Re: [lace] lace gallery at handweaving.net, do join in (long)

2006-11-17 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Bev -- I did look up www.handweaving.net and found your froggie. He is adorable, even cuter than his prototype in Sebastiana's charming book (I feel I can say this, since I made froggie's older brother a year or two ago). However, I had absolutely no luck looking up the reference to an

Re: [lace] Leaves (longish)

2006-11-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Yes, Beth, that's exactly how I do my leaves, and guess where I learned it from? Christine Springett! -- Aurelia Hi, all, I'm leaping from lurk-dom for this one, as I've been following the thread on leaves tallies. No-one has yet described the way I was taught to make leaves/petals, so

Re: [lace] educational type specials

2006-11-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear David and arachnes -- Of course! Who takes those old attitudes seriously? __ Aurelia At 08:21 AM 6/11/2006, you wrote: Because guns are mens bussines and textiles womans bussines. Men do take themselves and their thiongs veeery serious. The world would be too small if woman would take

Re: [lace] New Book Purchase

2006-11-02 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear David and arachnes -- How delightful that Sally J is still getting around! This is the little book that I found (by chance) in the early 1970's that taught me how to make bobbin lace when I was desperate for a lace teacher and couldn't find one. -- Aurelia Dear Friends, Have just

Re: [lace] Kant magazine.- AND Join Lace Organizations

2006-10-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Jeri -- How right you are! I would like also to add my 2c-worth: containing Binche designs does not necessarily make a magazine wonderful. Not everybody is primarily interested in Binche. What happens to (1) needle-lace makers, (2) tatters (3) beginning lacemakers (4) Bucks- and Beds-

[lace] Alone in non-Ithaca

2006-10-07 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Clay, dear Sue, dear Arachneans -- Me too, pining away for Ithaca! I was dying to take Jane Atkinson's class; and to see dear Pam Nottingham once again, who has been such a loving spirit in my life for the last 35 years. But I am still not in good enough shape to undertake the long

Re: [lace] Lace in fashion

2006-09-22 Thread Aurelia Loveman
the lady to do it!! :-) How are you, Miss Aurelia? I've just added you to my mailing list for Lace at Sweet Briar. You did tell me that it was just too much for you to travel now, but I wanted you to know what we are doing! Clay Aurelia Loveman wrote: Bags (purses) being the hot fashion item

Re: [lace] Lace in fashion

2006-09-21 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Bags (purses) being the hot fashion item this year, one of us ought to come up with a design for a lace bag. -- Aurelia Browsing through my Harper's Bazaar that arrived today (DH got the subscription free for me - likeI'm a fashion plate!!), I saw that Burberry have a lace overcoat and a

[lace] Tess's e-mail address?

2006-09-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I am looking for a functioning address for Tess Parrish. The usual one [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to be working. Can anyone help me with this? Aurelia Loveman - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Luton

2006-09-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I can hardly look at the word Luton without getting all teary-eyed and sentimental, remembering how dear Doreen Fudge, thirty years ago the lace curator at Luton, welcomed me and my DH, turned us loose among the Luton laces, and stayed with us and chatted about them, giving each piece the dear

[lace] More about making fans

2006-08-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Christine Springett has a little book out (for at least 15 years, but I think it is available from her) called Designing and Mounting Lace Fans. What a wonderful little book! It tells you everything you need to know. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

[lace] Re lace fans

2006-08-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
(Re stands for repeating myself) Tamara is quite right about finding beat-up and tattered old fans of which the sticks are still in good shape, and are often quite marvelous. I have made five fans so far (my first one, Espalier, made it to the cover of a recent issue of the IOLI Bulletin;

Re: [lace] Re London

2006-08-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
The Victoria Albert (V A) is a most marvelous place, don't miss it! One could spend a month there, happily. I even got waylaid by the gift shop, which is to other museum gift shops as Fairyland is to the real world. You will love the whole experience! -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send

