Well.
These instructions for the bobbins winder in Lace 75 over which there was
the *Copyright! Copyright!* alarm bells are actually no instructions at all.
So I think if someone actually set to and made one (and from these
instructions a good deal of lateral thinking would be needed)
In a message dated 24/06/2009 18:21:18 GMT Standard Time,
di...@coalole.demon.co.uk writes:
I was going to use it in dressmaking but if it's hand made I think I
would be better making a pricking from the lace and working individual
lengths
to make the garment I wanted.
Why
If was
UnFinished Object, a started project that you run out of steam with.
If Diane was planning on dressmaking using the lace now or in the near
future, but then decides to remake it all and use her own lace instead, by the
time she's made even part of the lace she may well have second thoughts
Found it!
Dorothy Cox's little bobbin winder is in Lace (the Lace Guild magazine)
edition 75, pg 21.
Malvary said that Sheila had written edition 80 and she had looked a few
either side. Obviously not quite far enough.
I have spent a couple of interesting hours looking for it; those of you
In a message dated 10/06/2009 23:12:52 GMT Standard Time,
2harv...@tiscali.co.uk writes:
thank you for the beautiful silver frame
I have a similar story.
My bestest friend, who no longer makes lace, had had a really bad back
problem and as she was recovering was with me on a Honiton lace
My Lace Society Newletter arrived today with apologies for its lateness due
to problems at the printers.
An article about the Lace Archives at the Nottingham Trent University -
apparently 75,000 pieces in the collection, not all catalogued yet! And some
lovely Bucks patterns; in the next
Hi Blanche
when I read and answered your first query about Russian Lace books I
thought that it was you who was looking for books for yourself (for
lacemaking),
and that you had tried the museum but they didn't have any.
In view of your reply, I now think it is the museum who want them; if
Hi Antje
My thoughts are - Why not suggest she takes some of the stained thread off
one of the dark bobbins, and tries different methods of removing the brown
colour. If it will come off the thread, then it will come off the lace. If
the colour came off the bobbins that easily, then it might
Hi Lynn
I had mine on Wednesday LAST week, and Malvary in Canada had hers two or
three days before that. That is not unusual, and when I queried it Maggie
explained that the overseas ones are sent direct from the Hollies, whereas the
others go to the agents which they use to deal with the
Sue said Then 100 bobbins would only be about £40.
...and even less than that with absolutely no loss of quality are
the Matthew Hester bobbins at £17 for 50 lemonwood bobbins. All beautifully
finished, not only polished but they have the addition of a subtle painted
band in assorted
Jean saidSo I pushed a pencil with flat sides (hexagonal or octaconal
proably) into the hole with spikes on the underside of the ribbon cartridge
that wound the ribbon on
when in the machine.
That's sort of what I was hoping to do - except they don't have the holes
for the pencil! Because
Please excuse the double posting but there is a lace connection because the
appeal is on behalf of one of my lace students, and she uses this
particular piece of obsolete technology to write up lace notes. At the moment
she is
using Brenda Paternoster's bookmark pattern and is way past her
I had a floppy disk reader installed when I had my PC built, as my digital
sewing machine works from them, and I have a separate floppy disk reader
that goes into the USB port, for my lap top, (for the same reason) if that's
what you mean.
I have the mechanical technology to read floppies, I
I think that maybe I haven't been clear enough about the difficulty we have
with the Video Writer. Several people have written to tell me that
A-drives/floopy disk readers are still available. That isn't the problem; I
have
one on both my PC and my laptop for my sewing machine software.
I have just posted a comment on what I think is the correct R-XP forum, and
see that neither of the two previous questions have been answered. A month
ago Jean had asked an interesting question about drafting a fan pattern; it
is possible that Ruth has already answered this privately but if
The 2/70 Japanese knitting silk from Uppingham Yarns is one that I use a
lot for Milanese. It is similar to the Madeira 80, Finca 80 or 100, Gassed
Cotton 80 range of cotton threads in the way it works and the number of pairs
that are needed. I have probably about 1/3rd to 1/2 the colours so
The easiest way to find out about it is to look in the arachne archives -
http://www.mail-archive.com/lace%40arachne.com/
And please, pretty please, can I remind people to keep the subject header
relevant to the contents, and changed as the posts evolve, otherwise vast
swathes of the archive
Liduina asked Did you know this song (Chantilly Lace) I discovered
it today
You must be very young if you haven't heard this before VBG I can't
remember a time when I didn't know it.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire - sunny today but it is a bank holiday weekend so I
don't expect it to last.
