Re: [lace] Legal attire

2004-07-15 Thread Dmt11home
Dear Aurelia, I was not suggesting that we copy an existing jabot. It is simply the case that some people have expressed concern about the jabot fitting the neck size and such. Perhaps there are adjustable tabs on the back. My thought was to buy an inferior jabot as a starting point in the desig

[lace] Salute to the Judicial System

2004-07-15 Thread Dmt11home
Interestingly, there is an American robe company which features several judicial collars, but all seem to be for women. They have a rather simple construction. You may click to see photos of them. I like the lacier ones. http://www.judicialrobesonline.com/products/index.cfm?fuseaction=showaccess

Re: [lace] jabots

2004-07-15 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 7/15/2004 5:37:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why the President of the IOLI? Isn't this an Arachne idea after all? Of course, if she is on Arachne at the time of the presentation it would be appropriate. Well, I guess it depends on who is clever eno

[lace] IOLI Salute to the Judiciary

2004-07-15 Thread Dmt11home
Fellow Spiders, Let me draw your attention to the web-site of the Supreme Court Historical Society http://www.supremecourthistory.org/index.html Perhaps a source of info? Perhaps a co-sponsor? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROT

[lace] Legal attire

2004-07-15 Thread Dmt11home
Thank you Karen for this interesting site regarding legal attire. It not only tells the history of legal attire, something that will be needed for the accompanying documentation that Aurelia refers to, but is a company that sells legal attire. It seems clear to me that it would be advantageous

[lace] Judge Judy not alone/Salute to the Judicial System

2004-07-15 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 7/15/2004 2:40:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who would present the lace? I think a delegation. The delegation should include whoever is president of the IOLI at that time (could be years from now since the project is so time consuming) or her deputy, A

[lace] jabots/IOLI salutes the Judicial System

2004-07-14 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 7/14/2004 10:42:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The first thing that came to mind was stars and strips or variations of same. Chevrons, stars. I looked and there is a Swedish pattern that has some very acceptable eagles.a suitable shield shoul

[lace] The IOLI Salutes the Judicial System

2004-07-14 Thread Dmt11home
In addition to Ipswich, Native Americans were making lace, the Sybil Carter lace. However, when it did not feature canoes and things, it was virtuallly indistinguishable from Belgian Lace. We also had various lace making endeavors such as the Italian Lace School here in New York which used immig

Re: [lace] Judge Judy not alone!

2004-07-13 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 7/13/2004 7:09:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sandra Day O'Connor looks as if she might just have something lacy round her throat Be still my beating heart! Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Judge Judy not alone!

2004-07-13 Thread Dmt11home
A Supreme Court portrait contained at http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0203/June16_03/02_portrait.shtml shows both female justices in jabots. Eureka! Have you worked out the design yet Aurelia? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PR

[lace] Judicial weakness for jabots

2004-07-13 Thread Dmt11home
If you will go to the following link you will see a picture of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbug wearing a jabot. It is not a lace jabot. However, Ginsburg may represent the thin edge of the wedge in Aurelia's plan to subvert the US judiciary to lace purposes. http://search.eb.com/women/

Re: [lace] laces used by judges

2004-07-13 Thread Dmt11home
Nine jabots is an awful lot of jabots. Maybe we could limit the honor to female Supreme Court Judges. This would keep it to a much more manageable number, she said cynically. I can see it now: The International Old Lacers salutes the Judicial System in a ribbon across the special commemorative i

[lace] framing question

2004-07-13 Thread Dmt11home
I received this answer to the framing question from a young woman at our museum who has a degree in conservationally correct storage practices. I thought it might be of interest to the list since obviously a lot of us have thought about this issue. That the lace needs to "breathe or it will dry

Re: [lace] Lacemakers' pets/Ratti Lace Fund

2004-07-12 Thread Dmt11home
I am proud of any contribution that I have made in clarifying the role of the French Bull Dog in the history of lace. Priceless moments such as the bringing together of Sheila and John Mason, 7th generation machine lace manufacturers from Nottingham, and Susan Lambiris, of Raleigh to discuss Fre

[lace] laces used by judges

2004-07-12 Thread Dmt11home
Judicial attire in the US is very boring possibly reflecting our anti-aristocratical dogma and a perception that lace is soft and pretty and weak and that it ill-suits people who have the power and authority to sentence others to death or a life-time in jail. However, I have noted that Judge Ju

