[lace] Bookmarks
I use the same method as mentioned in other messages for inserting bookmarks (using a folded piece of thin card) but I usually cut the tassle short on the piece of lace itself. I then use a hole punch to make a hole at the base of the plastic sleeve and use the left over thread from the bobbins to make a simple tassle - lengths of thread folded in half, use a chunky crochet hook, put it through the punched hole then pull the folded end of the threads through same punched hole, pull the other half of the threads through this loop, pull up and trim it to whatever length pleases, this secures the bookmark in the sleeve. Nicky in Suffolk - 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] Shakespeare wearing lace
If you click on the image on the Irish Times webpage http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0310/1224242572504.html like this http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0310/1224242572504_1.html the lace is clearer. Lindy in Ireland - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti lizl...@bigpond.com To: Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:39 AM Subject: [lace] Shakespeare wearing lace Personally, I really don't care if it was Shakespeare's collar or not - I just Love it, and wish we could see a better close up of the Reticella However, - I would think that it most probably was his own, as by then he was famous, and quite Someone, so could most probably afford this one special piece - for High days ans holidays!! They used to wear their Very Best for portraits, and often had a lacemaker sitting with the painter to make sure they got the lace painted correctly. I am always amazed, and in awe, at the skills of the painters, - when we could make a fair replica of the lace just from a painting made centuries ago. Regards from Liz in Melbourn, Oz. lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 329 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1888 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - 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] Shakespeare wearing lace
In a message dated 3/11/2009 11:07:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lacema...@eircom.net writes: _http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0310/1224242572504_1.html_ (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0310/1224242572504_1.html) So, do we think it is Italian lace or English lace? Devon **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219671244x1201345076/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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Shakespeare wearing lace
Thanks Lindy. So has he got one blue eye and one brown eye, or is that artistic licence with lighting :) David http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0310/1224242572504_1.html the lace is clearer. Lindy in Ireland - 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] Shakespeare wearing lace
Either Italian or English? or Flemish? The painted face seems oddly elongate, bone structure not quite right. I copied the image and played with it in a paint program to squash the height and widen the face to get a more natural appearance. Interesting. The portraitist could have been several people, one would be expert at drafting the lace part. Someone else would do the features. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:14 AM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/11/2009 11:07:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lacema...@eircom.net writes: _ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0310/1224242572504_1.html_ (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0310/1224242572504_1.html ) So, do we think it is Italian lace or English lace? -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - 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] Shakespeare wearing lace
The only problem I have with that picture is how much it looks like Sir Walter Raleigh...who also lived around that period of time. However who am I to dicker over who looks like who hmmm?? Doesn't matter who it is...the lace is gorgeous...pity the painter didn't go into slightly more detail on that lace. Cearbhael and Pippin the Took -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Ligeti Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:40 PM To: Arachne Subject: [lace] Shakespeare wearing lace Personally, I really don't care if it was Shakespeare's collar or not - I just Love it, and wish we could see a better close up of the Reticella - 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] Shakespeare wearing lace
Just for fun I googled images of Sir Walter Raleigh for whom there seem to be heaps of portraits. Yes, there is a comparison in the style of beard, and general face, can see how the one would remind you of the other. Almost all the images of Sir Walter Raleigh have him wearing a smallish neck ruff. An early one, c. 1585 has a very wide collar (what is the flip description, head on a platter I think), with probably needlelace trim. At first I thought he had lace in his hair, but have decided that is a hat, possibly patterned velvet to match the garment. Here is a link showing Sir Walter's lace collar: http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/image69256.html On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Angel Skubic cearbh...@mywdo.com wrote: The only problem I have with that picture is how much it looks like Sir Walter Raleigh...who also lived around that period of time. However who am I -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - 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] Shakespeare wearing lace
I seem to recall (perhaps incorrectly) that somewhere in all the verbiage about it was the mention that it had been considered to be a picture of Raleigh until this new theory came out. Devon **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219671244x1201345076/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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Shakespeare wearing lace
Maybe neither. Intrigues me where the lace could be from, and when. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: I seem to recall (perhaps incorrectly) that somewhere in all the verbiage about it was the mention that it had been considered to be a picture of Raleigh until this new theory came out. Devon -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Shakespeare wearing lace
I think Sir Walter Raleigh was written on the back of the portrait, which is why it was thought to be him not Shakespeare. However, many of the Aristocracy look very similar in these 16th C paintings. The person on the cover of the Renaissance Miniatures book looks very similar, and so does the painting thought to be of Sir Thomas Effingham (shown in Earnshaws Lace in Fashion.) The beard shape fines down the face and the painters made the face shape longer and thinner. -- They were just a proud as we are, and got the painter to paint them at their best!!! - We have Air Brushes today to slim us down a bit, - they just had to pay the painter...! :)) Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 330 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Sir Walter's lace collar:
Those ruffs must have been awefully uncomfortable to wear!! I wonder how many yards/metres there were in the ruffs. does anyone know? I know there has been something on a web site as to how to make a ruff using the wired ribbon - and she used about 2 metrs I think. However these ones would have far more than that in them Gosh! just think about making yard and yards of NL to edge them with!! Yuk!! How boring that must have been :) Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 330 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - 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] Crocodiles etc.... (Long Message)
Ours was perfectly legal too. However the French authorities obviously decided it would do in his cabinet 'You are not allowed more than 100ml liquid in cabin luggage!'. I proved that we'd bought it in the duty free in Havana, but we were NOT allowed it and it was confiscated! I'm still rather annoyed about it! Sue in EY On 10 Mar 2009, at 22:31, Thurlow Weed wrote: This made me think of a sea voyage I took with my parents in 1977 to Nassau, Bahamas from Miami. We were all birdwatchers, and my father had somehow tracked down a birder in Nassau. The gentleman gave my father, as a gift, a bottle of Cuban rum -- Batista rum! As we came through Customs in Miami, of course we had nothing to declare, since the rum was pre-Castro and thus perfectly legal! The Customs agent, however, was quite prepared to confiscate the rum and write up some official-looking paperwork, and probably have us all detained for attempting the smuggled contraband rum into the U.S. However, when my father pointed out the *date* on the label -- I think it was 1952. A very disappointed Customs agent! One wonders where that bottle would have ended up, had it been contraband? In the evidence locker? or perhaps in the agent's home liquor cabinet...? :) 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] :-) Life explained
I have seen this before but enjoyed it again. Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa On the first day, God created the dog and said: 'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.' The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?' So God agreed. On the second day, God created the monkey and said: 'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span.' The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?' And God agreed. On the third day, God created the cow and said: 'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.' The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years... How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?' And God agreed again. On the fourth day, God created humans and said: 'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years.' But the human said: 'Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?' 'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.' So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone. Life has now been explained to you. There is no need to thank me for this valuable information. I'm doing it as a public service. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3926 (20090311) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com 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] :-) Mom's in therapy
A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young Mothers and their small children . 'You all have obsessions,' he observed. To the first mother, Mary, he said, 'You are obsessed with eating. You've even named your daughter Candy. ' He turned to the second Mom, Ann: 'Your obsession is with money. Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny . He turned to the third Mom, Joyce: 'Your obsession is alcohol . This too shows itself in your child's name, Brandy. ' At this point, the fourth mother, Kathy, quietly got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, 'Come on, Dick, this guy has no idea what he's talking about . Let's go pick up Willy from school and go get dinner. ' Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3926 (20090311) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
