Very difficult to tell. Metal thread embroidery would certainly be more
authentic for the period. But I don't think they were aiming for precise
historical accuracy in the costumes.Bridget
Subject: Re: [lace] The Hollow Crown
From: cyncewilli...@sbcglobal.net
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 06:28:20
Just in case anybody has missed it, it is 104 ºF = 40 º C in Chicago. I'm
inside and the window felt warm to the touch. We just had some rain, and the
window feels cool again. At least I still have electricity and air
conditionning. I shudder, thinking about the ones who don't. This weather
Does anyone know where I can get the larger type of bobbin that is used in
Spanish or Idrija lace? Been searching the internet, but no luck.
I want
to learn the palms up method on a bolster pillow. I've tried Honiton,
Midlands, Binche and Danish bobbins...they're a bit too small to
Hello Peg and everyone
You might want to inquire of Holly Van Sciver. She sells the hooded bobbins
online, which are used palms up on bolsters. I noticed Spanish cylindrical
bobbins on her sales table one year at IOLI convention.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Witchy Woman
At 10:07 AM 5/07/2012, Martha Krieg wrote:
We did not have a TV until I was 6. I remember going with my mother
and brother to a neighbor's to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II.
TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the
Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But we crowded
In the Netherlands we were way behind: we did get a TV trill 1963, when I
was 12.
AND, to pay for the license, we had to give up our weekly Donald Duck
magazine.
Agnes Boddington
Elloughton UK
TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the
Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But
My dad bought a TV especially for the Queen's coronation, and all the
neighbours came in to us. He went without to give us kids everything he
could.
I also remember him going to the White City Stadium by bus and paying at the
turnstile to go in and see the final of the 100m (100 yards then)
Interestingly, it seems as though the Queen's coronation was the defining
moment in the UK where the presence or absence of a TV was noted. In the
US, the broadcasting of the manned space flights in 1961 and 1962 were
probably the defining moment when many people without televisions