[lace] lace framing/conservation question

2004-07-10 Thread Dmt11home
I have received a question from a woman in New York regarding advice given about framing her lace. She has a piece of lace that belonged to and may even have been made by her grandmother. When she visited Brugge she received the following advice. "The folks in Brugge recommended that once the m

[lace] valuation of lace/large or small pieces

2004-06-30 Thread Dmt11home
It seems odd, but many things go into valuation including the ease with which a dealer can store and carry the item to shows and the ease with which it can be displayed by the buyer. You often hear that machine made lace is not valuable because it is mass produced, but Beanie Babies are mass pro

Re: [lace] large or small lace pieces

2004-06-30 Thread Dmt11home
This is an interesting question. I am assuming that we are not talking about machine made lace that one might like to use on clothing. I cringe at the thought of cutting up large pieces of handmade lace which will result in very few such lengths being available to future generations. On the oth

[lace] Flemish or Italian Tape Lace?

2004-06-26 Thread Dmt11home
Vis a vis the difficulty of distinguishing between Flemish and Italian tape lace, Nora Andries had a very interesting comment. She said that she looks at the stiches in the tapes and the fillings. (I am going to restate what I remember here, but my memory is often faulty.) She looks to see if th

Re: [lace] Re: wedding apron/lace boder/Prague - Answers

2004-06-23 Thread Dmt11home
Wow! Good spotting Jeri. It is embarrassing to be directed to photos in books I actually own, but haven't sufficiently studied! The reference to the Queen Elizabeth portrait at Gripsholm was because an article in a 1934 Met Bulletin said there was a portrait of Elizabeth there and that she was w

[lace] zig-zag braid/ wedding apron

2004-06-23 Thread Dmt11home
An arachnid has been kind enough to send me some pictures of Czech lace. One of them, does in fact have the kind of background that I was describing. It resembles Valenciennes ground, but it is only made with two pairs, zig-zagging back and forth and sewing in. My corresondent says, however, th

[lace] wedding apron/lace boder/Prague

2004-06-22 Thread Dmt11home
There is a beautiful border which is described as being for a wedding apron in the museum. It is thought to be Flemish dating from the 17th century. I have been searching for a portrait of a woman wearing a lace or lace trimmed apron from that era. I have found several aprons on children, but no

Re: [lace] Reference pictures

2004-06-22 Thread Dmt11home
What era are we speaking of? Are we speaking of an entire lace dress or one with a lot of lace on it, collars, flounces, etc? Are you trying to get the detail of what the lace looks like, or a more vague Gibson Girl effect? I actually don't know of a web-site with a huge selection of lace clothin

[lace] MIchelle Chase Masters Thesis on American Lacemaking

2004-06-20 Thread Dmt11home
The only mention I have heard of this Masters Thesis is from the Tamara Duvall e-mail in which she was just leaving for Prague. Perhaps when she gets back Tamara could tell us how she obtained the Masters Thesis. Perhaps Michelle Chase is on the list and could tell us how to obtain it. Persona

[lace] Masters Thesis on American Lacemaking

2004-06-19 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 6/18/2004 10:16:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I got Michelle Chase's Master Thesis on American (as in: US) Lacemaking; thanks, Michelle (sorry, I didn't have your e-address in my addressbook, so couldn't send a private message). Michelle has don

Re: [lace] Painting of lacemakers at Met/Public relations

2004-06-06 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 6/5/2004 5:14:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In an early period in Europe (in the case of the painting at the Met - 1720 in Milan), when printed books were expensive and rare and possibly not very available to women, it was probably a real treat to have

[lace] metallic laces in candlelight at the Met.

