
up with the list because of personal attacks, name-calling,
and other not nice behavior.
I think it's the weather. Maybe even lack of sunlight. I was recently
I've uploaded a scan of a corner of my Seashore mat with the
twined gimp
Thanks, Noelene. One picture *is* worth a thousand words - although
I've done twined gimp before in Russian tape lace, I wasn't able to
envision how it would work in Torchon until I saw the photo.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
Here's a weird thing: anyone know what this is?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/
eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3703562790category=2219
I haven't heard anyone else comment on this - so I'd say, No, no one
has any idea what it is.
I'm pretty sure its not for tatting, because something that wide, even
if
I have just checked the Amazon site here in UK and the New book due
out on April 29th-30th
Lace from the VA museum by Clare Browne ISBN 1-85177-418-1 Published
price £30 is on Amazon at £21.
This book seems to be published in North America by Harry N. Abrams, as
I have found it on the
Barbara wrote:
I don't keep a note of US suppliers and now I need one!
Can anyone tell me where someone living in Vancouver can obtain
Egyptian
Cotton, preferably the smaller threads 180/2, 160/2.
This is for making ropes for model ship-building!
Hi Barbara:
He can try Kathy at RainCity Lace
Hi Janice:
Check when it was published and if it's been updated. I rather think
this book is about 6 years old, which might explain the absence of the
Lacefairy. (I could be wrong, of course - this could be a totally
different book, but it sounds like one I reviewed for my embroiderer's
guild
it's
always the green thread that falls apart.
I have found this with wool, too: if you work with the Appleton crewel
wool (for embroidery), the sea-greens are much thinner and more prone
to breakage than any other colour. The greens that are not sea-green
are just as strong as the other
Just a note to let everyone in the Pacific Northwest / BC Lower
Mainland and Vancouver Island areas know that we're having a lace day
on Sunday, April 18th.
For full information and a map, please email me privately. Thanks.
Adele
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(west coast of Canada)
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Robin wrote:
I've never heard any forbidding edict against embroidery floss. Just
a
number of people who pointed out how hard it is to get BL-length
single
plies out of that 6-ply skein.
and Joy wrote:
I just pulled one of the threads, and the entire skein coiled up on
it, then
the coil
Alice Howell wrote:
There is a real lacemaker's globe on the postcard on this auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2237591905
Alice, I *love* this picture! Not only seeing a lacemakers lamp setup
as it might have been used (though her candle is burnt way too low to
be
Clay Blackwell wrote:
But there is a listing on ebay now which bobbin collectors
should see... 24 of those old onion bulbed bobbins in two
different woods..
Would any of our French-speaking members care to comment on the
sellers' description:
24 bobbines en bois doliviers qui servaient
Also, what bad things happen when your bobbins are too small or too
large for the thread size?
If too small, you are continually running out of thread because you
can't put very many inches of a thick thread on, say, a Honiton or
other bobbin that has a small and shallow area for thread.
Also,
I am looking at starting to order my equipment and was wondering what
people prefered for a pillow shape and which is considered most
versatile.
Hi Janet:
Cookie:
Advantages: can make lace in any direction - useful for square edgings,
doilies, etc. as well as straight edgings. Will usefully
Hi Viv:
I haven't seen the Lace Guild magazine yet, but as to your other
questions:
I'd like your ideas on the question Do I need the right equipment? I
know that if I take to this particular style of lace I would, but until
I know I wouldn't want to buy another pillow and a set of new bobbins.
Just a reminder to those who want the new VA lace book by Clare Brown
but don't want to pay the mail charges from England:
Way back in February when we talked about this book, I mentioned that
it was being simultaneously published in the US by Harry Abrams. In
fact, I just bought it from
The question is how does shellac effect the textile over a
period of time? Each basket is preserved (to some degree) by a
coating of
shellac.
