If you wind correctly by rolling the bobbin into the thread it
shouldn't make any difference whether it's a Z twist or an S twist
thread. Wind your bobbins in the direction that *you* are comfortable
with but be consistent as they all need to be wound the same way so
that you will unwind them
Hello Tamara
Peat was a brand name, not a fibre type.
I've never seen any, but Walter-Kampmann's "Faden & Brief" lists gassed
(cotton) lace thread from E Peat & Co, Nottingham. Also shows a label.
It came in skeins and was very fine - possibly it was what we know as
slip-thread, though I've
If it was intended for general machine sewing it was probably Gutermann
100/3 (S303) which I've measured as 27 wraps/cm. Would suit torchon
drafted on a 2mm grid, as do most ordinary sewing machine threads.
Brenda
On 21 Aug 2006, at 07:35, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
How would you rate/gauge the
Hello Carol
The Lace Guild has a list of groups and teachers in UK. It's only as
up to date as the info supplied to them but there is probably someone
not too far from Saltash.
Brenda
On 20 Aug 2006, at 17:05, Carol Adkinson wrote:
Similarly, I was also talking to a lady from Saltash in th
Hello Sue
There are links to the manufacturers of most of these threads which
Robin mentioned on my website:
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/threads/manufacturers.html
(I have just found that the links to Amann and Coats&Clark are not
working, need to investigate)
Silk threads also from
I've got about a dozen fan patterns from various sources and they vary
- a few are full semi- circles but most are a little less.
I've made two lace fans, one is a Bridget Cook design for the small
plastic sticks that Springetts used to sell, that pattern is about 2
degrees short of 180. The
Hello Sue
I thought I had heard about it shrinking once off the pins and taking
that into account, so I will store all this information to help guide
me through the process. What I think might be a good idea too, at
some time before I make it, is to try working a small leaf piece and
see if
Hello Sue
If you can get the silk leaf off in one (or not too many) piece use it
as the template for your lace leaf. If that's not possible you'll have
to calculate the size by measuring the sticks.
Two concentric circles with centre at the pivot of the sticks.
Outer circle just slightly wid
Jo, I totally agree with you. The lace should be designed so that
there is a stick at the same place in each pattern repeat.
I remember hearing Christine Springett talking about fans some time ago
and she said that white and pale coloured lace fans should be mounted
onto dark coloured sticks,
Hello Jean
I have a pattern for a crocheted miser's purse, which calls for "purse
silk" as the thread. Anyone got suggestions on what this is?
I've not heard of "purse silk" as such but I'd suggest that it was a
filament/reeled silk for strength and firmly twisted (ie not a floss
silk) to a
Oooh Alice -- that's a huge article to get into a newspaper, and pretty
accurate too. Here we'd be lucky to get just a couple of paragraphs
and a picture. Well done.
Brenda
On 7 Aug 2006, at 01:41, Alice Howell wrote:
Sorry, friends. I forgot to put the URL in my
message.
http://www.news
One of the workshops at Lace Guild Convention this year was about
different ways of adding beads to BL. Malvary, Jacqui and I were in
that group.
If you go to
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm
you'll see a pic of my sampler. We didn't use half stitch, but fro
I think that's true of BL too. If you take a piece of fine, old lace,
photograph and enlarge it and compare to similar but coarser, well made
modern lace you nearly always find that the modern stuff is neater -
even allowing for the fact that the old lace may have been washed a
number of times
Lots of pictures of mangles and other laundry equipment for those of
you too young to remember!
http://www.townfield.doncaster.sch.uk/pages/trips/cusworth_laundry.htm
Brenda
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In days of yore a mangle was standard part of laundry equipment along
with the washboard.
I can remember my Grandma doing laundry in an outhouse in which the
'mod-cons' was a sink with a cold water tap (faucet). There must also
have been some means of heating the water. I don't remember too
Hello Rosemary and all
Are you on broadband? If so get a 4 port router, that way you can
network both (or all) machines - Mac, PC, Unix, RISCOS or whatever.
That to me was an unexpected bonus of getting broadband installed. If
required both machines can be on-line to different sites at the
Sorry to post this to the group, but if you see this message Laura
would you please contact me privately.
Brenda
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Hello Rosemary
For years I've been using an old RISC OS Acorn machine for lace
designing, but I know that when it dies I won't replace it, so I've
recently bit the bullet and bought Adobe Illustrator CS2 for the Mac.