2004-06-05 Thread Dmt11home
Currently there is an exciting costume exhibit at the Met in which mannequins in 18th century attire are set up in salacious poses in the period rooms of the Wrightsman Galleries. The emphasis is on seeing the costumes and the furniture together. However an opera designer assisted with it and al

[lace] Painting of lacemakers at Met

2004-06-05 Thread Dmt11home
Imagine my surprise when I entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw a painting of some lacemakers reproduced on a stancheon in the front hall. . To see this promo picture, which unfortunately is only part of the painting go to http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={983

[lace] lace on exhibit in Belgium & Netherlands

2004-04-30 Thread Dmt11home
If anyone is traveling to Belgium and the Netherlands as I have just done, I will provide the following up to date info. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is only partially open and this will be the case for some years. There is no lace to be seen there. In Brugge, Arendshuis which is actually the sam

Re: [lace] Re: Suriname/lacemaking in a hot climate

2004-04-06 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 4/6/2004 1:43:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is a > country >with a tropical climate and hardly any places that are air conditioned, >so I guess it is much too warm for lacemaking! A woman who learned to make lace in Cuba in the 1960's told me that

[lace] IOL Bulletin

2004-04-06 Thread Dmt11home
My bulletin arrived yesterday to my great surprise because mine was about a month late along with those of other people in New Jersey last time. Since then, your hard-working editor Debra Jenny has had a heart-to-heart talk with representatives at every level of the post office from the big guys

Re: [lace] filet/lacis

2004-04-02 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 4/1/2004 2:00:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The machine-made netting that Filet Lace by the Sea (Marie-Jo Quinalt) sells is knotted. The knot used in both is a simple knot and as such appears the same in both the hand-knotted and machine-made netting t

Re: [lace] Book wanted

2004-03-10 Thread Dmt11home
Toomer's Antique Lace: Identifying Tips and Techniques is one you could probably order from your local bookstore. It is published by Schiffer books in Atglen, PA. They have a website you can order it from www.schifferbooks.com. Go to http://www.schifferbooks.com/antiques/fabricsandtextiles/07643

Re: [lace] The Depiction of Lace-makers in 17th century Holland

2004-03-01 Thread Dmt11home
Of course, there is the large number of paintings on Lori Howe's lace fairy site of lacemakers, some of whom are 17th century. This site is www.lacefairy.com, click on "lacemaking", go to the column on the right hand side, down at the bottom under "graphics" and right under that click on "Lacem

Re: [lace] Re: 17th cent. depictions of lacemakers in Metropolitan Mus.

2004-02-29 Thread Dmt11home
I had heard that the entire painting collection of the American Wing is now on the www.metmuseum.org web-site and it is in fact true. Someday when I have some time, I should add some of these paintings to the gallery, or start a new one just with American Paintings featuring lace. These painting

[lace] 17th cent. depictions of lacemakers in Metropolitan Mus.

2004-02-29 Thread Dmt11home
I have added the Keil lacemaker to My Met Gallery. This is a collection of paintings that I have set up on the Met website for the lace inclined. You go to www.metmuseum.org. You click to enter. Click on My Met Museum. Enter the name "lace" followed by the password "lover". Then click on My Met

Re: [lace] The Depiction of Lace-makers in 17th century Holland

2004-02-28 Thread Dmt11home
I haven't read it, but I think the novel by Jean Montupet called the Lacemaker is one of the few to actually deal with the lives of lacemakers. However, I believe they are French Needlelacers of the 18th century. Since the person asked for a "depiction" does she mean a book or a picture? At the

[lace] Fwd: WHITAKER VINTAGE AUCTION 3-24 & 3-25

2004-02-24 Thread Dmt11home
Since there has been little mail on arachne of late, perhaps bored people would like to visit this site and enjoy the thumbnails. The e-mail is from Karen Augusta who is a well known US lace dealer. She writes the descriptions for the auction. Devon Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: fro

[lace] St. Carolus Borromeuskerk, Antwerp

2004-02-16 Thread Dmt11home
An old issue of Lace (BLS) says that the Lace Room of the St. Carolus Borromesukerk in Antwerp is open only on Wednesdays, and that tours are available by advance appointment on Wednesday and Thursday. Does anyone know if this is still the case, or how I could confirm that information, or for th

Re: [lace] Binche

2004-02-15 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 2/15/2004 2:12:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Antwerp was the source of Pottenkant, a straight lace with long symmetrical repeats which featured a pot of flowers as the design. Aside from the design style the grounds of Pottenkant were much the same (wit

[lace] What is Binche?

2004-02-15 Thread Dmt11home
The more I think about and read about Binche, the less I think I know what it is. Only one thing seems to be clear: it wasn't made in Binche. Some people seem to think it was made in Valenciennes. Bertha Van Doren (Lace Magazine) seemed to think it was made in Antwerp. As a rule of thumb, I woul

[lace] me on TV?

2004-02-12 Thread Dmt11home
There is a new quilt show that will be airing on PBS starting in June called M'Liss's Worldof Quilts. The crew and star came to the Ratti Textile yesterday to film it as a place of interest to quilters. Our boss asked me and Gunnel to come in and examine some lace under the video microscope in o

Re: [lace] filet lace/the professor

2004-02-09 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 2/9/2004 7:33:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He took special pains to get all this work done for us despite the fact that he is absolutely swamped with piles of other things to attend to. We are so lucky to have him and his expertise! Yes, we are. Three

Re: [lace] Re: Communism good for lace?

2004-01-31 Thread Dmt11home
Dear Susan, Vis a vis your contention that the political system had no effect on lace development in the Eastern Block: Will you deny that capitalism killed lace? Why then should it seem a unlikely that an atmosphere in which market forces are rejected and rendered null and void would be the onl

[lace] photography

2004-01-31 Thread Dmt11home
I was attempting to photograph some lace with my new digital camera specifically bought for lace photography- can get within 1.3 inch. My problem was that my shadow keeps marring the picture as I bend over the lace. How do others deal with this? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTE

[lace] Ratti Center still operating

2004-01-31 Thread Dmt11home
Elaine, I am sorry if I gave the impression that the Ratti Center is not operating. You will be happy to know that we are still providing the access to our computer data base of 36.000 textiles, 5,000 of them laces, as well as to any items in the collection, 10 at a time, by appointment. When I

[lace] Kiki Smith

2004-01-31 Thread Dmt11home
For those who want to know more about the doily art of Kiki Smith, go to www.MOMA.org. Click on the Kiki Smith exhibit. Then click on the part of this web presentation that deals with "anatomy" and proceed through it. ( I didn't mention that Kiki Smith relates doilies to female anatomical parts

[lace] Communism good for lace?

2004-01-31 Thread Dmt11home
Since an earlier discussion involving the 6000 members of the Vologda Lace Union, I have been wondering more and more about the development of lace and especially modern lace in the Eastern Block countries. I have an exhibit catalog La dentelle tcheque de l'Art Deco a nos jours dating from an ex

Re: [lace] Lace collecting

2004-01-28 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/28/2004 3:09:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My plans are solidifying. I learned there was more interest in such a facility coming from Arachnes overseas, than from within the U.S. Very sad. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] co

[lace] Cone Collection/Kiki Smith/Valentine

2004-01-28 Thread Dmt11home
The Cone Sisters, donors to the Baltimore Museum, are a case in point about how people who collect and people who are museum donors impact museums. The other lesson to be learned is that when people who distinguish themselves as art collectors collect lace, lace gets taken seriously. A little p

Re: [lace] Val. Mus.Coll/lace collecting

2004-01-28 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/28/2004 11:08:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there is something that comes along in terms of leadership or funding that makes it difficult or impossible for the public to have access to the wonders wrought by the people who came before us (mostly f

Re: [lace] expensive bobbin

2004-01-27 Thread Dmt11home
I like the way the seller assumes from the presence of the coin on which the "back has been smoothed down and engraved "L Battery, R.H.A. Nery, Sept. 1, 1914". Battery" implies that the bobbin was given by a survivor of the battle to his sweetheart. This is what separates the successful antique

Re: [lace] miracourt lace?/Janet Gillies?

2004-01-26 Thread Dmt11home
Janet Gillies wrote a little article about this for the publication of the New England Lace Guild, but I don't know if Janet is still a member. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Liz Bartlett at IOLI Convention

2004-01-26 Thread Dmt11home
I was just going through my books and realized that there is a Liz Bartlett who is teaching at the IOLI Convention and that the book "Lace Villages" was written by a Liz Bartlett. Are they one and the same? Quite a few years ago I think she had a slide show about the Lace Villages that I despara

Re: [lace] all day class versus half-day

2004-01-22 Thread Dmt11home
I am very interested to hear about how things are done in other countries. I also prefer all day classes because you don't have to spend so much of the class packing and unpacking equipment. I very much like the 24 hour classes at the convention because when you reach the more difficult laces it

[lace] IOL Convention-more things to like

2004-01-19 Thread Dmt11home
I have returned to the web page of the Keystone Lace Guild (having not yet received my bulletin) and have found a few more things that I think might be interesting. 1. There are a lot of teachers from outside the US. Personally, I like the convention to feature teachers you don't see all the tim

