Re: [lace] PBLC website and Bishop's Cope
From: "Leonard Bazar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ilske's doubt as to whether it really was a bishop's cope is also expressed by Christine Springett. Thomas Wright describes it simply as a cope, without mentioning a bishop, and she wonders if this might not be the result of a misprint for "cape", which seems likely to me too. The (complete) Oxford dictionary states that "cope" and "cape" have the same meaning. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] ... & melting
"Clay Blackwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > So how it worked was that we were instructed to soak the bandana in cool > water for 20 minutes. That tiny amount of silica gel absolutely filled > the entire center section of the bandana! When we tied this loosely > around our neck and wore this out in the (extremely dry) heat in Denver, > the evaporation of water from the silica gel acted as a cooling agent > for our bodies, and REALLY worked!! A simple cotton bandana soaked in water also works well. I use one of these when working in the garden in summer when the temperature gets over 40degrees C (over the century in Farenheit). I've also been know to resort to the same technique when it's too hot inside the house. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Sunlight soap
I've been busy so haven't followed this thread too closely so if I'm repeating what someone else has already said, my apologies for wasting time. The issue that has occurred to me as I've been reading some of the more recent posts is that I haven't noticed any mention of pH. Since conservators all seem to go mildly hysterical at the thought of acid environments when associated with fabric I would have thought that acid residue should be considered so had started to wonder about this. Whilst soap manufacturers might make "pure" claims about the nature of their soap, I haven't got a clue what this means. Anyway, just coincidentally, and just for information, I was reading an article last night on soap making and found that this article claimed the following pH table for US brands of soap (of which many I have never heard): Camay 9.5 Dial 9.5 Dove 7.0 (the only pH neutral one mentioned) Irish Spring 9.5 Ivory 9.5 Lever 2000 9,0 Palmolive 10.0 Zest 10.0 I can't imagine using any of these soaps to wash any fibre, but thought I'd throw it into the ring anyway. Fran SE Oz - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: wool lace weight thread/orenberg shawls
suzy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > how common is > it that you see wool being used for lace weight thread? what is the > finest you have seen wool lace weight sold? I have seen 1 ply Shetland wool for sale - the type that is used to make the famous Shetland 'ring' shawls. I have also seen Noelene Lafferty's Torchon scarf made from wool. It is drop dead gorgeous but of course Noelene has been to modest to say so, but I will confirm it! Noelene Hi! :-))) I was waiting to see your post on your scarf. Noelene's scarf is so lovely that it inspired me to buy some wool for a scarf of my own. I even have a pattern that will now work as a scarf with this wool (at least I think it will). > also what is the best way to preshrink wool? That would depend on whether it was hand spun wool or commercial wool. And also what you mean by "shrunk". If you are asking about commercial wool (which I assume you are) then I wouldn't try to preshrink it at all. It should be sold in the state that you should always try to maintain. By that I mean that it needs to be treated with care and respect in the washing process and it will then last you for many years and continue to look good. Merino is a wool which has a tendency to pill because of its fineness and needs extra care. Never machine wash any wool which you consider to be of great value to you. > it says agitation in hot water is really the cause of shrinking, so > would i wrap some raw wool in a cloth and tie the ends and middle and > throw it in the washing machine for a few washings? then throw it in > the dryer afterwards Don't do this unless it is labelled machine wash only and even then I think I'd have doubts about it. I guess it depends on what you want to make from the wool - it could make a good wall decoration I suppose, but for wear it's likely to end up tough and scratchy and for wearing only as an outer garment well away from your skin. General advice on handwashing commercial wool: Use hand hot water for both wash and rinse - try to have the same temperature as it seems that the change of temprature has a lot to do with wool shrinkage as does agitiation. Dissolve the soap product well before adding the wool. Put the wool into the water and leave it to sit for 5-10 mins. Then squeeze the suds gently through the wool - don't rub or scrub. Pull the plug out and let the wool garment sink to the bottom as the water drains out. Gently squeeze out while the wool is supported - don't lift the top end of the garment/wool skein and let the rest of it drag and stretch. support the wool and lift it out of the tub and refill with the same temp water and rinse doing the same gentle rest, squeeze and drain till the rinse water runs clear. Dryt he wool out of the sun well supported on a flat airing stand. Hand spun wool is a bit different and it depends on whether it is greasy wool or scoured wool and whether it is in garment or skein form. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Honiton lace