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Hi Brenda and all
Her fingers are beyond 'sore'. This is long term eczema on the fingers that
are already misshapen with arthritis. It takes the form of deep cracks in the
skin. I don't know if it is independent of or caused by the arthritis, but
it is very miserable. She also has a lot of
As far as I can see, there are two reason why I wouldn't 'encourage' a new
lacemaker to move bobbins by picking up the spangles.
The first is that the spangles need to be replaced more frequently. This I
know as I went through a phase as a new, self-taught lacemaker of moving my
bobbins in
First of all, a sidestep. Can anyone tell me the origin (and meaning) of
the saying For two pins..
Now to the point (pardon the pun) of the post. We have been discussing
moving bobbins with arthritic hands but one of my students with very bad
arthritis and bad, cracking eczema on her
or Gum Acacia is used commercially in foods and by artists doing water
colour painting. You can buy it from an art shop in liquid form or sometimes
from cake decorating (sugar craft?) shops as crystals. It is literally the
gum exuded by some Acacia trees
I was also told (by Pat Read, many
That was what I thought, but I've been wondering about this for quite some
time (intermittently, you understand, not continuously) and in the process I
had got to the stage where instead of Oh, for two pins I'd just do it
myself I was wavering that it was more derogatory of what ever the task
Diana said replacing tinsel, wire, beads, spangles - totally out of order
(IMO)
This is another It all depends situation to me. If he/she is passing the
bobbins off as original condition, to sell them for more money then yes,
it's out of order.
I don't have any 'pristine condition' old bobbins
FWIW my great uncle swore that the wives tales of wearing copper to ward
off
arthritis were true once he tried it himself, and always wore a copper
bracelet when he was older.
Copper 'bracelets' have been used on horses with arthritis, with good
results, and as they (the horses) don't respond
Looking on Google to try and resolve this discussion, and to start with I
couldn't find any mention of pewter and cold.
First I looked at the various types of pewter and found that:-
Going back to the 15th century, by then it appears that by then there were
three 'recipes' of pewter regulated by
Liz said Yes, I know teachers who keep their students going on and on for
ages - years
sometimes, and I am sure it is just for the money from classes.
But on the other hand.
I have people that I have been teaching in private classes for over twenty
years. They started perhaps with
Hello Wendy
If you know which filling you want to do before you start, then it can be
pricked in place right at the start as you do your pricking. It is usually
recommended that you use a finer needle to do this so it is clear which holes
are
design and which are filling. Note that you
I wish to buy a (set of, perhaps) teach yourself Spanish CD, that I can
listen to consciously and also play as background in the car to absorb more
subliminally. I have been procrastinating for a while, trying to decide which
is
best, and just thought 'arachne' will know. How does the rest
I'd like to apologise for sending this to Lace Arachne! Just mentioning
lace teaching words doesn't really count as 'lace content'.
I have now sent it to Chat, which was where I meant to send it.
Jacquie
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Following Tamara's excellent advice about tensioning, I also wonder if your
comments about the lace curving and being tighter towards the footside could
indicate you are taking your pins out too soon.
Depending on the pinhole spacing, you will need to leave probably at least a
couple of
For those lacemakers who are also patchwork/quilters, an American who lives
in Australia has started a Bushfire Quilt project to make quilts for people who
have lost everything in the fires. She has her local quilt group ready to
help make up the quilts; I suspect that the response she gets
I thought in the past the demand for the Elwyn Kenn books brought silly
prices on e-bay, but there is a copy of Point Ground Patterns from Australia
listed on e-bay UK at the moment (#320337147937) with a start price of £3 and
no
bid yet.
