Re: [lace] 16th century bobbin on ebay
At 01:56 PM 8/13/2004, you wrote: I came across the following on ebay today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=114item=6112829488 I remember a mate to this bobbin that appeared on eBay several years ago. As I remember it, the bobbin was found on a historical dig that yielded other artifacts dated to the 16th century. That's why the bobbin was also dated thus. The other bobbin was tinted greenish, so it looks like this is a different bobbin but the same style. The price on the other bobbin went way beyond what my 'pocket snake' would allow me to pay for one bobbin -- no matter how old. However, I had Kenn van Dieren make me some from that same design which I have enjoyed using. The price on this one has not gone as high as the other one -- at least, not yet. There's still over a day to go. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon --- where it's hot and dry, with lightning storms. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Belgian war lace
In a message dated 8/7/2004 1:03:44 AM GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mr and Mrs Hoover (before he became President), managed to persuade the US government to send help to Belgium, and managed to persuade the Germans to let it through. So, flour went in, and empty bags came back. Empty, but most beautifully embroidered, by the grateful recipients; Mrs. Hoover made sure that more than just flour was sent: thread (also thread for lacemaking) was included in the shipments.. In addition to the flour sacks that were embroidered by the grateful recipients of flour that was arranged to be sent to Belgium by Herbert Hoover at the time of the blockade of Europe in the first World War, beautiful lace was made by the Belgian lacemakers using as motifs the heraldic emblems of the countries of the allies. Some examples of this lace can be seen at the Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus in the Hoover Tower. BTW, I understand that this was the first presidential library. After the war was over a number of these wonderful pieces of lace were presented by the King of the Belgians to various governments as thankful recognition for the help they had received. The Lace Museum has a wonderful piece in their permanent display. It is covered in order to save it from too much sunlight, but can be seen by anyone who asks. Elaine Merritt The Lace Museum 552 South Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 Tel: 408 730 4695 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Looking for Jill Summerfield
Hi Everyone, Sorry to bother you but I am trying to contact Jill Summerfield in Victoria, Australia. The email address I have for her has bounced an email back to me. Thanks your your help. Regards, Vickie Whan - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace]Withof Class with Yvonne
I am now looking forward to meeting Yvonne Scheele Kirkhof on Wednesday when I meet her at O'Hare airport for our Beds/Whitof class at LACE later in the week. Pity her class was cancelled at convention but at least she decided to do her little post convention tour as arranged before the cancellation. Janice It sounds like you had a great time at Convention. Our Lacemakers of Puget Sound Guild had a wonderful class with Yvonne. She is a great teacher and the designs are lovely. I learned a lot but wish I could go to her classes more regularly. Lorri - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] My first IOLI Conference!
Greetings, Jane has told you part of the tale, here is my part. The trip was great! Driving down was also quite interesting. I got to go thru NJ, where I had not been before. Our route took us over the Tappan Zee bridge, a marvel in itself. It was quite surprising to find myself only 20 miles from NYC. I'm sure those 20 miles would take a long time, not like the 20 miles at home would be. It was quite strange to exit a 4 lane divided highway onto another multi lane divided highway. Bumper to bumper traffic, barely moving, not moving at times. Not at all what I'm used to! There were over 200 lace makers at the conference. All kinds of classes, many different types of lace. People from all over the world. Lots and lots of vendors, more arrived thursday and friday. Books, threads, patterns, tools. Everything a lacemaker could need.It was so great to meet the lacemakers who write to the lists and be able to put a face to the name. I took tatting classes with Judith Connors from Australia. One class was about inverted tatting, a new technique for me. Now I will be able to do the patterns from 'New Dimensions in Tatting', a book I have had for a number of years. I've looked at it and put it back on the shelf many times, wondering, how does she do that? It is great to have that mystery solved. The other class I took was called Pearl Tatting in Fancy Dress. I have lots of ideas for the pearl tatting. I'd done a little of that before, and can now see many uses for it. The IOLI meeting and the regional meetings were very interesting. It was good to find out more about the organization, aside from the lovely magazine. As the bylaws where having some changes made, I was careful to read thru them all. The group does important work in keeping lace valued as a process and a product. The new competency and mastery programs lool interesting. Some day I hope to participate in these programs. To see so many vendors in one place was amazing! All the books and patterns that I could look at and drool over. I got the Manuela Beck butterfly book I've been waiting for, and several tatting books. I discovered Cathy Bellville's chrysanthemum jewelry and Jana Novak's jewelry patterns, these will be so fun to do! I've gotten so many ideas of things to do that I will be busy for a looong time! Now I am hard at work on my entry for the Craft Adventure at Eastern States in Springfield, MA; a tatted Lighthouse. Can't wait to see if it comes out like I can see it in my head, this is my first attempt at designing! Sumac in soggy southern Vermont Susan G. MacLeodDummerston, VT USA NATA #69 new! www.sumac.us www.sover.net/~sumac - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Back from Prague
