Re: [lace] Fan Sticks

2004-10-13 Thread Peter Thomsen
Dear Margaret, could you find in UK the cleanig-material for porcelain-doll? This is also possible to use for bone-sticks. Otherwise if you come to Germany I can give you the adress from the specialist for ivory, mother-in-pearl and all such materials. He lives ear Bremen. And I myself sent him

[lace] Re:Test

2004-10-08 Thread Peter Thomsen
Only a test. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: pictures

2004-10-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, there are fotos in my webshot-album under http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 a collar from Hrdlicka and three others from G.Peche. I took them from books tha's why I delete it in a few days. Two of them aren't my normal technicel standart, sorry for that. Greetings

Re: [lace] Jugendstil laces

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Margot, Here and in Austria we have the Jugendstil time from 1895 till only 1910. And what you are suspected is more what Hrdlicka designed. The so called Austria-laces were invited to have a hand made bobbin-lace who is quick to do that she could excist in competition with machine-made la

Re: [lace] Dagobert Peche/Minne-Dansaert

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon, The Wiener Werkstätten was founded in 1913 as a place were artist had the possibility to work without the problems of money, what means the cost of a working room and the high cost of material. Their product were often bought from the institution and sold in their own shops. The K.

Re: [lace] Re: Jugendstil lace..

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Brenda, At that time they have the so called Blaupausen. I can't explain this in english. Perhaps somebody else can. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Femten Bredere: Tonderkniplinger

2004-10-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
This book you can order from Barbara Fay. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Jugendstil lace..

2004-09-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Robin, Thank you for clearing the terms. So it is more logical. But people I spoke with and still articles I read about Jugendstil, Art Deco and so on had always only one word and this was confusing for me. Because, how to wrote, after the floral style the geometric came. Yesterday I ment

Re: [lace] Jugendstil laces

2004-09-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Actually we have both Jugendstil and Art Deco, in english is only one word. Start with the beginning. The movement called Jugendstil in german who started about 1895 got its name after the Munich magazin "Jugend"(Youth). This movement was first in architecture but very quick

Re: [lace] RE: Thank God - IT IS DONE!!!

2004-09-26 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Silvia, Thank you for charing your wonderful work with us. It is well done. Congratulations. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Lace Peacocks Book & Lace Fans Book adresses

2004-09-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Just back but not yet here. The Deutscher Klöppelverband has changed its adress a while ago and has also changed e-mail-adress. Here they are: Deutscher Klöppelverband e. V. Schloss Zweibrüggen Zweibrüggen 40 D-52531 Übach-Palenberg Germany Tel: +49(0)2451/49985Mo - Do 8.0

[lace] Re: Hurricane

2004-09-15 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, All my best wishes for those of us who are involved in this awful natural phenomenon. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re:Translations German-English

2004-09-06 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Jeri and all Others, The Deutscher Klöppelverband knows this problem concerning translation in other languages. It is a question of money. As you all know our lace-books aren't cheap because of the small edition. And professionel translaters aren't cheap either and finding people who have

[lace] Re: pronounciation

2004-09-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon, How should I pronounce it for the slide show. If I say Point, do I sound like a boob? If I say Pwont will the audience be so busy puzzling out what I am saying that they will miss the rest of the commentary? Will some people think me elitist? I don't think so. The laces have their

Re: [lace] lace in sculptures

2004-09-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
They are gorgeous! You are right. Thank you. I have a smaller one from a prussian Duchesse/Queen. I put it in my webshot-album the next day. Greetings Ilske http://www.fioretombolo.net/monumentale1.htm http://www.fioretombolo.net/monumentale2.htm Enjoy them! I did a lot. - To unsubscribe send

Re: [lace] Lacemakers in Austria.

