Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI
It has been gratifying receiving your responses to the War Laces website, both privately and on Arachne. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces It makes us want to continue our volunteer work with the lace collection. Regretfully it took a couple days for all the high resolution images to fully upload to the website, so several of you were rightfully frustrated over the low quality. I think you will find better quality images now. Click on the image to expand, then in the upper right corner x to close it. To read the information, click expand in the upper right corner of the text, and for more information and sometimes more detailed images, click on the lower right Full view in the gray-ish banner after each lace. Hope this helps. We welcome more information and questions about these pieces if you have any. Later this summer a few more War Laces will be added to the website. The issue of the introduction coming up on every page is being addressed. Liz, yes, together with Carol Watson, I put together the lace display at the American History Museum for the IOLI Convention in Bethesda and was one of the volunteers in the main Textiles storage room. I was the one giving the talk about the War Laces at IOLI last year. Jeri, Thank you for adding the Hoover Library website. Karen in Washington, DC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI
If you read to the end of the introduction you will find that you can click on a link to bypass further introductions, and concentrate on the lace http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces - and Commission for Relief in Belgium has been added to the introductory text again after it mysteriously disappeared for a day or so. Karen in Washington, DC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI
What an astonishing archive! And the quality of the laces are amazing. I have no trouble with the photos. Laurie _ Laurie Waters lacen...@gmail.com, lwaters...@comcast.net http://lacenews.net/ http://lacenews.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI
Karen, I have just spent a pleasant afternoon on the porch looking through this site. I was not able to figure out how to enlarge the pictures and still have them be sharp. They looked very pixelated if I enlarged them to fill the screen on my tablet. Am I doing something wrong? I would love to take a closer look at these laces. Thank you, Liz R, Raleigh, NC, USA On May 8, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Karen Thompson karenhthomp...@gmail.com wrote: The first group of 37 War Laces in the Smithsonian American History Museum collection is now available for study on the web. Please give me feedback, as this is a work in progress, and we have much to learn from you about these important laces. *http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces* Click on expand to see the relevant information on each lace. Clicking on each picture will enlarge it. If this link does not work, try searching collections.si.edu and then search War Laces. A few more will be added to the website later as they clear some hurdles. The lace collection at the American History Museum contains approximately 50 War Laces made by Belgian lace makers during World War I, and donated by American collectors. I am often asked why they are housed with American History, as they were made in Belgium. Textiles were very important in developing early America, and are therefore housed in this museum. Lace is part of textiles, and the donors are Americans. Also, specifically for the War Laces, Herbert Hoover (later U.S. President) played a large role in establishing the Commission for Relief of Belgium during WWI. I have been a volunteer with the lace collection for the last 16 years. Karen in Washington, DC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI
Liz I have no problem enlarging them on my laptop (Windows based - via Google chrome). I can get the footside pinholes of the first one TE*T14227 to be about 3 inches apart, and it is still not pixelated. Having expanded and enlarged it, I found I had to shrink it back to small to find the x in the top right hand corner to return to the main text and other pics. Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com -Original Message- - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] lace: War Laces made in Belgium, WWI
The first group of 37 War Laces in the Smithsonian American History Museum collection is now available for study on the web. Please give me feedback, as this is a work in progress, and we have much to learn from you about these important laces. *http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/world-war-one-laces* Click on expand to see the relevant information on each lace. Clicking on each picture will enlarge it. If this link does not work, try searching collections.si.edu and then search War Laces. A few more will be added to the website later as they clear some hurdles. The lace collection at the American History Museum contains approximately 50 War Laces made by Belgian lace makers during World War I, and donated by American collectors. I am often asked why they are housed with American History, as they were made in Belgium. Textiles were very important in developing early America, and are therefore housed in this museum. Lace is part of textiles, and the donors are Americans. Also, specifically for the War Laces, Herbert Hoover (later U.S. President) played a large role in establishing the Commission for Relief of Belgium during WWI. I have been a volunteer with the lace collection for the last 16 years. Karen in Washington, DC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
