[lace] Lacemaking on BBC
Yesterday I was filmed by the BBC making lace, for an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. Presenters James Braxton and Lesley Joseph were looking around Waddesdon Manor, and they were also shown some antique lace. They then watched me working, and Lesley had a go! She grasped it very quickly and worked a couple of rows. It was great fun and hopefully the BBC will include more footage than the few seconds of Lacemaking they showed on Country file earlier this month! The program is due to be broadcast next spring. Christine Lardner (Oxford 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lacemaking on BBC
Christine, at this rate you'll be getting really famous. We'll all be asking for your autograph (vbg)! Presumably the BBC now have you on file as their go-to expert for lacemaking. Good for you - and good for all of us, really. Will look out for the programme Hazel Smith (Cricklade, UK) On Sat, 28/6/14, Christine Lardner christinelard...@hotmail.com wrote: Subject: [lace] Lacemaking on BBC To: lace@arachne.com Date: Saturday, 28 June, 2014, 7:48 Yesterday I was filmed by the BBC making lace, for an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. Presenters James Braxton and Lesley Joseph were looking around Waddesdon Manor, and they were also shown some antique lace. They then watched me working, and Lesley had a go! She grasped it very quickly and worked a couple of rows. It was great fun and hopefully the BBC will include more footage than the few seconds of Lacemaking they showed on Country file earlier this month! The program is due to be broadcast next spring. Christine Lardner (Oxford 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://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] Care of lace
Hi Spiders Over the last 5 years I have made 3 specific pieces of bridal lace waiting for the first of the family brides to need them and then the first one decided they would get married on their holidays, something I only heard about 8 days before the whole family left the country for the holiday and wedding combined. In that time I was able to run the silver elastic into the garter, sew a flower on and box and send ,everything was here just to go, thankfully. The handkerchief edge I made and Liz In Australia challenged me to get it sew up while she was away a couple of years ago so I had accepted that challenge and got on with that so that was also ready on time, thank you Liz and the horseshoe lace was also already made but I had struggled to get the right shape of acetate. I had to tackle that which I finally got to work ok, so with a very tight deadline I did get it all there on time and my sister packed it all away in her hand luggage to make sure it was safe. Her initial feedback when she received it was very pleasing. Her subject line was Oh Wow, so I was happy. Hopefully the bride was also pleased with it. The horseshoe and hanky are hers to keep and I need to find the information about how to turn it into a baby bonnet for her whenever she decides to have a family but not immediately. When the garter comes back to me I need to remove the elastic, wash it carefully and pack it away again into the acid free tissue paper waiting for the next wedding. Because one branch of my family all live in Canada I have decided to design and make some lace just for them, to save the garter going backwards and forwards over the atlantic with the possibility of delays or loss and would like some information please to tell my sister the best way to preserve and pack the lace items for safe keeping in their changeable weather. At the moment it is shorts and tee shirt weather and from October to April at least it is Minus figures and snow for weeks on end. I know we have Arachnids in every part of the world and hope that someone with the experience of that kind of climate would be kind enough to give me some ideas. I am making and packing in tissue and minimal packaging for her to take back home in her suitcase and then buy packaging and store in the best possible way until needed. One item is for multiple use so will need to give her the washing and packing instructions for the garter but the other items I make need to be kept presentable for individual use and gifting to the brides on their day. My great nieces and nephews are aged from 7 - 17 at the moment so the lace wont be made all at once but over the years in my time, so will need to be stored for the future. I want to make them while I am able and we never know when we will have to stop, for health reasons. Many thanks for reading and to those who might help. Sue T Dorset UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/png which had a name of wlEmoticon-smile[1].png] - 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] Lacemaking on BBC
Thank you Christine, looking forward to seeing that, will need to keep my eyes open for it. i agree it would be really good to see a little more of the lace making than in some programs. Sue T Dorset UK Yesterday I was filmed by the BBC making lace, for an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. Presenters James Braxton and Lesley Joseph were looking around Waddesdon Manor, and they were also shown some antique lace. They then watched me working, and Lesley had a go! She grasped it very quickly and worked a couple of rows. It was great fun and hopefully the BBC will include more footage than the few seconds of Lacemaking they showed on Country file earlier this month! The program is due to be broadcast next spring. Christine Lardner (Oxford 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lacemaking on BBC
