[lace] Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Jean Nathan

Joy wrote:
I take a muslin sheet out of the linen closet,

Bear in mind that 'muslin' has several definitions and can mean different 
things in different countries.


In the UK the word muslin usually refers to butter muslin which is a very 
fine, see-through, loosely woven cotton which is useful for steaming and 
straining in the kitchen,and was used to cover meat in a butchers - a 
light-weight gauze. It can also be used for window drapes.


This isn't what Joy uses for sheets.:-)

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 


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[lace] Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Margot Walker

On 17 Oct 2008, at 04:39, Jean Nathan wrote:

In the UK the word muslin usually refers to butter muslin which is  
a very fine, see-through, loosely woven cotton which is useful for  
steaming and straining in the kitchen,and was used to cover meat in  
a butchers - a light-weight gauze.


UK butter muslin = N.Am. cheesecloth
UK calico = N.Am. muslin (I think)
I don't know what the translation of the N.Am. calico is.

Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
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Re: [lace] Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Sister Claire
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Margot Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 On 17 Oct 2008, at 04:39, Jean Nathan wrote:

  In the UK the word muslin usually refers to butter muslin which is a very
 fine, see-through, loosely woven cotton which is useful for steaming and
 straining in the kitchen,and was used to cover meat in a butchers - a
 light-weight gauze.


 UK butter muslin = N.Am. cheesecloth
 UK calico = N.Am. muslin (I think)
 I don't know what the translation of the N.Am. calico is.

 Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
 Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot


Here is what Wikipedia says about muslin, with UK and US variations: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslin and here is what it says about calico 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(fabric)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28fabric%29,
with a word about what it means in the US.

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[lace] Christine Springett's beads

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Lemin
Lace folks collect all sorts of different things, however has anyone 
collected (or are collecting) actual beads that Christine mentions in her 
book Spangles and Superstitions ?
I have been looking out for them for some time and have found it a rather 
difficult collection to build up.


PS.  I know that David's name is on the author credit, but I suspect that 
this would be mostly Christine's work. (?)  I think the book is out of print 
now.  I have only ever managed to get a photocopy of it.






Brian and Jean
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Re: [lace] dilema

2008-10-17 Thread David in Ballarat

Dear Friends,


How about using simple flour paste -- flour and water (mix and cook 
one minute in the microwave).  It dissolves in water if you want to 
loosen it. This paste is used to mount fans leaves to fan sticks so 
should work on your backing fabric.


My Granny always added a little Methylated Spirits to that glue - she 
said it stopped it going off and smelling. She used an awful lot of 
it in her Papier Mache and I still have a couple of examples which 
are just fine, even though they are now over 70 years old.


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Re: [lace] Christine Springett's beads

2008-10-17 Thread Agnes Boddington

Hello Jean and Brian

I bought the book directly from Christine when I went to one of her 
classes in May this year, and she

also sells it at lace fairs.
Many of their books are now self-published, so perhaps you'd need to 
contact her if you want a copy.

Let me know and I'll let you have her address off list.

Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK

Brian Lemin wrote:
Lace folks collect all sorts of different things, however has anyone 
collected (or are collecting) actual beads that Christine mentions in 
her book Spangles and Superstitions ?
I have been looking out for them for some time and have found it a 
rather difficult collection to build up.


PS.  I know that David's name is on the author credit, but I suspect 
that this would be mostly Christine's work. (?)  I think the book is 
out of print now.  I have only ever managed to get a photocopy of it.




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Re: [lace] Re: Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Clay Blackwell
When I went to convention in Rockford, I wanted to take some of my lace 
pieces with me - unfolded.  So I got DH to cut me a section of PVC pipe 
the length I needed.  I used the 2 pipe for these pieces, and used a 
piece of navy blue cotton which I had pre-washed.  I cut it the same 
width as the pipe, serged the edges, and made a tube hem in one end 
which slipped over the pipe fairly snugly.  The cotton was cut long 
enough to accommodate the pieces I wanted to take.  The advantage, other 
than the small space it took in my luggage, was that once there, all I 
had to do was roll out the fabric, and the lace was nicely displayed 
against the blue background.  I was pleased with this solution.  But...  
I do wonder about the long-term effects of PVC, so am interested in 
Jeri's comments too.


