Re: [lace] Online Archive of Old Lacemakers
On 5/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a wonderful time going through these images of art, and have come across an enigma: in this painting, what is the lady offering the viewer? http://tinyurl.com/2ds2wf Clay The title is Tabaksnuif. tabak is Dutch for tabacco, and my guess would be snuif is some variation of snuff. Donna Hrynkiw in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Another Online Archive of Laceworkers (Rijksbureau)
For your enjoyment Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (Netherlands Institute for Art History) http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/search.aspx?module=images Under Subject keyword enter kantklossen (lacemaker in Dutch... or Flemish). 29 images of mid-17thC and later fine art portraits of lacemakers. Donna Hrynkiw in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace WSJ/describing lace
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/02/2006 09:33:09 AM: On 2/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: said, Bobbin lace is basically weaving on a pillow, right? Should I have agreed with her? The short answer - I would say 'yes' to the basic 'weaving on a pillow.' Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) When I do a bobbin-lace demo, I describe it as Fancy braiding, just like the three-strand braid you use to braid your hair, only I have (20/40/60/however many bobbins) strands. Then we tend to get into a discussion about pins to hold the braids in place, which leads to me pointing out the pricking. My apologies for coming into this discussion rather late. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Straw-Filled Pillows
Thank-you all for your great comments re: straw-filled pillows. I got some significant new information that will help a great deal in my project. - Oat straw was traditional/recommended. Also sea grass. And I very much like the suggestion to add fragrant herbs. - Chop the straw. A duh! moment for me. I had envisioned stuffing whole straw into the pillow, but chopping it makes ever so much more sense. - Someone made a side comment somewhere along the line that oat straw is currently in vogue for use in keeping algae down in back yard fish ponds. Although I live in a community known for its high horse population (Fraser Valley, just east of Vancouver B.C. Canada), I had been a bit anxious about the availability of oat straw until this came up. We have a lot of high-end landscaping places too, so I have high hopes of being able to find oat straw easily - The weight of a straw-stuffed pillow. Another duh! moment. Yeah -- this pillow is going to be a LOT heavier than my two pillows. So I've added sturdy new carrying bag to my list of tasks for this project. I'll let you all know how I get along. If I get really ambitious, I may even photo-document the process! Thank-you again, Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Sounds of the bobbins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/02/2006 06:58:38 PM: On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:01:21 -0800 (PST), Alice wrote: I had forgotten that I always wanted a pillow full of rosewood bobbins because of the beautiful sound they made. Now that the List has reminded me, I must start collecting enough to make a full pillow! Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA I was once in a class where one of the students had an entire pillowful of glass bobbins. The sound was pretty at first, but after a full day of lacemaking, the tink-tink-tink set my teeth on edge. Donna in Surrey, B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Straw-Filled Pillows
For years I've been reading about how early lace pillows were stuffed with straw and have been curious about how they would differ from our modern pillows. I've decided that I want to make a reproduction 17th century bobbin lace pillow. Does anyone have any advice, suggestions or thoughts to share on making a straw-filled pillow? Does anyone have any idea what KIND of straw? I know there is a big difference between wheat straw and barley straw and oat straw. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Sounds of the bobbins
I was in Brugge/Bruges, Belgium at the Lace Centre a few months ago. We had been through the lace display and were looking for the Lace Atelier (studio/workshop) that had been noted at the front gate. The signage was scarce and the hallway we'd ventured into was long and all the doors were closed. But from the far end we heard a musical, wooden tinkling. No We ventured down the hall and opened the door a crack. Yes! A room full of ladies of assorted ages (about 25 or so) all working away. The bobbins made the music we heard. Donna in Surrey, B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace without a corner
