Re: [lace] progress-was blue film
The only advantages I can see to using the sticky film is that you can stick the paper pattern on the card with it, and, arguably, it might be useful to keep the color of the card from transferring to the lace. Many years ago I found myself trying to rehydrate threads by putting a damp cloth over them to make a little vapor tent, and some color from the card transferred to the lace. Also, sometimes a piece may be on a pillow for a long, long time, enduring many humid summers. But, for the most part when I am at home, and I want to do a little sample or something that I anticipate finishing quickly, I print the pattern directly to a 110 lb weight Hammerhill card stock. I bought a 100 sheets of assorted colors several printers ago and I am nowhere close to running out of any of the colors which are unfortunately, pale orange, pale green, gray and buff (not blue). I tend to use the orange and green for white thread, and the buff for colored thread. Previous printers required me to change the setting to print on the card stock, but the current one, an Epson WF7510 seems to handle the stock just fine without having to touch the menu. Printing everything on colored card stock would be best (250 sheets for $15.79 which is 6.3 cents per sheet/pattern, no plastic or additional card required.). But, I concede that some teachers who are traveling with suitcases may not want to carry card with them. Colored paper would not represent any more weight. One teacher told me once that she routinely uses colored card, or colored paper at home, but that she traveled with only one copy of each pattern and then reproduced them at the hotel business center. I don't know if it is routine to be able to copy onto colored paper at a hotel business center, so that may be an issue. However, if the convention organizers were to arrange to have a package or two of colored paper at the hotel... You can buy 500 sheets of blue paper for $9.29, (compared $.7.99 for 500 sheets of white paper) .With a $5 roll of Ace Hardware or Walmart Adhesive, or possibly two, you could outfit 500 patterns for less than $20. or 4 cents a piece versus the cost to the student of $4.50 for one, if they have to purchase a small piece of blue film for a single pattern. The student would still have to travel with a used file folder or other card. If there are 300 participants and each has a pattern that costs $4.50 in blue film, then total pattern costs are $1350 in blue film alone versus total cost of $12.00 if we all use blue paper and clear film. That is a cumulative savings of $1338 that could be spent in the vendor's room on interesting thread and books, supporting authors and thread producers, not the producers of contact paper. Devon - 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] progress-was blue film
Agree with Kim about the sticky pins from the contact paper. Also, during one workshop a student had used a pricker with a slight burr, resulting in a small sticky hard top in each pin prick, catching the silk threads. We tried smoothing the pricking, but without any luck. There had been no reason for her to cover the blue cardstock pricking, except she apparently had been told that one must cover every pricking with blue contact paper. -Karen > - 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] progress-was blue film
When I first began making lace I experimented with a lot of materials. I have a very hard time looking at certain colors without developing a headache, so tried darker shades of green, blue and even red. During this time I decided to try the clear contact paper. I found that it leaves residue on the pins and gets them all sticky. Do others have this trouble? I have always wondered if it could have something to do with climate and humidity. More importantly, does anyone know a product that does not do this? When I teach wire classes I recommend blue film, but I also carry some for anyone that does not have it. I am all for moving to clear if there is a way around the stickiness issue. Kim On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Lin Hudren wrote: > Walmart also carries the matte clear contact paper for under $5 a roll > which will last years. > > > > Hugs, Lin and the Mali > *I just realized I am so old, I have forgotten I have been there and done > that.* > > - > 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] progress-was blue film
Walmart also carries the matte clear contact paper for under $5 a roll which will last years. Hugs, Lin and the Mali *I just realized I am so old, I have forgotten I have been there and done that.* - 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] progress-was blue film
Karen, Your students must be very grateful that they don't have to carry card, "paper scissors" and rare, expensive, imported, blue Contact paper to class, and then spend valuable class time cutting and sticking their patterns. Actually this is a return to the traditional way of doing things. When I started making lace in the 1970s my teacher pricked each pattern, several at a time, on a heavy tan card, inscribing the gimp line with in water proof ink with a fountain pen, and charged the student for the pricking. Photocopying and blue film freed the teacher from this time consuming process. We welcomed progress then. But now... Imagine if you were trying to interest a young person in taking up lacemaking, and you had to explain that a necessary prerequisite is to buy an extremely rare blue contact paper, imported from England costing $4.50 for a piece 15" x 16" to turn a single piece of white paper blue and stick it to a piece of card, thus simulating the effect of printing the pattern on a blue card. What do you think would be their reaction? In fact, try explaining this to your husband, and see what his reaction is :-) Since it would appear that Alice in Oregon's group is in the unenviable position of having to obtain a new roll of blue film to divide among themselves, now that the good Samaritan in Europe is no longer able to facilitate that process, perhaps they should lead the way by buying a package of blue paper (or card) at Staples and urging their teachers to use it for patterns. They could also buy a roll of clear matte film at Ace Hardware, if they want to divide it, although in that a roll of this costs about as much as a small piece of blue film, it would hardly seem to be worth the effort. Devon - 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/
