[lace] Lace in Sri-Lanka

I don't know much about lace in Sri-Lanka, but several years ago my son was there for several weeks. During one of his strolls into the woods he came upon a small hut and a woman making bobbin lace. She allowed him to take her picture and he asked her if she could sell him a pair of bobbins (for

[lace] Thread

Hi everybody, I have been quiet for a very long time but I am still here on Arachne. While in Germany last Fall I bought three Madeira reels. I was sure that I bought Madeira Cotona 30 but when I got home I realized that I picked up Aerofil Madeira 100% polyester. It is a very fine thread for

[lace] Arachne Anniversary

Hi, I think I joined Arachne in 1998, not sure any more. I have met a lot of lace makers this way,visited them in their homes while travelling and made many new friends. Arachne was a life saver for me as there was hardly anybody in Israel who made lace at the time. I could ask for help and

[lace] Lia Looga

I met Lia at the OIDFA congress in Prague, she spoke very little English and tried to figure out how to use a public telehone and asked for my help. Since then we have been in touch . I have one of her books which I used several times. She was a wonderful lace maker and a wonderful person. May

[lace] Beeralu lace industry

Hi all, My son was in Sri Lanka three years ago, stuck waiting for his reentry visa to India. While exploring the countryside he ventured info rather secluded pla e in a forest, where to his great surprise he saw a lacemaker in front of her hut making lace. He was quite surprised. Tried to

[lace] Bookmark

Hi, Somebody asked on Arachne about the design of the bookmark with the two swans. I was looking for someting else when I came across the pattern. It has been published in the Belgium Kant magazine 2003/2. Miriam In Arad, Israel. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing

[lace] Books

Hi Arachnese, I have two books which I would like to sell. Miniatue Bobbin Lace by Roz Snowden and Lace in Miniature by Ann Collier. When I purchased them many years ago I was thinking of making a doll's house for my grand daughters. But, I soon realized that the designs of the doll house

[lace] Change e-mail address

Hi everybody, As of today I have changed my e-mail address to miriam.gid...@gmail.com I am unsubscribing from the Netvision address. I received too much junk mail through that server/ Miriam in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace] Open House

Hi everybody, A year has passed since the last open house even in Arad. All the artists and crafts people opened their houses again for three days. I am the only lace maker but the attendance was rather poor. I got the feeling that people just thought that since they have seen it last year there

[lace] Survey

I am 1C and 2B Miriam In Israel 1C and 2B - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Marlitt thread

Hi, I just got the book by Barbara Corbet on Flanders Lace. She is using a Marlitt thread as a gimp. Could anyone tell me what the equivalent for this thread is. Thanks, Miriam in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Thread question

The thread is fine crochet/tatting thread corresponding to DMC 80. It is being used for handkerchief edging. Taschentuch means handkerchief. Miria In Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] OIDFA Lace translator

Hi, As a native Israeli, who grew up on the Hebrew language and is using it daily, I right away checked on the OIDFA translations from English into Hebrew. I have studied graduated in translating so I guess I still can say something in this respect. Many of the words I found are old fashioned

[lace] Flickr

Beth wrote the problem with a closed facebook group is that it will exclude all those arachne members like myself who are not on facebook and don't intend to join .. Hi Beth, I was of the same opinion, never to join facebook, but I finally did and especially for the lace makers group and I'm

[lace] Thread book

Hi Brenda, Congratulations on your new thread book. Will there be an addendum/supplement for those who have an older edtion of your book.or willwe have to buy the new edition. Miriam In a very dusty Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

[lace] Weather and lace

It seams thwt we are also getting our fair share of old weather with snowin some parts of the country. Arad got a few flakes an a lot of rain with temperatures dropping to zero to three degrees C Now lace related. Our local library was for three months under renovations and willbe open its

[lace] Greet Rome

To all those who sent me Greet's e-mail address, thank you. I got in touch with her. Miriam in Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Greet Rome

Hi, I'm trying to find a way to contact Greet Rome. There is no contact on her web page. No way to get to her via her face book. I know she gave courses in the US . Does anyone have her e-mail address? Thanks, Miriam in Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing

[lace] Ruth Johnson

Ruth , if you are still on Arachne could you please contact me privately. If Ruth isn't a member could you pass on the message. Thanks, Miriam in Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] Threads

Hi, I have a question regarding two kinds of threads. What is soie ovale? What is Zurcher Staldeer 20/2 Thanks Miriam in Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo

[lace] Lace and crafts

Hi, I have just returned from a very interesting evening. Our cultural center which has been rather dormant for a long time due to all kind of problems has a new cultural director and one of his first ideas was to group all the artists in town together. You won't believe it , for a small town

[lace] Black silk thread

I put all the names in the hat and went over to my neighbor to take out the winner's name. The winner is Janice Blair. Janice please send me your address, I won't be in your area in the very near future. Miriam - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

[lace] Black silk thread

Hi, I have now 12 names on my list for the thread. I'll close the list tomorrow afternoon Israel time - that should be about morning in NY. GB you are only two hours behind me so this isn't too difficult. I hope only that the winner will be pleased. I can't see how much tbhreat is on the reel

[lace] Animals in Lace

Hi, I have a table cloth for a big table, made by my grandmother in filet lace. It has all kind of animals and birds. Many years ago , I think there was an article about it in Piecework by Elaine Merrit. I did send her at the time pictures of the table cloth for her to include in her article.

