[lace] 2013 Christmas card exchange
I received a lovely Christmas card from Sheila Brown yesterday, together with a wonderful Torchon bookmark in Christmas colours with a sparkly gimp. Jill, in sunny but frosty Milton Keynes - 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] Bull Brand Irish Linen
I have just acquired from a deceased estate a quantity of reels of Bull brand Irish Linen, 100/2 - Brenda's book says it is 33 WPC. I gather it is no longer available, a Google search did not turn up any hits. It is a very smooth thread, no slubs, compared to the 100/2 Fresia I have been using for Christmas decorations. Has anyone ever used this?Is it waxed? Will it wash OK? I look forward to experimenting with it. Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au - 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] Bull Brand Irish Linen
Treasure it Noelene. Today's linen thread will never be as smooth and strong as this. I do not know the Bull Brand linen but I recently acquired some 'Square Sail' linen 60/2 and am using it at the moment for a torchon runner. I wound it from the wooden reel into a hank and washed it first and it did not shrink one iota. I don't know when they stopped harvesting and processing flax into linen by hand and started using machines but the old linen is spun with lo-o-ong fibres which makes it so smooth and strong, whereas todays flax is chopped up by the machines so can never be as smoothly spun. On 2013/11/26 12:33 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: I have just acquired from a deceased estate a quantity of reels of Bull brand Irish Linen, 100/2 - Brenda's book says it is 33 WPC. I gather it is no longer available, a Google search did not turn up any hits. It is a very smooth thread, no slubs, compared to the 100/2 Fresia I have been using for Christmas decorations. Warm greetings from Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place in South Africa - 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] 2013 Christmas card exchange
Today I also received a card from Ilse in Belgium. Thank you to Janet and Sallie for organising the exchange this year. Penelope in Tartu, Estonia, - 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] 2013 Christmas exchange - Label new laces!
Lucky you, Jill! People like Sheila Brown will be remembered for years to come as one of the women we esteem for encouraging the revival of lace making after WWII. She and Alan, republished four 19th C. reports by Alan Cole, so we have access to very good information about the lives of English and Irish lace makers from that time. A suggestion for everyone, even for a small piece of lace: Make a little tag on which you write the maker of the lace, type of lace, country where made, and year. When you put lace away, loop the tag (soft cotton thread) through a secure section of the lace (not over just one thread), with a knot that can be untied easily. I use a orange Micron 005 pen, which contains archival ink. It is waterproof and fadeproof. If a orphan tag turns up somewhere (happens when decorating or putting away things), I know it goes with lace (because of the orange). We can give lace lovers in the future something we do not have -- maker's name(s), lace type(s), place(s), and year of laces made in the 21st C. We may think our laces not worthy of documentation, but must realize that our numbers are decreasing relative to world population, and in the future our laces may be treasured beyond imagination. I am now reviewing a documentation-less lace collection acquired in recent years. It is difficult and requires skills and reference materials few people have. If you ever bought an old lace, you know what I mean. If you collect now, please add a tag on which you write source of the lace, identification information, date of purchase, and the price you paid for the lace. Some people think they can use a electronic device for this documentation. I must warn that 100 years from now it is absolute that information on that device will be generations beyond retrieval and the laces will have separated and traveled. It is possible that only the wealthiest museums will have religiously updated documentation records of today. A few labeled laces here and there may matter in ways we cannot foresee. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 11/26/2013 4:51:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, j...@myhawkins.co.uk writes: I received a lovely Christmas card from Sheila Brown yesterday, together with a wonderful Torchon bookmark in Christmas colours with a sparkly gimp. Jill - 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
Jeannette Thank you. 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] The Lace Place
Thank you everybody who replied to my message about the Lace Place, isn't it wonderful to think that my enquiry arising from my sons visit brought back so many memories from far and wide to be shared by us all. Arachne has done it again. Sue M Harvey Norfolk U.K. Sent from my iPad - 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] IOLI Koon Collection CD
Hello All! Is there a techie on Arachne who could help me make this Power Point presentation into a continuous slide show? Or let me know that I'm barking up the wrong tree? There's a possibility that I will participate in a lace demo at a library it would make a great background, playing on a continuous loop. Many thanks. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
