[lace] The ISG Museum
Thank you, Devon, for 2 very interesting articles in the Bulletin. It sounds like you had a good time at the Convention! And an especially big Thank You for the article on the Gardner Museum. I am sure there are many lacemakers like me, who can only view these wonderful places through other people's eyes, and I am so grateful that you are willing to write up articles so we can all enjoy them. And with photos - OH! that beautiful lappet!! (Photo 2) What brilliantly clever lacemakers there were in the old days (as well as now - I hasten to add!) and what wonderful designers there were, too. That lappet has such a lovely flowing design, with the twirls in the centre, and the swirls at the end! It is great to know these things have been preserved for us to enjoy. More lovely articles and photos, please!!! :)) from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Interesting use for lace
Sorry, not for this list I know, but I can't resist this. Su wrote: Is this an answer to that perennial question -- what to give the person who has everything? Thought the answer to that was 'penicillin' :-) Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Political comments
Hi, all, My home computer is in the shop having a brain transplant, so I'm only able to check my personal e-mail (briefly) at work. Thank-you, all, for your e-mails. I can't write individual replies because of time constraints but I appreciate your taking the time to write. Sylvia, the lace list is not for political debate. A sig is okay. A debate is not. So if you want to debate these issues with Tamara, it's best to take it to chat or, better yet, to private e-mail. I confess that Tamara's comments passed right over my head because I'm not American. I'm more concerned with suicide bombers than Bush's tax cuts. Tamara, please remember that this is an international list. Half the time when you post comments construed as 'political,' I haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about. Your complaints about the Bush administration would, I think, be better directed to your closest friends or to an American-dominated list. In the interests of list peace (I know feelings run high before elections over there), I am going to ask all of you to keep a lid on the political commentary for a while. The next person who posts a political comment will get daily, excruciatingly detailed e-mails from me about candidates in the Maale Adumim municipal elections. ;-) Best wishes, Avital, in hot, sunny Israel - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] 2 questions
In answer to your second question, the rings which are an alternative to the green horseshoe: The ring is a piece of flexible tubing which has a small post to join the two ends. In the package, you get two different sized rings. If neither of these is big enough, you can join the two for a much bigger ring. The tubing reminds me of the tubing used for air hoses in aquariums. I've not used this device, but happened to see it at a lace day not long ago. Clay - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:50 PM Subject: [lace] 2 questions I always seem to be asking questions!! (I think I was one of those terrible kids who said Why to everything!!!) 1)I seem to have lost from my Favourites bookmarking, the web site, where there are translations of Lace Terms. Could anyone please give it to me again? 2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does anyone know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find them, please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [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]
Re: [lace] 2 questions
Hi Liz, At 11:50 AM 19-10-04 +1000, Liz Ligeti wrote: 2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does anyone know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find them, please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name! Maybe somebody who attended our AGM still hasn't cleaned out their goodies bag yet (I did 'cos I needed it to travel to Perth last week) but there was an advert in it for just this same thing. So please, Helene and others, dig deep to find the info for Liz if you can. Bye for now, Shirley T - Adelaide, South Australia, 20deg. C forecast for tomorrow Yippee, beach here I come - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] 2 questions Plastic Tubing
Thanks for the information on the ring. I'm going to stop at the hardware store after work and pick up some plastic tubing. I can make my ring and use a piece of dowel to put it together. SueW Morrisonville, NY - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: Ring thing
Liz wrote: 2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does anyone know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find them, please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name! This past weekend our local guild had the opportunity to have Lacy Susan stop by our annual retreat with all her wonderful goodies. I got one of those Green Horseshoes. She also had another gadget that was essentially clear plastic tubing joined into a circle. There were 2 different sizes of circles. I imagine you could connect both together to form a larger circle. I didn't get them because they were more expensive that the green thing. IIRC maybe ~$8-9? IMO way too expensive for just tubing, even if it came in a nice plastic case. I asked DH about where I might be able to find clear plastic tubing. He suggested a local hardware store. I thought they might also have the connector thinges to make it into a circle. HTH, Anita _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] 2 questions
