Re: [lace] English laces and locations
Hi Lorri, I googled and came up with these sites http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Tolland/index.html http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm jenny barron Scotland Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To a Gentle Spider in the UK I have recently found that my father's ancestors came to the USA in 1630 from Tolland, Somerset, England. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: [lace] long lace report (short)
Hi Bev, I am also making a garter, but am making 2 narrow strips of lace, I am also about 3/4 way through the lacework. It is steady progress when the cat doesn't insist on taking over my lap for the evenings. I have managed to take a little afternoon time out to try preparing for and trying to work the first of milanese braids, although not as much time as I would like yet. From being a steady recovery time we seem now to be having to make up for all the time I lost recooperating. Never mind, I will get on with it. Sue T, Dorset UK Hi everyone This is a short message about the lengthening lace - my garter project is now at 60 cm. of a 100 cm. goal. How about everyone else working on long laces? How's progress? -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] English laces and locations
Dear Lorri, Tolland is not far from Taunton, the county town of Somerset. Somerset is a county in the SW of England; the next county one way (to the W) is Devon (where Honiton lace comes from) and the other way, Wiltshire (where Downtown lace was made). Somerset itself does not have a particular style of lace making but I would guess the most likely situation was that the women made Honiton lace. I'm not sure that the Downtown lace industry had started in 1630 and was more focused in a small area in the SE of Wiltshire. http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm I'm sure others will chip in with more information. Best wishes Andrea Lamble in Cambridge, UK - where Spring is trying hard!! From: Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace arachne lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] English laces and locations Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:02:15 -0800 To a Gentle Spider in the UK I have recently found that my father's ancestors came to the USA in 1630 from Tolland, Somerset, England. What I am wondering is where in England this is located and which style of lace may have been made in that area. Lorri Ferguson Graham, in Washington State, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search! http://join.msn.com/toolbar/overview - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Idria Lace
Dear Arachneans, yesterday I decided I would like to work a pricking from Brigitte Bellon's book: Klöppelspitzen. It is the pricking no. 9 on p. 50. I am not sure how to work the plait which is supposed to run at the edge. When I do the joins as described in the book, the plait finds its way between the linnen stich passives and the outer wholestich passive. Is that correct? Thank you for your help! Martina in Germany, back after a computer crash at the weekend - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] long lace report (short)
bevw wrote: Hi everyone This is a short message about the lengthening lace - my garter project is now at 60 cm. of a 100 cm. goal. How about everyone else working on long laces? How's progress? -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've finished my scarf, 200cms, plus 50cm fringe. Sheila in Sawbo'. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace in Somerset
I'm not sure that hand-made lace was made in Somerset. Apart from the Somerset levels which is an area of low flat land that floods easily even today, most of the terrain is very hilly with quite a bit of moorland. It wouldn't have been the easiest place to get around. I used to live on the Devon/Somerset border, and until relatively recently (late 1800s/early 1900s) it was quite a dangerous place to go travelling because of brigands. There was machine-made lace in Ilminster/Chard. Interesting site on lace riots: http://www.lhi.org.uk/projects_directory/projects_by_region/south_west/somerset/chard_lace_riots_audio_walk/index.html Jean in Poole, Dorset - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Help needed with embroidery machine
Not lace related, but, as a lot of you sew as well, I hope someone can help. I've just bought a second-hand Husqvarna Iris embroidery/sewing machine. Thought that's all I was getting, but, in addition to a card with 24 embroidery designs, it also had an embroidery card reader/writer and software with it for connecting to a computer. Only thing is there isn't a power cable for the reader/writer - the previous owner lost it and can't remember what it was like. I know it's a 240 volt unit, but there's no label, or any other indication, to say what the input voltage is - I'm fairly certain that it will be 6 or 9 volts DC because it's got a single pin socket, and I can get a stepdown/multivolt adapter from Argos, if I haven't already got an adapter intended for something else. I could try with 6 volts and see what happens, but I'd rather be certain. So if anyone's got one, can you let me know what it is privately. Thanks. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Help needed with embroidery machine
I have a Husqvarna embroidery card reader / writer for their #1+ sewing machine and have checked the label on the transformer. The output for it is 13.5V You could always email the manufacturer and check: http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/uk/406.htm Sue - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] English laces and locations
Jenny, Sue, Andrea, Sheila Thank you so very much for the info. I can hardly wait until I have time to check out the web sites you gave. But I must run off to work just now. I knew I would get some answers on this list. Thanks again Lorri - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] old? Bucks Lace postcard
Hi Spiders I've recently acquired a postcard depicting 20 Bucks lace workers, members of the Bucks lace Industry, Olney. It states that their combined age is 1600 years the average age is given as 80. The postcard is not postally dated so I don't know how old it is, nor is the printers name given. However, there are 20 elderly ladies and underneath they have signed their names/or made their mark beside their name. They are -: Eliza Harper 84; Isabella Dowdy 77; Ellen Clare 84; Emma Richardson 81; Mercy Sanders 84; Elizabeth Kingston 80; Harriet Cooper 73; Sarah Ann Warren 72; Fanny --penny 81; Mary Percival 77; Martha Hinde 74; Sarah Hedge 87; Elizabeth -cester 83; Jane Brice 72; Helen Haynes 87; Charity Harper 85; J. Ellis 82; Sarah -Maslars? 72; Tamar Linger ? 87 E. Salisum? One or two of the names are quite hard to read/decipher (the dashes are a random number). Does anyone have any information about either the postcard and or the lacemakers listed. Many thanks Nicky in Suffolk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Idria Lace
Dear Martina, I have Ulrike Voelker's new book Die Kunst Des Haekelns. What you describe is exactly what she shows when carrying a plait with the tape. Patty == Dear Arachneans, yesterday I decided I would like to work a pricking from Brigitte Bellon's book: Klöppelspitzen. It is the pricking no. 9 on p. 50. I am not sure how to work the plait which is supposed to run at the edge. When I do the joins as described in the book, the plait finds its way between the linnen stich passives and the outer wholestich passive. Is that correct? Thank you for your help! Martina in Germany, back after a computer crash at the weekend - 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]
[lace] Re Old Bucks postcard
Hello Nicky I have a large amount of research on old postcards/pictures of lacemakers. The picture that you have was published around 1926 by Harry Armstrong of the Bucks cottage Workers Agency, in a large format book called 'A Sixteenth Century Industry' (lacemaking). The ladies were all photographed separately possibly at an earlier date and the individual pictures collated together, so the postcard could have been published earlier than the book. Incidentally there is also similar picture of Bedfordshire lacemakers. Isabella Dowdy, Emma Richardson and Tamar Linger were all from North Crawley, Bucks. At some point Emma was the oldest resident, she died three weeks before her 100th birthday. Martha Hinde was from Ravenstone, Bucks. Three missing names are Fanny Thickpenny, Elizabeth Lancaster and Sarah Masters. I may have more info but unfortunately its buried too deep ;o) Regards Diana in Northamptondhire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] old? Bucks Lace postcard
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], sealacehaven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Isabella Dowdy 77; Ellen Clare 84; Emma Richardson 81; Does anyone have any information about either the postcard and or the lacemakers listed. A quick look at the 1901 census, particularly the North Crawley area of Bucks, shows several of the lacemakers living on their own means - but in particular Isabella Dowdy (born c1850) and Emma Richardson's (born c1846) (she doesn't have an occupation listed, but her daughter Eliza is a lacemaker) ages tie in with the postcard dating to 1927. Does this tie in with the dates the Association was in existence? Ellen Clare was born c1844 in Olney - again no occupation given on the 1901 census, but her husband was then aged 60 so she could have taken up (or gone back to) lacemaking to earn a living after he died. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] English laces and locations
On 29 Mar 2006, at 09:25, Jenny Barron wrote: Hi Lorri, I googled and came up with these sites http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Tolland/index.html Tolland is in Somerset, about 20 miles north of Honiton (Devon). http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm The info on that site seems very dubious to me: Records for Devon and Southampton show lacemakers in great numbers. In 1698 there were 1,081 lace makers in Salisbury, 336 in Downton and 500 in Blandford. Which records are they? The earliest English censuses (apart from Domesday) was 1801 and that was only a head count. 1841 before you get info about occupations. The Lace Guild publish photographs of 17th Century bobbins that have been excavated from old cottages and retrieved from wrecks. Reproduction bobbins are also made by them. Photos of old bobbins may have been published by the Lace Guild but The Lace Guild does not, and never has made bobbins, reproduction or otherwise. Bibliography - The Lace Guild The Hollies Stourbridge. E Midlands That's not a book! and the correct postal address of the Lace Guild is: The Hollies, 53 Audnam, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 4AE Just because he was Duke of Somerset doesn't mean he lived in Somerset. The National Register of Archives lists just one record about the Duke of Somerset's charity, Stoke Abbots in Dorset, held at the Wiltshire Swindon Record Office. Also I've found details of a book sold by Wiltshire Family History Society 'Duke of Somerset's Charity others in Salisbury Wilton Free School those apprenticed'. So, without better references, I'd guess that Dorothy Newall who was apprenticed to weaver William Sidney in 1689 probably lived in Wiltshire. Brenda http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm jenny barron Scotland Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To a Gentle Spider in the UK I have recently found that my father's ancestors came to the USA in 1630 from Tolland, Somerset, England. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] old? Bucks Lace postcard
I have a very orangy sepia reproduction of the same postcard. It definitely is a modern reproduction as there's nothing on the back - anything really meant for posting had the space for the address, space for the message and 'postcard' printed on it. I think it's Fanny Thickpenny and Elizabeth Lancester. There's a similar picture of 12 elderly Bedfordshire lacemakers, combined ages 1,007 years at http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/lace/lacehtml/lacemakers.html Brenda On 29 Mar 2006, at 18:10, sealacehaven wrote: Hi Spiders I've recently acquired a postcard depicting 20 Bucks lace workers, members of the Bucks lace Industry, Olney. It states that their combined age is 1600 years the average age is given as 80. The postcard is not postally dated so I don't know how old it is, nor is the printers name given. However, there are 20 elderly ladies and underneath they have signed their names/or made their mark beside their name. They are -: Eliza Harper 84; Isabella Dowdy 77; Ellen Clare 84; Emma Richardson 81; Mercy Sanders 84; Elizabeth Kingston 80; Harriet Cooper 73; Sarah Ann Warren 72; Fanny --penny 81; Mary Percival 77; Martha Hinde 74; Sarah Hedge 87; Elizabeth -cester 83; Jane Brice 72; Helen Haynes 87; Charity Harper 85; J. Ellis 82; Sarah -Maslars? 72; Tamar Linger ? 87 E. Salisum? One or two of the names are quite hard to read/decipher (the dashes are a random number). Does anyone have any information about either the postcard and or the lacemakers listed. Many thanks Nicky in Suffolk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Bucks postcard/lacemaker picture conventions
There's a similar picture of 12 elderly Bedfordshire lacemakers, combined ages 1,007 years at I've recently acquired a postcard depicting 20 Bucks lace workers, members of the Bucks lace Industry, Olney. It states that their combined age is 1600 years Much as it was once customary to cover a piece of lace with shillings to determine payment, It seems to be customary when one takes a picture of lacemakers to add their ages together. Why are we not continuing this charming custom, especially with our annual Arachne photo? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Personalized Car Registrations re Lace (again)
Dear Friends especially Avital, I couldn't wait to tell you all that today I finally remembered to phone our Car Registration place to ask about getting the number plate LACEXY. As it turns out I won't be getting it for 2 reasons. Firstly it's way too expensive at AUS$395, but 2ndly and even more unbelievable is that when I spelled it out the bloke on the phone BANNED IT AS TOO OFFENSIVE I asked the young man who to write to in order to complain and he replied: Oh you can't complain. Oh yes I can, I responded. He very reluctantly told me who to write to. And they dare to promote tourist ads for Australia saying Where the bloody hell are you?!!! Think I might get the press on to this one Love David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Personalized Car Registrations re Lace (again)
I guess the twit thought it was some kind of euphemism for 'sexy.' What if you were to try XYLACE? I doubt that would be any cheaper, though. Avital - Original Message - I couldn't wait to tell you all that today I finally remembered to phone our Car Registration place to ask about getting the number plate LACEXY. As it turns out I won't be getting it for 2 reasons. Firstly it's way too expensive at AUS$395, but 2ndly and even more unbelievable is that when I spelled it out the bloke on the phone BANNED IT AS TOO OFFENSIVE I asked the young man who to write to in order to complain and he replied:Oh you can't complain. Oh yes I can, I responded. He very reluctantly told me who to write to. And they dare to promote tourist ads for Australia saying Where the bloody hell are you?!!! Think I might get the press on to this one Love David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Personalized Car Registration
Ken, Have you considered having the Australian Tourism Board make a bumper sticker with LACEXY and then get a license plate saying BLDYHELL ? I would. However, we're only allowed 6 digits, numerals or combination here in the State of Victoria. I'm sure even B-HELL would be banned with their attitude. Perhaps I should try something like JIHAD or BERKA to see where their sympathies really lie! David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] A fabulous Australian website
Dear Friends, whilst this has nothing whatsoever to do with lace, I have recently come across a wonderful website wherein you can search Australian archives for old photos. Here it is: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html I even found one of my very own house which was taken about 1900! Haven't thought to put lace in the search engine yet, but it would be worth a try. Love David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Probs downloading pictures from camera - Solved
Thanks to Tech Support Guy Forums http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/ problem solved - I had recently downloaded RealPlayer to use with listening to BBC Radio online - and it knocked out the Scanner Camera Wizard. I simply removed the program with Control Panel\Add or Remove Programs and the Camera Wizard's autoplay feature started to work again. For playing music, I now use Winamp which works fine and without interferring with the autoplay feature. Hope this helps anyone else who has had the same problem. - Original Message - Subject: Probs downloading pictures from camera Having problems downloading pictures from my Nikon 4300 camera since a major XP update last week. Usually. the Scanner Camera Wizard pops up once I've connected the camera to the USB port - but since the update, nothing. BUT just found that I can get my pictures transferred via My Computer through the removeable drive icon - but I want the Scanner Camera Wizard back! Regards, Ann McClean in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 'Life is what happens while you are making other plans' To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
