Jacquie
The sailboat and rainbow that you refer to is one of Ilske Thomsen's patterns,
and it was posted on my website for about a year. I've since replaced it with
other patterns of her, but I could re-post it. Give me a few days.
Lorelei Halley
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The Publicity has surely been positive for the Royal School of Needlework
who did the appliqué work and has heightened the awareness of lace as a
fabric of fashion.
Realistically I think the very creative use of machine made lace made a real
fashion statement.
Thanks for sharing the link Brenda. I
I have just returned home from the New England Lace Guild's annual
Retreat in Wareham, MA! I had such a great time, seeing many old
friends and making many new ones! Because of the high cost of gas and
the fact that I was traveling alone, I decided to take the train, and
this was an excellent
How did we get where we
> are now & what designs were discarded because they "didn't work"? There
> seem to be lots of different styles that didn't make the cut beca
> use the currently available selection is limited. Makes me wonder if
> it's like shoes--some for show & some for go! Sincerely
Dear David,
A slap in the face to fine makers of hand-made lace resident in the UK?
Let us be practical.
Think of the months required, and the eyesight of the mature lacemakers who
are still skilled in lacemaking but must give many hours over to a modern
lifestyle of priority to money-
Dear Brenda,
Here's a link to a very interesting video clip about the making of
that dress.
http://www.france24.com/en/20110514-fashion-Lace-Alexander-McQueen-Sarah-Burton-Wedding-Middleton
Many thanks for this fascinating link. Having watched it, I find
myself feeling really sorry for all th
I wonder if it wasn't an old wives' tale as such, but that someone saw a
lacemaker using thorns or bones (BTW, having been "stabbed" by a sea
bass bone I could see those being used!) and commented on it, this then
being translated in gossip circles to "lacemakers use bones/thorns
instead of pin
Dear Jacqui and everybody
Those of you who have been interested in my attempts to start to learn Bucks
Point lace in order to make a present for a work colleague will be please to
know that I have actually started the pattern I wanted to do. I haven't got
very far and have done a lot of staring
What a great question. I will be following this thread with great interest.
I was reminded by Vibeke's scholarly (as always) references regarding the
alternatives to pins, that my knowledge is very parochial and "English"
orientated, with only a smattering of "continental" knowledge.
However, an
Just to let you know on forth of june 2011 in Nordhalben, Bavaria, will a lace
day take part under the motto Am grünen Band - on the green ribbon.
If you are near by plan to go there.
Ilske
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Dear Friends,
Today I received a postcard from my older sister Raie who is
currently on holiday in France. It is the most beautiful photograph
of an elderly lacemaker. Unfortunately it is only entitled "La
Dentellieres" and offers no other details.
I have tonight scanned the picture, so if an
Hello All! After the thorough discussion of pins, how about some background on
the development of bobbins & their shapes?? Unless I should be figuring out
how to use the archives & answer my own question!! LOL While my back is "out"
from overworking in the garden, I'm letting my fingers do t
Contact The Lace Guild to ask. If you're not a member (yet) their contact
details are on their website _http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/_
(http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/)
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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There was also a pattern of a sailboat under a rainbow with was given as a
free internet pattern, via arachne, many years ago now. It was in the
days before we had broadband access and it was big files and took agaes to
download. I was able to use the pattern itself, but a lot of the other
There is also a sailboat pattern in Perryman & Voysey's Honiton book.
Lorelei
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Dear Chris,
There is a tape lace sailing boat in Pamela Nottingham's book - Bobbin Lace
Making (ISBN 0713441321) on page 30.
Andrea
in a very dry Cambridge, UK
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 03:26:56 -0700
> From: cbpu...@yahoo.com
> Subject: [lace] Question - bobbin lace pattern for sailboat
> To: l
Here's a link to a very interesting video clip about the making of that dress.
It appears that much of the lace came from Coudrai in France, though I believe
that some of it came from Cluny Lace Co Ltd in Derbyshire, England.
http://www.france24.com/en/20110514-fashion-Lace-Alexander-McQueen-Sa
Hi Linda
To get this tale by the tail, (sorry,
> couldn't resist that), we first need to find the earliest mentions of
> it, then we can understand the context, and the exact way in which the
> words were used. I still think there may be more to this than meets the
> eye . . .
Just my thoughts,
Hi Linda
Just m
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From: "Linda Walton"
To: "Alex Stillwell" ; "Lace"
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: pins and thorns
On 24/05/2011 06:57, Alex Stillwell wrote:
Hi Linda
This was sparked of by someone coming out with the old wives tale of
lacem
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