Jeri and I have exchanged a couple of emails following my email to the list about Nancy Armstrong, which she thought should be posted to the list . So here's the whole thing in chronoligical order:
>From Jean: <In her chapter on repairing fans, Nancy Armstrong in "The Books of Fans" lists Durofix, Evostik, Cascamite, Aerolite, Copydex, Araldite, Calaton, Cellofas and pastes such as Gripfix, as suitable adhesives either for repairing or attaching paper fan leaves to sticks. For lace fans, she suggests stitching the lace to the sticks with invisible thread and beading needles, working from the centre out, and sticking the lace to the guard sticks with Evostick Clear.> >From Jeri: > My copy of this book was published in 1978 -- 25 years ago. I wonder if all > the products are still available, and if - with 25 years of additional > experience, the experts at the Fan Museum might have new information to share. In 25 > years, framers have greatly changed their methods and are using new products > to protect art. > > I have not been out to shop for glues, and am not making a lace fan, but can > tell you that none of these product names are familiar to me on this side of > the "Big Pond". > > Therefore, I think it would still be wise to have someone write a current > article on this subject for The Lace Guild's magazine. >From Jean: <I totally agree with you Jeri, but I thought others might be interested in what has been used over the years. Personally I don't like the idea of some of the adhesives Nancy Armstrong mentions, partly because of their solvent base. It would be interesting to find out what fan makers used during the 1900s before these synthetic adhesives were around. I have a couple of paper fans from around 1905 (one on wooden sticks and one on bone) that belonged to my grandmother. One hasn't been touched, but the other has had attempts to repair the paper where it was torn in a couple of places, and the glue has gone brown. As far as I remember my grandmother always swore by cow gum, and I suspect that this is what she used. Not a good idea.> >From Jeri: <Perhaps this should be explained to the list, plus the age of the book the advice came from. You are free to use my words if you wish. I just do not have the time to keep running on this subject - much to do before Thursday. My concern is some naive person will use the advice in an old book. And will have disastrous results - either immediately, or in a few years after the glue has "cured". The memories about cow gum are very amusing!> Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