It was good to see so many of you at Prague. On the way, we were able to spend some time in the Erzgebirge region of Germany and visit lacemakers who have become friends. A visit to Lace School in Annaberg was included. On leaving Prague where the temperature was registered one day at 36 degrees, we started homeward at a leisurely pace via Bavaria and the Pfalzwald region. Our caravan covered just over 2000 miles (3200 km) in just under 4 weeks. Some of the highlights have been included with pictures in the news section of our web pages. Should you wish to read more we have included links to other sites. Sheila and Russell Perrin, === S M P Lace ==tel/fax +44 (0)1753 891 161=== Manufacturers of Lacemaking Equipment Sheila Russell Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalogue and latest news at www.smplace.co.uk = - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Cindy Hutton
If Cindy is still on the list, please contact me. If not, will someone please let her know I need to contact her. Thanks. Cherry Knobloch Camp Hill, Pa USA Silken Web Lacemakers - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Danish bobbin vendor in TX
Hello all - Just wanted to let you know I've gotten beaded Danish bobbins from Fran Bloomer of Knotworks in Round Rock, TX. She has several styles and will bead them for you (she surprised me by beading a pair with colors of bluebonnets -- just the right touch for an uprooted Texan). Her website is http://www.lacebobbins.com/ and the last e-mail I have for her is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've ordered non-Danish bobbins from her too. Usual disclaimers -- just a more than satisfied customer. Regards, Lorraine Weiss (in Albany, NY where, so far, Hurricane Andrew has not made as dramatic an impact as expected this weekend) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] State Fair competitions - Virginia
Gentle Spiders, On Aug 15, 2004, at 5:25, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: You may have to wait a few days for a reply from Helen, as she is currently in Pueblo, judging the lace at the Colorado State Fair. It's that time of year again; the round of State (and local) Fairs has started, and the competitions with them. Many of those include lace as a separate class/category; in some, you can enter lace under a diffferent umbrella. But, please, *do* enter. How else will general public get to see that handmade lace is still alive? Yesterday, the mail brought my yearly invitation to judge lace at the VA State Fair, and my DH asked: are you going to do it? Somewhat ungraciously, I replied I guess so; if I don't, who will? The reason my answer was so unenthusiastic is that, every year, I've seen less and less interest, with fewer and fewer entries. I had to skip going last year for personal reasons, so don't know what was there but, 2 yrs ago, I was the only judge (for lace) who showed up, and I was given only about 5 entries to judge. Clay, who accompanied me, graciously agreed to serve as a second judge - I don't think it's fair that entries should be judged on the whim of a single person - but that meant that she had to pull out two entries of her own (we re-designated them as non competitive, for education purposes). *Very* unfair to her, and it left us with even fewer entries - no competition at all, as each of the entries was in a different category. It's a 300 mile (round) trip for me, and I don't like to drive... :( I wouldn't mind it eating up my Sunday - 2.5 hrs driving out; abut that much there, given the administrative details that need to be seen to in addition to the judging proper; then 2.5 hrs driving back - *if only* I knew I was doing something *useful* for the cause of lace. If, OTOH, the cause of lace is deader than a doornail in VA, at least on this particular front, then it's pointless for everyone concerned to try and keep the zombie alive. Pointless for the Fair organisers to print the ribbons, pointless for me to go and judge what's not there *to* judge. I might as well advise them to cut the lace class enitrely (I already had to advise them to limit the number of classes, and they had)... Unlike the Colorado State Fair and the Craft Adventure that Sumac has mentioned, *only Virginia residents* can participate in the VA State Fair competition, unfortunately. But I know we do have quite a number of lacemakers in VA... And yes, I do realise how much pain in the neck (and expense) it is to mail stuff out to Richmond (I wonder if it would be possible to mail out *batches*, to cut on costs?). But... So, to the lacemakers in Virginia: If you have lace which had never been entered in the State Fair before, *please* send it in. There's still time - the application forms need to be in Richmond by September 3, the entries by Sept 18 (judgement day being the 19th g). You can find the rules and regulations and print off the entry fom from: http://www.statefair.com/youth_arts.asp Please scroll down, till you get to the adult section - it doesn't seem to have a URL of its own. General rules (what, when, where) are the same for all; the specific classes for lace can be found in Sections 33 and 34 of the Needlework, though lace can also be entered in other Sections (Seniors, for example) I hope to see enough entries this year to make my trip to Richmond justifiable; if I don't, it'll be my last trip to Richmond :) And, BTW. We get paid with a pair of tickets to the Fair. Since I get to see all that I'm interested in during the judging Sunday, and since the distance is really too big for me to go for other things, I always have them to spare. So, anyone who wants a couple of free tickets, to go and see what others have wrought in lace, can have mine. *Provided* that you are one of the entrants... :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] State Fair competitions - Virginia
That is so funny to read this post...I am definately going to enter something into the competition. It is funny to read it because I am trying to make something that will pass as something lace-like for the fair. I just got done telling my husband TODAY (like he cares!) that I am going to enter something. A woman down here in Suffolk (VA not UK) on a farm said it was the same kind of thing with spinning wool. I will definately be in the beginner category because I have only been doing it for a month, but I am definately going to enter and hopefully get to go see other peoples work! -Lydia Norfolk,VA Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentle Spiders, On Aug 15, 2004, at 5:25, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: You may have to wait a few days for a reply from Helen, as she is currently in Pueblo, judging the lace at the Colorado State Fair. It's that time of year again; the round of State (and local) Fairs has started, and the competitions with them. Many of those include lace as a separate class/category; in some, you can enter lace under a diffferent umbrella. But, please, *do* enter. How else will general public get to see that handmade lace is still alive? Yesterday, the mail brought my yearly invitation to judge lace at the VA State Fair, and my DH asked: are you going to do it? Somewhat ungraciously, I replied I guess so; if I don't, who will? The reason my answer was so unenthusiastic is that, every year, I've seen less and less interest, with fewer and fewer entries. I had to skip going last year for personal reasons, so don't know what was there but, 2 yrs ago, I was the only judge (for lace) who showed up, and I was given only about 5 entries to judge. Clay, who accompanied me, graciously agreed to serve as a second judge - I don't think it's fair that entries should be judged on the whim of a single person - but that meant that she had to pull out two entries of her own (we re-designated them as non competitive, for education purposes). *Very* unfair to her, and it left us with even fewer entries - no competition at all, as each of the entries was in a different category. It's a 300 mile (round) trip for me, and I don't like to drive... :( I wouldn't mind it eating up my Sunday - 2.5 hrs driving out; abut that much there, given the administrative details that need to be seen to in addition to the judging proper; then 2.5 hrs driving back - *if only* I knew I was doing something *useful* for the cause of lace. If, OTOH, the cause of lace is deader than a doornail in VA, at least on this particular front, then it's pointless for everyone concerned to try and keep the zombie alive. Pointless for the Fair organisers to print the ribbons, pointless for me to go and judge what's not there *to* judge. I might as well advise them to cut the lace class enitrely (I already had to advise them to limit the number of classes, and they had)... Unlike the Colorado State Fair and the Craft Adventure that Sumac has mentioned, *only Virginia residents* can participate in the VA State Fair competition, unfortunately. But I know we do have quite a number of lacemakers in VA... And yes, I do realise how much pain in the neck (and expense) it is to mail stuff out to Richmond (I wonder if it would be possible to mail out *batches*, to cut on costs?). But... So, to the lacemakers in Virginia: If you have lace which had never been entered in the State Fair before, *please* send it in. There's still time - the application forms need to be in Richmond by September 3, the entries by Sept 18 (judgement day being the 19th ). You can find the rules and regulations and print off the entry fom from: http://www.statefair.com/youth_arts.asp Please scroll down, till you get to the adult section - it doesn't seem to have a URL of its own. General rules (what, when, where) are the same for all; the specific classes for lace can be found in Sections 33 and 34 of the Needlework, though lace can also be entered in other Sections (Seniors, for example) I hope to see enough entries this year to make my trip to Richmond justifiable; if I don't, it'll be my last trip to Richmond :) And, BTW. We get paid with a pair of tickets to the Fair. Since I get to see all that I'm interested in during the judging Sunday, and since the distance is really too big for me to go for other things, I always have them to spare. So, anyone who wants a couple of free tickets, to go and see what others have wrought in lace, can have mine. *Provided* that you are one of the entrants... :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!?
RE: [lace-chat] Garfield and lace
Oops! Sorry everyone - sometimes things do not move at the speed we expect. I sent my previous message regarding Garfield yesterday afternoon and for some reason it did not show up on the list until after the daily strip had been changed. I was of course referring to the previous one with the spider and the lace like web so if you go to the vault and check out the strip for the previous day that is the one I shared. Garfield also has some funny knitting ones where he talks to balls of wool. Darlene Mulholland www.darlenem.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 11/08/2004 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] newspaper jokes
Actually Taken From Classified Ad's In Newspapers: FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 years old. Hateful little dog. Bites -- FREE PUPPIES: 1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog - FREE PUPPIES... Part German Shepherd, part stupid dog -- GERMAN SHEPHERD 85 lbs. Neutered. Speaks German. Free - FOUND: DIRTY WHITE DOG. Looks like a rat ... been out awhile. Better be reward. --- COWS, CALVES NEVER BRED... Also 1 gay bull for sale --- NORDIC TRACK $300 Hardly used, call Chubby - GEORGIA PEACHES, California grown - 89 cents lb. -- NICE PARACHUTE: Never opened - used once - JOINING NUDIST COLONY! Must sell washer and dryer $300 -- (AND THE BEST ONE) FOR SALE BY OWNER: Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. 45 volumes. Excellent condition. $1,000 or best offer. No longer needed. Got married last month. Wife knows everything. Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clarksburg, WV To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
