Hi Spiders,
I received a package in the mail from Switzerland and one of the stamps on
the packager was embroidered in a lace pattern!
I have uploaded a picture of it to Arachne Webshots to the album named
Patty Dowden
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
TTFN
Patty
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At 4:12 PM -0700 6/28/04, Janice Blair wrote:
I saw some lace, mainly small pictures, for sale at the market on
Havelska on Sunday but on Monday the vendors had changed. They had
some Rumanian lace marked as macrame!
Janice, I've been told by a woman here who teaches Romanian Point
Lace that,
At 4:12 PM -0700 6/28/04, Janice Blair wrote:
I saw some lace, mainly small pictures, for sale at the market on
Havelska on Sunday but on Monday the vendors had changed. They had
some Rumanian lace marked as macrame!
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Janice, I've been told by a woman
Hello everyone
I hope everyone has a wonderful time on their lace travels - it seems
quite a number of arachnes are 'abroad' or doing so sometime this season.
Send reports! I know you will. Meanwhile, for those of us at-home, I think
it is time for another informal survey. This one is:
What
Quick answer in between travels and jet lag!
I am currently working on 4 projects (at different times of day)
1 a bobbin lace scarf in cotton perle 8 from an enlarged Binche pattern
2 a beaded necklace which I started 4 years ago, but have now decided to
finish
3 a quilted jacket, which will
I've got Marianne Kinsel's Rose of England Tea cloth on the needles. Knitted
lace is my lace of choice. I'm 129 rows of 152 rows down, but I just agreed
to doing lace for a wedding hankie for the last week of August.
So what I'm /really/ doing is swatching up edging patterns and trying to
find
This is the information taken from Peasant and erudite arts and
textiles in Spain APECYL 1999, about mac-rame:
The name of mac-rame is arabic in origin and means knot. The knots
are made with hands and it is originated by the Assyrian people.
Macrame had been worked by all Spanish communities
Thanks, Bev - for starting an interesting thread that helps get us out of
our summer doldrums! I confess that I'm doing more quilting than
lacemaking at the moment - a fact that is attributed to my happy part-time
employment in a quilt shop where I can make up shop samples to my heart's
content
Hi Spiders,
Pieces I actually have in progress
1. A lonely single repeat of a pattern from Karoluskantjes
2. Most of the right wing (non-political) of the butterfly from Bridget Cook's Idrija
book, with significant changes consisting of glorious color and substituting raised
tallies for the
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:08:50 -0400, Robin P wrote:
At 4:12 PM -0700 6/28/04, Janice Blair wrote:
I saw some lace, mainly small pictures, for sale at the market on
Havelska on Sunday but on Monday the vendors had changed. They had
some Rumanian lace marked as macrame!
From: Mary L. Tod
What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
I've am working on:
1. A 4-inch 's-Gravensmoer Runner (only approx 6 inches left to work)
2. Christmas
As promised I have posted the photo of the lace covered cow seen in Prague last
week.http://community.webshots.com/album/149126673AmIpMo
Also I forgot to mention that British Airways does not allow knitting needles as
carry-on.
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago,
Bev, what a delightful idea! Thank you for thinking of it! At present I am
cut up into three parts, with nothing left over for real life: Part 1 isn't
lace at all, but a piece of canvaswork embroidery, an adaptation of the
Ardebil Mosque Carpet (the real thing can be seen in London at the VA). I
Thanks Bev, it's interesting to read what people are doing.
Me? I've only got a couple underway at the moment:
1. A white linen with pink trail Torchon edge for a mat for a
friend's 70th birthday. Nearly finished.
2.A 4 inch square of gold coloured and bright orange Sifonda
I'm working a 3 wide circular Bucks edgingI think the pattern came from a
Lace magazine at least 15 years ago! I actually worked the piece some 10 or
more years ago, but wasn't happy with the join, so always promised myself I'd
re-work it one day. When mounted, it makes a mat approx 10
Hi,
Has anyone from North America ordered Beryl Maw's lace pack directly (ie
not got someone in the UK to buy it for them)? I am interested to know
how much the postage is (in pounds and pence) so that I can send off my
order ...
Thanks in advance,
Helen. ([EMAIL PROTECTED] in sunny
Hi everyone - this was sent to me privately, was meant for the list as a
whole - any recommendations for the knitting book?
