If you aren't confident drawing the lines on your pricking, then be all means
you it lightly in pencil first. Draw the permanent lines in a waterproof
fibretip type pen and then use a soft eraser to remove any traces of pencil as
this will rub off onto the lace.
Do not use a biro type pen, as
After meeting Rosemary Shepherd when I phoned her daughter's house to order
Fantasy Flowers, and learning I am subscribed to arachne, she has e-mailed to
ask me to forward the following post to arachne to clarify the position
regarding her new book. I have ageed to because I feel it's fair we
Helene asked What does the X stand for?
Instead of sayin EX, say cross then it works. But like Sue I remember it as
being Y
Jacquie
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Looks good from the cover, very tempting, but don't get too carried away over
the bidding. I'd guess it is for sale by the author or author's contact.
If you go to the seller's other items he/she has three copies for sale at the
moment, so don't bid over the buy it now price of 17 euros/$23,
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What you are all saying is
that it is OK to take someone's work and use it for one's own material gain?
That isn't how I read the posts on this subject at all. What they do all
seem to be saying is that it
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As far as I'm concerned, only two laces belong in that group:
Milanese and Chrysanthemum. And, of the 2, Chrysanthemum is iffy, on
the fence, as it were, since it uses only one decorated braid (and
that
The second Elsie Luxton book has directions for sewing a Honiton lace motif
to fabric (ie handkerchief corner) and finishing the rest of the edge.
As I looked for the book to give you its name I realised it's not there. I
must look in my library book to see which student has it, because
Esther asked about a series of books she had read
As a young girl I really enjoyed a series of book about 'the five'
five girls, the ringleader was a girl named Georgina, but know as
George due to the fact that she was a tomboy.
Although the Famous Five has been suggested for this and it seems
A quick flick through the Bucks. Cottage Workers Agency book, not dated but
after 1911 so from the fashions as well, a little earlier than your book,
reveals only one Bucks collar. Lots of Beds and Irish crochet(?) and a Bucks
neckband - very Edwardian.
The collar is marked as 8/6, 10/-, 12/6
According to Anna Crutchley, in The Tassels Book, passementerie is the
making of tassels and trimmings. She says it is a hybrid craft. It employs the
talents of the cordspinner, weaver and tassel maker, each of whom works to a
high level of skill and expertise. They in turn are answerable to
As this thread is still around is there anyone out there in arachne-land who
can answer my question.
We don't have a television anymore because a couple of years ago when the
license was due for renewal, we worked out that the previous year's two or
three
programmes we had watched had cost us
Almost as soon as I sent my query re DVD/video to chat I got the next digest.
So I read through all the posts and there was mine at the end.
BUT, when it left me (and I've checked) it read the previous year's two or
three programmes we had watched had cost us about (thirty pounds) each.
The
When I had a very basic roller pillow with no satisfactory anchor to
stabilise the roller I found the most effective way to hold it was by using a piece of
tape or ribbon over the top of each end of the roller with the front ends
pinned into the pillow near the roller (they are mainly needed to
I did try wedges first, but I think that perhaps the roller didn't sit very
deeply into the hole, and it was just a roller with no central dowel to slide
into grooves. It literally pushed into the box and the hole was not very
deep. I think that maybe the maker thought it fitted tightly
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how does Fimo work for making beads for spangles?
Some of my very first painted bobbins bought in the early 1980s came with
Fimo beads colour co-ordinated with the painting and they still look like new
after
Whether I have been lucky or not, over the last couple of years I have been
using the Colcoton Unikat threads quite a lot - including pale green and pale
turquoise-green and have had no problems at all with any of the colours
breaking, in either of the thicknesses. Unfortunately there is not a
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although like everything
else in lacemaking, some people find them difficult, and others do not.
In one class I was teaching, one quite experienced lacemaker had managed to
avoid tallies with her previous
I have got the ordinary 'shelf' type fitments that consist of two metal
strips with slots in screwed to the wall. The triangular brackets that the
shelf
itself fits on are available in lots of sizes (for different shelf widths) and
I use those for the pillows - without a shelf first. The
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger
But these aren't English, they are American. We have aubergines and
beefburgers.
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But + 10 euros postage surface mail to the UK.amp;nbsp; I keep thinking about
it, but nearly £11 a copy..
Jacquie
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I rather like the idea of having one class all-day for 2 days,
followed by a different class all-day for two days. I can use the same
equipment for the second class, which means I pack half as much.
The bit
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The contact at the front is Larkfield
Crafts, Hilary Ricketts, 4 Island Cottages, Mapledurwell, Basingstoke,
Hants, tel: Hackwood 6585.
Hilary is now married to Stephen Pearce who makes the bone bobbins,
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I don't see the *need* to pre-prick a pattern
Time to add my tuppence worth. The *need* depends very much on the lace you
are making. It is relatively easy to prick-as-you-go when you are doing lace
of
Just loved your story, Liz.
One of my best is when we were demonstrating lacemaking at an exhibition, one
lady hovered for ages, then asked if lace bobbins were sold in John Lewis (a
well known English department store). We said it was possible, but not
likely, and offered her lace supply and
I have always been a bit wary about the picots that are made from twisted
threads looped around the pin without separating the threads; someone told me
many years ago that she had been shown them in Bruges but they didn't always seem
to work as well as our more traditionally made Bucks picot,
Reviving a topic from a couple of weeks ago regarding when were corners
worked as distinct from gathering the lace.
