Re: [lace] Re: Jugendstil lace..

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Brenda,
At that time they have the so called Blaupausen. I can't explain this 
in english. Perhaps somebody else can.

Ilske
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Re: [lace] Dagobert Peche/Minne-Dansaert

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon,
The Wiener Werkstätten was founded in 1913 as a place were artist had 
the possibility to work without the problems of money, what means the 
cost of a working room and the high cost of material. Their product 
were often bought from the institution and sold in their own shops.
The K. K. Zentral- Spitzenkurs in Vienna was the school, nearly a 
university, were  teachers were formed from all over the country that 
means the Österreich-Ungarische Monachie, the lace school in Prague was 
also part of it for example. And this teachers have to learn the girls 
and women all over the country how to make good and modern laces that 
they could make their living of it. At the place in Vienna, today in 
Herbert Straße, they had textile artist which invited new designs, 
remember my report from october 2002.
Greetings

Ilske
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Re: [lace] Jugendstil laces

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Margot,
Here and in Austria we have the Jugendstil time from 1895 till only 
1910. And what you are suspected is more what Hrdlicka designed.
The so called Austria-laces were invited to have a hand made 
bobbin-lace who is quick to do that she could excist in competition 
with machine-made lace. And this lace should be for the modern and 
sportiv women of that time.
Poldi and I agree with you that the Austria-lace isn't a what we call 
Gebrauchsspitze, she is to fine. Unhappily we will never know what 
would had happened if the first world war didn't brake out and stopped 
a lot of things and the handmade lace production as well.
Greetings

Ilske
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[lace] Re: Jugendstil lace..

2004-09-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Robin,
Thank you for clearing the terms. So it is more logical. But people I 
spoke with and still articles I read about Jugendstil, Art Deco and so 
on had always only one word and this was confusing for me. Because,  
how to wrote, after the floral style the geometric came.
Yesterday I mentioned floral designs which aren't from Dagobert Peche. 
He made more figural designs but also floral ones and sometimes a bit 
like fairy tales but in a new way.  Some works of him remember on the 
lace pictures of  Elena Holeczyová. But  how astonishing, it' s the 
same time and they had a bit the same studies.He was a all round talent 
he made fashion products, designs for textiles, he decorated the room 
fitting for a fashion show. After coming back from Zurich he had made 
designs for furnitures, tapestry, embroidery, lace shortly said 
everything.
I was astonished myself about the text under the article and found out 
that they are wrong. I am sorry for that and you can believe me that I 
looked several times before I wrote. This designs are from Johann 
Hrdlicka who worked for the K.K.Zentralspitzen Kurs in Vienna at the 
time of Jugenstil. He, his wife Mathilde and some others, f. e. 
Franziska Hofmanninger, Fritz Letniansky, are as important as Peche for 
that period.
Hope i didn't wrote to much about this theme but I persoaly like it.
Greetings

Ilske
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Re: [lace] Jugendstil laces

2004-09-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Actually we have both Jugendstil and Art Deco, in english is only one 
word.
Start with the beginning. The movement called Jugendstil in german who 
started about 1895 got its name after the Munich magazin 
Jugend(Youth). This movement was first in architecture but very quick 
in all sorts of art, music, poetrie, peinting, dance, theatre shortly 
everywhere. It was a movement against industrial things back to 
handmade. And very important everything should be in the same style. In 
a house for example the house itself the curtains, the furniture, the 
dishes still the dresses of the women. The most important motives came 
from nature flowers, poppys, sunflower, irises, lilies, and others,. 
All this influenced from japan and put together in a new form of 
ornamentic. It ended about 1910 but had changed the historicism but has 
helped to a better form for the live people lived at the beginning of 
20th century. Think on the dresses and underwear our grand-mothers had 
to wear.
Later it became a bit kitchy and the later parts are called in Germany 
Art Deco. You find examles by a lot of painters like Gustav Klimt, 
Alfons Mucha, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Louis Comfort Tiffany or in 
architecture Henri van der Velde, J. Hoffmann, J. Olbrich and a lot of 
others. In Darmstadt and Plauen in Germany or Vienna in Austriche or 
Prague in Czech Republic , or Nancy in France you can see lots of 
wonderfull buildings from that time.
All this had its expression in embroidery and lace as well. I told you 
about the book Austria-Lace from Poldi Winkler and still the 
Schneeberger-lace. And for the needle-lace have a look to the designs 
of Dagobert Peche from Wiener-Werkstätten, this fantastic collars and 
fans with the lillys of the valley or the bellflowers.
Greetings

Ilske
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Re: [lace] Lace Peacocks Book Lace Fans Book adresses

2004-09-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Just back but not yet here. The Deutscher Klöppelverband has changed 
its adress a while ago and has also changed e-mail-adress. Here they 
are:

Deutscher Klöppelverband e. V.
Schloss Zweibrüggen
Zweibrüggen 40
D-52531 Übach-Palenberg
Germany
Tel: +49(0)2451/49985Mo - Do 8.00 - 14.00  Fr 8.00 - 12.00  Frau 
Conrad
Fax: +49(0)2451/49986

e-mai: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet: www.deutscher-kloeppelverband.de
For those who are perhaps nearby, sunday 17th of octobre 2004 Day of 
open door from 14.00 - 18.00.

To clear  something about the books. Yes most of them are the work of 
several persons. The Peacock and Fan-book too. This book is made to fit 
to the theme of the next congress, here it was for 2004. And there is a 
call, often very short, to all designers in the Verband to make a 
design which fit. So for next year we prepare a book with flowers.
Books like Chantilly... or Bänderspitze.. are also the work of 
several people. People who know a lot about the theme or work on it for 
other purposes were asked to help.
Hope everything is clear now.
Greetings

Ilske
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[lace] Re: pronounciation

2004-09-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon,
 How should I pronounce it for the slide show.
If I  say Point, do I sound like a boob? If I say Pwont will the 
audience be so
 busy puzzling out what I am saying that they will miss the rest of the
commentary? Will some people think me elitist?
I don't think so. The laces have their names as we have so I think we 
shall call them with this name. I personally do so in classes or 
lectures. It's no use to think what will the others think. I will tell 
them something they are interested in so they will accept the names.


 or does  one
pronounce things the way they would be pronounced in the language that 
you  are
speaking in
That's a proplem I disscused very often with several people. I myself 
have the idea that proper names should pronounced in their origin 
language but other people have other opinions.

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Re: [lace] lace in sculptures

2004-09-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
They are gorgeous!
You are right. Thank you.
I have a smaller one from a prussian Duchesse/Queen. I put it in my 
webshot-album the next day.
Greetings
Ilske


 http://www.fioretombolo.net/monumentale1.htm
http://www.fioretombolo.net/monumentale2.htm

Enjoy them!
I did a lot.
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Re: [lace] Re: New Austrian Lace Book for Art Nouveau Lovers

2004-09-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
You can buy the book Austria-Spitze  by Barbara Fay. And those of you 
who are or live near the northern part of Germany can come to 
Rendsburg, Niederes Arsenal, Paradeplatz 11 on sunday 5th of september 
2004. There take place the Klöppeln zwischen den Meeren from 10.00 
till 17.00. At 14.30 Leopoldine Winkler will be there and give a 
lecture about this lace and her book.
And those who read my travel-report from the Klöppeltreffen in 
Wiener-Neustadt in october 2002 can find some explanations about this 
lace too
Greetings

Ilske
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Re: [lace] Lacemakers in Austria.

2004-09-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Ewa,
If you like I can put your mail with a german translation to the 
Spitzenliste. And your girlfriend can come to this list if she wants. 
The adress is

   http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/spitzenliste/
There she has to answer some questions and after done this she is a 
member. The language there is german.
Greetings

Ilske
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Re: [lace] working diagrams

2004-08-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Dorte,
There is a lot of gaps in the story, and the Tonder lace diagrams has
original more colours then the 4 we use now.
The german, the belge and the french diagramms too have more then four 
colours.

