In a message dated 09/01/2011 16:28:55 GMT Standard Time,
elationrelat...@yahoo.com writes:
Bobbin lacers, do some of you pre-prick also (aside from the lace styles
that are almost
exclusively done that way).
Yes, nearly always. Only two exceptions. The first would be a very course
lace
I think that the lines between needle and bobbin lace are blurred again.
Bobbin lace - Plastic over photocopy of pricking, with extra paper layers
or card behind unless the pillow is very firm. A bobbin lace pricking,
whatever form it takes, will be rigid as it is on a pillow. Its job is to
As Pat will soon find out, the nicest pricking to work on is one done on
card, and then inked in. Without the plastic layer, you can feel where the
holes are. With the plastic layer the holes close back up so it is hard to
feel them and then hard to push the pin through.
Make sure you use
If you have cut the edges of the pricking parallel to the pricking, perhaps
you could wrap a tape or ribbon around the roller at the edge of the
pricking as to act as tramlines; as you work you just need to keep the pricking
sitting squarely between them and do tiny tweaks as necessary.
Susan said Unfortunately I think the canaletto paper is more popular in
Europe, but am very curious if anyone is familiar with it for this purpose.
Perhaps those who prefer architect's paper over paper/stock covered in
plastic have run across it or can provide insight.
Did I blink and miss
May I add that the lacemakers who are awarded MBEs get them because a group
of their students has put them forward for the award. Unfortunately it is
not because they are so famous that even the Queen or Prime Minister has
heard of them.
I know of one UK teacher whose nose was a little
Of course this all falls down when you consider Buck thumpers...
Why? Many of my South Bucks style bobbins are quite small and light in
weight, much smaller than those often thought of as Thumpers, and of course
none of them have the weight of a spangle. Also, often the old spangles
were
A google search for crochet cotton 20 immediately brings up lots of
places. Also many craft shops and probably even Hobbycraft will stock this
thread.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Without a lot more documentory evidence I am very sceptical about this
claim. If the box was labelled with a little note on ancient note paper, in
faded copper plate writing, it would be more authentic! In fact, it's labelled
with 1960s technology, 100 years after the event. If the verbal
Do you think there is any point in (lots of arachnes) writing to the
seller, quoting the Springetts info and saying that she is most likely
seriously
misdescribing these bobbinsDymo tape labels in the lid of a box
are not proof that the contents are what they claim to be. I am
Dear Joepie
Although you didn't say Finca 30 was an equivalent to DMC 30, on the other
hand you didn't say it wasn't, and it was an alternate thread to replace
DMC30 that Alice was asking for. So I can quite see why Brenda was just
making it clear that the two threads are different thickness
They are currently considering a way of allowing overseas viewers to watch
the programmes on the iPlayer, but on a pay to view system, as you don't
have to pay the UK TV license fee. This has come up recently on the Radio 4
Feedback programme, where apparently they have had e-mails from overseas
1.5m diameter diameter presumably? So this will be almost straight on
the outer bands. It could be quite difficult to get a polar grid with so
little curve
Using an approximate pi (which is actually 3.1416), you can multiply the
diameter by 3 for a guesstimate of the lengths requires, so
Sherry asked So what are you all making for Christmas??? Have you thought
that far ahead yet?
It's not actually all that far ahead now! Less than a month!! So if
anyone is planning to make things for Christmas (especially if they are lace
things) now is the time to stop planning and start
In a message dated 27/11/2010 18:16:36 GMT Standard Time, po...@me.com
writes:
I get impatient waiting for the stiffener to dry.
Hair dryer?
Jacquie :-)
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According to the book, there is section 1 and section 2, with separate
bobbin counts, so they are worked separately.
If you look at the small triangle of pricking (of section 2) at the bottom
of the page - 1/6th of the centre - along the bottom edge there are a partly
drawn on row of dots
Lynne said I asked my daughter the other day did they cook from fresh and
the reply was that salads and chips were made fresh...