Hi Dianna:
I can't quite tell from your posting if you are coating the tatting
with shellac, or if you are coating only the baskets with shellac and
Just on this one point - I've noticed that many historians who
specialise in
Modern History will count the English Medieval period as ending at the
accession of James I; that is, at the end of the Tudor dynasty.
My Oxford reference dictionaries define the medieval period as being
from the 5th to
( I remember a competition at IOLI one year for the oldest UFO that
one intended to finish. The winner was 23 years.
H... that's the age of my oldest UFO - a Honiton piece that I
started in 1981 after I got Elsie Luxton's book. I was quite new to
lace at the time and needed far more
Laura:
I haven't seen Diana's pattern, but I would think that 10 pair 32
gauge 5 feet divided would mean 10 pairs of bobbins, each pair wound
with a total of 5 feet of 32 gauge wire. I would interpret the
divided to mean that some of the 5 feet of wire is on one bobbin,
some on the other
The lace list is hardly the place to express one's political
opinions..
I think we decided that anyone who had a complaint about the list
should address it **privately** to Avital, who would deal with it.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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she uses clear polyurethane, same as for furniture. I kid you not...
snip
Historians and conservationists - weep g
A Czech lacemaker who had immigrated to Canada and was showing her
stuff at our (now-defunct) Craft Museum used any old hard plastic (like
empty Tic-Tac boxes) which she ***melted
I love Michel Jourde's patterns from Lace Express and he favours
Ariane thread. Could someone please suggest a possible alternate
thread?
Ariane is a long-staple Egyptian cotton thread, like Aurifil's Mako
cotton. You could use that, or you could also use a lot of other cotton
threads. Are
I agree with Avital - it appears to be some sort of
teneriffe form. But I'm mystified about what that metal
thing is on the handle.
I'm wondering if it isn't some method of securing the little spool to a
larger stand. You would press the tangs together, insert the spool onto
some sort of rod,
I'm looking for cheap linen fabric to put lace edgings on. What's the
difference between cross-stitch fabric and normal fabric, and would it
make any
sense to put lace edgings on it?
Cross stitch fabric is woven to have exactly the advertised number of
threads per inch, with the same number of
That said, I'd try to get better fabric if I had any idea how to tell
which one
that is. It seems like just trying to buy more expensive fabric
instead isn't
the best idea, so for now I'll just get some cheap stuff to practice
with, and
maybe figure out the quality later. g
Square inch for
Hi Weronika -
you raised a couple of interesting questions. Copyright law recognizes
that there is a process by which a copyright image or creation becomes
changed, changed again, and further changed, and eventually is no
longer the original image or creation at all. Unfortunately there is no
Now I am being told that this is not right I am doing
something that was not done during the period that
Stumpwork was made in England.
I can see someone saying this if you were entering a Re-create the
1650s competition, but there has been such a lot of modern stumpwork
done that I think you
Does one approach this issue as though everyone in the audience is
sophisticated enough to know the pronunciation rules of every language
or does one
pronounce things the way they would be pronounced in the language that
you are
speaking in?
Hi Devon:
My 2 cents:
This problem makes you tread
Out of curiosity, is the 1923 date a fixed in stone (perhaps for 5
or 10
years?) or an 82 years before now date that has been decided on as a
suitable
period for the cut off point? In that case, does it move on a year
each
year, ie next year 1924 books can be used?
No, the 1923 is fixed in
Extremely rare is right :) And, I always thought that a Stanhope
was some kind of a horse-pulled vehicle, but it seems to mean a
spangle here?
Hi Tamara and other kindly spiders:
A Stanhope as used here is a little bitty microscopic viewer that shows
a picture of some kind - often a public
Hello spiders:
Tamara wrote:
Most of the lace made then - whether needle or bobbin - was made either
for the Church,
which makes me wonder if this piece might be a communion cup cover. I
know they had such covers in lace, but I have no idea what size it
ought to be.