2004-09-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Ewa, If you like I can put your mail with a german translation to the Spitzenliste. And your girlfriend can come to this list if she wants. The adress is http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/spitzenliste/ There she has to answer some questions and after done this she is a member. The langu

Re: [lace] Re: New Austrian Lace Book for Art Nouveau Lovers

2004-09-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, You can buy the book "Austria-Spitze" by Barbara Fay. And those of you who are or live near the northern part of Germany can come to Rendsburg, Niederes Arsenal, Paradeplatz 11 on sunday 5th of september 2004. There take place the "Klöppeln zwischen den Meeren" from 10.00 ti

Re: [lace] working diagrams

2004-08-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Dorte, There is a lot of gaps in the story, and the Tonder lace diagrams has original more colours then the 4 we use now. The german, the belge and the french diagramms too have more then four colours. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: uns

Re: [lace] 'DVT'

2004-08-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
All I can say is that if you can get to see any of the places which we visited do. Most of the towns will be on the Czech Tourist Board site I would think and maybe you could do the tour at a more leisurely pace. From a still mentally exhausted Sheila in Sawbridgeworth, E.Herts. But those who c

Re: [lace] 16th century

2004-08-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Adele and All, You are right. It is a problem, when Germans say f. e. 18th cent. theey mean the years from 1700 till 1799. But my swedish girl friend told me they mean from 1800 till 1899. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lac

Re: [lace] RE: lace (or lack of) in Suriname

2004-08-11 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Michelle, Thank you for this informatve report and all the best for your group. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Lost Items

2004-08-11 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Well, after 20 years or so, there has been a new twist to that story, and it appears she was found - in a dingo's mouth, but as the 4 guys were illegally shooting in a National Park and shot the dingo, the were afraid to come clean, and so the baby's body was taken by one of the guys and buried -

[lace] Re: Elena Holéczyová

2004-08-10 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date Here you can now see all three pictures from Elena's work. All three are in the Slovenskej Národnej Galérie in Bratislave. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

[lace] Re: webshots

2004-08-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Since saterday afternoon i am trying to do some fotos from Elena Holéczyová in my foto-album. The first worked immediately. The next not I get allways the remark. ..is in the moment not I try again tomorrow. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [lace] Greek lace book details, please

2004-08-06 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Helene, Do you mean the book from Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This book you can buy by B. Fay or directly by the Museum. The ISBN 960-518-052-9 It is a wonderful book but not only bobbin lace in. The Greek call different other things also lace. The answer of your mail from ? co

[lace] Re: Map

2004-08-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello, There is a rough map from Czech Rep. so you could see where the places are. http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Lace-tour 3 and end

2004-08-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Thursday, the we had three guides, to Vera and Jan come Milca Eremiasová and we travelled again to the south-est and reached after lunch Bratislava in the Slovacian Rep. This city has a wonderful atmosphere, so lively. At home I read in the guide that they are "only" 400.000

[lace] Re: Lace-tour 2

2004-08-04 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Helo again, Yesterday I mentioned Marie Sedlácková-Serbousková, today I will tell you a bit more about her. Then she is the "mother" of modern czech lace. She is born in june 1895 in Javornice at the foothills of the Eagle Mountain, nearby Vamberk. A region were people make bobbin-laces for ab

[lace] Re: Lace-tour

2004-08-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Sorry but I couldn't write my report earlier. Yesterday I thaught, it's too late. But then I read Noelene's mail so I do it, better late than never. Monday 19th July 2004 at 7.00 we started travelling west. The landscape was like the english garden-landscape. Shortly before P

Re: [lace] meaning of "calico" in Australia or England

2004-07-31 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Devon, My textile encyclopedia says under Kaliko: After the indian city Calicut. A canvas in linen-binding cotton. Used if it is colour-printed for overalls, coats and aprons. With heavy starch today only sometimes together with synthetic leather as book-covers. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe

Re: [lace] Prague

2004-07-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody, I did some pictures of Czech national Costumes in the Arachne webshots album. They are from the museum in Lethorad. Under. http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date in Ilske's Fotos Here summer has come nearly as warm as in Prague. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe sen

Re: [lace] Czech stiffener

2004-07-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
I took Milca Eremiasova's workshop and she has switched from a Czech stiffener to a Dutch one called 'Feutrex'. It is brushed on the lace while it is still pinned to the pillow and dries in about 30 minutes. I don't know anything else about it. Maybe one of the Dutch Arachneans can help out?