The reason I went for the Acorn is that I could bend and stretch lace
patte
s the most
efficient!
Very true.
Brenda
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Subject: Re: [lace] Tambouring by hand and machine
A former BL student of mine used to work as a professional tambour
beader (in London). She always worked with the beads/sequins
underneath. Beads and sequins come threaded in strings; the thread of
the 'string' is knotted to the tambouring thread and the beads
transferred to the main thread w
Domestic sewing machines were used for domestic sewing - plain sewing,
seams and hems. Very few people had a sewing machine at home prior to
the 20th century. Industrial machines, which were around in factories
from early/mid 19th century *were* used (and designed for) embroidery.
Brenda
On
We had an email about this at work today. The letter size covers the
envelopes that will contain an A4 sheet folded into two or three (and
the American versions which are a little longer and a little narrower),
the large letter size will take A4 sheets, and 25mm in thickness is an
inch, so
It looks to me as though it would be used to make Tenneriffe / wheel
lace, with the prongs spread out for working the medallion and pushed
together to release it.
Brenda
On 4 Jul 2006, at 21:19, Jean Nathan wrote:
Haven't we seen this on ebay before? I seem to remember it is
something to
e ticking names off the list.
This is the last round I am co-ordinating; information about the next
round from the ew co-ordinator will be posted very soon. Watch this
space!
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Tamara's thoughts are about domestic sewing machines, and yes domestic
embroidery machines do only date from mid/late 20 century, BUT
industrial machines that could make fancy stitches go back a lot
further.
The Handmachine is recorded as early as 1829. That's the machine which
has one 'mast
I'm moving this from chat to lace as I think it's relevant.
Alice wrote:
Take a look at something I've never seen before.
Antique MARVEL HAND EMBROIDERER Embroidery Sewing Tool
*** Item number: 290002437572
Even from the pictures, I'm not sure how it worked to
embroider something. It looks mo
Hello Miriam
I bought in Athens the pattern book of "Butterflies in 'sGravenmoerse
Lace". As usual I have no idea what the threads required are.
I can cope with the Colcoton. But what is Gold Rush.
It's a thick glitter thread (67% viscose, 33% metalised polyester) of
chain construction - sam
Sue's right, Bockens 35/2 is quite a bit thicker than Soie Gobelins.
Remember too that silk is more 'squashy' than linen so is more likely
to flatten and become thinner but wider during the measuring/wrapping
and so give a slightly lower w/cm figure, so if there's a choice I'd go
for 18 or 19
Terry and I have made Wills but they are of the type that leaves
everything to each other and then equally between the children, but I
have put a note into the envelope saying that if they don't want any of
my lacemaking things for themselves then please offer them to The Lace
Guild - and inclu
On 11 Jun 2006, at 02:54, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
But that begs a question... Where do I get "Alger Silk (1 strand/7)"
(whatever that means... 7 waht? Cm? Inches? I'm supposed to have 2
skeins of 8 meters of that, to wind on 36 bobbins)? Also, what's a
good source of "Ovale Silk 5 different co
UK minimum wage (assuming you are more than 21 years old) is 5.05 GBP
per hour - so your hankie would "cost" more like 250GBP
Brenda
On 5 Jun 2006, at 19:16, Viv Dewar wrote:
I timed myself this weekend at 1.75hrs for 4cm. So assuming a “minimum
wage” of about GBP4.50/hour and allowing about
OK, that almost describes how lace is made!
As the list is fairly quiet at present I'll ask the question "What is
Lace?"
It's something I discussed with my class a few months back so I've
already got lots of suggestions and criticisms of several printed
definitions.
Brenda
On 2 Jun 2006, at
Hello Nicky
I've moved this to Lace from Chat as it's very much lace related.
The name Ida Allen is ringing a distant bell. Was she the person who
wrote as 'Primrose', about the life of a lacemaker in Devon for "Girls'
Own" or was she one of the Devon Lace Dealers?
Brenda
On 25 May 2006,
On 22 May 2006, at 00:56, bevw wrote:
I leave it up to you to decide which starch product to use - I would
be inclined to use the blue-ish type (anyone remember? they were
little blue wafers you would dissolve in water), so that the lace
looks whitest .
I don't know of blue wafers to dissolve
And 39 of them are described as bone/ivory. I've just got home from
Upchurch lace Day where David Springett was the speaker and he said
that in all of his experience he's only seen ONE antique bobbin that
was made of ivory! Maybe that's why they are attracting such a nice
price.
Looks
Hello Janice
If you go to my guild website you will be unable to download a
simple wire pendant. Scroll down to "free pattern", then click on the
picture. Our websmistress assures me that the next free pattern will
not be one of mine. :-)
http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/
Thank you f
On 1 May 2006, at 07:29, Barry & Joyce Moes wrote:
achieve the color desired. It is the same technique she uses in her
butterflies.>
I have some YLI 50 which is 36 wraps/cm according to Brenda's book. I
will impatiently try this as the Pipers Silk Floss 90 is rated at 37
wraps per cm.
I
Hello Clay
Today some thread sold on eBay, and it raised a couple of questions
that I thought you might be able to answer. The thread was described
as "12 slip 230 , so very, very fine".
The first question is, what does this term (12 slip 230)mean? Is it
related to the old "band" descript
On 17 Apr 2006, at 22:50, Alice Howell wrote:
I recently got a supply of lacemaking things from an
estate, and it included two spools of a thead that is
strange to me.
Mez Iris 50g spool, 100% Baumwolle, Made in W.
Germany.
It has no size numbering on it. Does anyone know if
"iris" denotes th
On 16 Apr 2006, at 06:04, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Apr 15, 2006, at 22:50, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
My local suppliers - Lace Inspirations, has a "Comparative Thread
Sizes chart (Guide Only)"
and they show Egyptian Cotton 50/3 in the same column as Madeira
Tanne 50, Zwicky silk 100/3, and Bro
On 16 Apr 2006, at 03:50, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
My local suppliers - Lace Inspirations, has a "Comparative Thread
Sizes chart (Guide Only)"
and they show Egyptian Cotton 50/3 in the same column as Madeira Tanne
50, Zwicky silk 100/3, and Brockens & Fresia linens 80/2.
Depends how broad thei
Hell Julie
On the subject of mystery threads: I notice several of the Retournac
patterns are described on the website (www.ville-retournac.fr/musee) as
using 24/2 linen thread. I've encountered 24/2, and it seems it would
be
rather large for the described size of the designs. Can anyone
enligh
I've just posted the pic of Eves's winning entry for the Tangrams
competition at Durham
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm
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Barbara's seen this thread and replied with exactly what I would have
said - if anything's not listed in Threads for Lace it's because I
haven't seen it, not that it isn't/wasn't made!
I have just received the pack of silk and hemp samples that I ordered
from Aurora Silk in Oregon - thanks Dee
I put Anne's picture onto my website because I don't know to post to
Yahoo webshots. I did have a couple of pics on there once, but like
Noelene I've mislaid the instructions about uploading new pics. Last
time I looked my pictures had disappeared so I guess there's a time
limitation there.
After a long day's drive we are safely home after a very enjoyable
weekend.
Anne has sent me her photo of the Arachnes present at the Friday
evening Lace-in during The Lace Guild Convention (taken by a passing
husband) which you can now see at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/
Hello Valerie
50/3 or 35/2 WHAT?
It sounds like an indirect sizing - 50/3 should be similar thickness to
35/3 for a cotton count (cc) or a linen number (NeL), but without
knowing the original suggested thread it's impossible to suggest an
alternative. A 50/3 linen is very different to a 50/
I've just got home from The Lace Guild Convention at Durham - great to
see lots of old friends again, and a few new ones. Lots more to report
back about in due course but one important message that I said I would
post straight away is about a missing coat.
Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon one of
On 4 Apr 2006, at 05:47, Ina le Bas wrote:
I have a similar story to you - my Great grandmother made lace but she
was
born in Kirkmabreck, Scotland about 1835 and at the time of the 1851
census
she was listed as a scholar aged 16. I would dearly like to know if
she
made lace as a living or j
On 1 Apr 2006, at 00:38, Jane Partridge wrote:
I still haven't found any lacemakers on my tree :-(.
The nearest I've got is my husband's gt gt grandfather's second wife!
