Re: [lace] On ebay: 1870 Madame Goubaud's Point Lacemaking ORIG.
Wow, I have this book - also an original copy. Debra (in Mozambique) - Original Message - From: Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:50 AM Subject: [lace] On ebay: 1870 Madame Goubaud's Point Lacemaking ORIG. This book is worth looking at on ebay, not only because of the generous excerpts and examples shown by the seller, but to read the seller's description. He/she is either quite passionate about lace or a very good salesperson. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2371406863category=191 58 or search for item number 2371406863 Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #11
- Original Message - Jeri writes: On The Lace Guild's website is a section for Young Lacemakers. If you travel to this special location, you will see a melon lace pillow with carrot bobbins. Quite delightful. I can imagine Noelene writing a little poem about it! http://www.laceguild.org Yes Jeri, I love the picture, and yes, it did bring forth a few rhyming lines: Noelene in Cooma Hello Jeri and Noelene, That special pillow was on an international lace festival in Marche-en-Famenne in Belgium last year in August . If you want to see more pictures of this event, you can go on : http://liduina.site.voila.fr/ Noelene, I will stransmit your poem to Pierre Pestiaux, the president of the lace academy of Marche-en-Famenne, I'm sure he will be very glad with it. Liduina from a grey and rainy Belgium. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Watermelon Pillow and Carrot bobbins
I could just see a pillow made like a melon, really surprised me when it was a real melon. How about a cover for a half=circle, made like a melon, rim in green, a white stripe, and red for the center, t hen bobbins carved like carrots! And the bobbins beaded in green at the bottom like the leafy tops! This was indeed a warmer for the cold East Coast! Hope all enjoyed it as much as I did! Helen, Virginia Beach - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Maltese Lace
Hi out there in Lacingland, Thanks Geri for your email about Maltese lace. This collar could have been silk and it was creamy in color. The threads did have a shine to them. The color was very pretty and had a zillion clunies. It was beautiful This person was at my table in Ithaca in the year 2003 making that last year now. LOL!! I did think it strange after I thought about Maltese Lace that I hadn't seen any books myself on it. So it did have me wondering. I have gotten a couple emails about books that have Maltese Lace in them...Now I would love to get my hands on a pattern for one. And maybe doing it in silk if I can find the right size thread that is...and making a color in Maltese lace. And I agree with you...no body should be touching anybody elses Laces with their handsI know myself for the time I put into lace making that I am very careful about the care I give my laces to keep them as white and as nice as when I first took them off the pillow. That means you can look butdo not touchLOL!! BTW...I believe this person said she got the collar from ebay. Lucky her!!! Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] A Very Handy Website for translation
Hi David - I remember a year or two ago someone needed a translation and it was promptly offered up by someone else who had gone to one of the web translation sites. It was a clumsy translation, to say the least. So when I read your note, I was skeptical. I went to Babblefish, and typed in some text from Ulrike Löhr's 400 Tricks book - the one we'd all love to have a translation to! It wasn't a speedy proposition. The site does have handy buttons on the screen with which you can change letters with special characters - change o to ö for example, but that certainly slows you down when you're typing, and heaven knows the German language is peppered with special characters - all of which change the meaning of words. But when I got the translation - almost immediately - it was reasonable enough for me to understand the gist. I think Sally Barry is the one who observed how impoverished the German language is, so a single word is used for lots of different meanings. The free translation available on the website assumed the most common use of the word (I am guessing). Spitzen means lace (to us) but was translated tip by the system. But some words it just didn't know (annähen: sew on to, flechtspitzen: which I take to mean a braid), and in one case it gave me a nonsense sentence but I had been able to easily translate it with a dictionary. So the bottom line is that it might be helpful to feed something through the translator and then use a dictionary to clean up the translation that you get. It *might* be quicker that way... OR, if you're really eager to get a good translation, you can type in what you have, click a button, and not one but two human translators will give you a clean translation for merely $49.95! ; ) Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Don't you just love it when.....