It doesn't say if the seller will post overseas, but if
In a message dated 31/01/2009 20:50:18 GMT Standard Time,
hurwitz...@supanet.com writes:
If I have a tassel left on anything, like a bookmark for instance, then I
often pit a pin in top and bottom and then lay the tassel out smooth and hold
it like that with some of the coloured headed pins
Agnes said I'll leave it on the pillow for a couple of days for the threads
'to set'.
When I taught in Spain last year and suggested (mimed, more accurately) the
idea of waiting before the pins come out, there were blank faces all round.
With help from the interpreter, we agreed that my mime
Delores,
Two other factors can make thread stiff; one is the amount of twist. There
was a cotton thread called Unity that was around when I started making lace
(about 30 years ago) which was *the thread* for Bucks as it was highly twisted
and the lace made with it was *crisp*.
Some threads
Following my comments about the unfinished state of the new US Anna website,
I have received this response from them.
Thanks for the information. Weâre working very hard right now on an updated
Web site for ANNA. The one we have up now is not up to par, for sure. I really
am serious about
In a message dated 11/01/2009 19:49:38 GMT Standard Time,
cro...@northwestel.net writes:
http://www.annacrafts.com/Resources/AboutANNA/tabid/55/Default.aspx
I was interested to read about the two new Anna's, but I was not impressed by
the web site you gave us!!! To me it is an example of
How I wish me could send *things* through cyber space. I love the challenge
of sorting out a badly tangled pillow.
The worst I ever had to deal with was when my daughter was housesitting for
me, and my grandson (now 22) was a toddler and I had forgotten to put my pillow
out of his reach!!!
Not sure that I fancy the idea of the cooked meat in mincemeat, but probably
only because this one is so good; I have made it several times and it keeps
well in a cool cupboard even with the fresh meat in it - it's the alchohol that
does it! And after steeping in brandy for ages the smell and
Not sure that I fancy the idea of the cooked meat in mincemeat, but probably
only because this one is so good; I have made it several times and it keeps
well in a cool cupboard even with the fresh meat in it - it's the alchohol that
does it! And after steeping in brandy for ages the smell and
Hi Nova,
I posted yesterday evening to arachne on Bridget's comments and I have posted
privately to you this evening in more detail; if you haven't received this,
please let me know.
Jacquie
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Hi Nova and all
The definitive answer form Bridget about the way the filling is worked for
the face of the doll, pg 24 of her Russian Lace Patterns book is as most of us
thought, whirlpools worked over four pairs (which is why they are square).
Complete three of the plaits and the fourth to
Again, sorry for cross posting but it may or may not be a lace related object
that I asked Malvary to post for me on Friday evening.
Unusually for arachne, we didn't get an answer that seemed to fit the
problem. The most likely seemed to be that it might be a thread holder, with
removable
I looked at it, and I am a spinner. I think it may be a spool/bobbin for a
spinning wheel.
Again, I don't think so , because the base is covered with felt so it's
definitely an item that may be stood on a polished surface. And what would
all the
little holes be for? In the base they don't go
I agree that a thread holder is the best so far, but it just seems way too
big. It has to be about 8 or 9 inches tall, so there is room for several
spools
on each wire and the holes are close to the edge of the discs, so the spools
would be hanging out all round. Because of its size, and the
Sorry to come in late but I've only just got home from a week away.
I am seeing Bridget tomorrow so if you like I will take the book and ask her,
then report back. For myself I'd put money on whirlpools, to match the ones
worked over 6 plaits at her shoulders.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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It's also a pity that we can no longer send a post to people bidding to let
them now what is actually for sale - all we can do is to communicate with the
seller who is probably just raking up any lace word they can find, and trust
that they will adjust the listing. Some do, some don't.
But
The only time I try to pursuade people not to take pins out is when they are
working part lace such as Honiton or Milanese, where the perceived wisdom over
the years has been that you fairly rapidly remove alternate pins as you push
the remainder into the pillow. What this does is to allow the
I also have the Mary McPeek booklet, as well as the previously mentioned Vera
Cockuyt book. Yvonne Scheele has also done a set of notes for working Cantu
lace.
