I'm not sure about the larger pins, but your brass pins are waaay too big if
she wants "0" insect pins. These pins are very very fine. And they are
literally made to pin insect specimen to displays. So go to your usual
vendors to see if they have them, and if not, then order from a scientific
supply source. I JUST this week tossed the invoice from an order I got last
year... so I can't tell you where I got them off the top of my head.
Clay
Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA USA
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From: "Janice Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lace-digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: [lace] IOLI/Montreal
I came home from England and my letter from Montreal was there waiting for
me. I got into my first choice which was the colored flowers in point
ground with Ulrike Voelker. I have a few questions. There are 3 prickings
enclosed marked level 1, level 2 and level 3, depending on your expertise.
None are named on the sheets but in the written instructions is says if you
work Fuschia or Arum you need picot pins size 0,85mm-1mm. I looked on the
vanSciver website and did not see this size listed, any idea where I might
find them? The other pins are Insect pins and fine pins 0,5mm-0,55mm. Do
you think my brass buckspoint pins will be okay?
I think level 3 is Fuschia but I do not see any obvious places for
picots. If anyone has the new Stil Bluten book could you see if these
designs are in there and, if so, are there any picots. I also wonder
whether the other pricking, level 2, is Arum, it looks like a paisley
shape with petals. The level 1 pricking is an edging with a four petal
flower which does have picots.
There are 2 copies of each pricking, one green and one white and as she
suggested covering with blue film, I imagine we use the white copy for
that. We are also expected to get started with the ground before we
arrive so that we can spend more time on the actual design. It says not
to care about the footside as this will be covered by the passe par tout
later. I know the term but have forgotten what passe par tout means. Are
there any other Arachne in this workshop to keep me company?
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/
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