Greetings
Ilske
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Re: [lace] 'DVT'

2004-08-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
All I can say is that if you can get to see any of the places which we
visited  do.  Most of the towns will be on the Czech Tourist Board site
I would think and maybe you could do the tour at a more leisurely pace.
 From a still mentally exhausted Sheila in  Sawbridgeworth, E.Herts.
But those who could do so must think that not all of the exhibitions we 
visited are always on display. Some are only temporarly.
Ilske

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Re: [lace] 16th century

2004-08-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Adele and All,
You are right. It is a problem, when Germans say f. e. 18th cent. theey 
mean the years from 1700 till 1799. But my swedish girl friend told me 
they mean from 1800 till 1899.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Lost Items

2004-08-11 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Well, after 20 years or so, there has been a new twist to that story, 
and it
appears she was found - in a dingo's mouth, but as the 4 guys were 
illegally
shooting in a National Park and shot the dingo, the were afraid to come
clean, and so the baby's body was taken by one of the guys and buried -
possibly here in Melbourne.  I think 3 of the guys are now dead, and 
the
last one has fessed up before he, too, passes on!  Northern Territory 
Police
are talking  to him!
Not bad your story, I am still laughing. But for my lost objects it is 
much easier. We have a little somewhat which needs from time to time a 
coin or a key, for what ever, or something else. So it could happen 
when I arrive at the busstop some money is missing and such things. But 
we all know lost books from all of us, met somewhere but where?
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] RE: lace (or lack of) in Suriname

2004-08-11 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Michelle,
Thank you for this informatve report and all the best for your group.
Greetings
Ilske
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[lace] Re: Elena Holéczyová

2004-08-10 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
Here you can now see all three pictures from Elena's work. All three 
are in the Slovenskej Národnej Galérie in Bratislave.

Greetings
Ilske
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[lace] Re: webshots

2004-08-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Since saterday afternoon i am trying to do some fotos from Elena 
Holéczyová in my foto-album. The first worked immediately. The next not 
I get allways the remark. ..is in the moment not
I try again tomorrow.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Greek lace book details, please

2004-08-06 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Helene,
Do you mean the book from Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This 
book you can buy by B. Fay or directly by the Museum.  The ISBN 
960-518-052-9  It is a wonderful book but not only bobbin lace in. The 
Greek call different other things also lace.
The answer of your mail from ? comes the next days.
Meanwhile I could give you some heat and sunshine, we have more than 30 
degrees C.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Lace-tour 3 and end

2004-08-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Thursday, the we had three guides, to Vera and Jan come Milca 
Eremiasová and we travelled again to the south-est and reached after 
lunch Bratislava in the Slovacian Rep. This city has a wonderful 
atmosphere, so lively. At home I read in the guide that they are only 
400.000 inhabitants and I couldn't belief. The big river, actually 
there are two which soround the city. The book said also that about 100 
years ago most actors, actresses, singers who started here come very 
quick to Vienna and later often to Berlin and became famous. Sorry for 
the little excursion.
So we first visit in the castle the Historical Museum. The lady's from 
the museum decorated a big table with all sorts of laces they had and 
have in their country. Small coloured labels with the name of the 
region were put beside and on the wall on a map we could find out were 
every part is. We could ask what we want but again I had the impression 
some of us knew more about lace in general and even from this part. But 
nevertheless we tried to take everything in our head and take it away. 
Only my camera had another idea, at home I found out it wasn't my 
fault, happily, there was something wrong with the stick. Ok.
Next point the Slovenská Národni galerie to the works of the famous 
Elena Holeczyová. She was the first slovacian lace-maker who revolt the 
lace in her country, you remember Marie Sedlacková. At the time this 
two lady's were born their countries belonged to the 
Österreich-Ungarische Monarchie in Vienna. In 1918 the Czechoslovakia 
became independent, and today they are two autonomous countries. You 
see, again Europian history. Elena is born in 1906 she studied at the 
School of Applied Arts in Prague. Two years, from 1927 till 1929 she 
worked in research about Slovak costumes and embroidery. This 
influenced her to design of folk textiles and lace and brought her to 
create artistic lace. She died in 1983 in Prague. Her lace-works are in 
a way narrative and she has a distinctive way. I am sorry I don't have 
pictures of my own perhaps I can show you some later.
In the Municipal Museum were the works from several groups of 
lacemakers from there. Everything mixed hats, doilies, 
Free-hand-Lace-reconstruction, pictures and  so on.
Back to the bus and in our czech hotel.
Friday morning we came to another important point in our history. The 
battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon. Actualy we weren't on the battle field 
but in the city Slavkov u Brna and in the big castle. On the first 
floor  is a big exhibition about Napoleon including a bed in which he 
never slept because he prefered his campbed.
But we wanted to see lace and today again something very fine, sorry 
Tamara I like this sort of lace. Here we found an exhibition from a lot 
of works from Milca Eremiasová, you see the circle closes. We spoke 
with her still the day before about her work and she told us which 
music she loves and how much the sea. So I was very excited what we 
will see. Yes it was fantastic, Some of you have perhaps seen their 
madonnas and other figures, the sea-pictures in their blue/green/grey  
are marbellous. She is born in 1938 and studied lace by Emilie 
Palicková and Antonin Kybal. From 1962 till 1990 she worked as a 
teacher at the School Institute of Industrial Arts in Prague. Than she 
transferred to the Private Master's School till 1995. After that she 
worked more and more independent. She had exhibitions nearly everywhere 
and got lots of prizes. If you ever are in Prague fone her perhaps you 
can visit her.
At Brno, our next station, we saw a wonderfull exhibition through the 
lace-development of this country, but again not enough time.
Then the highlight, Art-School of Brno. Nearly the same as in Prague. 
It was an exhibition about students, graduates and teachers. One could 
see how they develop step by step how to make a design and I looked and 
looked, I was in the paradise.
After Lunch we drove a bit into the mountain and suddenly we saw a 
castle, then it disapeared and came again in our sight. But the last 
part we have to do by feet. The castle of Vranov na Dyji is majestic 
situated on the top of a hill and looks around the country. There was a 
medivial small castle wich belonged to the bohemian kings. Later it 
belonged to several Noble men and in 1688 it was renoved as a baroque 
castle under the Duc of Althan from the famous Fischer von Erlach. 
There in the coach house is a fantastic exhibition Lace in Castle and 
Village, till 30th september 2004. Laces on dresses and costumes of 
noble men, portraits of them but also what rich middle-class people 
wear in former times. It was a wonderful end of the journey. Again our 
bus was the last one back on Campus so we didn't get much about the 
last-festive-evening. Jeri and Ilona were still waiting for Jean and 
me, and after that we sank again more then tired in our beds.
We had a great time. It was a pity that I couldn't manage nor the 
arachne-meeting 

[lace] Re: Map

2004-08-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello,
There is a rough map from Czech Rep. so you could see where the places 
are.

http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
Ilske
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[lace] Re: Lace-tour 2

2004-08-04 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Helo again,
Yesterday I mentioned Marie Sedlácková-Serbousková, today I will tell 
you a bit more about her. Then she is the mother of modern czech 
lace.  She is born in june 1895 in Javornice at the foothills of the 
Eagle Mountain, nearby Vamberk. A region were people make bobbin-laces 
for about 300 years. She got her first art education in 1910 - 1912 
attending courses of decorative drawing in the Museum of 
Hradlec-králové. The next year she passed entrance examination to the 
Secondary School of Arts in Prague but couldn't start because World War 
1 broke out. She needed money so she created patterns for needle-work, 
bobbin lace and paintings, she designed wooden toys for children, she 
was realising her designs by herself and selling them. All this work 
wasn't good for her because she had in her youth a serious scarlet 
fever what hurted her eye sight and now she needed much stronger 
glasses. At least in 1921 she started with her studies in Prague. Her 
laces are influenced from the traditional ones. But she want to made 
lace modern, suitable for the people of 20th cent. Some of her designs 
are very big but the lacemaker needs mostly not more than 30 pairs of 
bobbins. She won prizes and become a famous lace artist but from 1940 
on she couldn't see enough to make any more designs. In march 1964 she 
died.
I do two pictures of her work in my webshot album, they aren't high 
quality because of light, glass and so on.
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
The next day we travelled to the south-east  along of huge fields with 
sunflowers and poppys what made me thinking on all the fine cakes made 
with the seed of poppy and stopped in Olesnice in a Blue Print 
Workshop. Mr Danziger, the owner explained us everything very well. 
This is the last Blue Print Workshop where they still work in the old 
traditional way as before more then 1oo years. It will be to much to 
tell you all and it is not lace, hihihi. In the shop they had nice 
little things made with this Blue Print tissus, lovely.
the last two days came later.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Lace-tour