The methods used by the latter two are very similar, but the Mary McPeek
methods are quite different in some respects. The most
One of my lace making friends lives in Barry in South Wales. One day earlier
this year she was in a local craft shop and heard another customer asking for
lace books, which the shop didn't sell.
She introduced herself and found out that this was an English lady who lives
in Germany,
Hi Ann,
I am just a tid puzzled. I can see that you could have different size
pinholes either edge depending on how you work, but I don't see how the holes
can be
*too small*. The threads should be lying snugly round the pin, with the
worker making a loop and the passive a straight line on
And another thing to consider is that the trees absord carbon dioxide while
they are growing and the carbon remains trapped in our bobbins. Although there
is a fair bit of waste in the cutting into blanks and turning , I should
think that about a quarter to a third of the wood ends up as a
Watching Achim's excellent video, I thought it was interesting the bobbins
are wound anticlockwise (as most of the world seems to do) but then they were
also shown wound clockwise 'for cotton.
Surely if you are going to sometimes use one direction and at other times the
other, it would be more
Those of you on Arachne who were kind enough to show an interest when I told
you of the threat of closure to the Textile Conservation Centre, formerly at
Hampton Court and now based at Southampton University, may be interested to
hear the Government's response:
Public funding for higher
No Sue, an English moment I think.
I couldn't find it either, then supper was ready and I decided that was more
important.
But Leonard never mentioned a red lace bra, or Het is niet sexy (whatever
that means). I wonder why not.
Thanks Clay and Tamara, I'll try again
Jacquie in Linconshire
Hi Wendy
A plain Torchon fan (ie all cloth stitch) is one of the most difficult things
to do well.
There are two or three minor cheats that even the lace police wouldn't be
able to recognise a cheat.
First of all you could do your fans with one cloth and twist pair on the
outside edge.
Although I can't speak for people with strong religious beliefs, I see no
reason why a Sunday wouldn't be a possibility for a lace day - except that
possibly some potential suppliers and speakers consider it a rest day. I'm
sure
that other religions who celebrate their beliefs on days other than
If you look at his history, he deals in all sorts and has sold more than one
copy. Vivienne
I would do, but as far as I can see you haven't given us a link. This makes
it difficult for us to write any letters of condemnation to him.
This is a typical example of the 'other side of the coin'
What does it look like
Recently there is often a very similar table in the UK Sunday paper type
throwaway catalogues. They are white, with 2 L-shape, adjustable-length legs.
To
fold up, these shorten and then rotate to fold flat against the top. The top
has three notches underneath so it can be
They are very similar, and I have to admit that I can't understand why anyone
that enjoys Honiton should not enjoy Milanese. To me, biased as I am because
Milanese is my teaching 'speciality', the last thing I would describe
Milanese as is boring.
Where in Honiton all the braids are either
It actually makes no difference to the appearance whether the gimp goes under
the right or left hand thread. What is altered is the twists before and
after.
If you analyse the procedure and want to have a twist before and after the
gimp you need to do three twists in total; the third 'sits'
I am just back from an amazing week in Malaga - three days teaching at a
seminary on a shady balcony overlooking gardens and mountains behind - followed
by
the lace day on Saturday.
Seven or eight hundred Spanish lacemakers all talking very loudly, with
Flamenco band and dancers on a stage in
Having been reading all the arachne posts which had arrived over the last
week while I was away, I have just finished off with a batch of 'leaves and
tallies' ones.
Someone made a comment that she couldn't do the bolster pillow, palms up
ones. I assume by that she meant the
I have done quite a few bits of silver clay work.
You don't need a kiln for small silver pieces - you can quickly 'torchfire'
them with a small butane torch which cost only a few pounds to buy. The gold
metal clay needs a higher temperature and is too expensive for me to experiment
with!
In one of the books scanned by Tess and the Professor, The American
Lacemaker Volume 2, there is an unusual pattern (# 30, pg49) described as
Honiton
(because it's flowery, I guess) but isn't.
