I print onto white paper to get the pattern right and as I want it, then
place on good card and cover with the matt blue sticky. Very occasionaly I
print onto light colour card if I think I want to try something out once
only, but rarely choose this option. Although I have begun to learn the
Hi All,
Most copiers will work with thin card without problem. I use coloured card
(160/200 gsm) and photocopy the pattern directly on to that. It can be
covered with film if required but for a 'single use' pattern is fine as it
is. Certainly I find it better than paper.
A4 (and I imagine
I have another little tip which people who get very tired eyes or who have
some visual problems might find useful, We bought a piece of green coloured
acetate which can be laid over the top of white paper with black print and
it stops all the white glare but intensifies the black print
the Middle Ages were pieces of parchment dipped in saffron dye to
make the white threads more visible (or so I read in the Spanish lace
list).
As a Spanish lacer, I must say that not all Spanish prickings were
red. I would say that the prickings from Catalonia (Barcelona and that
area) were
Hi Jenny and Spiders All,
I have always worked with proper pricking card but, since I discovered
photocopiers, I have photocopied my prickings - onto pale blue, pale green
or some other colour which won't fight with whatever colour thread I am
using - and then glued it onto the 'proper' pricking
Out of interest, who else is going this year? I'm not sure what time
I'll get there, but hopefully much earlier than the 4.20pm of a couple
of years ago (I'd been on a course for the weekend, and just made it
back before closing time on the Sunday evening - couldn't be done now it
is down to one
Hello Everbody,
The lady on Dali's painting is his sister. He doesn't had a good
relationsship to her later on and painted her later in not so lovely
position.
The red thread was for me too the first thing which keeps my eye when I
saw the picture for the first time working for a lecture about
Dear Spiders,
Thanks for the responses regarding the lace dress. The reserve price was
not met the first time and the seller has relisted it. I certainly can't
afford it and also I prefer to purchase Maltese and Le Puy laces when I can
get them inexpensively. I have managed to pick up a
Hi Jane,
I agree with Jenny. I don't do much knitting anymore although I've got
bags of wool sitting around. But seeing that shawl really got me
going. My mother loves snowdrops and that pattern is stunning so I am
thinking about doing something with that pattern. I've already looked up
So I guess my lament is I NEED MORE TIME! How can I go back to
knitting, crochet, weaving, spinning, sewing - (notice that this is
all thread related? Never noticed that before) and still have time
before I die to do even a fraction of what I want to achieve.
I have made the *terrible* mistake
I solve this by knitting or crocheting when travelling (obviously not while
driving myself!), and also while taking part in various board meetings of a
voluntary nature. It helps to keep me calm if the issue at hand is
inflammatory - and awake if it is boring
Sue
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If I'm not mistaken Dali was obsessed with Vermeer's Lacemaker.
Apparently he did not have a good relationship with his father. The
latter would give lectures to his son when he had done something
wrong. Dali was listening to his father going on and on while seeing a
copy of the Lacemaker behind
Here in the US I have never seen proper pricking card. The only way to
get it would be from overseas or perhaps from a US lace vendor which
makes it inconvenient and likely expensive. This is also true of the
blue film used to cover a pricking. I purchased some last year at the
Denver IOLI
I have been following your discussion about prickings and patterns with
interest. I personally photocopy two patterns, one to work and another to be
able to have as a reference so that I don't have to carry the book around
with me everywhere. Then I place this on top of a piece of card (the type
Can anyone tell me what is a Toad's Foot Fan, please?
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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Clearly something horrible has happened to Dali in the years between the
peaceful image of lacemaking that he painted in 1926 and the almost apocalyptic
Actually, all joking aside, nothing horrible at all, from an art
history perspective. In 1926 he paints a copy of a masterpiece, and
later he
The entry in Cassell's Illustrated Dictionary of Lacemaking by Alexandra
Stillwell is:
toad's foot - See French Fan
At the end of the description of French fan: Also called Paris fan, shell fan
and toad's foot.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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The little gray cells are working now. I believe the Frog's foot is a
translation of a Dutch term, something on the order of padjepootie.
Someone told me an amusing story about it at one point, but who or what
or anything else escapes me.
Patty
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One thing I find when I scan and copy a pattern from a book or something so
that I can then prick it out onto pricking card, is that if the pattern is
larger than A4, which is all my printer will do, I have to make two copies,
half the pattern on each sheet and join them. I notice that when
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Don't eat too much turkey, and be too full to go back to your Lace pillows!!
:))
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz.
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Apparently Dali was fascinated with the
organic and mathematically interesting shape of a rhinoceros horn at
the time, so that makes an appearance in the exploding lacemaker.
So...then... you think
So...then... you think he had unresolved issues with a rhinoceros?
If so, it won't be about lace. Let's not go there ;)
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Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
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I solve this by knitting or crocheting when travelling (obviously not
while
driving myself!), and also while taking part in various board
meetings of a
voluntary nature. It helps to keep me calm if the issue at hand is
inflammatory - and awake if it is
FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: 4th November 2006
RE: Christmas Party
I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place
on December 22nd, starting at noon in the private function room at the
Grill House. There will be a cash bar
Dear Secret Pal,
Thank you so much for this months parcel. The thread is a lovely colour,
something different to the norm.
I am looking forward to trying out some of the scottish recipes you sent and
the candy has already been sampled :-) delicious.
Thank you also for the bobbin and spangle,
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