Define fresh, Lynne, or ask your daughter to :-)
Many pubs cook their chips fresh from the bag of frozen chips. And the
majority of frozen chips already have
David said This is NOT a pushover test. It's a Baby Boomer era test!
And probably specifically an AUS or US one at that!
I guessed Remember one Flick and they're gone because it made most sense,
but have no idea where it cames from.
Never heard of Get with the strength bank on â¦â¦.. (the
Still no sign of 'Lace' but 'Lacemaking', the Lace Society Newletter,
arrived this morning.
Among the patterns included is a Honiton one from the Lace Society
collection, and I can see part of it would easily adapt to make an excellent
Milanese lace design. And an interesting article by Jenny
A google search for fungicide free wallpaper paste will bring up
(surprise, surprise) fungicide free alternatives.
Apart from using it for pasting wallpaper, embroiderers use it for some of
their textile crafts and gardeners use it to make a carrier to be able to
squeeze fine seeds into drills
Hi Sue
What I don't quite understand is, as you already have not one but two makes
of thread that you like, almost identical in size, and (assuming the Brok
you have is 36/2) the only real difference between them is that one is an S
twist, the other Z, why are you looking for another.
The only
I had already mentioned the Huetson book in an earlier post on Tuesday,
when I compared what he said to Alex's different take on it, and neither of
them are the reference I am thinking of. One of my books is far more
particular about the different types of unspangled, bulbous Midlands bobbins.
Particularly for Brian, but also for anyone interested, in The Romance of
the Lace Pillow, mentioned in my last post, at the end of the chapter on
bobbins there are two and a half pages about Honiton lace sticks and Trollies,
ie for Honiton lace and for Devon trolly net.
Not a lot of
And don't forget our arachne founder Liz's app for the iPhone (would this
work on the iTouch?) for keeping track of your sock knitting - these can be
lacy socks. This was only 69p (UK) so maybe 99c or $1.
Jacquie
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Thumpers
I had thought that these were used for Downton rather than traditional
Bucks
No, Downton has its own specific bobbins. Thumpers are often called Bucks
thumpers. Just wish I could work out which book it is that itemises all the
different bobbins of this similar style, and which only
In a message dated 19/10/2010 Diane writes:
Michael, this book may be a resource for you. Singer Instructions for
Art Embroidery Lacework, a reprint of the 1941 edition is available at
Lacis in Berekley, Calif.
But it is s difficult to do. I have an original and it shows you how
to
In a message dated 19/10/2010 16:11:27 GMT Daylight Time,
he...@access-experts.com writes:
I wonder if the spangling question has any relation to the fact that the
English work their footside on the Right
Not all English. Downton, for example, is made with the footside on the
left, and
In a message dated 13/10/2010 19:22:17 GMT Daylight Time,
he...@access-experts.com writes:
Dyer, A. Copper wire lace. Denver, CO: Point Ground, 1995.
Good book, with lots of ideas. Includes Ann's take on cloth stitch, which
she works by lifting alternate passives and laying one worker
From Arachne, a few days ago:
Malvary wrote about a post she originally sent in March -
OK - I give in - I went down to the basement to find a Lace Society
Magazine.
The Address is: *Posh* *Bags*
Janette Smith
P. O. Box 2114,
Salisbury, Wilts
SP2 2BD
Tel: 01722 320161
Malvary in Ottawa
our teacher in a lace class today suggested using double sided tape to
help hold the metallic threads in place.
Unless you are using really small lengths I don't see how this would help.
The problem with metallic threads is usually in keeping the hitch on the
head, rather than keeping the
Although there wasn't an ad in the August Lace Society Newsletter, there
was in February (and possibly in May as well but I can't put my hand on it),
so I see no reason why she shouldn't still be in business.
I certainly haven't heard on the grapevine that she is not making bags any
more.
In a message dated 02/10/2010 11:10:21 GMT Daylight Time, ac...@achims.de
writes:
I know of a pattern creator who doesn't even allows for the lace made
from her patterns to be displayed!