Clay

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 Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
For something precious, it would be well to use an acid-free tube, or wrap the tube with buffered paper before wrapping it in muslin.  The buffered-paper option is probably both cheaper and more reliable than looking for acid-free tubing.-


Most home improvement stores sell PVC pipe.  I'm pretty sure polyvinyl chloride 
is inert and neutral pH.  Jeri can correct me if I'm wrong.  The stuff is 
reasonably inexpensive and, with acid-free tissue or very clean muslin around 
it, should be very good for wrapping textiles around.  Any comments, Jeri?
  


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Re: [lace] Re: Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Brian Lemin
My wife uses a similar arrangement for her small patchwork projects but she 
uses a Post Office posting tube, made of cardboard.  The one she uses is 
about 18 inches long and about 2 inches in diameter.



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When I went to convention in Rockford, I wanted to take some of my lace 
pieces with me - unfolded.  So I got DH to cut me a section of PVC pipe 
the length I needed.  I used the 2 pipe for these pieces, and used a 
piece of navy blue cotton which I had pre-washed.  I cut it the same width 
as the pipe, serged the edges, and made a tube hem in one end which 
slipped over the pipe fairly snugly.  The cotton was cut long enough to 
accommodate the pieces I wanted to take.  The advantage, other than the 
small space it took in my luggage, was that once there, all I had to do 
was roll out the fabric, and the lace was nicely displayed against the 
blue background.  I was pleased with this solution.  But...  I do wonder 
about the long-term effects of PVC, so am interested in Jeri's comments 
too.


Clay

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 Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For something precious, it 
would be well to use an acid-free tube, or wrap the tube with buffered 
paper before wrapping it in muslin.  The buffered-paper option is 
probably both cheaper and more reliable than looking for acid-free 
tubing.-


Most home improvement stores sell PVC pipe.  I'm pretty sure polyvinyl 
chloride is inert and neutral pH.  Jeri can correct me if I'm wrong.  The 
stuff is reasonably inexpensive and, with acid-free tissue or very clean 
muslin around it, should be very good for wrapping textiles around.  Any 
comments, Jeri?




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[lace] Harry Armstrong's cottage industry and the Springett's bead book

2008-10-17 Thread M. L. Mouzon
I have the edition of Spangles and Superstitions that was published in 
1987.  It was published by CD Springett, and there is an interesting 
story at the very end of the book about the possible end of  Harry 
Armstrong's equipment...someone told the Springett's that when space was 
needed for storage during WWII, that ten truckloads of equipment were 
removed and dumped in some nearby sandpits!  (another person says they 
were burned).  The different recollections in the story were about an 
event that had happened just about 40 years earlier. (Write down your 
memories!)


Would love to know what happened to all those patterns and bobbins!  (as 
well as the pillow, pillow horse, and bobbins that the lad threw into 
the pond in the illustration in Romance of the Lace Pillow)  I wonder 
if they were special bobbins, like mother  babes, or if they were 
utilitarian type bobbins, just to keep lacemakers supplied with 
something if they needed it.


I remember Lia Baumeister was given some bobbins that had been 
discovered when they were digging during work in Amsterdam.  Maybe one 
day, someone will discover a treaure trove of similar English bobbins 
that have survived at the bottom of a dried up pond or a sand pit... sigh


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[lace] Lace Fabric

2008-10-17 Thread Daphne Martin
Could someone tell me of a fabric supplier that sells a printed fabric called
Lace lady???
Or if anyone has a piece I could buy.  DaphneNorfolk England
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[lace] (no subject)

2008-10-17 Thread Agnes Boddington

Hi Debbie

I have the same edition. I don't know whether the booklet was ever 
reprinted in a different version.
Over the original printer's details (Apex Printers Ltd.) is a 
nameaddress sticker of the Springetts.


As regards the lace items that were dumped, you have got me interested 
in what happened to the place where they were dumped.

Most likely by now there'll be houses or a shopping complex on top of them.
I actually visited the Cottage in Olney last year with some other lace 
makers, but I had not read the booklet at that time.
Just had a look at Google maps, and it looks like the new town of Milton 
Keynes is built on top of most of the sand pits.


Agnes

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Re: [lace] dilema

2008-10-17 Thread Lisa Thompson
If you have enough thread length to sew in, but not enough to thread a 
needle, you could try using a thread loop to weave it in, i.e. folding

a fine thread in half and feeding the loop through the eye of a needle
as has been described here for doing sewings or adding beads.  I've used 
this method for weaving in short threads in lace and in my other needlework.


Lisa Thompson in Plano, Texas USA


Rhiannon wrote:


I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot
... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very
short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue?
fray check from the other side of fabric?
I'm sure as always someone will have a cunning plan!


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Re: [lace] Storing Napkins on Tube

2008-10-17 Thread Jeriames
Dear Lace Friends,
 
On the subject of rolling napkins for storage, I really liked Alice's  
advice.  But then, more comments and questions arose.
 
I have been to quite a few museum-sponsored conservation lectures and never  
heard PVC pipe mentioned in the lectures as a good choice for delicate 
textiles,  so cannot make a recommendation on that.  It may be perfectly OK, 
but I  
hesitate to absolutely endorse.
 
Following is the most streamlined and lightweight solution I can suggest  for 
those who are storage-space challenged  
 
Take a clean cardboard tube that has little glue (a bug  attractant) and roll 
heavy duty quality aluminum foil (the kind  used in your kitchen - brand 
names will differ in different countries) around  the tube to more than 
completely 
cover and seal the tube, including closing  off the open ends by pinching or 
twisting the ends to avoid wood pulp  off-gasing from inside the tube out the 
two ends -- this is why you should not  roll up textiles and put them inside 
tubes, which I believe one correspondent  mentioned.   Being sealed by the 
aluminum should deter bugs.  As  I write this, I realize that using foil around 
PVC would also work to  prevent any problems I cannot imagine at this time.
 
If you are going to travel and exhibit something rolled like this, then do  
as Clay suggests and roll your display cloth right along with your  lace.
 
If your lace needs a little padding in the roll, then use an appropriate  
white or ecru cloth.
 
The original letter was about red napkins with lace.  I  presume the napkins 
were pre-washed before the lace was sewn on, and there was  absolutely no dye 
running.  In a damp climate this is important.  A  bit of white cloth or 
acid-free tissue rolled along with the napkins  will show stains if they 
develop, 
and you can react to what is happening.
 
Another suggestion:  Do not iron fold creases.  Over time, and in  some 
climates, fabrics weaken along ironed creases.  Therefore, seek a tube  that is 
long enough to not need to fold napkins before rolling.  
 
And another:  Do not starch before storing.  Starch and iron them  when you 
are ready to use.  Stored items containing starch can  discolor.  In giving 
this advice, I am aware there are many different  starch formulas used in our 
world, and some react over time differently than  others.  I try to write to 
Arachne suggestions that will not cause harm no  matter where you are.
 
Store your tubes of lace in a clean/dry place, and unroll them a couple  
times a year to check their condition.  Put the unroll and check dates on  
your 
calendar, so you won't forget.
 
Jeri  Ames
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center  

 
In a message dated 10/17/2008 12:20:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Joy  Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
For something precious, it  would be well to use an acid-free tube, or wrap 
the tube with buffered paper  before wrapping it in muslin.  The buffered-paper 
option is probably both  cheaper and more reliable than looking for acid-free 
tubing.-

Most  home improvement stores sell PVC pipe.  I'm pretty sure polyvinyl  
chloride is inert and neutral pH.  Jeri can correct me if I'm  wrong.  The 
stuff 
is reasonably inexpensive and, with acid-free tissue or  very clean muslin 
around it, should be very good for wrapping textiles  around.  Any comments, 
Jeri?

Robin P.
Los Angeles, California,  USA

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Re: [lace] Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Margot,

I would define N.Am calico as a N.Am muslin weight fabric with a flowered
print.
N.Am muslin is a plain light weight fabric of 'natural' or white color.

Lorri
  On 17 Oct 2008, at 04:39, Jean Nathan wrote:

   In the UK the word muslin usually refers to butter muslin which is
   a very fine, see-through, loosely woven cotton which is useful for
   steaming and straining in the kitchen,and was used to cover meat in
   a butchers - a light-weight gauze.

  UK butter muslin = N.Am. cheesecloth
  UK calico = N.Am. muslin (I think)
  I don't know what the translation of the N.Am. calico is.

  Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
  Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
  http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbothttp://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot

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Re: [lace] Storing Napkins on Tube

2008-10-17 Thread Sue
Thank you all very much.  I have had a few helpful emails about this 
now, some are now clearer after reading this one Jeri.
My lace is ruby coloured on prewashed ruby fabric, pressed not needing 
to be starched. (I had some excellent help with this earlier in the year 
when finishing the napkins).
As I am expecting to use these napkins from time to time following this 
proceedure should work very well, store, use, clean and return until the 
next time.  What a great idea.  I have saved this email to remind myself 
of all the essential information.


What a wonderful mine of information and help you all are.  Thank you 
very much.

Sue T, in sunny but chilly Dorset UK.


Dear Lace Friends,
 
On the subject of rolling napkins for storage, I really liked Alice's  
advice.  But then, more comments and questions arose.
 
I have been to quite a few museum-sponsored conservation lectures and never  
heard PVC pipe mentioned in the lectures as a good choice for delicate 
textiles,  so cannot make a recommendation on that.  It may be perfectly OK, but I  
hesitate to absolutely endorse.
 
Following is the most streamlined and lightweight solution I can suggest  for 
those who are storage-space challenged  
 
Take a clean cardboard tube that has little glue (a bug  attractant) and roll 
heavy duty quality aluminum foil (the kind  used in your kitchen - brand 
names will differ in different countries) around  the tube to more than completely 
cover and seal the tube, including closing  off the open ends by pinching or 
twisting the ends to avoid wood pulp  off-gasing from inside the tube out the 
two ends -- this is why you should not  roll up textiles and put them inside 
tubes, which I believe one correspondent  mentioned.   Being sealed by the 
aluminum should deter bugs.  As  I write this, I realize that using foil around 
PVC would also work to  prevent any problems I cannot imagine at this time.
 
If you are going to travel and exhibit something rolled like this, then do  
as Clay suggests and roll your display cloth right along with your  lace.
 
If your lace needs a little padding in the roll, then use an appropriate  
white or ecru cloth.
 
The original letter was about red napkins with lace.  I  presume the napkins 
were pre-washed before the lace was sewn on, and there was  absolutely no dye 
running.  In a damp climate this is important.  A  bit of white cloth or 
acid-free tissue rolled along with the napkins  will show stains if they develop, 
and you can react to what is happening.
 
Another suggestion:  Do not iron fold creases.  Over time, and in  some 
climates, fabrics weaken along ironed creases.  Therefore, seek a tube  that is 
long enough to not need to fold napkins before rolling.  
 
And another:  Do not starch before storing.  Starch and iron them  when you 
are ready to use.  Stored items containing starch can  discolor.  In giving 
this advice, I am aware there are many different  starch formulas used in our 
world, and some react over time differently than  others.  I try to write to 
Arachne suggestions that will not cause harm no  matter where you are.
 
Store your tubes of lace in a clean/dry place, and unroll them a couple  
times a year to check their condition.  Put the unroll and check dates on  your 
calendar, so you won't forget.
 
Jeri  Ames
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center  

 
In a message dated 10/17/2008 12:20:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 Joy  Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
For something precious, it  would be well to use an acid-free tube, or wrap 
the tube with buffered paper  before wrapping it in muslin.  The buffered-paper 
option is probably both  cheaper and more reliable than looking for acid-free 
tubing.-


Most  home improvement stores sell PVC pipe.  I'm pretty sure polyvinyl  
chloride is inert and neutral pH.  Jeri can correct me if I'm  wrong.  The stuff 
is reasonably inexpensive and, with acid-free tissue or  very clean muslin 
around it, should be very good for wrapping textiles  around.  Any comments, Jeri?


Robin P.
Los Angeles, California,  USA

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Re: [lace] Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Sue
As I have made clothing for our living history camping for a number of 
years I do have a lightweight natural calico fabric in my stash.  My 
husbands shirts are always made out of that, plus a few drawer string 
bags for totting stuff about and for hiding plastics:-)  I will need to 
go hunting. 
Sue T, dorset UK


I would define N.Am calico as a N.Am muslin weight fabric with a flowered
print.
N.Am muslin is a plain light weight fabric of 'natural' or white color.