(The first page of my PDF file of it, which I saved some time ago, reads:
The Antique Pattern
Even in Bruges today, the lacemakers don't (mostly) mount their own lace.
There are still specialist needlepersons who do it for them. Some of my
students try to make sure their Flanders /Binche lace is finished to coincide
with a
trip, so the overlap join and mounting task can be handed over to
Many thanks to Bev for her item in the Canadian Lacemaker Gazette's Winter
Supplement (which arrived today) about the threatened closure of the Textile
Conservation Centre in Southampton. Anyone with UK citizenship can sign the
Downing Street petition.
See my earlier posts in the archives
Even on a point system divided between different aspects, a nicely hand
finished piece picks up 10 points over one that is not. But my emerging
feeling
is that, since judging impacts the development of the craft, I would like to
encourage more and better lacemaking, not laborious French sewing.
One of my students *used to* make assorted quick crafts for a local self-help
group. One year they asked her to make them some lace, so she chose some
simple bookmark patterns that she could do in a couple of evenings and made
several. She finished them off in a plastic sleeve with a
To add to the comments about sewing lace on by machine.
In an issue of Anna ages ago it showed the steps of pulling a thread to get
straight lines (when apporpriate), tacking the lace in place a little way in
from the edge, using a straight machine stitch right at the footside edge to
hold
But sometimes it's just laziness or greed.
I recently bought two Kirishi lace collars for about $20 from a US seller. I
was absolutely delighted with the lace as, once I'd ironed it and got it into
shape, it was vastly better than it had appeared in the photo.
But for the shipping I was
You were ripped off no matter how she want to sugar coat it.
I know that, you know that, and I guess she knows it too. I told her that
most of us learn by mistakes, and what she should have learnt from losing out
on
two international shippings was to check her costs before she quotes. What
My friend Hilary, not any longer a lacemaker but involved in textiles
generally and my co-conspiritor organising our Lace and Textiles weekends at
Dover
has had this sent to her by Anna Crutchley, author of The Tassels Book and I
feel sure that some (hopefully all) of the UK Arachnes will sign it
Scrolling down the most recent 500 names I noticed that several people have
added things such as Chris Berry, Chairman of the Embroiderers Guild.
If you are signing and are an officer in a lace group or organisation please
add it to your name. Also if you have a degree or whatever, nows the
I have had an e-mail from Kate Henry asking details for other ways to contact
Downing Street and so I am here posting the snail mail address and fax
number.
10 Downing Street,
London,
SW1A 2AA
Fax Number 442079250918
However, there will be a minister who is more directly responsible with
A google search gives all sorts of links to various aspects of the TCC at
Southampton.
One gives the centre the following write up:
The Textile Conservation Centre is the leading international organisation in
the field of textile conservation research, education and practice. Its work
has now
In a message dated 25/10/2007 16:40:41 GMT Standard Time,
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Then there's a link to the person selling on ebay, and at the bottom a
claim for the copyright 1993-2007 John Mark Ockerbloom
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), which I'm sure isn't legal because the scans are in the
No, Tess, that's the whole point.
The 'book' for sale on e-bay is a download only. You don't even get a CD!
So there is no advantage at all in paying $7.95 instead of looking it up on the
Arizona site. That's what makes it such a con.
It's a good job that at least everyone on Arachne and
Although it is very off topic and not lace - except that you would need to
decide how much/if any of your lace/lace equipment came into the essentials
cetegory - on the flylady website there is a very good page on preparing for
evacuation.
She suggests things such as keeping all your important
Hi, I meant the Lace Society, but was getting ready to go to Ithaca and
fitting in e-mails when I needed a break in packing. Sorry to confuse
everyone.
And I expect when I get a bit further down my 100+ mails, I will find someone
else has already worked out what I meant.
Jacquie
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I may be wrong but I had a feeling that some while ago IOLI 'asked
permission' and did anyone mind if they put the reminders onto Arachne, as it
potentially can save them quite a lot of money in posted reminders, meaning
that either
they can keep memberships fees lower or have more money
I have just had an e-mail from one my friends and students, Jill Harward, an
Arachne lurker, to say she is surprised to discover that her exquisite Seven
Years of Plenty Milanese lace entry into the Lace Guild's Seven competition
has won the Visitors Award.
