Re: [lace] Old French Chenille Blonde lace sample

This is an interesting lace - thank you for putting up the photo. I agree with you that it is a nice little design. It doesn’t look like what I would expect from the description in Caulfield’s Dictionary of Needlework - the pattern isn’t poor, it’s not geometrical, and not filled with thick

Re: [lace] Lizbeth thread sample

OK, everybody - I have heard back from Handy Hands. The samples we all got at IOLI were 5 grams, so that will be 60 yards. Adele > On Jul 28, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Susan wrote: > > Perfect! Thanks Adele & Mimi. My next step was to contact HH to inquire so > I will just

Re: [lace] Lizbeth thread sample

I just found my sample spool - doesn’t look like 25 grams to me, so I have emailed Handy Hands to ask how many grams it is. Adele > As you can see, the size 40 is 300 yards per 25 grams. I don’t have my > sample spool from IOLI handy so I can’t tell you whether it’s 25 grams or > not, but I do

Re: [lace] Lizbeth thread sample

Hi Susan The yardages for all the sizes of Lizbeth thread are here: http://www.ds9designs.com/t_lizbeth20.shtml As you can see, the size 40 is 300 yards per 25 grams. I don’t have my sample spool from IOLI handy so I can’t tell you whether it’s

Re: [lace] lace ID?

I think it looks like Romanian Point, too. I compared it with the examples in my book (“Romanian Point Lace” by Angela Thomson and Kathleen Waller) and while there isn’t anything that’s *exactly* the same, the style of the design, the undulating cord, the bunches of grapes and the grape leaf

Re: [lace] previous post about IOLI Convention

Yes, I got your message. It prodded me to search the hotel website, and I was able to bring up the menus for all their eateries. So useful! Adele > Dear all, > Did anyone received my (long) posting with details about the hotel and food > options for the IOLI Convention? I wrote it on July 2

Re: [lace] "age spots"

Hi Nancy: There can be many reasons for spots to appear, including (but not limited to) mildew & fungi growth decomposition of lignin chemical reactions with impurities from manufacture chemical reactions involving handling & other contamination It is impossible to tell just from looking at a

[lace] Sorry

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Re: [lace] Computerized Embroidery Designs - Lace

I played with these water-soluble stabilizers back when they first came out - sewing with a regular sewing machine, not an embroidery machine. We did have a problem locally - in our humid climate once you opened the package the stabilizer tended to get sticky and start to dissolve all on its

Re: [lace] Madame Goubaud's point lace book : instructions and patterns

Lin, thank you for letting us know. I do like the quality of the reproduction - paging through it is almost like having the copy in hand. Battenberg can be very beautiful when well made by a talented amateur; I have seen lovely pieces in private collections. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west

Re: [lace] Testing whether Italics will process on Arachne's Old Server

> Does the ü in Gütermann and the é in Perlé translate correctly? > I accessed them using the Character viewer which I think all Mac computrs > have. The u and e look fine at my end, but I’m also using Mail on a Mac. Bev has straightened me out about the character viewer; for anybody else who

Re: [lace] Testing whether Italics will process on Arachne's Old Server

Thanks, Bev, for the reminder of the plain text usage. Anybody old enough to have grappled with e-mail in its early days will remember this usage, and it does work quite well, though not as pretty as actual bolding and italics. Now, I really must see if Alt-3 makes a heart; on my Apple “Alt” is

Re: [lace] Book on the Ipswich Samples from 1789-1790

Gr. I hate it when all the other varieties of Amazon have a book and .ca does not. Gr. Adele > I just ordered the book via Amazon-de. It will be here in a few days, perhaps > in the weekend or monday. Looking forward to it. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

Re: [lace] Did anybody get my email

Yes, I got it. Thanks for sending the original message; it’s good to hear different people’s opinions of a new book. I know there’s a whole Yahoo/AOL thing that stops people’s messages being seen. I have the same result from a problem with Apple’s iMail program and how it handles multiple

