[lace] Copies of prickings from dark sources

Hello all, This is my first foray into Arachne. I've been following the thread about making prickings from copies too dark to photocopy. If the pattern is fairly small and simple, I have been known to use tracing paper - in the U.S., this is a thin, tissue-like paper that is translucent. Placing

[lace] Bulgarian Bobbin Lace Makers alive and well

Dear Friends, Several weeks ago I wrote to ask if anyone knew of Bulgarian bobbin lace makers. Antje Gonzalez responded, and I followed up on her answer. I have just returned from a trip to Bulgaria, during which I did indeed meet a number of lace makers - Bistra, Elgina, Ivanka, Rumjana,

[lace] Thank you for Bulgarian lace responses

Thank you to all who send responses to my query regarding lacemaking in Bulgaria. Sally - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Lace makers in Bulgaria?

Hello, I will be in Bulgaria for the Koprivshtitsa Folk Festival next month. Does anyone know if there will be lace makers there (and how to find them)? The festival does not seem to have a website; the main attraction is folk dancing but I would expect other folk arts too. There is a town

[lace] Large yarn on lace scarf

s, a 2-pin roseground instead of a 4-pin, one twist only at the pins. Anyplace I could reduce the number of twists (because twists cause friction), I did. I will be interested in the input that other people send as well, Good luck, Sally Jenkins, Creswell, Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to m

[lace] Cookie pillow discussion

Hello all, What interesting answers I received regarding the use of cookie pillows. Especially from Laurie Waters. Thank you so much. I also enjoyed seeing the pictures of the monuments to lacemakers. Regards to all, Sally in western Oregon, USA - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Cookie pillow question, and digest

Hello lacers, It seems I have not received the digest in several days. Has there been no activity, or have I been inadvertently dropped? (I will find out if I see this message posted, right?) I have been wondering about the history and/or development of the cookie pillow and its use. It seems

[lace] Mounting finished lace

Hello, Is there a book out there on how to mount finished lace? I've mostly made stand-alone things like bookmarks, that don't need to be mounted. For some small figures (for instance Louise Colgan's hummingbird) I have taken just a few tacking stitches and mounted them on velvet, then framed

[lace] Mounting finished lace, thank you all!

Dear Knowledgeable Ones, I daresay we are all learning things we didn't know about mounting lace! You've convinced me I do need to spend the time to actually sew the lace onto suitable fabric, and to use archival materials, and to not let lace touch the glass! I will go and un-mount a couple of

[lace] Convention table showcase

I think an Arachne table at the IOLI convention is a great idea. *Because of the Arachne list*, I located and subsequently met a lacemaker during my trip to Bulgaria, and I wrote a lengthy article about her that appeared in the most recent IOLI Bulletin. (Followup on that: the Bulletin editor

[lace] Thingummy

I love it! Fadenbrücke means, literally, Thread Bridge in German. (If special characters don't show up on your computer, the 8th character is a u with an umlaut over it.) Sally From: "Rick & Sharon Whiteley" Subject: [lace] name of thingummy The thingummy for holding

[lace] Lacemakers in Oklahoma

. If the Bartlesville group won't work out for her, there is also a lace group in Oklahoma City, about 2 hours away from Broken Arrow/Tulsa in a different direction. Its website is Lace Guild of Oklahoma, https://sites.google.com/site/laceguildofoklahoma/ Best regards, Sally Jenkins, now living in Oregon

[lace] Bobbin lace in Celtic nations?

Hello all, In 2 months I will be demonstrating bobbin lace at a Celtic Festival. Most of the festival involves music and dance, but the organizers wanted some fiber arts too, so here I go. I'd like to find some information about bobbin lace specifically in the Celtic nations (officially:

[lace] Re: Lazy Loops

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Jane Partridge wrote: > The easy way to enlarge the starting pinholes is to start with a row of > temporary pins behind the first row of the pattern - but you don't want the > loops to remain quite that big, of course. What you do to get round

[lace] Lazy Loops

Hello Arachne and Susan, Susan said, " Unfortunately, I failed to install lazy loops on the octagon & the sewings/finishing went badly" I would like to know about these "lazy loops" - I think I may have invented some myself on occasion by either using two pins stuck right beside each other

