[lace] Hand Carved bobbins... I am stuck!
I have started to write the promised article and doing reasonable well. I have omitted the largest group of hand carved/decorated bobbins as they are a genre to themselves, namely the East Devon/Downton bobbins... also I am sticking to English antique. The Continental hand carved bobbins are very prevalent and extremely well carved, but I just do not know enough about them to tell a story. I have discussed the utilitarian bobbins, like a twig or a piece of wood carved to a bobbin shape, I am OK with the basic application of chip carving to a bobbin but I am struggling as to whether I include the hand carving of scenes, animals objects etc on bobbins. I have written about individual bobbins in this group (see tiny URL below and scroll down till you find them) They are often quite interesting. I suppose I am asking if artistic carving (i.e. scenes, animal etc etc) can be discussed in the same breath as chip carving which is geometrical in its concept. MMmmm as often is the case chatting to you Arachne people (over coffee???) has perhaps clarified my thinking.. I.e. create categories of geometrical and artistic carving. What do you think? Brian and Jean From Cooranbong. Australia You can read my bobbin stuff on: http://tiny.cc/egb85 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] yardage - speed
I'm bemused as to why anyone would be concerned with making lace as fast as possible, unless you have a deadline for a gift or an event such as a wedding or a display/competition. It certainly can't be with an aim to sell the lace because you could never make it fast enough to make a living. I take pleasure in the process of making lace, reverse lacing where necessary to correct mistakes and learn how to correct what I did wrong. I may or may not be pleased with the finished item, but I'm not particularly interested in that. It's the process and mastering techniques (or not) that I find fascinating - there are so many that I don't think anyone could master them all. David, with al of his experience, has provided a good example here in deciding what to do about the poppies in the piece he's currently working - gimps? twists? tallies? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] yardage - speed
Hi All I had to smile at this it sounds so much like the garter I'm currently in the process of making well, the last inch and then all the finishing off anyway... Don't think it was at speed though it's taken me since January to get to the stage I'm at!! Fortunately the last inch and the finishing off still has 10 weeks to happen!! Sue in East Yorkshire, where it's currently drizzling!! On 22 Jun 2011, at 10:02, Jean Nathan wrote: I take pleasure in the process of making lace, reverse lacing where necessary to correct mistakes and learn how to correct what I did wrong. I may or may not be pleased with the finished item, but I'm not particularly interested in that. It's the process and mastering techniques (or not) that I find fascinating - there are so many that I don't think anyone could master them all. David, with al of his experience, has provided a good example here in deciding what to do about the poppies in the piece he's currently working - gimps? twists? tallies? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Forgetting your pattern (was RE: yardage - speed)
This piece of information stems I believe from Liz Bartlett's book 'Lace Villages'. How reliable this information is I wouldn't like to say. Its supposedly the villages of Potterspury and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire around 1891. The said diary in the book mentions Mr Harrison - is this the Rev.J.B. Harrison whose wife Ella was taking an active interest in the lace makers of Paulerspury during the period 1878 to 1910? I feel that at the time mentioned the need for secrecy over family prickings had past. Mrs Harrison was responsible for reviving the industry and it was her who rescued the large collection of prickings from Mrs Rose the widow of the Paulerspury lace dealer - as she feared Mrs Rose would boil them down for glue. Diana in Northants - Original Message - From: Linda Walton linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com To: l...@dont.panix.com Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Forgetting your pattern (was RE: yardage - speed) On 22/06/2011 00:36, Helen Bell wrote: [snip] It's known that if a girl was marrying a man from another village, she would have to stop lacemaking for 2 years so that she forgot her pattern, and not take it to the other village, and then she'd start to learn the new pattern after 2 years. [snip] Please will you tell me the source of this information? I'm interested to know if it relates to a particular place and time, or was a more general custom. How was it enforced? Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where it looks like being another day of sunshine and showers). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] yardage - speed
