Re: [lace] Translation
Dear Cynthia and others, Thank you for mentioning the book Bobbins of Belgium by Charlotte Kellog. I have just downloaded a copy from http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/kc_lace.pdf and looking forward to reading it. Joke Sinclair from a bright sunny Sussex - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] crochet strips
For a long time I used knitting stitch holders but have broken a few spangles that way. Last summer I watched a lady at the Poole lace day with her craft bendy pipe cleaner type things (in lots of pretty colours) and have gone over to those. I can use the bobbins from either end and keep them under control nicely. Obviously this wouldn't work for non spangled bobbins but I like it for mine:-) Sue T, Dorset UK If you are making these in any cotton/rayon ie non-stretchy yarn, make a short bit and try it out first. I have always found that although you need to avoid fluffy yarns, holder strips made from wool, wool-blends or acrylic yarns which have a bit more stretch-and-shrink-again ability than cotton are more successful as they hold the bobbins better without being a fight to get on. Jacquie in Lincolnshire. - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Translation
Sorry I'm just catching up on this thread so I hope this applies. From a report in the Bedfordshire Standard newspaper in May 1922 - English Lady Inglefield O.B.E. visited Bruges in March 1920 to study the system of teaching lace making. During the war (WW1) the school in Bruges had closed but reopened exactly four week after the invaders had evacuated on January 7th 1919. Diana in Northants - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Funny Marks
Susie is correct in saying that the reason some messages appear funny is because the sender is not using plain text. Different systems interpret the html or rich text in different ways, so the problem is partly the way the message was sent and partly the way the receiving computer translates it. Two computers using *exactly* the same formats won't have a problem. I haven't had an arachne message showing html coding, but I do occasionally get messages with odd characters for some of the punctuation marks. That's because my system (Mac OS 10.6.8) is interpreting the upper ASCII set of characters differently from the sending computer. The lower ASCII set (0-127) are standard, all computers use the same, but the upper set (128-255) vary. Brenda On 20 Apr 2012, at 16:25, jeanette wrote: These strange messages are always from the same people. Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Funny Marks
Actually I have a worse problem. My email system actually locks ups when I receive these emails and I have had my pc crash. My browser and ISP see these emails as viruses. L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From: jeanette jeane...@maxitec.co.za snipped I thought I was the only one receiving funny looking messages. The most frustrating are the ones that only gives the first line and then the rest of the message disappears without an ending. snipped - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] fastening the bobbins
Hello everyone In all my years of lacemaking, the best thing I have found to fasten the bobbins while working on a different area is the good old bootlace. Trainers come with in all colours and patterns nowadays,so its easy to match laces. Daphne - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] crochet strips
Hi Arachnids, Not only is it better to use a 'springy yarn as Jaquie from Lincoln says; but please remember that British trebles are American doubles in crochet! Depending on which type of bobbins I intend to use the strips for. I do 25 chain and use British trebles with one chain in between for duchesse bobbins (push the 'bobble at the end through) but British doubles and one chain for spangled midlands bobbins (push the head through) in double knitting with appropriate crochet hook according to your tension. A good idea to do a trial strip as they don't take much time or effort to make. Good luck! Happy lace making, Joepie, East Sussex, UK If you are making these in any cotton/rayon ie non-stretchy yarn, make a short bit and try it out first. I have always found that although you need to avoid fluffy yarns, holder strips made from wool, wool-blends or acrylic yarns which have a bit more stretch-and-shrink-again ability than cotton are more successful as they hold the bobbins better without being a fight to get on. Jacquie in Lincolnshire. - - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Rembrandt and lace
Thank you for sending this link. I have just had great pleasure, both from seeing the paintings you mentioned, and beginning to explore the wealth of other art images on the website, (which I've bookmarked for future visits). By the way, when I searched on 'lace', I noticed that there was a result for seventeenth-century bobbin lace; but no image was available, and the site kept producing an 'error' message when I tried to find out more. Have you ever seen their lace collection? It would be very interesting to know more about it. It's good to learn that your broken elbow is healing well, I've heard that it can be an exceptionally painful injury. I hope you will soon be able to make lace again. Best wishes from Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where the April showers are the lively 'flashing and banging' type yet again today). On 21/04/2012 02:34, Witchy Woman wrote: I had the pleasure of seeing the Rembrandt in America exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art this week. http://www.clevelandart.org/visit/exhibitions.aspx [snip] Peg in Cleveland Hts, OH - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] re: translation
