[lace] Christmas Card Exchange
Yesterday I received my Christmas card from Chris Vail in Illinois, USA. Inside the card, which had on the front a penguin waving a star wand, was a white gold crocheted snowflake also a red green tatted bookmark. Thank you, Faye, for organizing this year's exchange. Pene Piip in Tartu, Estonia, where she hasn't seen a hot Christmas for the last 20 years. PS I did send a scan of my card to Jenny Brandis but haven't had a response. Has anyone else heard from Jenny? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Jenny card exchange
Hello Pene I have`nt heard from Jenny either. A friend who is partnerned with Jenny thinks maybe Jenny is`nt very well. If that is the case. Get well soon Jenny. Daphne White Norfolk England - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Christmas Card for Everyone
I am so sorry that I was too late to get onto the card exchange but I have managed to put a new lace rabbit, Stephen, on to my website for you. Jean http://www.jeanmaryeke.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Correspondence on some bobbins on eBay
I am taking an unusual step of sharing with you my correspondence with a seller on eBay of a set of four named family bobbins being sold as separate items. As you will see in my letter to the seller, I have no problem with commercial transactions, that is what makes the world go around, just that I was sad the seller chose to split them up. My first letter to the seller: Dear northumbrian, I know you are in business and there is nothing wrong in making a profit from it, but when you split up a family of lace makers into four lots I feel sad that the chances of them going to one bidder and staying together as an important social history family are very slim. Just my opinion. - cooranbong _ The seller reply to me: Dear cooranbong, if you feel so strongly about it put your money where your mouth is and buy them all - northumbrian __ My reply to that letter. Dear northumbrian, I thought my note you was very reasonable. Recognizing your role as a salesperson and not criticizing it for what it is. I expressed my love of history and the importance of social history of lace making in my life. That you thought to reply, with no thought to my position or circumstances was rather cruel and unkind. I feel very sorry for you. _-cooranbong _ From Brian and Jean Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Correspondence on some bobbins on eBay
Dear Brian - Thanks for sharing this! Sadly, my experience in recent years has been that too many of the sellers on eBay are cut from the same cloth as this seller. However, I think your note to him/her was well put, and your response to him/her was brilliant! I shall avoid this seller. Clay On 12/17/2010 7:23 AM, Brian Lemin wrote: I am taking an unusual step of sharing with you my correspondence with a seller on eBay of a set of four named family bobbins being sold as separate items. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Bunny Patterns
Dear Spiders, Aside from 100 New Bobbin Lace Patterns by Yusai Fukuyama, does anyone know of bobbin lace patterns of bunnies? Tape laces are preferable, as the pattern is needed for someone relatively new to lacemaking. Thanks in advance, Betsy Sykes Raleigh, North Carolina where the weather was warmer today with bright Carolina Blue skies - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Final note on the eBay thing
I will not be replying to this note from the seller. I am sure that should that person run a shop where they had face to face communications it would go broke!. The trouble is that they have some very nice bobbins for sale from time to time! Oh well... that's done I will move on Dear cooranbong, please go away and be silly somewhere else - northumbrian From Brian and Jean Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Beads and dictionary Update
Firstly a thank you for all the offers and pictures I have received. I have decided that I will not put an entry for each bead in the dictionary but refer readers to a Beads article in the appendix. I pretty well have that article written to my great relief. Once again thank you to you all. Oh yes I am still looking for a Bone Bead I.e. a bead made from bone. That seems at this stage to be the one that I know is missing. From Brian and Jean Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Final note on the eBay thing
Dear Brian, You may go away with your head held high! You are not silly, but simply have a much more refined standard with regard to the historic relevance of things than this person who is only interested in profit. Even so, he hasn't a clue, since the set of four would probably draw far more than the sum of the bids for individual bobbins. What a rube Clay On 12/17/2010 7:11 PM, Brian Lemin wrote: I will not be replying to this note from the seller. I am sure that should that person run a shop where they had face to face communications it would go broke!. The trouble is that they have some very nice bobbins for sale from time to time! Oh well... that's done I will move on __ Dear cooranbong, please go away and be silly somewhere else - northumbrian From Brian and Jean Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] scans of cards received so far