Well allso an answer to second question, I don't know the price of the ready packed rings, but at a petshop where they are selling aquariums they have thouse flexible tubing, also they have the post for joining, there you can bay by the meters, and as fahr as I can remember it is cheeper then the ready packed Dorte http://www.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dorte_zielke/my_photos - Original Message - From: Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [lace] 2 questions In answer to your second question, the rings which are an alternative to the green horseshoe: The ring is a piece of flexible tubing which has a small post to join the two ends. In the package, you get two different sized rings. If neither of these is big enough, you can join the two for a much bigger ring. The tubing reminds me of the tubing used for air hoses in aquariums. I've not used this device, but happened to see it at a lace day not long ago. Clay - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:50 PM Subject: [lace] 2 questions I always seem to be asking questions!! (I think I was one of those terrible kids who said Why to everything!!!) 1)I seem to have lost from my Favourites bookmarking, the web site, where there are translations of Lace Terms. Could anyone please give it to me again? 2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does anyone know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find them, please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Snake bookmark
Here is a bookmark I created in tatting. It is from my new book Animal bookmarks, a Tatted Zoo. It is relatively easy. I used a new device in the picot, it is knotted. This is something I have not seen before. Several of the new patterns in the book use this devise as a way of embellishing the bookmark. www.domesticarts.com/Patterns/snake.htm Dianna Stevens Kent Washington, USA www.domesticarts.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Of signatures and lace
Dear Avital -- Allow me to disagree with you. Are you telling us that if somebody wanted to put obscenities out on Arachne, all she (he?) would have to do is put them into the signature, not in the body of the e-mail, and that would be OK with you? Hardly. I think the same thing holds true with aggressive, offensive political statements. There are venues for that sort of thing, but our lace list is not the place. Signature vs. e-mail body has got nothing to do with it. Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Halasi Lace
Dear Dora, Your stories are always very entertaining and interesting so please post them for us all to enjoy. Annette Meldrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wollongong, South Coast of New South Wales, Australia Where we have just received 2 days of much needed rain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 3:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] Halasi Lace In a message dated 10/18/04 10:48:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Lacers, having read some of your reports about the Halasi Lace, I thought you might be interested about my visit to Kiskunhalas and Kalocsa in 1984. Alas the report is fairly long but I could send it in seperate articles if you like. Dear Dora, This is a most generous offer. It covers a time period when the situation in Kiskunhalas was quite different - before Hungary became an independent nation. I would be most grateful for the information you compiled in 1984, and will share it with the lacemakers in Budapest If others on Arachne agree, I would suggest if you receive 10 or more requests for your 1984 information, it should come to the list. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace Embroidery Resource Center - 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] plastic tubing for ring things
Hey all, I was out running errands today and found some plastic tubing at Wal-Mart. My thanks to Eva in Spain for mentioning it is used in aquariums. 8' for less than $1! Anita Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] RE: Ring thing
Anita asked where to get tubing... I suggest a pet shop with supplies for aquariums. That is the size I remember seeing. Clay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] RE: Ring thing I asked DH about where I might be able to find clear plastic tubing. He suggested a local hardware store. I thought they might also have the connector thinges to make it into a circle. HTH, Anita - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] tool question
Dear Arachnes, I'm getting very interested in needlelace and am working on my first sampler. In many of the books I've acquired, the authors refer to a tool called a afficot, a wooden tool for polishing threads, mostly in Gros Point de Venise. They say that poor lacers also made them out of lobster claws attached to a wooden handle. Are they necessary? and available? I sure don't find much when I Google the word. Thanks--Madelin Ukiah, CA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Afficot
