Re: [lace] Re: Russian Kokoshnik Headdresses
that's what i like in Arachne . you suddenly fall accross gorgeous laces and costumes on websites you didn't even dream of ... thanks to all ! dom from Paris . Avital a écrit : Thanks, Jeri! As always, you have a font of information at your fingertips. I suspected there was some kind of fertility connection behind the egg-shaped protuberances of the headdress. I've seen a number of pictures of Russian headdresses but never that kind. Thanks again! Avital - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] threads
While hunting out spare knitting needles to give away to a local care home this morning, I came across two spools of real silk thread that I inherited recently inside a sewing box. It says it is Perivale sewing silks, the size mentioned is 130/3. there is lots of thread on those two. Another little one with it called Ackermanns 50 the word Schlusselgarn on the other end label. I feel the 50 might be the meterage rather than the size of the thread, although it does seem fine or maybe the equivalent of broder 50 or 30. Does anyone have any knowledge of these threads. I will probably put some onto some bobbins and work a piece of tape, to see how it works up. Sue T, Dorset UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace]: Proposed alternative mounting material
Dear fellow arachnians, How are we all doing? I am having a highly ingenious morning- firstly my thread-breakage blighted pink trinity honeycomb ground frame edging has been successfully removed and sewn off. I think its looking great too ~ check out webshots: http://tinyurl.com/dc5ctr Secondly I may have stumbled on an novel idea to mount my sunset circle. It has been sat waiting for sewing off since completion and after finishing pink trinity I was in sewing off mode. As I went to where I stored it I had to move some circular polystyene pizza packaging bases out of the way which i had saved thinking i could build them into a lace cushion?!? Then i dawned on me that I could mount my lace onto one and attach it to a frame/card of mount board. We shall soon find out how successful this idea is as I now think this will great made up as one huge mothers day card. Thanks for all the support Rhiannon (glad of some sunshine, Ireland) _ Twice the funShare photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Winner of Friends' Day Raffle
I apologise for the delay - but the winner's name was selected today randomly by the man (Erik) whom I met 30 years ago yesterday - And the winner is: Joan Parks of B.C. Canada Please send me your snail address privately, Joan. Thanks to everyone who participated. Pene, an Australian living in a very snowy Tartu, in southern Estonia, where everything is now covered with at least 10 cm of snow which arrived Friday night!! Look at the webcam from our front window: http://www.piip.org/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Introduction
Hello I've been lurking on this list for a couple of weeks so thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Lesley from near Stockport which is near Manchester (UK). I've been home educating for nearly 30 years and as the youngest has now left home, I find myself with some spare time to fill. I have always knitted and croched, done cross-stitch and dressmaking, and have now discovered bobbin lace which is nicely filling that spare time. I have only been on one weekend course, so am a real novice, but want to develop my new-found skill and am very keen to learn. I'm going to a lace fair in March where I hope to find some new patterns to try. I have enjoyed reading the various discussion here, and seeing the photos some of you have sent. Much of these have been way beyond my experience, so I've not joined in yet. I do hope to before long. Regards Lesley - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Introduction
Hello Lesley Welcome to the list. We look forward to your pictures of lace. No matter what they look like. No one on the list will judge you. We all were beginners at one time. Its just lovely that you are making lace. Daphne Norfolk England Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 14:47:18 + From: lesley.blacks...@ntlworld.com To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Introduction Hello I've been lurking on this list for a couple of weeks so thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Lesley from near Stockport which is near Manchester (UK). I've been home educating for nearly 30 years and as the youngest has now left home, I find myself with some spare time to fill. I have always knitted and croched, done cross-stitch and dressmaking, and have now discovered bobbin lace which is nicely filling that spare time. I have only been on one weekend course, so am a real novice, but want to develop my new-found skill and am very keen to learn. I'm going to a lace fair in March where I hope to find some new patterns to try. I have enjoyed reading the various discussion here, and seeing the photos some of you have sent. Much of these have been way beyond my experience, so I've not joined in yet. I do hope to before long. Regards Lesley - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place Learn more! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Introduction
