[lace] Re: Kantcentrum
I have just received the message below for inclusion in the next issue of the Lace Guild magazine - not sure if anyone else has received a similar e-mail or not. As the next issue isn't due to be published until the end of January I thought I would circulate it now so that anyone who wanted to write to the Mayor had the details, I have asked if there is a deadline to write to the mayor. Regards Susan --- Susan Roberts Editor - Lace Guild magazine http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/susanroberts From: Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:20 PM To: Subject: message HLN online message To the members of Lace Guild, Last thuesday on the 5th of November the Kantcentrum in Brugge was closed after 40 years of education. In the General meeting the menbers of staff have neen told that there is no future for them. This dicision is based on problems of financial art. The Kantcentre has lookedfor a new financier for several years, after the West Vlaamse management stopped with the subsidies. But they didn´t find anyone. The Kantcentre started in 1970 with education in lace. Many teachers have followed their education there, and can now bring their knowledge to other people who want to learn lacemaking. Every year the Kantcentre organizes the Lacedays and many tourist make acquaintance with the lace and the lacemakers. With the sunnercources it was possible for people all over the world to learn several laces. I followed several years the Binche by Anne Marie Verbeeke. In my class were 6 different countries present. Also the Lace Magazin is no more available. I hope that with my message many lace makers stand up to do an appeal to the Mayor of Brugge to help the Kantcentre and give them a new future. It is a disaster, not only for the kantcentre but also for the city of Brugge. The adress of the Mayor is: Patrick Moenaert, Stadhuis, Burg 12, 8000 Brugge, Belgie. With kind regards, Gerry Fassotte/Impelmans. - 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] Re: Kantcentrum
So sad, but the same old story regarding lace, our own local colleges gave up all the lace tuition classes because they said they were unviable but the classes had had their fees raised time after time so that they priced themselves out and the few who could afford to continue were not given the chance. It's about time that they realised that these crafts are important not only to us but to future generations, the art of lacemaking will die out completely if we do not fight to keep it alive. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - 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] Re: Kantcentrum
Very sad indeed. I had the opportunity to visit the Centrum and observe some of the wonderful ladies there doing lace. I had a subscription to the beautiful and informative magazine that the Centrum published. This is truly sad for Bruges as well as for the lace world. Isabel Wear Realtor Sutton Group - West Coast 7547 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V6P 3H6 Mobile: 604-377-3475 E-mail: isabel.w...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Susan Roberts Sent: November-09-09 12:56 PM To: Arachne - Lace Subject: [lace] Re: Kantcentrum I have just received the message below for inclusion in the next issue of the Lace Guild magazine - not sure if anyone else has received a similar e-mail or not. As the next issue isn't due to be published until the end of January I thought I would circulate it now so that anyone who wanted to write to the Mayor had the details, I have asked if there is a deadline to write to the mayor. Regards Susan --- Susan Roberts Editor - Lace Guild magazine http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/susanroberts From: Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:20 PM To: Subject: message HLN online message To the members of Lace Guild, Last thuesday on the 5th of November the Kantcentrum in Brugge was closed after 40 years of education. In the General meeting the menbers of staff have neen told that there is no future for them. This dicision is based on problems of financial art. The Kantcentre has lookedfor a new financier for several years, after the West Vlaamse management stopped with the subsidies. But they didn4t find anyone. The Kantcentre started in 1970 with education in lace. Many teachers have followed their education there, and can now bring their knowledge to other people who want to learn lacemaking. Every year the Kantcentre organizes the Lacedays and many tourist make acquaintance with the lace and the lacemakers. With the sunnercources it was possible for people all over the world to learn several laces. I followed several years the Binche by Anne Marie Verbeeke. In my class were 6 different countries present. Also the Lace Magazin is no more available. I hope that with my message many lace makers stand up to do an appeal to the Mayor of Brugge to help the Kantcentre and give them a new future. It is a disaster, not only for the kantcentre but also for the city of Brugge. The adress of the Mayor is: Patrick Moenaert, Stadhuis, Burg 12, 8000 Brugge, Belgie. With kind regards, Gerry Fassotte/Impelmans. - 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] 2009 Arachne Card Exchange Website update
Hello one and all It must be getting closer to December as I have received 4 card scans/photos so far for the official Arachne 2009 Card Exchange. I will be answering every email with a scan attachment just to let you know I have received it. If you do not get a reply from me, please email again. Please remember to send your scan and a bit of writing about the card, your name, your reciprients name, what pattern, thread, idea etc Above all, have fun. -- Jenny Brandis, Kununurra Western Australia URL: www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace EMAIL: je...@brandis.com.au - 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] Torchon and grid degrees/Kantcentrum
Hi Sue, My Christmas card for the exchange this year uses Torchon ground but is on a 52 degree grid. I needed to work at that degree to get the correct shape for my design. I see nothing wrong in manipulating the grid if it improves the design. I was also sorry to see the news about the Kantcentrum. I was lucky enough to visit them when I persuaded DH to do a side trip when we were on a business trip to Brussels. I also managed to buy a cookie pillow from the shop and get it back home on the airlines even though it would not fit in the overhead or under the seat. I remember on one of the flights home that I held it behind my legs in the seat, it was not obvious to the flight attendant as I covered my legs with the provided blanket. I also did not say it was full of grass when I went through customs. :-) Pity, I probably will never get back to Brugge again. Janice I have been making lots of torchon lace since 2001, but whilst playing with the design program the other day I brought up a bauble pattern I had made up and then messed about changing the grid angle, just to see what would happen. I changed the grid size a couple of times, but found the 52 made a good visual change to the bauble, but if I made it like that it would still be better in torchon type stitches rather than the point ground (because of the stitches involved throughout). Do any of you construct torchon in any other than 45 degree angle, or does this then become wrong? Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.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] Lace Guild magazine
I was just looking on the UK website for the Lace Guild and I saw that the magazine info had changed. Has anyone in the US received their fall issue of the magazine? Maybe mine is coming on a slow boat. DH did say something about postal problems in Europe so maybe that is the case. Just wanted to check if I was the lone one pining for my lace fix. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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 Guild magazine
Janice, mine came the end of last week - either Friday or Saturday. Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA Nov 9, 2009 08:38:54 PM, jbl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I was just looking on the UK website for the Lace Guild and I saw that the magazine info had changed. Has anyone in the US received their fall issue of the magazine? Maybe mine is coming on a slow boat. DH did say something about postal problems in Europe so maybe that is the case. Just wanted to check if I was the lone one pining for my lace fix. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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] wip's
Hi I'm on a getting rid of wip's kick. So I've just finished a few really easy pieces in the last few days. View them at http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=23 apcp24qdsnn A tape lace from the DMC tape lace book, and R29o a torchon of my own design. Now I have a baby Binche piece to finish (I'm almost 3/4 of the way through it). That will take a few days. And then I can tackle the Flanders piece the High Bridge, which has been giving me more trouble than one would expect. And after that I can get started on my list of things to do: advance in Beds with Underwood's book do all the Binche learning patterns learn Paris lace Learn how to design Beds get my pattern downloads working right work samples of all the other original designs I've made learn how to design Binche, Paris learn Val etc. etc. etc. I visited the grocery store where I worked until I retired in July and they asked me are you keeping busy?.Silly question. Lorelei Halley http://www.lynxlace.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
