Re: [lace] The Lace Place
Hi Sue I was invited to Australia to teach for the Sydney branch of the Embroiderers' Guild for their 50th Anniversary, also the Melbourne branch and for the Australian Lace Guild at Perth who arranged a trip to Hyden and The Lace Place at the end of the Convention. It was too far to make the trip there and back in one day, so we left early in the morning, taking a short comfort break on the way and stayed overnight in several bungalows close by. The Lace Guild provided all that we needed for breakfast the next morning by way of cereals, bread for toast, tea coffee etc. This was in 2007 so my memory of exact details is a little vague. We were split into two groups on arrival with one group visiting Wave Rock whilst the other group were supplied with white cotton gloves and were able to handle the wonderful lace brought by Olwyn Scott for us to identify and drool over, after which, we visited thee museum. It was quite small as I recall but very well organised and the lace beautifully displayed. There were pull out glass covered drawers full of some of the most exquisite pieces of lace and well worth making the effort to visit. I believe the bungalows were some kind of holiday park, as there were quite a few of them and could sleep 6/8 guests (self catering of course) but it might well be worth looking into that if you were considering a visit. There is also a nature walk where I recall seeing the lovely black swans etc. I'm pretty sure that Liz Ligetti was also on the trip and as she lives in Australia she may be able to give you more information. Catherine Barley UK Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com -- Subject: [lace] The Lace Place He brought me back a leaflet describing the shop and museum but unfortunately although I emailed them to see if they had a website my email was returned as undeliverable. Have any of you visited? Sue M Harvey Norfolk U.K. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Bobbin-made tapes
Dear All It is of course difficult to work out how a textile was made just by looking at it, but don't forget that the basic tools for making something can be used in many different ways. Just because something is made with lace bobbins on a lace pillow does not ensure that it is made using cloth or half stitches or whatever we would now use with a standard foot-side. The braid used in Chinese braid embroidery is now typically made on a set-up spookily similar to a modern lace pillow. While a pillow as such is not used, just a surface on which the braid is formed without pins, and a roller at the back for the braid to be wound on, the bobbins are lengths of bamboo with a hook or a notch at the top to hold the thread, and a spangle, of coins, washers or beads to weight it at the other. The actual braid produced can be fancy, with complex weaves and colours, but basically has a bias weave. One major difference from bobbin lace is that a thread can pass over two or more other threads at a time - something I don't think we ever do, though I suppose we could have a twill weave in an area of cloth. The best book on the subject of which I know is Jacqui Carey's Chinese Braid Embroidery ISBN 0 9523225 6 0, published by Carey Company of Ottery St Mary, Devon, UK in 2007. It shows how the braid is made and used, and any bobbin lacemaker could easily replicate it using his (or her) equipment; you could easily make a useful customised trim for another project with it. The ingenuity of the workers in improvising apparatus is amazing - anything from beautifully made stands produced by a father or husband to an ordinary wicker basket. The insights into the social side of the work and workers, and how it is affected by modern events - synthetic materials, machine-made tapes, the tourist trade - make the book well worth a read by themselvs. It also shows how similar braids can, and were, made by finger looping - with a sample made and sewn into a 17th century English instruction book. There is also a picture of a braidmaker from Oman making a braid called tili. She is using a small bolster on a stand, no pins, and it looks as though her threads are still on the original reels, secured by a half hitch - one way of minimising joins and avoiding bobbin-winding! I sometimes think that the only way some mysteries will be solved is with the use of a time-machine, though I can't see the BBC extending the Historic Farming series to Dr Who and the lacemakers. leonard...@yahoo.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. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] Heelball
While soot is very messy, once mixed with the very hard wax to form heel ball it is stays quite clean. Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:29:16 + To: dmt11h...@aol.com CC: jean...@hotmail.co.uk; lace@arachne.com From: jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk Subject: [lace] Heelball Blacking would have been used in the household anyway, I can remember my grandmother having a range (combination of fireplace and about three ovens) which was blacked, and fire grates were blacked as a matter of course, especially in larger households where it was the job of the lower housemaids. To take a rubbing they would have rubbed the image onto paper, or similar material, as you cannot rub straight onto card (or vellum). This would give a mirror image of the pattern, as you rub the wrong side of the pricking, so the image would have had to have been turned over to prick onto new card - maybe this explains the difference in right and left footsides between regions when patterns were copied - so whatever was used for the rubbing would have had to be on something thin enough for the image to show through. The blacking may have transferred to the card when the pricker was pushed through, so they may have used something between the card and the rubbing to stop this happening? Dirty lace was more likely to have been rejected by a dealer - who was under no obligation to buy from the cottage workers s/he employed - so the lacemakers would have done everything possible to keep the lace clean. In message 6c87.43755fb5.3fc27...@aol.com, dmt11h...@aol.com writes Also called blacking It sounds a little messy to have around lace. Devon -- Jane Partridge - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Cantu class in San Antonio
The Alamo Bobbin Lacers will be hosting Betty Manfre to teach Cantu lace, February 8, 9 and 10, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas. (This is the week before Winter Lace Conference in California.) Lacemakers of all skill levels are welcome! The pictures attached to this email show the designs Betty suggests for beginners to work in class. These are intended for those who haven't done Cantu before; if you have some experience you may make other choices. See this page for a selection of class projects Ms. Manfre offers. We will be happy to set you up with whatever will suit your skill level! Cost for the class will be $40/day (you may choose to attend 1, 2 or 3 days) with a deposit of 1/2 due at sign-up and we would appreciate payment of the balance by January 15. Please email privately for details. If you will be traveling to San Antonio we will be happy to help you find an hotel nearby and to offer our Texas hospitality to be sure you enjoy your stay. Currently Hotwire shows rooms during the time of the class starting at $45 for 1-2 people. If you have any questions please feel free to email and I will be happy to help.See you there! Cheryl Anderson Alamo Bobbin Lacers [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg] - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Cantu class in San Antonio
