Re: [lace] new lace photos
Hi Arachnids, Lovely work Janice. You ought to feel proud as well as virtuous. Well done! Joepie, East Sussex, UK. Where it is DRY at the moment! From: Janice Blair Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 12:56 AM To: lace Subject: [lace] new lace photos I just posted two photos on the third page of my album on webshots http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/149126673AmIpMo?start=24 I finished the Christine Mirecki silk scarf about two weeks ago, just never got round to taking a photo. The needlelace collar I finished today. I made it in Gutterman 100/3 silk, using one whole spool. ...I feel very virtuous finishing two large items. Now I can wind the hundred or so bobbins I need for the Lester Beds class in nearly two weeks time. Hope to see some of you at the Arachne lunch in St. Paul, Minnesota. 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
RE: [lace] new lace photos
Congratulations on your wonderful projects, Janice!! The lace collar is too beautiful! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape. South Africa. I just posted two photos on the third page of my album on webshots http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/149126673AmIpMo?start=24 - 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: can you identify? Same place
Thank you Debra, have had a look, but what I really want is one that doesn't need a material centre. Maybe they will give me some inspiration to draw elements into a grid from the beginning. Sue T Dear Sue, That same site has circular patterns galore; more than you can shake a stick at! ;-D Look them up under Tapetes Ovalos y Redondos (Doilies, oval and round) http://www.patronsroka.com/index.php?cPath=29_117 Hope you find something to your liking and, again, the usual disclaimers. Debora Lustgarten ...Finally some respite from the heat and humidity in Toronto, Canada. At 11:44 AM 19/07/2012, Sue wrote: can anyone tell me where I might find good circular patterns please. Places that might sell patterns individually rather than by the book. Sue T 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/albums/most-recent
RE: [lace] new lace photos
Dear Janice They are fabulous! Don't find fault, just be very satisfied with your effort. The collar is magnificent and handmade is never perfect. My eye was drawn to all the beautiful elements! Be proud! Annette in Wollongong, Australia -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Janice Blair Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012 9:57 AM To: lace Subject: [lace] new lace photos I just posted two photos on the third page of my album on webshots http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/149126673AmIpMo?start=24 I finished the Christine Mirecki silk scarf about two weeks ago, just never got round to taking a photo. The needlelace collar I finished today. I made it in Gutterman 100/3 silk, using one whole spool. The center back element is a class I took with Liz Ligetti last year at convention and the other flowers and leaves were from Catherine Barley's book. I still need to work on my netted ground. I think I must have been tired when I did some of it because the size is not consistent. I worked on the scarf during the day and did the needlelace watching tv at night, which also might account for the uneven netting. - 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] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
Ebay # 170881599271 Laurie http://lacenews.net - 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] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
Looks like a folding implement for long lengths of material - perhaps from a 19th century textile mill or similar. Agnes Boddington Ebay # 170881599271 Laurie - 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] new lace photos
Thank you to everyone who wrote about my scarf and collar. You bet I will be wearing them at convention. 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] scarf, collar Caen photos
Hello All! OMG Janice--I would wear either one, if you let me G !!! Since I have neither the skills nor the attention span to complete such projects, I'm just thrilled that you have posted your eye candy for vicarious enjoyment! As a smaller project, I could see one of the floral collar motifs applied to the toe of a shoe. H, that would be some enchanted slipper! The Caen photos are WOW-worthy too. It's so nice to see some colorful avant garde works. Thanks Lorelei. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
To measure in ells? Looks like a folding implement for long lengths of material - perhaps from a 19th century textile mill or similar. Ebay # 170881599271 -- 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
RE: [lace] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
Looks similar to the trim card-winders that stores used to display the lace/trims/etc on the shop shelves. The fabric stores used to purchase trims in bulk and then wind off smaller yardage onto card stock for display -- the same as we see now done now by the distributors to the smaller fabric stores. The winders now hold the stiff cardboard while the trim is being wound. The winder shown could have wound the trim to the cardboard size and then the cardboard was inserted inside for the shelf display. Diane Z Lubec, Maine, 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
Hello Laurie and everyone I had a further thought, if the distance between top and bottom of the winder is half of 45, or once around equals 45 inches, then this winder was used for measuring or packaging, in ells. One ell = 45 inches. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Bev Walker walker.b...@gmail.com wrote: To measure in ells? Looks like a folding implement for long lengths of material - perhaps from a 19th century textile mill or similar. Ebay # 170881599271 -- 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Invention of Needle-lace in East Tyrol?
There is new evidence that needle-lace may not have begun in Italy, but further north. This link takes you to the website of the University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/urgeschichte/projekte_forschung/textilien-lengberg/index.html.en It concerns finds by archaeologists, led by Harald Stadler, at the Castle Lengberg, (Municipality Nikolsdorf, East Tyrol, Austria). In July 2008 they began to investigate a filled-in vault spandrel, and notes in an itinerary by Paolo Santonino, indicate that this was done in 1485. The fill used materials such as twigs and straw, but also worked wood, leather (mainly shoes) and textile rags (old clothes). Radio-carbon dating has since proven the date of the fill. Some of the clothing rags still have needle-lace decoration. The web page suggests that the earliest needle-lace might have come not from Italy but from Germany - even East Tyrol. Lacemakers in the U.K. may have seen recent newspaper articles, writing very inaccurately about the discovery of lacy bras and panties, which are also among the Castle Lengberg finds: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2174568/Found-castle-vault-scraps-lace-lingerie-rage-500-years-ago.html I understand that these follow the publication of an article in the BBC History magazine for August, (I haven't yet seen it myself), by Beatrix Nutz, another of the archaeologists who has been working on the finds. If anyone is interested, I can provide some more information about these, but I don't think any lace is involved. Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where it didn't rain today!). - 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] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
Fredrick Fawcett had a mechanized one to measure off skeins of linen thread from a cone. It would automatically count and shut off when it hit the proper yardage. This was back in (OMG) 1976. Cynthia On Jul 20, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Bev Walker wrote: To measure in ells? Looks like a folding implement for long lengths of material - perhaps from a 19th century textile mill or similar. Ebay # 170881599271 -- 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 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
Re: [lace] Lengberg
It is intriguing. Could the interpretation be 'lace' as in cording, connecting two fabrics by means of 'a lace (cord, string etc.)' On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.comwrote: Most of the fragments are actually what is called faggotting -- embroidery stitches worked between 2 pieces of hemmed fabric to hold them together. Calling it lace is a stretch. - -- 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Anyone ever seen anything like this?
Ells? I have not heard that one since I was at school. My mother used to make our clothes and bought her material from a Jewish family shop, and always went for the person with the longest arms. El (Dutch) was the measurement from the tip of the pinky to the knobble on the elbow, so the longer the arms, the more material you got. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To measure in ells? Looks like a folding implement for long lengths of material - perhaps from a 19th century textile mill or similar. 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-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