Yes indeed, that is the story. It is used to press down one part of the lace so as to raise and emphasise another part pf the design. Some time ago I made a few sets of needle lace tools that include an afficot, lifters, ringsticks etc. I thought I would buy my Mercedes on the proceeds, but there was not much interest, probably because I do not make many tools for commercial sale and thus do not advertise them; Rather I make things that no one else seems to make. Now I know why few makers make needle lace tools! Brian and Jean from Cooranbong Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Ring thing
On Oct 19, 2004, at 23:22, Valerie Stewart wrote: What is the Green Horseshoe used for. I assume the plastic tubing is used for the same thing. Yes, to your second question. Either can be used when making tape/braid kind of laces (Russian, Milanese, etc) which involve a lot of pillow turning, working back to or over previously worked areas, etc. You push the older pins down as far as you can, but, sometimes, they can still catch on the new threads. To prevent that, you lift the new threds off the pillow by resting them on the ring thing or on the Green Horseshoe. --- 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] RE: Ring thing
Valerie, It is used on laces to keep the threads on your pillow from getting frayed by the pins that you have already pushed in. I have used it on Duchesse and Brugge because you are turning the pillow quite often while you are making the lace. I suppose you could use it for other laces that require turning the pillow. I prefer the horseshoe over the ring, because if you don't put the ring on at the beginning you have to put your bobbins through the ring. If you are working with a large number of bobbins, that can be a real hassle. Lacy Susan has some of the rings as well as horseshoes. I do not know why your tubing wouldn't work just as well. I'd try it and see how it works. Before I bought a horseshoe I used my crochet hook to raise it up a little. I tried a ring from a canning jar but didn't care for it. Hope this helps. Sylvia Andrews Lacemaking talent on loan from God. Sylvia - Original Message - From: Valerie Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: purple lacer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [lace] RE: Ring thing Ok you guys. I guess I missed something somewhere. What is the Green Horseshoe used for. I assume the plastic tubing is used for the same thing. I was making Hair Halos for the girls around my area,so I have a lot of this plastic tubing. I was glueing a smaller piece into the larger tubing to hold it togather in a ring. So If I can find out how it works.Maybe I already have one ;-). Valerie Liz wrote: 2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green Horseshoe __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - 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: Ring thing
On Oct 20, 2004, at 0:16, palmhaven (Sylvia) wrote: I prefer the horseshoe over the ring, because if you don't put the ring on at the beginning you have to put your bobbins through the ring. I almost added the same warning to my message... :) I don't use either gizmo (made myself a heavy, hole-in-the-middle work cloth, with a thickly-padded inner ring instead), and while I have the Green Horseshoe one, I've never even seen the ring-thing one. But then... I thought back on the descriptions of the ring-thing provided by those who had seen it, and it dawned on me that, indeed, it could be better than the horsehoe. If there are two - different size - rings provided in a packet, and if both can be combined to make a - still larger - single ring, that has to mean that neither of the rings is a *permanent* ring. Each has to have the ability to be straightened out into a line before being closed into a ring... If so, then all one has to do is slide the line under all the bobbins *before* closing the circle. You don't have to thread the bobbins one-by-one, or even pair-by pair, into a rigidly defined circle, bcause there *is no* rigidly defined circle. OTOH, a tube circle, made up of sections and joins would allow for indefinite expansion (and, as a colateral, for an indefinite number of bobbins to be confined in comfort) while the capacity of a horsehoe contraption is definitely limited... I still prefer my work-cloth though; one less contraption on my pillow to keep track of :) --- 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]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal thanks
Hi Secret Pal, Thank you so much for my parcel of goodies that arrived today. I hope that you enjoyed your trip and thank you so much for the gifts that you collected along the way. I have added the seed magnet to my collection on the fridge and the pen has been in use already! The divider will come in handy and my son has bagged the teabag !! I love the kookaburra brooch and will use the bookmark and remember you. Thanks again as always you have been very generous! Anne Nicholas Hanworth, Middx. England To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] The Bill
