Hallo Tamara and all spiders I keep seeing references to "Rosa Libre" in postings, this is a new one to me, is it a type of lace or someones name? Curiosity killed the cat but I must know. Regards Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lace Arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:11 AM Subject: [lace] Re: Lace Guild's Lacemakers' Census
> On Dec 2, 2004, at 17:36, Janice Blair wrote: > > > I decided to do something simple on my mailing tag. I made my initial > > "J" in a tape lace. > > My own very first thought was a T, but... > > Years and years ago - at least 7 or 8 - I started to design an > alphabet. After a couple of years of trial and error (mostly error; > some of you have initials made in that period), I came up with a > "formula": a uniform (same size and shape), oval, lace frame (Deborah > Robinson - the Editor of Lace - trued it for me on the puter), > containing a tape initial, in flowing script. Because of the uniform > size, I can use the same thread always, and have used Madeira 50/2. > Each initial is decorated with "flowering vines" made of plaits and > tallies (two pairs permit two colours - one for leaves and one for > flowers), and each has a spider web somewhere, connecting the initial > to the "frame" where the flowering vines fail to. I think a few of you > - Jacquiest Southworth, Jane Partridge and Jane Viking - may have > intitials made in that period. The last addition was a bead for a > spider in the web - I think only Pam Dotson's daughter Sarah got that > one. > > I have, by now, re-drafted most of the original initials to fit into > this standard frame. All that's necessary to spell "LACE" was a > priority (some of you may have seen it at the OIDFA Congress in > Prague), but B, D, I, J, and S are in good shape also (I designed them > as I needed them), and N might be bullied into compliance if I ever got > the time to really apply myself. > > I got terminally stuck on T... :) Of course, I wanted to design it > early on, for myself... But the others were easier, being a single > stroke/line (you hang in once, and get rid of the lot once - the way I > like it <g>). I've been quite clever sometimes in managing to do this > (A is a masterpiece of ingenuity in that respect, IMO <g>). Can't > figure out a way to do it with a T. But, worse than that... Can't > decide *which* script to use for T - the one where the downstroke curls > to the left at the bottom (the kind I grew up with) or the "old" one, > where it curls to the right (very pretty, but, do I think it's pretty > only because it's novel to me?) > > So there we are... 7 or 8 yrs later, and I'm still the "donkey at the > troughs" (hay in one, oats in the other, and the beast dies of hunger, > because of indecision) :) I was really frustrated, when I first heard > about the census, and had another "go" at the T. But, T will be T, and > unruly/incorrigible, always :) > > Now, I think it was "meant"; I was waiting for Rosa Libre to come > along, obviously. The first element (flower, around which everything > else revolves) is 4/5th done. It'll be finished tomorrow, and I'll need > to choose my colours for the dragonfly (the second "anchoring" > element). Easy enough in itself, but it'll have to harmonize with two > other elements (a sprig of thistles and one of seed-pods), as well as > with the flower, and, with some colours (surely *the* choice ones; > grass is always greener on the other side <g>) on back-order and not > promised till January, it'll be a tough decision... > > Naturally, all the very carefully chosen *and matched* colours in > Gutermann silk 100/3 had to be ditched - between the scale (reduced > from Colcoton 34/2) and the way Gutermann slides and compresses, I was > going 'round the bend, trying to make the necessary sewings, so I cut > that off first thing this morning. > > --- > Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd > Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