the brain cells don't function right when you first get up...LOL!! That should have been I would love to get my hands on a pattern for a Maltese collar. There I hope I got it right this time. Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] A Very Handy Website for translation
different meanings. The free translation available on the website assumed the most common use of the word (I am guessing). Spitzen means lace (to us) but was translated tip by the system. 'Tip' or 'Point' - think of the old laces with the deep, sharp scallops - and Spitzen is actually a plural word ;-)) But some words it just didn't know (annähen: sew on to, flechtspitzen: which I take to mean a braid), If you can figure it out, try typing only the root word into the translator. For 'annähen' this would be 'nähen'. 'Flechtspitzen' is a compound word, 'Flecht' (braid) and 'Spitzen' (lace). quicker that way... OR, if you're really eager to get a good translation, you can type in what you have, click a button, and not one but two human translators will give you a clean translation for merely $49.95! ; ) I can't promise a professional translation, and I am not fluent in German, but I'd give it a try for free ;-)) Just a few words or at most a few sentences at a time, though, not whole pages or even whole books! Greetings from Beautiful British Columbia Esther Perry - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] ...and ? about Maltese lace
From: Celtic Dream Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Since I now have this pair of bobbins a thought occurred to me...I don't think I have run across any patterns for Maltese lace. Have I been blind or what...did I miss something over the past few years That was me sitting next to you, Sherry. I'm from Pennsylvania, and I adore Maltese lace. It's closely related to Beds, but always has Maltese crosses in the lace. The leaves are often in a grid, and are very fat (pumpkin seed). Maltese patterns can be had in the two books by Consiglia Azzopardi. The first is, I think, simply called Gozo Lace. I can't think of the title of the second book, but believe it, too, had Gozo Lace in the title. Gozo is the other island in the country of Malta, and there seems to be more traditional lacemaking on that island than on the island of Malta. Gozo is where I saw women sitting in the doorways making lace and selling to passers-by. Consiglia teaches the traditional BL at a couple of schools on Gozo. The old lace is made of honey-colored silk (actually ranges from cream to amber). What they use now is rayon and a stark white, or white cotton. I was told the white rayon darkened with age, but then that was by someone trying to sell me more of it--I have no idea whether it's so. There is a lace organization on Gozo, and their dual-language (Maltese and English) magazine is very nice. It's several letter-size sheets folded in half, so maybe 20 pages long, and always has a couple of patterns. One would be a challenge pattern from Consiglia (no instructions, make it as you will) and a pattern from one of the members. I seem to remember the membership/subscription rate was 10 Maltese pounds a few years ago (maybe $15 US at the conversion rate of the time). I'm sorry I let my subscription lapse. Robin P. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] New pattern on my website
Dear spiders A bit later than expected, but I've finally got the technical problems sorted and have updated my website and changed the lace pattern. There was only one vote for the rose hankie and the other votes were 2:1 in favour of the spiderweb oval edging so that's what it is now. I've re-organised some of the files and added a lot more navigation links. If you get a page not found error message try clicking the refresh button as a few of the links have changed, if the page still doesn't load please let me know! I've taken out the mailto hyperlinks and replaced with a picture of the email address. Didn't want to do it but it's an attempt to cut down the level of spam. Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Say, anyone here fluent in French?