Brenda Paternoster wrote: Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace. You need 4 times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - absolute minimum. Round up so that you have an even number or repeats, and preferably a multiple of four. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/01/2006 02:09:37 PM: Okay, you lost me on that one. Can you go through the math again slower? It seems like one or the other but why both measurements? Ruth Let me see if I can tackle this. To calculate how much lace you need to edge a handkerchief with mitred lace at the corners, you need: Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace. You need 4 times the width of the hankie Most hankies are square (four sides, all the same length). We need four times the length of one side of the hankie -- one for each side of the hankie. PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - absolute minimum. When you mitre lace at a corner, the headside of the lace goes past the end of the hankie a distance equivalent to the width of the lace, turns 90 degrees, and goes down the next side of the hankie (again a distance equivalent to the width of the lace) before the footside actually reaches the hankie again. That's two width-of-the-lace distances for every corner. Four corners times two widths equals eight widths. Round up so that you have an even number or repeats I'm not sure why an even number of repeats is necessary. Brenda? and preferably a multiple of four. Ideally, each side and corner of the hankie will look exactly like all the other sides and corners. The best way to do this is have the same number of repeats on each side or in each corner. Four sides of the hankie means for every repeat you add on one side should also be added on the other three sides as well. Four sides = multiples of four repeats. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 26/01/2006 06:50:14 PM: On Jan 26, 2006, at 12:12, Ilske Thomsen wrote: At our Kunsthalle I found a magnet with The lace-maker from Caspar Netscher on it. [...] Since '89, and the beginning of my lace adventure, I've been trying to collect lace-related magnets and found that there aren't all that many of them available (possibly because most lace is made in Europe, [...] Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ FWIW (For what it's worth), I was in Brugge/Bruges, Belgium in October last year and brought home a wonderfully tacky fridge magnet featuring bobbin lace. It's very plastic looking and has a cartoon-like representation of an overhead view of a lace pillow, complete with bobbins and a pair of hands. I think it has the words Bobbin Lace and Belgium on it, and the Belgium flag in the corner. So keep searching, it's not an impossible hunt. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada Who collects fine-art portraits of lacemakers, mostly historical; and postcards of lacemakers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: lacemaker-magnet
Oh! I also found Vermeer's Lacemaker as a fridge magnet in the Louvre (very big) gift/book shop. Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Knitting Tips and Trade Secrets (was: Knitting books in the IOLI library)
Suzy asked for an overview of Knitting Tips and Trade Secrets - Clever Solutions for Better Hand Knitting, Machine Knitting and Crochet. Taunton Press, 1996, ISBN 1-56158-156-9, 121 pages. Taunton Press also publishes other periodicals such as Fine Woodworking, Fine Gardening, Fine Cooking, Fine Homebuilding, and others. http://www.taunton.com/ ==Table of Contents== Yarn Hand-Knitting Techniques Multicolor Knitting Garmentmaking Tips Managing Your Knitting Machine Knitting Crochet Finishing and Caring for Your Project Knitting Abbreviations Index The contents of the book are a series of short (usually not more than one paragraph) tips sent into Threads magazine from the readers, back when the magazine had a wider scope than today. The illustrations are all black and white, drawn in Threads' excellent pencil-drawing style. ==Tips from the Hand-Knitting Techniques chapter== Long-Tail Cast-On (with diagram) Keeping the First Rounds Untwisted Stranded Cast-On Crochet Provisional Cast-On Knitting the First Row Even Joins in Circular Knitting Knit Cable Cast-On Avoiding the Dog Leg in Circular Knitting Tubular Cast-On for Circular Knitting No Stairstep When Casting On Clever Cast-On at the End of a Row Getting Started With Knitting in the Round Casting On Mid-Row Single Cast-On To Cast Off Loosely Slipped Stitch Bind-Off Casting Off A Quick Bind-Off Adding Ribbing Stranded Cast-Off Another Decorative Ribbing Bind-Off Avoid Going Twice into the First Two Stitches Tubular Cast-Off for Single Rib Alternative Tubular Cast-Off for Single Rib Tubular Cast-Off for Double Rib Another Technique for Tubular Cast-Off, Double Rib One Row Flat-Chain Cast-Off Increases and Decreases Make One Two Common Decreases Knit-Two-Together Decrease Purl Two Together-Back Improving the SSK Left-Slanting Decrease Vertical Double Decrease Lifted Decrease Perfectly Matched Decreases Double-Layer Rib No-Purl Corrugated Rib Stretchy Knit Ribbing Slipping a Stitch Elongated Stitches Tool-less Twists Cast-On Bobble Hand Knitting as Even as Machine Knitting Easy Bobbles Wisp Knitting Picking Up a Dropped Stitch Picking Up Loose Stitches Picking Up Stitches Knitting Repair