Dear Jean and all, When I'm learning to make lace, the process is extremely important to me, but as a sewer and a knitter, producing a finished product is definitely a part of the business. When I am making something, sometimes I have a goal, although I try not to have a deadline, and if I do have a deadline, I try to be finished long in advance, so those inevitable delays don't result in mistakes, poor workmanship, etc. But sometimes speed is important. When I was making DH's shirts, I knew I could make a shirt from the cut pieces in 1 1/2 hours, including buttons and button holes. I knit in what we call the Continental style, with the yarn held in my left hand, evenly and swiftly. But then I learned to knit when I was 5, 56 years ago. Talk about practice! My yardage experience is certainly connected to making proper lace efficiently, if not with speed. It connects to the old lacemakers who did do this for a living. Experiencing the process as they did is an interesting exercise. And I am not nearly as process oriented as I am goal oriented. I like to make projects that will be used. Church edging, my 2 yards to adorn the neck of an 18th century dress, curtains, handkerchiefs. Even bookmarks. Speed, or at least efficiency, is part of that. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where we got 1.25 inches of rain overnight, presently, at 7 a.m., 70F,19C, with the forecast the same as yesterday. Muggy, high 85F, chance of thunderstorms. Summer is really here. -Original Message- From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Jun 22, 2011 5:02 AM To: Lace lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] yardage - speed I'm bemused as to why anyone would be concerned with making lace as fast as possible, unless you have a deadline for a gift or an event such as a wedding or a display/competition. It certainly can't be with an aim to sell the lace because you could never make it fast enough to make a living. I take pleasure in the process of making lace, reverse lacing where necessary to correct mistakes and learn how to correct what I did wrong. I may or may not be pleased with the finished item, but I'm not particularly interested in that. It's the process and mastering techniques (or not) that I find fascinating - there are so many that I don't think anyone could master them all. David, with al of his experience, has provided a good example here in deciding what to do about the poppies in the piece he's currently working - gimps? twists? tallies? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Hand Carved bobbins... I am stuck!
Yes, categories. Also, maybe the categories relate to other forms of folk art such as embroidery and carving on other wood pieces such as spindles, door frames, knitting sheaths, ... love tokens ... with regional or occupational speceficities such as anchors, fishes, fishnets, flowers, etc. Just an idea coming from my museum experience with other objects. Lucie DuFresne Ottawa Canada (and yes, I remember that I owe you some pictures, sigh...) I have started to write the promised article and doing reasonable well. I have omitted the largest group of hand carved/decorated bobbins as they are a genre to themselves, namely the East Devon/Downton bobbins... also I am sticking to English antique. The Continental hand carved bobbins are very prevalent and extremely well carved, but I just do not know enough about them to tell a story. I have discussed the utilitarian bobbins, like a twig or a piece of wood carved to a bobbin shape, I am OK with the basic application of chip carving to a bobbin but I am struggling as to whether I include the hand carving of scenes, animals objects etc on bobbins. I have written about individual bobbins in this group (see tiny URL below and scroll down till you find them) They are often quite interesting. I suppose I am asking if artistic carving (i.e. scenes, animal etc etc) can be discussed in the same breath as chip carving which is geometrical in its concept. MMmmm as often is the case chatting to you Arachne people (over coffee???) has perhaps clarified my thinking.. I.e. create categories of geometrical and artistic carving. What do you think? Brian and Jean From Cooranbong. Australia You can read my bobbin stuff on: http://tiny.cc/egb85 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] yardage - speed poppies
David, with al of his experience, has provided a good example here in deciding what to do about the poppies in the piece he's currently working - gimps? twists? tallies? Only too true Jean. I have now reach the corner and the language continues to deteriorate. But I am getting more and more happy with the outcomes as I proceed. David in Ballarat Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Update on 2011 Postcard Exchange
Today I've sent out 11 e-mails which contain names postal addresses of 4 people in 10 groups. The 11th group has 5 people in it due to an odd number. I hope that everyone has fun sending receiving postcards. Take care, Pene - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Give Your General Location with Signature, Please
