Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin & Membership fees.

[Susan E Babbs]

Still not received the summer one.  I wish IOLI sent out routine reminders of 
membership dues. I generally subscribe for two years at a time, and was very 
grateful that, as the summer bulletin was late, they sent me an e-mail 
extending the deadline for payment, as I had completely forgotten about it!

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[lace] IOLI Bulletin & Membership fees.

[Elizabeth Ligeti]

I have not received the Summer Bulletin yet, nor the Fall one.

The last one I received (very late) was the Spring issue, - with \Devon's
Teapot on the front cover - Triumph of the Wildflowers, - Prairie
Restoration in Iowa.

Has anyone had the summer Edition?  I think it was delayed due to the
Editor's illness, so I presume the Fall Bulletin will be late too. 

I cannot help with the query about Membership fees, as mine were paid before
Convention -- I think!  I better check   Yes, I renewed in April!  I
think I got a reminder that my membership fees were due.

Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz.
lizl...@bigpond.com

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[lace] IOLI Bulletin

[Janice Blair]

I just received my Summer Bulletin, usually received in July/August.  It does
have my updated date of expiration as 9/1/18 because I sent a check in
July.Janice
< jeria...@aol.com
Subject: [lace] IOLI Bulletin and Dues for Next Year

What is the last IOLI Bulletin members have received?

Has anyone received an e-mail notice of IOLI dues due before year  end?>
 
Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, www.jblace.com 

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RE: [lace] Small production flax

[Lorelei Halley]

Jeri
Thanks for that link. A fascinating report.
Lorelei

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Dear Sue M,
 
 
http://ribevikingecenter.dk/media/10424/Flaxreport.pdf 
 

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Re: [lace] Pink house

[Bev Walker]

Was it the installation blown up, the one at the Museum not the big house
itself?


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Adele Shaak  wrote:

> Wow! What a lot of pink crochet. Hard to believe the amount of effort
> involved - and then she blew it up! I get that it was an art installation,
> you can’t save it forever, and what else would they do with all that pink
> crochet, but still - they did all that work and then blew it up! Plus, it
> was such a pretty little house.
>
> --
Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of
Canada

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Re: [lace] Pink house

[Adele Shaak]

Wow! What a lot of pink crochet. Hard to believe the amount of effort involved 
- and then she blew it up! I get that it was an art installation, you can’t 
save it forever, and what else would they do with all that pink crochet, but 
still - they did all that work and then blew it up! Plus, it was such a pretty 
little house.

Adele

> On Oct 24, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Ilske Thomsen  
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Everybody,
> have a look here
> 
> http://instagrafite.com/our-pink-house-by-olek-in-avesta-sweden/
> 
> 
> it’s not bobbin lace but crochet and, what’s more, a lovely story.
> Have fun.

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[lace] Thistle's Million Dollars of Custom-Manufactured Threads

[Jeriames]

Sue M.,  Were you at Winterthur 2 weeks ago?
 
This old lady (Jeri) is getting tired of writing about all the  interesting 
lace-related information learned on a daily basis.  Yet,  many people 
protest there is no news for lacemakers ?   I need  apprentices !  Volunteers !
 
Several younger members of Arachne attended the  2016 Needlework Conference 
at Winterthur Museum a couple weeks ago.
 
Please share your notes about the first presenter Tricia Wilson  Nguyen, 
Owner of Thistle Threads in Massachusetts, whose talk was about the many  
custom-made threads she has had manufactured.  These include metal wrapped  
threads.  Yes, it has cost over $1-million to do, and that is why only the  
most 
privileged embroiderers make her reproduction 17th C. embroideries from the 
 kits she designs, assembles and sells!   Nguyen is a force  to be reckoned 
with:  She is a business owner, mother raising  children, educator, 
consultant to museums, and working engineer.  (And  we think we are busy?)
 
Laces have the advantage of space (holes) and one costly spool of  thread 
can make a dramatic impact.  
 
You can spend days - weeks - months reading the vast amount of  information 
at:
 
http://thistle-threads.blogspot.com/
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

 
In a message dated 10/21/2016 8:42:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bespokethreadsandya...@gmail.com writes:

Technically, the thesis includes replicating metal wrapped threads  but 
linen thread is also being required. Spinning is the easy part, making  lace 
samples in triplicate will be my challenge as a novice. 