2004-08-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Sorry but I couldn't write my report earlier. Yesterday I thaught, it's 
too late. But then I read Noelene's mail so I do it, better late than 
never.
 Monday 19th July 2004 at 7.00 we started travelling west. The 
landscape was like the english garden-landscape. Shortly before Pilsen 
we went south through pine woods. First stop Klatovy called the gate to 
Bohemian Forest and the centre of carnations. There is a museum with 
lacemaking school. We had all five days long a male guide Jan and a 
female guide Verena which is from the lace-school in Praha. She tried 
to explain the lace things to Jan in czech and he explained us in 
english, but sometimes I didn't get what they want us to tell, 
Nevertheless they are both nice people. we learned very quick that 
there is nearly never the possibility to get a book or either 
postcards. And if you allow me to be honest I sometimes had the 
expression that the people in the museum couldn't explain their own 
laces. Here we found a little booklet in czech with a german summary. 
The first I saw that Barbara Uthmann came from Flandres to Erzgebirge, 
so my confidence in the text has gone.(b. U. was born in Erzgebirge). 
The text saysthat lacemaking was mentioned for the first time In 
Strazov na Sumave that Bohemian Forest are from 1725. And that in 19th 
cent. nearly in every house somebody made bobbin-lace. Than the ususal 
machine-made net and so on. But in 1896 they founded a lace-school 
which came some time later to the Zentrale Spitzenkurs in Vienna (you 
remember my report from Wiener- Neustadt?) at that time they belonged 
still to Kaiserlich Königliche Monarche in Vienna. The school survived 
the seperation from Vienna and is still in function. We saw some parts 
how the pupil learn making bobbin-lace as well as laces from some of 
the teachers and also works from today.
Lunch in Prachatice, here as well as in Klatory are houses with this 
wonderful Sgraffiti-paintings on their walls, I put two pictures in my 
webshot-album. In former time the whole region was very rich because of 
the salt-trail.
After Lunch we went to the small museum were also laces from the region 
and some modern works were to see. It was so crowded so I made a little 
city-tour alone.
Back to the campus at 22.3o. I fall in my bed and hoped that nobody 
would sing or play ball that night, hopeless wish on a campus in summer 
time.
Next morning, same time, same people but other direction - to the est. 
First place Letohrad, the museum with the national costumes. They stand 
in the rooms without glas around them, great. So we could study the 
laces, the embroidery. (Two of them are in my webshot-album).
Back to the bus on the road again to Rychnov. In a part of a big farm 
they made a museum with everykrafts they had in former time. In some 
vitrines the had put things who didn't belong together so we were 
sometims puzzled. And in a small part is a Gallery for modern czech 
lace-art with works by Marie Sedlackova-Serbouskova and mariá 
Danielová. I have problems to tell you how their works were differently 
from the one we have still seen. I only remember I was impressed. In 
most museums we weren't allowed to take fotografes and they didn't have 
postcards so after a while everything was mixed in my head. And because 
it was so hot we had snowballs as dessert by the way the restaurant 
there could be in every big city in Europe or North-America.
And now in the afternoon we arrived in Vamberk. First the exhibition of 
the Bienal of Czech Lace. Big lace-sculptores from the ceiling till the 
floor or along the walls, some a bit sophisticated but impressing. I 
met a lot of names I saw two years ago in the same place.
In the Museum a young guy wanted to tell us about lacemaking but he 
started with Adam and Eve. But we managed to ask him special questions 
and got so some information. the laces they worked here were made with 
linnen, with wool but also with stinging nettle. The designs were given 
from generation to generatio and the names of the laces were given 
after the design but also after the prize or the purpose. They worked 
laces with prickings as well as Free-hand-lace. We saw some laces which 
were very familiar like the sun-lace. Most of the laces were sold by 
slovacian people but they brought them also to Silesia and other places 
in Europe. We looked at all the wonderful things, under them a 40 cm 
broad Austria-Spitze but couldn't do all time run away.
The next days came later.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Prague

2004-07-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody,
I did some pictures of Czech national Costumes in the Arachne webshots 
album. They are from the museum in Lethorad.
Under.   http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
in Ilske's Fotos
Here summer has come nearly as warm as in Prague.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Galerie Vlasta

2004-07-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Janice,
When I was, together with Miriam and Pompi at Galerie Vlasta it was 
still closed(saturday after 1.oo p.m.). So we could only look trough 
the windows. But I can asume you that the czechs use things for 
stiffening pur chemie.
And here in Germany I can buy metall-thread in very bright colours so 
it could be that she uses this thread. Sorry not being more helpful in 
this point.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Czech stiffener

2004-07-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
I took Milca Eremiasova's workshop and she has switched from a Czech 
stiffener to a Dutch one called 'Feutrex'.  It is brushed on the lace 
while it is still pinned to the pillow and dries in about 30 minutes.  
I don't know anything else about it.  Maybe one of the Dutch 
Arachneans can help out?
As I was told this stiffener comes from the people who make straw-hats. 
We use this in Germany since years, it is relly good for natural 
material like linen, cotton and wool. it does not work with synthetic 
materials.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: not lace

2004-07-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Janis Savage,
Are you on the list? If so please mail me privately.
Thanks
Ilske
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[lace] Re: Another family story

2004-07-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends,
My story is a short one. For about 17 years I met a young lady on a 
Christmas-market which did bobbin-lace. At the same moment I remembered 
that my aunt, which was paralyzed on her right side, from face til the 
tip of her toes since she was 15, once made this only with her left 
hand and with hooded bobbins on a roller pillow at the time I was about 
three or four. I was fascinated by the movement and the sound I think. 
When she was dead about 20 years later I was the only family member 
nearby, that means about 150 km away. My mother and brother lived with 
my new father in North-Africa at that time, I wasn't amused to hear 
that they had troughen away all her things before I arrived the next 
day. So I asked this young women, from the market, if she gave courses. 
She said yes but... and it lasted more then half a year that it started 
and what was worst after the first lessons we found out she doesn't 
know much. She changed the day so I couldn't go there any more but what 
now? I found the book from Katharina Egger my husband gave it as a 
present, it was my birthday, and I learned myself. And this is another 
amusing story. I had only thread 50 and most of the patterns were made 
with thicker thread so I made realy laces. That's perhaps I like all 
this fine ones today most.
Greetings till next week or later tomorrow morning we travel to Berlin, 
one of my favourite citys
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Another family story

2004-07-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Sorry, I forget the most important thing. When I designed my first 
pattern, a Torchon-lace, I named it after her Hertha. To say her thank 
you for this wonderful craft she gave me.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] UFOs

2004-07-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
 She has amazing talents
for thinking of alternative ways of doing a piece. One piece of torchon
can be become 6 different looking ones, just by changing colours, the
direction of the coloured threads, and the number of bobbins in each
colour.
Helene,
And don't forget changing the stitches in ground or motiv, then you 
have some more pieces to do.
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Denmark - lace-history II and end (sorry very long)

2004-07-04 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Good Morning Everybody,
Hoping I didn't bore yesterday I will write the rest. All my 
informations are from my lace-books and what I found in danish Museums, 
most of them in Tönder Museum and what I learned in Lorenzen's Gard.