Dear Lacemakers, Arachne has members in all corners of the world. And sometimes a name, like York, applies to several countries and states.. We can better answer your questions and refer you to helpful lace people, if you will please give us your location. It can be something general, but close. Like near Glasgow Scotland, or near Akron Ohio USA. A small population area might justify just a state name, which I use in Maine, a state with a population of only around 1.6-million. Country should always appear! We have just greeted Summer in the northern hemisphere. Your location will help a lot in your being able to be introduced to people in other parts of the world who share your lace passion. Please - your location is an important part of a letter. Kind regards, Jeri Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Bearing Cloth
I have just downloaded 3 photos of the finished Bearing Cloth made by some of the members of Norfolk Lacemakers. It is a real achievement by these members who have given up a lot of time to both make the lace and each individual tear drop was cut by hand ,filed and edges polished smooth. It was made with real Gold and Silver thread which was purchased by the Norfolk Lacemakers at a cost exceeding £200 It was mounted on red velvet. The Bearing Cloth which is a replica of one in Carrow House Museum will be going on display at the Strangers Hall Museum, Norwich . - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Hand-carved bobbin
Hi Brian Regarding hand-carved bobbins - two main branches spring to my mind. Firstly the plain working bobbins whittled using a pen knife or similar tool as opposed to being turned on a lathe. Secondly bobbins made either by whittling or turning that are decorated using a pen knife or other cutting tool, this further work being for devorative purposes only and having nothing to do with the effectiveness of the bobbin as a tool. Not all decorations were made using a knife or other cutting tool, some indentations were made using a drill or a pointed tool. Hope this helps, I'm sure you will get lots of other suggestions. Best wishes Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] lace chanting, speed TC
When you flick your bobbins with your thumb, do you find that your thread untwists and weakens more than picking up the bobbins? I found myself flicking automatically when I speeded up, but thought I detected a correlation with thread breakage. Anybody? Nancy Connecticut, USA From: hottl...@neo.rr.com hottl...@neo.rr.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 10:07:11 PM Subject: [lace] lace chanting, speed TC Hello All! Now that's what we need--we know it works for the Marines!! Is there a resource for lace chants? They would be a hoot to sing at a demo. Regarding speed, are you using your thumb to *flick* your bobbins? Just something I noticed when watching a speedy friend. Hard to describe, but I've tried it can report good results - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] yardage - speed
Exactly! I'm glad, Jean, that you posted this, and said it so well. WRT lacemaking, beading, and knitting, I enjoy the doing of it, and the end result usually is a nice-to-have. Nancy Connecticut, USA From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk To: Lace lace@arachne.com Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 5:02:40 AM Subject: [lace] yardage - speed I'm bemused as to why anyone would be concerned with making lace as fast as possible, unless you have a deadline for a gift or an event such as a wedding or a display/competition. It certainly can't be with an aim to sell the lace because you could never make it fast enough to make a living. I take pleasure in the process of making lace, reverse lacing where necessary to correct mistakes and learn how to correct what I did wrong. I may or may not be pleased with the finished item, but I'm not particularly interested in that. It's the process and mastering techniques (or not) that I find fascinating - there are so many that I don't think anyone could master them all. David, with al of his experience, has provided a good example here in deciding what to do about the poppies in the piece he's currently working - gimps? twists? tallies? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] RE: [lace-chat] Bearing Cloth
Sue, I am a little puzzled, what is a 'bearing cloth'? and how is it used?This is a beautiful piece, and the lacers did a lovely job. Also what are the dimensions? You are all to be commended.Lorri, Graham, Washington, USA I have just downloaded 3 photos of the finished Bearing Cloth made by some of the members of Norfolk Lacemakers. It is a real achievement by these members who have given up a lot of time to both make the lace and each individual tear drop was cut by hand ,filed and edges polished smooth. It was made with real Gold and Silver thread which was purchased by the Norfolk Lacemakers at a cost exceeding £200 It was mounted on red velvet. The Bearing Cloth which is a replica of one in Carrow House Museum will be going on display at the Strangers Hall Museum, Norwich . Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] yardage - speed
