It is quite obvious to me that venues to hold lace meetings are hen's teeth
all over the world! Our meetings here in South Africa are planned in
exactly the same way as described by other people on the list. Here in Cape
Town we meet in the hall of a Catholic church - a lovely hall I must say
Hello to One and All!
I live in a small town (80 full time residents) in the mountains which is an
hour from quot;townquot;, Las Vegas, Nevada. Up here I am the lace guild!
LOL! There is an all encompassing fiber arts guild in town, but they were more
interested in weaving and spinning (which
Thank you, Ruth. What a lovely idea. Is it too late to contribute, do you
think?
Lesley
Ruth Budge thelacema...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
A couple of years back, The Lace Guild asked lacemakers all around the world
to make a small piece of lace and attach it to a luggage label, put their
I belong to two groups and both meetings are in rooms at local libraries. The
larger group pay rent to the library every year for the use of the room. I
think they kind of discount the rate as we meet for 4 hours once a month but
the do not charge us for two half days of usage. We don't have
Hi Dona,
There's a big world of threads to learn about, and many variations in measuring.
Each variety of thread has it's own numbering system. Generally, when listed
as xx/y the first number is the size of one ply and the second number is the
number of plies used.
Fresia 60/2 and 60/3 would
I have just uploaded a couple of picture to my folder on the Arachne2003
webshots. Tiny Url is *http://tinyurl.com/nwetd4***
http://tiny.cc/8CFvC
While out running errands this morning, I spotted a pretty, ornate pair
of very old scissors. They are marked 800 (coin silver as opposed to
Clay,
I think these may be grape scissors. A friend has something very similar,
but larger. Why they are shaped like this I don't know, but I'm sure
someone will tell us.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace
After looking at that pretty object, I went through a book for
scissors collectors: 'La folie des Ciseaux' by Frederique Crestin-
Billet and the closest I found p. 58 is in silver and has two fancy
lions around the handles. It says the blades are of steel. I cannot
say what they were used
Hello All! I've just returned from the Lace Guild UK summer school in
Wales--I'm half dead, but what a time was had by all! And I forgot how long it
takes to read thru 10 days of e-mail!! There was an interesting needlelace
class taught at Plas Tan y Bwylch (a student from Tokyo was
Clay,
Oh my, lovely!! What a wonderful find!!
How long are they?
Su
On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote:
I have just uploaded a couple of picture to my folder on the
Arachne2003 webshots. Tiny Url is *http://tinyurl.com/nwetd4***
http://tiny.cc/8CFvC
While out
As Janice B mentioned Some of the members in this guild also meet during
the week in a room at a bank. No idea if this is free.
Since I am one of
the other group, I can tell you that yes, the room at the bank is free. It is
a community room the bank built special as a service to the community.
PTO= postal trainees overworked
IOLA=?
On 23 Aug 2009, at 20:13, Nancy Nicholson nancy.nichol...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Dlc (downloadable content) = disgruntled lamas cavort
HRH (her royal highness) = Heroes return here
PTO (Please turn over) = ?
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:31:51 +
12 matches
Mail list logo