This was probably just a case of Christine being in the right place at the right time. When they were asking for a demonstrator last time they contacted The Lace Guild as well as the Lace Society, giving only two day's clear notice, which is why the Guild didn't get a chance to ask any of the more local lacemakers (in case anyone was wondering - no offence to Christine, she did a marvellous job). In fact, we didn't know they'd asked the Society as well! It made me wonder if they'd asked around their own staff - when I was working for them (in Birmingham) back in the 1970-80s I knew of three of us (I was on the staff, the other two engineers' wives) in the Engineering Dept who made lace, and I'm certain we would have found more if we'd asked the question - especially as I later went on to do my CG lacemaking alongside a former BBC costume designer (Carol was doing her Part 2 whilst I was doing Part 1). In those days urgent messages to staff (like when they were desperate for audiences for shows!) were broadcast on an in-house teletext system, with a monitor tuned in to it in various places around the building. These days I expect it is all done by email. In message 1403944899.59279.yahoomailba...@web162003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, Hazel Smith hazel_twiggy_sm...@yahoo.com writes Presumably the BBC now have you on file as their go-to expert for lacemaking. -- 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/
[lace] RE: Lacemaking on BBC
Jane, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. I'm not exactly sure how it came to be me, I was on holiday in Scotland, when I got an email asking if I would be back to do it. My fellow Isis member, Eileen had been asked but would be away. I believe she had been contacted by Waddesdon Manor as we had demonstrated there recently. I live just 22 miles from Waddesdon so consider myself local. At no time did I mention either Lace Guild or Lace Society. I belong to both, and have done since the beginning of the Guild, and shortly after the Society was formed. I have no special allegiance to either. In fact, I did it for all Lacemakers. I have always been happy to show or teach anyone who's interested, and I think we should all grab any opportunity to get Lacemaking to a wider audience, however it may come about. Christine Lardner (Oxford) --- Original Message --- From: Jane Partridge jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk Sent: June 28, 2014 11:45 AM To: Hazel Smith hazel_twiggy_sm...@yahoo.com Cc: lace@arachne.com, Christine Lardner christinelard...@hotmail.com Subject: Lacemaking on BBC This was probably just a case of Christine being in the right place at the right time. When they were asking for a demonstrator last time they contacted The Lace Guild as well as the Lace Society, giving only two day's clear notice, which is why the Guild didn't get a chance to ask any of the more local lacemakers (in case anyone was wondering - no offence to Christine, she did a marvellous job). In fact, we didn't know they'd asked the Society as well! It made me wonder if they'd asked around their own staff - when I was working for them (in Birmingham) back in the 1970-80s I knew of three of us (I was on the staff, the other two engineers' wives) in the Engineering Dept who made lace, and I'm certain we would have found more if we'd asked the question - especially as I later went on to do my CG lacemaking alongside a former BBC costume designer (Carol was doing her Part 2 whilst I was doing Part 1). In those days urgent messages to staff (like when they were desperate for audiences for shows!) were broadcast on an in-house teletext system, with a monitor tuned in to it in various places around the building. These days I expect it is all done by email. In message 1403944899.59279.yahoomailba...@web162003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, Hazel Smith hazel_twiggy_sm...@yahoo.com writes Presumably the BBC now have you on file as their go-to expert for lacemaking. -- 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/
Re: [lace] Lacemaking on BBC
Oohs, I can say that I knew you when you were merely chief bobbin of the ISIS lace group. Oh the prestige to hang out with a celebrity. L PS anything which gets lacemaking and hand made crafts on TV wins my vote. So pleased that which ever production company made this had the foresight to include someone who is not only talented in lacemaking, has a fantastic way about them in their teaching and who comes over so well when talking to people. Really positive Sent from my iPad On 28 Jun 2014, at 07:48, Christine Lardner christinelard...@hotmail.com wrote: Yesterday I was filmed by the BBC making lace, for an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. The program is due to be broadcast next spring. Christine Lardner (Oxford - 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: Lacemaking on BBC
Nothing at all personal - the main point being that this time it was probably coincidental rather than planned. I'd thought that you were on the roster that was planned for demonstrators for certain days during the Waddesdon exhibition. It was more a comment on the short notice given where the Countryfile programme was concerned - knowing (through working for them in the past) how long programmes are in the planning stages - and the way it was handled by the BBC at the time; and that I'd wondered whether they'd thought to ask their staff. In message dub404-eas11613c8bbe905fa07629d12d8...@phx.gbl, Christine Lardner christinelard...@hotmail.com writes Jane, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. -- 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/
[lace] Wedding Hanky to Baby Bonnet
Anyone interested in making a Wedding Hanky into a Baby Bonnet (or Bonnet to Hanky) will find our previous discussions on this subject at http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html Just put - Wedding Hanky to Baby Bonnet Instructions - in the Search box. If you leave off the word Instructions, you will get many more posts to enjoy, and perhaps some more poems to go with the gifts you are making. You really will want to give with a poem, to make it a more unique gift. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Care of lace - for Future Weddings