Sue  M

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[lace] Re: Pink house

[Ilske Thomsen]

Hello Everybody,
have a look here

http://instagrafite.com/our-pink-house-by-olek-in-avesta-sweden/


it’s not bobbin lace but crochet and, what’s more, a lovely story.
Have fun.

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Re: [lace] Small production flax

[Jeriames]

Dear Sue M,
 
Where are you located?  We keep asking, because  correspondents fail to 
give us an idea of the country in which they  live.  It becomes relevant when 
someone tries to be of help.  A search  (extra time for us to do) for your 
business brought up Indiana, U.S.A.  Is  this correct? 
 
My lace and embroidery library has some linen industry books that may be  
interesting to read (a sort of bibliography for your studies).  I did not  
disclose all in my memo of October 17th, but have not neglected collecting 
books  about the fibers used to make lace and embroidery.  Because the lace  
and embroidery organizations to which we belong rarely collect for  their 
lending libraries beyond the subjects of embroidery and lace, my  collecting 
focus was expanded to include "Other Related Subjects" (about  1,000 volumes).  
 
You might like to read a report from Denmark:
 
http://ribevikingecenter.dk/media/10424/Flaxreport.pdf 
 
This was so informative - about experiments with flax - that I bought  a 
one-inch deep looseleaf binder and made a permanent book for the  library.  
There is a long list of references given, and the book prints to  86 pages.
 
If you'd like to learn about the Belgian flax history, it is  doubtful 
there is anything better than the Bert DeWilde book:  "Flax  in Flanders 
Throughout the Centuries - History..Technical  Evolution..Folklore".  The 
National 
Museum of Linen and Lace Museum in  Kortrijk (Courtrai, in French) will 
probably be on the lace tour  in 2018, sponsored by the Belgian Lace Group.  My 
 
Goo...Search came up with an address that showed architectural buildings in 
 Belgium.  Perhaps an Arachne member in Belgium can supply an  address 
where we can at least read in English about the National Flax  and Lace 
Museum?? 
 If they do not have a web site, let us ask Santa Claus  for someone to 
volunteer!
 
A variety of museum references is at this private  (non-commercial) site, 
though you may have to search for their web  sites:
 
https://www.linenme.com/news/flax-linen-museums/ 
 
Your thesis subject reminds of the extensive work Gil Dye has done to  
replicate early laces from visually studying lace details on early  portraits.  
I hope you have tried to use her bobbin lace instructions  to make samples.  
You mention metal-wrapped threads, which reminded of Lena  Dahren's  2010 
271 pg. Uppsala University thesis (Swedish language,  with English summary) 
"Med Kant av Guld Och Silver 1550-1640" (Metal Lace of  Gold and Silver) 
978-91-628-8196-2, $80.  Dahren speaks English and is a  very approachable 
OIDFA 
member.  The International Organization of Lace in  the U.S. does not have 
in their library.  Perhaps a local lace group would  have it, or you could 
try InterLibrary Loan  
 
See?  That is why we need to know where you are located when you write  to 
Arachne!!!  
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

 
 
In a message dated 10/21/2016 8:42:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bespokethreadsandya...@gmail.com writes:

The  process being proposed by Brenda Paternoster is exactly what I have 
been doing  for six years. Yearly, I grow a small plot, harvest, rett, break 
once my  husband finishes building a new break.  What is easiest at home is 
to  harvest exactly when ripe. I have read that slightly 'green' flax stalks 
may  produce finest threads.  I have a select bunch to test this idea. One  
issue about saving seed and replanting is that flax must be harvested before 
 the seed heads burst otherwise the fiber strands become overripe and  
unusable.  Hear that the seeds available at harvest are too immature to  
germinate. I believe back in the day they would have let  some flax to  fully 
mature ( over ripen) just for seed. 

Really, even if the finest  flax plants were developed, commercial 
processing is virtually non existent.  Hand processing (not even up to spinning 
yet) 
would be impractical and  expensive. Add a cottage handspinner and no one 
could afford the thread.   I am in the process of spinning small batches for 
early bobbin lace thesis.  Spinning is tedious, messy, dirty. Then threads 
need to be plied and then  boiled to clean and soften. I thrash to break down 
the fibers to make them  smoother, lustrous and not as stiff. Good news is 
that a little goes a long  way. 

I am planning on blogging the process as I work on my thesis.  Technically, 
the thesis includes replicating metal wrapped threads but linen  thread is 
also being required. Spinning is the easy part, making lace samples  in 
triplicate will be my challenge as a novice. 

Sue M.  

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