Adele
in cool and
Hello, spiders:
About the cloth-stitch laces: I'm referring to the older (eg,
17th-century) laces of Antwerp and similar; the ones that gave rise to
what we now call Valenciennes, Flanders, and Binche. I would like to
learn more about these laces, and am wondering if there are any
resources
One thing I haven't seen raised in this thread - I seem to recall that
beeswax is acidic. I don't know how acidic, and I don't know if or how
beeswax would affect linen thread over time, but it is something to
think about.
If somebody has a piece that was made, say, at least 5-10 years ago,
What lace projects are you working on?
Hi Irene and other gentle Spiders:
I'm ploughing ahead with my second 5-metre piece - the OIDFA pattern
Sneeuwpoppen. This time I'm keeping track of how much I do each week,
because I want to finish it by September (started May 17th). I find I
keep
I've heard a number of stories about why we don't have fine flax, and
after hearing them all, this is my 2 cents' worth:
1. A few years ago in the OIDFA bulletin (I think) there was an article
on fine linen thread from someone whose family has been in the
linen-thread production business for
Their irons were even more primitive - they didn't have a shell
with hinged door for the insert - the whole thing was heated
Hey, Tamara - we have a bunch of your primitive irons at work - and
we use them every day. If we need to iron something (usually paper,
sometimes leather or cloth) they
You use passée à cheval when 4 threads from leaves cross the cloth
stitch trail : 2 go in the plait and 2 become workers (? good term in
english?). Or the opposite plait to leaves.
In Passée à cheval you change the worker. Look the black arrows on
the
diagram.
Hi Donna:
Think of somebody
Last night a fellow lacemaker was showing me a new addtion to her lace
collection. The little doily was labelled pita lace. It was a most
beautiful airy little thing, like a delicate spider web. Neither of
us has
ever heard of pita lace before, it really looked like a super-fine
knitting.
I've virtually always ended up with
the main angle of work top right to bottom left,
whichever side the footside was on [...]
Has anyone noticed this, or is it just
me being awkward? Can it make a difference to
tensioning, or anything else that might matter?
My first 5-metre piece was
There have been some class changes in the Pacific
North West Lace Conference schedule. A couple
teachers had to cancel, ...
Hi Alice -
I never made it onto the PNWLC mailing list so I have been relying on
the website for information. When I look on the website at Class
Details - am I right
Like Alice, I'm also in preparation for the PNWC lace conference in
June. I'll be taking the Tonder class, and I've got a big pile of
bobbins to wind.
I also have to find a lace pillow to use, and since they're all already
in use my choice is to finish an old project or make a new pillow.
One is about seven years old. snip It must be the oldest one I
still have on a pillow.
This got me thinking - who has the oldest UFO still on a pillow - and
*still*, after all these years, intends to finish it some day?
I have a piece of Honiton that dates from 1981. Still on the pillow - I
Hi everybody:
I'm reading the book Dentelles Normandes: La Blonde de Caen and I
keep running into one problem.
Like the English, the French historically used the same word, livre
to refer to a pound in weight and to refer to a unit of currency (which
I think is the same as what is now called the
Tamara wrote:
the early instruction booklets that came with machines.
What's early? And, does anyone know how well those early
combination machines sold? As opposed to the two -- independent
(sewing and embroidery) -- ones?
I think the book referred to was put out by the Singer sewing
Hi Dianne:
I wonder if you are thinking about the book Danish Pulled Thread
Embroidery (you can see a picture of the cover at
http://store.doverpublications.com/0486234746.html ) which is a Dover
reprint book that is still available. The book gave you the patterns to
work the squares in a
If you have no one to help create tension as you wind the felted
material around the core, open a window (sash type), and close it
on one end of the material. Then begin winding, pulling hard against
the end caught in the window. I have done two bolsters this way:
they are nice and firm.
Help! Is there anyone on the list who knows the SW Portland area, and
can suggest any inexpensive place to stay within easy driving distance
of the Garden Home Recreation Center (7425 SW Oleson Road)?
I am considering taking a course there at the end of the month (not
lace-related) but it
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