Re: [lace] Finished piece
A lovely piece! Well done! And thanks for sharing. Sue suebabbs...@gmail.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/
[lace] Change of email address
As we are going to be changing our ISP in the next week or so, and my @pebble.demon.co.uk email addresses will cease to exist, can anyone who wants to contact me from now on use mousie1 at live dot co dot uk (removing spaces and changing dot to . and at to @). Thank you. 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 Lace Museums
Dear Arachnes, Just to add to the discussion. The amount of lace on display in the Cecil Higgins at Bedford, now rebranded the Higgins bedford has been drastically reduced since the remodelling (and I gather the same is true of Luton). Although the collection *is* still there and they do have occasional collection access talks, and will do study visits. I was lucky enough to go to one just before Easter, I only heard about it at the last minute or I would have posted the info. Their Social History curator Lydia is actually learning lace with a local group and we begged her shamelessly for more talks. A bit of better news is that the Fan Society is celebrating its 40 years with an exhibition of lace fans there during May which will be worth a look. Fans-i-ful Lace May 2015 Collectors gallery - Entry free The Fan Circle International are celebrating 40 years in 2015 and are marking the occasion with a display of beautiful lace fans for the month of May here at The Higgins Bedford. http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_up.aspx Louise In sunny Cambridge where we seem to have jumped from winter to summer in one day: frost this morning and a threatened 23C this afternoon. I am looking out for the first swallows. - 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] English lace museums - updates
Dear Leonard I live close to Bedford and have visited the Higgins several times since it re-opened after the refurbishment. Although the lace that is now on display is limited, there IS a lace display of some of the key Thomas Lester pieces. There is also a display of lacemaking equipment featuring a pillow horse, a bobbin winder, a lace lamp and a piece of Bucks point in progress on a pillow. I also recently attended a talk on the Lester Collection and was fortunate to be able to view and photograph all the other pieces in the collection. The Keeper of Social History is Lydia Saul. She gave the presentation and is very keen to show the lace to anyone who is interested - whether in a group or as an individual. Her contact information is on the Higgins website at http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/section_5.aspx. Jill Milton Keynes, Bucks Bedford Museum and the Cecil Higgins Museum have been combined, and one of the casualties is the lace displayà - there isn't one, and individualsà asking to see specified pieces of their marvellous collection have not managed. à If you do want to try, make contact first and a firm appointment, good luck, and let us know if you get anywhere with them. - 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] Finished piece
Good morning! I'm usually one of the quieter (not quite lurker status, as I ask questions and get fabulous answers) members, but I do recall a comment made in an email not so long ago hoping that more people would actually post. I've been lurking about forever (longer on chat) as one of the red-headed stepchildren of lacemakers (knitted lace was my first lace love) and about a year ago finally took the plunge towards becoming a 'real' (quotes deliberate and tongue in cheek) lacemaker and blew the dust off the beginner bobbin lace kit that loitered in the work room for well over a decade. (Snowgoose kit, not the horror kit. See? I was listening!) I did a tape lace hanky edging (thank you Lorelei / lynxlace. Thank you thank you) and it will be going off as a gift in an artisan exchange shortly. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/wn8l2uc2nj3ri9i/AAClEVlIJMv3-J-bplg2xp18a It's about seven inches across, to give a sense of scale. Don't squint too closely at it, you'll find a bazillion mistakes, but the first few million mistakes are in the first repeat and they go down from there. Apparently just listening in to all you experts for years upon years really /does/ help! Happy Monday! Heather -- in warm and springlike SW Ontario, 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/