Hi Cheryl and lace list The arachne list software removes any attachments - can you post them somewhere then give us a link to that somewhere? The workshop and all sounds inviting ;) On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Cheryl Anderson mayflowerl...@hotmail.comwrote: Lacemakers of all skill levels are welcome! The pictures attached to this email show the designs Betty suggests for beginners to work in class. These [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg] -- 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: Bobbin-made tapes
Thank you, Leonard, for introducing an interesting twist to this subject. I went to Jacqui Carey's site to see what books are available, and the list is quite interesting. Though I do not review pure embroidery books on Arachne, I do have her Elizabethan Stitches and Sweet Bags in my library, and like them very much. If you are re-creating costumes of the period, they may be very useful to you. She has diagrammed some stitches that are not available in other books. As to braids, there is a close relationship to the earliest bobbin laces (1500's) as to how some equipment similar to our lace bobbins was used to hold and control threads and cords. If you look at costumes of this time and before, you will see that braids and cords were used to a great extent throughout Europe as an embellishment and for practical purposes.. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 11/25/2013 6:22:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, leonard...@yahoo.com writes: The best book on the subject of which I know is Jacqui Carey's Chinese Braid Embroidery ISBN 0 9523225 6 0, published by Carey Company of Ottery St Mary, Devon, UK in 2007. It shows how the braid is made and used, and any bobbin lacemaker could easily replicate it using his (or her) equipment - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Clear plastic and prickings
As a modern day lacemaker I have a computer, Photoshop, scanner, printer, cardstock and clear contact paper, and I'm not afraid to use them! I make nearly all of my prickings by printing them on my home computer onto light blue cardstock and covering with clear contact (sticky backed plastic). I have an inkjet printer and the ink can smear if it becomes damp. So it is absolutely necessary to cover it with clear plastic to avoid a disaster. I also like that it gives the cardstock just enough extra stiffness. I usually don't make the lace more than once so it doesn't have to be extremely stiff. I can always make another pricking if necessary! I usually preprick my patterns. I have never had a problem with sticky pins. I have been pulling them out by the hundreds as I work on a Binche sampler. I have a small stash of the blue plastic that I've picked up from lace vendors. I bring it to the IOLI conventions. For class projects you usually don't need a very large piece. I can easily see why teachers make copies onto white paper because you never know what color will work for everyone. The best solution was when I was emailed the pricking in advance and could prepare it as I desired. Anita Hansen Doris Southard Lace Guild Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] The Lace Place
When I moved to South Africa in 1979, it was almost impossible to obtain anything for bobbin lace. The number of lacemakers was steadily increasing though, so only in 1988 did I decide that if no-one else was going to import lacemaking things then I would have a go. I knew nothing about business but I wrote to all the overseas suppliers and they were all very helpful and I had many an argument with customs officials trying to explain what bobbins etc. were used for and that linen thread was not the same as bed linen. It was only when the local agent for Batsford Books said that I had to have a proper business name for them to supply me, that I thought I was being incredibly original in choosing The Lace Place as my business name. It was a few years later that my friend Mary Hughes visited her family in Perth and from there visited The Lace Place in Hyden, that I realised that I was not original at all. She brought me back a souvenir leaflet and a pair of bobbins. I would love to visit myself. My own Lace Place though continued to take over my life and at one time was the only supplier in Southern Africa. I don't know what I would do without it now. I think they will have to carry me out feet first clutching my lace pillow. Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place Honeydew South Africa www.thelaceplace,co,za - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] the Lace Place, Hyden
Hi, Sue, Yes, I have been to Hyden in Western Australia - in 2007 when the Australian Lace Guild had their annual AGM week of classes. It was the year Catherine Barley came to Australia, and I went over to Perth, for the workshop she was teaching there. (Melbourne is the other side of the country - some 2000 km away!) A fantastic week, and then - the icing on the cake - there was a trip - for those who wished,- to the Lace Place at Hyden, and the Wave rock, - an amazing rock formation just like a Huge wave - which, of course, I, like many others, just had to climb, and see the view from the top! We were treated to a special hands-on collection of lace and talk by Rosemary Shepherd, who accompanied the group, so it was a very special viewing of the displayed lace, and we were able to handle - with white gloves, of course, - some extra lace that was brought out especially for us lacemakers. An Unforgettable trip. It was quite a way from Perth, but a pleasant bus trip. We stayed overnight in 3 cottages, making do on camp beds and settees, etc when there were not enough 'proper' beds to go around - all great fun! http://www.waverock.com.au/lace.htm Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. where we have a warm sunny day - at last! - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Brok 24/3
Dear lace friends, It's a long story, but I would really like  some Brok 24/3.  Just in case there's some lurking, unwanted, in your box of lace thread, please email me privately. Thanks! Sally Schoenberg Bellingham, WA - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] The Lace Place
And what would we have done without the Lace Place in Honeydew!! Keep up the good work. Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. Janis Savage wrote: to supply me, that I thought I was being incredibly original in choosing The Lace Place as my business name. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] new lace
I just finished this piece tonight. From my book TORCHON BOBBIN LACE LESSONS. It is the color version that is new. http://lynxlace.com/mybobbinlace.html#new 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] new lace
Torchon does lend itself to colour and it is beautiful. Congratulations! Jeanette Fischer, South Africa. Lorelei Halley I just finished this piece tonight. From my book TORCHON BOBBIN LACE LESSONS. It is the color version that is new. http://lynxlace.com/mybobbinlace.html#new - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