Have you found out about the English Lace Guild? http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/ Joining them will get you a quarterly Lace Magazine, which is one of the best available. I think they may also be able to tell you about lace groups/ teachers in your area, but can't remember for sure, as I no longer live in England. I lived in Manchester for 9 months and worked in Manchester, Stockport or Warrington during that time. Now I live north of Chicago. The annual lace convention / weekend would be a great event for you to go to, and is coming up fairly soon - Worcester: 17th-19th April, details are on the website, under events. Sue Babbs bscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace]: Proposed alternative mounting material
What a gorgeous piece of lace! Norma (Salem, VA) http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com NATA #847 Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace]: Proposed alternative mounting material
Well done! It looks really pretty - the coloured gimps give a very different feel from the traditional white. Beth in Cheshire (NW England) where we've seen some sunshine today On Sunday 01 March 2009, Rhiannon Mann wrote: Dear fellow arachnians, How are we all doing? I am having a highly ingenious morning- firstly my thread-breakage blighted pink trinity honeycomb ground frame edging has been successfully removed and sewn off. I think its looking great too ~ check out webshots: http://tinyurl.com/dc5ctr Secondly I may have stumbled on an novel idea to mount my sunset circle. It has been sat waiting for sewing off since completion and after finishing pink trinity I was in sewing off mode. As I went to where I stored it I had to move some circular polystyene pizza packaging bases out of the way which i had saved thinking i could build them into a lace cushion?!? Then i dawned on me that I could mount my lace onto one and attach it to a frame/card of mount board. We shall soon find out how successful this idea is as I now think this will great made up as one huge mothers day card. Thanks for all the support Rhiannon (glad of some sunshine, Ireland) _ Twice the funShare photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace Recognized
I had a similar thing happen to me when a gentleman saw me lacing at our local Fair. He recognized it and said a friend had some lacemaking equipment of her mothers that she wanted to find a home for. I said I was interested and gave him my card to pass on to the friend. She called and we arranged for the exchange. It turned out to be 6 large packing boxes of materials; 10 pillows, over 300 pr of bobbins, a few books and some tatting and needle point materials. What a wonderful exchange both with the gentleman and the daughter. I have shared my good fortune with several friends. I am also planning to share some of the bobbins with those here on Arachne. When I find out from the postal service how many bobbins I can include in a small packet I will have a raffle. More on that later. Lorri But on the Other hand, one year, at the same venue, an elderly man came along and said Ah! Lace!! It turned out he was sent out from Nottingham, England in the 1950s to show a company how to use their new Lacemaking machine, and had stayed here ever since!!It is always so nice when someone who recognises lace and lacemaking, and appreciates it, comes to a demonstration. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz lizl...@bigpond.commailto:lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] threads
Hello Sue I haven't seen either of those but the Perivale 130/3 means 130 denier x 3 plies, probably just a little thicker than common or garden Sylko cotton. Re Ackermanns. 50 will be a size, if it's yardage/meterage yds or meters is always written after the number. Silk is usually measured in denier but it could be another measurement such as Tex, Dtex, Dram, Micron or Metric number. 50 denier will be a lot finer than the 130/3, probably of the thickness for fine point ground lace. Brenda On 1 Mar 2009, at 12:30, Sue wrote: It says it is Perivale sewing silks, the size mentioned is 130/3. there is lots of thread on those two. Another little one with it called Ackermanns 50 the word Schlusselgarn on the other end label. I feel the 50 might be the meterage rather than the size of the thread, although it does seem fine or maybe the equivalent of broder 50 or 30. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Proposed alternative mounting material
Hello Again, Thanks for your kind feedback on my last upload As I was on a roll the plan for a mother's day card was put into full swing and here is a link to the mounted appearance on the foam base: http://tinyurl.com/dlq5kd with other images uploaded into my album on webshots of the finished card which i scored and triple folded to cover the foam face. I found the base so easy to use and sew through- a rare moment of genious! Success all round apart from some cracking of my mountboard along one edge- nothing a nice ribbon cant disguise! I supose the motto is one persons rubbish is anothers treasure Rhiannon EARLIER I WROTE Secondly I may have stumbled on an novel idea to mount my sunset circle. It has been sat waiting for sewing off since completion and after finishing pink trinity I was in sewing off mode. As I went to where I stored it I had to move some circular polystyene pizza packaging bases out of the way which i had saved thinking i could build them into a lace cushion?!? Then i dawned on me that I could mount my lace onto one and attach it to a frame/card of mount board. We shall soon find out how successful this idea is as I now think this will great made up as one huge mothers day card. Thanks for all the support Rhiannon (glad of some sunshine, Ireland) _ Twice the fun-Share photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Proposed alternative mounting material
Sorry url did no work- heres alternative: http://tinyurl.com/dnzslr Sorry again From: rhiannonm...@hotmail.co.uk To: lace@arachne.com Subject: RE: [lace] Proposed alternative mounting material Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:34:48 + Hello Again, Thanks for your kind feedback on my last upload As I was on a roll the plan for a mother's day card was put into full swing and here is a link to the mounted appearance on the foam base: http://tinyurl.com/dlq5kd with other images uploaded into my album on webshots of the finished card which i scored and triple folded to cover the foam face. I found the base so easy to use and sew through- a rare moment of genious! Success all round apart from some cracking of my mountboard along one edge- nothing a nice ribbon cant disguise! I supose the motto is one persons rubbish is anothers treasure Rhiannon EARLIER I WROTE Secondly I may have stumbled on an novel idea to mount my sunset circle. It has been sat waiting for sewing off since completion and after finishing pink trinity I was in sewing off mode. As I went to where I stored it I had to move some circular polystyene pizza packaging bases out of the way which i had saved thinking i could build them into a lace cushion?!? Then i dawned on me that I could mount my lace onto one and attach it to a frame/card of mount board. We shall soon find out how successful this idea is as I now think this will great made up as one huge mothers day card. Thanks for all the support Rhiannon (glad of some sunshine, Ireland) _ Twice the fun-Share photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace Damage from Wood Pulp Adhesives
Dear Lace Friends, A cautionary reminder to all who want their laces *to last a very long time in best possible condition*: Wood pulp will off-gas acid into lace, and weaken threads. It goes so far as to turn white/light laces to brown; in a process we call acid burn. It happens to colored threads, too, but takes longer to be visible. A food box is usually made from wood pulp (at least, in the U.S.). It is unsuitable to mount lace on it. Someone recently mentioned using a pizza box for lace storage -- not a good idea! No matter how clean such a box looks, there may be edible substances on the surface of any box that we do not see, but to which microscopic organisms are attracted. Again, not good for precious lace. It is not fun to discover damage to something of sentimental or real value. Something else to note: Mount boards sometimes have an adhesive surface. These tend to turn brown over time, and lose their sticking power. Same goes for adhesive-backed tapes. Both transfer brownish stains to textiles. Again, some adhesives are edible and make a nice lunch for little organisms that then leave trails behind. While eating adhesives, these mini-monsters nibble on lace threads. Please do no harm. Please do nothing that cannot be reversed. Learn about alternative mountings that will better preserve what you've made. Learn about appropriate lace storage materials. A lace guild is a good place to start asking/learning about what is best for lace. Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 3/1/2009 8:00:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rhiannonm...@hotmail.co.uk writes: Secondly I may have stumbled on an novel idea to mount my sunset circle. It has been sat waiting for sewing off since completion and after finishing pink trinity I was in sewing off mode. As I went to where I stored it I had to move some circular polystyrene pizza packaging bases out of the way which i had saved thinking i could build them into a lace cushion?!? Then it dawned on me that I could mount my lace onto one and attach it to a frame/card of mount board. We shall soon find out how successful this idea is as I now think this will great made up as one huge mothers day card. Thanks for all the support Rhiannon **Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filingncid=emlcntusyelp0004) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: Lace weight wool in NM
