Re: [lace] Is Lace Declining? - Can anybody help?

2003-09-29 Thread Thelacebee
In a message dated 29/09/2003 12:29:34 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My name is Julia, I am 21 years old, and have been making lace for the past > > 11 years. I am also a final year marketing degree student at South Bank > University in London. > > As part of my degree I hav

Re: [lace] Chats on Old Lace & Needlework

2003-09-29 Thread alice howell
At 07:02 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, you wrote: >> I thought I'd mention that a copy of the book "Chats on Old Lace & >> Needlework" is for sale right now on ebay. >> Though this is pre-1923 I couldn't find it on Tess & the Professor's >> website, When I acquired this book, I offered it to Tes

[lace] Chats on Old Lace & Needlework

2003-09-29 Thread Adele Shaak
I thought I'd mention that a copy of the book "Chats on Old Lace & Needlework" is for sale right now on ebay. It is at http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3554102670 I thought I would bid on it but I see the seller only takes PayPal so I decided not to. The auction ends tomorrow.

[lace] Antique Bobbin Winder, with picture

2003-09-29 Thread Earl Johnson
This is further to my post of Sep 13th regarding my recently acquired antique bobbin winder. Repeated below is some of the same information posted then and I now enclose a photo. http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 (Copy this address into your web browser, open, go to "new albumer", and

[lace] Re: OIDFA member addresses

2003-09-29 Thread LACEELAIN
In a message dated 9/27/2003 1:28:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > There was an article about this lace in OIDFA within the last year or two. > The author could find very few examples of it, partially because some had > burned in the Windsor Castle fire. I looked it up

[lace] Insect pins in the UK (2)

2003-09-29 Thread Jean Nathan
Sorry - forgot to say that Lullingstone Silk Farm used to be situated in Lullingstome, Kent, but it was moved to the Worldwide Butterflies site at Sherbourne and incorporated into it in 1978. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMA

[lace] Insect pins in the UK

2003-09-29 Thread Jean Nathan
Lullingstone Silk Farm at Sherbourne in Dorset sells a range of insect pins (they call them entomological pins) both on site and on line, described on: http://www.wwb.co.uk/milleniumcat/page19.html Shows pictures which I think must be actual size. Their educational material on silk is also worth

[lace] insect pins, and a couple of other interesting bits

2003-09-29 Thread Jane Partridge
>On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 07:38 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz) >wrote: > >> Just a question to the spiders though, does anyone know of a supplier >> in the >> UK who sells insect pins (and I don't just mean lace suppliers). >> Just a thought - in the early 1980s Phil and I were on holida

[lace] Aiming High (was Arizona lacemakers)

2003-09-29 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 07:53 PM, Sally wrote: She's been looking over my books and loves the peacock handkerchief edging in Michael Guisana's Binche I book ( I'm not sure about the spelling or the title, because Cathy took the book home with her tonight promising to guard it with her

[lace] Can anybody help?

2003-09-29 Thread julia wallace
My name is Julia, I am 21 years old, and have been making lace for the past 11 years. I am also a final year marketing degree student at South Bank University in London. As part of my degree I have to write a 12,000 word dissertation, related to marketing, on a subject of my choice. It was re