The number  of lace-dealers grew steadily too, and  in the civic lists 
of townsmen from 1699 you can follow this development closely.
Between 1702 and 1802 you find  in the Borgerbrev, the municipal 
licence to trade of Tönder, that it was taken by 35 lace merchants. But 
the number was much greater then that, because many didn't describe 
themselves as only lace merchants, but as merchants in a general sense. 
All of them were leading men of the town with money, position and 
prestige, think on the houses I showed you. And lace was a high 
esteemed trade. At that time there was money in it. There are some 
figurs what the lace trade brought, for example Denmark and Norway 
together (they belonged political together at that time),
in 1772 25.278 rigsdaler and
 in 178172.845 rigsdaler.
They mentioned  other countries  without any specification
in 1772 33.068 rigsdaler and
in 1781 63.190 rigsdaler This figures tell us today only something 
in comparision.
What about the lace-makers? The most efficient of lace-girls could earn 
about 50 rigsdaler a year, but this were few of all.
To get an idea what this was worth here some dates from 1780, when a 
rigsdaler was 96 skilling:
1lb butter cost  8skilling
1lb meat2,5 skilling
1lb coffe  12skilling and
1lb sugar   2 skilling
During the long winter evenings the lace-makers sit together around 
this wellknown shoemaker's globe with their typical Tönder lace-box 
with the form of a sloping desk. Its surface was covered with leather 
and padded with hay. The box itself was often artistically carved or 
painted so they were individual. In a little drawer all the needed 
things were kept and often there was a small secret drawer also.
The real lace-making season, which starts about a fortnight before St. 
Michaels's Day the 29th September was called Aftensädet.  During that 
time the local young men were invited to this evenings to entertain the 
girls with songs and stories. In my opinion it was surely a possibility 
to find out which two could live together for the rest of theier live. 
In fact most of the young men were sailors who towards the end of 
february returned to their shipping companies often in Copenhagen or 
even Hamburg.
And I know that this excist in Erzgebirge in Germany as well There is a 
big series of paintings about this evenings.
I will not hide some dark sides of this profession. A document from 
1788 says that because the girls had to sit continually and in a bent 
position over their work they became consuptive and blind. Many of 
them took to snuff coffe and tea in a big way and they became useless 
for any other form of work. Their earnings wasn't so much that they 
could save out a lot so they became, sooner or later, a burden to the 
community. The conclusion of this ducument is, the girls would have 
been much luckier if they had been milking girls by the peasants.
As we all know fashion changed often and also the influence of 
democratic ideas, after the French Revolution werent favourable to the 
lace industrie. What's more in the 1800's machine-made tulle rapidly 
gained ground as a new and much cheaper fashion material. And so the 
Tönder lace-merchants day were past.
In 1870 Hansigne, the daughter from the teacher on Bädsbol School Jens 
A. Jenssen  (and what about the mother?) was born. She maried Hans 
Lorenzen who was the second teacher at the same school in 1890. Hans 
must leave the service because of his danish mind. Hansigne too wrote 
several books in danish. Remember I told you about the problem earlier. 
Since the 18th cent. more and more people in Denmark wanted their own 
language back and weren't against the german.
Hansigne worked also for the revival of lace. She visited the old 
lace-makers and searched the old designs. There was a movement in whole 
Europe at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th cent. to go 
back to the handmade arts. Everwhere so called Frauenverbände - women's 
associations were built. The queen Alexandrine held the patronage of 
Tönder Spitzendepot. Hansigne worked special for the Tönder-lace. and 
get for this work a medaillion in gold with crown . She died in 1952.
If you ever come to Ballum, a bit north of Tönder,you remember the 
report of  Sally, visit Lorenzen's Gärd, it isn't easy to find ask in 
the Hotel in Ballum there it is nearby. It is only open in July on 
afternoons and during Tönder Festival. If you are only a few you could 
see the whole house till under the roof. You find the old things our 
ancesters used, lots of laces often with fotos of someone who wears 
them. This and that. And from time to time they still held courses 
there. The family still live in this house it is not really a museum. 

Re: [lace] Sleeves

2004-07-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jeri,
Thank you for this interesting explanations about sleeves. You will see 
mine in Prague and tha you will think  - How times have changed-
Have agood and save trip to Budapest, see you in  Prague.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: lace-Historie Danmark I (long)

2004-07-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends,
Before my Liebermann-weekend in Berlin and than my trip to Prague I 
will write this promised report. I want that, if the danish 
list-members know something more about this theme or if something isn't 
right, will write to the list. So we find out as much as possible.
Some parts of the beginning I wrote before Tönder, but other wise it 
will not be clear.

There is a very early information about lace-making in Danmark in a 
letter, written in 1595, from the wife of a rural dean in Tönder. Her 
name Agneta Fabricius and she asks in this letter her daughter to send 
the 4 ells of lace she had ordered for the price of 7 - 8 shilling per 
ell. ( In that time the danish ell was about two feet) Another 
information of 1622 in Tönder Court Record says that Nils Simesens 
daughter from Otterböl has served Johan Becker in Tönder for 9 years as 
a lace-maker.
From Christian IV. we know all this paintings which laces still at the 
boots and there is a note from him in his diary on 3rd September, 1619, 
that he gave 889 rigsdaler the same day to various tradesmen for linen 
and lace. On the 4th November, 1620, he wrote that he bought some lace 
for 10 rigsdaler from a girl lace-maker in Flensburg and some more 
notes about lace-buy. (Sorry, I could not find out how much one 
rigsdaler was worth in todays currency)
There are some more proofs about lace-making around Tönder, Husum (25 
miles south of Tönder but german) and Flensburg (east of Tönder also 
german).
The danish history is a very complicated one. They had a long time 
kings from Schleswig-Holstein which is german and several wars take 
place against Sweden, Prussia and so on. They had to speak german a 
long time what gave problems, we will see this later once more.
In one war the loose parts of their country in others they get parts 
far away to their own. There was a time when Altona, which belongs to 
Hamburg today was danish.
Tönder is the oldest danish city who got the official town charter. It 
is mentioned for the first time in 1130 as a harbour-town and has a 
ship in its coat of arms. Then in 1243 the town got the right to trade 
inside its walls what's in danish called  köbstadsret. About 1238 the 
Franciscan build there a cloistre.
But than it become nessecaire to protect the people from the power of 
the North Sea  and they built dykes during 1553 and 1556, and so Tönder 
lost its importance as a harbour. So they had the idea to support 
lace-making. the time was good for this because the living conditions 
in the district were cheap, the people were content with little. And 
also very important, lace-making was a good thing for a domestic 
industry in which children and older people could work in comfort and 
social groups too. With this girls could stay at home and have not to 
go in service by strangers. In its best time Tönder's lace-making 
region streched from Leck in the south to Ribe-Marstrup in the north. 
It formed a triangle which two sides of abot 37 miles  and the third 
with about 22miles, so it was Tönder - Lögumkloster - Skärbäck on one 
side. The other on the North sea, Römö included, their laces were of a 
particular fine quality. There about 12 000, in other sources 16 00, 
lace-makers were employed, mainly in their own homes.

I must finish here for today
Greetings
Ilske
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Re: [lace] informal survey

2004-07-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Beth,
Is the bedspread in squars? Than you could make very modern sleeves for 
a blouse or a dress, take it with one of the corner in the middle of 
the shoulder and sew on the two sides going from this point and ready 
is it.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] valuation of lace/large or small pieces

2004-07-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon,
I notice that there is very little interest in machine made lace among
lacemakers since we are all looking to take a piece of handmade lace 
home and study
it under a magnifying glass. We are looking for technique, not design.
I once visited a class where we made the machine-made-lace into 
handmade ones. It was very interesting and still difficult because the 
machine works in another way and with other sort of material. When I am 
back from Prague it put some of this laces, the picture of them, in my 
webshot-album so you can see them.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] survey

2004-07-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Lorelei,
This part of your mail remind  me on my beginning with Binche
I finally decided I had done enough Flanders preparation, and moved on 
to
Binche (which had always been my goal).
There were once three of us who wished to go to Kerkrade for a 
Binche-class with Annemarie Verbeke, it was in 1989 and we weren't much 
experienced in lacemaking. Two of us had started in 1887 and the third 
one a bit earlier. So we wrote to Martje. She answered some time later 
that normaly one starts with Flanders (3 courses), then Point de Paris 
(2 courses) and then Binche (3 courses).  - You are allowed to laugh 
very loudly about my naivity-  So I believed her and started as she 
mentioned and it was ok. Annemarie is such a wonderful teacher I liked 
every minute I spent with her and in the peaceful atmosphere of the 
cloistre of Kerkrade.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Re: hazard of lace addiction

2004-07-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
You are now duly warned -- making lace is addictive!  The more you 
learn, the more you want to learn.
This I can underline with both of my hands,  it is a wonderful 
addiction and I hope I still have lots of years to learn more and more 
and more

Ilske
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Re: [lace] tape lace

2004-06-26 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Carolina,
Could you find out a bit more precise since when the Witch Stitch Lace 
was made in Spain.
Could this lace belong to the laces they invate at the end of the 
19./beginning of 20.cent.?
At that time in the part of Europe I know better than Spain everywhere 
new laces  were invated to make the handmade lace gain important. And 
there new ones but also some who look a bit like the very old ones. Or 
this old ones were transported in designs ot that time, which was the 
actual.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: book from VA-Museum

2004-06-25 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo,
Just to let you know the german lacers get the book finally too. I got 
mine this morning from B. Fay. I had a long talk with them in tönder 
therefore i know that it wasn't easy to get this book.
Hope you could share my joy.
Greetings from stormy, stormy Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Bucks tablecloth (!) on ebay

2004-06-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
For me it looks like Tambour-work or embroidery but no and never as 
bobbinlace.
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Sally Barry's books and lace