Hello everyone So far I have received pictures of the lace cards from the following - if your name is NOT here, I have not received your picture for the site Holly Lacusky Alice Howell Amber Lackey Angela Steinhausen Ann Blunden, AUS Anne Nicholas in Middx England Catherine Hill, Newark, DE x 2 Daphne Martin Dorcas Newkirk Helene Ulrich, Surfside Beach, SC Ilske Thomsen Jacqui Southworth Janice Blair, Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA x 2 Kathy Hensel x 3 Lesley Blackshall Marion Goard x 2 Marji Sakievich Mikki Griffin Noelene Lafferty Pene Piip Silvia Gardiol, from Italy Sue M Harvey Susie Caroline Johnson Trenna Ruffner, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan Trish Fisher in chilly West Virginia USA Wendy Fletcher I am working on the site this weekend Hugs Jenny B in rainy and hot Kununurra, Western Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] bobbin lace in print in English
Hi Nancy: Statistical analysis isn't my thing, but I do have some thoughts: - Only a small number of people buy single topic lace-making books, but when bobbin lace is included in a book with a wider-ranging content - take Weldon's Encyclopedia of Needlework, for instance; or de Dillmont's, - it might look like all of a sudden a lot of bobbin lace books are being published, but really a lot of books that include bobbin lace as one of many topics are being published. - I'm wondering if the 1960 spike isn't perhaps something to do with the Anchor Manual of Needlework coming out in 1958. That edition included lacework. - I wonder if the database counts each subsequent edition of the same book as a new book (after all, in modern times it would have a new ISBN number) So the books that have had many editions (all those mentioned so far, for example) might be included once for each edition. - Sometimes a book comes out that is insignificant on its own, but sows seeds of enquiry. Then a few years later suddenly several books come out, to fill the demand from people who learned from the first book and then discovered there weren't any more books on their topic. - I'm not really sure what the measurement is in the vertical axis of the chart. I've been assuming it is the percentage of the books included in the database that contain the keyword. If so, to some extent the graph tracks the social acceptability and popularity of the subject. Today we might be surprised if a scholarly discussion of craft contained anything about lace, but 150 years ago the topic crops up in all sorts of publications - like books on industrial design, for example, as new lace machines were being made and people like Christopher Dresser were designing for them. - Regarding the dates - A lot of books published, even in the beginning of the 20th century, didn't have accurate publication dates printed in them. Sometimes there was no publication data at all, and you have to guess at when it was published by looking at the printing and the illustrations and the cover and so on. So the big jump at 1900 makes me suspect that the people who put the data in the database just looked at a book and said something like Well, judging from the cover design it's probably later than the 1880s and judging from the illustrations it's probably pre-WWI so let's put down 1900. An interesting topic! Thanks for bringing it up. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) Now what I would like to know is why is there such a spike in the frequency of the phrase bobbin lace in books in English in 1958 to 1960? and also a narrow one at 1900? (too narrow to be just the general lace revival I think) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] bobbin lace in print in English
Nancy Neff nnef...@yahoo.com wrote: Now what I would like to know is why is there such a spike in the frequency of the phrase bobbin lace in books in English in 1958 to 1960? and also a narrow one at 1900? (too narrow to be just the general lace revival I think) How did the figures shown on the left-hand side of the graph compare to other graphs? The huge spikes you mention are less than 2-hundred-thousandths of 1 percent. Now, granted, out of 5 million books, anything about BL will be a small percent. But the difference between 0 and 2-hundred-thousandths is not really all that huge. The spike could be one or two books that mention BL several times, couldn't it? Robin Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Bunny Patterns
I too am a lover of bunnies and would love to find some easy bunny patterns, still hoping waiting to see patterns for sale from Jean Mary Eke of her beautiful bunnies. Lynn Scott in Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