Re: [lace] Convention planning-interesting

2004-01-18 Thread Dmt11home
I am sorry that Ruth was deterred by the paper work involved in the current convention because I would like to meet her. But now, I am even more eager to see how this convention turns out. As workshop chairman of a local group for many years I had ample opportunity to observe how a gifted and ta

[lace] Enslaving the young

2004-01-18 Thread Dmt11home
Jeri wrote: A carefully-considered plan will help. How about this one? Year one. Target young person at convention. Laugh at her jokes. Ask about her children. Provide advice about how to obtain lace supplies. Ask young person to write up convention report for local newsletter. Praise her for h

[lace] IOL Convention-enslaving the young

2004-01-18 Thread Dmt11home
I have been thinking some more about this year's format of the convention which is clearly designed to make lace instruction available to people who work and may not want to expend an entire week of vacation on it. It is entirely possible that this will be successful and that there might be a hi

[lace] IOL Convention-good developments

2004-01-17 Thread Dmt11home
Although I have not received my Bulletin yet, I went to the Keystone site and would like to point out three things that they are doing that I hope will be picked up by future conventions. 1. They are taking credit cards 2. They are counting all registrations received before March 1 as having arr

Re: [lace] Re: Question about Convention

2004-01-16 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/16/2004 10:53:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently the IOLI Convention Committee is in an advisory capacity only, and only if asked. I will propose a Bylaw change the next time I go to IOLI Convention, you can be sure! We need Convention and Clas

Re: Fw: [lace] wardrobe of the Prince of Ligne

2004-01-16 Thread Dmt11home
The projected price is 180-250 of a currency denoted by a C with two cross hatches. Is that Francs? Euros? What are they or were they expecting for this Brussels applique fan with carnations? Although accessories are in a different class than straight lace, I am constantly asking myself whether

Re: [lace] wardrobe of the Prince of Ligne

2004-01-16 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/16/2004 3:53:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.coutaubegarie.com/php/catalogue/diaporama_vente.php?id_vente=236 Thanks for posting this site. I'll take lot 262, thank you. Devon who has decided not to go into the Metropolitan today because of

[lace] IOLI Bulletin

2004-01-13 Thread Dmt11home
As a glutton for recognition, I find that little kudos such as Janice's and Tamara's drive me on to perform even more services for the IOLI Bulletin. No doubt such recognition is also fueling others to exert themselves to make it a better Bulletin. However, another way the Bulletin could be enco

[lace] Historical Web Page

2004-01-12 Thread Dmt11home
Sorry. I posted a response to a message on lace-chat to lace. Actually, I think the subject matter is legitimately lace, rather than lace-chat. So if anyone is wondering which historical web-site I was referring to, it is: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/sfelshin/revwar/lace/lace.html which a site

[lace] Re: [lace-chat] Historical Web Page

2004-01-12 Thread Dmt11home
The author of this web-site made a visit to the Met last summer. I had arranged a viewing of laces of the era for her and we also went running at top speed through all the American oil paintings that dealt with the era while she sketched and commented. However, if the last updated date June 2003

Re: [lace] Re: 6,000 lacemakers in Vologda!

2004-01-07 Thread Dmt11home
Thank you Tamara for the insiders view of collectivization. Very interesting. I had sort of thought that the Vologda Lace Organization was not just an excuse to drink tea and eat cookies like some lace organizations, but was more production oriented. I suppose unlike our organizations where the

[lace] 6,000 lacemakers in Vologda!

2004-01-06 Thread Dmt11home
Going to the site about the Tonder Lace Festival, I read the description of one of the workshops which contained this line: "In 1883 the Maria School in St Petersburg was founded and then in 1917 the Kalinin School in Moscow. It was also at that time that the Vologda Lace Union was established. In

[lace] Bowes Museum

2004-01-03 Thread Dmt11home
I also went to the web-site and searched lace in "collections" and got 69 hits. If in fact everything is on the website (not the case at the Met.) it is not a very impressive collection. My own personal collection is better and I am not a collector who spends that much money on it. I am not sur

[lace] Decorative Arts formerly on a par with Fine Art

2004-01-03 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/2/2004 11:11:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Textiles are showing signs of edging their way into the limelight of "art." It's a fight, still; and in some dim-witted sectors, the art-vs-craft contrast still carries weight. But ever less so And there a

Re: [lace] Valuing machine-made lace (very long)

2004-01-01 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/1/2004 8:57:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, perhaps, the George Washington panel is something that had been made along the same lines? "Special", but "curtains" nevertheless? I am not going to pretend that I understood what Mr. Mason was saying when

[lace] Battle of Britain panels- missing?