But surely, if you have legitimately paid for the pattern, the lace you
make from it is your own copyright
Personally, not sure what you mean by 'wire vice thread'. Trying to work
out if it was a typo, but can't get anything else to fit in there.
But if it's a fine, soft wire of some sort then it will be good for
lacemaking. Do a search in the arachne archives (
I find that arachne and a blog are completely different to use as a
reference document.
Something coming into arachne is there and then it's gone, unless you go to
the archives to look for it. If there is something I think I may want to
respond or refer to at some point in the future I tend
What fee! Surely the shipping is based on the size/weight of the item not
its value - unless she is insuring the package (optional to the buyer,
surely?) which for an $8 item I'd probably pass on.
But anyway, she won't be the one who is paying that, the buyer pays for the
shipping. Duh.
OK,
The handle bit would be easy enough to make or have made, but I'm not sure
the ring of wire is actually a circular ring; I think it could actually be a
circle with four corners' or a 'square with curved sides', depending on how
you think of it. Either way, quite a hard shape to replicate
Talking about the fans has reminded me of this:
Yesterday at the lace meeting I went to someone was just finishing off a
Springetts decoration and he had only been able to get a bangle which was
quite a bit bigger than recommended. It is a simple design from their little
green book of
Looking on e-bay for the chinese fan handles which Jean told us about, I
found item number 400090757426, described as a 'Collection of ten 19th century
Victorian fan handles' with a buy it now of £350.
Can someone tell me what they are, please.
I know what he says they are; fan and face screen
Thank you for the link, Jean. Those screens are pretty and I see how they
work now.
But without the leaf/screen, I wouldn't think just the handles are worth
that much money, and would anyone want all ten anyway?
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Do you prefer to do a straight edge lace . or do you prefer a
pricking that is square with sewing at the end?
I prefer the neater look of a worked corner, and the interest of doing the
corner as a change from the straight.
and attach it to a handkerchief blank
If you literally mean ready
In a message margerybu...@o2.co.uk writes:
So is sock yarn the same thing as fingering?
Not necessarily! 'Sock yarn' is just a wool with nylon (polymide) of some
sort added for strength.
*Most* of the sock yarns are 4ply, and I would think that is probably the
one which is usually thought of
Looking at the picture again, I second Tamara's view.
If this piece was crisp and straight off the pillow, it would look vastly
better than it does in its rumpled state, and apart from the not so good
leaves it is actually quite well made - in its fashion.
In the hands of a beginner the
Jane said
We used netting needles at college - look like a rod with a tuning fork
at either end - you need something thinner than a shuttle if you are aiming
for a fine mesh.
It's the mesh stick, not the needle, which controls the size of the holes
in the net. But I think that a shuttle
I can second Malvary's post -
We have brittle bone disease in the family - osteogenisis imperfecta not
osteoporosis - and it certainly doesn't stop her. I am obviously 'only' a
carrier as are my three children, but we think our maternal grandmother
probably had it as we have some photos of
Oooops, I also mean to send best wishes to Agnes for a speedy recovery
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Sherry said
I so wish the reserve would not be so high. You are right about the
exchange rate problem between the US and the UK. I have admired alot of things
over the years that I would have love to purchase...but there is such a gap
between our money here and the money in the
UK that I can't
I just read it that you'd 'added' it to your collection VBG
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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This is a child's circular knitting machine, see
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Character-Options-07525-Knitting-Machine/dp/B0001RFCI2
for a modern version.
As you say, nothing like a daisy wheel, but hey, I've got this 'thing' and
I've got some instructions, so they must belong together.
At least
From the quality of the photo it's hard to make absolute comments as from
the lack of definition it could even be machine made lace VBG so I'll just
talk in general terms.
First I wonder why you think it is Point de Paris as distinct from another
Point Ground type lace? PdeP is usually a
You're quite right, Devon, I answered quickly before I went out this
morning, and the made-in-pieces bit got stuck in the recesses of my brain.
Another reason why it would be excellent if stevienixed would post some more,
much
better pictures of details.