Re: [lace] IDRIA Lace 5-Way Join through one bead, and hanging beads

I found this pattern and took a look at it (when you hover over the picture with your mouse you see it enlarged). There is no 5-pair crossing. It is a 4-pair crossing; a pair from upper left and upper right, crossing at the bead, and then exiting lower left and lower right. The part of the

Re: [lace] La Dentelle Russe

Thanks for this - another book I’ve never read! I have printed out Part 1 so I can decipher it at my leisure (my French isn’t bad, but reading it takes time). What I have read tells me it is well researched and an interesting source of information. Looking forward to working my way through the

Re: [lace] Turning corners on roller pillow

For anybody who, like me, is better at folding paper than visualizing this: If you cut a rectangle of paper the length of the outside of your handkerchief edging, and fold the outer edges at a 45 degree angle so that your paper is now the exact size of one edge of the handkerchief from the

Re: [lace] travel pillow

Hi Irene: The block pillow I am making for IOLI is 1” thick ethafoam; I think it will be fine. I think you will have plenty of room on a 20 x 24” pillow to make Louise’s fan. With the Milanese you keep turning around and going the other direction, so even when you get close to the edge the

Re: [lace] Lier Lace??

Lier is a place name. Lier lace, also known as Lierse Kant, is a lace made by embroidering chain stitches with a hook onto cotton tulle stretched on a frame. Hope this helps. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > Could someone please explain to this uneducated Lacemaker what Lier

Re: [lace] Conservation and Over-coming Dim Lighting in Museum Galleries

Hi Everybody: I’ve often thought about using the flat pattern pieces from a sewing pattern as a guide to making lace. If you were doing a part lace you could easily design it so there was a space left between two pieces of flat lace, and when you were done you could use simple braids to connect

Re: [lace] X-ray Photography of Historic Fashions

This was very interesting. Thanks for posting it. Now I’m wondering if they’re going to winkle that pin out of the corset or if they’re going to leave it in as part of the garment’s history! Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > On Apr 13, 2017, at 11:37 AM, jeria...@aol.com

[lace] Fwd: Thai Bobbin Lace Fan

Hi Everybody: Alice, I think you may be thinking of Janya Sugunnasil? She got the commission for the fabulous coloured silk bobbin lace fan with the gold sticks, but she’s in Thailand, not India. (I have changed the Subject line to reflect this). You can see the fan and read an online post

Re: [lace] Lace in India

I didn’t see the show and I don’t know about the nuns, but just a few years ago I remember having a discussion here on Arachne about hand-made lace still being commercially made. There was some report - either on TV or in print, I’m not sure - that mentioned two places: India, and China. I

Re: [lace] Anne of Green Gables and LACE

I agree - I never take a complicated project to my lace group meetings. I take easy stuff - and even then I can quickly become confused. I haven’t read the Anne books in several decades, but I recall her jibbing at her needlework. This would have been plain sewing, which every woman had to do

Re: [lace] 150-year old wedding dress

The story does make me love social media, though. I’ve seen several examples over the past couple of years, of valuable items, said to be lost, being found once somebody made it their business to really really look for them. By the way, my first job was in a dry cleaners. We did take care, but

Re: [lace] 150-year old wedding dress

It is a beautiful dress, though, if it had been my wedding, I would have worn a slip. Adele a conservative dresser in West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > For those that might have missed it - its not exactly headline news - here is > a story for you to enjoy . or breathe a sigh of

[lace] 2017 IOLI convention registration

Hi Everybody: I think Anita meant to say that Feb 15th is the opening day for registration for the IOLI conference in July, which is near Philadelphia, very close to Valley Forge. I sent my registration in last Monday! Adele - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

Re: [lace] lily lappet - pattern?

Oh, Devon - what a good idea. I think we should all wear lappets. Picture Venus & Serena Williams playing tennis with lappets streaming from their hair. Women doctors in the operating room, lappets demurely tucked into their scrubs. Women directing traffic, lappets peeking from underneath their

Re: [lace] lily lappet - pattern?

Ah! Yes, it is on p. 39 in my book. Maybe this is an example of the difference between British and North American usage; I would certainly not call this a vest, but perhaps a Brit would. I think I would tend to call this a plastron, or possibly a "collar-and-dress-front-all-together-thingy" ;-)

Re: [lace] lily lappet - pattern?

Hi Sue: Judging from the lack of anybody chiming in, I don’t think there is, Sue. The book wasn’t originally published with patterns, so if you did find one it would be a pattern that a lacemaker made from the line drawing in the book - and you already have the drawing. Anyone who thoroughly

Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas

Hi Everybody: I have a feeling that historically, lacemakers didn’t tension quite as much as we do. When I was learning Mechlin ground, for example, I was advised to just tension after the first CTC and then not to worry so much at the end of the ground stitch. That worked better than all

Re: [lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas

Plus, you know, our examples of the very old laces have been washed and ironed many times, and we don’t have in our museums every single pricking for them. So it might be that many of the lacemakers of, say, 300 years ago, did indeed use support pins when they needed them. I would not be

[lace] Binche link

OK, in my last message the mail program put the .jpg ending on the next line, so the links I gave don’t work. Let’s try again: https://tinyurl.com/lu6ej8q for the binche kompakt sampler. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

Re: [lace] binche challenge

Wow, it was indeed brave of you, Jo, to start on this sampler! Sorry I can’t help you with any sage advice, I’m not a genius at finishing Binche. I’m looking forward to reading the advice you do get. For everybody’s eye candy this morning, I found this picture of the binche sampler (not

Re: [lace] Lace in Fashion

Yes, that’s it! Nice to see the ownership information. Thanks for posting the link. Adele > On Jan 18, 2017, at 1:15 AM, Jane wrote: > > Is this the dress? > > https://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/news/silver-tissue-dress-returns-bath > > Best wishes, > Jane - To

Re: [lace] Promoting Lace - "Lace in Fashion" exhibit in Bath

Interesting that when this silver tissue dress was photographed for the guide to the Museum of Costume in Bath, it was pictured with a wide collar of what appears to be reticella lace (white), laid over the lace at the sides and back of the neckline. The guide was published in 1980 - given that

Re: [lace] Pink house

Wow! What a lot of pink crochet. Hard to believe the amount of effort involved - and then she blew it up! I get that it was an art installation, you can’t save it forever, and what else would they do with all that pink crochet, but still - they did all that work and then blew it up! Plus, it

Re: [lace] Linen thread

Hi Susan: True story - in London the mid-1960s, linen manufacturers worked and worked to get the slubs (that’s what those big hunks of lint are called) out of the linen thread used to make fabric, because people wanted smooth linen for high-quality dressmaking. Then the 60s fashion revolution

Re: [lace] Sewing Out

I’d be a worried that the oil in this head cement would penetrate the lace further than the spot where you put it. Oil changes the colour of natural fibres - I’ve damaged dozens of T-shirts when a small drop of oil turned into a nickel-sized stain! You can scrub a T-shirt and use stain removers

Re: [lace] Glue & Lace

Hi Susan: You don’t say whether the cut ends are visible in the finished piece, which would make a difference in what you decide to do. One thing is to pin a piece of fine yet sturdy fabric (like organdy) across the back of the lace, and then use a sewing machine, using fine stitches, to sew

[lace-chat] Quote Source

> "I'm sorry this letter is so long; I didn't have time to make it short." (Now I'll spend the rest of the day wondering who I'm quoting.) > > — The Internet tells me the source was a letter by Blaise Pascal in 1657. Huh. I could have sworn it was Churchill. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west

Re: [lace] Supporting young lacemakers

Here in Vancouver for the past decade I have noticed, especially among younger people, a strong and growing interest in ‘slow manufacturing’ - ie, making things from scratch. The difference with my generation, I think, is that they’re really intrigued with making their own designs and projects,

Re: [lace] Category for Tenerife or Ruedas

I’m for “needle-made textile” or “needle-woven textile”. When I think of “embroidered net” I think of a pre-made net that would stand alone as a separate textile, with a pattern then embroidered on it. The base of Tenerife, if you took it off the loom without doing the needleweaving, would

Re: [lace] Chantilly lace: Grenadine d'Alais

And “grenade” itself comes from the word “grain” (same meaning as in English). I wondered how it became associated with crepe fabric, but I think it’s from the same concept as “seeds”. Pomegranates have seeds, the surface of a grenade has “seeds” and the surface of crepe fabric could also be

Re: [lace] Lutec (?) lace

Hi Helen: >From the Arachne archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=lace@arachne.com=subject:%22Re\%3A+\[ lace\]+lutac%22=newest=1 Adele from western Canada where Oops, it’s

[lace] Honiton With Rectangles?

While the list is quiet, I would like to ask a question. A member of my lace club brought a beautiful lace collar into our last club meeting. It is an heirloom, coming from her family in the English Midlands, and is 100 years old, if not older. The lace is very finely made - beautifully made

Re: [lace] General questions re: roseground & Duchesse pins

Hmmm. I have this book; that pattern is very straightforward, and it’s hard to guess what your problem was without seeing the piece and knowing how exactly you consolidated the process. It is interesting that the first rows - where you were following the written instructions - went well, and

Re: [lace] thread for Hollie Point

Hi Julie: Just a couple of quick pointers: About the kinking - you can control this by rolling the needle in your fingers between stitches, to take off the twist you just put on. Once you learn which way to twist the needle you do it between each stitch and the movement becomes easy and

Re: [lace] Working an edging on a roller pillow

Hi Susan: This happens to me, too, however nice I try to be to my threads. When gathering happens, I loosen off the footside passive bobbins and secure them high up on the pillow so the threads are slack. Then I use my pricker to pull the threads (one by one) backwards up into the work, so I

Re: [lace] blocking silk scarf

While we’re on the subject, I found a nice little list of pointers on how to take care of a silk scarf: http://www.dubetta-fashion.com/list1.asp?pclassid=1=78 Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] blocking silk scarf

Hi Julie: Congratulations on finishing your scarf! If the scarf isn’t actually dirty and you’re wetting it just to help in blocking, you don’t need to use anything other than dampen it with plain water. If it is a bit dirty, sure, wash it, but the dishwashing liquid does sound a little harsh.

Re: [lace] Arachne Lurker's Complaints

Hi Jeri et al: > Did other members have problems with learning to use Arachne? > Were you guided through the process by fellow lacemakers at the beginning? The main problems I had were common to all e-mail message forums - it was 1996 and I was completely new to e-mail. I can’t remember

Re: [lace] pillow infestation

I’d be worried about using the pesticide. Don’t forget that when you’re back making lace you'll have your face close to your pillow for hours at a time. Does the temperature go below freezing where you live? Because you could just put it in a plastic bag and stick it outside. Adele West

Re: [lace] pillow infestation

> There are many strong aromatic herbs in addition to sweet bay that will repel > insects, I’d also like to mention that I recently tried to use bay leaves to protect against silverfish. Guess what. The silverfish made themselves a dandy little nest in those bay leaves. They loved them.

Re: [lace] Can Anyone tell me were I can get Tape Lace Alphabet & Numbers Thank you Janet

There’s also Sandi Woods’ book Alphabet Inspirations (available from Holly van Sciver and through Amazon), and a French book called Abecedaire, available from Barbara Fay Verlag ( http://www.barbara-fay.de/j2/index.php/en/component/virtuemart/bobbin-lace/ab%C3%A9c%C3%A9daire-detail?Itemid=0 )

Re: [lace-chat] Australian friends - TV question

Hi Janice: Thanks for this! Other streaming services, like Hulu, etc, are not available in Canada (except for Netflix, which doesn’t have all the shows it does in the States). But this Acorntv is available up here. I’m going to look into it. By the way, the acorntv.com URL you posted got me to