david wrote: You may recall some months back we had a discussion about what's been happening on The Bill. Well obviously the UK were far ahead of us when I went to their Homepage. DH used to watch every episode of The Bill, and he thought it was one of the best ever police drama on TV, and even I used to watch it, and that's a compliment indeed, as I'm usually more inclined to read or write letters, or even make lace! However, we stopped watching it last year, when the subject of the series changed and became so terribly daggy and sexy and non-police oriented. We get so fed up with steamy stories about everyone love affairs and sleeping arrangements!! And you get the full spectrum, man-woman, woman-woman, man-man, man-woman-man, etcSoon, we'll be into child pornography on the screen! Obviously the writers have run out of ideas for good police action stories and are resorting to sex to keep their show on air. Well, it's not succeeding with us! Give us back the good old days where policemen and women went on the beat and actually did some worthwhile work every day!!! If this new series reflects what our police really acts like, I want to stop paying taxes to support them! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Mediteranean flowers - Morning Glory
Dear Friends, May I just thank everyone who got back to me about the lovely blue flower we saw whilst on holiday in Southern France - it was Morning Glory. I gather it's a cousin of the Bindweed and just as rampant in the right conditions :( Here in Australian rural communities we rip them out by the truckloads and curse our forepeople who brought them here - along with heaps of other lovely flowers of course, e.g. gorse, blackberries, South African cape weed (great for making daisy chains); onion weed, mustard grass, fennel, South American mimosa with its impenetrable thorns. There have been some very recent disasters up in our Northern Territory. In the 70s and 80s Mission grass, Calowpo (?spelling) and Gamba grass were brought in as cattle fodder. Now this stuff grows up to 10 feet high. It's now rampant over the whole of the Top End, but the irony is that the cattle didn't even like it and won't eat it!!! Love David in Ballarat Regards to you all, Ann McClean in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAWTHORN, SCOTT DeSilva PALMER Family History Pages: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/ BookCrossing - find a book, take it and read it, and then leave it somewhere for someone else to find and read. http://www.bookcrossing.com/ - Original Message - From: Ann McClean To: Lace-chat Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Mediteranean flowers DH I have just returned from a week's holiday in Southern France. We stayed in Laroque des Alberes, a village at the foot of the Chaine des Alberes mountain range which in turn is the eastern end of the Pyrenees. Everywhere we went we saw a particular climbing flower - which I cannot find the name of! The flower was a trumpet shape, about the size of bindweed, and an intense Mediteranean blue in colour. The leaves were trefoil shaped, about the size of sycamore. And it was the one subject I didn't take a picture of :( At first I thought it was a clematis, but the flower construction and the leaves don't match - hence my request. Can anyone help? Have done an image search on Google, and plenty of oleander and bourgainvillea which we also saw lots of, but not this particular one. 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]
[lace-chat] More Art Bras
Hello all, Here's more art bras. These ones all from Australia (I think).I'm tempted to make one myself to hang in my craft room. Maybe men will come up with a decorated jock strap fundraiser for prostate cancer. http://www.atasda.org.au/images/exhibits/bazaar_bras/index.htm http://inaminuteago.com/braimages/Canbra.html Heather Overcast and cool Abbotsford. Back from a day trip to Victoria to see the Treasures of Egypt exhibit. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Minute Waltz analysed
Thought you might like to read this. Found it in my attic, so it must be old and I dont know where it comes from. A company Managing Director who had been given tickets for a performance of Chopin's Minute Waltz, could not attend, so he passed them to his Total Quality Management consultant.The next morning, when the MD asked the consultant if he had enjoyed the concert, he was handed the following memorandum. 1) For considerable periods the four oboe players had nothing to do 2) The number should be reduced and their work spread over the whole orchestra, thus eliminating peaks of activity 3) All twelve of the violins were playing identical notes. This seemed unnecessary duplication and the staff of this section should be cut drastically. 4) No useful purpose is served by repeating with horns the passage that had already been played by the strings. If all such redundant passages were eliminated, the whole thing could be reduced to about five seconds. Poor Chopin will be turning in his grave. Greetings from the Knotter UK Dora Northern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.759 / Virus Database: 508 - Release Date: 09/09/2004 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] The Bill
Helene Gannac a décidé d' écrire à Ò[lace-chat] The BillÓ. [2004/10/19 10:10] We get so fed up with steamy stories about everyone love affairs and sleeping arrangements!! And you get the full spectrum, man-woman, woman-woman, man-man, man-woman-man, etcSoon, we'll be into child pornography on the screen! Obviously the writers have run out of ideas for good police action stories and are resorting to sex to keep their show on air. Well, it's not succeeding with us! not with me either .. good to know i'm not the only one ! i was wondering . dominique from lovely cold and rainy Paris, france. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