2004-06-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Sally said the pattern for the Big Danish Hearts is in Karen Trend 
Nissing's
book Knipling 3.  And the smaller lace on the other two sides is 
Little
Danish Hearts.
It is in this book but only as a picture not as a pricking.
Greetings
Ilske
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[lace] Re: [Danmark store hjerte

2004-06-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo All,
I have this pricking and when I remember right I got it from a danish 
list member, it was in a copie of the danish knipling organisation. It 
is also to get from Karelly under the number1026.
Hoping this helps.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] OIDFA taxi share

2004-06-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Would anybody like to share a taxi from airport to University in Prague 
with me too but on July 15. at 10.50 a.m.
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany

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Re: [lace] Masters Thesis on American Lacemaking

2004-06-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Devon,
 Michelle has done a
great job of pulling it all together, especially when one considers how
little *truly American* lace there has been made in the short time US
has been US.
I think this would be interesting for all list-members especialy those 
who are interested in lace-history. Could this be send on the list 
perhaps?
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Knipling-Festival in Tönder 3 (long)

2004-06-12 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello everybody,
Jenfeld, the part of Hamburg , we live celebtate its 700year- jubilee, 
that's why I am a bit late. We have here an archive/museum which is 
normaly only once a month open. So I forgot allways to go there and 
have a look, but now it is open all the days of the celebration and we 
did it. I learned that this part is the so callled coastel sandy 
moorland built by the last ice-time. It was called Yellow Field 
before and for 700 years the first people settled here. We, DP and I 
live here for 29 years only but if we try very hard we are perhaps 
still here in 671 years.
Ok back to lace, read Tönder.
In the Brorsonhus, Östergade 14, we could see several things. One of 
them a big collection about the Europian tape-laces. In other showcases 
were the lace-jewelleries and some collers from Jana Novak and collers 
from Eva Fialowa and other tcheque lace artists. As well as wonderful 
fine tape-laces from Lepoglava, Croatia with little flowers and 
tendrils and other laces. And what was surprising for me a whole 
showcase full of Three Pairs Flanders Stitch something I saw for the 
first time on our Kongreß in Bad Pyrmont where a lace-friend of mine 
from Dresden gave a class about. This is in a way a easy work but looks 
so fine and decorative. Also some russian tape-laces with colours and 
motives like leaves, animals and houses from Sebastina van der Herike 
and the fantastic designs from Riet Delescen were on display.
After all that lots more in Dröhses Hus, Storegade 14. Here you could 
admire very big tablecloths with lace over and over. In another room 
the work of Astrid Hansen, an examined lace-teacher, was shown the 
properly done workinschemes the lace-samples, the hole way she make a 
lace class. I am not sure if you are interested in her live, if so let 
me know and I can tel you later.
Very interesting was the lace-pillow from queen Alexandrina, she did 
lacemaking all her live long and died in 1952. It was made from Carl 
Abildgaard in 1900. On the pillow is a Tönder-lace Rikke and it is 
possible that this was her last work. After the death of the queen the 
first lady-in-waiting heired the pillow. Later queen ingrid got it and 
today it belonged to Tönder Museum.
There was another lace-pillow which belonged to Berthe Marie 
Alexandersen (1819 - 1899) which married in 1840 the farmer Hans 
Alexandersen born 1777.  It is not the pillow which is so interesting, 
they found a very small notice-book inside in which she wrote at the 
end of a week how many scallops she had worked and  than convert into 
danske cubits, this had, one cubit were 27 scallops. First they read 
the booklet wrong it was the lace-searcher Ebba Busch who found out how 
to read the thing. So we know now that Berthe had worked  from this 
lace 1228 d.cubits and about one and half year before she died 1623 d. 
cubits plus 12 scallops this are in meters 1019, I let you to convert 
it in feet.
I could tel til next week but I must do also something else.
For ending with Tönder I tell you about a needle lace from Hungaria the 
Halas-lace. I had heard of this and still seen one or two pieces and 
here I had lots of them. It is a fine lace with clear motives, really 
lovely .
It started in Kiskunhalas in the south-west of Hungaria in 1912. The 
first designer was Árpád Dékáni (1861 - 1931)  and Mária Markovits 
(1875 - 1954) was the best and one of the first  makerin of this sort 
of lace. The design is drawn of a paper which come on a piece of tissu. 
Over both you put a piece of greasproof paper. Then with a thicker 
thread you made the outlines of the design and after that with another 
thread and various stiches the design. The motives are made with a sort 
of darn stitch so it become very dense and this clear look. There 
are more than 60 different stiches in use.
In the last report I tell you about Lorenzen's Gard and a bit about 
danske lace tradition but perhaps only in a few days.
Hope i didn't bore you.
Greetings
ilske

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[lace] Re: Knipling-Festival in Tönder 2

2004-06-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
On saterday mornig I started my exhibition tour at Tönder Museum.In 
the big room upstairs where mostly are the lace-exhibitions with the 
paintings on the wall and the furniture they show us the 
Lace-Collection of Helene (1845 - 1932) and Peter (1840 - 1922) 
Karberg.
Helene and Peter maried in1869, their fathers were brothers, they  had 
five children, three daughters and two sons. Peter was a ship owner and 
merchant. They live some time in London later in Kopenhague and then in 
Hellerup.
It is possible that Helene heired laces from her mother but she baught 
laces herself. So we could see lots of old Tönder-lace with this poetic 
names like: pearl, Else, white clover, big bell or bindweed. By the way 
I was told that not all old Tönder-laces have names. There were not 
only edges also collers, false blouses, things Helene surely wear 
herself. There was an old Brussels-lace from1700 but it is unknown from 
where it came and some other type of laces too. Her daughter Ida 
learned lacemaking herself and met with the women around Hansigne and 
the so called Kopenhague-lady-circle. You know it was at the beginning 
of 20th cent. when women all over Europe tried to revive handmade 
bobbin lace.
In another room was the exhibition With Silver, Wool and Linen - 
Norwegian Lace from 1750 till today There so many different things 
were to see that you needed hours to get everything. At beginning the 
had some Reisle this are crowns for the bride. Another subject are 
the gold and silver laces. They told us that the siciety there had 
another structure. there were many freehold farmers which were rich and 
so they wanted to show this richness. A lot of other bridal outfits 
were to admire. Also lacemaking equipment and a few pictures of 
lacemakers .
Needle lace pieces and woollen lace were on display. What astonished me 
most were the designs from the beginning of 20th cent. I have never 
heard of modern laces from Norway before. They showed us foe example 
pieces from Fredrikke Weisseert from Oslo and Anna Rollefsen in Larvik. 
And some todays work like necklaces and lace objects from Margherita 
Ficko and a lot of other things.
I did some picture in my Arachne- webshot album. The quality isn't the 
best and I didn't know who the  fotografers are, I think people from 
Tönder Museum. That's why i will take them out after a few days. So if 
you are interested look immediately.
The rest comes tomorrow or so.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Prague

2004-06-07 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Margot, hello Jeri and all others,
As I understood Elaine she wants to gether the members of the list, but 
perhaps I am wrong. I send her my name and she accepted it. Unhappily I 
didn't manage to met her in Tönder. But if you want to be only the 
US-members or only this or that nation  I will accept this.
My report from Tönder needs some time because I found so much mail this 
morning.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Kniplings-Festival in Tönder

2004-06-07 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends.
After done the most important household-requests i will start my Tönder 
reports, yes I am afraid I need several hoping it will not bore you.
Friday morning, it was raining cats and dogs, we started to the north. 
The first stop was in Flensburg the Museum of the City. In the same 
room as the loom are the laces. A big pattern-book which ones belonged 
to Hans Hansen who was a lace-dealer in 19th cent. took my attention 
first. There is a piece of paper with a foto of him selling laces at 
the island Sylt about summer 1890 with the danske Elle/ yardstick in 
his hands, but this information I got later. And another such 
patternbook from 1841which one belonged Fedder Matthiesen both danish 
people. And around them and in another display-case laces, hankerchiefs 
and collars from that time. Most with Tönder-lace but some other 
techniques too. I had the impression that most of the laces in the 
second display-case were made later but after the old patterns. The 
things weren't well marked, that's a pity. I studied everything very 
carefully. It's not much there but if you are nearby it is worth to see 
it. Ask at the cashier after the laces and they describe you how to 
come there very quick.
For those of you who are interested in art the museum posses a few 
paintings and aquarells from Emil Nolde, aquarells from Erich Heckel 
and others who lived at the same time. But this things are in the other 
building.
After that we travelled farther north. When we arrived in Tönder the 
sun came out and said nice to meet you and it was wonderful without 
umbrella  and in a bit of warmth.
Puting our things in the hotelroom and up I went to the salesroom, I 
had to bring some things to my Verband. I looked round if I need 
something and I met lots of familiar faces and it was a big hello here 
and there. But unhappily I couldn't find the three person from the list 
we wanted to meet each other.
The next morning I started my walk for the exhibitions they arranged 
for us, but this comes tomorrow.
I'll do some pictures in my webshot-album so you could have a look if 
you want.
Ilske