Brenda
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Dear spiders
I sent the scan of my postcard to Lori Howe, and here's her reply
I've posted it on a webpage. Would you let Arachne know.
http://www.lacefairy.com/Lace/LaceArt/20bucks.htm
Brenda
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Debbi wrote:
I first took lessons from a lacemaker who had learned from an older
lacemaker. She had been a friend of the older lacemaker for many
years and had inherited all of her supplies. The lacemaker was now
very frail, and my teacher had taken her into her home to care for
her. She wa
Hello Jeri
I've just scanned my postcard, will send it to to you and Lori
privately.
The Beds card can be seen at
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/lace/lacehtml/lacemakers.html
Brenda
Lacefairy is not on Arachne.
Perhaps someone will share a picture of the Bucks postcard and also
the Beds
po
I have a very orangy "sepia" reproduction of the same postcard. It
definitely is a modern reproduction as there's nothing on the back -
anything really meant for posting had the space for the address, space
for the message and 'postcard' printed on it.
I think it's Fanny Thickpenny and Eliza
On 29 Mar 2006, at 09:25, Jenny Barron wrote:
Hi Lorri, I googled and came up with these sites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Tolland/index.html
Tolland is in Somerset, about 20 miles north of Honiton (Devon).
http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm
The info on that site seems ve
Hello Tamara
At the top right hand side next to the clock there's a flag
No clock, no flag on my screen. Just the sign for sound, then date
("Sun 21:30" it says at the moment), then Tamara Duvall... So, I
wouldn't know where to find Unicode any more than I'd know how to find
a (live) unico
On 26 Mar 2006, at 05:52, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
I wish there was a _single, standard_ method of adding diacritical
marks to a "stripped" keyboard like we have in US-English. On an US
keyboard, we have a few "peculiar" marks -- @#%^&* (for example) --
but, they're international. OTOH, the only
Hello Tamara
What version of Mac OS are you using?
Up to 10.2 you use KeyCaps. IIRC you click and hold on the apple
symbol to left of screen and bring the curser down to KeyCaps and you
get a window with all the fancy characters show. Just click on the one
you want to insert.
With Mac OSX
On 26 Mar 2006, at 02:30, JIM PRUITT wrote:
The piece that I'm working on
right now is an insertion piece, and it looks like they used wool for
the
gimp. It makes it look a bit fuzzy, but cool. I was wondering, it
looks
like in this piece, a stitch was done to make larger hole, and then it
Dear Spiders
If anyone has booked onto the Beads and Bobbin workshop with Jan
Tregidgo on the Friday afternoon please note that there is a typo on
the course info sheet.
I have checked with Jan and she's confirmed that the middle size
pattern requires Moravia linen *50/4* or equivalent
Bre
Hello Malvary
Yes - I loved the about 234 seed beads (I wonder how "about" that is,
sounds pretty exact to me).
Exactly what I thought! maybe she means take a few extras in case you
drop them on the floor!
Also doing the Paint a Bobbin on Saturday morning , Exploring
multi-pair plaits on Su
On 24 Mar 2006, at 13:38, Malvary J Cole wrote:
Have my class assignments, haven't got my bobbins wound yet, but I
have been sorting out beads.
Same her - are you doing Beads and BL with Jan Tregidgo on the Friday
afternoon?
Brenda
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We've had this sort of discussion before. It's not particularly to do
with using Mac or Windows, or any other operating system; it's to do
with how your software is configured to read the character, ie what
language your word processor, email reader or web browser is set up to
read. Just beca
On 19 Mar 2006, at 04:15, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
1) If there is an option for "plastic" (Visa/Mastercard) it wasn't
offered to me. Check/Money Order or PayPal were the the only choices
for payment method. (I chose PayPal). Too bad, since the dollar
continues to creep upwards and, by the time t
On 15 Mar 2006, at 20:06, The Hildebrand Clan wrote:
My questions:
1. Those snake bookmarks: Why do my snakes not remain flat when they
are
removed from the pillow?
You've probably worked your snake in half stitch using a Z twist thread.
Have a look at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/la
On 15 Mar 2006, at 10:00, Jane Partridge wrote:
The
only problem here is if you get a slightly deaf student, used to doing
her (embroidery) cross stitch, who latches on to "cross & twist"!
