[lace] Tatting notes.
Lacemakers, A huge thanks to everyone for helping me locate the tatting sites with video techniques on them. As usual, you are the best. Have a Great Day! Susie Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 815-942-3722 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Vice-presidents
In the school I attended in the 1950s. Vice-presidents and Vice-captains were not allowed - the headmistress didn't like the idea of Presidents or Captains of vice! Yes, in the 1950s. They had to be Deputy President or Deputy Captain. Jean In Poole, Dorset UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] How did you start making lace?
In 1972, I had just finished studying, and suddenly had my evenings free. Also I had just passed my driving test, so decided to join an evening class. I wanted to do something crafty, and lacemaking seemed like a good idea! I had no idea how it was made, and didn't particularly wear lacy things, but it was to be a life-changing descision. I attended the enrolement meeting, and signed up. The teacher told me how to make a pillow and cover cloths, for the next week (nothing available commercially in those days). She gave no handouts and I had to remember everything! First cut 2 circles of calico about 18 diameter. Then a long strip equal to the circumference, plus extra for turnings. The strip joins the 2 circles together, to make a honiton-type shaped pillow. Now stuff it with wood wool until very hard. Wood wool was commonly used for packaging before we had polystyrene and bubble wrap, but I had no idea how to obtain any. My parents had an old footstool, which needed repairing, and said I could use the wood shaving contents. Well the pillow took the whole lot, and weighed a ton! But it was a good firm pillow, and I used it for many years. When I arrived at the class and saw someone making a lace edging (with about 15 pairs), I almost ran out in horrror, but that evening, I caught the bug and never looked back. Interestingly the class was so big that the main teacher had about 15 students in one room, and I was taught with a similar number in an adjoining room, by the assistant. When I began teaching in 1978, my classes were about 20-24 students, many in their 20's and 30's. Now I'm lucky to get 10, and at least half are pensioners, and only one under 40! Christine Oxford UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] The Lacemakers Circle 1988 1998
I just received a green pin with a white flower centre with the words The Lacemakers Circle 1988 1998 from my aunt in Canada. She was recently on a knitters bus tour around England and bought this pin for me. Would someone please tell me what group it represents, just curious. Thanks, Lynn Scott, Wollongong Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] The Lacemakers Circle 1988 1998
this is their website Lynn http://www.oz-arnold.net/lmc/ jenny barron Scotland Lynn Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just received a green pin with a white flower centre with the words The Lacemakers Circle 1988 1998 from my aunt in Canada. She was recently on a knitters bus tour around England and bought this pin for me. Would someone please tell me what group it represents, just curious. Thanks, Lynn Scott, Wollongong Australia - 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: How I came to lace..
At 10:22 AM 10/26/05 -0400, Heather Bogart wrote: Oh and I've tried tatting. I try tatting about every year or so, get tangled, swear a lot, cut it off and throw it out. Try making tats -- single rings to be glued to stationery. That way when you tangle a ring, cut it out, and throw it away, you haven't lost any of your previous work. Start with three-stitch rings that you'll later call buds, then rings with lots of long picots that you can call daisies, then you can get fancy: violets, butterflies, etc. I don't know what you'll do with them, now that we all keep in touch by e-mail, but filling up a matchbox for future reference should hold your interest for a while. I once saw a picture of a painting in which lilac blossoms were depicted by sticking short-petaled daisy tats into the paint while it was wet. These were a lot coarser than tats one would glue to paper. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where leaves are falling. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Congress in Austria