[lace] Re: Lazy Loops

off the bobbins & simply overcast the seam with a fine > needle. Hope that is not lace blasphemy, but I think I would have more > control over the results & a flatter, neater seam. Sincerely, Susan > Hottle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL USA > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 11

[lace] Construction foam pillows

Hi Susan, I have made many square pillows from construction foam. I use a bread knife and cut very slowly, making several shallow cuts the length of my finished product. The foam I have is black, so I mark it with a silver-colored marking pen. It will wash right off the knife, especially if you

[lace] YouTube from OIDFA conference

Enjoy this YouTube from Ljubljana! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhVAOb1q5iY=em-subs_digest Sally, who wasn't there - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] lace - Sternchen-Ei translation help

Dear friends, Please remember this website, with lace terms given in a number of languages: https://www.oidfa.com/translate.html.en# (I switched it to German.) That said, "Drehstelle" was not on this list. "Drehen" is on it, and is given as "twist." I would have thought "Drehstelle" would be a

[lace] Gon Homburg's Week 38 2015 insertion

be a gift for someone special. Best regards, Sally Jenkins, Creswell, Oregon, USA, where I planted tulip bulbs today - another link to The Netherlands :-) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...

[lace] Make & Take pattern

There is a wonderful set of patterns here called Flowers, Flames, & Fantasy: https://www.laceguild.org/ylm/versInstr.html I have used these for years. I discovered that in some cases it's better to make even these small patterns smaller yet. By making several copies and experimenting, I removed

[lace] Flanders Edging with cats, photo

Dear lacers, I receive the Arachne list in digest format and saw several posts about an edging with cats. One person said there was a working diagram but no photo. There is a photo of this, worked by the late Bart Elwell of Tulsa, Oklahoma, here: http://lacemakersoklahoma.weebly.com/photos.html

[lace] Pincushions, Flickr, Arachne in general

Hello all, I get this in digest format so many emails on various topics arrive all at once - it's like Christmas :-) Thank you to all who have suggested pincushion ideas to me. I love the ideas presented, all of them! Especially the fill-it-with-thread idea! Somehow that appeals to the

[lace] Pincushions

Hello, Can someone recommend some good pincushions to buy? Preferably in the U.S. I need to collect/make several beginner kits for teaching bobbin lace, and want the students to have good materials so their early experiences are positive. I don't want cute. I want functional. Firm filling. Big

[lace] Lace ID (Susan H's question)

In reference to Susan Hottle's question about a mat, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/35865707036/in/album-7215763195503607 0/lightbox/ There is another possibility. Perhaps the designer/creator used various techniques, and the entire piece does not fit any one designation. I know a woman

[lace] Bookmark from my partner

My lovely aqua-and-white Torchon bookmark from Ruth Kurz arrived in today's mail. It is so pretty! Everyone will get to see it when the website is opened up to view :-) Thank you to my exchange partner and to the organizers! Happy lacing, Sally - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Jenny's promise fulfilled :-)

e that you were planting these good seeds. So, Thank You! Sally Jenkins in rainy western Oregon - 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] Prickings for patterns from 44-year-old book?

Greetings all, I've found some very nice photos of finished lace in a book written in 1973 in Swedish, called Knypplerskan, by Inga-Lisa Olsson. Our guild library has volumes 1, 2, & 3. There is an English translation tucked in each volume too. In the back there is a "list of the patterns which

[lace] Turning corners on roller pillow

Hello all, I have a question about making corners on a roller pillow. I have seen the conical (as opposed to cylindrical) rollers for making corners, and I understand how they work, but how do you then go on working a straight piece of lace after you've made the corner? Do you have to transfer

[lace] Translating lace terms

OIDFA has a page where you can translate lace terms: https://www.oidfa.com/translate.html.en I get the digest form so I can't reply to just a single inquiry, sorry. Sally in western Oregon, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Small lace samples

I make small bits of lace into greeting cards. Not fancy, but pretty easy. Photos at the bottom of this page: https://oregontraillacemakers.weebly.com/gallery.html Sally in western Oregon, where rains are knocking down the forest fires, hurrah! - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Motif exchange piece received

I just received an exquisite leaf in wire lace made by Sharon Morrison as part of the first-ever Motif Exchange. Thank you, Lin Hudren, for putting this event together; thank you, Sharon, for your skill, thought, and beauty! Sharon also sent, as a bonus, a very cute divider pin that was made on a