[lace] Bedfordshire butterflies

Hi, I found in an old Lace Magazine number 122 from April 2006 three lovely butterflies designed by Ann Shadbolt. The Procking is there but there is no mention as to what size of thread to use. Did any of you make these butterflies and what thread size did you use. Miriam in Arad, Israel - To

[lace] Adding pictures to the Arachne Album

Dear Spiders, I have finished a few UFO lately and would like to post a picture of the better ones on the Arachne Album but I have no idea how to do it. Can anyone guide me through the motions. Miriam in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

[lace] Harry Potter pattern

Hi Spiders, Did any of you attempt once a Martine Bruggeman pattern. I want to make a Harry Potter one which I found in an old OIDFA bulletin, for my granddaughter. She loves all the books and has read and reread them several times. I would like hints about how to approach Ms. Bruggeman's

[lace] Old lace magazines

Hi, I was going over some old lace magazines and was wondering what you are doing with them. Do they end up in the recycling bin or do you give them to other lace makers. I have so many magazines and I want to down size a bit. To tell the truth many are already old fashioned. There are so many

[lace] Threads

During my visit to Berlin last month I bought a very nice pattern at the small lace shop there. The pattern recommended Aurifil 12/2, so I got it also and started making the pattern right after I returned home. This was especially so that the pattern doesn't get filed as a to do project which

[lace] Threads

Thanks to all of you who answered my mail. The fact that I had trouble with my sewings doesn't mean that I didn't find ways to solve the problem. Putting in a magic thread was really not practical and would have put me off completely from finishing this piece of lace. I often use a magic thread

[lace] Need help with Brigitte Bellon pattern

Hi Vila, I made two scarves out of this book. The book is only in German , it is at first difficult to get what she is saying but once you get going it works fin. I have checked the pattern now, Attach the two parts of the pattern and use it as one repeat. Once you turn your pillow remember that

[lace] Lace in Berlin

Dear Spiders, I'll be going to Berlin in May and was wondering if there are any lace related things or places there. Are there any Arachne members in Berlin? I'll be travelling with my son but I'm sure he will have his own interests there and I'll have a lot of free time on my hands. Miriam in

[lace] Enlarging a Honiton pattern

Hi , I have some lovely silk but it is a bit too thivk for a Honiton patten. If I enlarge my pattern by, lets say, 20% would I have to enlarge the filling patterns by the same ratio.? Miriam in a cloudy and very rainy Arad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

[lace] Help needed

Dear Spiders, I have started a scarf from Brigitte Bellon's little book of Scarves and table runners. I am making the scarf number 5. I have reached the point where I have to make the rose ground . The top rose ground is really the top of a triangle . The problem is that it is just in the middle

[lace] Romanian Point Lace

Hi spiders, After many years I have taken up again RPL. I haven't done too much in the past, I have a lot of instructions and patterns. But I have one problem, what do you do when you run out of thread in the middle of a filling and can't get the thread on the needle back to the braid in order

[lace] RPL

To those who have answered so quickly to my question, thanks. I have also reached the conclusion that the best will be to undo he part until I can sew it out into a braid. Thanks, you are all great helpers, Miriam in Arad where finally it is getting cooler. - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Rosalibre

If I still remember correctly somebody was asking about the Rosalibre book. I was surfing the web and found that the book store in Brugge still has it. www.brugseboekhandel.be The choice of lace books at this shop is amazing a lot of books which you don't see at other places. Enjoy, Miriam

[lace] Nearly Finished

Hi My problem is just the opposite. I have just finished a Kortelahti Oval from the book of roses, and a Torchon bookmark. I cleaned my pillows from UFOs which were sitting there collecting dust for several years. I didn't finish the UFOs I just took them off the pillow going by the motto that

[lace] OIDFA pictures

Lorelei, Thanks for posting the pictures from the OIDFA congress. The first link opened nicely but not the second and third. At least , for those like me who stayed home this time , it was nice to get a glimpse of what sent on. Miriam in a very hot Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] OIDFA book

Now that so many of you have written they received the new OIDFA book, it clarified a few things to me. I was away for two weeks and on my return I found the book waiting for me. Had no idea why I got such a lovely present and since I know the person who mailed the book I wrote her a thank

[lace] Tying off silk threads

Hi Spiders, I'm working with Guetterman silk thread and I have trouble with knots and tying off. The knots, although hearing the little click when making it, seems to open up after several tugs. When tying off at the end I have a feeling that the knots are not firmly done and would open up

[lace] Lionen thread comparison

I was going through my thread stash today (there is plenty there) and came across a big real of linen thread. The label said Coats Barbour Linen Lace Thread No. 40/2 In Brenda's book there are plenty of Barbour listed but not Coats Barbour. Does anyone have an idea what the wrap or the