I used to be able to do things very quickly - knit, sew, crochet, etc. Thought nothing of coming home with a piece of fabric at 6pm and going out in the finished garment at 8pm. But there can come a time when you are no longer able to do things quickly, if at all, or have to modify how you do them, or even do something totally different to satisfy your creative needs. When that happens, you already have to be content with the finished object not being all important, so you can continue to enjoy. Speed definitely becomes of little importance so you can still be happy doing what you enjoy. Fortunately, I'm happy with the process, no matter how long it takes. Thanks to all of you who helped me get over being a wimp about self-administered injections, the treatment seems to be working well and the amount (and speed) of lacemaking I can do again has improved considerably. I might actually finish the Willow Pattern plate featured in an edition of the UK Lace Guild magazine that I've been working on for nearly a year. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Posting to lace/lace-digest
Please don't send a message to both lace and lace-digest. Those of us subscribed to lace, getting individual emails, will get it twice. If you just send it to lace, it will automatically appear in lace-digest. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] flicking bobbins thread breakage
Hello All! My limited experience says there is no correlation between untwisted/broken threads flicking the bobbins. If I were to point a finger, I would say that losing the twist comes from having too much thread on the bobbin. In embroidery terms, I would equate that to using too long a strand as it is used, it becomes worn from the fabric/canvas the eye of the needle. On bobbins, I don't recall EVER losing the twist when I first started out. It was always much later in the work after lots of tensioning pin under 4 or whatever. Surely the threads are abrasive against each other, although maybe less so on the pins. Sewings take their toll as well; easy to split while jabbing. BTW--A friend recently told me to add a twist where there were sewings to make it easier she was absolutely right! As to the amount of thread, althought I dislike replacing threads, I am now more mindful try not to overload. I would also mention that since the first bit of thread ! is wound by hand rather than with the winder, that could be part of the problem. Until I took the Maltese workshop used linen for the first time, I had NEVER broken a thread I wouldn't say I'm shy about tensioning! Maybe this is a good time to add to the *beginner* thread comments previously posted. DMC perle 8 comes in lots of colors--check for them at a needlework/needlepoint shop or online. It's much more fun to learn with something that's pretty to look at! It only takes a few samples to get bored with #8 so look for tatting cotton make the switch asap. Develop a network of thread resources early on. While they're great for snacks soda, I'm sure you don't buy your groceries at 7/11 threads are the same scenario. You'll outgrow JoAnn's after the first few pieces. Turning it back over the experts now! ;-) Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Blog about Hapsburg veil
This is the blog I posted on the American History Museum website about the Point de Gaze Hapsburg veil from 1881 made for Princess Stephanie of Belgium for her wedding. http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2011/06/the-finer-details-of-the-hapsburg-imperial-bridal-veil.html The blog is a very shortened version of my research, and a compromise with the editor for a general audience. I will be glad to answer questions, either here or by e-mail, and would be delighted if anyone has any clues to the transition of the veil from Princess Stephanie to Mrs. Post, or any other insights. The veil is currently on display at Hillwood Museum in Washington, DC, and I would urge any lace enthusiast coming to the area to see it. When not on display it is folded in a large drawer in the American History Museum in Washington, DC, where only a small portion can be seen. Regretfully, the Hillwood Museum did not agree to host one of the tours during the IOLI Convention in Bethesda, Maryland during the first week of August, but any individual can go and see the veil from now through the end of the year. -Karen in Washington, DC, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace] Posting to lace/lace-digest
Jean, I'll second that - I've just read the same message three times, because it was addressed to lace, lace-chat and the digest. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Jean Nathan Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2011 3:10 AM To: Lace Subject: [lace] Posting to lace/lace-digest Please don't send a message to both lace and lace-digest. Those of us subscribed to lace, getting individual emails, will get it twice. If you just send it to lace, it will automatically appear in lace-digest. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] yardage - speed