The rest of my answers still stand
From Sister Claire
Will people who are interested in discussion of privacy issues please
take it to the chat list? I would be very grateful if we can continue to limit
conversation on this list to lace issue.
Although I agree with the fact that the topic has segued from why people
might have got
Susan said The magazine that most were sent recently, must have been
trolled from this
list,..
To which Jean replied How? Home addresses are not on here...
What I want to know is how did they select who to send them to? What is
the common factor among the lucky people who have had them?
But I would have liked to have received one, as I'm sure would many others
of the arachne membership. If they got the snail-mail addresses somehow
from people's e-mails addresses, how/why did they select the relatively few
who
received the magazine and reject the rest of us???
It may be
In a message dated 30/06/2010 19:33:11 GMT Daylight Time,
jokep...@btinternet.com writes:
you can see that the lace was worked as a straight piece and then
expertly sewn together at the corner
Unless the final join was at the corner, and the other three are join free.
I did look at it, and
In a message dated 30/06/2010 22:49:18 GMT Daylight Time,
laceandb...@aol.com writes:
I didn't look at other photos to see if there were signs of joins there
too.
I meant to say, I didn't look at other *corners* to see if there were signs
of joins there too.
Oooops.
Jacquie, still in
In a message dated 28/05/2010 14:35:26 GMT Daylight Time,
hottl...@neo.rr.com writes:
Now a question--has anyone used a cereal box as an inexpensive
alternative for pricking card?
All the time under either graph paper or a photocopy pricking. Not so
often if I want to ink onto the card. It's
Can some of you let me know what name you would understand as referring to
the sort of knot commonly used to finish Bruges lace, where one thread at a
time is picked up, knotted to the other which in turn is put down across a
row of closely sewn in ends, before returning in the opposite
In a message dated 27/05/2010 19:18:00 GMT Daylight Time, f...@cobweb.net
writes:
Do you mean the entire sequence of knots?
Yes I do, where you do a half reef knot with two threads, put one down and
pick up the next all the way across, then return reversing both the
direction of the knot (as
In Galithia, in the north of Spain, there is still handmade-in-Spain lace
for sale, including in Santiago de Compostela airport.
In Camarinas I bought a metre of beautiful lace, about 1 1/2 wide, for 8
Euros. I could have had exactly the same design worked in a courser thread,
giving a lace
In a message dated 22/05/2010 18:42:53 GMT Daylight Time,
elationrelat...@yahoo.com writes:
Some bring a prepaid, self-address mailer, just in case their expensive
or favorite needles are at risk. That means either stepping out of line, or
trusting someone else to post it, but perhaps
In a message dated 22/05/2010 22:51:21 GMT Daylight Time,
malva...@sympatico.ca writes:
however on my most recent return to Canada Jacquie and I noticed that
they have opened a Post Office on the departure level of Terminal 3.
But note that this is among the shops at the departures end on
I don't think it depends entirely upon the airline! It also depends
largely on the security restrictions at the airport you are flying from.
As I have already posted to MariCarmen off forum, Malvary normally knits on
her way to the UK but isn't allowed to knit on the way home. This is
Unles it's a tiny bookmark, they probably won't be long enough as an 18
length only gives you 9 per bobbin. At a usage rate of 2 to 3 times the
length of the lace, that gives you 3 to 4 1/2 of lace, IF you don't have any
workers, and if you work right to the very end of the thread. As Jo
A few things to think about:-
First of all, although lace shrinks when it is no longer under tension,
it can be easily made to return to it's original size. Think that when you
repin the start of a lace project ready to finish off, sometimes years later,
it is still relatively easy to put the
M, interesting.
These other definitions of curious would also put another meaning to A
Cabinet of Curiosities which these days we tend to think of as just a
collection of weird and unusual things, but which more correctly may have been
a
collection of the best of everything.
So Arachne
In a message dated 30/03/2010 17:19:38 GMT Daylight Time, nnef...@yahoo.com
writes:
like a curiosity of lacemakers as a collective noun, as in a herd of
sheep, a murder of crows, a business of ferrets.
Is that what you meant, Jacquie?
