Hi Karen,
There is a very nice Textile Museum (Museo del Tessuto) in Prato, which
is about 12 miles from Florence. We took a short train ride there.
There was a fair amount of early gold and silver ecclesiastical lace
trimming the vestments on display. I was told about the museum by
someone
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for a dear friend I would like to make bobbin lace in celtic knots pattern. I
have seen this
some years ago on the "Deutsche Klöppelkongress" (the annual German bobbin lace
congress). I have consulted the internet, but can't find any pattern for
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Several years ago an arachnean posted a link to photos of a tree that someone
had covered with crochet doilies. Anybody remember where?
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Hi Karen,
I saw, the last time I was in Florence, about 5 years ago, a wonderful display
of lace in an old, renaissance palace somewhere in the center of Florence sort
of near the cathedral. I can't remember the name of the palace. The lace was
in a corner of a back room. The palace itself wa
I have seen a couple of photos, (somewhere) of a building in Bedford (UK)
that had large Lace panels hanging from its exterior. It looked spectacular
Did anyone else see it?
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz.
lizl...@bigpond.com
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Dear lacemaking friends,
for a dear friend I would like to make bobbin lace in celtic knots pattern. I
have seen this
some years ago on the "Deutsche Klöppelkongress" (the annual German bobbin lace
congress). I have consulted the internet, but can't find any pattern for this.
Maybe you can dir
Has anyone heard of Canadian Folk singer (thesingingquilter) Cathy Miller?
She sings mostly quilt songs but has one called "Midnight Quilter" which tells
of the 'yarn bombing idea". Cathy sells individual songs from her website.
Mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
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How is it that sometimes several of us are on the same wave-length?
I was just reading in the January 2013 issue of Maine Antique Digest (a
huge monthly newspaper with international distribution), an article by The
Young Collector couple trying to debunk the idea of antiques as being a ris
One thing to consider might be to start with curators who think that museums
are only for paint and paper and such. Many are young women these days, and
they knit and wear machine made lace; they just haven't connected their
personal interests with their professional ones. So here's what is ha
That sounds really lovely Alice and looking forward to seeing pictures.
That is one very large piece of lace.
I have got beyond wanting to use my pillow as a frisbee, :-) having worked
the half stitch bits which were causing all the problems (not because I cant
do it, but because it is hard
Yah! Hooray!! Yippee! Done...done...done.Well, Almost.
I just finished tying off my centerpiece edging... 24" circle, six inches wide.
I had to cheer about it! I think it's been about four years in the making.
Of course, it's still sitting in the pins, and then has all those thread ends
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