[lace] PIECEWORK's 2018 lace issue is incredible!

[Witchy Woman]

Just found PIECEWORK's annual lace issue.  WOW!!!  Lace from cover to
cover.  You should see the lace in the "One Woman's Rebellion" story.  It's
incredible.  And Carolyn Wetzel has a great tutorial on Frisado de Valladolid
needlelace.
Have to go buy my own copy.
PegIn dreary, snowy, what month is this anyway, Ohio

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Re: [lace] Lace art by Agnes Herczeg

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Subject: Re: [lace] Lace art by Agnes Herczeg

>What lovely pieces!  Do you think she uses some kind of stiffening?
>Liz, Raleigh, NC, USA

I own one of the pieces shown in the article... the woman with the sheaves
of grain in the article, as well as another one of a woman looking out a
window.

The lace is painted...I think with acrylic paint.  There used to be an
interview with her where it showed her lace in the various stages.  Tried to
find it, but the link to it doesn't work anymore.

I love her work!  Saving up for another piece, but they go fast these days.
She's getting too popular.  ;  )

Peg
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[lace] Winding bobbins with a string

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Hi Susan...
I haven't tried it any other way than what I posted.
The way I posted, you wind your bobbins clockwise, and the string goes around
the bobbin counter-clockwise. 
Perhaps setting the bobbin under the string and bringing it around clockwise
would work to wind the bobbin counter-clockwise.
Have to try it when I get home from work.  Let me know how your experiments
work.
Enjoy!
PegIn a sultry, muggy, gaaaccckkk humid Cleveland Ohio

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[lace] How to wind bobbins usig just a string

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Yesterday I made a short video on how to wind bobbins using just a piece of
string.  It's up on YouTube. 
https://youtu.be/hdbk3mHS2Us
Enjoy!
PegIn a rainy Cleveland,  Ohio

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[lace] Manuela Lopez patterns

[Witchy Woman]

Browsing through Pinterest I found pictures of patterns that were signed with
the name Manuela Lopez.  They were mostly photos of used patterns.  They're
all Hinojosa.
Does anyone know anything about her?  Does she sell her patterns?  Any
internet searches I did all pointed me back to Pinterest.
Thanks,
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[lace] Re: lace in India

[Witchy Woman]

When I first started making lace I remember reading something about tension
and proper use of thread.  They made mention of lace made in India, but used
a picture as an example of shodfily made lace.  It was brought to India by
missionaries.
I did find this article about more modern lacemakers in India...  Lace making
gets a new lease of life
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[lace] Pepper Pot silks

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Has anyone used Pepper Pot brand silks for lace making?  They're usually used
for needlepoint or embroidery.
Wondering about the quality.  Thinking of using for a project.
Thanks.
PegIn dreary, rainy Cleveland, Ohio


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Re: [lace] Thistle's Million Dollars of Custom-Manufactured Threads

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Jeri!  Thank you for posting this!  I have been looking for heavier silk
threads for a project that took form at the recent Ithaca Lace Days. 
I took a class from Laura Friesel in design that was wonderful.  So many ways
to approach lace when designing a picture, and she was full of excellent
ideas.  If she does another class, I highly recommend her.
Thanks!
PegIn sunny Cleveland Ohio where the first game of the World Series will be
played tonight.  I'm not usually a sports fan, but this is exciting. 



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[lace] On-line textile archives - a lot of lace books and patterns for free

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I am a daily lurker, but don't get to post very often.

 

Jeri recently posted a link to the cs.arizona archives.  There are actually
quite a few archives out there.

 

To find books on most of these sites, in the search field use any of the
words: lace, lacemaking, lace making, pillow lace or bobbin lace. You can
also specify types of lace...i.e. Tonder.

Antique Pattern Library...
 
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm
Their whole list is on this page. Not much lace, but a lot of other good
things.

APL also has a Yahoo group with new postings all the time...
 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/antiquepatternlibrary/


The Cornell University Hearth archive...
  http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/


Handweaving.net archive...it may point you to books on the Cornell or
University of Arizona site, but there's also a bunch of other
books too. I like this site because a lot of the books that are in pieces on
the University of Arizona site can be found as one large file on this site.
 
http://www.handweaving.net/DAHome.aspx


University of Pennsylvania...this is another one that may point to the above
sites, but again, contains some that are within their own collection
 
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

 

 

Project Gutenberg.A huge archive of books, though not very many lace books.
I like their html versions of the books.they include the illustrations.  To
download, right click on the "Read this book online: HTML" link.  In the
little window that pops up, click on "Save link as", and save it to your
computer.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

 


Internet Archive.This site is the motherlode of downloadable books, videos,
picture and audio files.  The files are usually available in pdf, as well as
kindle and other e-reader formats.  Lots and lots of books on lace of all
kinds.  I just spent the last hour going through their new books.downloaded
about 20, including these gems.
https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000793137Images_201305 and
https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000795496Images 

Their main page is https://archive.org/

 

 

Plan on spending a few hours looking at these. They have an amazing amount
of books.

Enjoy!

Peg

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[lace] Lace as Art

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I would definitely include Agnes Herczeg of Hungary in a show like this.  I
own one of her pieces, and it is beautiful!
Her pieces are a genius mix of needle lace and bobbin lace.  Check out her
gallery.
Her site is www.agnesherczeg.com
Saving up to buy another piece.
Enjoy!
PegIn hot and humid Cleveland,  Ohio

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[lace] Interesting new Library rule

[Witchy Woman]

Went to the Library yesterday to check out Patricia Read's MILANESE LACE
book...researching a scroll turn.
New rule...since copies of the book are out on the Internet for around  $200,
they have taken it out of circulation.   It's now a reference copy only.
Glad they finally got smart about lace books.  Too many have gone "missing".
 They used to have a lot of books on lacemaking.   Now the list is very
short.
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[lace] one liner

[Witchy Woman]

How about these...
Old lacemakers never die...they just keep bobbin' along.
Armed with pins and I know how to use them.
Pegin sunny Cleveland Ohio

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[lace] Sari silk yarn question

[Witchy Woman]

I am a daily lurker on Arachne.  It's not very often that I have time to
post.  I always enjoy what I read, and have learned so much.  A special
thanks to Geri for her input on conservation.which I always print out and
save.  The recent thread on blocking a silk scarf prompted this question.

 

Over the past year or two I bought recycled sari silk yarn from Darn Good
Yarn (http://www.darngoodyarn.com/) to make a lace scarf or wall hanging.
The colors are brilliant turquoise, and a beautiful, deep emerald green.

 

The yarns are made by collectives in India and Nepal, and are handspun and
hand dyed from recycled silk saris and sari remnants.  It has been my
experience in the past that the fabrics from those areas of the world have a
tendency to not be colorfast, and tend to bleed onto everything around them
when wet.  I would like to prewash the yarn before I use it to wash out the
excess dye.  

 

When I have dyed cotton fabric in the past, I used vinegar to set the dye.
I'm not sure whether this can be done with silk.  

 

As an experiment I have filled the sink with water and let the yarn hank
soak, drain, rinse, repeat.alternating lukewarm water with cold water.
After 5 repeats, the water is still showing dye.  I don't want to keep it
wet for too long since the silk is more fragile when it's wet.

 

Would a little bit of vinegar be OK?  Any other ideas on how to set the dye?

 

Thanks.

 

Peg

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[lace] What size thread?

[Witchy Woman]

Never found the source of the bobbin lace angel on TatMan's blog, so I drafted
out the pattern and would like to start to wind bobbins.   But the question
is,  what size thread?


I drafted it at the same size as the picture on
http://tat-man.net/blog/?p=1210. Approximately 3 inches tall.


I changed it
slightly into more of a tape lace once you get past the head.  Using half
stitch and cloth stitch for  the head and face,  and Hinojosa kernel stitch
for the headband.  Will probably use Hinojosa or Milanese braids for the body
and wings.  Figuring those out now.


Any ideas?


Peg

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summer Cleveland Ohio 


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Re: [lace] Need to find a particular bobbin lace angel pattern

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Thanks, Sue.  Doing it from a photo is my last resort.  :  )  I had hoped to
find something that would at least tell me how many pairs of bobbins to use.  
They named him Caius, so I wanted to set the angel in the letter C from Sandi
Woods alphabet book.

Looks like a challenge is taking shape.


Peg


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Date:Mon,
Oct 26, 2015 at 8:41 PM
Subject:Re: [lace] Need to find a particular bobbin
lace angel pattern

I suggest you do what Mark says he did with it - print out
the photo and 
work over that.  It is surprisingly easy to make that sort to
lace over a 
photo

Sue

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Subject: [lace] Need to find a particular bobbin lace angel pattern

Does
anyone know where I could find the pattern for this angel?  Found it on
a
Google image search for "bobbin lace angel pattern".
http://tat-man.net/blog/?p=1210



It's a link to Tat Man's site, calling it a
Honiton angel, but it's a blog
entry with no mention of the pattern's origin. 
My niece's baby was
stillborn last week, and I'd like to make a lace angel for
her.



Peg

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[lace] Need to find a particular bobbin lace angel pattern

[Witchy Woman]

Does anyone know where I could find the pattern for this angel?  Found it on
a Google image search for "bobbin lace angel pattern".  

 

http://tat-man.net/blog/?p=1210

 

It's a link to Tat Man's site, calling it a Honiton angel, but it's a blog
entry with no mention of the pattern's origin.  My niece's baby was
stillborn last week, and I'd like to make a lace angel for her.

 

Peg

.very sad in Cleveland Heights, OH

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[lace] Brief history of lace

[Witchy Woman]

Someone posted this link on a Steampunk Facebook page today.  It's from
2011, but I don't recall seeing it here on Arachne.  

 

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2011/oct/19/a-brief-history-of-la
ce

 

Enjoy!

 

Peg

In chilly Cleveland Heights, OH

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[lace] Lace in Brittany

[Witchy Woman]

I went on G**gle.FR and put Brittany dentelle in the search box.


First entry
is from Trip Advisor.  There's an exhibition of Brittany Lace Makers Art at
the Musee de Normandie.  Not sure of the date of it though.


Whenever I can't
fid something lace related on G**gle I go to the respective country's site.  
It's amazing what you can find.


Peg

In Cleveland Ohio where the weather is
sunny and perfect  Stuck inside at work today...my back-up is out sick.  SIGH!
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[lace] New book..DIE LETZTEN IHRER ART...is beautiful!

[Witchy Woman]

Saved my pennies and splurged on a wonderful book called DIE LETZTEN IHRER
ART.  It's about types of laces made in the former Sudetenland after the
war, and it's a beautiful book 

 

The style of the lace in the book, to me, looks like a cross between Idrija
and Lepoglava laces.the winding cloth stitch of the Idrija which suddenly
blossoms into the half-stitch shading of the Lepoglava laces.

 

It was pricey, but I figured there are about 80 patterns in the book, and it
works out to about $1 per pattern.  [Blatant rationalization]

 

My time to make lace has been severely limited of late.  I've decided to
concentrate on tape laces.easily portable, and not a lot of bobbins to keep
track of.   Just wish there were more hours in the day.  SIGH

 

Peg

In Cleveland Heights, Ohio USA, where the crickets and night birds are
singing a rousing early autumn chorus.

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A reply to Re: [lace] Ithaca New York Lace Day

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Someone replied to my September 1st post about Ithaca Lace Days saying they
were coming, too.  Can't find the message.

 

Would you please resend?

 

Thanks.

 

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Re: [lace] Ithaca New York Lace Day

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I'm going.  Camping at Robert Treman state park.


Taking the Rippling Circles
in Contemporary Lace class.  Looking forward to learning a more free-style
lace.


Counting down...


Peg

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[lace] Slovenian lacemaker story - not Croatian

[Witchy Woman]

I have spent the past week reading the diaries of Anton Zakelj.  Fascinating
material.

He was Slovenian, and came from a village called Ziri.  In the 1943 diary he
mentions German soldiers passing through their village on the way to Idrija.
There are many entries in the diaries about lacemaking.  He and his brother
both designed lace.  I would love to see the patterns. 

Today I found a YouTube video of his wife, Cilka, making bobbin lace.  The
picture quality is not very good, but I enjoyed seeing her after reading
about her in the diaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnbuC1jU2g

Enjoy!

Peg

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[lace] RE Croatian lacemaker story

[Witchy Woman]

Thanks for getting a better link, Dagmar.
I typed in the URL on my cell rather than a cut and paste.  Sometimes it
tweaks.
Enjoy!
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[lace] Croatian lacemaker story

[Witchy Woman]

One of the joys of the Internet are the hidden gems that come to light.  
Doing an image search for Croatian bobbin lace, I came across a photo of a
pattern that intrigued me.  The blurb with it mentioned 1947, so I went to the
page.  It turned out to be a diary of Anton Zakelj, who at the time, was
living in a refugee camp.  From what I have read of the 1947 diary, women in
the camp were lacemakers.  I think he also designed lace...there are a few
patterns.  Can't wait to get home and read more.


Here's a link to the main
page.  The diary referenced above is Life in the Refugee Camps January to
December 1947.


http://bbhhs96.dynds.org/~zakeljdiary


Enjoy!


Peg 

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it's a sunny and perfect summer day in Cleveland 


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RE: [lace] Etsy annoyance

[Witchy Woman]

It paid to contact them.  Out of the 3 sellers I contacted, 2 didn't know
they were used in pairs.  Both are going to update their listings to make
them 6 bobbins instead of 5.  Waiting to hear back from the 3rd seller, who
is in France.

Clay...good advice is always a good thing for new lacemakers.  Your example
of the spangled bobbins for Russian tape lace made me chuckle.  I tried to
do it that way, too.  :  )

Looking forward to the weekend and hopefully some lacemaking.  It's been a
lonnng time since I've worked on any.

Peg
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[lace] Etsy annoyance

[Witchy Woman]

Looking at Etsy today and found some antique French bobbins from various
sellers...all in lots of 5 bobbins.


Wrote to 2 of the sellers explaining
that lace is worked in pairs, and I would be interested in a lot of even
numbers.  


We'll see if anyone comes back with an offer.


Peg

In sunny and
beautiful Cleveland Ohio

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[lace] Re: lace] Bookmark Exchanges Web Pages

[Witchy Woman]

Wonderful, Jenny!  Thank you! 


What size are the pages of your documents?
 A4 or 8.5x11 inches?  It will make a difference when printing.


As a rule I
use the "Actual Size" option when printing pdf's of lace patterns.  But I like
to print A4s on legal size paper so I don't cut anything off.


Thanks!


Peg
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[lace] Dog pattern

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Found a bobbin lace dog while looking for something else.

 

http://3hourspast.com/2012/03/25/guest-writer-hana-bobbin-vs-crochet-lace/

 

Scroll down a little way.not a pattern, but perhaps the writer of this blog
would have one.

 

Enjoy!

 

Peg

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RE: [lace] Smoke smell in books

[Witchy Woman]

Hi Malvary,

 

Beloved was an archivist for many years, and said most of the advice given
is sound.

 

Fresh air is the best.  Keep the book open and flip the pages every few
days.  Make sure it's in a place that has low humidity.  He liked the idea
of the fan close by to keep the air moving.

 

Another way is to put it in a closed container with a dish of baking soda or
activated charcoal.  Change the baking soda or activated charcoal regularly.
Again, page flipping is recommended.  

 

I would be careful with herbs.lavender flowers can be slightly oily.  Test
the herbs by laying them on a piece of paper first.

 

All of these take time and patience.

 

Good luck!

 

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re: [lace] Bolster pillow

[Witchy Woman]

Susan,

 

A few years ago I made a bolster pillow out of ethafoam.  It worked
beautifully.

 

Start with an ethafoam pool noodle.make sure it's hollow.  With a razor
knife, cut a piece as long as you want the bolster to be.

 

Home Depot sells rolls of ethafoam sheet underlayment.the brand is
TrafficMaster and it's in the flooring department.100 square feet for about
$25.  The roll is about 4' wide.

 

Without unrolling it, take a razor knife, and cut the roll of underlayment
into pieces the same length as the pool noodle.

 

Once the underlayment is cut, unroll the sections, and roll them around the
pool noodle until the bolster is as big around as you would like it.

 

I used pins at the very edges to hold it in place once it was wrapped.

 

Next layer was a roll of felted wool.I bought a beat up wool coat for a few
bucks at the thrift store.washed it in hot water and dried in a hot dryer to
shrink it.

 

Cover with a cotton cover.

 

The bolster will be very light, so you'll need to weight it down to keep it
from moving around.  I put 3 rolls of quarters in the hollow center of the
pool noodle.  It worked beautifully.  And I have change handy if I need it.
;  )

 

I use one of those cheap plastic shoeboxes as a stand.

 

I hope this makes sense.  

 

Peg

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[lace] Forget me not pattern.

[Witchy Woman]

Check the cdspringett.co.uk website under patterns.  There's a pattern of
forget-me-nots edgings.


Peg

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Re: [lace] Candida's lace

[Witchy Woman]

Thanks Jacquie.  I have the Hinojosa book and took her Hinojosa class a few
years ago.  Looking forward to more books from her.


Hope you are well.


Peg
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Subject:Re: [lace]
Candida's lace

Mariña's book published a few years ago was on Hinojosa lace,
which is related to but not exactly the same as Candida's lace. It was
distributed by Holly in the US but whether there are any copies left anywhere
is another matter, certainly all the UK ones were sold. 

 

As far as I have
heard, the new book isn't yet published.

 

If anyone is interested, there is
still time to book one of the last places in Mariña's class at The Lace Guild
summer school in August.  Details on our website www.laceguild.org.

 
Jacquie in Lincolnshire

 

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[lace] Candida's lace

[Witchy Woman]

I have been an avid lurker for the better part of the past year.  Spent most
of that time getting my house ready to sell.  It sold, and I'm now in my new
abode...digging myself out. Most of the boxes should be labeled "what the heck
did I bring this for?".


I wasn't able to make it to Ithaca last October, so
I missed Marina's Candida's lace class.


A few years ago she mentioned she
would be publishing a book on Candida's Lace.  Does anyone know if this is in
the works?


A few boxes away from getting to my lace stuff.  Looking forward
to getting back to it.


Peg



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[lace] Singing Tree pattern

[Witchy Woman]

Haven't posted for a while, but I read the on-line archive every day.  Making
lace vicariously through you all...still working on getting my house ready to
sell, and still not working on my own lace.  SIGH

I recently came upon a
pattern of Vologda lace on the internet called "The Singing Tree" by Victoria
Elfina.  There's a small pic of it if you scroll down to the bottom of this
page...  http://www.artrusse.ca/lace.htm

Does anyone know if this pattern is
available anywhere?  From what I've read, Victoria was a lace designer at the
Vologda lace factory, but that's about all I've been able to come up with. 
Any more info would be greatly appreciated.

Peg
in Fairview Park, OH...rainy
and cool...good sleeping weather.

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[lace] Spiral binding

[Witchy Woman]

Happy New Year, everyone!
I like the idea of spiral binding when it comes to
being able to open the book to work from it or to copy a pattern.
I also see
the problems with not being able to see what the book is.  We use binding
systems at work, so I'm somewhat familiar with them.  You don't always need
to use a clear plastic cover page.  We use sheets that are a little heavier
than card stock that wear very well.  
I've taken a few of my pattern books to
OfficeMax.  For a few dollars they'll punch and bind them either spiral or
regular combs.  So if the digital printer can't do spiral binding there's
always an outside option.
Peg
on my lunch hour in Cleveland Ohio where it's a
positively balmy 22F...as opposed to -6F at this time yesterday.

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[lace] A4 binders

[Witchy Woman]

For US lacemakers...
A good source for A4 binders is Amazon.  Wilson-Jones is
the brand I've purchased.  They're sturdy and well-made and have pockets. 
Ulrike's Torchon series fits in the 2" binder.  The 1" isn't quite big enough.
Another source is Staples.  They have them on-line, but you might be able to
go into a store and ask them to order it for you...it may prevent having to
pay shipping.
Peg
at the Library in Cleveland Ohio...now off to read...

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[lace] re pricey lace books

[Witchy Woman]

I had an experience recently on Amazon while looking for a copy of Geometrical 
Bucks Point. They had a copy listed for $2,465.00.  I sent the seller a message 
asking about it.  THey said it was a glitch with Amazon and they were trying to 
take it off the listings.  Exchanged a few more emails with them...they still 
haven't been able t take it down even though they no longer have the book.

Had another experience with reticella books with prices in the thousands.  
Again it was a problem with Amazon's system...it changed the decimal.  They 
corrected it and I bought them.

I have also noticed that Amazon' prices can change from day to day.  It is not 
the seller doing this.  It is Amazon.

Peg
in rainy and chilly Cleveland Ohio

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[lace] Needle lace pattern done

[Witchy Woman]

A few months ago I posted a link to a picture I found at the Cleveland Museum
of Art that had incredible lace detail.  The picture is Portrait of a Woman by
Cornelis Janssen van Ceulen.  (Google it and find the Wikimedia page...you'll
be able to zoom in on the picture.)  Thanks to the help of people on this list
we figured out that the lace was probably Punto in Aria.
 
I thought it would
be nice to sit in the Museum, near her picture, and be able to make the same
lace that she's wearing.  So this past week, armed with print outs of the lace
in various enlargements, I sat down with my compass, protractor, and graph
paper and came up with a pattern for the two motifs in the center section of
the collar.  I'm working on the pattern for the edging now.
 
The next step is
to figure out how to set up the foundation threads...very steep learning curve
here.  I'm sure I'll be asking questions when the time comeshere and on
the Needlelace Ning site.
 
I had been thinking of wearing a costume, and
having everything authentic.  I read they used parchment as the base.  Any
ideas where I can find some heavy enough to use for this purpose?  All I've
been able to find is either the kind you cook with, or parchment paper for
calligraphy.
 
I'm enjoying this creative streak very much!
 
Peg
in Fairview
Park OH...were it's a pleasantly cool summer evening...and night
fell...thud...

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[lace] Burned up over book prices!!!!

[Witchy Woman]

I went on Amazon to buy 2 books on Reticello by Laura Mazaroti  two days ago. 
Something glitched with our server, and I couldn't complete the transaction. 
Suffice to say they were affordable and not too much over the original cover
price.
 
Today I went on to buy them from my home computer and the had tripled
the price  Tripled!!  
 
AARRGGG!!
 
Peg
in Fairview
Park OH

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RE: [lace] kindle lace books?

[Witchy Woman]

Finally had a chance to sit down and comment on this past week's thread on 
Kindles.

Love my Kindle because I have problems with my neck, and carrying large, heavy 
books around makes it hurt.  I have the old keyboard style.  Haven't upgraded 
to 
Fire and don't have a tablet, so I can't vouch for how they  work.

on 5/20 Lyn wrote:

"...How difficult is it to take the paper copy of the pricking or diagram and 
put it on the kindle/device? Or vice versa, kindle/device to paper pricking." 

 
The first part is easy, and Diane and Anna already answered it.  However, on 
the 
plain old Kindles you're limited to black and white, so take it into 
consideration when you scan.
 
As for the vice-versa part, it depends on the file itself.  Most of the books 
you buy from Amazon, etc, are DRM protected.  DRM stands for Digital Rights 
Management and is supposed to protect the book from being illegally copied, 
etc.  That means you can't print out pages, which would be prohibitive if a 
lace book had prickings/patterns.  Some of the print-on-demand sites that offer 
e-books, like LULU.com, have stopped using DRM.  Unfortunately they don't have 
lace books with patterns.
 
I've had problems with .pdf files on my Kindle.  They only show you the whole 
page, and the text doesn't wrap.  So if I zoom in, I end up having to read the 
first part of the line, then click to move the screen to the second part of the 
line, then back to read the beginning of the next line.  Maddening!
 
The fix for this problem came with a great freeware program called 
Calibre...Suzy Johnson mentioned it in one of her posts.  It can convert 
non-DRM 
files from one format to anotherquite a few, in fact.  I had downloaded 
some 
old lace books in .pdf format from the cs.arizona fabric archives, and couldn't 
read them on the Kindle.  With Calibre I converted them from .pdf to .mobi, and 
was able to read them.  

 
Calibre also converts Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to .mobi format...I 
now have the inventory of my lace library at hand when I go to lace events.  
There's a lot more the program can do.  Google them for more info.
 
Lyn wrote:
"And, how difficult would it be to turn a popular but out of print lacebook 
into 
a kindle/device edition? Could you get a pricking from such a version?"
 
I think that would depend on how old the book was and whether the publisher had 
it in an electronic form like a Word document format...piece-o-cake to convert 
to an e-book version.  Older books may have to be set up from square one.  
Whether you'd be allowed to print, again, would depend on whether they added 
DRM 
protection to the file.
 
I hope that today's authors of lace books would look into 
self-publishing...particularly publishing on demand.  That way they can control 
the publication of their books.  I want to scream when I see the prices on some 
of these out-of-print books.  I would rather pay the author.  (OK...off 
soapbox...)
 
Peg
in a windy Cleveland Heights, OH...chillin' with Beloved.

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Fw: [lace] Lighting for lace making

[Witchy Woman]

>Do any of you have any experience with LED lights in your home, good or bad.

I recently bought an LED light bulb that's the equivalent of at 60 watt bulb 
that I used in the bedroom for reading.  It's shaped like a regular light 
bulb...here's a link... 


http://genet.gelighting.com/LightProducts/Dispatcher?REQUEST=CONSUMERSPECPAGE&PRODUCTCODE=68015



I'm happy with it.  The light isn't cold like a flourescent, and of course, 
there's the savings on the electric bill.  The only bad thing was the cost of 
the bulb...$16 USD.  I'm hoping that it lasts a very long time.

I plan to slowly add more and more of them as lights burn out.

Peg
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[lace] Lepoglava lace

[Witchy Woman]

Home today...neck is doing the nasty painful thing it sometimes does.  Laying 
on 
the couch with an ice bag watching youTube videos on lacemaking.

Saw a wonderful video on Croatian laces...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMHTNeUDrI

I was very much taken with the Lepoglava lace and did an internet search.  
Found 
this page...

http://www.lacecorner.com/lepoglava/photo_gallery.aspx

Does anyone know if there are any pattern books out there for this type of 
lace?  There are a few patterns on the page above that I would love to try.  I 
wasn't able to find anything.

Peg
at Beloved's in Cleveland Heights OH where it's a beautiful sunny 
Spring day...finally!

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[lace] RE: participation in Lace conferences

[Witchy Woman]

There have been a few posts about airfares and how expensive they can be. The 
New York Times ran an article on how to save money on fares.

Check out flights that have more than one stop, with one stop being your actual 
destination...i.e. this year's IOLI convention.  Say you live in Cleveland, 
OH, find a flight with one stop in Salt Lake City, then it goes on to San 
Francisco.  Sometimes you'll find that booking a 1 stop flight from Cleveland 
to 
San Francisco is a lot cheaper than a flight from Cleveland to Salt Lake City. 

More info 
here...http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/magazine/mag-08subversion-t.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=hidden%20city%20ticketing&st=cse&;
 
 

Not sure of how the airlines would view it, but it works.

Peg
who is heading out to the deck to sit on the new double adironak chair with 
Beloved.

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[lace] Lacemaker's lament

[Witchy Woman]

I was looking for information on punto in aria lace, and came upon this 
poignant 
gem...

Punto in Aria: The Lace-Maker's Lament*
By Mary Rohrer-Dann 
 
>From her needle, butterflies tumble, 
lilies unfurl, willows bend and lift 
to the nightingale’s voiceless song. 
 
Had the pox not shut her ears, her fingers 
might have played that silver reed whose highest pitch 
at times unstitches the silence that cocoons her. 
 
Instead, she works from first light until night 
swallows day, then falls into bed, eyes burning, 
wrists aching, fingertips thickened with toil. 
 
She will never know how her work enchants. 
Her roses decant their scent for strangers; 
the stag her fingers fashion bounds away. 
 
While the lace-merchant counts his riches, the spent 
lace-maker plummets to sleep, and dreams of birds 
that slip their knots, escape into unstitched air. 
 
~
Found on http://www.prickofthespindle.com/poetry/6.3/rohrer-dann/punto.htm
 
Peg
in Fairview Park where it's cold...again...will I ever be able to put the 
winter 
clothes away?

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re [lace] what kind of lace is this

[Witchy Woman]

Lorelei wrote:  "At that time period Genoa was making bobbin lace, similar in 
style to reticello. And some of those leaf shapes and triangles in the painting 
seem to have 3 raised ridges in them, not 2. For  needlelace you would expect 2 
ridges. But for bobbin lace one would expect 3 ridges." 


The leaf shapes were the reason I asked the question.  They looked like 
something that might be made with bobbins.

Thanks to everyone who replied, both on the list and by e-mail.  As always I 
learned something new.  I love the sound of  the words Punto in Aria / Stitches 
in Air...what a wonderfully poetic description for beautiful lace.  I've also 
decided that I'd like to try a needle lace calls at this year's Ithaca Lace 
Days.

One last question.  Is Reticella pronounced retichella (ch as in check), 
retishella (sh as in shell) or retisella?

Peg
in warm Fairview Park OH...porch-sitting days are here!

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[lace] What kind of lace is this?

[Witchy Woman]

Yesterday Beloved and I went to the Cleveland Museum of Art.  They have been 
remodeling for the past few years and little by little are opening new 
sections, 
and revamping their displys.  As we wandered the galleries I looked for 
pictures 
with lace in them.  Unfortunately, a lot of the pictures that have detailed 
lace 
are no longer on exhibit.

I did find one picture with beautiful lace..."Portrait of a Woman" by Cornelis 
Janssen van Ceulen, painted in 1619.  I think it's Reticella, but not sure.  My 
plan is to take a small pillow and work on lace near her picture.  I want to 
make sure I have the right name for the lace.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_a_Woman_by_Cornelius_Janssen_van_Ceulen,_1619_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC08862.JPG


Once you get on the page, click on the picture.  When it opens in the next 
window click on it again to enlarge it to see the detail of the lace.  The 
picture is beautiful, and this reproduction doesn't do it justice.  There's a 
sheen to the painting that makes the lace glow.

I did some further checking on the artist, Cornelis Janssen van Ceulen.  Go 
into 
Google's Images page and use his name as a search.  I was blown away by the 
beautiful lace in his paintings...the detail is amazing!

Peg
in sunny Fairview Park OH where the sun is shining, the birds are singing and 
the temperature is actually seasonal...finally!

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[lace] Horseshoe cover cloths

[Witchy Woman]

Catching up on the Arachne archive and came upon your mention of a horseshoe
shaped cover cloth.  I'm intrigued.

What exactly does it look like?

Peg
in
Fairview Park OH, and despairing of Spring ever getting here.

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re: [lace] lurkers and posting

[Witchy Woman]

I haven't been able to post for a while, but I read the mail archive every day 
before work starts, and at lunch time.  It's bookmarked on both my home and 
work 
computers.  


I'm set up to get the digest, but since I don't have access to home e-mail at 
work, it's always great to be able to read the archive and know what I would 
like to respond to when I get home.

Thanks to this list I made a wonderful new friend, Lyn, a few years ago when I 
posted I was going to Ithaca.  Our annual camp-out for Lace Days has become 
something I have come to look forward to every year.

I've learned so much from the information posted on the list.  It's an 
invaluable resource!

Thank you to all of you!  Even though I don't post much lately, you're 
always a part of my day...and a part the I look forward to.

Peg
in Fairview Park OH where it's snowing...again.  SIGH

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RE Subject: [lace] What thread and/or pattern would you use?

[Witchy Woman]

Susie Rose wrote:  

Today my DD Leah turns 16. I want to start making the
lace for her wedding gown. 

The very first time I saw someone making bobbin lace was at a cultural fair.  
Deb was from Finland, and told the story of how in her country, when a young 
woman becomes engaged, the other women in her family make the lace for her 
wedding gown.  Now if they liked the young man, they made the lace quickly.  If 
they didn't, it would be a very long engagement.  ;  )

Peg
in a very chilly and snow Fairview Park OH

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RE: [lace] Making lace in public places,Beginners books

[Witchy Woman]

Great idea. I'm working on Hinojosa now, and I've taken Marina's book to show
what I aspire to.  :  )
 
Peg
in an even chillier Cleveland, OH...where it will be in the single digits (F)
tonight.  BRRR

--- On Tue, 1/22/13, mary carey  wrote:


From: mary carey 
Subject: RE: [lace] Making lace in public places,Beginners books



Do you ladies go with a book to show the interested parties, and instructions
on how to get a copy?

 

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Re: [lace] Making lace in public places

[Witchy Woman]

Over the past few years I have made lace at te library.  During the summer I 
sit in the reading garden near the entrance.  In inclement weather I go 
inside...alternating between the Sci & Tech department...where they keep the 
lace books...and the Children & Young Adult section.  Lots of interesting 
conversations but no «converts» that I know of.

I have also set up on the outskirts of the weekly Farmers Market with the same 
results.

As I mentioned before, my next sojourn will be the Cleveland Museum of Art 
somewhere near a painting with lace in it.  Don't forsee any difficulties.

Peg
in a very chilly and snowy CLeveland OH 

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re [lace] Celtic knots

[Witchy Woman]

There are designs in Celtic knotwork that don't cross and weave.

If you go on Google's Images page and use "knotwork" and "triskele" for search 
words you can find a lot of beautiful variations on the design.

Peg

in a very chilly..but seasonably chilly...Fairview Park OH

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RE: [lace] Yarn Bombing and Flash Mobs

[Witchy Woman]

Some time this year I'm planning to take my current work in progress to the 
Cleveland Museum of Art, plop myself near a painting that has lace in it, and 
work on my lace. 

Can't exactly call it a bombing...more along the lines of a little 
firecracker...

Peg
in an unseasonably warm Fairview Park OH where the temp climbed up to 62F 
today.  What month is this?

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[lace] Books on Hinojosa and numerical laces

[Witchy Woman]

I have been perusing Google.es for books and pages on Hinojosa and numerical
laces.  I have found some wonderful pictures and sites.
Thereare two books that have piqued my curiosity...
Encaje Numerico Sevillano by Isabel de Olmedo Fernandez
Encaje Numerico Extremeno en la Garriga from the Assiacio de Puntaires de la
Garriga site
The first book was self-published and most of the internet entries about it
are vintage 2007-08.  The second book seems to be more recent.  I have left
two messages on their Contact Us page but they have not replied.
Does anyone know whether these are still available?  I have checked Realce,
which is the only lace supplier I know of in Spain...they don,t have it.  Any
info would be greatly appreciated.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful Holiday season.
PegIn fairview Park OH

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Re [lace]:Quiet? /what lace?

[Witchy Woman]

Setting up my pillow to do an Hinojosa Christmas tree that I designed.  

It's also a piece to help me practice smooth, rounded corners and sharper, 
pointed corners.

Peg
in chilly Fairview Park OH

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[lace] Lights, heat and lace

[Witchy Woman]

According to the blinking numbers on the electric alarm clock, the power went
back on around 4:15 p.m. yesterday.  It was SO good to come home
to light and heat again.

Beloved has to work this weekend - he's supervisor
of the early voting at our 
local BOE, so he'll be busy.  Playing
today...after I go to the grocery store to 
replace a lot of the food we
lost.  Also working on posting some of my lace pix 
to the new site.  


I
tried working on my lace to the light of my makeshift lacemaker's lamp.  I can
see how people would think that lacemakers could go blind from working on lace
during the dark evenings.  Just not enough light for me.  


Hope everyone who
was in the path of the storm is safe and sound.

Peg
In cloudy Cleveland
Heights, OH...where it's going to rain...again.

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[lace] storm aftermath in ohio

[Witchy Woman]

hi everyone
it has been raining since last friday.  temps have been in mid-40f range since
then.  we lost power aome time around 1 a.m. tuesday morning...when i left for
work this morning it was still out.
luckily we have lots of candles.  beloved's water gas heater is an old one and
doesn't rely on electricity to work so we have hot showers...one thing i am
eternally grateful for.  there is a working fireplace...lots of wood in the
garage...and a gas stove so we can keep warm and eat.  luckily all of my
camping gear from my recent trip to ithaca is at hand..led flashlights are
wonderful.  and the person who invented polar fleece has my undying
gratitude.
lacemaking lore came in handy.  rigged up a variarion on a lacemaker's lamp
with stemless wineglasses filled with water and a votive candle.
weird thing is thatt everyon across the street never lost power.  power
company on tuesday said three to five days before service is restored.  while
this has been a fun adventure i am hoping to come home to lights tonight.
pegat work in cleveland oh where there is light and heat

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[lace] Dabbling in lace

[Witchy Woman]

I had the wonderful experience of taking a class in Hinojosa Lace from Marina
Regueiro at Ithaca Lace Days this past weekend.  Not only was she a good
teacher, but she was also a wonderful storyteller.  It makes the lace come
alive 
when you know its stories and history.

It occurred to me that I'm
actually not all that good at making lace.  I tend to 
dabble...do a small
piece of this type and another piece of that type.  I really 
don't have a
mastery of any one type.

I very much enjoyed the class and I like making tape
laces...portable and 
the smaller number of bobbins are easier to manage.  I
have decided to spend the 
next year learning Hinojosa, working with it,
concentrating on only this type so 
I can say that there is at least one type
of lace that I'm good at.  


No more dabbling...at least for the time being.
Peg
in Fairview Park OH where I'm going to need to dig out the winter
jacket49F 
for the high tomorrowBR!

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[lace] Teneriffe lace post

[Witchy Woman]

Found this on one of the other fabric arts digests that finds its way into my 
e-mail.  


http://frenchoddities.blogspot.fr/

I like posts like this because they contain good resources...and it's nice to 
know that I'm not the only one who doesn't get things to work perfectly on the 
first go-around.  :  )

Peg
...hanging out with Beloved in sunny Cleveland Hts, OH today...it's beautiful, 
sunny and perfect walking weather.

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Re: [lace] Ethafoam density

[Witchy Woman]

Hi Robin,

I made a block pillow out of ethafoam planks from Hollister Metal
Edge, an 
archival supply house...it's the dense kind that they use for
archival 
storage...2.2 lbs/cubic foot.  The pins go in easily and are held
firmly. 
http://www.hollingermetaledge.com/modules/store/index.html?dept=1077&cart=134
740716923520402


The planks I bought are white.  I also have a chunk of blue
from packaging, 
which is a little less dense.  And I have some that is
even less dense that I 
got from the IT guys at work...packaging from
computers.  The archival kind 
seems to self-heal better and doesn't break
down.  


Hope this helps.

Peg
watching the last of the light fade from the
sky...it's cooling down and the 
crickets are chirping slower

From: Robin D 
To:
lace@arachne.com
Sent: Tue, September 11, 2012 4:01:09 PM
Subject: [lace]
Ethafoam density

Help!

I want to order some ethafoam for 2 projects.  One is
I want to make a
block pillow.  Does anyone know the right density to order? 
I've been told
the heaviest is really hard to pin into, but when I went online
I found not
2 or 3 choices, but like 6 density choices.  Is it worth buying a
pre-cut
pillow and then just getting the foam for the other project.

Thanks a
hear of time for the help.

Robin

-- 
Flying is learning how to throw
yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas
Adams

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Re: [lace] lace shorts

[Witchy Woman]

Warning...when I clicked on the pattern a very x-rated ad popped up.  Not sure 
what that was all about.

Peg
in cool and breezy Fairview Park OH




From: Lorelei Halley 
To: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Sat, September 8, 2012 3:36:38 PM
Subject: [lace] lace shorts

You have to see these Irish crochet shorts!
http://www.crochedaanjinha.com/2012/09/shorts-em-croche.html?utm_source=feedb
urner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrocheDaAnjinha+%28CROCHE+DA+ANJIN
HA%29

Lorelei

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[lace] Need to contact Jenny Brandis

[Witchy Woman]

Does anyone have an e-mail address for Jenny Brandis?

Need to contact her.

Thanks.

Peg
in sunny Fairview Park, OH

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Re: [lace] condition of lacemakers

[Witchy Woman]

Checked Archive.org, and they have Alan Cole's report on the Honiton lace
industry

http://archive.org/details/cu31924055323533

You can download in
pdf, or Kindle and other e-reader versions.

Peg
in Fairview Park OH...where
it's actually pleasant outside.





From:
Lorelei Halley 
To: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Mon, August
13, 2012 4:51:21 PM
Subject: [lace] condition of lacemakers

Alan Cole, who
was writing around 1900, wrote some books about lace, but also
wrote reports
to the government about the economic condition of lacemakers.  I
think he was
curator of the V & A for a while.
Lorelei

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Re: [lace] RE: Honiton in ITV

[Witchy Woman]

The link worked beautifully.  Thanks, Louise.

 

Sent: Thu, July 12, 2012 5:53:23 AM
Subject:
[lace] RE: Honiton in ITV

Many Thanks for posting this, Sue,

I found a link
(eventually) to it on ITV, silly me assuming it would be on BBC.
I don't know
if it will work for everyone, but here it is.
http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2012-07-11/lost-industries-honiton
-lace/



Louise

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Re: [lace] Idrija lace supplies

[Witchy Woman]

Thanks, Robin, and to all who answered my inquiry about Spanish or Idrija
bobbins.  There are a lot of beautiful bobbins out there.

I found what I was
looking for at Realce, very reasonably priced.  Of course the 
air shipping
was a lot, but the total price was still reasonable.

As always, this group is
a wonderful resource.

Thanks!

Peg
in Fairview Park OH where it has finally
cooled down to seasonable 
temperatures.  Who would have thought that 79 F
would feel almost chilly.

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[lace] Large Spanish or Idrija bobbins

[Witchy Woman]

Does anyone know where I can get the larger type of bobbin that is used in
Spanish or Idrija lace?  Been searching the internet, but no luck.  


I want
to learn the "palms up" method on a bolster pillow.  I've tried Honiton,
Midlands, Binche and Danish bobbins...they're a bit too small to manipulate.
Thanks

Peg
in hot, humid and sultry Cleveland Heights, OH...I really wish it
would cool 
down a bit!!!

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[lace] Square binche bobbins ???

[Witchy Woman]

Since Lacy Susan changed hands, they've stopped carrying the square binche
bobbins.  The only place I can even find square binche is Provo Lace, but all
she has are the guatambu wood.  I need 3 dozen of the rosewood or darker
wood.  
I'm picky.  :  )

Does anyone know a source in the US?  Someone I met
at Ithaca offered square 
bobbins, but they weren't binche.

Thanks.

Peg
in
Fairview Park OH...who just got back from a lazy 3-day meander around Ohio
with Beloved.

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[lace] Arthritic hands and picking up bobbins - a better video

[Witchy Woman]

Just found a better videoshe demonstrates it a lot slower.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=xDTwiX9r_rw&NR=1

If you go
to her main page, there are a few more showing the palms up
technique...scroll all the way to the bottom to find them.

Peg
in Fairview
Park OH...finally  able to make lace again!

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[lace] Arthritic hands and picking up bobbins

[Witchy Woman]

A few months ago someone posted that they were having trouble picking up
bobbins 
because their hands were getting arthritic.  They were asking about
other ways 
to make lace.

I found this on YouTube.  It's the way I've
seen Spanish and Slovenian laces 
made.  Unfortunately, she doesn't
demonstrate slowly for more than a few 
stitches, but this may help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5EZqc6peY

Peg
in Fairview Park OH...finally
able to make lace again!

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Re: [lace] Lace fences

[Witchy Woman]

It's strange that they call it knitting in the article.  The studio makes
their 
fences using bobbin lace techniques.

Peg
in Fairview Park OH

From: Margery Allcock 
To: Arachne 
Sent: Wed, May 9, 2012 10:09:14 AM
Subject:
[lace] Lace fences

More interesting than chain-link:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/05/knitting-c
hain-link-fencing-work-art/1902/

or the tiny URL to the same place:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bv8nsxy

Margery.
 
margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North
Herts, UK 
 

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[lace] Rembrandt and lace

[Witchy Woman]

I had the pleasure of seeing the Rembrandt in America exhibit at the Cleveland
Museum of Art this week. 
http://www.clevelandart.org/visit/exhibitions.aspx

If you click on the
Rembrandt in America link, pictures 3 and 6 have lace in 
them...there were
more exhibited that are not included here.

It was such a pleasure to see the
detail of the lace in his paintings.  
Amazing!  It was all I could do to keep
from running home, getting my lace 
pillow, and setting it up near one of the
paintings to demonstrate how it was 
made.  Alas, the broken elbow, while
healing well, keeps me away from things 
creative right now.

If this exhibit
is coming to your area, I highly recommend going to see it.

Peg
in Cleveland
Hts, OH

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[lace] RE: [lace-chat] Green thing

[Witchy Woman]

My favorite is when you hand them your bags, and they still put your
groceries in the plastic bags, then put the bagged groceries in your bags.
AARRGGHHH!!!

The other fun thing is the self-check out at the local grocery...it has a
weight sensor in the bagging section, and when you put one of your bags down
it tells you to remove the item from the bag and run it through the scanner.
SIGH

Peg
In unseasonably warm Fairview Park OH...60F today...is it really January?

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[lace] Hacked e-mail

[Witchy Woman]

Sorry to anyone who got an e-mail from me this morning.  Someone hacked into
my 
web e-mail and sent messages to all of my contacts.

If you clicked on the
link, please run a virus scan right away.  This kind of 
e-mails usually carry
a virus or something that can cause problems with your 
computer.

SIGH
Peg
in Fairview Park OH

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[no subject]

[Witchy Woman]

Passion and satisfaction will make your life more interesting.. 
http://ponto.kelly-systems.com.br/comp.link.php?qaGIS=09x8

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[lace] new site

[Witchy Woman]

Thanks for posting!  Looks like it will be a great resource once it gets
going.

 

Peg

 

In snowy Fairview Park OH where it actually looks like winter

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Re: [lace] Thread problem

[Witchy Woman]

Your post is going to be printed out and put in my "essential lace info"
folder.  You're right about the information not finding a permanent home in my
brain...there was so much to learn and remember.

I think you're right about
the threads untwisting as I worked.  I tried to 
retwist...when I could
remember.  Problem was some had worn down to 1 ply by the 
time I got to the
end.  I did use your sewing technique, but the thread was just 
too fragile.
As your Milanese student, I would like to say you are a great teacher and I
hope 
you come back to Ithaca soon.  I learned so much, but realize there is
also so 
much more to learn.

Peg
who should really be getting dressed and
going grocery shopping...but this is 
more fun.

From: Jacquie Tinch 
To:
Witchy Woman 
Cc: "lace@arachne.com"

Sent: Sat, January 7, 2012 4:29:28 AM
Subject: Re: [lace]
Thread problem

As Peg's teacher for the Milanese class I'd like to say a
couple of things. 

I suspect the threads weren't 'wearing out', just
untwisting. This was one of 
the things I told the class to watch out for (and
if they saw it happening to 
retwist any affected threads), but I was giving
out a lot of information at 
Ithaca and not all of it finds a permanent home
in every brain. 


[snip]

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Re: [lace] Thread problem

[Witchy Woman]

Oops...sorry...I wrote that late last night.  The size was Brok 30.  It was a
new spool and I keep them in a sealed polypropelyne container and wrapped in
acid free tissue.

There weren't any sewings on this piece, but the twist did
loosen as I was 
working.  I tried to re-twist when I saw them loosen. 
Just got Springett's MAGIC THREADS book at Ithaca...haven't read all the way
through it yet.  I've used the technique when I made one of the ornaments from
her Christmas books.  I didn't think to set up the threads for the class
piece...wanted to jump right in and get started working.

I like the beeswax
idea for the passives.  Since I do tape laces right now, it 
wouldn't be all
that tedious.  I've got a chunk around here somewhere.

Thanks.

Peg
in sunny
Fairview Park OH 





From: Brenda
Paternoster 
To: Witchy Woman

Cc: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Sat, January 7, 2012
3:53:44 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Thread problem

Is there a size 40 Brok?  If so
I haven't seen it.

I think that your problem is possibly a combination of the
things already 
suggested; excessive wear on the thread from making lots of
sewings and the 
bobbins rolling to loosen the twist.  Use a magic thread and
keep watching for 
any leash that looks as though it is untwisting.  If it is
only the worker 
threads which are suffering you could try running those
threads through beeswax 
as you wind the bobbins - a bit tedious to do for all
the pairs though.

Brenda

On 7 Jan 2012, at 05:14, Witchy Woman wrote:

> I
was using Brok cotton...I think
> size 40.  

Brenda in Allhallows
www.brendapaternoster.co.uk

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[lace] Thread problem

[Witchy Woman]

When I finished the Isis Heart piece I started during my Milanese class in
Ithaca I had a problem with the passive threads.  By the time I got to the end
of the piece they were seriously fraying.  I was using Brok cotton...I think
size 40.  This made a smooth and invisible join pretty much impossible.  3
threads were so fragile they broke when I did the sewing...pulling it
gently through the loop with a fine crochet hook was enough to make it break. 
And I made sure the thread was fully around the hook before I pulled.

I've
had problems before with threads fraying by the time I get to the end of a
piece.  On these pieces I had a combination of cotton passives and metallic
passives and weavers.  I had assumed the fraying was because the metallics are
a 
bit abrasive and wore away the cotton threads as I tensioned them.  But the
Isis 
Heart piece was all one type of thread, and the thread was fairly new.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a common problem?

Peg
in Fairview Park
OH where it was a spring-like 50F today.   The birds are so 
confused...they
were singing like it's Spring.

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[lace] Fw: Southard memorial page

[Witchy Woman]

the funeral home has a page where you can leave a message                    
                                                                
You can leave a message here...                                 
                                                               
http://www.dahlfuneralhome.com/memorial.htm                     
                                                               
                                                                peg...who is
at work and counting the minutes til the 3 o'clock cloe.  happy new year
everyone!
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               

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[lace] neckline insert

[Witchy Woman]

sending from my kindle...no caps on the keyboard.
very nice neckline insert on carolina's site                                  
                             http://www.carolgallego.com/neckline.html       
               
                                                               
                                                               
pegwho is stuck at work and bored out of my mind.  can't wait until the long
weekend...lots of lacemaking in store                                        
                       
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                         

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[lace] Merry Christmas!

[Witchy Woman]

Merry Christmas to everyone.  

May your Christmas be happy and may your New
Year bring good health and 
happiness.

And a special thank you for the
friendships made and the knowledge shared.

Here's my favorite Christmas
carol...John Gorka's version of the tune...enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wkEv3gDg3w


Peg
in Fairview Park where it's a
bright and sunny and crisp Christmas Eve.

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[lace] Lace in fiction

[Witchy Woman]

Look into the lace When the eyes begin to fill with tears  
and the
patience is long exhausted, there will appear a glimpse 
of something not
quite seen In this moment, an image will  
begin to form...in the space
between what is real and what is  
only imagined.                             
     by Brunonia Barry 

This is from THE LACE READER.  I've had
moments like that when working on lace.  
The world goes away, and there are
just my hands, the threads and the sound of 
the bobbins.  It's so miraculous
sometimes...watching the pattern form.  And 
there's always the feeling
of having created beauty after a piece is done.  It 
truly is magic.

Started
reading THE LACE MAKERS OF GLENMARA the other day.  Enjoying that book, 
too.
It occurred to me that both books use lacemaking as a tool for working through
pain and to find healing of heart and spirit.  



Peg
in temperate Fairview
Park OH...off work for the next few days to make cookies 
for my sister in
Florida.  The marathon starts in the morning...better get to 
bed.

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[lace] Lace on the brain

[Witchy Woman]

Walking through Big Lots...a closeout store...yesterday.  Saw some molded
plastic cases for storing Christmas ornaments...molded to hold 12 balls, with
a 
snap-shut cover.  Brain slipped into lace mode.  What a great storage case
for 
thread that comes in balls!

Been working on needle tatting over the past
3 weeks.  Steep learning curve, but 
it's progressing.  To me, it's an instant
gratification form of lace...doesn't 
take as long as the inch-an-hour bobbin
lace.  Easy to work on on the bus...just 
have to make sure I sit next to a
window so my needle hand isn't pointing toward 
anyone.  ; )

Peg
in Fairview
Park, where it's very quiet...only me and the cats.

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[lace] Needle tatting treasure trove

[Witchy Woman]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about SCMR's.  Found out that
they're the same as a ring done off the ball.  The learning curve is steep,
but 
I'm climbing...

Working on TotusMel's necklace, learning split rings and
Josephine chains.  I 
like the fact that her tutorials also yield a very
pretty piece of wearable art.


Spent some time on the internet the other
day.  About 6 pages into my search I 
came across a piece of needle tatting
heaven

http://needletatting.proboards.com/index.cgi

They ask you to
register, but it's free.  There is an amazing amount of 
information and
patterns.  Their tutorials are wonderful, and cover everything 
you need to
know to do needle tatting.

Supper is ready...have to run.

Peg
in Cleveland
Hts tonight, being pampered by Beloved...grilled cheese sandwiches 
and hot
soupMmm

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Fw: [lace] Needle tatting - self-closing mock ring - HELP!!!

[Witchy Woman]

Lyn suggested that I post the sites I mentioned in my post.  Here they are...
Tat-a-Renda's snowflake
http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2009/10/featherline-snowflake.html
While you're there, check out her site.  She has some wonderful tatted lace.
TotulMel's needle tatting how-to...

Written...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Learn-Needle-Tatting-With-My-Flower-Pendant/
Video...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Learn-Needle-Tatting-With-My-Flower-Pendant-1/
In response to a previous thread about lace and steampunk/goth...

Mask...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Tatted-Mask-1/

She also has some amazing
things on Etsy.

Enjoy!


Peg 

in rainy Cleveland Hts, OH...glad it's not
snow.

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[lace] Needle tatting - self-closing mock ring - HELP!!!

[Witchy Woman]

A while ago on Arachne there was a thread on needle tatting.  I tried shuttle
tatting, but my hands just can't do it.  


Picked up Barbara Foster's LEARN
NEEDLE TATTING STEP-BY-STEP and last week set 
out to try it.  Companioned
with TotusMel's videos and how-to's on 
Instructables.com,  I was successful
with the basics...after a few tries, that 
is.  I am enjoying this very much. 
It goes quickly, it's very portable, and the 
results are beautiful.  I made
TotusMel's medallion during coffee hour after 
church this morning...amazed at
how fast it went.

Spent a few hours perusing the internet for snowflake
patterns, and found one 
that I like, but it uses something called a
self-closing mock ring in the 
pattern.  Of course, there is nothing in the
book I have showing how to do 
this.  And nothing on the internet showing how
to do SCMR in needle tatting.

Can anyone help?  

Thanks.

Peg
In Cleveland
Hts OH, today, being very lazy and relaxing.

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[lace] Lace in ANOMYMOUS

[Witchy Woman]

Beloved and I both had a day off on Friday so we went to the movies to see
ANONYMOUS.  It was an interesting movie about whether Shakespeare actually
wrote 
his plays.  While it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, it was pure
eye candy 
as period pieces go.

I found myself focusing at the laces on the
clothes.  Granted, I'm not an 
expert, but it was good to see that they seemed
to be fairly accurate in most of 
their in their choices.  Found myself saying
"this one looks like a needle lace" 
or "that could have been done with
bobbins".  It was interesting, too, to see 
the laces not only in white, but
in colors.  


Tried to find some pictures on the movie's site, but the laces
are not shown in 
good detail.  I guess you have to see it on the big screen
to appreciate it.

Peg

in Cleveland Hts OH today, getting ready for an
afternoon of playing with my 
lace.

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[lace] A lace fence

[Witchy Woman]

Picked up a book from the Library called LACE IN TRANSLATION.  Very cool lace
that people have made using different techniques and materials.

My favorite is the lace fence...

http://www.lacefence.com/

It's bobbin lace made with wire, with chain link fencing used for the ground.
The book showed the panels being made in a workshop in India by constructions
workers.  Interesting story.  What started as an art installation has grown
into a business.

To see more panels go into Yahoo or Google's Image tab and type in "lace fence
by demakersvan".  I'd love one of their panels!

More pictures and information on the book here...

http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/blog/index.cfm/2009/9/23/Lace-in-Tr
anslation

Love the lace oil tank!

Enjoy!

Peg



~~~
G:  What is it you want?

D:  Freedom...
 to want nothing...
 to expect nothing...
 to depend on nothing.

from THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

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Re: [lace] diagrams

[Witchy Woman]

I learned to make lace in the mid-90's.  The syllabus my teacher, Lynn, used
to 
teach lace was put together by Arlene McKinnell and spelled out each cross
and 
twist.  It wasn't until the 6th lesson that she brought out the
diagrams.  That 
lesson had the piece both spelled out in CT by Arlene, and
Lynn's own 
hand-colored diagram.  It was confusing for all of 5 minutes. 
>From the 6th 
minute on I preferred the diagrams.

One of the things that
threw me when I took  it up again was the books I had 
with colored diagrams
in them.  I'm thinking in particular of the version I 
have of THE BOBBIN LACE
MANUAL by Stott.  The diagrams are in red and blue, and 
I couldn't figure out
why the lace wasn't coming out like the picture.  The 
colors in that book
don't correspond to the system as we know it know.  So it's 
a good idea to be
aware of when the book was published.  


Tracy at The Lacemaker Shop had a
very cool lace sampler piece that you work in 
color, the color of each
section done in the color that the diagrams currently 
use...i.e. red = CTCT,
green=CT, etc.  Burns the colors into your brain as you 
work each section.
Peg
in chilly Cleveland Hts OH where the fall colors are finally in their
glory

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RE: [lace] Lace classes

[Witchy Woman]

Wow!  After reading these horror stories, I feel doubly blessed to have had
such 
a good teacher.  


There were supposed to be two of us in the class,
but the other woman dropped 
out due to having to work.  So I got the benefit
of having a one-on-one 
experience.  My teacher, Lynn Swedenborg, was in the
middle of chemo treatments, 
and didn't always feel good, but she was always
patient.  Sad thing is she died 
of uterine cancer shortly after I finished my
last lesson.  It amazed me how, 
after not working on lace for over 10 years,
I still retained most of what she 
taught me.

Peg
in Cleveland Hts, OH, where
the birds are having a party in the barberry bushes 
outside the window. 
They're so funny.

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Re: [lace] what are you doing...

[Witchy Woman]

Last Thursday I finished the Isis Heart I started in Ithaca.  GEEZ!!! Are the
mistakes ever glaring.  But it was a VERY good learning piece.  Thanks,
Jacquie!

Doodling while waiting for Beloved to get off work yesterday I came
up with a 
tape lace heart that spirals in on itself.  Thought it would be
perfect 
for Milanese...did the pricking last night and will be winding the
bobbins for 
it today.  Also setting up my smaller pillow for a Christmas
ornament for my 
soon-to-be mother-in-law.

My next big project, after the
holidays, is a Unitarian Universalist chalice in 
Milanese for the church I go
to.  Playing with designs now.  The archway braid 
would be perfect for the
flame part of it.

Peg
in sunny, but chilly, Cleveland Heights OH, where the
birds are playing in the 
bushes outside the window.

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Re: [lace] Re: lace at jury duty

[Witchy Woman]

I was on jury duty about 6 years ago, and brought my lace with me.  At that
point, I hadn't touched it for literally 10 years...spent most of my time
undoing the mistakes I kept making, rather than progressing.  But it was fun. 
I 
didn't have scissors, as I was in the middle of a piece, so didn't have
problems 
with guards, etc.

I made the pillow it was on so it would fit on
one of those nylon exercise bags 
that people take to the gym...a neon lime
green with a Gloria Vanderbilt label, 
no less...on sale at Big Lots for
$15.00.  That way I could just put the lace in 
the bag and take it wherever I
went during the jury selection process.  Luckily 
I wasn't chosen for a jury,
so I had a lot of time to play. 

I had a few good conversations about what
lacemaking and I was doing (or 
undoing, in this case).

Peg
in sunny, but
cold, Cleveland Heights OH

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[lace] Inspiration

[Witchy Woman]

All of the recent messages about young lacemakers got me thinking...and
inspired.  It's all about going public with lace.

Most of my lacemaking is done during my lunch hour.  In the summer I take it
and sit in the reading garden of the Library.  I've enjoyed the comments and
conversations the lacemaking has engendered.

The Library is my lunchtime refuge even in the cold weather.  I usually sit in
the Literature department where the windows are big and the light is perfect.
I think it's time for a move up to the Children's department, where the
windows are just as big and the light is just as perfect.  I spent some time
today making up a small brochure called WHAT IS BOBBIN LACE? and was thinking
of bringing a small pillow set up with the fish pattern that Chris mentioned.
There are always parents and kids there during the day, and it might be fun.

I've been talking to the head of the Science and Technology department, which
is where the lace books are housed.  She's new to the Library and has been
thinking about picking a subject, showcasing books in their collection, and
having people come in who do the different crafts.  She has my name and e-mail
address for when she does fiber arts.  I will also talk to the Children's
librarian and see if they have any sort of craft demonstrations.

Thanks for the inspiration, everyone.  I just wish I had more time.

Peg
in soggy, rainy, Fairview Park OH

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Re: [lace] Goth lace

[Witchy Woman]

Devon wrote:

What is cosplay costuming, and what is a Lolita  dress?


My kids are big into anime (aka Japanese animation), and like to go to anime 
cons...it's a whole sub-culture all its own.  Cosplay is short for costume 
play.  People dress up like their favorite characters...some of the costumes 
are absolutely amazing!  They have a cosplay competition...each person is 
allowed a few minutes on the stage to show off their costumes and do a short 
skit.  More info here...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay

Lolita dresses originated in Japan.  They're usually short and bedecked with 
lace and net, made out of satins and silks and velvets.  They can also be 
long.  They're somewhat goth/victorian looking...akin to the steampunk look. 
There's a better description here.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_fashion

Enjoy!

Peg
in Fairview Park OH...just got back from a massage and not only are my 
muscles mooshy, my brain is, too.


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[lace] Goth lace

[Witchy Woman]

I've been reading the threads about the Steampunk costumes.  I've seen
them...very beautiful.

There's also a big market for lace in goth clothing.  I don't know if she's
still there, but for a while there was a lacemaker on eBay who specialized in
handmade bobbin laces for goth clothing.  The last item I saw was a pair of
lace gloves.  I still have the link, but since it's over 90 days old, it's not
there anymore.  They were gorgeous.

There is also the high end cosplay costuming for anime lovers that uses a lot
of lace.  Some of the Lolita dresses are amazing.

Peg
in chilly Fairview Park OH...looking for my gloves so I can ride my bike to
the transit center in the morning.







~~~
G:  What is it you want?

D:  Freedom...
 to want nothing...
 to expect nothing...
 to depend on nothing.

from THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

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[lace] Re: Sign of the times - call for action?

[Witchy Woman]

I've been reading the messages about the demise of Lacy Susan and The
Lacemaker Shop.

I'm particularly sad about The Lacemaker Shop because it's about an hour away
from where I live.  While it's nice to order things like thread and bobbins
online, I hesitate to buy books sight unseen.  Every time I went there I ended
up spending about double what I had planned, because I was able to look at the
books, and always found at least 2 or 3 more than I had on my list.

The thing that frustrated me most about the store was that it wasn't open very
often.  I had thought about organizing a "field trip" with a few people, but
it was a bit frustrating to try and find a day that she was open that was
convenient for everyone.  She travelled to various lace days and SCA events.
A good part of her income came from these events.

If it were a few years down the road I would have seriously considered taking
over her business.  But life is a little too complicated now.  I hope whoever
buys it keeps it in the area.

Peg
in Fairview Park OH, where it's a cool fall evening


~~~
G:  What is it you want?

D:  Freedom...
 to want nothing...
 to expect nothing...
 to depend on nothing.

from THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

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Re: [lace] bobbins and music

[Witchy Woman]

Lorelei wrote:
I've often thought of just hanging them up in a bunch giving them a whack 
as i

walk past, so I could hear all the tones.


A few years ago I bought a packet of unfinished wood Midlands bobbins.  I 
strung them on a piece of fishing line and hung them up so I could spray 
them with a clear finish.  The way they spiral and move, and the way they 
sound when they touch each other would make a great wind chime.  I bought 
two more packets recently with the idea of doing just that.  Will post a 
picture when I get around to making it.


Ithaca bound in 3 days.  Can't wait!  It's going to be beautiful weather for 
camping and lacemaking.


Peg
in Fairview Park OH, where it's a temperate 58F...and not raining...moon is 
shining brightly 


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[lace] Thread identification

[Witchy Woman]

At an estate sale I picked up some spools of linen lace thread, but they
weren't 
in a box, so I'm not sure what brand they are.

There's a paper
sleeve around one of the spools with a bull's head.  The word 
"trade" is to
the left and the work "mark" is to the right of the picture.  
Below it is
"Made in Northern Ireland".  The number on the spool is 70/2-1/2 BL.

Can
anyone tell me what brand this is?

Thanks.

Peg
in Fairview Park OH who
starts a nice, long 4 day weekend today.

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Re: [lace] French roller pillow roller

[Witchy Woman]

>I would like to make a roller to go in it and I have wool, but I'm not sure
how
>tightly the wool should be wound on the dowel.  

Be sure to shrink the
wool first.  Easiest way is put it in the washer on the 
hottest cycle and run
it through once or twice.  Then put it in the dryer on the 
hottest
temperature until it's dry.

And as Alice said in her reply, wind it as
tightly as you can.  It always takes 
me a few tries to get it tight enough.
Enjoy!

Peg
in Fairview Park OH where it's cloudy and chilly...what happened
to that smooth 
segue into Autumn this year?

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[lace] Threads on books on demand and data back-up

[Witchy Woman]

I've been following these two threads with great interest.  A few things I'd
like to contribute...

I'm hoping that some of the current authors of lace
books are reading this 
thread and will consider the things we have talked
about.  As has been already 
brought up, I think it's important for the
authors to be able to get the money 
that is due to them for their work.  When
books go out of print, the only ones 
who profit are the booksellers.  


As
to formats, I've purchased books through lulu.com, a print-on-demand site,
and have always been happy with the quality of the books I've received.  I
prefer a hard copy to an electronic copy, and lulu provides both.  BTW, they
currently have a few lace titles available.

On the other hand, I think having
the book available in a pdf formt has a lot of 
benefits, too.  The first
being the size.  It can be put on a disk that takes up 
a lot less room than a
book.  The second is that instead of trying to photocopy 
or scan a pattern,
which subjects the pattern to distortion, I can simply print 
out the page. 
The third is that you can zoom in and see details better.

As to the idea of
backing up data...

Even though I use them I don't totally trust magnetic
media such as flash 
drive/memory sticks or external hard drives.  They seem
to die too easily.  I 
always back up on CD's or DVD's, depending on the
size.  There are archival 
quality versions that are made to last that use
gold in their dyes and have 
scratch resistant surfaces.  A bit more
expensive, but worth it.  


I also like the idea of mailing a document to
yourself and storing it in your 
web e-mail.  However, be aware that some
sites such as Yahoo will only keep a 
few years worth of messages.  They
automatically delete messages over a certain 
age..I think it's 3 or 4 years. 
My two cents.

Peg
in chilly Fairview Park OH...seems like a few days ago the
Powers-That-Be 
flipped the great cosmic season switch and plunged us headlong
into autumn.  
Have to dig out the cold weather clothes tomorrow.

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