[lace] popular uses of lace, reprise
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:37:54 -0700 From: walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: popular uses of lace, reprise Hi everyone At long last, the results of my informal survey - to anyone waiting, I do hope you hadn't held your breath :~] I think the following will be enough to convince my group of potential lacemakers that there is, in fact, something in it (lacemaking) for them. 1. Gifts for oneself and others ;) Laces alone (such as bookmarks, small mats) or laces on sewn items (tray cloth, hangers, clothing) Wedding laces, and for other special occasions. 2. Christmas tree decorations, greeting cards. 3. Home décor: wall hangings, framed pictures, doorplates, sun-catchers; curtain edgings, doilies. 4. In quilting, to decorate a square. 5. For fund-raising, small quick items such as bookmarks, ear-rings, and sun-catcher/ornaments. 6. There are many other uses of lace, and reasons to make it, as many as there are lacemakers, no doubt...I will also mention to my little group. Some make lace for re-enactment purposes. Others learn to make lace so they can understand historic costume. No. 5 reminds me, my friends at the bank in the village annually make a gift basket which they raffle, fund-raising for 'The Cure' (to breast cancer), and I am now tagged as a regular donor of a handmade lace goodie (usually a bookmark) for the basket...today when I was in the bank lineup I was reminded of this, and they want it asap :))) -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ricky, This is a difficult question!Lace takes so long to make, and is so time-intensive, that I don't usually sell lace at all. I have taken the odd commission, but most of my lace is made for friends who would appreciate the time and trouble taken in craftwork of any kind - garters for weddings, hankies for Baptism bonnets, bookmarks, church items for my local church etc. Looking at it logically, the easiest of bookmarks, but which would be worth making/buying, take what - ten, twelve hours and upwards. In the UK, the minimum wage is about £5.10 per hour, I think.So - a bookmark would be upwards of £50.00 each - and I can't imagine anyone in their right minds spending that on a bookmark.Garters are a similar thing - you need quite a length, and can purchase (not too-wonderful!) machine-made garters for around £25.00.Would anyone actually pay two or three times that much for a hand-made one, unless it was from a (very) haute couture dressmaker. I was asked some time ago by a top dressmaker to make a silk garter, with threads and colours specified, and was going to be paid the going rate - which was quite wonderful to contemplate - but in the end, I declined, as I didn't want the stress of working to a deadline!What if I couldn't finish it in time - the thought was enopugh to paralyse the lace-making altogether. So - it all depends on the size of the wallet, and what one considers 'affordable' - and how mauch time and effort someone has put into the making of whatever the item is! Carol - in Suffolk UK - hot and sunny, but still quite humid. Subject: Re: [lace] popular uses for lace Hello! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear List members, I think perhaps a few clarifications may be helpful Those of us concerned about the preservation of rare laces (which DO turn up in American attics) remember nightmare stories of the people who have cut them up to make craft items that will be relegated to trash within a short period of time. I do French handsewing. Hence, it seemed to me that handmade lace would be the ideal type of trim for the gowns that I hope will be treated as heirlooms by the families that will receive themNot relegated to the trash! That is the main reason I want to learn lace-making. And I would no more willingly slash up valuable and irreplaceable pieces of lace than burn the dresses I make. I try to design my projects to incorporate the lengths I use iwithout cutting them, if possible. So far so good... Except -- reminds me -- I recently bought a length of modern machine lace (5 yards) and the clerk kindly (!) didn't tell me that the length I bought had been pieced together in the middle with pins, as she measured it. I was planning to use it to make a long ruffle without any breaks, and it took some effort to change the design to accommodate it - not entirely satisfactorily, either. So .. I am well aware of the rampant Neanderthal (and greedy) mindset out there in the market at largeAnd of the value of preserving the handmade heritage for posterity. Just for the record -- so you all maybe will understand the direction of my inquiry, and realize we're on the same page! Thanks again for the input received. It has been educational and helpful, in many ways. Ricki Torrey Utah USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello Everybody, First there are all the little tests when I am learning a new technique or preparing things for a class and so on. Second little presents, that could be eveything. Third and important for me lace to wear, collar, sleeves, applications on dresses or shirts or handbags or. Fourth most important for me, little or not so little objects or pictures on the wall Fifth new designs for books, magazines and others. Sixth cards for birthday and so on Seventh but not so often, border for tablecloth or lablerunners or but very seldom doillies or bookmarks. And lots of other ideas. And at the moment something on a DIN A 4 sheet for the 15th anniversary of the Kunstverein in Plauen which must be ready in ten days, that's why I must say buy for no. Greetings Ilske from Hamburg in Germany, where the sun is shining and the temperature are more tha 28 degrees Celsius ( not the right temperature for lacemaking). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello! Newby that I am, I wonder if anyone has any experience with selling their lace?. And is it possible that IOLI could somehow provide links to people who want to sell their lace, without violating its nonprofit status? Personally speaking, I am primarily interested in using handmade lace to make other items, possibly for resale, even more than making it for myself, at least at this point since there is such a long learning curve ahead!If there were a way to view and purchase modern handmade lace that is relatively affordable, as compared to antique lace, I, for one, would be interested! I noticed that there was not going to be a consignment table at this year's convention, but I would assume that means there sometimes is. However, it would be better if people like me didn't have to wait for the convention, and fly there, once a year, to see (and buy) handmade lace At least these thoughts have come to mind, seeing this thread (so to speak)! Many thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions along these lines. Ricki Torrey Salt Lake City, Utah - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I make lace for fun and the challenge of different laces. Most of it is either given away (bookmarks mostly, plus some wedding hankies or garters, animal motifs and lace corsgaes) or goes on my demo display boards. (Yes, plural, boards. I've had to go to a second board as I've accumulated more lace pieces. ) I have put lace on pincushions and in paperweights. Several sample strips and small motifs were put on a pieced vest that I often wear for demos. Alice in Oregon -- where I'm off to another day at the fair. It's only 8 hours a day during the set up time, then 13 hours a day during the fair. I hope my official work lets me make some lace, at least part of the time. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bev Walker wrote: (snip) In effect, this is a survey of sorts - to what uses do *you* put your lace? Two general areas:- 1. Gifts, for example an embroidered tray cloth with a torchon edging in coarse cotton (for a lady who often invited me to tea) a padded dress hanger with a linen cover and Bucks ruffle, and its own matching lavender bag (for a friend who provided emergency accommodation and help) bookmarks - many and various (for seasonal gifts and thank-yous) (for fellow students who took notes and otherwise helped when I'd had to miss part of our course due to illness). pin cushions I have a heart-shaped pattern in Bucks that sits well on a simple cone-shaped cushion (for seasonal gifts and thank-yous) 2. Personal stuff to decorate lingerie, nightdresses, handkerchieves - mostly Bucks edgings I have the ambition to make myself one of those lovely comfortable empire-line dresses, a la Jane Austen. It calls for a piece of lace in the neckline, but I don't know what it's called, let alone the shape or design. But I've made a start by buying authentic patterns for the dress and underpinnings. And I snapped up the end of a bolt - neglected in a sale - of pure cotton printed with a genuine period pattern. They're stored in my 'one of these days' cupboard, so I can take them out and admire them occasionally. If anyone can offer advice about the piece of lace, I'd be really grateful. Best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where it's an exquisite Summer morning, but made horrid by the noise of many tedious helicopters. No - not security: people off to the Formula One race Silverstone). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Popular uses for lace
Linda wrote: I have the ambition to make myself one of those lovely comfortable empire-line dresses, a la Jane Austen. It calls for a piece of lace in the neckline, but I don't know what it's called, let alone the shape or design. Isn't that a 'modesty panel'? Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Paperweights, framed and hung on the wall, finger plates on doors, sun catchers, and wall hangings (big piece). Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Bev, In answer to your question: In effect, this is a survey of sorts - to what uses do *you* put your lace? I like making laces that I can use. So, I have made many -edgings for curtains: for my sitting room , for my bedroom, for the toilet, and for a daughter's room. Also edgings for bed cushions. -doilies, which are smaller and quicker to make. I use them everyday to cover the bread basket (here in Spain we eat bread with all meals). I also put them under a flower vase, on a table, on any other piece of furniture... For all these things I work torchon, guipure or tape lace, with number 50-30 thread. Greetings from Antje - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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One thing not mentioned yet: many times I've seen lace made for weddings -- garters, veils/headpieces, etc. I made a very large Bucks fan designed by Bridget Cook which my daughter carried with her bouquet at her wedding. And fans are very popular, just for display, wedding not needed. Lace is often attached to handkerchiefs and baby bonnets. There is a way of attaching lace to a handkerchief and turning the whole thing into a bonnet for a baby's christening, in such a way that the stitching can be undone to be used eventually at the wedding of the recepient. I used to see a pattern for a lace strip that was used to decorate Christmas cakes (don't think I could bear to do that one). Also I've seen lace used on wall switch covers. And lace is always popular as Christmas tree and other decorations. There are designs out there for free-standing lace lace decorations, i.e. the nativity sets designed by Jana Novak. A few more ideas, hope I'm not repeating. Regards, Carolyn Carolyn W. Hastings Stow, MA USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A friend of mine makes lace edgings and uses them to frame pictures. The mat is wider than the lace, so it shows outside and inside the edging as well as through the lace holes. It's a lovely effect. While most of my lace is samples (I like figuring out how its done, not having lace products), I've made lace to edge the neckline or yoke of blouses, a lace fan, Christmas tree ornaments and suncatchers (to hang in a window, with a colored-plastic jewel that catches the light). The woman (sorry, I'm blanking on her name) in the New England Lace Guild who worked up all those samples from the Luton lace dealer's pattern book used her samples along the top of pockets on blouses. I thought that was a marvelous idea for using samples. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi everyone - thanks ever so much for your responses so far, I will indeed share the list 'with the list' - write to me privately if you'd rather not post to the lace list, tell me what you like to use your lace for, I'm especially interested in the 'usual' end product that you like (if you have one - some of us just do bits of this and that...). -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Small motifs can be framed appropriately for gifts: e.g. a rabbit motif in braid lace (from the 'Anna' magazine), mounted on green with (added) tiny embroidered flowers and leaves, in a colourful frame, as a gift for a small child... Erica McLeod, in New Zealand - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I use my lace - collars, doilies, added to quilts (Miss Mouse's dress trims!), pictures. - wherever I can use it and flaunt it!! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi everyone I'm compiling a display for a group of spinners and weavers, interested in bobbin lacemaking. I have sections broadly about traditional laces (= antique, or remade from old lace patterns); traditional adapted (e.g. remade using coloured threads; a new design based on traditional technique); and modern - new design using the basic bobbin lace not resembling a particular tradition of lace. The organizers have asked specifically that the laces I show them are using natural fibres (not too difficult - almost all...but what about wire? they liked the idea, but the theme was natural 'fibre', so not wire this time...) Now, I very much hope I can encourage a lace group - so...my question to the list, if you could help me...what do you like to use bobbin lace for? apart from studying it, deconstructing it, learning how to do it - Gifts (and if so, what sort - wedding, bookmarks, ornaments)? decorate clothing? use motifs on greeting cards? I need general interest appeal - something that non-lacemakers could identify with. In effect, this is a survey of sorts - to what uses do *you* put your lace? bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The two uses I put my lace to right now are: 1) use as bookmarks 2) stick it in a plastic folder G Hopefully that's going to change. Uses I'd like to put my lace to: more bookmarks, accessories (jewelry etc.), decorating clothing, maybe some home decoration... Weronika On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 07:31:29PM -0700, Bev Walker wrote: Hi everyone I'm compiling a display for a group of spinners and weavers, interested in bobbin lacemaking. I have sections broadly about traditional laces (= antique, or remade from old lace patterns); traditional adapted (e.g. remade using coloured threads; a new design based on traditional technique); and modern - new design using the basic bobbin lace not resembling a particular tradition of lace. The organizers have asked specifically that the laces I show them are using natural fibres (not too difficult - almost all...but what about wire? they liked the idea, but the theme was natural 'fibre', so not wire this time...) Now, I very much hope I can encourage a lace group - so...my question to the list, if you could help me...what do you like to use bobbin lace for? apart from studying it, deconstructing it, learning how to do it - Gifts (and if so, what sort - wedding, bookmarks, ornaments)? decorate clothing? use motifs on greeting cards? I need general interest appeal - something that non-lacemakers could identify with. In effect, this is a survey of sorts - to what uses do *you* put your lace? bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Weronika Patena Stanford, CA, USA http://vole.stanford.edu/~weronika - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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G'day Bev I would like to see the finished list as it may give me inspiration for uses, would you please post it to Arachne when you can? Right now my lace is just beginner stuff and is placed in plastic sleeves. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/44 - Release Date: 7/8/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Bev and other Spiders, Last Sunday I spent the afternoon at a quilt show demonstrating bobbin lace, tatting, and crochet motifs - all for the embellishment of quilts. Another lady was messing around with beading. Since I am not the lace/jewelry wearing type of person, I give my bobbin lace away - christening gowns, mounted jewelry/ring boxes, bookmarks, garters, handkerchiefs, etc. I gave a strip of Torchon to the organizer of the quilt show. She was beside herself with joy! Today, I saw the piece of silver wire Bucks Point jewelry that Susan Lambiris made for Clay. Exquisite! And that doesn't do the beauty of the piece justice. I wish I did wear jewelry... Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - Original Message - From: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] (snip) Now, I very much hope I can encourage a lace group - so...my question to the list, if you could help me...what do you like to use bobbin lace for? apart from studying it, deconstructing it, learning how to do it - Gifts (and if so, what sort - wedding, bookmarks, ornaments)? decorate clothing? use motifs on greeting cards? I need general interest appeal - something that non-lacemakers could identify with. In effect, this is a survey of sorts - to what uses do *you* put your lace? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I recently did a metre of heavier torchon lace in silk for a wool cape I was making for my great nephew's Christening, (which believe it or not I lost - 40 hours worth). I did an accompanying piece of torchon lace (4 metres) in fine silk thread with fresh water pearls on the spiders to accent the Christening gown. As I went along with the lace I inserted 1/4 inch silk ribbon, sorry too much of an energy conservationist to try and thread it thru later. Unfortunately as I lost the cape somewhere in Sydney, I didn't quite make the Canadian Lace Gazette 5 metre club. I was too disheartened about the loss to make more once the gown was done. I used approximately two metres of torchon done by my grandmother over 80 years ago on the petticoat. I have about 3 metres of torchon made in DMC 20 as edging for a blouse I am making. Lynn Scott, Wollongong Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