--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:13:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Williams [EMAIL
I need some opinions. A new seller just asked me this question:
I wanted to ask you as a collector, do you prefer large amounts
of yardage or smaller pieces? I was told once by a dealer friend that she
really only sold 2-3yd pcs. of insertion and usable lace.
Comments, please.
Alice in Oregon
Janice, enjoyed viewing the photo of the lace-painted
cow.
My current projects include the following:
1. painting of the final wall in the living room,
2. sewing,
3. angel in wire lace,
4. torchon being done in linen,
Not working full time during summers, provides more
time for extra projects.
I'm currently (still) plodding away on a piece of beds designed by Robin
Hueppauff of Oz. It's hard to find time at the mo' with both kids home
on summer vacation (roll on end of August when they go back to school!).
I also have a little tatting on the go - thought I would use it to
decorate a
I have made tatting for about 35 years.
I can do bobbin lace. and knitted lace.
Roslyn in Austin
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I am working on some NL samples each evening - 2 different types of
- and I have 3 pieces of BL on the go - A large torchon mat that is ½
done, a Beds collar (that I now dislike!!) ¾ done, and a narrow edge to
applique on a quilt when I have a long enough length! (Good thing it is
winter,
Hello all,
Well since I am so new at lace, I am only doing little samples of lessons in
Bobbin Lace, with the help (big help) of Patty, my lacing Angel teacher. :)
Lynn
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I've seen some of these before, but I think there are a few new ones.
Malvary
1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In democracy it's your vote that
Since the list is almost moribund at the moment I will share a small item I
saw in today's newspaper.
A Yorkshire family firm has won a contract to export tea to China.
Taylors of Harrogate will send 30,000GBP worth of its speciality flavoured
teas to Shanghai.
The varieties going east
Sorry to post this to the group, but does anyone have a working email
address for Clarice Birch in Australia?
I have tried three times to reply to two different messages from her
but each one has bounced back as unroutable
Clarice; if you are reading this all the info you need is on my website
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:12:47 -0700 (PDT), Janice wrote:
I found Prague very English friendly, most notices and menus were written in English
as well as Czech. Prague is populated by cows at the moment. I was told there are
200 of them set around the city. They are similar to the cows we had
Thank you for the good laugh, Patricia I like that one!!
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saw in today's newspaper.
A Yorkshire family firm has won a contract to export tea to China.
Brenda - according to my information, Clarice lives in South Australia...and
I've just tried to ring her for you. However, the phone is not being answered
at present. I'll try again later. I only have a snail-mail address, not an
email one. One way or another, I'll make sure she gets the
Would you like all the cows from Shepparton. We have them here too and they
are, yeck! They had competitions to paint and decorate themthen auction them
off. Then at Christmas we get nice(?) Christmas cows decorating the streets.
Send them back where they came from! Is it a case of Mad Cow
Well, at least Adelaide (South Australia) is different: last year when my
husband and I arrived for the annual Australian Lace Guild conference, we
strolled into the mall in the centre of Adelaide ... to be greeted by several
life-size pigs (sculpted in some sort of metal...could it be bronze?).
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Hi everyone
No cows in the city of Victoria - but whales, yes - the sculptured kind
(you can now go whale-watching on land, as well as by boat...). They are
from the same mold, and underneath are your basic black and white orca,
but are otherwise decorated. It is a fund-raising project for
I couldn't get the pictures either.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie in Denver
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I am currently working on a wedding garter for my grand-daughter who is
getting married in Feb 2005, I am also working on a linen and lace tablecloth
and some tatting.
As it is Winter here and for the first time in years it turning into a real
Winter I am getting quite a bit done.
Shirley in
Hi Spiders,
I happen to have downloaded the pictures of the tatted bedspread and would
be happy to share them with anyone who sends me their email.
Helen, since you have already posted, they are on their way to you. I
don't think it is appropriate to post them on the Arachne Webshot page.
A few years ago the city of Toronto had a herd of
300 critters made, but ours weren't cows they were
moose. Much more appropriate that cows and the horns
are useful for hanging up a lot of hats and coats.
Some of them were very creative at least one of
them was decorated in a Mountie outfit.
Same thing in Jerusalem, except that instead of cows or moose, we had lions
decorated by artists. Since they get moved around from time to time, my kid
likes spotting lions in new places.
Avital
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