Dear lacefriends, Last weekend I took part in the congress of Austrian lace organisation Klöppeln und Textile Spitzenkunst in Österreich. We took the plane til Linz. If you ever visit it you must go to the ARS ELECTRONICA centre. There you learn about believable and unbelievable electronic things in our modern world. Perhaps you get an idea under: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linzer Torte in the origin café was a big disappointement, this one I make every x-mas is the better one. If'n you believe me come and try. than we travel with a rental car over Wels and Vöklabruck to Ried im Innkreis. the whole part is called Oberösterreich - Upper-Austria. It's a lovely landscape and all these little towns have wonderful big places in the centre which are from Barock-time. And around them the old houses have beautiful facades. The congress started friday afternoon in the festve-hall of the exhibition centre of Ried. There were lots of traders with all the things we need and we want. And around this big room were the exhibitions. First the competition works with the title the Elements. Than lots of samplers in Torchon, Occhi, Hardabger embroiderie and some more. On one wall big and a bit abstract gingko-leaves. Some contemporary designs. Lots of doillies in different techniques and a lot more. In the town museum was the other exhibition with the titlelaces from the time of 1900. rthose of you who read my report from 2002 from Wiener- Neustadt remember the laces from the Textile school in Herbststraße in Vienna. This was also from the connection of Wiener Werkstätten and K:K: Zentralspitzenkurs. Wonderful pieces. The excist a map with patterns from this exhibition from easy to not so easy, lovely pattern for different purposes. Under teh title Spitzenmuster - Musterspitzen with pricking, pattern, technical design and a describtion of the historie in German. If you are interested you get it from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry I forgot the price. There was another exhibition about Halas-lace, I told you about this lace in my report from Tönder last year or the year before. This is a very fine needle-lace made from professional lace-makers in the manufactur of Kiskunhalas, Hungaria. You can't learn this lace somewhere, they made it there and sell it all over the world. Have a look under: www.csipke.halas.hu And there excist a book, Halasi Csipke - Halas Lace. Inside you find the whole historie also in English and lots of pictures of the laces you can buy. But if you want your own design they will make it for you as well. This museum has lots of folkloristique things and a lot of pieces made in so called Hohlspitze. This is a special gold-lace made in south of Germany often as Radhaube also called alemanian bonnet. This is a beautiful sort of bonnet worn with the folkloristique dress near the Lake Constance in Germany and Austria. But in the museum in Ried you find other uses of this lace. And suddenly I heard a very famous melodie, one who belongs to x-mas-time and I went to next room and found out. But this I'll tell you tomorow. It hasn't to do with lace but English and North American people knew this melodie also. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] How did you start making lace?
I started making lace thanks to one of my jewellery-making students. I had seen Lenka Suchanec's website, and thought that it would be wonderful to make some jewellery in precious metal wire using lacemaking techniques. I was talking about it during class one day, and one of my students said she went to a lacemaking class. I asked her (very naively!) if she could 'just' teach me the stitches so I could have a go with wire. She encouraged me to go to her class, and although I have tried with wire, and been on a wire lacemaking course, I am not as keen as I was on that, but am totally addicted to lacemaking. I know some members of my family find me a bit of a bore on my pet subject Dee Palin Gloucestershire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: And how did you find out about making lace?
I came to bobbin and needlelace making as a collector. I inherited, from my Gran and great-Gran, a small but rather marvelous collection of lace. I already knit lace, but as I worked on cleaning and restoring some of the older pieces, I just got to thinking about having a go at it. Fortunately, the internet was in full swing when I decided to try and Ebay supplied what I needed (after a false start with a horror kit) and the virtual community of lacemakers on the net have been my teachers. Madelin - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Re Dowager
At 11:47 AM 25/10/05 -0500, C. Johnson wrote: That makes you the Grand Duke of Lace. I like it. Susie How about Comte de Dentelles??? Or perhaps Graf von Kloppeln? Has the ring of many of my forebears in it:) David -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/149 - Release Date: 25/10/05 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] How did you start making lace?
