Re: [lace] Fiberglass Safety Warning - an alternative suggestion

2011-04-09 Thread The Lace Bee
When I started to make lace it was in a period when people actually used Overhead Projectors rather than light projectors to show presentations.    The first time that I set up my honiton pillow my fellow lacemakers at the group I attended suggested that instead of just putting on a number of

[lace] Wahes lace

2011-04-09 Thread Alex Stillwell
Hi Arachnids Jeri has posted an excellent account of wahing lace Re: Subject: [lace] Solutions for Lace Accidently Washed in Family Laundry Just one thing I would like to add. Once when I pinned out some lace after wahsing the washing agent reacted with my pins and coloured my lace. So if you

[lace] Architects linen? on ebay

2011-04-09 Thread Jean Nathan
This seller has quite a few lacemaking lots for sale. Says he/she isn't a lacemaker. Not being into needle lace, could the possibly 6 metres of 27 inch wide graph paper more like waxed paper with fibres be architect's linen? Item number 380331019278

Re: [lace] Architects linen? on ebay

2011-04-09 Thread Claire Allen
Looks very much like architect's linen to me. Claire Allen www.bonitocrafts.co.uk Crafty stuff I want to show off. On 9 Apr 2011, at 08:21, Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk wrote: This seller has quite a few lacemaking lots for sale. Says he/she isn't a lacemaker. Not being into

[lace] Re: Fiberglass Safety

2011-04-09 Thread Susan Reishus
I am wondering if there is any reason to be concerned about continuing to use the (fiberglass stuffed) pillow... Being on digest, this may have been responded to already. My father is a general contractor, so I am aware of the danger of fiberglass. Even if worked with, they minimally (even

[lace] Looking for pricking source

2011-04-09 Thread Gina Shillitani
Hi, I saw a bookmark on someone's website that had the image of a lace bobbin in it. It gave no source or anything... does anyone know where I might find a pricking like this? It looked like pretty simple Torchon. Here is a picture of one similar to the one I saw:

RE: [lace] yardage competition

2011-04-09 Thread Sue
I remember Norfolk Lacemakers winning a yardage completion some years back, it was a team of 4 taking turns on the same pillow with a set pricking, thread etc. and it was simply what team made the most lace in a set time, cannot remember how long though. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To

RE: [lace] yardage competition

2011-04-09 Thread Sue
Apologies for the mis spell it should read competition not completion Sue M Harvey - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: