Re: [lace] Lacemaking Ancestors?

2007-11-19 Thread Diana Smith
Hello Adele My lace research mainly covers Northants but I've looked at the map for Keyston and it is virtually surrounded by towns/villages where lace was made - Thrapston, Raunds, Ringstead, Rushden, Kimbolton, Catworth and is not too far from Wellingborough where it is believed the Luton

[lace] Cranford

2007-11-19 Thread Diana Smith
Did anyone else in the UK watch the delicious production of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford on BBCTV yesterday evening? http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/cranford/ A beautiful costume drama - some lace, though I'm not sure about the highly prized piece left to clean in buttermilk and eaten by the cat - later

Re: [lace] Cranford

2007-11-19 Thread Barron
Did anyone else in the UK watch the delicious production of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford on BBCTV yesterday evening? I saw most of it - my dog has an uncanny knack of asking out when I am engrossed with something - so I'm trying to track down a repeat showing, I loved what I saw. I also saw quite a bit

Re: [lace] Cranford

2007-11-19 Thread Malvary J Cole
I hope it comes to Canada - probably will as we get a lot of BBC tv programming. Cranford was the book I had to study for my final English Lit exams before I left school. I remember the story about the cow. Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's capital), Canada - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Cranford

2007-11-19 Thread Diana Smith
Hi Jenny I was trying to get a better look at the collar the niece(?) was wearing, it looked to be what I know as the Bucks Point Mary Queen of Scots pattern. Needlework - I suppose you could include the sewing the doctor did on the carpenters arm ;o) He used what looked to be a rather large

RE:[lace] Lacemaking Ancestors?

2007-11-19 Thread Bridget Marrow
Original message: With the lace list being so quiet just now, I thought I'd tell you about one of my latest genealogical finds. While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my Dad's side, I found census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire and all the female members of the

[lace] Bag handle

2007-11-19 Thread ann.humphreys
The handle on my pillow bag has just broken. Does anyone know where I might get replacement handles in the UK. Seems a pity to have to buy a new bag for the sake of one handle. Ann Yorkshire UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL

[lace] Lacemaking Ancestors?

2007-11-19 Thread Jenny De Angelis
Helen wrote, With the lace list being so quiet just now, I thought I'd tell you about one of my latest genealogical finds. While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my Dad's side, I found census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire and all the female members of the families

[lace] another bargain for lacemakers

2007-11-19 Thread clayblackwell
Hi everyone! This is mostly for the US lacemakers: Yesterday's paper had the usual pile of advertisements, and while leafing through, I discovered a bargain at Walgreen's pharmacy. It is a laptop stand which is on wheels and has a top which is divided. Part of the top will tilt in either

[lace] Cranford

2007-11-19 Thread Jean Nathan
We recorded it, but, as frequently happens over the weekend evenings, there was no Freeview signal in this area on any BBC channel so we recorded absolutely nothing! DH won't record analogue because of the appallling signal we now get on that all the time - and the analogue signal in this area

[lace] Bag handle

2007-11-19 Thread Jean Nathan
Does anyone know where I might get replacement handles in the UK.Ann wrote: Does anyone know where I might get replacement handles in the UK. What kind of handle is it? If it's the imitation tortoiseshell type with a slot for the fabric at the bottom and a hole to put your hand through,

[lace] Help, please

2007-11-19 Thread Helene Ulrich
Hi, I seem to be suffering from a major case of brain drain. There is a symbol on the pattern I am starting and for the life of me, I cannot remember what it stands for. It sort of looks like ( only they are on top of each other. Could someone please remind me what it means.

[lace] Re: Cranford

2007-11-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 19, 2007, at 6:31, Diana Smith wrote: [...] I'm not sure about the highly prized piece left to clean in buttermilk and eaten by the cat - later 'retrieved' !! Proof positive that lace is much stronger than it looks :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/

[lace] Re: Hair bobbin lace

2007-11-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 19, 2007, at 14:13, Janice Blair wrote: Below is some correspondence I have been having with an artist who is looking for someone to do a hair bobbin lace project. His original message doesn't specify it's BL he's interested in; just lace: [...] I am about to embark on a new project

Re: [lace] Lacemaking Ancestors?

2007-11-19 Thread Adele Shaak
Jenny wrote: ...1871 census shows very few Braybrooks in Keyston, Ancestry.co.uk has the place name indexed as Keystone, and of the women I looked at by that name I only found one 14yr. old girl as a lacemaker called Braybrook. Other Braybrooks were spread around the area at this census.

Re: [lace] Re: Hair bobbin lace

2007-11-19 Thread clayblackwell
No... hair jewelry was the rage for a very long time, until photography made portraits a better way to keep a loved one near your heart. At that point in time, hair jewelry morphed into mourning jewelry. In either fashion, the hair that was required was long. It took 12 - 18 of hair to make

[lace] Modern uses of lace?

2007-11-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Gentle Spiders, So... I was reading The Washington Post (Outlook section) yesterday -- an article on Afghanistan -- and came to a photo which nearly knocked me off my chair. A bunch of women with children in a bus? car?, all of them wearing those veil-like thingies (I hesitate to say