Re: [lace] Chantilly in der Mode/Mode in Chantilly - Book

The Deutscher-Kloeppelverband [DKV] books always seem to be very, very well done, and very quickly sold out. Earlier this year I bought their book on Duchesse (pub 2012); I paid $95US for it which is, sadly, now about $125 Canadian. A big blow to the pocket, but I am accustomed to buying detailed

Re: [lace] question about Chantilly lace

Hi Marianne: Structurally there is no difference between these two methods, which are called the ‘open pin’ (TTTC) or the ‘closed pin’ (CTTT) method, and Chantilly can be made either way. (In Ulrike Voelcker’s book “The Grammar of Point Ground” she uses the closed pin method.) With the open

[lace] Auto-correct Got Me Again

Hello: In my last message, I of course learned from Doris Southard’s book, not Doris Southward. I wish I knew how to turn off autocorrect. Adele - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Smoke smell in books

I’ve already emailed Malvary privately, but thought I’d mention to the list that I found an online blog post from a library that removed smoke smell from books with something called Gonzo Odor Eliminator. According to the post it worked very well, and as this was a library treating their own

Re: [lace] Undelivered Arachne Mail / Archives

In other words, the arachne majordomo and server are working fine and if anyone on the list is not in receipt of an email it is much more likely to be the receiving server / computer / email software. I can only suggest that those with problems pick over their email settings with a

Re: [lace] [LACE] battenberg tape

You could, very easily. I’ve thought of it and never done it, for two reasons. First, If I’m going to the trouble of making the tape, why would I make a length of tape and then cut it up and sew it onto the pattern to resemble tape lace, when I could so easily have just made real tape lace

Re: [lace] Arachne question

Hi Donna: I made a few of Brigitte Bellon’s Christmas bells last year, and I used Goldschild linen, which I understand is sold in the US under the name Londonderry Linen. It worked very well. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On Jun 3, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Donna Fousek

[lace] Buying Stuff in France

Hello everybody: I’d like to get some supplies sold on a small French website. They have a web store, but only countries in the Eurozone are listed. So I emailed them and asked about people living in Canada; they say I can order via e-mail and then make payment by something called a “virement

Re: [lace] 1931 lace making clip

Thanks for sharing, Sue! This is a very well-known Beds pattern; I’ve seen it, or a close cousin, in several books. I think since it is British Pathe that made the film, it is set in Britain, so that’s another vote for Beds. The film is probably part of a whole series of films Pathe made

[lace] Pathe Films

Just took a moment to search and came up with this link: http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/bobbin+lace which has the film Sue shared, plus a couple of other British Pathe films about lacemaking. Adele West Vancouver BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Calico and Muslin

Hi Vicki: Way way back, the cottons used in England were imported from India and the Middle East. Some cottons came from a place called Calicut (in India). Others came from a place called Mosul (now in Iraq). And that’s where we get the words “calico” and “muslin” from. Originally, they

Re: [lace] Pronkrol

Hi Susan: Many years ago I made a cloth banner. With help from a quilter friend, I made a backing that was bigger than the banner by a couple of inches on all sides. That extra fabric from the backing was folded in half and then folded over the edge onto the front side and stitched down by

Re: [lace] Bolster Pillow

Years ago I made a seriously big bolster pillow from an 18 piece of 8” (20 cm) diameter water pipe. I covered it with about 1-½ inches of woollen cloth, and put a drawstring cover over that. The great thing is that, being hollow, I can keep all kinds of other things inside. When I took it to a

Re: [lace] Every week an edging or insertion

Hi Janice: It is like a sampler, with the laces attached to a piece of cloth that is backed with another cloth. The backing cloth is turned to the front of the piece and stitched to form a protective edge, with the samples running across the pronkrol, inside the edges. As you thought, it is

Re: [lace] Gallipoli and a smidge of lace

Hi Helen: I haven’t seen any discussion on this, but I, too, have been wondering whether there’s a machine-made Flanders clone. I have a set of small circular coasters with a Flanders edging. I have seen these sets for sale in antique shops a few times, and they’re always very reasonable (I