[lace] Pillow shapes and stuffings

2006-06-22 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Ana Blanco used to urge us (lovingly) to try making and using a bolster pillow, citing the comfort and convenience of using one. She was so urgent and so loving about it that I did make one -- 20-odd years ago -- and am still using it happily, for certain large pieces. Ana said to stuff it

RE: [lace] 8 Times its Weight in Gold

2006-06-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
In 1970, when I was still quite a beginner at lacemaking, I took a class at the Textile Museum in Washington DC. I remember the teacher (the wife of the then-Ambassador from -- where? Gibraltar? the name escapes me) telling us that we should reckon on making an inch per hour (a square inch?

Re: [lace] favors from lace events

2006-06-01 Thread Aurelia Loveman
What a delightful idea! Well, my favorite favor is a charming little quilted triangular sort of coat in which to keep my embroidery scissors safe. The scissors point nestles down in the point of the coat; and up at the top, there is a snap that closes up right between the two halves of the

[lace] A bit more about Ruskin lace

2006-04-17 Thread Aurelia Loveman
...just to add another word or two about Ruskin lace: I have a very sweet little book by Elizabeth Prickett called Ruskin Lace and Linen Work. published by Batsford. The inside flap of the dust jacket says that in 1894 John Ruskin gave his name to a form of embroidery which was practised in

[lace] Re: Ithaca News

2006-04-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Let me second Tina's enthusiasm for Ithaca, and especially the mention of Jane Atkinson, whose book Pattern Design for Torchon Lace had an utterly ELECTRIFYING effect on me when it first came out (never occurred to me before that there were possible grids for lacemaking other than plain square

[lace] Re: Blossoms, Bloopers and other Loehr titles

2006-03-20 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I have a little book(let) of Ulrike's called Maikäfer, flieg! Not a pun, exactly, but there is an old-fashioned children's chant that goes Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home! which is pretty close. And yes, the Beginning of the End, especially accompanied by rolling the eyes and tearing the

[lace] Floral Abstractions

2006-03-19 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- Stil-Blüte? (a new book from Ulrike?) Tossing a word like that to me is like tossing a ball of yarn to a cat. Catching it and playing with it is not an option, it's a compulsion. So here goes, and those of you who really, really know German can please tell me how far off the

[lace] re: Stil-Blüte

2006-03-19 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Stil is not the same word as Still (but you know that better than I do!). It's related to style, all right, just doesn't have quite the same meaning. So we _still_ have a chance that it has to do with lace! And in the meantime I'll stick with Floral Abstractions till somebody convinces me

[lace] Needle and bobbin

2006-02-15 Thread Aurelia Loveman
In those long, long years ago, when I was a weaver but only a lace-dreamer, I used to hear lace (along with other textile crafts) referred to as off-loom weaving. That doesn't really cast a whole lot of light on the matter. I think the fundamental difference between needle and bobbin is that

[lace] WHAT LACE MIGHT THIS BE?

2006-02-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear All -- Today's (Tuesday) Wall St. Journal has a front-page article about needle lace being made at present in India. ...a particularly difficult technique, following a fine pattern by pulling needle and thread through layers of cloth. When the design is finished, the pattern and cloth are

Re: [lace] lace in Wall Street Journal

2006-02-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Devon -- I sent an e-mail in to Arachne before I saw yours. The article, obviously written by someone who is not a lacemaker, is really not about bobbin lacemaking, but about what she calls needle lace. But what she is describing isn't my idea of needle lace! Is it yours? -- Aurelia

Re: [lace] pinless grounds

2006-02-07 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I do agree with Bev about no pins. The single steadily-moving bobbin keeps the entire household in order, with no particular problems for the lacemaker. In fact, if you should make a mistake, that interrupted bobbin will immediately notify you. And I agree about the relief to the fingertips!

