Re: [lace] needle lace - pillow
Was it the same class I was in? I also took Nancy's class one year and she did not require or work with a pillow. However, I had a decorative sofa pillow about 5 x 10 and about 4 inches thick, very firmly stuffed. Because arthritis in my fingers makes it difficult some days to hold something for any length of time, I wanted to try the pillow as an alternative, and used it most of the time in class. It worked quite well to support the fabric sandwich as I worked. I did pick the project up for a particularly difficult stitch or angle. If I take the project with me to a meeting or somethingjust to have something in my fingers as I sit then I don't use the pillow. If your fingers are happy holding the project, that's just fine. Go to it. If your fingers protest the action, try a small firm pillow as a support. Alice in Oregon ... still just a few traces of snow where huge piles of it sat, but the weather is clear and no rain or snow for a few days, though cold. (PS. My previous messages were put in my Spam folder by my computer. Sort of unfair of it. Hope I have it better trained this time. G) - Original Message From: bev walker walker.b...@gmail.com At a Pacific Northwest Lace Conference I took a needlelace class with Nancy Evans (highly recommended teacher, too); we worked without pillows. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] needle lace pillow dimensions
Delores asked me for the dimensions of the pillow I made: The pillow I made was as close to the ones I saw in Venice as I could get after coming home and scrounging what I could find. The diameter of the pillow needs to raise the work to convenient hand level when it is placed on the lap. Thus, mine has a diameter of 6 and is 12 long. The dowel that I had at had happens to be 2 in diameter, although I suspect that the Italian ones might have been closer to closet pole size (1). Not less than that, though, because it is what you use to free both hands for working and you need space to be comfortable. Its diameter is added to the height of the pillow on your lap. I made my dowel a little longer than the pillow itself, perhaps because that was the length of the piece of wood that I had, or maybe to make it easier to slip out when necessary. The main thing is to make it personal. It needs to fit you, not some set of rules. The ones the Italian lacemakers were using were all different, probably most of them home made. Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine USA, where the predicted cold snap is just beginning to arrive: +2 degrees fahrenheit at 10 pm and will get lower overnight. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Needle lace pillow
Hello Everybody, the describtion you have given are like the ndl.lace pillows look like. If somebody has the book needlelace from Pat Earnshaw you can see on page 6 an engraving from a lady with such a pillow. And on page 13 a drawing from another type used in Burano. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
SMP lace sells needlelace pillows for £4 uncovered (£8 covered) See http://www.smplace.co.uk/sfr_cat.htm Sue (in snowy Illinois) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
While I covet a needlelace pillow with beautiful wood and turnings and perhaps a little drawer like the ones seen in books, I took a class with Irma Osterman and she had us use a tailor's ham. It worked fine, was inexpensive and did not eat up valuable lacemaking time in having to construct the pillow. Devon **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] needle lace pillow
I can't resist: go to http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/illustrations/pt_nlp.pdf and you will see the needle lace pillow I made after visiting the lacemaking group in Venice a few years ago. This should give you an idea of what it looks like and from that how to put it all together. It sits on your lap while you work. Also, I have just been scanning the Italian version of the DMC needle lace book. It will appear on the site under This Month, but wait a bit: it is still being processed by John Cropper, our loyal computer expert. You can find other copies of the same book in French and English as well. Go to: www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dmc_lace_1.pdf (English) http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dmc_ldal-1.pdf (French) For those newbies who may not know about the Archives site, go to http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/ and be prepared for a feast! You can search for something specific, check out the newest additions, and find a wealth of old books (pre-1923) that have been scanned and posted on the site. Topics will give you an idea of the subjects covered, and there are probably more perhaps not listed that way. This collection is in large part due to the many people who have lent their own precious books and documents and allowed them to be scanned and thus saved for posterity. If you have any that should be in the collection and which you want to lend for the site, we would be happy to hear from you. Enjoy! Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in snowy Maine USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] needle lace pillow