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Re: [lace] seven

2004-06-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
The cats in Germany have also seven lifes. So i will adopte the 
canadian version, nine are more.
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Tönder-Festival

2004-06-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
Very quick a bit about the festival.
It was for the first time in 1989, since then every three years on the 
first weekend of june it take place and it lasted three days.
In january 18th 1990 the society was founded and admits interested 
individuals, societies and institutions. The subscriptions covers a 
period of three years. Sorry I couldn't find something about the fee.
Their purposes are to arrange the lacefestival and to take the 
initiative in developing the lace-making art.
During the festivals they offer lectures in different languages, 
workshops, excursions, the coffee table on friday evening and a banquet 
saturday night.
There is allways a big salesroom and different lace organisation 
present themselves.
On several places in town and around Tönder you can visit exhibitions. 
And Tönder itself is worth to be visited (have a look at the webshots

http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
During this days the shops have nice lace-decorations in their windows. 
You will meet friends on every doorstep. You see its worth to come and 
take part.
Hope you are eager now to come one year there.
Greetings
Ilske 

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[lace] Re: Tönder

2004-05-31 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends,
Looking through my old Tönder things i had the idea to tell something 
about , for those of you who have never been there or couldn't come 
this year.
Tönder is the oldest danish city who got the official town charter. It 
is mentioned for the first time in 1130 as a harbour-town and has a 
ship in its coat of arms. Then in 1243 the town got the right to trade 
inside its walls what's in danish called  köbstadsret. About 1238 the 
Franciscan build there a cloistre.
But than it become nessecaire to protect the people from the power of 
the North Sea  and they built dykes during 1553 and 1556, and so Tönder 
lost its importance as a harbour. So they had the idea to support 
lace-making. the time was good for this. The first time Tönder was 
named with lace-making was in 1595. In the 18.cent. in and around 
Tönder  more than 12.000 lacemakers did it for their living. Some of 
the traders and some other people become reach and so they built 
wonderful houses. I put some of my fotos on the webshots zhat you can 
get an idea.
When i find the time I tell you tommorow about the Tönder-Festval and 
when I am back I tel you what was this year there.
Greetings
Ilske 

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[lace] Re: webshots

2004-05-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
It's long time ago I promised you to show you some more of my collars. 
But the changing of Cats wasn't as easy as I thought.
So here they are. Both are designed by Jana Novak and I made it in 
coulours I like and are fitting to what I want to wear.
Have fun looking at them.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re; prizes

2004-05-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello All Winners,
Congratulation to you all from Germany
Ilske
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[lace] Re: duplication of ideas (not short)

2004-05-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends,
I'm not able to comment on all this opinions, as I'm not familiar with 
either of this books. But after looking up the site Lorelei mentioned I 
must say all this flowers look nice and individuell and in a way like 
real. And if you design a five petal flower it looks like in nature and 
I am sure all of them look a little bit similar.
I agree totaly with what Jacqui mentioned, that very often two people 
at two different point on earth had the absolut equal idea at the same 
moment. In earlier time there were several ugly quarrels between 
scientist (chemists, physics) about this proplem. Also about who was 
the first flying for the first time from A to B and other such things.
Sometimes the whole laceworld is speaking about one thing and several 
people are influenced of it and made a design and what wonder this 
designs are in a way the same.
That is ome of the reasons I will not design new patterns in the 
classical lace-sorts. I can never be sure is it from my brain or was it 
stored there from somewhere I have seen it. And what it is more I want 
to give lace a face who is the face of our time. And if I would work 
all this wonderful old patterns I like I must become much older than 
Methusalem.
Greetings from sunny but stormy and cold Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Thread

2004-05-08 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Irene,

Am I right in thinking that Russian tape lace done is usually done in
white
Mostly it is but you can find lots of wonderful laces where the 
fillings are in colour and you have difficulies to see where this 
coloured threads in the tape is. And there are totally coloured 
tape-laces as well.
Have fun in your workshop.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Fwd: [lace-chat] Prague

2004-05-06 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Tamara, hello Lacefriends,
In Pragur they have still their  old currency and not the Euro. At 
the airoport from Prague is at least one possibility to change money 
after arriving.
I am sure that some of the shops, restaurants and in the hotels too 
will accept plastic but not the small ones and for the museums I am not 
sure either. When I visited Vamberk two years ago I took only cash with 
me.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Lace in the V A book

2004-04-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello jane, hello lacefriends,
This summer you could buy a book about Austria-lace. Poldi Winkler from 
Austria make it. She reconstructed lots of laces called Austia-lace 
wich dated to the beginning of 20th cent. In this book you will find 
also a historical part. If this is about all the Austrian laces or only 
the one I mentioned I van't tell you. The book comes from B. Fay.
The northern part of Italy belonged some times to the austrian kingdom 
so it is possible that laces made in that time there are perhaps called 
autrichian, just an idea.
I told on the list about Vienna and Austian laces after my visit, two 
years ago, to the Kongreß of Austrian Guild.
Greetings and a lot of muguets for our french members, it reminds me of 
the time my mother dried some and send it to me,, and a kiss for the 
tcheque members, and what there are other customs for the first of mai. 
And where are none a sunny day
Ilske

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[lace] Re: fist-of-mai-customs

2004-04-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Sorry, sorry, sorry the kiss for the tcheque women must take part under 
a blooming cherry-tree
Ilske

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[lace] Re. not lace-irritating mails

2004-04-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends,
Coming back from the congress of Deutscher Klöppelverband I found in my 
mail-box some strange mails. Often saying failed messages. Some of them 
have adresses from people who are on the list others have adresses I 
never saw before. Since yesterday I get some only with the picture of 
Jean Leader's website.
Does anybody of you get such mails too and does anybody have an 
explanation for this?
Greetings
Ilske from today sunny Hamburg in Germany

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Re: [lace] meaning of spangles

2004-03-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jo,
You are right, some do have special meanings, but I am not the right 
person to answer. Perhaps our danish and english members could and will 
do so.
Greetings
 Ilske

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[lace] Re: Prague

2004-03-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear lacefriends who come to Prague,
I have a question. In the bulletin about the congress they wrote, that 
the lacetour end on July 23, but no the exact time. So I asked  in 
Prague if they now when?
They answered me imediately and told me that there will be a meal in 
the evening and that we stay this night too. Did you understand this in 
the same way?
It would be ok to stay there this night but I couldn't get a flight at 
saterday, don't ask me why. So I have to stay there till sunday and 
could see some more of my beloved Prague.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: search for Marie from Prague

2004-03-27 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Marie,
Are you still on the list? If so could you please be so kind and answer 
me.
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany

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Re: [lace] Ornery?

2004-03-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody,
In my American Heritage Dictionary from 1982 I found under ornery, 
i-er, i-est: of a stubborn and meanspirited nature (Alteration of 
Ordinary).
Hope this helps.
Greetings from rainy and grey Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Teachers and teachings

2004-03-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lynn,
There are no stupid questions between lacemakers. There are only people 
who know a bit more then others, and therefore we have the list where 
we can ask and get answers.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Young ones

2004-03-19 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
  It's such a thrill to pass the skill on to someone so
young!
That's my experience too. But it is always nice to people around which 
are eager to learn something.
Ilske

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Re: [lace] OIDFA Congress/Prague

2004-02-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Tamara,

If I put down for the cheapest lodging (double room, sharing the 
bathroom with another such, on campus), do I have to provide my own 
roommate, or will the organisers find myself one
As I understood it one must find oneself. There is a line you should 
wright down the name of your roommate. But why not asking the lady in 
Prague?