Re: [lace] Galerie Vlasta

2004-07-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Janice, When I was, together with Miriam and Pompi at Galerie Vlasta it was still closed(saturday after 1.oo p.m.). So we could only look trough the windows. But I can asume you that the czechs use things for stiffening pur chemie. And here in Germany I can buy metall-thread in very bright

[lace] Re: not lace

2004-07-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Janis Savage, Are you on the list? If so please mail me privately. Thanks Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Back from Prague

2004-07-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello All, No most of the daily things are done and the bad rainy and cold (14 degrees C) weather from sunday evening goes to better so I'll try to tell you my impressions. I hope that you agree when I start with the Jewish Textile Galerie. It started with Synagoge Curtains, the oldest one from

Re: [lace] lace on Czech folk costumes and back from Prague

2004-07-27 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, On sunday evening I arrived at home sain and save and punctual, with lots of wonderful czech impressions and adventures, happy to has saw all we did but tired (more then once the Moscow-tiredness). Haven't worked through all my 321 mails found this so I answer. It was in Letoh

[lace] Re: Another family story

2004-07-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Sorry, I forget the most important thing. When I designed my first pattern, a Torchon-lace, I named it after her Hertha. To say her thank you for this wonderful craft she "gave" me. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROT

[lace] Re: Another family story

2004-07-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends, My story is a short one. For about 17 years I met a young lady on a Christmas-market which did bobbin-lace. At the same moment I remembered that my aunt, which was paralyzed on her right side, from face til the tip of her toes since she was 15, once made this only with her lef

Re: [lace] UFOs

2004-07-05 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
She has amazing talents for thinking of alternative ways of doing a piece. One piece of torchon can be become 6 different looking ones, just by changing colours, the direction of the coloured threads, and the number of bobbins in each colour. Helene, And don't forget changing the stitches in groun

[lace] Re: Denmark - lace-history II and end (sorry very long)

2004-07-04 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Good Morning Everybody, Hoping I didn't bore yesterday I will write the rest. All my informations are from my lace-books and what I found in danish Museums, most of them in Tönder Museum and what I learned in Lorenzen's Gard. The number of lace-dealers grew steadily too, and in the civic lists

[lace] Re: lace-Historie Danmark I (long)

2004-07-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends, Before my Liebermann-weekend in Berlin and than my trip to Prague I will write this promised report. I want that, if the danish list-members know something more about this theme or if something isn't right, will write to the list. So we find out as much as possible. Some parts

Re: [lace] Sleeves

2004-07-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jeri, Thank you for this interesting explanations about sleeves. You will see mine in Prague and tha you will think - How times have changed- Have agood and save trip to Budapest, see you in Prague. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsu

Re: [lace] valuation of lace/large or small pieces

2004-07-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon, I notice that there is very little interest in machine made lace among lacemakers since we are all looking to take a piece of handmade lace home and study it under a magnifying glass. We are looking for technique, not design. I once visited a class where we made the machine-made-lace

Re: [lace] informal survey

2004-07-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Beth, Is the bedspread in squars? Than you could make very modern sleeves for a blouse or a dress, take it with one of the corner in the middle of the shoulder and sew on the two sides going from this point and ready is it. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Re: hazard of lace addiction

2004-07-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
You are now duly warned -- making lace is addictive! The more you learn, the more you want to learn. This I can underline with both of my hands, it is a wonderful addiction and I hope I still have lots of years to learn more and more and more Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PR

Re: [lace] survey

2004-07-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Lorelei, This part of your mail remind me on my beginning with Binche I finally decided I had done enough Flanders preparation, and moved on to Binche (which had always been my goal). There were once three of us who wished to go to Kerkrade for a Binche-class with Annemarie Verbeke, it was in 19

Re: [lace] Current projects

2004-07-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Just finished the mounting of my lace-sleeves (short ones) and as usual lying into this deep hole after such a big work. Thinking it wasn't worth to spent so much time for this and so on. Does this happene to some of you also? Reading about your current projects I will tel you of mine. The nex

Re: [lace] tape lace

2004-06-26 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Carolina, Could you find out a bit more precise since when the Witch Stitch Lace was made in Spain. Could this lace belong to the laces they invate at the end of the 19./beginning of 20.cent.? At that time in the part of Europe I know better than Spain everywhere new laces were invated to

lace@arachne.com

2004-06-25 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo, Just to let you know the german lacers get the book finally too. I got mine this morning from B. Fay. I had a long talk with them in tönder therefore i know that it wasn't easy to get this book. Hope you could share my joy. Greetings from stormy, stormy Hamburg in Germany Ilske - To unsub

