It is unfortunately not an isolated problem. It is happening in a lot of the
creative arts. In defense of the younger ones though, as I'm 40 and have
earned my stripes in the business world, I know that sometimes it is difficult
to get others to hand over the reins. It is often frustrating to see
Good morning all
I've been busy lately putting a web site together and thought you might like
to take a look. I really enjoy seeing the work of others and thought perhaps
I should share some of my efforts over the past years. There may be the odd
typo/error and I'd be grateful if you spot any,
I suspect that it is a combination of things, and the lack of organisers is
almost the least.
One of the main problems is that there are far fewer suppliers, and with the
cost of transporting their goods most of them are not willing to/can't afford
to attend lace days and fairs where they are
Hi
I have several new students and they all seem to be buying of the internet
as a lot of the suppliers are using this form of selling nowadays. But it
doesn't help if they want to see what they are buying.
I am also involved for our local lace group and we are having great
difficulty getting
Hi Catherine!
Congratulations for such a lovely website! I loved seeing your beautiful work!
Thank you for sharing!
Clay
Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA, USA
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Catherine Barley
catherinebar...@btinternet.com wrote:
I've been busy lately putting
Have just come back from our 'knit natter' group which meets weekly at
lunchtime where I work. I took some of my lace in to show them all. We have
a lapsed lacemaker, at any rate someone who has all the equipment and went to
classes some years ago, but hasn't done any since. She says she is
What lovely work! and a very sophisticated web site. I am blown away by how
beautiful your needlelace is--you have such talent. I've tried my hand at
needlelace and I find bobbin lace so much simpler easier to control, so I
really admire your abilities. (and slightly envious as well :-)
Nancy
As someone else said... no hitches on wire. You want to keep it as smooth as
possible. Large projects that need a long piece of wire require it to be wound
on a (preferably fat) bobbin and have some sort of hook to keep the wire from
unwinding.
Your brooch pieces might be similar to flower
Swedish Television recently sent a nice video from 1971 about Swedish bobbin
lace making. You can see it here:
http://www.ur.se/Produkter/175103-En-hantverksresa-Knypplerskor
There are also videos about other crafts, for instance one from 2000 about a
hair worker in Våmhus, Dalarna:
Hi Ruth,
I made the scarf last year and I made it the full width of the
pattern. I
converted a block pillow by turning it sideways and made a roller
for the center
section so I had a pillow wide enough to work it and room for
all the bobbins.
I was afraid I would not have enough thread on the
Hi lacemakers,
I finally got my Bulletin this week after hearing my friends already had theirs
last week. There are more photos of the poppy project in it and an article by
Devon on her trip to Sansepolcro. Wish she had taken me along. Louise Colgan
who taught at the Australian Lace Guild
Congratulations Catherine on your excellent site, I really enjoyed the way we
could actually see work in progress from start to finished project.
Was the parasol displayed at the 7 exhibition a few years ago? I believe it
was the one we admired when we went to the exhibition.
Sue M Harvey
Dear Catherine,
Thank you for sharing. Your site is amazing as is your work. It is wonderful
to be able to see and study your work up close.
It will be inspirational to us all and what a lovely start to my day here in
wet Wollongong, but the sun is peaking through.
Annette Meldrum, Australia
On 4/17/13 11:36 AM, Karen Bovard wrote:
'Where have all the tatters gone!?'
I've been wondering myself. I used to belong to a couple of
tatters' mailing lists --e-tatters was one-- but I lost
track of one, and the other outgrew the mailing list. It
wasn't as bad as the big Knitlist,
Thank you for the advice Alice. I have some 22 guage spangling wire, so
I will start by playing with that. It always comes off the spool in
loops so I can see how keeping it above the lace would work.
Ayla
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