RE: [lace] lace in fashion

2006-02-07 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I think you will have to tackle the entire culture in order to do so (can't begin too soon!). -- Aurelia I think we need to zero in on a talented, and VERY classy young woman to champion the cause of exquisite gowns with exquisite lace that flatters the person who is wearing it (instead of

Re: [lace] late night question

2006-01-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I have used vinegar. The pins come out gleaming. Too gleaming, but anyway clean. Aurelia I have a few (box full) of brass lace pins that are badly tarnished. How do I clean them? I thought of using the same solution I use for my jewelry but have a vague recollection that I should be using

[lace] Handmade or machinemade?

2006-01-02 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, I can't claim to be an expert on anybody's needlelace but my own, and even then it's a stretch. Still...as I've been making NL for at least half a century (and even won prizes for some of it, imagine that!), I am moved to express an opinion and even describe how I got to it: Yes, I do

[lace] John Brooker

2005-12-30 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- Does anybody know the current whereabouts of the great British fanmaker of two or three decades ago, John Brooker? Thank you! -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Lacy Day

2005-12-18 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Betty Ann -- How lucky for us that you didn't put this _wonderful_ posting on chat! Thank you for sharing such a rare day. -- Aurelia Dear Gentle Spiders, Clive and I had a wonderful day yesterday that I promised I'd write about for the list. Allan and Yvonne Farrell from Australia

[lace] Re: Christmas Card Exchange web site

2005-12-11 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- I agree completely with Tamara and others who have written in about this. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Quite the contrary: Barbara is taking the time and trouble to do us a lovely favor, and we want to thank her for that. -- Aurelia On Dec 9, 2005, at 20:28, bevw

[lace] Xmas-card exchange

2005-12-03 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- Please take a minute or two and walk with me around Robin Hood's barn; I am just dying to share this experience. Some years ago, at a meeting of our local EGA chapter (embroiderers), I was impelled by some absolutely mysterious and unforeseen urge, to approach one of our

Re: [lace] News article about Janya Sugannasil

2005-11-17 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I imagine that quite a lot of us must remember Janya from the 'seventies. She was studying in London at the time (seemed like far more than a mere two months) and, I think, with Pam Nottingham among others. I have one of Janya's picture frames made with lace around the mat. Leaf tallies to

[lace] An attack of Lacemaker's Frenzy

2005-11-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I had a severe attack of Lacemaker's Frenzy a couple of weeks ago, and snatched up the last copy that my bookseller had, of Barbara Underwood's A Bedfordshire Lace Collection -- quick! quick! before anybody should lay hands on it first! -- only to discover that I apparently had a similar

Re: [lace] Spin (was: future of lacemaking)

2005-10-26 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Not to bring politics into the equation again, but we've all had too much - expensive - action based on short-term lies recently, and we don't need another instance of it... If not to bring politics in, then why bring it? Jeri, I admire your knowledge and your generosity in sharing it. But,

Re: [lace] torchon

2005-10-21 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dying to know what, what, what that completely different lace might be? Aurelia I spent some time after that exploring other laces, taking workshops in this and that... I'm now very immersed in a completely different form of lace, Clay - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] torchon

2005-10-21 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dying to know what, what, what might that completely different lace be? Aurelia I spent some time after that exploring other laces, this and that... I'm now very immersed in a completely different form of lace Clay - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] Re: tatting and lace

2005-10-16 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Please don't let's politicize yet one more of life's pleasures (i.e. real lace). Let the tatters tat, the BL'ers bob, the spiders spy; and we will love them all. I did think the Christmas exchange issue had been laid to rest. -- Aurelia I don't think that's how she meant it. Your reaction

Re: [lace] Egyptian twisted lace

2005-10-16 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I haven't a reliable clue (and I wasn't there then), but it seems to me possible (likely?) that needle lace and bobbin lace may have evolved out of sewing and weaving techniques, respectively...which, in turn, might have had to do with the types of grasses and fibers available. Knotting would

[lace] Christmas exchange rules

2005-10-15 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Bev, would you mind announcing the Christmas exchange rules again? And how one might sign up for it? Thank you. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Christmas card exchange