wll i was in Nottingham for a month with a group of pupils in august some time in the 1980ies... i visited the lace museum (on my own) , met a lacemaker who was demonstrating, had a go (with four bobbins) , thought it was fun ... and only found a lace teacher in Paris about fifteen years later .. many thanks to the Nottingham lady who was demonstrating that day !!! dominique from paris, france. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] How did you start making lace?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christine Lardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes When I began teaching in 1978, my classes were about 20-24 students, many in their 20's and 30's. Now I'm lucky to get 10, and at least half are pensioners, and only one under 40! In the late seventies, there was the big craft revival following on from all things flowery of the late sixties... lots of part-work how-to-do craft magazines and books. Evening classes were for leisure as well as study - you didn't have to take an exam at the end of it - although my view may be coloured by the fact that at that stage I was just out of college and still living at home - though even after I moved into my flat I had time to go to a homecraft class one evening a week with Mom - we learnt to make baskets and soft toys (Snoopy and a teddy bear!). It was the time between study and marriage plus kids. These days, however, that age group is more likely to be out clubbing with their friends rather than going to night school! (Or maybe evening classes have lost the mythical lure of being the place to catch the perfect bloke!). I think, also, we felt safer going out at night - certainly in the 70s I didn't think twice about walking across Birmingham (UK) city centre at 11pm to get the other bus home - now I'm nervous about going to visit my parents in daylight! These days, the pensioners still feel young enough to learn (even those who don't start making lace till 84, as with one of my students). There still isn't anything good on TV, but we do tend to sit at our computers in the evening rather than going out. And with the instantness of email, comes the expectation that everything else is just as quick.. and lace isn't - it is a slow process. There are still those of us who make lace because we can cope with things that don't get finished in an hour or two, but many can't. As to the magazines, yes, they still cover various crafts, but only those that can be explained in a quick one off article (with the exception of Anna) - putting a complicated lace pattern into a craft magazine these days would have little appeal - only the relative few lacemakers (compared with the tens of thousands of cardmakers and scrapbookers) would know what to do with it, unless they went into pages of explanation - and space for a very limited audience doesn't exist. Getting knitting off the ground again has taken a very dedicated campaign (probably by the Knitting and Crochet Guild) at shows - with a focus on a relax and knit stand at the entrance to whichever hall they are in (I'm thinking of the shows like Sewing for Pleasure at the NEC). There are still relatively few knitting magazines on the newsstands, and although you are likely to find a knitting pattern in a women's magazine, you are not likely to do the same with a lace pattern. However, I read in one of the magazines that came with a Sunday paper that there is about to be a backlash to the everything machine made/for convenience - home cooking is coming back in, and likewise what they call domestic crafts - making things for the home, etc. So maybe crafts in general will raise their head again, as in the 70s, and with lace being back in fashion for clothing, who knows? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Congress in Austria
Woops, I meant your travels in Austria, Ilske. Australia comes NEXT year. I hope to attend your Chantilly workshops in Canberra. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: How did you start making lace?
I went with my sister to a lace day in Virginia Beach. I only went to spend the day with my sister and buy some beads for a costuming project (I had the dubious honor of being wardrobe mistress at the high school where I taught math). That day I learned to whittle a bobbin. When we got back Nancy, my sister, taught me the basics on a pillow that she had bought for me 10 years prior but I never tried because it looked too hard! Now I really love it. Christina - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP Thanks
Hi Secret Pal, Thank you for your parcel that arrived today. The sticky notes and note pad are in by workbag to take to the office. The Kitchen towel is really cute. The bobbins will go on my pillow as soon as I need to add another pair in. My nieces have taken off with the lollies and pot puree bear. Once again thank you Shell in Tasmania To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Cleaning
Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alice Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At 08:09 AM 10/26/2005, you wrote: I've been cleaning everything in the house this last month, . I have found:... 1 An ENTIRE CLEAN SHELF The SHELF is what I envy the most of your finds!!! ermm... has anyone seen the floor recently, I seem to have lost it somewhere under his computer magazines :-) I have a table like that, too. I know it must be under there, otherwise all that stuff is just levitating ! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Shortbread
There is a woman named Parlin (first name) who makes the most tasty and interesting shortbread -- about 1/4 inch think and no loft -- in other words, looks like pie crust. She is unwilling to give out her recipe ... which adds to the challenge. I mention her name because I wonder if it might be a name based on her heritage (which in turn might help to discern the source of the recipe). Does anyone know of that name as a nationality name? I have googled for shortbread recipies and found some use rice flour in small quantities in addition to regular flour-- does anyone know if rice flour is likely to cause this no loft condition? Or even better, does anybody have a recipe that yields really good shortbread? Thanks Susan Webster Ohio To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
