On Apr 20, 2008, at 17:21, Sue Duckles wrote:
Evening All
Looking forward to making this in xstitch!!! It will look brilliant
as a pincushion!!! Also looking forward to finding out if there was
anything else....
Sue Also in East Yorkshire - 1 mile away from Agnes and a fellow
Arachnean...
On 20 Apr 2008, at 21:53, Agnes Boddington wrote:
I am the new proud owner of the Arachne pin that was on ebay!
My friend Sue (also of this list, who won an Arachne bag recently)
wants to embroider it.
When did Arache do these pins?
Apart from pins and bags, did Arachne do anything else, and any
chance of reviving these items?
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
(www.sixpennybobbins.co.uk) <www.sixpennybobbins.co.uk>
Ask, and a dinosaur will answer :)
The Arachne pins date back either to the first or the second
annniversary of the list -- ie, either '96 or '97 -- and were a part of
the commemoratives. In the days when there were very few of us, the
excitement of finding one another was that much greater, so we had big
celebrations every year, commemorating the beginnings of the list. The
commemorative items included (apart from the pin) things like:
T-shirts, bobbins, crochet hooks and tatting shuttles, bags etc, all
with some kind of of a "logo" (a spider and a spiderweb) and the
Arachne e-address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Every year, a different person
produced the items, with JoAnne Pruitt organising the whole thing
(deciding on the design, getting the bids, pricing for different
continents and countries, making sure that there was a "distributor"
for each continent, etc).
Not sure *when* the custom disappeared, but it disappeared due to a
lack of interest. On many of the items, a minimum had to be ordered
and, when those items didn't sell, the organiser was stuck with them.
It took several years to get rid of the initial order of the (200?
250?) Arachne pins, so the run was never repeated.
A bit of trivia:
On the first year's commemorative T-shirt -- a computer, with a huge
spiderweb above it, a spider (with the @ symbol for the body) hanging
off the web and the e-address, printed vertically, along one side --
the spider had only 6 legs, like any common bug. When I asked JoAnne
about it, she answered : "What you;re seeing is the spider's back. The
other two legs are in front, and hidden from view. And you *don't want*
to know what he's doing with those two legs". I promptly painted those
other two legs on my T-shirt, with laundry-resistant paint...
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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