hallo mr Bazar, yes that is what i was realy looking for those numbers do say me a lot and now all fals into perfect place many many thanx and congratulations whit you perfect legs unfortunatly mother nature was not so kind to me... i now do need to pink a tear away francis Leonard Bazar schreef: Dear Francis The Shetland wool spinners of whom I am a satisfied customer, but otherwise unconnected, give what I think are the details you require. The website is www.shetlandwool.org, and clicking on “products” gets you to the wools. The “lace weight” yarns are dyed, the one-ply being 1/14.5NM, the two-ply 2/14.5NM. The “Shetland Supreme” ones also have lace weights, one-ply being 1/16NM, two-ply2/16NM. I hope this does mean enough to you; there are some other statistics which I also don’t understand. From a practical point of view, the Supreme is worsted spun and undyed, the range of colours (including black, grey and a dark brown) are what the sheep come in, and works up much finer than the ordinary dyed. Using the ordinary, I get a tension of 44st to 10 cm on 1.75mm needles, and use 108st for a sock for a small but perfectly-formed leg (mine). The Supreme, admittedly on 1.5mm needles to get a suitable fabric, requires 180st. leonard...@yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.5/1977 - Release Date: 02/28/09 17:21:00 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
On 2/27/09 8:19 AM, Clay Blackwell wrote: . . . and the deer seem to be smart enough to know that they're free to wander about un-molested in the city. The City of Warsaw organizes a herd-reduction every year, using volunteer bow hunters. (I don't know why they volunteer when it means jumping through a lot of extra hoops.) But Warsaw insists on conducting the hunt under rules intended to insure plenty of deer for next year! On the other hand, when I googled hunting regulations to gather material for a scathing letter to the editor, I found a note that DNR intends to declare Warsaw an urban hunting zone, where hunters are allowed an extra deer each, and have to shoot a deer without antlers before they are allowed to shoot at one with a good rack. (I got the impression that it's an official rule that an urban-zone hunter who takes a deer with small antlers is presumed to have mistaken it for a doe.) I hope (but don't believe) that the urban zone will include the Old Boy's Club. That's where the deer who forbid me to grow tomatoes and peppers come from. I never even considered planting corn. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where a few deluded spring bulbs are sending up shoots. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Honiton
If you are winding bobbins from scratch there is no need to have a knot, but the nature of Honiton lace is that bobbins are frequently bowed off (taken out) and re-used in another part of the lace. When a pair is bowed off using blunt scissors the threads on that pair will be knotted together. You then unwind one and rewind the other, at the same time and without undoing the hitch. If the knot is wound back far enough, the nature of Honiton is that it will probably come out again before it gets into the lace. Brenda On 28 Feb 2009, at 14:42, Wendy Davies wrote: I have just finished my first project in Beds and want to move on to Honiton. I have the Hontion book by Elsie Luxton which I bought form Allhallows a couple of years ago. Looking at the first project in the book is the three leaf spray, it tells me to wind the bobbins and put a knot in some of the threads. What I would like to know is what are the knots there for because usually a knot is our worst enemy or am i reading the instructions wrong. This is the fourth type of lace I am learning only another heaven knows how many to learn. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent - not Allhallows in Devon! http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
I would think it would be hard enough to kill a deer with a bow at all, let alone to kill them in any particular order. How do they keep from impaling children and old people in an urban hunting zone? Devon In a message dated 3/1/2009 2:02:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, joybee...@comcast.net writes: where hunters are allowed an extra deer each, and have to shoot a deer without antlers before they are allowed to shoot at one with a good rack. (I got the impression that it's an official rule that an urban-zone hunter who takes a deer with small antlers is presumed to have mistaken it for a doe.) **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
On Mar 1, 2009, at 16:12, dmt11h...@aol.com (Devon) wrote: I would think it would be hard enough to kill a deer with a bow at all, Hey, that's how all deer was hunted in the days of interest (when lace was still a novelty). And, like everything else, practice makes perfect :) Bow hunting is quite a popular sport, according to my stepdaughter's husband. He and his father get a deer, each, with a shotgun and then one, each, with a bow (slightly different season for each weapon -- longer for the bow). They keep the meat of one deer for the two families and donate the rest. But, they don't hunt in any urban zones. That, I've never heard of. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
