I find the way words change their meanings leaving puzzles for the future
fascinating - Brugge lace turning into witches via Spanish being one!
Happily jumping in with full ignorance, is it possible that piete in the
original posting means exactly what it says, in that it's the French for
I couldn't find any google hits for piete (insert acute accents in proper
places) lace but did find Mont-de-piete (alternative term for pawn shop) and
lace. Maybe it meant pawned lace?
Also found something that might amuse Arachnes:
Hi Donna,
My daughter and I have decided on a torchon pattern by Louise Colgan that
has mirrored sides with a ribbon running through the centre. The edge of
the lace has hearts which my daughter has decided she wants done in blue in
order to bring in her bit of blue. I think it will be a
Hello All
Before I went on my holiday, there was some discussion for
different things used as a pillow stand.
Here`s my contribution:-
Usually I do not bother with a stand,when we go away in our touring caravan,
because outside or in I use the tables.
This time I`ve had restricted
One of my favorite stands was also one of the cheapest!! I got one of
those cheap round presswood tripod decorator tables about $5 US and
glued some fabric to the top of it to match my pillow. I cut about 1/2
inch off of one leg to give it some tilt and it has worked for me for
years!
Shere'e
Tamara Goulding's husband, Ray, sadly passed away on August 14th. Many of
you will remember him in his traditional English smock worn for OIDFA Gala
dinners. I am sure that Tamara will be in your thoughts at this sad time.
Sue
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Lace Digest:
In regard to a name for de Guardia's witch stitch lace, the English Lace
Guild's quarterly, LACE #123, has a two page article with several photos by
Marina Reglieiro _www.escueladeencajes.com_ (http://www.escueladeencajes.com) .
She writes of Hinojosa Lace, which appears
Hello Lorraine and all Arachneans,
Last May, I participated in a course of this lace, being the teacher
Mariña Regueiro. She is a real expert on this subject. She has been
investigating a lot on this lace, which was almost lost not many years
ago. In fact, not many Spanish lacers know it.
I can
A long time ago I saw a whitework needle sampler that had blocks of
different patterns. I am wondering if anyone knows where the
information may be located.
Recently I found reference to the Mary Quelch sampler and wonder if
this might be the same thing but I cannot find any information
Hello lacemakers,
Has anybody worked with wonderfil silco thread before?
I am winding bobbins and it gets very twisted, I have never experienced this
before, I am constantly letting the bobbin hang down to untwist.
Curious as to how this thread will work up, it is really pretty colours.
Irene
If you request a copy of a birth certificate or similar and it arrives with
a strange spelling of a name, don't presume that it is correct, especially
if you can back it up with other documents.
When we applied for our marriage license, the lady at the desk told my
husband that his future
My name is spelled as Vickie on my birth certificate; yet most people spell
it every way but the correct way. At work, there is a Vicky. Even when
people see my name spelled correctly in the To: field on the e-mail, they
know my name is spelled Vickie, or they see that I signed the prior e-mail
My name, Jean, in the UK and a lot of other countries is female. In France
(and probably others), it's male.
Name confusions can be interesting and in some cases rather worrying. My
father-in-law was born in 1919 and was always known as 'Ted', which for as
long as anyone can remember, he said
Wow! What an interesting thread.
Personally, I cannot abide being called Miss, Mrs or Ms. Never could, before
marriage, during marriage, or after, always hated them, from as far back as I
can remember. I see them as sexist and degrading to women, since their sole
purpose is to indicate
At work we had a Chinese secretary. One day she reorganized our pigeon
holes and mine said: Angus (instead of Agnes).
I went to see her and told her that I may be a cow, but I am not
Scottish! She did not understand it, but was enlightened by one of her
colleagues. The upshot was that I
On 28 Aug 2006, at 13:52, Jean Nathan wrote:
So when he died, we were most interested to see if he'd got married
under the name of Edward or Edwin. If Edward, would it mean that he
and his wife weren't really married?
No it wouldn't - in England your name is what you call yourself; a
change
Dear Lise-Aurore,
And then, there's the usage in French, where I am referred to as Madame le
docteur. I'm not to crazy about that, but it is difficult to make people
believe that I'm a Monsieur. I was rather distressed this spring, when
everyone in France seemed to want to call me Mademoiselle.
Hi All,
This thread is making me chuckle!When I first went to Newcastle, in the
north of England, I couldn't wait for someone - anyone! - to call me 'Pet'.
And when I stopped to ask for directions, I could have kissed the chappie
who obliged by calling me 'Pet' - I have never thought that
Carol wrote:
This thread is making me chuckle!When I first went to Newcastle, in the
north of England, I couldn't wait for someone - anyone! - to call me 'Pet'.
In some areas you could be called be called by the
not-intended-to-be-derogatory term of chuck or lass, and in Scotland
hen.
Re: Leslie/Lesley. It may be a generation/regional thing. When I was a child in
southern Ontario in the 60s, in my pre-Avital incarnation, kids would say to me,
'Leslie'? That's a *boy's* name! Yet, in the 70s, my high school phys ed class
had *four* female Leslies. In fact I don't think I ever
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