[lace] Joining ends of a crown

Greetings all, I will soon be starting to make a Swedish wedding crown, but thought I'd better know how to finish it before I begin. It's about 28 pairs or so and I think I'll work it on a block pillow. This means I'll have to unpin the beginning at some point. Once I've reached the end, I have

Re: [lace] Joining ends of a crown

The joins will be mostly cloth stitch areas. The picture of the finished crown can be seen in Knypplerskan by Inga-Lisa Olsson, Vol. 3. Thanks for taking an interest! Sally On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:24 PM, J Reardon wrote: > It might help us to know what stitches you

[lace] Elastic bands

Jane and Jopie have both written of problems in using elastic or other rubber bands on their bobbins. Jane wrote: warning. Small elastic bands work very well to keep two bobbins together. But, I'm a slow worker and my large Bucks Point piece took a year tomake. During that time the rubber bands

[lace] How to make a white copy of a colored pricking

Jeri has made a request that more lurkers come out of the shadows and share what they know. An excellent suggestion, and just the push some of us needed! I don't think I "know lace experts who keep secrets" but I do know people who haven't shared what they know - because they don't realize they

[lace] Re: Joining ends of a crown

Many thanks to all who have offered excellent advice regarding my question on how to finish a crown. I will make my choices and post a photo when it's done! Now to wind the bobbins. . . . Sally in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Re: Joining ends of a crown, Inga-Lisa Olsson's Knypplerskan Vol. 3

Dear Jeri, Thank you for your detailed response. I too have the English translation inserts, and also have a Swedish-speaking friend on retainer ;-) The pricking, which I purchased from Sweden, no longer comes with the metal ring; it's something I will come up with myself. Thank you for the

[lace] Learning to use a bolster pillow

Good morning all, I've been teaching beginning bobbin lace for several months now, on cookie pillows or roller pillows. I just found out there is a woman who for reasons of her own wants to learn to make lace on a bolster pillow, something I don't do and don't want to learn (in order to teach)

[lace] Bolster pillow again

Hello all, Thank you for the many replies about resources for learning lacemaking on a bolster pillow. Today I met the woman who wanted to learn, and I found out she was using the term "bolster" for the thing that we know as "roller pillow." So I will be teaching her on a cookie pillow after

[lace] Bobbin lace in Romania?

Hello all, Do you know of any bobbin lace makers in Romania? I will be in Cluj in June and would love to meet some lacemakers there. Sally in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] Exchange ornament arrived

I received an exquisite tatted-and-beaded ornament from Sue Duckles. It arrived the day after Christmas and was a beautiful way to extend the holiday just a bit more! Sally in western Oregon, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Motif exchange piece arrived

I received an exquisite piece of Bucks Point lace from Jacqui Southworth in today's mail. The motif exchange is so much fun to participate in! Thank you for organizing it, Lin. And thank you for another piece of beauty to add to my life, Jacqui. Sally Jenkins in still-smoky (but due to clear up

re: [lace] Lace legends?

Because I get the digest form I can't respond directly, so must copy and paste. Liz R wondered about a village in France where the old lacemakers had all lost their eyesight - fact or fiction?. I'm just now re-reading "Take the Children," and loss of eyesight due to poor light and general poor

[lace] Love your bauble!

on making some short and stout (110% wider than original and 90% of original height)! One of the biggest drawbacks of Pinterest is that you usually can never find the source :-( Happy lacing, Sally Jenkins Arachne 2017 Christmas Card exchange, made by Sally Jenkins in the USA for Sue Duckles

[lace] Seeking lacemaker with Chinese language skills

be of help, be sure to include me in a separate email so I will get the information promptly. Many thanks in advance to the lacemaking world, Sally Jenkins Oregon Trail Lacemakers, Eugene, Oregon, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y

[lace] Tatters in Hawaii?

Hello, I've been asked if there is a tatting group in Hawaii, specifically on the Big Island. IOLI doesn't seem to have a chapter in Hawaii at all. Since I get Arachne in digest form and can go weeks between them, please respond to me personally if you can help out. Thank you, Sally Jenkins

[lace] Received exchange lace

In yesterday's mail I received the most intricate Christmas ornament made in lace and beads from Celia Mulhearn. It is a work of art! Thank you, Celia, and thank you, Lin, for arranging the exchange, Sally Jenkins, Creswell, Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing