Re: [lace] Isn't this funny!!!??

[ann DURANT]

I have been thinking about this.  It's a very long time since I went to
York - about 25 years, I think - so it's hard to remember.  The
cobble-stoned street, I think, is called the Shambles, and is kept as a sort
of Open Air Museum.  The shop may not have been a real, commercial shop at
all, rather it may have been laid out like an old-fashioned shop, with
bobbins, and maybe other things (you didn't mention if there was anything
else on sale) for sale for souvenir hunters.

At another, similar place - and I can't remember where - there was an
old-fashioned toffee shop where one could buy loose toffee, and there was a
clogger working in another shop, making clogs.  (Making clogs is a lost art
in this country, I think).

Ann in Manchester, UK

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[lace] re: jumping around

[BrambleLan]

Okay, BarbE...yes, a little knitting, and beads, and tatting, needlelace, 
Angora rabbitsoh, yes, and I do work full time+...

Margaret, tired in PA

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Re: [lace] re: jumping around

[Barb ETx]

snip.I guess I'm a frog, too...where
does it end???  And when will I really have time to finish even one
project?..

What no tatting or beads?  How about ceramics.  Don't you know it will never
end and I, for one, like it that way.  If I do happen to finish
something...that is just a little bonus for all my learning and fun.

BarbEwho has loom and wheel and and pillows galore!  Not to mention the
drawers full of beads waiting to be knitted


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[lace] Malmsbury Book

[W & N Lafferty]

Hooray, I won my Ebay auction Malmsbury Book!  Thank you to
all who wrote to me about the book, I am looking forward to
adding it to my collection (and, hopefully, using it!)

Noelene in Cooma
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[lace] re: jumping around

[BrambleLan]

Hello, All--

I guess I'm a frog, too, but in addition to the 3 pillows I have with 
abandoned projects on them, I also have several spinning wheels with different fibers 
half-spun, a loom half-warped, numerous cross-stitch projects begun...where 
does it end???  And when will I really have time to finish even one project?

Margaret in PA



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[lace] Doreen Wright

[Lace]

It is with great sadness, we tell you of the death of Mrs Doreen Wright
this afternoon.

She died peacefully at home following several months of deteriorating
health at the age of 95. 
Her mind was as alert as ever right to to the end.

As the founder chairman of the Lace Guild, she will be missed by so many
of us across the world.

Sheila and Russell Perrin

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Re: [lace] Lights that light up

[Clay Blackwell]

According to the resident E-man, "it's like an
uninterruptable power supply which has a battery system
that's charged so that if the normal power goes off, the DC
(battery voltage) is converted to AC by the inverter.  It's
expensive, too!"

Clay


> Having been thinking about it during the day is an
'inverter' what we'd call
> a 'transformer'? It transforms mains voltage of 220 volts
down to lower
> voltages like (for instance) the 9 volts you get from a
battery. So my
> laptop will either run from a battery or from the mains
with a transformer
> in the cable.
>
> Jean in Poole
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[lace] gossip pillow...Pasty

[Celtic Dream Weaver]

HeyI hope you find your picturesI would just love to see them. Speaking of 
pictures...anybody that took digital pictures of the lace display at the 
convention...I would love to see them. I also understand there was a board with the 5 
and 0s on itI would love to see a picture of that too to see all the different 5 
and 0s that people came up with that is if anyone got a picture of thathere is 
hoping some pictures show up in my mailbox. ;)
Sherry
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[lace] gossip pillow

[Patsy A. Goodman]

Hi,

Talk about the gossip pillow really brought back memories.  I remember years
ago I went to the IOLI convention when Patsy Anderson had a very big display
of all her pillows.  I think it was Denver, but I'm not sure.   All the
pillows were made by members of her family, her father and I'm not sure if
the others were her grandfather or husband.  The pillows were all copies of
pillows  made some time back.  Also the bobbins were made special for each
pillow.  They were spectacular  I remember taking pictures of some of
the pillows especially the gossip pillow.  How I wanted my husband to make
me a gossip pillow.  But it never came about.  After convention I took the
pictures to guild meeting and it was the cause of a lot of discussions.
Those pictures are in some safe place, someplace in this house of mine.
Heaven only knows where.  Memories.  That gossip pillow was really something
to see.  I wonder where it is now and is Patsy still around and displaying
it?  The only unusual pillow I have is one my husband made out of a wooden
wine box.  A wooden wine box that two bottles of wine came in.  And also a
travel pillow I made using an old cigar box for the base.  At a future
convention there should be another big display of pillows and ones made from
unusual items.

