[lace] Lacing Family
Hi Folks, Just to add my two pennyworth, nobody in my family has done bobbin lace as far as I know. But my Greek Cypriot Grandmother did the most wonderful crochet lace, in fact she made my brother and myself a crochet double bed spread, each one took at least a year to make. This was for our weddings, unfortunately neither of us has got married yet, and she has passed on, but we still love the bedspreads. After her eyesight deteriorated, she could see well enough to crochet, so she took up tatting and was just as wonderful at that. I started making bobbin lace at school, so one year when I went on holiday to Cyprus, I took my pillow. I also made her a lovely cross in pastel coloured thread, it was a design my needlework teacher had provided. My yia-yia (Greek for Granny) was thrilled with it, and especially as I seemed to have inherited her lacey skills!! My English Granny was a wonderful knitter, but no knitted lace, just jumpers etc... Regards, Jo in Boiling, melting hot Cyprus (I need a swim! Phew!) - ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - so many all-new ways to express yourself - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] another family story
Hi everyone, My grandma, who was born in 1886, loved to make tatted and crocheted lace. Mostly it was tatted lace she liked to make and when I was little, I never saw her without her tatting shuttle. I remember all our pillow cases and sheets had tatted or crocheted edgings. I learned to make tatted lace when I was in my 20's but tatting books were scarce in the days before internet shoppping, and I was often to be found gazing hopefully up at the shelf of tatting books at the public library. Well, the bobbin lace books were on the same library shelf. All I had to do was rotate my head a little, and the rest is history. My mother used to complain about the tatted pillowcases when she opened her Christmas presents from Grandma. Oh no, she would say, not another one. Now she gets them from me! Life is tough all over. Sally Schoenberg Anchorage Alaska It's very dry, hot for us at 80F/27C. Lots of forest fires but we've escaped the smoke so far, thank heavens! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Another family story
Sorry, I forget the most important thing. When I designed my first pattern, a Torchon-lace, I named it after her Hertha. To say her thank you for this wonderful craft she "gave" me. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Another family story
Hello lacefriends, My story is a short one. For about 17 years I met a young lady on a Christmas-market which did bobbin-lace. At the same moment I remembered that my aunt, which was paralyzed on her right side, from face til the tip of her toes since she was 15, once made this only with her left hand and with hooded bobbins on a roller pillow at the time I was about three or four. I was fascinated by the movement and the sound I think. When she was dead about 20 years later I was the only family member nearby, that means about 150 km away. My mother and brother lived with my "new" father in North-Africa at that time, I wasn't amused to hear that they had troughen away all her things before I arrived the next day. So I asked this young women, from the market, if she gave courses. She said yes but... and it lasted more then half a year that it started and what was worst after the first lessons we found out she doesn't know much. She changed the day so I couldn't go there any more but what now? I found the book from Katharina Egger my husband gave it as a present, it was my birthday, and I learned myself. And this is another amusing story. I had only thread 50" and most of the patterns were made with thicker thread so I made realy laces. That's perhaps I like all this fine ones today most. Greetings till next week or later tomorrow morning we travel to Berlin, one of my favourite citys Ilske - 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 #209
Re: lacemaking in families I didn't know of anyone that made bobbin lace until after I started and my dad recognized my tools and remembered that his mom and sister in Denmark had made lace. Unfortunately, it was after they had passed on, but I have seen some of the things my aunt has made. It was by chance and curiosity that I got started. I was working in a needlework shop and on 2 separate occasions, someone came in and asked and asked about supplies, I was curious and decided I needed to know more. I attended a guild meeting, bought some basic bobbins and a pillow and Doris Southard's book and I was on my way. No one that is blood related to me is making lace, but 2 wives of cousins make lace and 1 step daughter of another cousin. But then I always did do my own thing anyways Irene Whitham, Surrey, BC Where the house needs to be cleaned, but the lace pillow is calling out - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Another sister story
Dear Friends, And here's the saga of my brother and 3 sisters (only one of them ugly, nit saying which :) Raie is our oldest, and she does the finest embroideries and well as plenty of spinning, dying, knitting etc. Her husband is the bobbin turner. Then me. Christine is a mere 54, and does glorious tatting, crochet, knitting etc. which has been a great help lately since her husband of 34 years has just left her for his significant floosy. Jenny - my baby sister at 51, is a really champion knitter and crocheter - despite being a true left hander. My baby brother Jamie, who is 48, doesn't do much fibre craft these days. But is a wonderful worker of wood and loves nothing better than fine intricate miniature productions. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Commemorative bobbins
I got th D-Day commemorative bobbins I was looking for, and if anyone else is looking for them Loricraft (no web site), Roseground Supplies and Biggins have all got them. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Estate bobbins
Noelene wrote: < A couple are very yellowed white, and I have no idea whether they are bone or ivory.> Highly unlikely they'd be ivory. That's a luxury material and working lacemakers were helping with the household income so wouldn't be into luxury. Bone was cheap - might even have been from the bones of the house cow when it was killed. It's a good time to buy bobbins on ebay at the moment, but not a good time to sell. There'a a glut of them made from wood, plastic and bone. There have been quite a few named and inscribed bone bobbins for sale over the past several weeks and the price they've been fetching has come down a lot. A few months ago, you could expect a minimum of GBP10 for a bone named bobbin. At the moment you can get some names for just over GBP5, and some of the named makers aren't selling at all, so the sellers will need to keep them and sell later or relist at a lower price. The main source of the named bobbins has said, in their latest listing, that they have come to the end of the inscribed bobbins they're selling. So leave it for a few weeks and the buyers should be hungry again. I'm still looking for a supplier of horn bobbins. The one supplier I contacted who advertise horn in the lace magazines, doesn't actually have horn listed in their catalogue. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
