Dear Liz, Can you get your hands on The Lace Guild (England) bulletin #141, January 2011? There is a 2-page article on pages 12-13 by Maureen Barber "Z Twist or S Twist: Ladies Weaving with Bones" that tells a little bit of Gil Dye's adventures with bones, which she related while teaching a course at The Quilt Museum in York called "Exploring Early Bobbin Laces". Gil also wrote a 2-page article for the issue, on pages 14-15 - about her researches. This one about her studies at the Blackborne collection in the Bowes Museum. Perhaps she is too modest to tell you on Arachne that she is on a personal mission to unravel unknown history about the earliest laces to be found in England. Each issue has some new unknown-before historic lace findings. Do all who are on Arachne have any idea how much very difficult and time-consuming research is being done to learn about very early lace? The women who do this often write - without compensation - for lace bulletins! Please support the lace guilds behind the bulletins by joining. If membership continues to wane, it could have terrible consequences for the next generation of people interested in lace.. Thank you to all who share lace knowledge with us. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:09:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Gil Dye said "Not yet found any fish bones that work well as pins, on the other hand I have successfully used rabbit and game bird bones as bobbins - but that's another story." I would Love to hear that story!!!!!! :) So--- Do tell us Gil...!!! :) Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