I am not at all surprised, as it is
In a message dated 23/09/2007 19:59:54 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The announcement of name change in UK appeared in this issue - #55, p. 2.
Perhaps that is because there is already a magazine named Inspirations in
England?
This 'name change' didn't sound right to me so I
Also when you are talking about the number of twists to do after gimps, it
depends on which way you do your gimps.
I know Achim said she twists twice then lifts the left hand thread to pass
the gimp through, but if you study it you will see you only then have one twist
left before the gimp.
If you do a search of the archives under Knitted pincushions it brings up
Pene's original post about a book called One Skein and replies by Lenore
English, Bev and Regina. Lenore gave the following link which maybe the one
you
want.
Recently someone posted a link for a site which had comparisons between
Shetland and other knitted lace traditions. I was sure I had bookmarked it but
if
I did, I don't know what as!
I have looked in the archives but I am not sure what the thread was and can't
trace it that way. Any help
I have just received my Lace Guild August Artifact of the month club photo.
I've been meaning to join and they read my mind and signed me up anyway,
unless there is a psychic fairy out there who knows more about this.
For those of you who are Lace Guild members and have been meaning to
Yes it's needle lace, from Zele province in Belgium. *Very* clearly written
it is a good book to learn techniques from that can then be applied to other
needle laces such as Point de Gaze. It is worked in fine cotton thread, but
the instructions make this non-threatening.
There are several
And there are also the Arachne archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/lace%40arachne.com/
No index as such, but there is a search option. This searches throught the
text as well as the titles for the key words entered.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire.
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It's not all water soluble - the Epson ink I use in my DX4800 (scanner,
photocopyer, printer) isn't, or the ones I needed for my previous one which was
a
5000 and something. Nor is the ink that the Epson little photograph printer
uses. This is one of the reasons why I don't use the cheaper
I would think that Rosemary intended to send the posting to Chat, and just
hit the wrong button. There are very few of us who have *never, ever* sent a
post to the wrong address; with e-mails one doesn't have the thinking time
available with snail-mail, and a twitch of the finger is all it
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The lovely C pin on her site listed as her own design is one from the 2nd
Century Ireland
And similar to one I have just made following instructions in Beads and
Buttons Wire Special from earlier this year.
One thing you could try to see if the pillow is a little damp is to seal it
into a plastic bag and then put it in hot sunlight for an hour or two. If the
pillow is damp, you shoul get condensation on the inside of the bag. It won't
necessarily feel damp to the touch if the moisture is deep in
Jean reminded me that when you squeeze the bottom of a convolvulus/ bindweed,
the flower pops out. I was taught about this as a very young child (by Mum?
Malvary?) and as you do it you say Granny, Granny, Jump-out-of-bed. And I
have a vague feeling that 'Granny jump out of bed' is an old
Can you give us a little bit more detail? Are we talking little triangle to
let out a bodice or enormous triangle to let out the skirt? It would also be
useful to know if the dress is fitted/tailored ie a firm fabric like satin, or
soft and gauzey and draped so we have an idea of how
As well as taking out the pin it helps you not have the central 'volcano' (as
someone else described it!) if you spread the pairs well to the sides as you
pull up the first half of the spider. This gives them room to lie flat. If
you pull them all towards you then you are encouraging
If you pretend you are going to buy one (!) and click on the colour choice at
the right hand side, you can se it in silver - wow.
Exactly the same colour bag underneath but with silver embroidery. If
anything it's even more gross than the gold one, because silver and brown and
orange
just
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http://www.museocaprai.it
Many thanks, Tiziana. I don't know if I was doing something wrong but when I
went to look at items (it's the Milanese lace I was especially interested
in), the description of the
I wrote to the seller explaining why this couldn't be a tatting shuttle and
expressing interest in the URL for his research which led him to believe it
was.
In return he sent me another e-bay link for a sale which ended on 23rd May,
where someone paid $20 for an identical item. No wonder he
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