[lace] Which thread??

2007-10-20 Thread Andrea Lamble
I am looking at making one of the Queen cards in a recent Lace Express. The thread detail says: VENUS / BULK SILK 30 Anyone any idea what this is - I've tried Brenda's Threads book but can't find it there. The only references on (albeit a rapid) Google seem to be for stranded embroidery silks -

[lace] Princess Lace Machine

2007-10-20 Thread Laurie Waters
Take a look at the Princess Lace Machine that just sold on Ebay 330170130257 It's in the most perfect condition I've ever seen. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Princess Lace Machine

2007-10-20 Thread Carol Adkinson
Laurie et al, I have looked at the pictures, and the pillow seems to be in good order but ... Can a lace pillow really be worth all that amount of money?I know we are a bit spoiled in the UK with suppliers of all sorts of things, but I can't believe that anyone here would spend as much

RE: [lace] Princess Lace Machine

2007-10-20 Thread Annette Meldrum
Carol, Laurie and all, The thing is that these pillows were not very efficient to use. I feel that the price is over the top. The other thing to note is that they are not a rare find. There are lots of them around still, most hardly used! The Lace Guild in NSW has 2 in their Collection, both

RE: [lace] Princess Lace Machine

2007-10-20 Thread Noelene Lafferty
As Annette says, these pillows are not efficient to use at all, and I would think people would only want to buy them as a display item. I have a modern made copy of an old lacemakers lamp with glass bowl and candle, but it's only for display. I have tried it at night to see how much light it

[lace] Vologda lace

2007-10-20 Thread A Thompson
A few years ago, my dear friend Pat (who sadly has since died) and I went on a waterways tour of Russia. We started off at Moscow and then boarded a boat that sailed up the canals that join together the lakes and rivers, eventually ending up in the north at St. Petersburg. On the way we stopped

Re: [lace] Princess Lace Machine

2007-10-20 Thread Laurie Waters
It doesn't really matter whether they were good to use or not. The German Rassmussen pillow, of which this is almost a direct copy (along with most of the patterns), was just as hard to use. The point is that The Torchon Lace Company, product of Sylvester Lewis, was the first and only

Re: [lace] Princess Lace Machine

2007-10-20 Thread clayblackwell
Thank you, Laurie, for what I believe is a very fair assessment of the Princess Lace Machine. It is completely impractical, not particularly attractive (even in the most pristine state), and my guess is that very little lace was made on machines like this. I consider it an expensive version

[lace-chat] Re: free rice

2007-10-20 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Oct 19, 2007, at 16:51, Janice Blair wrote: This site is addictive, informative and helps provide free rice. http://freerice.com/index.php Interesting to see how many words you can get right before failing miserably on one. Thanks, Janice. The site is, indeed, highly addictive and I've

[lace-chat] free rice

2007-10-20 Thread Jean Nathan
When I clicked on the link in Internert Explorer, I got HTTP 404 Not Found. If I got of the index.php bit, I got a message saying Apache had been installed on the site. Mozilla Firefox gave me the sam message, but Apache/1.3.39 Server at db.riceproject.org Port 80 in addition to that. Same

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Another Dwarf Joke

2007-10-20 Thread madame RD
Tamara P Duvall wrote: Hope this one doesn't offend anyone. didn't offend me :-D :-D dominique from Paris, france. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] free rice

2007-10-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Jean I can get into the free rice site using Safari, IE, Opera, Firefox Did you paste the full URL? As with my website URL there's no www in it. http://freerice.com/index.php Brenda On 20 Oct 2007, at 10:17, Jean Nathan wrote: When I clicked on the link in Internert Explorer, I