Dear Sue, Memos on all subjects you raise are in Arachne archives under my name. I have always suggested everyone keep a Conservation binder for future use. For washing, refer to my memo about Carrickmacross lace to Arachne and Karen in Malta just yesterday (27th). Orvus soap should be available in Canadian quilting shops. This is not information your sister will easily find. The climate in most of Canada is not much different than in Maine. I keep all my laces stored in archival boxes in the studio, which I do not keep as warm as the rest of the house in Winter. A temperature of 55-60 degrees Fahrenheit should do, or keep in the part of the house that is lived in - not attic or cellar. Devon recently wrote that the Metropolitan Museum is no longer using buffered tissues because they are very drying. She suggested to use unbuffered tissues. See? Even I keep a conservation binder. Well, more like a deep box! Of most concern is the elastic used in lace wedding garters sent to Canada. This because elastic does not stand up to the passage of time, can crumble, lose elasticity, and even discolor white lace - as some on this list must realize when they pass down children's clothing. Also, elastic measurements for garters need adjusting from bride-to-bride. I recommend you write instructions - for measuring new elastic, how to insert it in a garter, and how to remove elastic after each wedding (which will make it easier to flatten the lace for storage). You might take pictures to illustrate, though I do not know how long they will survive. (My old color photos are degrading.) Any photos, and instructions written on normal paper, need to be kept outside the archival paper used to wrap wedding laces. Therefore, mention right in the written documentation that the wrapping tissue is the kind used to preserve lace in museums, and is not from a local craft shop. Be sure to mention that lace should not be stored in wood or cardboard containers - keep it simple, and just say all wood and cardboard, when it comes to those not interested in textile conservation. I hope the recipients will be sentimental. Reminder to all: Anyone traveling by air should pack lace in carry-on luggage. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 6/28/2014, su...@talktalk.net writes: When the garter comes back to me I need to remove the elastic, wash it carefully and pack it away again into the acid free tissue paper waiting for the next wedding. Because one branch of my family all live in Canada I have decided to design and make some lace just for them, to save the garter going backwards and forwards over the Atlantic with the possibility of delays or loss and would like some information please to tell my sister the best way to preserve and pack the lace items for safe keeping in their changeable weather. One item is for multiple use so will need to give her the washing and packing instructions for the garter but the other items I make need to be kept presentable for individual use and gifting to the brides on their day. My great nieces and nephews are aged from 7 - 17 at the moment so the lace wont be made all at once but over the years in my time, so will need to be stored for the future. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Wedding Hanky to Baby Bonnet
Thank you Jeri, that is great information and I am off to enjoy hunting and looking. I think I also need to begin this folder you spoke about, as bits of files here and there over the years are not easy to find when wanted. Mind you space at home is pretty tight as well. Need to begin today. Thank you for that. Sue T Dorset UK Anyone interested in making a Wedding Hanky into a Baby Bonnet (or Bonnet to Hanky) will find our previous discussions on this subject at http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html Just put - Wedding Hanky to Baby Bonnet Instructions - in the Search box. If you leave off the word Instructions, you will get many more posts to enjoy, and perhaps some more poems to go with the gifts you are making. You really will want to give with a poem, to make it a more unique gift. 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Waddeston Manor's relationship to Highclere Castle/Downton Abbey
It has occurred to me that many people on Arachne who love the Downton Abbey TV series, may not be aware that it is really Highclere Castle, and it has a strong relationship to Waddeston Manor where this Summer's lace celebrations are taking place. If you are traveling, Highclere Castle tours may be fully booked, in which case Waddeston Manor would be a nice alternative. In 1895, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon married the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild, Almina. She then moved to Highclere Castle. Her father, a famous industrialist/financier, lived at Waddeston Manor. Her wealth was used to preserve Highclere and to finance the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The Earl and Howard Carter were close friends. Just that brief introduction should be enough to convince that the real families who occupied these two places lived fascinating lives during the Edwardian Era and the First World War, surpassing the story being told on Downton Abbey. For your Summer reading, I recommend Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, written by Lady Fiona Carnarvon. It is available in paperback - ISBN 978-0-7704-3562-2. For lace content, on pages 3-4 there is mention of Almina wearing a gift from the bridegroom: a piece of very old and extremely rare French lace that had been incorporated into her dress. Has anyone seen this historic piece of lace? If you've already read the above, you might like to follow-up with Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey. Catherine was an American. She married Lady Almina's son, who became the 6th Earl of Carnarvon. This covers the period between the World Wars and after. Another paperback - ISBN 978-0-385-34496-8. Lady Fiona Carnarvon (author) is married to the 8th Earl, Geordie. In a few years, it would be very interesting to read about their lives - after the excitement of filming at Highclere. (Maybe she will find more lace in the many storerooms in the Castle.) Suggest you do a computer search for both sites, and do a Lace at Waddeston search, as well. Please, may we hear more about visits by our lace makers to Waddeston? 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