Patsy A. Goodman

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Re: [lace] Hi...IOLI thoughts

[Clive and Betty Ann Rice]

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>What does IOLI mean to me...

Well put, Sherry,

Betty Ann

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[lace] thank you - washing grey silk lace

[Alessandra]

dear lacemakers all over the world,
thank you for your wonderful help

next week I am goingo to wash my lace and I will tell you what will happen
with it

Alessandra
Italy

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[lace] Lights that light up

[Jean Nathan]

Sorry, my previous email should have gone to chat, although the topic will
be appearing on lace. Kep you guessing til it does.

Jean in Poole

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[lace] Lace Stamps

[Jean Nathan]

I always understood that it was infringement of copyright to reproduce
images of British stamps without permission of the Royal Mail. Don't know
about other countries stamps.

Jean in Poole

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[lace] Lights that light up

[Jean Nathan]

Having been thinking about it during the day is an 'inverter' what we'd call
a 'transformer'? It transforms mains voltage of 220 volts down to lower
voltages like (for instance) the 9 volts you get from a battery. So my
laptop will either run from a battery or from the mains with a transformer
in the cable.

Jean in Poole

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[lace] Lace stamps

[Annette Gill]

>

Lori, I notice you've described one of the 2 British stamps as "British
Explorer".  That's not just any British Explorer, that's Sir Walter Raleigh!
I hope he wasn't wearing that nice lace ruff when his head was cut off...

Regards,
Annette,
London

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[lace] Lace Stamps

[Lisa Smith]

I have a collection of lace stamps.  They are on my web 
site:http://www.geocities.com/bobbin_lacer/Thanks,Lisa SmithCleveland, WI  USA

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[lace] "Bruges lace" hankie on ebay

[Jean Nathan]

Here's an example of what was mentined on ebay a few days ago - a tourist
piece of lace (probably not designed to deceive).

Described as: "souvenir of Bruges .. with a large piece of
Bruges Lace in one corner".

It isn't Bruges lace, it's tape lace.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3623680778&category=146
0

or search for item number 3623680778

Jean in Poole

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[lace] Isn't this funny!!!??

[Celtic Dream Weaver]

  Here I was when I was brain dead this morning typing away about my treasured Lace 
magazines...and what is in my mailbox today.well...my Lace magazine from the 
Hollies that is what. Kinda funny huh?
  I see there have been two responses to my plea for information on that deluded lace 
store that I was in when I was in York, Englandso now I will keep my fingers 
double crossed that someone will read this on the list...and give me the information 
as far as a name and the address goessince I came home from overseas...it has 
always haunted me..for I really wanted to get more bobbins from there. I do not even 
know who made the one I have. If there had been a business card in the store I should 
have picked it up...but I didn't think of it at the timeand I didn't know how to 
do bobbinlace back thenand now that I do...well...maybe someone understands out 
there.it is like when you can't find something and it will drive you nuts until 
you do
  And instead of rip..rip..my .lace ( parish the thought)...I am going to rip in to my 
package here and read my newest treasured lace magazine. :)) that is another big smile 
from me. Now if I could just speed up the process so I can get my next bullentin...now 
wouldn't that be something.
  BTWthank you Jeri for the information on that pillow I mentioned before...it 
might be a good thing I don't have one for nothing would get done around here I am 
thinking. 
Sherry
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[lace] Gossip Pillow

[Jeriames]

In a message dated 8/23/03 9:36:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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<<  Summer 1993I just love the pillow with the 4 rollers shown on the 
back cover...just think if I had one of those I could be making four different 
laces on one pillow...just boggles the mind I can tell you.. >>
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Sherry, our Celtic Dream Weaver, dropped the ecstatic reference to a pillow 
with 4 rollers into the middle of her IOLI love letter.

