I am currently reading a book set in the reign of King James (of England and
Scotland), and in one of the descriptive passages some hedgerow flowers are
described as 'gypsy lace'. I assume that this might be referring to cow
parsley, also known as Queen Anne's lace, but that is actually
--- Agnes Boddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello Hazel,
We are a globe trotting lot, us lace makers.
Agnes
Hazel Smith wrote:
Hazel (who is an English ex-pat in the
Netherlands!)
Yes, it's amazing how many of us put formerly of or
something like it in our signatures. However I
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Before the flower was called 'something' lace it
must have had another name,
My grandmother always called hedge parsley / cow
parsley Break-your-mother's-heart. (Very morbid! And
I can remember in my childhood hearing elderflowers
referred to as Mother's death-bed
The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia:
Bishop's lace, or queen anne's lace (Daucus carota) is a flowering plant in
the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest
Asia; domesticated carrots are cultivars of a subspecies, Daucus carota
subsp. sativus.
Daucus carota
Hi All,
I am having a wonderful time at the Tonder Festival, just checking
mail at the Public Library.
I want to mention the Nordic - and especially Swedish way of numbering
the centuries.
When we write 1600 tallet, it means 1600 years, so it is 17th century
/Jahrhundert etc.
In Denmark we
Dear Friends,
Today I can announce that here in Ballarat we have 3 new women hooked
on BL. I've been teaching all day and all 3 thrived on it. They are
Pam, Karen and Lynn and strangely enough all 4 of us were (or are)
nurses. So you can only imagine what the general conversation was like :)
I love Queen Annes' Lace(the flower) and have tatted it up from an old book
pattern by Elgiva Nicholls Technique and History of Tatting. Gave it to
my mother in law. We plan on planting this beautiful flower/weed/carrot in
our garden soon just like King James and Queen Anne did in their royal
Hi All,
Just my two cents worth...
Us true prairie dwellers (Especially those in the Goose Lake Prairie State
Natural Area, one of the largest Prairie Parks in the U.S.) know Queen Anne's
lace to be an invasive. Since it is thought to have originated in England,
we still consider it an
Dear Friends,
Us true prairie dwellers (Especially those in the Goose Lake Prairie State
Natural Area, one of the largest Prairie Parks in the U.S.) know Queen Anne's
lace to be an invasive. Since it is thought to have originated in England,
we still consider it an outsider after all these
Queen Annes Lace.when I was but a girl, my Mom would gather QAL, and set
it in water with food color added, Voila! The arranged in vasepale pink,
blue and yellow to set off the white. I have thought of drying itbut it
is not so available here...
Smiles,
BarbE
Nata #72
Texas USA
G'day Susie,
Your nature lace choices are nice also.
Could the one with fern like leaves and a white flower be yarrow?
Nope - I've got Yarrow, although my flower is pink.
And then there is one that some take as Queen Anne's lace which is
really Hemlock, a poisonous plant. Ingestion of
Barb,
Queen Annes Lace.when I was but a girl, my Mom would gather QAL, and set
it in water with food color added, Voila! The arranged in vasepale pink,
blue and yellow to set off the white. I have thought of drying itbut it
is not so available here...
That's what I do with
DH's degree is in Botany so when I started telling him plant stuff he was
skeptical. When I told him that the way to tell the difference between wild
carrot and Queen Anne's Lace (which I've loved since childhood) is that QAL
has a purple flower in the center; wild carrot/cow parsley doesn't.
Hello Everybody,
to this theme I too have something. We have a big parc in the western
part of HH named Dahliengarten - dahlia-garden. What means the huge
parc is full of dahlias, every color every shape. And one day years ago
I saw under a white very fine and with pointed ends written
This was meant for all of us, not just me...
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From: Jo Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: June 1, 2007 4:33:28 EDT
To: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: The question of century/which is it?
Hello to all!
I think I am not wrong to say that in Italy,
And talking about stinkhorn fungus how is that project faring David?
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Sent: 01 June 2007 15:45
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Q.A. Lace continued
Dear
A short aside on the stinkhorm fungus. When I was at college one student
went on a fungus foray and displayed what he had collected in the college's
entrance hall. A couple of morning's later he came running out to greet us
yelling My stinkhorn has matured As if we couldn't smell it outside
HA!!
Until you mentioned it, Sue, I had completely forgotten the project!! But, I
am also interested in seeing how it is going, David!!
Clay
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From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And talking about stinkhorn fungus how is that project faring David?
At 06:34 AM 2/06/2007, Sue wrote:
And talking about stinkhorn fungus how is that project faring David?
Haven't started yet Sue. Never fear I'll let you know when I do. It's
not due till Nov and the lace itself should only take a week or so.
It's the background drawing which will take the
From: David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And then there is one that some take as Queen Anne's lace which is
really Hemlock, a poisonous plant. Ingestion of even a small
fragment can be fatal. But that one is native to the US.
Whilst I have heard of hemlock, I don't know the plant.
I'm
Do other ex-pats feel as isolated as I do? I don't
mean those of you have lived years in their adopted
country but more recent emigrants. Or is it just a
language thing? (I speak just about enough Dutch to do
my shopping but anything more would be a problem).
Sorry, this probably should move to
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