I had a Chinese student once who used to do 'closs stitch' in her
bobbin lace and 'closs stitch' embroi
On 15 Mar 2006, at 07:35, bevw wrote:
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CTC makes woven fabric, so one of its names is cloth stitch. Those
places where BL is done with linen thread call it linen stitch. The
When I first took lace 'lessons' ages ago, my teacher whose o
Hello Jenny
Just where did you find that gadget?
I have similar fingernails.
Brenda
On 11 Mar 2006, at 19:33, Jenny Barron wrote:
Just discovered a new lace tool today. I bought a needle tugger meant
for pulling needles through thick fabric and spotted the potential for
pulling pins out of
James Norbury in 1952 wrote:
"Of its first beginnings little is known, and the earliest record I
have been able to discover of crochet as an accepted craft was of an
exhibition held in Dublin in 1672, at which there was a special class
for crocheted articles"
James Norbury's Crochet Book. Br
Hello Susie
What is an equivalent thread for Ariane 32/2 Cotton.
Something tells me that I ought to recognise this thread, but I've done
search and find on the whole of Edition 3 and Addendum 3 and there's no
mention of Ariane. Do you have any more info?
Brenda
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For anyone who *needs* more bobbins there are some on Ebay with more
promised
http://tinyurl.com/jh33u
Brenda
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Hello Faye
As I understand it (from books!) Dutch lace is a part of the
Flemish/Valenciennes/Binche/Mechlin group of laces and back as far back
as the 17th century even the real experts can't distinguish one from
the other without some other provenance.
The Dutch lace, I think, tended to be
Oh Tamara, that's very sad, but thank you for letting us know.
I only knew Jean from Arachne and a few s-mails, but I was really
touched to think that her "logo" of rainbow lace designed for the
CD2000 exhibition was adapted from a pattern that I had published in
Lace Guild magazine some time
Sorry to have to tell you this but I've just been informed about
another typo in Edition 3 :-(
Towards the bottom of page 6:
Printed as CC = NeL multipled by 2.8.
Should read CC = NeL divided by 2.8.
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On 4 Mar 2006, at 18:18, Jean Nathan wrote:
At today's meeting, he tapped me on the shoulder and said "I've got
something to show you." There was the completed piece of lace! A 12
inch deep Bucks Point shawl to fit around the shoulders. It took him
one year, one month, one week and one day to
On 25 Feb 2006, at 12:11, Dee Palin wrote:
Thank you, Brenda - are there books on it? It sounds interesting and
I'd love to have a go.
Clay replied:
The Dutch Guild published a beautiful book several years ago which
really
got things going, but it's out of print already! : (
"Kant, uit
Dee
's Gravenmoer is a form of hand-made torchon which has half stitch
worked with diagonal and vertical threads instead of the usual diagonal
and horizontals. I've not done any myself but I believe it's achieved
by working diagonal rows of halfstich instead of going back and forth -
rather
I've been into the site before, but using a different browser. I tried
logging-in but it wasn't recognised so I had to enter my email address
and a password.
However, I did just purchase the set of 5 lace CDs. The Paypal
checkout insisted on a telephone number which I won't give so it got
t
It's from 'Lace for Children of all Ages' by Christine Springett,
published way back in 1989.
Brenda
On 14 Feb 2006, at 00:11, Melinda Weasenforth wrote:
Gentle Spiders,
I have just been looking at Brenda's site and in it are some very
colorful
snakes. I have a grandson here looking with m
I've been looking for pictures of Bruges lace and have just found
another internet auction site with lace on offer. All the lace seems
to be from the same seller and is not as antique as they claim. The
prices are high compared to EBay, but if anyone's interested have a
look at CQout.
http:
On 9 Feb 2006, at 02:24, bevw wrote:
Barley straw is recommended for honiton pillows (and
others, I suppose) because it wasn't as 'hard' to break down into bits
as wheat or oat straw. However, we have machines that can do the trick
- like if you have access to a garden shredder - works a treat.
I thought it looked like chemical lace but the picture on the website
isn't detailed enough to see properly. Alas I haven't got the figure
for that style of dress so I won't be wearing anything like it to Lace
Guild Convention Banquet!
Brenda
On 7 Feb 2006, at 19:45, bevw wrote:
... to wea
In UK we are currently on GMT (Greenwich Mean time) which is 0, but
during the summer months, March - October, we change to BST (British
Summer Time) which is 1E. I think that several countries in western
Europe also move forwards an hour for daylight saving during the
summer.
Brenda
http://
me on that one. Can you go through the math again
slower? It seems like one or the other but why both measurements?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge :D
Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Hello Viv
Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace. You need 4
times the width of the hankie
Hello Viv
Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace. You need 4
times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace -
absolute minimum. Round up so that you have an even number or repeats,
and preferably a multiple of four.
Brenda
On 30 Jan 2006, at 20:36, Viv
How interesting!
It's obviously something to do with the browser; on the Mac it works in
Safari, Netscape, Foxfire and Opera but not in Internet Explorer.
Brenda
On 29 Jan 2006, at 22:23, Margot Walker wrote:
On Sunday, January 29, 2006, at 05:38 PM, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Hi J
Hi Janice
When you open the page there are four option boxes -
1, Type (choose polar graph paper)
2, Paper size (US letter or A4)
3, Units (inches or mm)
4 Graph paper - drag your mouse over the down arrow and then select one
of the sizes from centered, edge, lower left or lower right
CLick on
Hello Julie
However, it's hard to know what to buy unless one has a specific
project in mind. Anyone have suggestions for what someone like me
who does Torchon, Bucks, some tape lace and dabbles in a few other
areas should keep on hand so that when inspiration strikes (or I
decide to join a
Dee that's a wonderful resource - you'll never need to buy Chartwell
pads again! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Brenda
On 29 Jan 2006, at 09:45, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have recently discovered another site with free graph paper/grids.
This one has polar and logarithmic grids, too.
h
Sorry to post this to the list but I am trying to contact Ellen Shore
in UK.
Reply messages sent to the tiscali email address she wrote to me from
are bouncing back as unknown.
Ellen wants to know my current (new) website URL
Brenda
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It's a lovely card.
Tell me Lenore, the circular mat underneath the card; is it a mix of
hairpin crochet and tatting?
Brenda
On 22 Jan 2006, at 17:39, Lenore English wrote:
Jane held a drawing for a Shetland Lace Greeting Card, and I won! I
received the card yesterday and posted a picture
On 22 Jan 2006, at 05:31, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
The "twined" (or "twisted", according to The Cook Book) gimp _does_
outline a shape much more clearly than a single one, because the
"basic" threads pass between the two and are hidden. The technique is
also useful when "basic" threads are used
Secret Pal pairings for the next round were completed last week and
everyone has now confirmed acceptance of their new pal, so everything
is now confirmed ready for the first packages to be sent out in the
next couple of weeks.
Enjoy
Brenda Paternoster in Kent England
Arachne Secret pal
That one does work!
I have a piece of drawn thread embroidery which looks very similar,
though mine is salmon pink with linen with cream embroidery. It has
the same circles and crosses and zig-zag diagonal "footedge". Mine is
a traycloth 12"x18" and two 8"x8" napkins still folded and tacked
Hello Alice
The frames are all on top of each other in Safari and Foxfire too.
The homepage also has dozens of validation errors - maybe you could let
the webmaster know. You don't want to put people off because they
couldn't see the registration forms!
Hope you have a great conference thoug
Thank you very much, Brenda. I will try that site, and see how I get
on. Is it easy to get grids from that site? I am not very experienced
on the computer! It is a lovely pattern, though, and I do not want to
give up on it. Thanks again for the help.
Dee
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Hello Dee
You have to get the outer circumference AND the inner circumference the
same as your fan sticks, as well as being the right depth/width.
Enlarging/reducing will alter both the circumferences and the width.
Stretching a circular pricking on one direction only will turn it into
an e
Hello Ilske
Yes I'm sure that this is another Chinese made needlelace mat.
Would you mind if I added one of your photos to the page on my website;
just to show haw prolific the Chinese lacemakers are.
I have just updated that page with a scan, sent to me by Angela, of
some Venetian type NL
Hello Angela
I agree with you, this needle lace is hand made in sweated workshops
and the tension is so regular because they are doing it all day, every
day.
From what I've read in Pat Earnshaw's books, the handstitch machine is
based on a pantograph; there are lots of double ended needles e
I have just updated my website with some more of the pieces of lace
that I'm selling for a friend, and removed (most of) the items that are
now sold.
Please have a look at:
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/marta/martacollection/sales.htm
and then click on 'lace'
Brenda
http://paternoster.o
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