I never realized what a resource this lace list was! I have a passage from a Ph.D. dissertation on ancient Israelite history, written in French. Writing makes it clear that our characteristically obsessive-compulsive French Ph.D. candidate was trying to impress his professors. You know, like he found and used all 50 French words for however, he used excess wording like crazy, and he rarely forms definite conclusions. It happens to be one of the few key works on the subject it deals with (which is some nomads running around southern Palestine ca 14th and 13th centuries who the Egyptians wrote down worshipped Yahweh). Dictionaries can't make head or tale of it. I could be a technical phrase, or something bound to the history of the period, but Google isn't finding it nor its component words in any context that makes sense. french.about.com's forum can't help me - and they not only decipher this guy's formal and archaic advanced features of writing, but can often find even Egyptological vocabulary. I once searched a phrase in google and used its translation service - and learned that my Palestinian nomads wore loincloth decorated with nipples (instead of testicles that the dictionary provided), and that California Indians shook nipples out of trees, crushed the nipples between stones into a powder, soaked tannic acid out of them, and ate the mash - where the correct translation was tassels (and acorns in the case of the California Indians). I haven't tried Babblefish and will, now that I know of it. But I wonder if anyone here actually knows. What means coureurs de sable? Whatever it means, it required surrounding two regions of Palestine with a guard of Egyptian soldiers to control them. Dictionary says, runners of sand, womanizers of sand and race car drivers of sand. Yours, Dora - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] ...Maltese lace - Book Details
In a message dated 1/8/04 9:20:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maltese patterns can be had in the two books by Consiglia Azzopardi. The first is, I think, simply called Gozo Lace. I can't think of the title of the second book, but believe it, too, had Gozo Lace in the title. Gozo is the other island in the country of Malta, and there seems to be more traditional lacemaking on that island than on the island of Malta. Gozo is where I saw women sitting in the doorways making lace and selling to passers-by. Consiglia teaches the traditional BL at a couple of schools on Gozo. Dear Lacemakers, Sherry's letter to the list may have been confusing, because she quoted me and I wrote just to her with information - not to Arachne. Details of the books Robin referred to: 1. Gozo Lace - An Introduction to Lace Making in the Maltese Islands ISBN 99909-932-0-5 second edition 1999 paper cover, 175 pages, cost me $40 2. Gozo Lace - A Selection of Bobbin Lace Patterns Designed by Dun Guzepp Diacono (1847-1924) ISBN 99909-982-1-3 1998 hard cover, 68 pages, cost me $45. Both books are in English and both contain patterns. In terms of instructions, the first is much more comprehensive. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Bookmarks
I have been asked privately about bookmark prickings - since I sent in an email or 2 to the list about bookmarks - asking where to find prickings for them. I know that one Arachnean - April - has a booklet of prickings - I have her catalog. Usual disclaimer. Could other bookmark makers please write into the group, letting us know where you got/can get your bookmark prickings? Thanx in advance! Rose-Marie Abbotsford, BC, Canada where though it is mild out, I still have to chisel my car out of its ice shell. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bookmarks
Hallo Rose-Marie, In the book 101 torchon-patterns ten of them are bookmarks. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Pre-pricked patterns
Hi Debra, I have only found email and snail mail addresses for Karen Trend Nissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smedetorvet 3 8700 Horsens (Denmark) Patty Dowden -Original Message- From: Debra Hilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Pre-pricked patterns Do you have a website? Are they only Tonder? Debra (in Mozambique) - Original Message - From: Patricia Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:55 PM Subject: RE: [lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #10 Alison Addicks wrote: On the matter of pre-pricking, you do know lready pricked patterns are available from Karen Nissen in Denmark? I have purchased several Tonder patterns already pricked, including the large Danish heart, and if I never make the lace, the pricking is frameable art. Hi Alison, I also have some pricking from the Swedish Lace Organization that came pre-pricked on really thick glazed card. My own prickings are no work of art, but the pre-pricked ones are inspiring in their perfection. Patty Dowden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #12
