Many years ago, when my youngest daughter wanted to learn to make lace,
I used to sit and whittle 4mm wooden canes to make her bobbins. I even
used to carve patterns along the body using a Stanley Knife (a make of
craft knife in the UK).
One of the woodwork teachers taught me how to use a
Thank you so much for this! I can see a trip to DC is in order!
Clay
On 6/22/2011 5:40 PM, Karen Thompson wrote:
This is the blog I posted on the American History Museum website about
the Point de Gaze Hapsburg veil from 1881 made for Princess Stephanie
of Belgium for her wedding.
Clay said - It seemed to take forever, and I vowed I would never again
work a project in which I could not enjoy the process from start to finish.
and I do not have a burning desire to finish, just a compulsion
to make the lace as beautiful as I possibly can. So... speed is never an
Hi Everybody:
Jacquie wrote:
Somewhere along the progession of this discussion there seems to have crept
in a slight inference that speed equals inferior work. snip for most
people who work fast, it is because they are handling
the bobbins efficiently and moving their fingers faster.
Rarely does most lace really impress me, but this certainly does! Thank you
so much, for sharing!
http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2011/06/the-finer-details-of
-the-hapsburg-imperial-bridal-veil.html
Best,
Susan Reishus
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I wrote privately about the subject, but in the main I think the word is
efficiency which has later come up on the list.
That word indicates a
combination of speed and quality, and with that, discerning not only what is
up to par in outcome, but what can be done to expedite the process.
In some
This is the time of year when many people in the eastern United States
take their vacations in Maine. So I am inviting any lacemakers who
are coming up here to let us know if they would like to meet any of
the newly forming group of active lacemakers in the state, no matter
where these
Hello All! Thank you Linda for posting the link to this article. I'll admit
to drooling over the Lanvin sleeve detail on my way to downloading the booklet
for reading later. Thanks Karen for posting the veil link--what a fabulous
piece! The 88x102 stitches/rows per inch scale is almost
Nancy
I use the thumb flicking method of moving bobbins when I am making tallies,
but not for other parts of the lace. I have not noticed any effect on the
thread unwinding or winding too much. In tallies the flicking happens with
alternating thumbs: left thumb flicks to the right, right thumb
Hear, hear, Jacqui, I do agree with you. And I must emphasize that when I say
speed, I mean speed with style and accuracy, without mistake.
On the other hand, we each bring different things to the table, and while I am
not process oriented, I understand that many are. I am not. My daughter
You're stuck with me in Maine from August 16-31. As I mentioned privately.
lrb
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Subject: [lace] good things are happening lacewise in Maine, USA
This is the time of year when many people
laceandb...@aol.com wrote:
May I be so bold as to say that these two statements are a little
contradictory? If you were able to work faster the scarf would have grown
quicker and would not have seemed so tedious, while for more challenging and
enjoyable projects, working faster (while
I have a friend's bobbin that has the words one inch of lace equals a quarter
inch of dust ... kind of explains the dust in this house me thinks VBG
Warm
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Laura Forrester @++
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