2004-01-01 Thread Dmt11home
Jeri writes I am very grateful that this panel went to a collector in a position to preserve it in a fine collection that has been documented. Some of the copies have disappeared -- perhaps to fatal fates. Yes, I think it was the panel that went to Winston Churchill that was later found i

[lace] aesthetic criteria for judging machine made lace

2004-01-01 Thread Dmt11home
I guess that an aesthetic criteria for judging machine made lace is still emerging as well. The Battle of Britain panel is certainly the gold standard for machine made lace. What makes it special? I like it because I think it is very interesting visually. Along each side are great landmarks of L

Re: [lace] Battle of Britain Lace Panel/value of machine made lace

2003-12-31 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/31/2003 4:41:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be difficult to find anyone who would insure such an item unless solid information could be produced regarding sales of similar items. And even if someone could produce a receipt for the purchase of

[lace] Battle of Britain Lace Panel/value of machine made lace

2003-12-31 Thread Dmt11home
When Sheila and John Mason visited the Ratti with the panel Mr. Mason mentioned that Sheila was to appear on "Flog It". Mr. Mason's family has been machine lace manufacturers in Nottingham for about 8 generations and he has a wealth of information which he very kindly shared with us about machin

[lace] reference to lace in books/biographies

2003-12-26 Thread Dmt11home
I have become interested in the lace collections that were formed during the late 19th and early 20th century by wealthy collectors in America and Europe. I find an interesting trend in that biographies written during that era often mention the lace collecting of the individual whereas more rece

[lace] Venice lace museum

2003-12-16 Thread Dmt11home
Although I have visited the lace museum on Burano, I thought I had heard that a new lace museum had opened in Venice. A friend from the museum is going to Venice and said she would check it out if I could give her some more details about how to find it. Can anyone tell me more about it? Devon -

Re: [lace] Famous lacemakers

2003-12-13 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 12/13/2003 7:10:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't think there are any lacemakers who are > really "famous". The only lacemakers I can think of that are famous are famous for things other than lacemaking, for instance, Catherine of Aragon or Ma

Re: [lace] Threads of antique lace

2003-12-10 Thread Dmt11home
I would also be interested in this information. As I stare at the lace in our collection and wonder if it is actually 15th, 16th or 17th century or whether it is 19th century, I have to think that an understanding of the thread is the only way to ever figure this out. I am convinced that techni

[lace] lace of hair

2003-12-07 Thread Dmt11home
Interestingly, we have a piece of lace in the Met's collection which is supposedly made of human hair. It has been catalogued as something , maybe point "tresse". I have only seen the catalogue card, not the piece. It is a piece of needlelace. I think it is entirely white, although I recall see

[lace] Smithsonian/new phone number

2003-12-06 Thread Dmt11home
Karen Thompson has asked me to inform arachne that the phone number to call for the Smithsonian Lace Tour has changed. It is now: 202-633-3826. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Doyle New York Textile Auction

2003-12-05 Thread Dmt11home
Since we are snowed in here, I have been amusing myself looking at the catalogue for the upcoming Doyle auction which occurs on Dec. 10 and wondering whether it is worth trying to go. The site is http://www.doylenewyork.com. Lot 982 is a tablecloth which is predicted to go for between $4000 and

[lace] Unicorn Tapestries-some lace

2003-11-23 Thread Dmt11home
I will make the admission that my first design attempt was based on the Unicorn in Captivity tapestry. I used curly left over thread for the tail and I placed it against a background of Virgin Ground, a joke that is wasted on practically everyone. (Tradition has it that a unicorn can only be cap

[lace] Lace tour of Smithsonian

2003-11-09 Thread Dmt11home
I was fortunate to find myself in Washington, DC on the first Wednesday of the month when it is possible, by advance registration made by calling (202) 343-1098 to take a Lace Tour of the Smithsonian. I was taken up to the textile room where Sheryl DeJong read a script of the history of lace whi

