I had a double interest in Candleford Green, generations back my dads family
came from Candleford (which is actually Fringford). Last summer I read
Flora Thompsons book plus one called Fringford through the ages which we got
from a local historian.
From there I knew about Queenie the Lacemaker
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I had a double interest in Candleford Green, generations back my dads
family came from Candleford (which is actually Fringford).
That isn't quite right. Fringford was Candleford Green and, if I recall
correctly Candleford was a mix of Banbury, Brackley and Buckingham.
Hi Jane and all, my daughter keeps and breeds Old English Sheepdogs and
used to give a bag of groomings to a lady that spun and wove them, it
ended up looking like black and white tweed.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
Re:
Has anyone ever used spun dog-wool for lace?
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Banbury, Brackley Buckingham are all along the road which is now the A422
a few miles north of Fringford.
Flora Timms, later Thompson, was born in Juniper Hill (Lark Rise) went to
school in Cotisford (Fordlow) and moved on to Fringford (Candleford Green).
Fringford looks to be about 12 miles
Shame we didn't get a better view of the lacemaking
though, I doubt the
actress playing Queenie ever made lace, she did seem
to make a good job of
putting pins in without actually touching the
bobbins:-)
I didn't watch the TV programme, but I remember
reading back in the 1980s that there
I too saw Queen at her pillow but to me the pillow seemed to be wrong. She
looked to be working on a domed pillow, similar to the type we use today,
instead of what I believe they used in the 18th century, a bolster pillow.
Did they also use domed round or squarish pillows back then? The books
Hi Jenny and everyone
I googled Brilliana Lady Harley and her dates are c. 1600 - 1643. Does
that help identify the sort of lace she might wear - if she wore it? The one
google image I found of her shows a painting of her in a sleeved dress with
low neck, no lace - she has what could be pearls
I was able to purchase some very old parchment prickings and am now looking
for some suggestions on how to:
a) get out a fold; and
b) unroll two prickings which have been rolled up together very tightly. I
have been able to unroll them part way, but am nervous to try to pull them
further in
When an old pricking came my way, much like yours, quite tightly wound, I
gradually pinned it out around a bolster pillow,not pinning through the
pricking itself, but pressing a clear piece of vinyl over it that extended
past the width of the old pricking, then pinning through the vinyl. I
thought
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I googled Brilliana Lady Harley and her dates are c. 1600 - 1643. Does
that help identify the sort of lace she might wear - if she wore it?
1600-43 translates to last three years of Elizabeth I, all of James I,
and then to Charles I,
On Jan 14, 2008, at 19:55, Jane Partridge wrote:
A lot
of the portraits of the time were, I think, a 'from the stock painted
by
the apprentices' body with a 'snapshot' portrait of the head added by
the artist - if you look at old portraits, you will see an awful lot of
unrelated women wearing
*Yellow* starched ruffs and bands? *Yellow* ruff (on Mrs Turner)?
Yellow??? What gives here, does anyone know? Does Planche mean
gilt (metallic), or yellowed linen? And, if linen, how come it was
allowed to get yellow? This is the first time I've *ever* heard of
yellow lace and here he seems
On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:04, Adele Shaak wrote:
I have heard of this before; that the linen didn't yellow on its
own, it was deliberately treated in some manner so that it became
bright yellow. I don't know how long the colour lasted - linen is
notoriously difficult to dye,
Nowhere near as
Silk took the dye easier than linen would - but the chemicals would age the
silk rather quickly, and the cloth would shatter before long, especially
black-dyed silk.
Linen can certainly be boiled, yet it was difficult to set a strong colour,
something about the resistance of lignin to the dye
From: R.P.
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time... ?
Grandmother: No, dear, there's another whole set of fairy tales that
begin, If elected, I promise
--
Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA
From: R.P.
An American consultant was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican
village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the
small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented
the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to
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