Thank you so much to everyone who chimed in on my translation question for the inscriptions on some War Laces and on the spin-offs from that conversation. Charlotte Kellogg's Bobbins of Belgium from 1920 is a fascinating book about the War Laces, the lacemakers and the organizers. Fortunately it is now on line, as mentioned. Queen Elisabeth of Belgium had already started an effort to improve the lace designs, the standards of lacemaking and the lives of the lacemakers in Belgium around 1911 before WWI broke out. This effort became even more important during the war. Lou and Herbert Hoover along with many others were instrumental in negotiating import of threads and the export of the lace. Friends in various Allied countries supported the effort by buying the lace. Several famous Belgian artists contributed by making designs. Isidore de Rudder and his sister Maria were among those artists. The whole history of the Begian War Laces is fascinating, and several articles have been written about them. Patricia Wardle, Elaine Merritt, Devon Thein are among the authors. - Sorry, I am not at home at the moment, and do not have my files to check exact dates. Karen in Washington, DC - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] crochet strips
Thank you to everyone who answered my questions about crochet strips. Lorelei - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] fastening the bobbins
Several years ago, at a Lace workshop, the hosts (Golden Bobbins in Charlotte!) gave each of us a wonderful thing! It was made with two 1-yard lengths of 1/4 ribbon, which had been braided in the same manner as the lanyards we used to make in Scouts when we were young(er)! The length is perfect for pinning bobbins down to secure them for travel. Or to tie bundles of bobbins on holders together when using a lot of bobbins that require creative bobbin management! I've made several more, and whenever I have a lot of bobbins going at one time, they're in constant use. Thanks, Myriah Lavin, who made them! And did I mention... They're very pretty! A small bonus is that because you use two lengths of ribbon, you can incorporate school colors if you happen to be in an area where there is a lot of collegiate rivalry... such as the Eastern US which has so many excellent schools in the ACC!!! Clay Sent from my iPad On Apr 21, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Daphne Martin ladylace...@msn.com wrote: In all my years of lacemaking, the best thing I have found to fasten the bobbins while working on a different area is the good old bootlace. - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] re: translation
Surely there is a mention of the work of the author Edith Wharton (Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, House of Mirth, etc.) concerning the teaching of lace in Belgium at that time? - Original Message - From: Karen Thompson karenhthomp...@gmail.com To: Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 2:17:45 PM Subject: [lace] re: translation Thank you so much to everyone who chimed in on my translation question for the inscriptions on some War Laces and on the spin-offs from that conversation. Charlotte Kellogg's Bobbins of Belgium from 1920 is a fascinating book about the War Laces, the lacemakers and the organizers. Fortunately it is now on line, as mentioned. Queen Elisabeth of Belgium had already started an effort to improve the lace designs, the standards of lacemaking and the lives of the lacemakers in Belgium around 1911 before WWI broke out. This effort became even more important during the war. Lou and Herbert Hoover along with many others were instrumental in negotiating import of threads and the export of the lace. Friends in various Allied countries supported the effort by buying the lace. Several famous Belgian artists contributed by making designs. Isidore de Rudder and his sister Maria were among those artists. The whole history of the Begian War Laces is fascinating, and several articles have been written about them. Patricia Wardle, Elaine Merritt, Devon Thein are among the authors. - Sorry, I am not at home at the moment, and do not have my files to check exact dates. Karen in Washington, DC - 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/albums/most-recent - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] Crochet Bobbin Holders
Hello Fellow Spiders, Akiko from Japan gave me my first bobbin holders - she cuts old pantyhose/tights/stockings(or whatever else you may call them) into 6mm wide strips and uses the yarn created in this manner. Her tension is a little looser than mine, so the ones she has given me are better than the ones I made for myself and my earliest ones were a little lumpy before I got better at cutting the stockings into a uniform width strip. They are perfect for Belgian style bobbins (and a great way to use up the coloured stockings that were trendy in the seventies when I was several sizes smaller than now) As an added nicety, after the foundation chain, the trebles/ double crochet / half trebles (whatever long stitch you are using) are done into the BACK of the foundation chain so the strips look the same from both sides and don't have a front and back. Commercial knitting nylon is 20mm wide, sheds from its cut edges and is not as elastic. Christine J (Sydney, 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