There have been so many new lacemakers in the 10 years since the picture of 
this table with four rollers appeared that I thought some of you might like an 
explanation, and that begins with what it is called:  Gossip Pillow.

The lovely one on the back cover was made by Leland Anderson and Frank 
Folsome from an original design by Adeline Truax.  On page 12 was an article about 
the pillow collection belonging to Patsy Anderson of Utah, and I think there 
was a family link, not made clear in captions.

The gossip pillow may not be an entirely recent development, but it was 
always a sensation.  It was copied by some people.  The one I remember belonged to 
Marian Blouch, who was President of IOLI in 1993.  Marian's husband made 
roller pillows to sell.  Many members of the Lost Art Lacers had them.  So, then he 
made a gossip pillow table, a padded (into suitable rounded slopes) surface 
with 4 places where the rollers he had made (for individual pillows) could be 
inserted.  The table was sort of card table size, and may have been a card 
table to begin with.

I do remember the sensation this setup made at Lace Days in New Jersey.  Four 
of our senior (and very good) lacemakers would arrive with their individual 
totes containing individual pillows with rollers and lace-in-progress.  They 
would set up the gossip pillow, and begin to demonstrate and talk.

Viewers were much amused when told it was a Gossip Pillow.  The four lacers 
always had a good time.

Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

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Re: [lace] Hi...IOLI thoughts

[Adele Shaak]

While I was in England I bought a bobbin for a souvenir in a lace 
store that was in the cobbles of York. BTWif anyone on the list 
can tell me what the name and address of that store in York please let 
me know. Years ago..I tried writing to York to find out and all they 
sent me was information of places to see there. I want to order some 
more bobbins from that store. It was a lace store. Like I said in the 
cobbles of York...down from York Minster Abby.
This is funny - I was in York, many years ago, I think it was 1987, and 
I went in to either that very shop or one in the same place and looked 
at lace bobbins. I wanted to buy some but I wasn't sure I had enough 
cash to then go and see the York Museum, so I went to the Museum first 
and then tried to go back ... and couldn't find it. I walked up and 
down but the place seemed to have disappeared. I classified it in my 
mind as a Brigadoon Shop (I come across Brigadoon places all the time - 
locations that appear out of nowhere that you would swear weren't there 
yesterday, or disappear the same way) and got on with my life, but 
every once in a while I think about that little shop and wish I could 
go back!

Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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[lace] U.S. Lace Stamps

[Jeriames]

In the same Summer 1993 issue of the IOLI bulletin that contained the Gossip 
Pillow:

On the inside back cover is a picture of the four laces made for the block of 
four lace stamps that were issued in the U.S.  The laces were made by Mary 
McPeek, Leslie Saari, Ruth Maxwell, and Trenna Ruffner.  (Once in a great while 
we see a posting from Trenna on Arachne.)  There are pricking patterns on 
pages 21-24 from the laces they made.  

You'll like the quote from a U.S. postal official:  "Do you realize what you 
have done?  You have no money, no lobby, a very tiny constituency and you got 
a stamp!"

Now it is Summer 2003.  Ten years.  Seems a good time to remember when these 
ladies and their committee put their laces into many stamp collections.