[lace] dissertation/patting ourselves on the back :-)

2003-11-04 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 11/04/2003 1:28:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We are encouraged, by our culture, to pat ourselves on the back for > even the tiniest achievement -- and we *do*. > > We're used to being dominant (and act accordingly) > > Frankly Tamara, although I

[lace] Dissertation about lace marketing

2003-11-03 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 11/03/2003 5:26:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > To investigate how the international lace industry has changed over the > past 20 years and to identify those factors that make lace so much more > popular in the US & Australia that don't occur in the

[lace] Barbara Uttman

2003-11-03 Thread Dmt11home
The first edition of Palliser in 1865 says that Barbara Uttman had the honor of introducing Bobbin Lace to Germany, not that she invented it. Devon In unseasonably hot New Jersey - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, wri

[lace] lace in Bennington,VT

2003-10-18 Thread Dmt11home
I was in Bennington, VT last weekend and stopped in at the Grandma Moses Museum. In addition to the Grandma Moses things the museum has a hodge podge of old curiosities on the second floor. Imagine my surprise to see an entire case full of lace related things. There was a pillow, a "lacemaker's

[lace] Battle of Britain in New York

2003-10-17 Thread Dmt11home
On October 24, at 2:00 Sheila Mason, author of Nottingham Lace 1760-1950, owner of the Cluny Lace Co. of Nottingham, and custodian of the Mason collection of machine-made lace will be coming to the Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a viewing of about 10 pieces of machine

Re: [lace] numbers

2003-10-01 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 10/01/2003 5:45:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Considering that the population of Germany > is less than the U.S. and the IOLI has 1600-1700 members, that means that > the percentage of lacemakers in the population I think the fact that the number o

[lace] bookfinder/rejection of AOL addresses

2003-10-01 Thread Dmt11home
> After Devon reminded me that there are other ways to buy used books > than on ebay (thanks, Devon ;-) I found a copy of 'Chats on Old Lace > and Needlework' here in Canada that was only $25 US (the ebay auction > ended at $57 US!) so I bought it. > I think the ebay bidding often stops right a

Re: [lace] Chats on Old Lace & Needlework

2003-09-30 Thread Dmt11home
Have you checked out www.Bookfinder.com? I bought my copy a little while ago, but it has water damage, as well as other issues. As I recall I opted for the cheapest one, and there were others at various levels of intactness/decrepitude with an appropriate sliding price scale. If you are disasse

Re: [lace] Is Lace Declining? - Can anybody help?

2003-09-30 Thread Dmt11home
As publicity chairman for the IOL convention, I was given the info that we have, if I recall, 1628 members. Recently Gunnel Teitel turned over to me a hoard of clippings from all over the country about lace over the last 25 years. Many of them were reports of IOL Conventions. It was quite striki

[lace] Irish lace

2003-09-25 Thread Dmt11home
There was an article about this lace in OIDFA within the last year or two. The author could find very few examples of it, partially because some had burned in the Windsor Castle fire. I looked it up in our catalogue in the Met and found a number of pieces that had been there since the early 1900

Fwd: [lace] lace research/thread analysis

2003-09-25 Thread Dmt11home
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Re: [lace] lace research/thread analysis

2003-09-25 Thread Dmt11home
Dear Angharad, Thank you for your reply. Out of curiosity, how was the fiber analysis conducted. Was it necessary to destroy any part of the lace? Was it done entirely with a mircroscope? Was there chemical analysis involved? I am fortunate to be a volunteer in the lace collection of the Metrop

[lace] correction/email for Rowe/Battle of Britain panels

2003-09-22 Thread Dmt11home
I mistyped Howe for Rowe. Does anyone have an e-mail for him, or must I rely on snail mail? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] e-mail for Bill Howe/Battle of Britain panel

2003-09-22 Thread Dmt11home
Does anyone have an e-mail for Bill Howe so that we can discuss currency in relation to the Battle of Britain panel book? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Battle of Britain panel book

2003-09-22 Thread Dmt11home
How could I obtain a copy of "The Battle of Britain in Lace" by Bill Rowe? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: [lace-chat] Battle of Britain Lace Panel

2003-09-22 Thread Dmt11home
Are any of these Battle of Britain Lace panels in the US? If so, are they accessible? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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