Spiders,
I've been thinking about the 'thinking' laces and I suppose that what I love
about lace making is the fact that I can do it if I want to drift and make
lace (simple tape or simple torchon) or I can become engrossed if I want to make
lace (such as floral bucks et al).
Other half
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But it is my (considered g) opinion that *all* continuous laces are
made in the same manner: you work a segment (be it 6 prs or 20), you
come to a point when you can't work it any further, you push those
JulieO,
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Noelene asked whether I use a crochet hook (yes) or a lazy susan (never
even
heard of one). Perhaps someone could enlighten me?
I'm sure everyone will email you on this - but a lazy susan is a
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 4:05 am, Julie Ourom wrote:
Noelene asked whether I use a crochet hook (yes) or a lazy susan (never
even heard of one). Perhaps someone could enlighten me?
A lazy susan is a needle fixed point first into a handle so that the eye end
sticks out. I have seen straight
Yesterday I was talking to a bookseller in Lancashire who specialises in
selling books for the City and Guilds Embroidery course. He said that
applicants for the course used to be interviewed to see if they had the
necessary aptitude in design, colour and basic technical skills, and that
students
I've tried making sewing with a crochet hook, a latch hook, a straight lazy
susan, a bent lazy susan and the tool that Tim Parker sells (which is like a
crochet hook but has a round cup to pick up the thread rather than a
V-shape).
The only one I get on with is the bent lazy susan. It's a case of
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you know when you are demonstrating and someone says 'how do you know what
to do' this is how I explain it - you work a bit, run out of bobbins so you
work the bit you need to give you the bobbins.
The way I explain it is that I look for pinholes
Many people have been complaining about the quality of the publicity that
lacemaking has received. When I was thrust into the position of publicity chair
for the convention I made a fact sheet about the convention to hand out to
reporters which contained information about the convention and the
Many years ago I wrote a couple of pages, double spaced, for the news people who
appeared at a demonstration to interview me. I simply handed her/him my Press
Release. It gives a synopsis that clearly defines what I am doing as well as a brief
history and techniques of bobbin lacemaking as well
Avital
Thank you so much for adding the contents list to digests.
Kate
in Somerset, UK
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How right you are. Time moves, and so do the passions of lacemakers. Right
at the moment it's Binche Binche Binche or die. Would you be amused by this
quote from a beautiful catalogue published in 1988 by the Walters Art
Museum on the occasion of a lace exhibition there: ... Binche...never
fully
But compare the fully evolved (i.e. gorgeous)
Thomas Lester designs with the best of the Binche, and you may think
that
the writer of the above quote perhaps had a point
Of course, one person's gorgeous is another persons yuck. Not that
I'm saying Bucks is yucky, but different people have
I think the original term for this tool was lazy maidbut since
lazy
susan
As a point of absolute trivia, did you know that Susan was a typical
maid's name - back in the days when people had huge houses with huge
staffs, different servants were often referred to by standard names,
saving
Hello,
I did some bookshopping this afternoon in Brugge and had no difficulty in
finding the 2 books on polychrome lace de Courseulles that were discussed
awhile ago : 1) dentelle polychrome de Courseulles par Jean Claude Brulet
et 2) dentelles normandes - polychrome de Courseulles par Claudette
This has been on the list just a short while ago.
I'm looking for the e-mail of Barbara Fey in Germany. I thought I had it in
her catalogue , But it doesn't appear there nor at her add in the German
lace magazine.
So I would appreciate it if one of you can send it to me.
While I'm at it I
Before you read the recipe and get carried away G, some questions:
What's Silk brand cake flour? or its UK equivalent?
Is Crisco a kind of fat? what kind? is there a UK equiv.?
And what volume is a cup? or what weights are a cup of flour, a cup of
shortening, and a cup of sugar?
DD1 sent me
Hi all and especially those in France,
I and 20 friends from the Border Lacemakers in South Wales, UK, will
be demonstrating English laces at a Cultural Event in Coeur
d'Abbayes, Montivilliers on September 20 and 21. There will be
Bucks Point, Honiton and Beds as well as Torchon and
On 10 Sep 2003, at 8:52, Lynda Libby wrote:
I have a friend who will be going to Normandy (France) the last week
of September. Are there any lace-related events or places to go
during that time? You may reply to me off list. Thanks, Lynda Libby
Vancouver, WA
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Hello,
Lace events:
I did some bookshopping this afternoon in Brugge
Magda, can I ask where you did your bookshopping in Brugge? I'm going there
with 4 other lace makers in October and we have started to plan our
schedule - well our shopping really! I know about the Kantcentrum and
Orchidee (sp?) but any other
For the last 10 years I have gone annually to Brugge to have lessons in
Binche, and have become fairly familiar with many grounds, techniques and
methods, including doing some patterns with those long, long lines of one
pair going all the way across the work, through nearly all the pairs, and
Hello! ...Just popping in to see if anyone might be able to help me with
an odd request
I'm trying to locate a photo of a hookie bobbin somewhere on the net to
show to someone. Does anyone have one that could either be photographed
with a digital camera (or scanned) -- or know of a website
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 09:06 US/Eastern, Panza, Robin wrote (in
reply to Adele's posting):
It is difficult to explain, but here's an example - in the older
patterns
if there's a series of snowflakes around another element they would be
evenly spaced with reference to that other element,
1 cup of flour equals 5oz - learnt that today from watching America's
Test Kitchen on tv :-) don't know what the other things weigh, and
tablespoons are a trap, as American ones are slightly less than the
Aussie ones I frew up with. Crisco is a solidified vegetable shortening
- it's not hard
Dear tatters around the world,
I have not been very active on the tatting lists lately, but I wanted
to let you all know that -- thanks to the kindness of the organizers of
the Rolling Requiem (www.rollingrequiem.org), the September 11th
foundation, volunteers in Seattle and New York City, and
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 22:44 US/Eastern, Martha Krieg wrote:
Rise is just the technical term for how high the body part of the
pants is.
Body part??? I thought body meant the biggest part of whatever, and
that's the *legs* in pants... g
A young relative had them on the other day, no
Just after we'd been talking about this subject on Arachne a week or so ago, I
was involved in handing over my late Father's business (importing Scottish clan
history books into Australia) to the new owner. He is a man who, for years,
has run a Scottish business in Sydney, selling Scottish gear
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