Hint Ripping Stockinette Stitch Short Rows Knitting Backwards Thimbles for Knitters A sample tip, chosen at random: Circular-Needle Storage, pg. 83: Commercial organizers for circular knitting needles just don't suit me. Instead, I store needles in clear plastic sheet protectors from my stationary store (see Fig. 83). The sheets are closed on three sides and open at the top. They have a strip on the side with holes for placing in a binder. Once I label the envelope with the needle size and slide my circular needles inside, I have a permanent, see-through storage for my collection. -- Peg Boren, McAllen, TX Most tips are a little longer than that one, but only a very few are a full page or longer. Hope that's useful. Donna in Surrey, B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the floor and missing. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Knitting books in the IOLI library
K-022.Knitting Tips Trade Secrets, Clever Solutions for Better Hand Knitting...1996...English...121p I have this book (at home). Would you like a precis? Donna in Surrey, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/01/2006 08:08:31 PM: it would be nice if you could give me a few topics it gives info on! thank you!! from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. Whups! I meant to bring the book to work with me today so I could send you an overview on my lunch-hour -- but forgot the book at home. I'll do it tonight from home. Apologies. Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the floor and missing. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Footside-Right, Footside-Left (was: Sally Barry's Luton Series)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31/12/2005 07:04:09 PM: Several of the patterns make me wonder whether I should try, again, working with the headside on the right -- something I gave up long ago -- because they're so pretty... Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Tamara's comment reminds me of something that I've been meaning to ask you all. But first a comment on Tamera's comment -- if you're more comfortable working with the headside on the left, why not simply turn the pattern around and work it with the headside on the left? Or am I missing something? Virtually every edging pattern I've ever worked could be turned around and worked from the other end. My question: am I correct in my assumption that typically edgings worked with Midlands-style (ie spangled) bobbins have the footside on the right, and edgings worked with unspangled/European-style bobbins have the footside on the left? I have a little story/explanation to tell, but want to hear if my assumption is accurate or out-to-lunch first. Donna in Surrey, B.C. Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the floor and missing. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] New Subscriber Intro
Greetings from a new (old) subscriber. After a multi-year break from lacemaking and this list, life has returned me back to both these happy places. It's marvellous to be back and I have to say it's a lot like coming home. I didn't realize how much I'd missed my bobbins. I'm a moderately experienced lacemaker and my primary interest is in bobbin lace, although I'm also interested in lacis, needlelace and knitted lace. Bedfordshire and Cluny are my main interest, although Bucks Point has been looking awfully pretty to me lately as well. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Passée à Cheval?
Greetings from a new subscriber -- with a query. I'm about to begin a pattern from Modèles de Dentelles au Fuseau Cluny by Mick Fouriscot and Mylène Salvador; Fougères Bordure on page 16 to be exact. The instructions mention passée à cheval which my highschool french translates as last with horse. So it can't be a literal translation, but the name of a technique or movement. (horse passage? horse crossing?) I've tracked down a representation of passée à cheval at http://www.chez.com/dentelle/Tech/Cheval/passee.htm (which even references Mick Fouriscot. Whoo-hoo! I'm on the right track). I'm having trouble translating the instructions again, but the diagram looks suspiciously like what Springett calls a Cluny Crossing. Am I close? Another query: If you have ...Dentelles au Fuseau Cluny handy and can look at the pattern -- where are Fouriscot and Salvador recommending the use of the passée à cheval? At the narrowest point of the lace -- where the plait with the double picot joins the headside trail? Donna in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Bobbins loaded and drawing the pricking - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] New Subscriber Intro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Subject: [lace] New Subscriber Intro Greetings from a new (old) subscriber. After a multi-year break from lacemaking and this list, life has returned me back to both these happy places. And then like a goober, I forgot to sign my message. Apologies. Donna in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the floor and missing. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