Greetings
Ilske
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Re: [lace] The Depiction of Lace-makers in 17th century Holland

2004-02-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
The heroine starts out as a down-trodden young woman who
turns to a benevolent man who owns a lace shop.  She has
refined skills as a needle lacemaker and he hires her.  From
this beginning, she eventually marries extremely well, buys
the lace shop, and invents bobbin lace.  Seems a very
unlikely scenario in those days...
That's one of this astonishing things from the Northern Netherlands of 
that days, that women there had a strong possition. It was the only 
country in Europe at that time were women were allowed to held the 
husbands shop after his dead. And other things like this. So this 
scenario at that time at that place could have been possible.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] The Depiction of Lace-makers in 17th century Holland

2004-02-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends,
The art-world didn't know much of the private life of Vermeer that's 
why I didn't like this book. In this book he is shown as a fanatic 
which didn't care of other peoples feeling. And there is not much in 
about life in the Netherlands of 17.cent.
If there is somebody who is searching for this I would say look in your 
library if there is an english version of the exhibition bookVon 
(From) Frans Hals (till) bis Vermeer. It was the book from the 
Gemäldegalerie Berlin for the exhibition they had in 1984. In this book 
you find a lot about life in 17.cent in the Netherlands especially 
about women, because they had a strong position at that time. One 
paragraph is about Textile workers. If it is not to find let me know 
and I will try to tell a summary in english but not immediately because 
I am very busy at the moment with other things. If I should do so 
privately or over the list it's up to the group.
Greetings from sunny but still cold Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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[lace] Re: 17. Cent. lacemaker

2004-02-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello,
I forgot to tell you there is a painting from Vermeer The look out of 
the window where you see a woman sitting on her house steps an doing 
lace. This could be a proof what a Netherland lace-teacher me told that 
at that time The golden Century  most women in the part called 
Holland  could do lace-making just for fun as we today because they 
were rich.
Ilske

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[lace] Re: The Depiction of......

2004-02-25 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen


As I didn't know of any sources - except maybe the book Girl With A 
Pearl
Earring - I was wondering if any people here might be able to help 
her.
I didn't think so this novel is fiction and unhappily not the best one. 
The book Girl in Hyacinthblue from Susan Vreeland describes that time 
much better, there are no lacemakers in. I think there are better 
sources then novels.
Sorry but this is my opinion
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany

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Re: [lace] Out of print?

2004-02-24 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
At Guild last night, two of our new members reported that
they had tried to find copies of Cook's Practical Skills in
Bobbin Lace and after several unsuccessful attempts,
learned that the book is out of print!  Can this be true!?
hello Clay,
yes that could be so. Sad but true
Ilske
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[lace] Re: Binche

2004-02-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon,
That's exactly what I feel about laces especialy what is called 
Guipure-lace.
When I visited Binche about 5 years ago a fsaw in the museum there (it 
is not a lace museum it is about Carneval but very interesting) an 
article from M. Risselin- Steenebrugen, when  I am not wrong about the 
name, in which she explained why Binche-lace is called so. They found 
on such a binche- Carneval-dress at the bottom of the trousers such a 
piece of lace and so gave the whole group this name. Unfortenatly they 
haven't another sheet  of this and because it was in a box they 
couldn't make a copie for me.
I learn all this Flemish laces (Valenciennes, Flandres, Point de Paris 
and Binche) by Annemarie Verbeke and that means not only the practical 
side, but before the designing of them all. And then you see how they 
have become their special face during the time. And the highest one is 
Binche which has nearly all elements in it but no grid any more. And 
how it come from a lace who look a bit wild till the Point de Fee.
I am sorry but I think my english isn't well enough to explain all the 
details. But as more laces you could examine the more you see how it 
has changed during the time. And on Lorelei's site you find also good 
examples.
Greetings from a still grey but dry Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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[lace] Re. webshots

2004-01-17 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends,
Today the machine accepted my Violets. They are seen on:

community.wwebshots.com/user/

Greetings from very dark, cold, rainy, in one word - ugly Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Re: still ?

2004-01-15 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Avital give us this site to show our pictures:
community.webshots.com/user/arachne 2003
And I am ofte astonished that this got no more attention in our lively
group. I personally showed there til ow different things.
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Bookmarks

2004-01-08 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Rose-Marie,
In the book 101 torchon-patterns ten of them are bookmarks.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Battle of Britain Lace Panel/value of machine made lace

2004-01-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon,
In my opinion the worth of machine-made lace is a very personel one. There
are pieces who take your breathe away. Have you ever been in Le Puy and
there in the museum ? There you found hundreds of old machine-made laces
they look not only for the first but also for the seond and third look like
handmade. They are so fine and beautiful that you couldn't say they are of
no great worth even they have excist in greater amounts. Also the old
Plauener-Ätzspitze, this are broderie-laces, look so fantastique. But
museums in our country doesn't care of machine-made laces. And most people
think only on the laces on our underwear which are simple ones.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: webshots

2003-12-31 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello dear Lacefriends,
I wish you all a peaceful and happy New Year.
I changed again my webshots to show you some of my workshops. There was
about six hours of time to do them.
The bigger one who needs more time is still missing because the machine
refuse to upload it.
Ilske from sunny Hamburg in Germany

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Re: [lace] De la crise de la sardine a l'age d'or de la dentelle

2003-12-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Sofe,
Could you please explain the title of this book (De la Crise ...), I can
translate it but it make no sense for me. Thank you.
Happy Christmas to all
Ilske

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[lace] Re: help about a website

2003-12-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends,
A week or two ago we discussed english bobbins. One of you gave us a
web-side which I forgot to mark. The wonderful article with pictures was
signed with Brian, and I understood he is a bobbin-maker himself. Could you
send me this adress again please.
Have a nice 4. Advent sunday, here it is stormy, wet, dark and ugly but
realy good for lacemaking.
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany

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[lace] Re Famous lacemakers and songs

2003-12-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody,
In a prospctus about Bedford Lacemaking they wrote: In the early years of
16th century, Katharine of Aragon was imprisoned in Ampthill whilst divorce
proceedings were taken against her by King Henry VII. It is believed that
she taught the villagers lacmaking.
And later: Did you know that nursery rhymes such as- Jack be nimble Jack be
quick- and -Twinkle twinkle little star- have their origins as lace tells
and were chanted to help the young lacemaker gain rhythm and speed.
Greetings from Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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[lace] Re: translated pieces for some of you

2003-12-11 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear lacefriends,
This of you I translated this or that must not ask my permission to give
this to other lace-friends privately.
We couldn't print this because than we need the permission of the person who
wrote the book.
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Translation, please

2003-12-10 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Jeri,
The problem is that translation takes so much time. I once tranlsted the
book from B. Underwood A Bedfordshire lace Collection in german for my
companion in my lace-class. Don't ask me how many hours I need. That was why
my husband give me a PC because correction is easieer there and after some
time later I meet this wonderful arachne group.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: flood in south-est of France

2003-12-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends in France, Josette, Sof,and others,
Are you all ok or happily not involved in the flood?
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: La Dame á Licorne - not lace

2003-11-23 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriend,
Knowing that there are also embroidery and tapestery members I will again
ask a not lace-related question.
Does anybody know when and how the tapestry La Dame á Licorne came into
the Cluny Museum at Paris. I saw them twice so I know it and I learned it
belonged the Le Vista family at Boussac castle. But what happened over the
centuries till it came into the museum.
Because it has nothing to do with lace you better answer me privately.
Thank you for your help.
Greetings from Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Fw: Thanksgiving card

2003-11-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Sue,,
How lovely the thanksgiving card. In Germany we celebrate it
earlier,beginning of october. But it was fun to see this card thanks a lot.
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany

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Re: [lace] Kortelahti Pattern- how can I get it to lay flat?

2003-11-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Diana,
 Do
 computer scanners distort less?
Yes good scanners don't distort.
Greetings Ilske

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[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Kortelahti Pattern- how can I get it to lay flat?

2003-11-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Diana,
 Do
 computer scanners distort less?
Yes good scanners don't distort.
Greetings Ilske

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Re: [lace] Suse Bernuth

2003-11-13 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jean hello All,
There was not only that book there was a seperate booklet with the prickings
with the title 7 Klöppelbriefe. The Klöppelverband made this because the
prickings are huge what means expensive by printing. In this booklet the
asked pricking is in. I still answered Aage.
Greetings
Ilske

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Re: [lace] Barbara Uttman, inventor of pillow lace?