Re: [lace] Cotona 50=Tanne 50

Plus, sometimes a chemical used in a particular colour formula is removed from the list of chemicals allowed to be used for dyeing (usually because it is discovered to be carcinogenic). Change the formula, and you get a slightly different colour. There was a big change-over many years ago

Re: [lace] Gawthorpe Hall

Thanks for this post Dianne! I don’t know how I have managed to miss the website, but now that I’ve taken a look I’ve bookmarked it and I’m hooked. Also the Revelry patterns may get another purchase or two :-) We’ve heard a few times, over the years, of collections that have been dismantled

Re: [lace] Searching for DMC Broder Machine in colors

My local sewing store has three different 100% cotton sewing threads from Mettler, so watch out which one you get. There is a quilting cotton, their “silk finish” sewing cotton, and a fine machine embroidery thread. All of these come in a range of colours. The fine machine embroidery thread is

Re: [lace] Newly invented bobbin?

It certainly sounds very interesting! I like that you turn the bottom, which is the bottom of the inside bobbin, to let out or take up your thread. Sounds like a really good way to work with metallic threads. I hope somebody at the IOLI convention this year will have one I can see ‘in the

Re: [lace] Newly invented bobbin?

I think you’re talking about hooded bobbins: I have one. The hood is a hollow shell that rides over top of the threads, and floats free. There are no holes in the hood other than at the top and bottom. With this new-to-me type of bobbin, the outside part does not ride free, the inside bobbin

Re: [lace] major disaster

Make a separate piece, about 1.5 motifs long, undo the join you just made, and patch it in. You will have 2 finished joins instead of just one, but otherwise it will be easier to make it look nice than trying to work in the threads you’ve already cut off. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast

Re: [lace] weather

Shouldn’t this discussion be on Chat? Adele On Jan 8, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Lin Hudren linhud...@gmail.com wrote: Overton, NV was 74 yesterday (+23.3 C). Please don't hate me. we will be in the upper 60s for a week and then drop a bit before we go into spring about mid February. the offset

[lace] Re: [lace-chat] You Know it's Hot in Australia

but 40C becomes very wearying I have one more “you know it’s hot when” statement: You know it’s hot when even though you’re perfectly healthy you come out with a rash of fever blisters. This happened to me one summer when I was stuck in a small, unshaded, south-facing apartment in a brick

Re: [lace] Every week an edging of insertion

Good idea! Simple patterns like these would be great for confident beginners who want to try making a pattern without any instructions. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) an edging or insertion. It started today with a simple edging in Schneeberg Lace. We will try to make it

Re: [lace] AOL emails others

I had a similar problem. I discovered that messages labelled as Spam are stopped at my ISP, and are not downloaded to my desktop email program. Also, when my Internet account was set up with my ISP, the option to have these messages deleted immediately had been selected. To solve the problem I

Re: [lace] Point ground question

Hi David: I think I’ve got it now. If it’s a leaf with just a gimp or two acting as a vein, then I don’t even think of the situation as being two areas of half stitch separated by a vein. I think of it as one area with a gimp placed decoratively across it, and if that is the case I would

Re: [lace] Point ground question

Hi David: I would have to see a picture of the two techniques to understand exactly what you’re talking about. It seems to me that if you have, say, a half-stitch diamond next to another half-stitch diamond and you don’t put on at least 1 extra twist, the two half-stitch areas would just

Re: [lace] Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced

I have seen class descriptions that refer to confident beginners and I like that description. Even with the basic skill levels Devon mentions, there is a difference between the student who needs to have the teacher coach them every step of the way, and the student who can make the same pattern

Re: [lace] Help with mystery lace bonnet

Hi Vickie: I think you're right about the purpose of the balls. As to the bonnet, it certainly looks like a variant of the Dutch 'hul'. I once took a 's Gravenmoer class from a Dutch lady who described the bonnets in detail. I don't remember all of what she said, but part of it was that there