In a way, yes, as I think Arachne has as members a
In a message dated 28/03/2010 09:46:42 GMT Daylight Time,
jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk writes:
CTCT is whole stitch (confused yet?), whole stitch twist, cloth stitch
twist - I haven't come across linen stitch twist.
And you most likely won't as linen stitch is the continental version of
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold
Mondaymorning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but
amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways.
After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers.
The woman
In a message dated 26/03/2010 13:14:49 GMT Standard Time, jeria...@aol.com
writes:
For those who do not receive guild magazines, I just found a 4-page
article in the April issue of Early American Life magazine at my local
chain
bookstore. Two photos show the jacket on a model; one of
Ops!
Thank goodness I've got a sister.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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In a message dated 24/02/2010 08:40:39 GMT Standard Time,
francis.busscha...@telenet.be writes:
so the threads will never ever shred on the surface the leather is
highpolllished
Hi Francis,
Leather or plastic is nice to use with continental bobbins, where you want
them to slide, but with
In a message dated 24/02/2010 11:11:09 GMT Standard Time,
jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk writes:
Could they have formed the first pair wound
Unlikely. Mum was of the school to wind her bobbins in pairs, and as I
remember there was a *pair* working the cloth stitch fans. Different enough to
In a message dated 24/02/2010 06:47:18 GMT Standard Time,
alexstillw...@talktalk.net writes:Personally I would not choose satin. I think
the shine
would bother me, but there is no reason why not,..
I can think of a reason why not. The way satin is woven is by having long
floats on the
Nothing at all to do with lacemaking, this is a set-up basket for a vintage
circular sock knitting machine. I have suggested they change the
description as sometimes these sell for £100ish, usually going to the US.
It is used to cast on. Opened out, it sits inside the cylinder of the
machine
There are lots to be found on a UK google search. A new one I have just
seen, priced at £4.80, is one with a bamboo handle -
(http://www.lakelandflytying.com/40/Hackle_Pliers.aspx). You need the 4
version. But there are
lots of others on other sites.
I would say though, if you work with fine
I should have scrolled down!
On the same website they have a pair very like the one Tamara gave me
(Griffin Rotating Hackle Pliers) and if you go right to the bottom of the page,
one with a cocobolo wooden handle.
I've not seen so many all on one site before. Obviously this style is
becoming
In just the same way as you use your tweezers! Squeeze and they open,
release and they shut. Once on, you have both hands free.
One of my students has some reverse action tweezers that one of the
suppliers sells, and she's as pleased as punch with them BUT, they are quite a
bit
bigger than
Hi Karen
I was told a more precise definition by the lady who gave me a taster day
in Honiton many many years ago, and several years before I studied it first
with Pat Read and then Pat Perryman.
I was told partly raised is basically flat work, except all the sewings are
done as top sewings,
Brenda
On some bamboo yarn I bought in America, it is actually labelled rayon from
bamboo fibre, which I think is a much more honest way of describing it, and
rayon is exactly what 100% or nearly 100% bamboo feels like.
Someone I was talking to thought that it was made from the inner pith of
Also Cynthia Voysey's Honiton Lace, A Practical Guide
This book is unusual in that it has many photographs of the lace in
progress to illustrate the text, along with a few diagrams.
Wherever possible, I would recommend that you have more than one book.
That way you can read the same technique
Neither have the rest of us :-)
Look at the archives to see if there have been any posts recently before
you think you're being ignored.
http://www.mail-archive.com/lace%40arachne.com/ The last post was on the 16th.
And if you are on digest, you have to wait for one to be filled - arachne
Where you are talking about is presumably as you pass from side to side
over a vertical gimp. Sometimes the gimp is 'vertical' for only one pin hole
(as on a six hole honey comb ring), sometimes for several (on lozenge shapes,
for example).
If you don't do this stitch as a catch pin, the
A friend of mine is sorting out her mother's belongings and has come
across three or four porcelain doll kits which came from George White, probably
many years ago. They include head, lower arms and legs, and wigs. As I
write this, I realise I have forgotten to ask her if the fabric for the
It has to be an icing that will stay flexible so long as it has a little
moisture content.