Hello Dora, I am French and I can help you if necessary: could you please send me the whole text or part of the text you need a translation for to my personal address?: can you please put in the subject the topic: coureur de sable+ Dora+lace digest n°12 so that I can recognize your message in the middle of tons of spam that is ruining my box at the moment I will be moving next week and be away from the computer and the connection till th 17th: if there is no hurry, I can help...in a few days, Greetings, Josette, from Bourgogne, France Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:52:16 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] Say, anyone here fluent in French? I never realized what a resource this lace list was! I have a passage from a Ph.D. dissertation on ancient Israelite history, written in French. Writing makes it clear that our characteristically obsessive-compulsive French Ph.D. candidate was trying to impress his professors. You know, like he found and used all 50 French words for however, he used excess wording like crazy, and he rarely forms definite conclusions. It happens to be one of the few key works on the subject it deals with (which is some nomads running around southern Palestine ca 14th and 13th centuries who the Egyptians wrote down worshipped Yahweh). Dictionaries can't make head or tale of it. I could be a technical phrase, or something bound to the history of the period, but Google isn't finding it nor its component words in any context that makes sense. french.about.com's forum can't help me - and they not only decipher this guy's formal and archaic advanced features of writing, but can often find even Egyptological vocabulary. I once searched a phrase in google and used its translation service - and learned that my Palestinian nomads wore loincloth decorated with nipples (instead of testicles that the dictionary provided), and that California Indians shook nipples out of trees, crushed the nipples between stones into a powder, soaked tannic acid out of them, and ate the mash - where the correct translation was tassels (and acorns in the case of the California Indians). I haven't tried Babblefish and will, now that I know of it. But I wonder if anyone here actually knows. What means coureurs de sable? Whatever it means, it required surrounding two regions of Palestine with a guard of Egyptian soldiers to control them. Dictionary says, runners of sand, womanizers of sand and race car drivers of sand. Yours, Dora - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: pricking patterns
Hi all, Just adding my 2 cents worth, as I've been following the ping pong on pre pricking or not to pre prick, and I have to admit to being one of the lazy lacemakers, who pricks as I go. However, I did learn my lacemaking in a very traditional way from Mum, and was taught to copy to tracing paper, then prick, then draw in the lines - all quite a pointless process when one is 12 or 13 and anxious to get on with it, but I now see the point (yes, Mum, you did teach me well!). I make primarily beds lace, and sometimes the simple act of pre-pricking a section (if it's large or repetitive) at the start can help me sort out my strategy for making the piece. I usually have an extra photocopy of the pattern and my trusty notebook and pen at hand, to make notes and work out directions, but sometimes that isn't quite enough (like the mongrel piece I have on the pillow at the moment - I wished I'd prepricked a bit before I launched myself into this project. Looks simple, but it's more challenging than expected). I have just gotten my 5 1/2 year old daughter started, and have prepricked and marked her pattern for her, but in a year or so, I will expect her to learn to do that for herself. Sometimes it's just important to learn the not so exciting part of something, to understand and appreciate the more exciting parts. I think pricking patterns is one of those things. It teaches you at first how it all comes together, and later can become part of the 'strategic' process. Hope you all had a great holidays and new year. Cheers, Helen, Aussie in Denver, emerging into the lacey sunlight for a bit! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Request for a Tatting Teacher
Dear Lacers, May I prevail upon those of you in the tatting circles for some help? I have been contacted with a request for a tatting teacher in the Houston, TX area. (The only tatting teacher in our local group has a four day old baby and is out of circulation for a bit!) Please reply privately to prevent unnecessary clutter on the list. Many thanks in advance. Judy Aycock in rainy Houston, TX - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Shuttle brothers
Hi out there, If someone still has their copy of American profile with the Shuttle brothers in it, could they please send a copy to me, for inclusion in the RMLG archives/scrapbook which I'm the keeper of? I didn't see it, and am a tad behind in reading my digests. Email me privately if you can help. Thanks so much. Cheers, Helen Bell, Aussie in Denver Librarian, Rocky Mountain Lace Guild. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: [lace] ...Maltese lace - Book Details
Hello Maltese lace fans, I also love Maltese lace, same as Robin. And last year a friend of mine, a bobbinlacer too, happend to travel to Malta for her holidays. So she bought both books by Consiglia for me. I am going to give you a small review of them, in case you want to get them. 1. Gozo Lace - An Introduction to Lace Making in the Maltese Islands is a book that starts with instructions about lace in Gozo (twin island of Malta) and how to make lace, with the typical stitches they use in Malta. The drawings are hand made, not very good, but understandable). There are also explanatins on how to make the Maltese cross inserted in a lace, or alone for an insertion... Then it has several patterns (may be ten or so): edgings and insertions. All beautiful, in my opinion. 2. Gozo Lace - A Selection of Bobbin Lace Patterns Designed by Dun Guzepp. This one is a beautiful book. In the centre part there are pictures from the old patterns designed by Dun Guzepp (really beautiful) and the rest of the book is full of these old patterns adapted or arranged by Consiglia. They are mostly small insertions, which I have not tried to make yet, but which are definitely for lacers with some practice. Not only practice in braids and leaves, but also practice in how to start and end little pieces and how to add and eliminate pairs during the work. There are some explanations next to the pattern, but very insufficient, in my opinion. There are no photographs of the finished piece for referecne. So you have to make it just as you will. Same happens in most patterns here in Spain. So I don't wonder much about this. Robin, could you possibly tell us the name or address of that Maltese organization or their magazine? Thanks a lot - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE:beginners books
Just another good book for a novice lacemaker - Pam Nottingham's Technique of Bobbin Lace (the one with torchon, beds, bucks and a touch of Honiton). It's a wonderful book, and a good reference. You can also try your local library to see what they have, as well as what they can get on interlibrary loan. Good luck! Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in Denver - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Pre-pricked patterns
Patty wrote: I also have some pricking from the Swedish Lace Organization that came pre-pricked on really thick glazed card. Just as a matter of curiosity I want to tell you that here in Spain, in most lace meetings there are people who sell bobbinlace patterns on orange or red cardboard (sometimes other colours like blue, even yellow in Almagro), but also some of these patterns are pre-pricked (double price, of course). Greetings from Antje, in a very foggy Spain - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Maltese Lace
Hello Spiders, I am also a very big fan of Maltese lace. It is probably my favourite, stemming from inheriting a collar and a flounce from my grandmother, both of which I used in my wedding gown. I have managed to do a Maltese cross but haven't gotten any further - though I have plans for some. There are two other books that contain a few Maltese patterns. 1. Pillow or Bobbin Lace - Technique, Patterns, History by Elizabeth Mincoff and Margaret S. Marriage. It contains a couple of small squares, a couple of edgings, and a tie. I don't know if I would have classified a couple of them as Maltese but I am not an expert. 2. The Bedfordshire Family of Laces by Jennifer Fisher. This book has a collar but it is mostly tallies/leaves. It also has a small square, a wide edging and just a simple Maltese cross by itself. Last year I did buy a 36 round Maltese 'tablecloth' which I adore. It has an Arts and Crafts feel to it and the stitches are so tiny and perfect. I now have to find the right table to display it on. Cindy - in cold, cold Wisconsin - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Maltese Lace
There is additional info on Maltese (Gozo) lace at the international part of my site. http://lace.lacefairy.com/International/World.html Just click on Europe on the map then Malta on the next map or list. Lori the Lacefairy - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Item on E-bay
I followed the link to the Scottish Lace Ham and then did a bit of a browse and came up with this Lace Doyley http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2586669105category=39445 In the description it says that it is very likely from the Island of Malta. Search as hard as I can I can't find the usual Maltese Cross, or any leaves for that matter either! It also says that This is my very last piece from this exceptional lace maker. One would assume that the lace maker knew what she was making! I thought this might be of interest in view of the postings about Maltese lace just recently. Its quite a pretty piece all the same, but Maltese? I think not. What do others think? Sue Fink in Masterton New Zealand where its been 30 degrees for days and we are only allowed to use hand held hoses and have to watch our well loved gardens slowly die. Will go and bury myself in some lace so I can't see the sad deaths outside! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Item on E-bay