"Elizabeth Ligeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have been demonstrating at a Bush Festival all day (and more tomorrow!), > and a lady visited our stand who was recently back from England. She went > to Honiton, but could not find any lace to see. she asked at the Tourist > bureau where she could find some lace, and they said "nowhere". She knew > the Lace shop was closed. I suggested that there might be some at the > Allhallows Museum, but I was not sure about that There was certainly lots of it in the Allhallows Museum when I was there a couple of years ago Liz. There was also a lady demonstating lace making too in the lace section of the Museum - the lace part of the museum was a separate and quite distinct section of the Museum and although it is only a small local museum it has a very nice feel to it. I remember it well as I made a point of going specifically to Honiton to see the Museum as my Grt Grandfather was a Lace Manufacturer who was born in the area. I got chipped by the man at the counter for buying Midlands bobbins whilst in Honiton. :-)) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] pillow bag
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Now I have a question about this design. Do the two flaps that fold > over the pillow truly keep it from sliding out the end of this > carrier? I'd worry about that. Yes they do - they usually tie across or have a buttton to keep the crossed bits in place but one would have to be pretty rough with the carrier to lose a pillow even if the crossed bits weren't tied - they do flap over a long way and thus encase the pillow. Many of the lace makers I know use this big Cross shaped design for their cookie pillows. It works very well without any variation or amendment and because of that I wouldn't recommend the variation of the handled that you suggest. the reason for this is because if you use just one piece of wood or dowel as you suggest then the wooden handle can come adrift. The purpose of the "D" cutouts is that the dowel goes right out to the corners of the cross and as the dowel is sewn into what is effectively a tight fitting sleeve with only a small piece of a cut out for the hand sized "D" then the wood is secure and keeps the top of the handled tops sitting in a straight line - no sloppy fabric flapping around. With this design the pillow can be carried one handed, has sides which one always knows where they are (no sloppy fabric to catch on door handles etc) and the inside of the handle parts of the cross can include zipped pockets for all the guff one carries around with one. The only thing about this design is that it takes a lot of fabric so if one uses good quilting fabric it can get to be expensive to make. My first step up from my old tablecloth to carry the pillow in, was to a zip sided hang down case as my first pillow carrier simply because of the expense factor. Fran - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: London Bombings & Personal Emergency List
"Clay Blackwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Dora wrote, > > > > I'm thinking, my knapsack is jsut about large > > > enough for bicycle tools and rain gear LOL! > > To which Tamara responded, > > And I hope you never have bombs rain on you, so you can keep on > > laughing out loud for many years to come. > > (snip) I don't > know Dora, but I expect she has been stung by the words which suggest that > she is a simpleton who laughs at tragedy. In times of immense stress, many > people need to laugh to maintain their emotional equilibrium. Dora was > laughing at HERSELF folks. Let's not be so hard on her!! I must admit that I also read Dora's message in a totally different way than which others here seemed to have read it. She didn't upset me at all and I have lived through a mail bomb attempt on the life of my husband, have lived behind a police cordon during an IRA seige in London in the 1970s (Balcombe St seige for those who remember) and stood on a the same London platform where the IRA planted 40lb of plastic explosives packed around with coach bolts. My first reaction was to agree with her comment about London being a big place because I remember just enough from my study of statistics at University to figure out how unlucky one would be in a city of 7 () million people to be in one of those locations at that vital point in time. Statistically the odds against it are very large. Fran - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fans
I've been to check out Malcolm Cox's fanstick site and notice that he mentions that his fanssticks suit patterns by Springetts, Snowgoose and Ann Keller. Can anyone tell me who Ann Keller happens to be and where I may see her patterns? TIA Fran - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Travel restrictions