[lace] ning or mail list

Happy Birthday, Avital. Sorry I'm late but I'm just now going over about 10-15 digests. The threads are interesting so it takes a while to read. I have made a lot of friends via Arachne. Not only by corresponding with members but also by meeting them during my trips to the US or Europe. As a

[lace] How do you sit

Hi I had my share of bad experience about sitting correctly , lately. I was concentrating hard on a Bucks Point pattern, didn't realize how the time is running away. , so didn't get up to make me something to dring. I was sitting at the endge of the chair, pulled my pillow close tpo me

[lace] Sitting comfortably

Hi Shirley, I also use my office chair which I can adjust for height, but I don't always get the correct setting. I have the pillow stand I bought from you ages ago and I have to adjust the chair to the height of the stand. This time I just over did. Miriam - To unsubscribe send

[lace] Lace magazin

Hi Sue, Mine hasn't arrived yet and usually get mine before you get yours in the US. I was also starting to wonder where it is half of August is gone already. Miriam In Arad, Israel. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Exciting News

Congratulations, David. Well done. Miriam, in Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] : Hand - Holding / Who we are - How we learn

Hi, I guess I have missed the beginning of this thread. I grew up with three languages. German was spoken at home, Hebrew outside and English in school. When it came to lacemaking I had a teacher who came from Prague. There were no lace words in Hebrew so she translated some from her

[lace] Dragon

Since there was so much talk about dragons, I have uploaded mine to the webshots. That is Avital helped me. Thanks Avital. I found the picture a long time ago on the net and made my own version out of it. The original was also in bobbin lace. Enjoy, Miriam In Israel - To

[lace] Karen in Malta

Congratulations Karen. Well done. Miriam In Israel - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Webshots

Hi, Can anyone refresh my memory of how to add a photo to the arachne webshots. I have already an album there and would like to add a picture of my latest piece of lace. Thanks , Miriam In Arad, Where winter finally arrived yesterday And it didn't stop raining for 2 days. - To

[lace] Kortelahti Pattern

Dear Spiders, I need your help. I want to make the center piece on page86 (leinikkipelto) in the book Let's make bobbin lace by Eva-Lisa Kortelahti. The pattern has two parts which, as far as I understand are worked separately but yet one part is joined to the other part in some stage of

[lace] Looking for Erica McLeod

Hi, Is Erica McLeod from NZ still on the list? If not does any of you have her e-mail address. I can't find hers, must have gone down the drain with lots of my files last year. Have a Happy New Year with lots of nice lacemaking in the future. Miriam in Arad Israel - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Lace in Southern France

Hi, I'll be going to Marseilles for a week and was wondering if there is any lace related stuff there. Perhaps our French Arachnes can help me. Miriam - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] travel pillow

Hi, I had a look at Theo Brejaart's web page and had a look at the Finish pillow. There is a lacemaker in Washington State who makes something similar. I have seen her pillows while at the lace convention in Victoria. Her name is Marj. More than that I don't know. She shared a cluster with me.

[lace] Is lace declining?

Hi, It is strange how trends and hobbies change. When I first came to the States in 1964, I was a students wife and wasn't allowed to work. So I wanted to do some crafts. I must say I was very disappointed in what I found in LA and the area. There was a bit of yarn in the department stores,

[lace] e-mail address

This has been on the list just a short while ago. I'm looking for the e-mail of Barbara Fey in Germany. I thought I had it in her catalogue , But it doesn't appear there nor at her add in the German lace magazine. So I would appreciate it if one of you can send it to me. While I'm at it I

[lace] Crochet curtain

Dear Spider, I'm in need of ideas. I have a crochet curtain, which I have made in my living room. It is about 70 cm wide and 150 cms long. After the fire, the people who cleaned the house just took the curtain off the rod and sent it to the cleaners. (I was in the States at the time,

[lace] summer/winter projects

Hi Bev and all other busy spiders, I'm back at the pillow and have started making the logarithmic lace I was asking about. For this project, I had to clear a lot of bobbins, so in order not to waste too much thread , at least, I managed to finish some old projects. It was a good idea to get

[lace] Logarithmic Lace

Hi, I have been interested in making some logarithmic lace , for a long time, but there were always other projects to be finished. Right now I'm in a kind of in between stage. My imagination isn't at its best for designing right now, so I decided to give it a go. I would like to make the

[lace] News from Retournac Museum

Tamara, In general I do agree with what you said. But this time , the long list of e-mail addresses came in just in time . I lost an e-mail addy of a friend and thanks to her being on Retournac's mail list I finally could write to her again. So sometimes there are also advantages. Miriam in

[lace] Victoria Lace Convention

Hi spiders, I have arrived back home after a wonderful vacation in the USA and Canada. I started off in Chicago visiting my son and family and continued to Ottawa just after Memorial Day. There I stayed with a childhood friend of mine. She and Malvary arranged a lovely small lace gathering for