I followed the link to the Scottish Lace Ham and then did a bit of a browse and came up with this Lace Doyley http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2586669105category=39445 In the description it says that it is very likely from the Island of Malta. . . Its quite a pretty piece all the same, but Maltese? I think not. What do others think? Sue Fink = Hi Sue, Nah! Not Maltese. Like you say, a nice piece of lace, if a little unusual. Since there is some lumpiness, I thought at first that it might be a Battenburg piece of some complexity, but on closer inspection, I think it is handmade tape. The lumpiness almost convinces me that we are seeing the back of the lace, but it just may be age and washing and relatively coarse thread. The open curls are gathered on the inner curve, but the rest of the lace has sewing edges on both sides of the tape. There are place where you can see the tape make a loop and cross itself. There is a section on the inner border where the tape makes continuous 'humps' like m's and there you can see that the returning tape is sewn into the sewing edge of the preceding turn of the tape. The connections tape-to-tape are consistent with the Cantu method, but this might be Rococo, which uses a tape with sewing edges, unlike Cantu. The really surprising part of the piece is the needlelace filling. The thread selected for the filling seems kind of coarse, but the stitching is quite well done and flows with the forms of the lace. I think a finer thread would have given a better contrast to what seems like miles and miles of tape! Patty Dowden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re:Item on E-bay
On Jan 8, 2004, at 17:33, Sue Fink wrote: I followed the link to the Scottish Lace Ham and then did a bit of a browse and came up with this Lace Doyley http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemitem=2586669105category=39445 In the description it says that it is very likely from the Island of Malta. Search as hard as I can I can't find the usual Maltese Cross, or any leaves for that matter either! It also says that This is my very last piece from this exceptional lace maker. One would assume that the lace maker knew what she was making! She doesn't claim it's Maltese lace, just that it's probably, from the island of Malta. And, later in the paragraph, identifies it as Point Milanese. Which sounds reasonable, as it's a tape lace. I expect, the lacemakers aren't forced to make only Maltese lace, especially on Malta (on Gozo, maybe g). It's like the case of Russian lace; although the type of lace we call Russian Tape (and they call something else entirely g) is the most common one, it's not the only one being made there. It's still from Russia. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Item on E-bay
I looked at the piece, Sue, and I agree - not Maltese. But my *favorite* part of the listing was with your permission... she had kept one of the pieces of lace for herself! Let's tell her no, she can't keep it!! VBG Clay - Original Message - From: Sue Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:33 PM Subject: [lace] Item on E-bay I followed the link to the Scottish Lace Ham and then did a bit of a browse and came up with this Lace Doyley http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2586669105category=39445 In the description it says that it is very likely from the Island of Malta. Search as hard as I can I can't find the usual Maltese Cross, or any leaves for that matter either! It also says that This is my very last piece from this exceptional lace maker. One would assume that the lace maker knew what she was making! I thought this might be of interest in view of the postings about Maltese lace just recently. Its quite a pretty piece all the same, but Maltese? I think not. What do others think? Sue Fink in Masterton New Zealand where its been 30 degrees for days and we are only allowed to use hand held hoses and have to watch our well loved gardens slowly die. Will go and bury myself in some lace so I can't see the sad deaths outside! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[lace] Re:bookmarks
Thanks Rose Marie for mentioning my bookmark booklets. Anyone who is interested, just e-mail me privately. There are lots of beautiful bookmarks out there, and I have seen and made many. My favorite was one by Alison Dews, (who has many unique patterns), and it inspired me to try designing some of my own. Anyway, bookmarks are fun, quick, can be done in beautiful colors, and end without joins :-) Most of the lace publications print bookmarks periodically, and most of the beginning lace books have a few too. They keep the fingers in tune and make wonderful gifts! April (Bobbin Art) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bookmarks
In a message dated 1/8/2004 11:34:28 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that one Arachnean - April - has a booklet of prickings - I have her catalog. Usual disclaimer. I have both of April's(April Lind) booklets and they are wonderful. I worked every pattern in the first booklet many times. I have the second booklet but have been making yardage. They are very pretty, and are quick one day gifts to make. Usual disclaimer, but I am a very happy customer, Christine Lone Star Lacers Katy, TX - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Illusion
Hi Margot and Lacemakers, That was very clever, but I have the answer to the illusion, but it took me 4 goes to make sure Faye Owers Shearwater Tasmania Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Margot Walker To: LACE CHAT Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:48 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Illusion Try this illusion. It's great. http://www.zorstec.net/copperfield.htm Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
