In a message dated 08/09/2003 22:52:11 GMT Daylight Time,
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Her views on which lace to learn first are equally sensible - Do you
admire and wish to make Honiton or fine Brussels, and are you prepared to take
great pains and spend a considerable amount of time? Then
In a message dated 08/09/2003 23:29:51 GMT Daylight Time,
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It sounds as if the reporters may have written their articles in their
heads
before they ever showed up, and just came to acquire the specifics to make
it reporting instead of essay.
When people ask me why
Dear Jeri and others who sent help and suggested Tenerife,
Thank you all so much for the suggestions and ideas. Isn't Arachne super?
BarbE gave me the specific directions and said her mum had one like mine back in the
'30s. She even graciously suggested her mother would be the same age as my
Thank you Tamara for the information, it is nice to read you are thinking
about us here!
It is a bit too far for mr to go, but I guess some members of the forum will
take the opportunity to learn more
Bonne journée,
Josette, from Bourgogne
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:19:43 -0400
From: Tamara P.
Slipping out of lurkdom to comment -
A labourer works with his hands
A craftsman works with his hands and his head
An artist works with his hands and his head and his
heart.
Janine in Nottinghamshire
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The problem with the word 'craft' is that to most people this means going
into somewhere like 'Hobbycraft' (who call themselves the 'craft superstore'
and you all apready know my opinion of what they sell) picking up a kit, or
loose materials if you really know what you're doing, and completing
Betty Ann - I recently bought a couple of these daisy winders (just because
I like these old things) from:
Miki's California Yarn Sales
9542 Hamilton at Bushard.
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
Tel:714-965-0018
Fax:714-964-4059
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shown on their web site page:
In an email dated Tue, 9 Sep 2003 7:46:36 am GMT, Jenny Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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And to tie the 2 current strands together I like the comment
from Janine about an artist also working with his, or in this
case, her heart.
Lacemaking seems to take that extra part of you. I
In an email dated Tue, 9 Sep 2003 7:33:48 am GMT, Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The problem with the word 'craft' is that to most people this means going
into somewhere like 'Hobbycraft' (who call themselves the 'craft superstore'
and you all apready know my opinion of what they sell)
Devon and all otheers,
I agree nearly with every word Lorelei had written. But on sunday I could
discover that things become better now, here in Germany. On our
one-day-meeting Kloeppeln zwischen den Meeren from Barbara Fay I saw for
the first time TV. They were there for at least one hour. I
I had forgotten that little gem. It is true and thank you for the reminder
BarbE
USA
snip..
.An artist works with his hands and his head and his
heart.
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I got up this morning and discovered I sent my
impression of this coloring book I guess to the wrong
list. Since you are not suppose to cross to both of
the Lace list and Arachne list...I guess I get them
confused as to which one I should send to which list.
I am sorry if I offended anybody. I
From: Tamara P. Duvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the craft -- as in Mensa of the craft world -- is so odious, how
about Mensa of the Applied Arts instead? Jay Ekers kindly resurrected
the term for me (it'd gotten lost in memory) but Applied arts would be the
term that a book (at any rate, a
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1) Present - it was just right for the person
2) Technical achievement - 'that looks like fun' theory of lace making.
I'd add:
3) Beauty - oh, that's so lovely, I have to make it!
Robin P.
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what they saw was people bent over pillows doing complex puzzle solving.
At one point I heard a lacemaker characterize us as The MENSA of the
craft world, which I thought was an interesting idea.
I've certainly been struck by the long and literate posts to this list.
Most other craft lists I've
Robin and the spiders,
This has set me thinking about William Morris and the 'Arts and Crafts Movement' -
here was a man who felt that a part of your soul was included in crafts and raised the
belief in them as an artform to probably the highest it has ever been.
Earlier this year, I went my
From: Jean Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know the best way of publicising, because 'lacemaking' doesn't only
cover bobbin lace. People need to know that (bobbin lace at least - I'll
never master tatting) is accessible to all at different levels from a simple
braid to complex work like
I gave my first bobbin lace lecture/demo to the weaver's guild in Jerusalem,
so I surmise that weavers are more knowledgeable about textile structure
than the average consumer. Most people would not see any similarity between
a fragment of Binche lace and a Turkish kilim or an inkle band. People
At the very least, I think we can deduce that lacemakers concentrate on
details. g
Avital
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I've certainly been struck by the long and literate posts to this list.