Tess, could you give us dimensions of the pillow and the dowel? Is the dowel what we use for closet poles in the USA? TIA Delores Miller, Sedo-Woolley, WA, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] needle lace pillow
In message f5f027df281a4fdeae3d325541857...@winxp, Delores Miller deemill...@verizon.net writes Tess, could you give us dimensions of the pillow and the dowel? Is the dowel what we use for closet poles in the USA? TIA The purpose of the dowel is simply to put a curved surface under the bit that you are working on, much as you would use your finger if you were holding the work in your hand. It doesn't have to be a dowel - I normally use a pencil! (It goes between the pillow and the cloth pad which is under your work, so the lead is unlikely to come into contact with your work.) Then again, I only need to use it when working the cordonette (the final outlining of closely worked buttonhole stitches over two or more new threads laid along the cordonnet) - at this point because you are trying to get the needle under several taut threads it is easier if the section is raised slightly. The rest of the time I pin the pad to the pillow and work with it flat against the curve of the pillow. The cordonnet (the foundation of two parallel threads which are couched down along the pattern outlines before you start working the fillings) is worked before the work is pinned to the pillow. I have one of the SMP polystyrene pillows (covered), but tend now to use the foam packaging tube that contained the free puppy in a pack of Andrex toilet paper some years ago - it is about 6 inches diameter, the foam being about an inch thick - perfect for clipping my clip on magnifier to! This tube is probably about 14 inches long, but as long as it is big enough to hold the work you are doing the length doesn't really matter. The useful bit about using a tube is that you can store things inside it - my magnifier lives inside the tube when I'm not working. Because you start with the pattern tacked to a slightly larger pad of cloth, I haven't found it necessary to cover the foam tube - the work and thread don't come into contact with it. Do have a cloth to pin over your work when you leave it, though, as you would for bobbin lace. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace - Needle Lace Pillow
You can see a picture of my needlelace pillow at _http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/_ (http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/) Choose the Gallery option, and you'll be able to select a variety of pictures of lace pillows. Needlelace is 3rd from bottom of list. My needlelace pillow has a specially-made tote bag with draw strings in suitable shape (not shown), made from the same fabric. Everything was made by a friend over 15 years ago, from the instructions in Starting Needlepoint Lace - A Course for Beginners by Valerie Grimwood, ISBN 0-7134-5806-2 (Batsford), pg. 14, 1989. Foreword by Nenia Lovesey. (Please note corrected spelling of Nenia's name.) As to the late Nenia Lovesey, there is a picture of her making lace on one of these pillows on the back flap of the book jacket of her book The Technique of Needlepoint Lace, ISBN 0-88332-249--8 (Publisher: Larousse Co., NY), 1980. She is sitting at a table, with the pillow on the table top (not in lap). There is a picture of a young girl making needlelace on a pillow in another book by Lovesey: pg. 78 of Reflections on Lace, ISBN 0-85219-750-0 (Dryad Press), 1988. She is sitting at a table, with the needlelace pillow in a wooden stand to prevent rolling. Towards the front of this book are photos of very young children making bobbin lace! Some people prefer to make needlelace in the hand. I saw professional lace-making Hungarian women making Halas lace in this way. My needlelace pillow has been used for other purposes, such as to anchor small pieces of silk batiste that were being hand smocked -- dainty butterflies. Kept them from jumping around. When you handle needlework less, it does not get dirty from hands. A stand is nice, but a fluffy bath towel can be used as a base to keep the round pillow from moving around if you have problems. It will pack better in a tote bag. I liked the suggestions to use a tailor's ham or long pressing aid for seams. Please note that for most types of embroidery (which needlelace is) it is best to sit in a straight-back chair at a table, with suitable light. This is the way professional embroiderers work - and they are able to stitch many hours per day. Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 1/11/2009 10:40:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, miness.stn.ba...@sympatico.ca writes: -A friend who is a superb needlelacer but is not on the Lace list send me the following -e-mail . I obtained a used copy of a book on needle lace, a great book by Nenia Livesay. Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use both hands and the author recommends using one. I have to hold it with one hand. There is a picutre in this old book. I have searched for one, have looked on the Lacis website and have not found any such thing. It is different than a bobbin lace pillow. Have you ever heard of a needlelace pillow in your years of doing lace? If I can't find such a thing, I may try to make one up to see if it helps when I start another project. -Replies to forward to my friend will be appreciated -Thanks in advance Hendrika van Kooten Simcoe County Lacemakers Township of Springwater Ontario, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