If you look at the site that was given, there is a place on there (in the
text, near the top) where you can access an instruction leaflet, and in that
there is a link to youtube demonstrations.
The icing
I have had this e-mail from one of my friends today, so I thought I'd pass
it on -
Hello everyone,
I have just received an email from the organiser of our yearly trip to
Brugge, who is also a good friend of Anne-Marie and she says that she has just
got off the phone from Anne-Marie this morning
Hello all.
I was so excited at the e-mail from Jill about the Kantcentrum that I
didn't register if was actually from arachne, not direct from Jill, and I
couldn't wait to pass it on. In my defense, she doesn't post to arachne *that*
often.
Still, there's no chance now that people will miss
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Sue said Went to the Ally Pally on Sunday to the Knitting and Stitching
Show and Oliver Twists Threads were there , so guess who is sitting here
drooling over the beautiful coloured silk threads and wondering what to do
first, what a dilemma.
Are you supposed to *do* something with them
In a message dated 25/09/2009 04:23:49 GMT Daylight Time,
lswaters...@comcast.net writes:
Handmade blonde Chantilly lace or not?
I vote not. From the only photos where you can see anything like enough
detail (4th, 5th and 9th) the cloth work area look like the very linear
machine produced
I think if the handling charge part of it was more than the pound
stated, I would write to Royal Mail and demand a refund!
The Royal Mail handling charge for a parcel from overseas where VAT and/or
customs/ import duty needs to be collected is £8. Not negotiable. But if
this is the only charge
This 'twice around each end' is how Bridget Cook showed me for Russian
leaves. She said You do know how to do the leaves for Russian lace, don't
you?
U, just run it past me again, please. And was shown the three
bobbins held in one hand, the two edge passives going out sideways almost
Sue
I don't think you need a separate video of the square tallies; they will be
worked in much the same ways as the leaf ones.
The only difference will be that on the first row where David is balancing
the pull between the two passives around the pins with the worker and he
pulled it to a
Having seen Rosemarie's post about the fence, and noticing that she has
included all her contacts details in with her signature, I went to the archives
to see if it showed up there.
Strangely, the only one I can about the lace fence is the most recent from
Jo Falkink so I am unable to tell. I
Clay,
I think these may be grape scissors. A friend has something very similar,
but larger. Why they are shaped like this I don't know, but I'm sure
someone will tell us.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Hi Bronwen
I think Lorelei's reply refers to joining needlelace motifs, whereas I
think you are asking about working the long needlewoven bars and the brides
making the geometric pattern blocks in the big squares left after you have
pulled out threads.
What I have in front of me at the moment
Breaking - snap, snap - or falling apart because the thread is untwisting?
I have seen this lots of times and Madeira is nearly always the culprit.
Colour seems to make no difference; in fact most people use the white thread.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Sue Babbs wrote
I have also used thin sheets of Foam (about 1/8 inch thick) in this way,
with considerable success.
But if you have to buy it, in the UK anyway, then it's could well be
another example of Brenda's comment. We don't have Michaels here, and
Hobbycraft
(our equivalent) is not
In a message dated 07/08/2009 04:25:27 GMT Standard Time, dmt11h...@aol.com
writes:
Does anyone know if the lace room at the V A is currently open?
Asking a different question, does anyone know if the VA will answer an
e-mail if Clay was to contact them direct.
If this is an important part
It went for £1500 - I wish I knew what I missed seeing!
It's quite possible that you didn't miss anything. It may be that someone
else thought they were getting something far more special than they actually
did.
Don't forget how many times we see *Antique* *Rare* and *Hand Made*
attached to
In a message dated 09/07/2009 05:14:02 GMT Standard Time, dmt11h...@aol.com
writes:
What lace technique are they using in
Glenmara?
The only one I can think of that would produce lace at the speed needed for
even the most expensive, exclusive line of designer lingerie would be
tamboured
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