2003-11-04 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Jane, dear Lacefriends,
That's the problem about the old books they have some mistakes in them.
Barbara Uthmann was a very important person  at her time because she let
learn the people from Erzgebirge to make bobbin lace at a time silver mines
were nearly empty, but she didn't invent it. It was also Mrs Palliser who
wrote in her book that B. U. lived in Harz she didn't she lived in
Erzgebirge. Bobbin-lace-making came from the Erzgebirge into Harz through
the miners some times later.
Greetings Ilske, who couldn't wrote today because of an injection

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Re: [lace] CT and TC

2003-10-27 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lorelei and Rose-Marie and all Others,
This different ways to make the half-stich comes from the different pillows.
People who start with a roler-pillow was told to do itin one way I think CT
and the others with the flat pillow and unhooded bobbins the other way
round. Meanwhile it is no longer as strict as it was and those who still
have some experience know when they first must make a twist.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Giraffe

2003-10-19 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jeri and Lacfriends,
Thank you Jeri for finding out the rest of the Giraffe-story.
In the book A Celebration of Bedfordshire Lace from plae 29 til 32 are
some of this animal-laces, not the giraffe.
I bought the book in the Museum.
Greetings from Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Museums in Germany

2003-10-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Hèlène,
I made for the IOLI a list with the german museums which have allways laces
in display but I don't know if they print it separately and give it to them
who ask about or if they will print it in one of the further Bulletins. You
could ask there and find out.
What belongs the shops with bobbin-making things I could tell you when you
know when and where you will visit Germany.
Hope this helps.
Greetings from Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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[lace] Re: Fans, laces and others

2003-10-15 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends,
After doing all this stupid everyday things I will tell you about my London
travel. The first day I went to Greenwich to the Fan- Museum founded from
Héléne and Dicky Alexander in 1991 and which is located in this two
wonderful townhouses origin from 1721. On the ground floor it starts with
the permanent display for which one get a voice-guide. Really good explained
from the beginning on. There you could see a wonderful lace-fan under lots
of other beauties the materials and a lot more.
On the second floor they have three times a year special exhibitions. At the
moment till 4th of Jan 2004 they show us a part of the huge collection of
Mrs Young an US-american lady, she collected in 30 years more then 450 fans
of all sorts. This collection was gifted to the Fan-museum. there is
everything to see from real lace-fans over machine-made lace-fans,
feather-fans some with embroidery or spangles, painted ones and last but not
least advertising-fans too. I spent more then three hours there. Then I had
a look into the fan-shaped garden and the nice garden-tea-room where twice a
week tea is seerved and of course of the things in the shop. With a not so
small bag and lots of ideas in my head I went back to the station and to
London.
On Tursday I make my travel to Luton and Bedford. First I was fascinated
from the nice and quick train. At Luton I looked for a sign to the museum
and decided to take a cab. It is so nicely situated the museum and I must
first look after the chestnut trees which seem to be sain and as children do
collect some of the chestnuts. Then I run into the museum and got the
feeling that they were attending me. I had the whole lace-room for me alone
for more then an hour from time to time some of the children looked what I
am doing there. And I took my time and learned about Mary Tucker of
Branscombe and that gloves without fingers call mitten and a lot more. What
attracted me most was the Duchesse de Brussel- Fan beside the wedding veil,
those of you who have been there before do remember perhaps. And opening the
first drawer, this one with the bobbins, I must hold on my breathe. My way
back to the station was no problem and just in the same minute the train to
Bedford arrived.
There I took a cab too but the museum is in renovation. So it was like
looking for easter-eggs to find an entrance. The lady explained me where to
find the laces and I found the bobbins and the very good explanation about
social-life but no laces. So I asked another lady and she send me to the
Cecil Higgins Gallery.
Everybody was so nice and told me all about and I went upstairs and looked.
After a while a men asked me if I want a torch because the light was not so
good, so we had a long chat on what place all this drawers would be better
and he told me about the belge lady who started the exhibition and this and
that. And I laughed a lot about the english ladys who want all a giraffe
somewhere on their dresses so that Mr lester designed one for lace.
But there are a few things which i never saw before, f. e. this double
needle-lace  rose in a Bedforshire lace also this russian-tape-lace with
this typical decoration in connection with Beds and some more. Happy and
full of impressions I went back to London.
The next days I spend for my other passion - art/painting. The both Tate's
long time for Turner. And english historie in the National Portrait Gallery.
And of course Liberty, some of you told us some weeks ago.I didn't know it
before but when I went in I thaught, oh dear the fabrics that you know very
well. I must say I liked some of the dresses and some coats but I didn't
like the prizes.
Some strolling around St. Paul's and here and there was the end of the
journey and know everydays life has me back.
Greetings from cols but sunny Hamburg in Germany
Ilske 
  

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[lace] Re: London

2003-10-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody,
Just to let you know I am back, save and sain. We wer so lucky no one drop
of rain no snowflake but lots of sun and two days very stormy and icecold
wind. It was warvellous. Tel you later about lace, painting walking and so
on.
Greetings
Ilske from HAmburg in Germany 

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Re: [lace] Symbols for elements

2003-10-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Dina,
As far as I know only the sun and the moon are symbols between lots of
animals and the human beeing itself.
When we travelled Canada I bought a little booklet about this Indian Art
with the title Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast from Hilary
Stewart. perhaps you could find this one. Eveything is wonderfull explained
in it.
Greetings Ilske

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Re: [lace] Chantilly-Bayeux

2003-10-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Miriam,
Chantilly was made in Bayeux also that's why sometimes it is called
Bayeux-lace. As the lady from Geraarsbergen, who teaches this lace, told me
there is no difference. There are little differences between Chantilly and
Blonde. And also between the other tulleground-laces.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: numbers

2003-10-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lorelei, Devon and all others,
In our country I didn't know a lace-material-vendor-shop who has regular
opening times. They come to the meetings everywhere in the country, they
send by post and if you are nearby and call them you can go there and shop.
There are shops who sell our things but under other things like wool,
patchwork utilities and so on.
What belongs the number of members, the 4 500 aren't alone Germans. We have
also family membership and lots os foreign members like Netherlands,
English, US-American and so on. And also in our country there are people who
do lacemaking without any membership somewhere.
Greetings
Ilske from Hamburg who hope that the wether will be like today the whole
next week.

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[lace] Re: Questions about embroidery-stiches

2003-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear lacefriends,
Please appologize my questions which have nothing to do with bobbinlace but
I couldn't find the english words and I must prepare my lace-sewing-class
for a group of people who speak better english than german.
How do you call in english
1.) Stich is it prick or stitch or another word
2.) what do you call Nonnenstich - nun-?
3.) Festonstich, thats nearly the same Stich as helmstich
4.) triangel- or turkich-stitch.
For not bother the others you could answer me privately.
Thanks a lot
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany  

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[lace] Re: trip to London

2003-09-25 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jeri, Ruth, Mary, Margot, Linda, Diana, Steph, Robin, Jean Barrell,
Aurelia, Jean Peach, Jane, Annette
hoping nobody forget,
Thank you all you wonderful arachne-lace-people for your advice. I try to to
as much as possible and tell you afterwards about.
I gave all also to Nancyanne who aasked me for, because she too travel to
London but in november.
Greetings
Ilske from Hamburg in Germany

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[lace] Re: webshots

2003-09-24 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends,
The reconstructions are now to see. Yesterday happened something obscure
don't ask me what.
Greetings
Ilske

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[lace] Re: webshots

2003-09-23 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo lacefriends,
tonight i will change my webshots. And I will show you some of my
reconstructions.
I did them all for themuseum in Buntenbock or for private people. So I don't
have pictures of all. That's a pity because I couldn't show you the
Point-Ground-laces and the Binche-laces.
The first which was also my first at a time I couldn't do only the first
stitches, shows a typical Harzer-Spitze number r1. I had only a papercopie
of the old piece, number r1a.The corner I did later.
Number two, a lace with picots and square tallies. As you see at the picture
also only a papercopie as pattern. And I made two corners one inside another
outside (this will be printed in an issue of Der Faden).
The third one wasn't done before. It is an design of S. Kaufmann she lived
from the end of 19. till the beginning of 20.cent. in Harz and was a
lace-teacher and designer there. And I had only a papercopie of the design
no. r3a.  This and the first on and the handkerchief , I will show you next
time, you find in a book of Deutscher Klöppelverband.
Have fun with them.
Greetings from Hamburg in Germany
Ilske

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