You can see these United States stamps at:

http://lace.lacefairy.com/LaceStamps/LaceStamps.htm

Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center 

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[lace] Hi...IOLI thoughts

[Celtic Dream Weaver]

   What does IOLI mean to mefor one I do think it is international. I have seen 
patterns and articles from Ann Keller from Ireland, Lia Baumeister-Jonker from The 
Netherlands, and people from all over in the bullentin. For me IOLI has brought me 
closer to other people that enjoy the same thing as me and that is Lace wether it is 
tatted, crocheted, knitted, bobbinlaced or just made with a plain ordinary needle.Lace 
is so beautiful for the eye to behold!! Don't you all think so??!!
   IOLI gives me a chance to see what other lacers are making. It shows me in pictures 
the variety of different kinds of lace. It also shows me other pictures of lacers. 
Helps me to put a face with other lacers in the world.
   Funny of all the time I wasted. I have been tatting for many years. I thought I was 
all alone in my busy, working, isolated life. I thought I was the only one that tatted 
for I never saw anybody else doing it. I now know I am not alone...and there are many 
shutttles and needles flying around. And when I got my computer a few years ago...well 
all I can say is WOW...what I didn't know was out there!!! So much.
   About 5 years agoI spent a month in the UK and Ireland. While I was in England 
I bought a bobbin for a souvenir in a lace store that was in the cobbles of York. 
BTWif anyone on the list can tell me what the name and address of that store in 
York please let me know. Years ago..I tried writing to York to find out and all they 
sent me was information of places to see there. I want to order some more bobbins from 
that store. It was a lace store. Like I said in the cobbles of York...down from York 
Minster Abby. Back to the story anyhow...I didn't even know what to do with the bobbin 
butit was so pretty. Now I knowand it is always on my lace pillow to remind me 
of the happy time I had on my trip.
   A few months later I went to Ithaca to check out their lace display and find out 
what it was all about. On the display there was this Bedfordshire bookmark with a 
thistle, designed I found out later by Jean Leader and done by someone in Pa. Being my 
mind was still very fresh with what I had seen and learned when I was in 
Scotland...that bookmark called to me. That bookmark was the fire that was set inside 
of me to learn how to do bobbinlace. So over to the try out pillow I went. I have been 
hooked ever since.:)) big smile.
   Since then...I am like a sponge...looking for lace everywhere...in antique 
shops...and especially in my lace magazines and the internet. As you all know...there 
are NO lace magazines on the newsstands except for an occational Anna magazine. So I 
am so grateful for all of those that contribute to IOLI bullentin. I should 
mention...I also belong to the Hollies Lace in England. But for me it is a real thrill 
to get my bullentin in the mail. All I have to do is walk to my mailbox and get it. If 
it wasn't for either one of these magazines I would be really lost. I have learned 
much from both magazines and love looking at them over and over again.
   This morning for instance I was brain deadnothing new for me...I am brain dead 
every morning. All the brain can handle is looking at things. A couple years ago at 
Ithaca during a raffle I won some old back issue of the IOLI Bullentin. You would have 
thought I won goldbut I was so thrilled. This morning I looked at them again. 
There are some great patterns in them for one Summer 1993I just love the pillow 
with the 4 rollers shown on the back cover...just think if I had one of those I could 
be making four different laces on one pillow...just boggles the mind I can tell 
you...in another issue...Spring 1992...there are all kinds of butterfly 
patterns...then in the Summer 1994 there is the cool looking X-mas tree that Tamara 
didI could go on and on...but I just love my lace magazines! 
   Debra Jenny...is doing a marvolous job I think with doing the magazines. I love the 
color pictures that are now in the bullentin. ...and right now...I CAN"T WAIT for the 
next issue to come in the mail to see all that was there at the convention and to 
hopefully read some stories on the convention since I couldn't be there. But at the 
moment I am planning and hoping I can be there for next year's convention in 
Pennslyvania. Keeping my fingers crossed until then.
   Sorry this is so long...please forgive me...I don't post muchbut I hope someone 
enjoyed all the many words I just typed here and I hope this email will go to the 
right address this time.
  Sherry
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Re: [lace] lace stamps

[Ilske und Peter Thomsen]

Hello Tess, hello Lori, hello Ralph,
As far as I see on Loris page are nearly all stamps of this matter. I don't
have them all but I have a big list where they all are on. I can scan you
this list if you want.
Perhaps on the matter "people wearing laces" are a few missing but this is
again ein weites Feld, so you couldn't find them all I think.
Greetings from Hamburg in Germany where the sun is back
Ilske 

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