Re: [lace] Re: spiders in lace

2015-08-01 Thread Clay Blackwell
And, as Tamara was my first Guru of lacemaking, I was a solid 'flat' spider 
maker!!!

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 On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:10 PM, Tamara P Duvall t...@rockbridge.net wrote:
 
 Not having read Whiting (at the time), I used to spend a lot of time making 
 those spiders as flat as possible...
 
 On 1 Aug 2015, at 16:31, d2one...@comcast.net wrote:
 
 In researching material for a workshop on torchon spiders for our guild, I 
 came across Gertrude Whiting's directions for Plain Torchon Spiders.
 Pins are used in the center of the spider bodies only. These centers should 
 be raised to give an arched effect
 Does anyone try for that raised effect in spider ground nowadays?
 
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 Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
 Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
 
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Re: [lace] Re: spiders in lace

2015-08-01 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Not having read Whiting (at the time), I used to spend a lot of time making 
those spiders as flat as possible...

 On 1 Aug 2015, at 16:31, d2one...@comcast.net wrote:
 
 In researching material for a workshop on torchon spiders for our guild, I 
 came across Gertrude Whiting's directions for Plain Torchon Spiders.
 Pins are used in the center of the spider bodies only. These centers should 
 be raised to give an arched effect
 Does anyone try for that raised effect in spider ground nowadays? 

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Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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