"Paul and Dona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > It might depend on the airlines and airport, but I just flew Quantas and > Virgin Blue/Pacific Blue through 3 different Australian airports and 2 > different New Zealand airports and I had knitting with me every step of the > way and I never had any problem with it. Now my yogurt, cheese sticks and > dried beef jerky they took away. I guess > you just never know what those nasty terrorists might do with those food > products! But where did you buy the food? If it wasn't bought in Australia then the food was confiscated because of very strict quarantine laws to protect our primary industries which have very few of the diseases that other countries have. . Anyway, I had 5" bamboo needles with socks on them and I > had bamboo circular needles with a shetland lace shawl on them. I also had > a crochet hook in my knitting bag (for those times you need help picking up > a runaway stitch) and a darning needle. No one batted an eyelash at any of > it. Bamboo doesn't show up on the X-ray machines, but if you'd been caught with them then you could have been in deep manure. All the Government literature advises that knitting needles and crochet hooks are banned items on internal Australian flights and that penalties for possession are severe. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] The Lace Confederacy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Another thought. > Since The Lace Guild, the Lace Society and even The Lacemakers Circle are > all already taken, perhaps the lace association primarily, but not exclusively, > located in North America might call itself the Lace Confederacy. I had a chuckle at this suggestion. And my immediate thought for setting the cat amongst the pigeons was "Why not the Lace Union?" (Note the non caps in '"the" for the excessively sensitive). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: International (?) Old Lacers
"Tamara P Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wote > On Apr 8, 2005, at 0:41, Fran Higham wrote: > > > I would be very much surprised if the choice of "The Lace Guild" > > turned out > > to be something other than a reflection of the totally British > > tradition of > > the establishment of guilds > > Sorry, but guilds are *not* "the totally British tradition"... True, US > didn't have them, because it came into being too late. But they were > *all over Europe*, in every country which had arts and/or crafts of any > kind, all the way through the 16th century or so - Middle Ages and > Renaissance equivalent of "unions"... So Germany or the Netherlands > would have as much right to have "the" Lace Guild as UK (possibly more, > as lace was made there earlier) But then they wouldn't be called "The Lace Guild" would they? They'd be called "Der" or "De" 'national lace word' organisation wouldn't they? As far as I can see there IS only one English speaking nation that I know of that has such a long history of lace and also has a history of guilds. To my way of thinking that gives that nationality every right to name their organisation THE Lace Guild. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: International (?) Old Lacers
"Tamara P Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Brits (the Lace Guild) neatly managed to avoid the "nationality trap" > though, IMO, the end result is also a bit ambivalent and a bit > "grandiose", suggesting there's but *the* Lace Guild, That interpretation sounds very odd to me. I would be very much surprised if the choice of "The Lace Guild" turned out to be something other than a reflection of the totally British tradition of the establishment of guilds which in relation to any of the crafts goes, IIRC, go back to their commencement in the 14th century. If any other nation OTHER than the Brits appended "The" in front of the name of their Lace Guild then I'd think they were being very affected and precious. In the case of the Brits, I think "The Lace Guild" is as it should be, but even more, displays an historical accuracy and a is very nice continuation of a venerable tradition. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Wool Felt? Synthetic Felt?
> In a message dated 12/1/04 4:04:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Synthetics hold moisture more than wool? Wool has many benefits that synthetics don't One is that wool doesn't mildew. If one has pin cushions in which sewing sewing needles get stuck, wool which still has some grease in it (from a hand spinner) is especially good as it helps stop needles rusting (not for lace making obviously). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Muslin
From: "Annette Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > That's interesting. The "cheap gauzy stuff" sounds like what we call > muslin in the UK - really loosely woven fabric, sometimes used in > cooking to strain things. That is butter muslim/muslin in Australia. It was used as a wrapped for butter and I suspect (but don't know) is probably still used on some cheeses - you know the sort that have a strong wax coating and when you peel it off you can see thread embedded in the wax? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] RE: Calico
"ann DURANT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > During > World War II, and presumably before, flour used to be sold in fabric bags, > heavily sized, In Australia some brands of flour is still sold in exactly this manner. I wash the bags and use them for storing small knitting projects like socks or matinee jackets or small crocthet projects. Keeps them clean and together and the bag can be rolled to fit into handbags et Fran (a newbie breaking cover) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