I have just had another glance through the November 2003 Lace Society
newsletter prior to filing it, and noticed that in the extract from The Illustrated
London News February
Roslyn wrote:
I read this week a filler in the paper that said all the famous lacemakers
were men.
As this contentious statement has caused us some degree of bewilderment and
speculation, could we ask Roslyn to contact the paper to ask why the author of
the article believes this to be so.
From my previous experiments, it makes not the slightest bit of difference to
the raised-ness of the gimp which way you pass it through. It's your good
tension that does that. Because you are working on flat, the thread under the
gimp takes the shortest route from pin to pin; the over thread
Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight safety
lecture and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some
real examples that have been heard or reported:
1. From a Southwest Airlines employee: There may be 50 ways to leave your
lover, but
there are
Marilyn Monroe had six toes
Just the 6? Or 6 on each foot! Makes me think of her feet looking like
Mickey Mouse's hands with three fingers, but without the thumbs of course.
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I think it's the plastic that is used for marble look pens etc. If I'm right
then it's what Alan Hazel at Ash Woodturning uses in conjuntion with wood. I
have some of his bobbins and very beautiful they are too. Feels good and is
about the same weight as wood so the bobbins don't feel odd as
The only thing it reminds me of are the tools used for making either rugs, on
this scale, or on a small scale for doing a fine, velvet like embroidery.
But the photo isn't very good and it's hard to see if there is a
needle/prodder at the bottom (it may be retracted as there looks as if there
I have moved my comments to chat as they are no longer at all lace related.
My partner is colour blind, and is the first person I had ever met who is.
His affliction doesn't work at all as I had always thought of colour
blindness - if I'd thought of it much at all.
I suppose if I had
For those of you in Britain waiting to order Tess's amazing Lace CD #2, we
have recently had two packages from America.
The first was posted on 27th October (in KS) and arrived on the 30th, the
second was posted on the 30th (NY) and arrived on 3rd November.
It would appear that whatever
For those of you in Britain waiting to order Tess's amazing Lace CD #2, we
have recently had two packages from America.
The first was posted on 27th October (in KS) and arrived on the 30th, the
second was posted on the 30th (NY) and arrived on 3rd November.
It would appear that whatever
Shirlee,
Brenda Paternoster's book Threads for Lace 2 will answer ALL your thread
questions.I'm sure someone will tell you who to get it from in the States -
and it's not too expensive. Brenda also does updates whenever she finds a new
thread and these are posted on her website. If you
According to Brenda Paternoster's Threads for Lace Coat's #40 is 23 wraps per
cm so the equivalent in DMC is #50. DMC #40 is 22wpc.
Jacquie
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This was sent to us by a friend who is very anti-speeding camera, which I
don't quite understand as he is also paranoid about sticking to speed limits! I
don't know it it's true but I thought it was just about believable.
Four youths from Canberra, Australia pulled off a trick of breathtaking
I don't know anything about ramie, but all threads can be used to make lace.
The important thing is to get the right size/scale pricking for the thread,
do a sample to see what it feels like made up, and then use it for
appropriate things.
For example, let's say you use a thickish
and it became evident that the regions near the beaches would be under water
very quickly if the ice at the poles started to melt!
Don't blame the Arctic for this one. The only ice that can raise sea level
is ice on top of land. I know it doesn't seem logical but if you don't believe
it,
I can't resist throwing in my pennyworth. If we assume that the seller
assumes (like a lot of non-lacemakers) that mentioning Nottingham assures us
of its
authenticity - even though we know better - then we can probably also assume
he/she is thinking of Midlands lace.
Now although I can believe
As far as tractors are concerned, 50 yrs plus are vintage, newer old ones
are classics - and I think those two classes apply to cars as well. The older
cars (as in the old film, Genevieve and the London to Brighton car run) are
veterans - but with those I believe there is a statutory cut-off
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How does the seller know this bobbin was hand whittled?
Looks turned to me. I don't think any of my this old bobbins are still
spherical, but maybe they're all whittled! They all have flat areas because they
After all the recent talk about different ways of picking up bobbins, I was
interested read this morning in the new Lace Society newsletter, an article by
Marjorie Carter about Mrs Janes, a professional Bedfordshire lace maker,
taught as a little girl at the end of the 19th century.
She used
I'll get in in front of big sister here with the talk of wedding
anniversaries and ask, does anyone know what a 70th anniversary is? Apart from a
minor
miracle. I hope it has a recognisable colour theme.
January next year is our parents' 70th, and also next year they are both 90!
Both
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It would be interesting to find out what fan makers used during the
1900s before these synthetic adhesives were around.
While not suggesting for a moment that she would remember what adhesives fan
makers
Many thanks, Jeri, for forwarding that. It will go in my copy, bought on
e-bay, that started all the controversy! I borrowed this book many, many years
ago from a library and have coveted it ever since. And many thanks to Jean,
who started it all, as it was her that brought it to my
Could be just coincidence but I wondered if the new demime feature is being
extra vigilent in some way. Before the two quiet list posts, just recently
received, the post from Liz was the last one I got.
Jacquie
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For mending linen, I would only use a linen thread. If, when you have found
the right thickness thread, you are anxious about whether it will be strong
enough to darn with, consider drawing it over bee's wax before you sew. Do a
practise/sample on a scrap of fabric to check, but I am fairly
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