-A friend who is a superb needlelacer but is not on the Lace list send me the following -e-mail . I obtained a used copy of a book on needle lace, a great book by Nenia Livesay. Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use both hands and the author recommends using one. I have to hold it with one hand. There is a picutre in this old book. I have searched for one, have looked on the Lacis website and have not found any such thing. It is different than a bobbin lace pillow. Have you ever heard of a needlelace pillow in your years of doing lace? If I can't find such a thing, I may try to make one up to see if it helps when I start another project. -Replies to forward to my friend will be appreciated -Thanks in advance Hendrika van Kooten Simcoe County Lacemakers Township of Springwater Ontario, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
A needlelace pillow is smaller than a bolster pillow, but larger than the roller from a roller pillow. A padded cylinder on the order of 4-6 (10-15 cm) in diameter and 8-10 (20-30 cm) long. The actual size is not important. What is important is to have some curvature, to get the ends of the project out of the way. Put a dowel (may 3/4 or 18 mm) under the project at the point where you're working, to make it easier to get the needle under stitches and out again. The dowel is the equivalent of the finger you fold your work over while stitching in the hand. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com Hendrika van Kooten miness.stn.ba...@sympatico.ca wrote: Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use both hands and the author recommends using one. I have to hold it with one hand. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] needle lace pillow
Hello, In France, we have a specialist of Burano and Venice needlelace. Her name is Brigitte Lenormand and she learned with her great mother. She made a book last years only in french : http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2283585678/qid%3D1109930923/171-2539165-5014655 She took her great mother name : Laura Masera. Dentellez bien Sof from France with snow again [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I have just taken a picture of a lace pillow I made after my trip to Venice and Burano some years ago. We see pictures of bobbin lace pillows everywhere, but I've only found one other needle lace pillow pictured (on Lori's site--where else!). This one is an accurate reproduction of the actual working lace pillows used by the lacemakers in Venice and has a pattern pinned to it which I got at Lidia's in Burano. If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll email the picture to you. I've sent it to the Professor, and it may end up on his site as well. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] needle lace pillow
Hello, I Just find on Rosanna web site : http://www.dentellieres.com/Collection/Lidia/index.htm Dentellez bien Sof from France [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I have just taken a picture of a lace pillow I made after my trip to Venice and Burano some years ago. We see pictures of bobbin lace pillows everywhere, but I've only found one other needle lace pillow pictured (on Lori's site--where else!). This one is an accurate reproduction of the actual working lace pillows used by the lacemakers in Venice and has a pattern pinned to it which I got at Lidia's in Burano. If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll email the picture to you. I've sent it to the Professor, and it may end up on his site as well. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] needle lace pillow
Hi again, And Burano museum : http://www.dentellieres.com/Musee/Burano/index.htm Sof from France - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] needle lace pillow
I have just taken a picture of a lace pillow I made after my trip to Venice and Burano some years ago. We see pictures of bobbin lace pillows everywhere, but I've only found one other needle lace pillow pictured (on Lori's site--where else!). This one is an accurate reproduction of the actual working lace pillows used by the lacemakers in Venice and has a pattern pinned to it which I got at Lidia's in Burano. If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll email the picture to you. I've sent it to the Professor, and it may end up on his site as well. By the way, have you checked out the needle lace video? It might help you a lot. You can find it on Holly van Sciver's web site: http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/Springett%20Videos.html She gives advice on how to make a pillow as well as making the lace itself. Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] needle lace pillow
I've never seen a needle lace pillow like this before http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=19158item=8171844426rd=1 Are they commonly used? jenny barron Scotland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
