Re: [lace] Myth or Mystery - Hollies exhibition and extra Visitors' Trophy
Jane Partridge wrote: Myth or Mystery at The Hollies. The Hollies will be open on the following Saturdays: 24 July, 31 July, 7 August, 14 August, 21 August and 28 August from 10am to 5pm. Visitors can vote for a Visitors' Trophy to be awarded to those exhibits on display at The Hollies. I'd just like to make clear that the Myth or Mystery exhibition at The Hollies will also be open during the week: Monday to Thursday: 10.00 am to 3.00 pm by appointment only - please phone (01384 390739) or e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to make arrangements. Friday: 10.00 am to 3.00 pm - no appointment needed but groups over five in number are asked to contact The Hollies in advance. Jean - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] visit
As you may have guessed by now the visit will be after lunch. See yaa Diana - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: book from VA-Museum
Hallo, Just to let you know the german lacers get the book finally too. I got mine this morning from B. Fay. I had a long talk with them in tönder therefore i know that it wasn't easy to get this book. Hope you could share my joy. Greetings from stormy, stormy Hamburg in Germany Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Wrong message
I must apologise to everyone on the list for the message I sent earlier which was a private mail to a friend with a similar addy. I will add as an excuse that I celebrated my 60th birthday yesterday - I rest my case!! Diana on a warm sunny evening in Northamptonshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Significance of Wedding Aprons in Eastern Europe
Dear Lace History Buffs, To understand why lace might be used on European wedding aprons, it is interesting to study the attire of women on that continent for centuries - going back 20,000 years or so. First, there were the string skirts - not skirts as we know them, but panels of string (tiny, and shaped like aprons) that were tied around the woman so they covered the center part of her backside. Makes no sense to us that they would cover the back and not the front, but that is apparently what they did. (In time, more materials were used to cover more of her.) These string skirts can be seen on small carved figures of women in museum collections. It is difficult to summarize the evolution of these garments into wedding aprons, but I will briefly attempt to give you an impression of what appears to have happened through the centuries. Skip quite a few thousand years to the beginning of weaving, and the archeologists claim that flat (ungathered) aprons were worn - covering the backside (implying a connection to the string skirt). There was a connection to fertility, and an apron ceremony when a teenaged girl contemplated marriage. During a female's fertile years, she wore this garment. In time, women wore aprons also in the front - to protect organs that were connected with fertility. By then, they were weaving patterns that had symbolic meanings, adding fringes and tassels and other objects to deflect the evil eye. In more time, embroidery was added. Every element of that embroidery had a symbolic meaning. More centuries, and lace developed. At first, not allowed for any women but the most royal personages. Eventually, it was added by many people to ceremonial clothing - used for christenings, weddings, etc. If you look at the design elements in laces of Eastern Europe, you can connect them to the embroidered design elements. These fascinating and talented people, with centuries of historic influence behind them, still wear the costumes of their regions, and can tell by looking at a woman in costume exactly where she is from. In many cases, the meanings of various costume parts are not known by contemporary women - they are simply attributed to tradition. An important piece of attire is still the wedding apron. So - the apron is not first thought of in the same way as Western women have for many years - as an inexpensive garment to protect a more expensive and more difficult-to-clean one. Back in May 2003, I recommended, and still do: Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia - Beliefs about Protection and Fertility edited by Linda Welters, published by Berg Oxford/New York, ISBN 1-85973-287-0 (paper) 1999, cost $20 U.S. The textbook style may be too serious for your current research, but I think it is nice to have books written by fine scholars. Copies of 4 chapters in this book are winging their way to Devon for her research on this subject, because I think that she will have a lot of lace lore to add to the Wedding Apron research. The Lace Fairy has just arrived for a visit. Must go and have some fun with her. We think we'll fly around the orchard and admire the wildflowers! 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] Flanders meshes
Hello Spiders I've finally got broadband up and running so have been surfing around without thinking about the 'phone bill! Mostly from some of the links on my own website, and I found Jo Falkink-Pol's Flanders mesh Generator. It's Flanders ground (cane-ground or rose-ground with just one pinhole in the middle of each block) and you can choose half stitch, cloth stitch, cloth twist etc for each stitch sequence and the diagram updates itself to show the individual thread movements. Wonderful for drawing working diagrams. Do have a look at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/grond-EN.html 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]
[lace] Another connection to early tape laces
In reply to Lorelei's very astute observations about tape laces, I have also noted the very early ten stick curlicues in the Milanese-Flemish laces. The connection I made was with the Punto Fiandra from Italy, which works a three pair braid with knotted picots. The Italians wouldn't have pulled the term Fiandra out of thin air. I believe the reference is to the ten stick designs. Lace is a never ending story. Patty Dowden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE:masters thesis
It may not be in their catalogue yet if it is still sitting in a workroom waiting to be catalogued. Don't know about Uni libraries here, but I know in Oz, it's not uncommon for there to be backlogs - sometimes substantial ones. Cheers, Helen, Aussie in Denver - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Scottish Humour
A Scotsman applied for admission to the NY City Police Force. The inspector glared at him and asked, 'How would you disperse a large unruly crowd ' 'Weel replied the Scotsman, I'm no too sure how ye do it here in NY , but in Aberdeen we just pass the hat around , and they soon begin to shuffle off' David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Scottish Humour
David That one came out of the ark :-) Such jokes about Aberdonians are legendary - and are invented by Aberdonians. Patricia in Wales but formerly in Aberdeen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Church Bulletin Bloopers
1. The Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. 2. Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done. 3. The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning. 4. Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door. 5. The pastor will preach his farewell message, after which the choir will sing, 'Break Forth Into Joy.' 6. A songfest was hell at the Methodist church Wednesday. 7. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community. 8. The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The Congregation is invited to attend this tragedy. 9. Thursday night Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow. 10.The rosebud on the altar this morning is to announce the birth of David, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Adams. 11. Tuesday at 4 PM there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk will please come early. 12. A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow. 13. At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice. 14. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance. 15. Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes. 16. Please join us as we show our support for Amy and Alan who are preparing for the girth of their first child. 17. The Lutheran Men's group will meet at 6 PM. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert will be served for a nominal feel. 18. The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.' 19. Our next song is 'Angels We Have Heard Get High.' 20. Don't let worry kill you, let the church help. 21. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. 22. This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar. 23. The service will close with Little Drops of Water. One of the ladies will start quietly and the rest of the congregation will join in. 24. Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. 25. The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Tatted Bedspread
I could not get pictures of it. Ebay came up with Image currently unavailabe in each picture square. Has anyone else had this problem? Why would they remove the pictures? from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