Re: [lace] Come On Lacers

What happens at Convention stays at Convention? ;-) Seriously, it's a subjective experience, and hard to put words to it. The vendor table that sent me reeling with delight might only warrant a ho-hum from somebody else, while another person might have found the perfect thread they've been

Re: [lace] convention

Hi Lorelei: Ulrike Voelcker found a piece of lace in the French town of Barjac, and could not identify it as any previously known type of lace. She described the lace (and the finding of it) in detail in an evening program at the IOLI conference in Salt Lake City last year. She deconstructed

Re: [lace] IOLI Convention

Hi Nicole: I took Ulrike's class this year, but it wasn't Barjac, it was the drawing class. I'm coming home with two Chantilly prickings that I designed and drew myself. Ulrike intends to teach Barjac at next year's IOLI convention in Coralville, Iowa (near Cedar Rapids). Her book on Barjac is

[lace] IOLI Convention

Well, here I am at Convention. The Arachne get-together just finished, and it was fun to put a face to the names on the list. Sunday evening was the get-together dinner - fantastic food!, and last night we had the teacher showcase. Today we had a lunch with a talk and visual presentation on the

[lace] Messages Not Getting Through

This isn't lace-related, but it is list-related so I hope the ListMom will forgive me for posting. At the end of June, I was in the process of ordering some supplies from the UK. This involves messages back and forth for various reasons, and we had just started the messaging - I had given them

[lace] Messages Not Getting Through - #2

Hello Again, Everybody: Further to my last message - another thing that triggers Spam filters is if you have words spelled in all caps (ALL CAPS) in your subject line. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

Re: [lace] Coats Clark S975 Piper's silk

Hi Susan: And maybe I don't fully understand why some threads are considered 'lace' threads others not. Coming at this from the CQ (Crazy Quilt/embroidery) perspective, I don't consider any materials sacred to one technique or another--they're all fair game. I think it's not so much that

Re: [lace] Chantilly Lace

Hi Clay - A shop owner once told me that it was OK to say hand made when it was a human hand that operating the knitting machine. I guess the same thing goes for lace looms. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) Imagine my surprise when I discovered Handmade bobbin lace from the

Re: [lace] Footside

I don't know whether there are other laces with the footside on the right, but here's another possible reason - what if they copied patterns by rubbing on the 'wrong' side? Then they'd have to turn the rubbed pattern over to work it, which would flip the footside. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west

Re: [lace] Footside

I was thinking that the *first* pattern somebody had was copied via rubbing from someone else's pattern, which can be done in a comparatively short time. Once the lacemaker is at home with their rubbed pattern, they can make subsequent patterns by the more accurate but more time-consuming

Re: [lace] pin use question

Hi Debbie: Old Flanders uses comparatively few pins, and the patterns are often made for thicker threads so you can use heavier pins with nice glass heads without enlarging the pattern. Also the early laces might be fun. They have few pinholes and some can even be made without a pattern if you

Re: [lace] Dermatological irritation, lacemaking

I've known a couple of lacemakers who developed an allergy to their exotic wood bobbins, but we do so many things with out thumbs I wouldn't leap to that conclusion. I myself have had troubles with my thumbs for some time (including inflammation and rough skin on the inside of the thumb, mainly

Re: [lace] Blue tissue paper

I would suspect for the same reason people put bluing into their wash water for whites - the colour blue was held to make whites look whiter. You would think they'd use white tissue, of course, but maybe they figured that if some kind of colour transference happened they'd want it to be blue.

Re: [lace] Another lace bobbin on Ebay - any ideas on what it is?

I think it's a bead. One of those long beads from when they used to cover doors with beaded curtains (very popular in the 60s) The thin raised bands don't seem to spiral - they seem to be separate decorative elements. It could be turned animal bone but it could also be

Re: [lace] Another lace bobbin on Ebay - any ideas on what it is?

Oh, wait - a curtain pull! You know, that handle that hangs on the end of the cord that draws your curtains. The rings provide traction in your hand, you can pull with your fingers wrapped around the smooth middle section. I see the seller has confirmed that the hole goes right through the

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