[lace] Re: [Danmark store hjerte

2004-06-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo All, I have this pricking and when I remember right I got it from a danish list member, it was in a copie of the danish knipling organisation. It is also to get from Karelly under the number1026. Hoping this helps. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

Re: [lace] Sally Barry's books and lace

2004-06-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Sally said the pattern for the Big Danish Hearts is in Karen Trend Nissing's book "Knipling 3". And the smaller lace on the other two sides is Little Danish Hearts. It is in this book but only as a picture not as a pricking. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] contai

Re: [lace] Bucks tablecloth (!) on ebay

2004-06-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
For me it looks like Tambour-work or embroidery but no and never as bobbinlace. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] OIDFA taxi share

2004-06-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Would anybody like to share a taxi from airport to University in Prague with me too but on July 15. at 10.50 a.m. Ilske from Hamburg in Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PRO

Re: [lace] Masters Thesis on American Lacemaking

2004-06-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Devon, Michelle has done a great job of pulling it all together, especially when one considers how little *truly American* lace there has been made in the short time US has been US. I think this would be interesting for all list-members especialy those who are interested in lace-history. Could th

[lace] Re: Knipling-Festival in Tönder 3 (long)

2004-06-12 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello everybody, Jenfeld, the part of Hamburg , we live celebtate its 700year- jubilee, that's why I am a bit late. We have here an archive/museum which is normaly only once a month open. So I forgot allways to go there and have a look, but now it is open all the days of the celebration and we

[lace] Re: Knipling-Festival in Tönder 2

2004-06-09 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, On saterday mornig I started my "exhibition tour" at Tönder Museum.In the big room upstairs where mostly are the lace-exhibitions with the paintings on the wall and the furniture they show us the Lace-Collection of Helene (1845 - 1932) and Peter (1840 - 1922) Karberg. Helene

[lace] Re: Kniplings-Festival in Tönder

2004-06-07 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends. After done the most important household-requests i will start my Tönder reports, yes I am afraid I need several hoping it will not bore you. Friday morning, it was raining cats and dogs, we started to the north. The first stop was in Flensburg the Museum of the City. In the same

Re: [lace] Prague

2004-06-07 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Margot, hello Jeri and all others, As I understood Elaine she wants to gether the members of the list, but perhaps I am wrong. I send her my name and she accepted it. Unhappily I didn't manage to met her in Tönder. But if you want to be only the US-members or only this or that nation I wi

Re: [lace] seven

2004-06-02 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
The cats in Germany have also seven lifes. So i will adopte the canadian version, nine are more. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Tönder-Festival

2004-06-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Very quick a bit about the festival. It was for the first time in 1989, since then every three years on the first weekend of june it take place and it lasted three days. In january 18th 1990 the society was founded and admits interested individuals, societies and institutions.

[lace] Re: Tönder

2004-05-31 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, Looking through my old Tönder things i had the idea to tell something about , for those of you who have never been there or couldn't come this year. Tönder is the oldest danish city who got the official town charter. It is mentioned for the first time in 1130 as a harbour-town

[lace] Re; prizes

2004-05-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello All Winners, Congratulation to you all from Germany Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: webshots

2004-05-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, It's long time ago I promised you to show you some more of my collars. But the changing of "Cats" wasn't as easy as I thought. So here they are. Both are designed by Jana Novak and I made it in coulours I like and are fitting to what I want to wear. Have fun looking at them. Gr

[lace] Re: duplication of ideas (not short)

2004-05-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends, I'm not able to comment on all this opinions, as I'm not familiar with either of this books. But after looking up the site Lorelei mentioned I must say all this flowers look nice and individuell and in a way like real. And if you design a five petal flower it looks like in nat

Re: [lace] Thread

2004-05-08 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Irene, Am I right in thinking that Russian tape lace done is usually done in white Mostly it is but you can find lots of wonderful laces where the fillings are in colour and you have difficulies to see where this coloured threads in the tape is. And there are totally coloured tape-laces a

Re: [lace] Fwd: [lace-chat] Prague

2004-05-06 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Tamara, hello Lacefriends, In Pragur they have still their "old" currency and not the Euro. At the airoport from Prague is at least one possibility to change money after arriving. I am sure that some of the shops, restaurants and in the hotels too will accept plastic but not the small one

[lace] Re: fist-of-mai-customs

2004-04-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Sorry, sorry, sorry the kiss for the tcheque women must take part under a blooming cherry-tree Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Lace in the V & A book

2004-04-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello jane, hello lacefriends, This summer you could buy a book about Austria-lace. Poldi Winkler from Austria make it. She reconstructed lots of laces called Austia-lace wich dated to the beginning of 20th cent. In this book you will find also a historical part. If this is about all the Austria

[lace] Re: OIDFA

2004-04-27 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Especielly those coming to Prague, here is an important information how to come to the University, I got from Silvie Bagnaro after asking it : thank you and here is the info: At the airport you will take a city bus No. 119 till the last stop called Dejvicka, there you will use

[lace] Re. not lace-irritating mails

2004-04-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, Coming back from the congress of Deutscher Klöppelverband I found in my mail-box some strange mails. Often saying failed messages. Some of them have adresses from people who are on the list others have adresses I never saw before. Since yesterday I get some only with the pictu

Re: [lace] meaning of spangles

2004-03-30 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Jo, You are right, some do have special meanings, but I am not the right person to answer. Perhaps our danish and english members could and will do so. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write

[lace] Re: Prague

2004-03-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear lacefriends who come to Prague, I have a question. In the bulletin about the congress they wrote, that the lacetour end on July 23, but no the exact time. So I asked in Prague if they now when? They answered me imediately and told me that there will be a meal in the evening and that we sta

Re: [lace] Floral Torchon

2004-03-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Elizabeth, I personally heard the name Floral-Torchon. But I know a lot of womderful designs in Torchon with flowers in. So perhaps to differ from the geometric designs this name is used from some people. To add new threads which go out otherwords you could have with Torchon also in corner

[lace] Re: search for Marie from Prague

2004-03-27 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Marie, Are you still on the list? If so could you please be so kind and answer me. Ilske from Hamburg in Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Teachers and teachings

2004-03-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lynn, There are no stupid questions between lacemakers. There are only people who know a bit more then others, and therefore we have the list where we can ask and get answers. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [lace] Ornery?

2004-03-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody, In my American Heritage Dictionary from 1982 I found under ornery, i-er, i-est: of a stubborn and meanspirited nature (Alteration of Ordinary). Hope this helps. Greetings from rainy and grey Hamburg in Germany Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

Re: [lace] Young ones

2004-03-19 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
It's such a thrill to pass the skill on to someone so young! That's my experience too. But it is always nice to people around which are eager to learn something. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EM

Re: [lace] shawl

2004-03-19 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody, First I allways thought a shawl isn't a thing to do in lace but after a while I wanted one and I started. Fisrt for the design - this I found after a while but as usual for me I make some chances. After that I decided it not make as broad as most do because I thaught if it is d

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

2004-02-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
The heroine starts out as a down-trodden young woman who turns to a benevolent man who owns a lace shop. She has refined skills as a needle lacemaker and he hires her. From this beginning, she eventually marries extremely well, buys the lace shop, and invents bobbin lace. Seems a very unlikely s

Re: [lace] OIDFA Congress/Prague

2004-02-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Tamara, If I put down for the cheapest lodging (double room, sharing the bathroom with another such, on campus), do I have to "provide" my own roommate, or will the organisers find myself one As I understood it one must find oneself. There is a line you should wright down the name of your

[lace] Re: 17. Cent. lacemaker

2004-02-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello, I forgot to tell you there is a painting from Vermeer "The look out of the window" where you see a woman sitting on her house steps an doing lace. This could be a proof what a Netherland lace-teacher me told that at that time "The golden Century" most women in the part called Holland c

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

2004-02-28 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, The art-world didn't know much of the private life of Vermeer that's why I didn't like this book. In this book he is shown as a fanatic which didn't care of other peoples feeling. And there is not much in about life in the Netherlands of 17.cent. If there is somebody who is se

[lace] Re: The Depiction of......

2004-02-25 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
As I didn't know of any sources - except maybe the book "Girl With A Pearl Earring" - I was wondering if any people here might be able to help her. I didn't think so this novel is fiction and unhappily not the best one. The book "Girl in Hyacinthblue" from Susan Vreeland describes that time m

Re: [lace] Out of print?

2004-02-24 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
At Guild last night, two of our new members reported that they had tried to find copies of Cook's "Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace" and after several unsuccessful attempts, learned that the book is out of print! Can this be true!? hello Clay, yes that could be so. Sad but true Ilske - To unsubscri

[lace] Re: Binche

2004-02-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon, That's exactly what I feel about laces especialy what is called Guipure-lace. When I visited Binche about 5 years ago a fsaw in the museum there (it is not a lace museum it is about Carneval but very interesting) an article from M. Risselin- Steenebrugen, when I am not wrong about

[lace] Re. webshots

2004-01-17 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, Today the machine accepted my Violets. They are seen on: community.wwebshots.com/user/ Greetings from very dark, cold, rainy, in one word - ugly Hamburg in Germany Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [lace] Re: still ?

2004-01-15 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Avital give us this site to show our pictures: community.webshots.com/user/arachne 2003 And I am ofte astonished that this got no more attention in our lively group. I personally showed there til ow different things. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsub

Re: [lace] Bookmarks

2004-01-08 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hallo Rose-Marie, In the book 101 torchon-patterns ten of them are bookmarks. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-01-01 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Devon, In my opinion the worth of machine-made lace is a very personel one. There are pieces who take your breathe away. Have you ever been in Le Puy and there in the museum ? There you found hundreds of old machine-made laces they look not only for the first but also for the seond and third

[lace] Re: webshots

2003-12-31 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello dear Lacefriends, I wish you all a peaceful and happy New Year. I changed again my webshots to show you some of my workshops. There was about six hours of time to do them. The bigger one who needs more time is still missing because the machine refuse to upload it. Ilske from sunny Hamburg in

Re: [lace] De la crise de la sardine a l'age d'or de la dentelle

2003-12-22 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Sofe, Could you please explain the title of this book (De la Crise ...), I can translate it but it make no sense for me. Thank you. Happy Christmas to all Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: help about a website

2003-12-21 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends, A week or two ago we discussed english bobbins. One of you gave us a web-side which I forgot to mark. The wonderful article with pictures was signed with Brian, and I understood he is a bobbin-maker himself. Could you send me this adress again please. Have a nice 4. Advent sunday,

Re: [lace] advent calendar

2003-12-16 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
am 16.12.2003 3:45 Uhr schrieb Merlene unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I thank you for putting the Advent Calendar together each year. I am in great > anticipation > of each new day. The heart on day 8, is it an original or could I find it in a > book somewhere? > I would love to make it up. Also the

[lace] Re Famous lacemakers and songs

2003-12-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Everybody, In a prospctus about Bedford Lacemaking they wrote: "In the early years of 16th century, Katharine of Aragon was imprisoned in Ampthill whilst divorce proceedings were taken against her by King Henry VII. It is believed that she taught the villagers lacmaking." And later:" Did you

[lace] Re: Famous Lacemakers

2003-12-14 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Should we perhaps first make the definition of famous in this case. Where only in some countries or all over the world. Famous for the technique or for design or for social behaviour like Barbara Uthmann? I think that Leni Matthaei is famous for her designs but she couldn't realy

[lace] Re: translated pieces for some of you

2003-12-11 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear lacefriends, This of you I translated this or that must not ask my permission to give this to other lace-friends privately. We couldn't print this because than we need the permission of the person who wrote the book. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

Re: [lace] Translation, please

2003-12-10 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Dear Jeri, The problem is that translation takes so much time. I once tranlsted the book from B. Underwood "A Bedfordshire lace Collection" in german for my companion in my lace-class. Don't ask me how many hours I need. That was why my husband give me a PC because correction is easieer there and a

Re: [lace] Translation

2003-12-10 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello All, There excist the International Lace Dictionary from Spee, Kieboom and Coene. It is not super but it helps a lot. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: flood in south-est of France

2003-12-03 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends in France, Josette, Sof,and others, Are you all ok or happily not involved in the flood? Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: lace-candles

2003-11-29 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, I wish you all a peaceful Advent-time with the candles on the webshots. Greetings Ilske from Hamburg in Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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