Lorri
  On 17 Oct 2008, at 04:39, Jean Nathan wrote:

   In the UK the word muslin usually refers to butter muslin which is
   a very fine, see-through, loosely woven cotton which is useful for
   steaming and straining in the kitchen,and was used to cover meat in
   a butchers - a light-weight gauze.

  UK butter muslin = N.Am. cheesecloth
  UK calico = N.Am. muslin (I think)
  I don't know what the translation of the N.Am. calico is.

  Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
  Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
  http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbothttp://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot

  


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Re: [lace] Storing Napkins

2008-10-17 Thread Joy Beeson

On 10/17/08 3:39 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:


In the UK the word muslin usually refers to butter muslin
which is a very fine, see-through, loosely woven cotton
which is useful for steaming and straining in the
kitchen,and was used to cover meat in a butchers - a
light-weight gauze. It can also be used for window
drapes.

This isn't what Joy uses for sheets.:-)


It is, in fact, scenery muslin: 
http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/3624-AA.shtml?lnav=fabric_cotton.html
If I ever wear my muslin sheets out, I'll buy something a 
bit lighter in weight -- when I bought them, quilt lining, 
which wears out almost instantly, was the only alternative. 
 Which is the main reason my sheets have lasted so long: 
expecting them to wear out promptly, I bought enough muslin 
to make two sets of three even though I already had two 
muslin sheets, then I got tired of the fabric for the second 
set cluttering my stash and moved it into the linen closet. 
  It take a long time for a sheet to work its way to the 
top of the stack.


But I've made one thinning sheet into pillowcases, tore 
another into a pair of sofa-bed sheets, and started keeping 
one sheet in the quilt box.  Another five years and I should 
need to make new sheets!


The muslin protecting my embroidery is thinner, but still 
sheeting weight.  Butter muslin would be hopelessly 
unsuitable.


I suspect that butter muslin is a particularly fine variety 
of cheesecloth -- such cheesecloth as I've seen had rather 
large holes between the threads.  It's mostly found in the 
form of dust rags.  (I presume that better cheesecloth was 
available when Aunt Lois made her own cottage cheese.)
(I use a stainless-steel steamer when I want to drain yogurt 
to make dip.)


I think that only quilters say calico in North America 
now, and use it to mean tiny sprigged prints that are 
supposed to look old fashioned.  I believe that calico 
used to mean what we called cotton print in my youth, and 
now call quilter's cottons.


--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where it's a lovely fall day
and house painters are walking around on my roof.

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[lace] Antique Dutch Bobbins/ Lia Baumeister

2008-10-17 Thread Jeriames
Dear Debbie and Bobbin Collectors,
 
The subject line title above has been changed from  Harry Armstrong's 
cottage industry and the Springett's bead book, to  correspond with the part 
of 
Debbie's memo about antique Dutch bobbins (text  at bottom of this letter).
 
I took the lace tour in connection with the Groningen OIDFA Congress this  
past Summer.  We went to the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, and Lia  Baumeister 
was in the kitchen area with 3 lacemaker-demonstrators.  There  was a display 
case showing original old Dutch bobbins.  
 
The story, as I understood it, was that a bobbin was found in the house's  
cess pit (outdoor privy) at the back of the property, the contents being dated  
to about the first quarter of 1600's, whereas Rembrandt lived in  the house 
for about 20 years, starting in 1639.  From this found bobbin,  historians have 
determined that lacemakers probably lived in the house in the  early 1600's 
 
Similar, but not exactly the same, bobbins can be seen in OIDFA Number 4,  
2007, page 27.   I think there was an article by Lia about  the Rembrandt house 
laces, and if someone can find it in a bulletin, it may have  a picture of the 
actual found bobbin.   
 
Reproduction wooden bobbins are available in the gift shop of the  house.  
They are rather slender, 3 1/2 in length, with a round bead-shaped  bulb 
(about 
5/8  in diameter) to add weight, and cost 5.95 Euros each in  July 2008.  
Finish is either light or dark.  I chose the dark because  it looked more 
antique.
 
Jeri  Ames
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center  

 
In a message dated 10/17/2008 9:19:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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I  remember Lia Baumeister was given some bobbins that had been 
discovered  when they were digging during work in Amsterdam.  Maybe one 
day,  someone will discover a treaure trove of similar English bobbins 
that have  survived at the bottom of a dried up pond or a sand pit...  sigh



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