I am in complete agreement with Jean! A few years ago, I worked a very long scarf which was also wide, so while it did not qualify to be called yardage, it was interminably long... I was bored to tears with it after just a few inches, but I has spent a lot of money on novelty threads to make it, and had loads of nice bobbins tied up on a nice pillow, and so I wanted to finish it. It seemed to take forever, and I vowed I would never again work a project in which I could not enjoy the process from start to finish. I did finish it, and while it is lovely, I have such a negative feeling about it that I rarely wear it!! Consequently, the pieces I work now are always challenging, and take a long time. I do not have a burning desire to finish, just a compulsion to make the lace as beautiful as I possibly can. So... speed is never an issue. My current project has been huge, and I can see the end in sight... and I am already grieving that it will be done soon. Fortunately, I have just found several other patterns which sing to me, and will keep me off the street as my DH loves to say when he thinks he's being clever. Before I made lace, I did other things such as embroidery, and learned then that those things which were finished quickly did not please me, and never found a permanent place in my home. I preferred to work something that occupied me for as long as a year, and then I had something I could really be proud of. The same perspective applies to my lacemaking. Clay Clay Blackwell from Sweet Briar, Virginia, where I'm basking in the glow from 36 happy students making wonderful lace all week at Lace at Sweet Briar! On 6/22/2011 11:51 AM, Chris Vail wrote: On the whole, I agree with you Jean; it's at least as much about the process as it is the progress. But in defense of speed - well, the current project is 9 yards of a fairly straightforward braid lace, so the sooner I can plow through it, the better!! :D Actually, I think Lyn said it well. I prefer efficiency in making my lace, because that makes the process of trying new stitches and combinations more fun for me. It's not that I'm trying to be fast, it's that I've found a comfortable way of doing the basic movements for me so I can concentrate on the 'where' and 'why' and not so much on the 'how' any more. To take Lyn's example, I learned to knit originally by throwing the yarn with my right hand, hated it and completely stopped knitting. After nearly a decade, I went back but taught myself to hold the yarn in my left hand and pick it through, and I haven't put the needles down since. Picking is more efficient for me, and it makes me happy to knit that way. It also happens to make me faster, but that's a side benefit. For bobbin lace, TC is more efficient for my hands than CT, with the same happiness and speed boosts. *shrug* This is why I encourage my students to try things out - I give them my way of doing things, and why, but then I let them know that any method that gives the desired end product is good, so long as it works for them. Life is too short to do hobbies that make you unhappy! Chris - trying not to drown in Chicago :D Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:02:40 +0100 From: Jean Nathanj...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Subject: [lace] yardage - speed I'm bemused as to why anyone would be concerned with making lace as fast as possible, unless you have a deadline for a gift or an event such as a wedding or a display/competition. It certainly can't be with an aim to sell the lace because you could never make it fast enough to make a living. I take pleasure in the process of making lace, reverse lacing where necessary to correct mistakes and learn how to correct what I did wrong. I may or may not be pleased with the finished item, but I'm not particularly interested in that. It's the process and mastering techniques (or not) that I find fascinating - there are so many that I don't think anyone could master them all. David, with al of his experience, has provided a good example here in deciding what to do about the poppies in the piece he's currently working - gimps? twists? tallies? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Bearing Cloth
I have just downloaded 3 photos of the finished Bearing Cloth made by some of the members of Norfolk Lacemakers. It is a real achievement by these members who have given up a lot of time to both make the lace and each individual tear drop was cut by hand ,filed and edges polished smooth. It was made with real Gold and Silver thread which was purchased by the Norfolk Lacemakers at a cost exceeding £200 It was mounted on red velvet. The Bearing Cloth which is a replica of one in Carrow House Museum will be going on display at the Strangers Hall Museum, Norwich . To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace-chat] Bearing Cloth
Sue, I am a little puzzled, what is a 'bearing cloth'? and how is it used?This is a beautiful piece, and the lacers did a lovely job. Also what are the dimensions? You are all to be commended.Lorri, Graham, Washington, USA I have just downloaded 3 photos of the finished Bearing Cloth made by some of the members of Norfolk Lacemakers. It is a real achievement by these members who have given up a lot of time to both make the lace and each individual tear drop was cut by hand ,filed and edges polished smooth. It was made with real Gold and Silver thread which was purchased by the Norfolk Lacemakers at a cost exceeding £200 It was mounted on red velvet. The Bearing Cloth which is a replica of one in Carrow House Museum will be going on display at the Strangers Hall Museum, Norwich . Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