Most other craft lists I've subscribed to are full of people
I'm moving this to Lace because it's not really a lace-chat topic. Jean
Peach is looking for gold Battenberg tapes.
Jean, Lacis seems to have one tape available in gold. www.lacis.com.
On the same page I see that hand-crocheted Romanian point braid sells for $7
a yard. Some crocheter is working
Hornsby's in the UK do sell gold tape described as lace tape for working
Brussels lace (otherwise known as Battenburg, Fagotting, Tape lace):
Type 5 silver 7 mm plain edge
Type 6 gold 7 mm plain edge
Type 9 silver 10 mm plain edge
Type 10 gold 10 mm plain edge
Type 11 silver 8 mm plain edge
Type
I have one article and picture of me at a demo, and under the picture is my
name and the fact that I am doing Bob n lace.
Oh well,
Nancyanne
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Another source:
http://www.lacemaking.com/Ltapes.htm
This is the site for Wim Lauriks, who used to put out the magazine Lace Magazine
International which was edited by Lieve Jerger and had many contributions from
Michael Guisianna and other designers. He maintains a lace supply business and
Several of us seem agreed that many bobbin laces, certainly floral
Beds, and some of us (at least me) floral Bucks, are for thinking
persons, what about Binche? It's generally thought the most complex
now widely made, and I should have thought at least as much brain
power goes into it. It
Thanks everybody very, very much for all the advice about moving lace. I
have to admit the thought is scaring me, I'm sure once I tackle it I will
feel better, and I also know that I need to be in the right frame of mind to
attempt this. I am thinking of next Sunday which is my next free time
I'm terribly sorry, but I've lost the attribution for the following:
what they saw was people bent over pillows doing complex puzzle solving.
At one point I heard a lacemaker characterize us as The MENSA of the
craft world, which I thought was an interesting idea.
I was thinking about this last
Hello,
I have been an on again-off again member of this list for many years and
once again need to post and try to reconnect to the lace world.
I have recently moved AGAIN and am hoping that I can get involved in classes
once more. I just came from Copenhagen, where I spent three
On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 23:15 US/Eastern, Emma Coen wrote:
I was thinking about this last night, and actually, for publicity
purposes,
I'd shy away from the idea that lace-making is terribly intellectual.
I had some friends visit my house, and you can't avoid my various
crafts.
My friends
Hello,
I have been an on again-off again member of this list for many years and
once again need to post and try to reconnect to the lace world.
I have recently moved AGAIN and am hoping that I can get involved in classes
once more. I just came from Copenhagen, where I spent three
Dear Friends,
I've always used hang, hung, hung myself, but someone mentioned hang
and its vagaries in a (private) message to me, so I checked my OED...
According to it, it's the *hanged* (regular) past tense version that's
arachaic (ie, older)...
When I think about the verb to hang in the
I got my gold and silver and white with gold/silver inside from DJ
Hornsby at Canerbury.But I know they gave up because I think he went
into the church.But some one was going to still sell some things.
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Hope that helps
Daphne
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Me again did a search and you can get gold from baltazor.com
In the Us they do post overseas.
Daphne
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Hello all,
My daughter takes after her father, tall and slender. She has several
pairs of these pants and they look great on her. However, long ago (she's
almost 13 now) I threatened to pierce any thing I saw between pants and
shirt. She was horrifed at the thought and has so far kept the tops
SOMETIMES
Sometimes...
when you cry...
no one sees your tears.
Sometimes...
when you are in pain...
no one sees your hurt.
Sometimes.
when you are worried...
no one sees your
A middle aged woman standing nude, looked in the bedroom mirror and
said to her husband
I look, horrible. I'm fat, my boobs and my backside are getting
more saggy by the day, I find a new wrinkle every morning and I
think I'll have to go up yet ANOTHER dress size. Sitting down with
her head
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