2005-10-15 Thread Aurelia Loveman
No, Chris, don't take offense. That surely doesn't represent the feeling of most of us textile-lovers. A knitted beauty, a tatted beauty, a crocheted beauty -- who wouldn't be happy to get one of those? And Tamara's idea of a textile tree has the typical obviousness of a genius-inspired idea:

Re: [lace] photos of cards from the exchange

2005-10-15 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Snohomish? Snoqualmie? Are these names of Indian tribes, or what? (types of lace, maybe? as, Snoqualmie lace?) -- Aurelia I love Snoqualmie I am not in Snohomish - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to

[lace] More about lace samples

2005-10-14 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- While Jeri still has her eyes shut tight, I thought it would be safe for me to go on a bit more about antique lace samples fastened down with pins. In 1965, the famous lace authority and collector, Marian Powys, bequeathed a number of notebooks containing her antique lace

Re: [lace] Robber Barons - nitty gritty

2005-10-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Tamara -- Try adding on a whole lot of brilliant artificial light, as the days grow shorter; that is a wellknown and usually effective remedy for SAD (Seasonal Affective Depression); and as for the head team and all that, try leaving a little space for those of us who disagree with you

Re: [lace] Robber Baron Slide duplication

2005-10-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Devon -- Maybe with your powers of persuasion, you could persuade the Met to make a gift to the IOLI? The Met gets so much getting that maybe it could try a bit of giving? That would solve some of our problems. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

[lace] Linen (flax) thread

2005-10-02 Thread Aurelia Loveman
About 30 years ago I had some correspondence with a Mr. Baetzle (I think I've got it spelled approximately right) of the FFRR thread manufacturers in Aalst, Belgium. I was asking why I couldn't find anything finer than 120/2 linen; he said they had been trying to produce 140, but the flax

Re: [lace] Re:Art Fairs and Designing in PG

2005-09-28 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Yes,I think it would be a blessing to anybody who is into point ground; and I have thanked K. Blum in my heart more times than I can say. But...ridiculous to tell... I don't have her address! Perhaps any Arachnes reading this who know her might help? Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[lace] Re:Art Fairs and Designing in PG

2005-09-27 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Lorri -- I got out my (1999) folder from Pam N's workshop, Designing for Bucks Point. There wasn't anything about rules or pointers, but I thought it was pretty clear what we did. I had a couple of pages of ground, and another couple of pages of freehand designs that I had drawn (leaves,

Re: [lace] Art Fairs

2005-09-26 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I don't know these names, nor what their connection to lace may be; but if they do show lace, ought we not to descend on them forthwith? We have an idea about lace and art; it will need a lot of pushing in order to make it on to the stage although they are not purveyors of lace art, per

[lace] Re:Art Fairs and Designing in PG

2005-09-26 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Our underlying purpose, remember? is to make lace known to the art world. All I'm suggesting at the moment is that perhaps we can dip a toe in the water; go to a couple of these fairs and see what they're like; talk to people; make our existence known. People think of lace as collars and

[lace] Art Fairs

2005-09-25 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, on Friday I learned something I didn't know (happens to me all the time). Friday's Wall St. Journal (yes, those $$ types are interested in art too) carried an article entitled Fair Plays, this under the heading of Art Money. It appears that most major cities run a type of art show

[lace] Sotheby's, move over!

2005-09-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
The problem at bottom is still the same one: why do we have such a humble opinion of our art? and how do we expect that the world around us, including potential buyers and insurance companies, will have any higher opinion of it than we do? One mistake that we might be making is our sales

Re: [lace] General Fans Information

2005-09-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Barbara -- Usually you would make the fan to fit the sticks, not the other way round. So now, when you find fansticks that you like, you might have to alter your pricking a bit so that it will fit. As to where to find sticks: I have had some gorgeous ones from John Brooker in England.

Re: [lace] valuing contemporary lace

2005-09-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Oh Devon dear -- But my main argument is exactly NOT to value lace as just another fiber art! Why segregate fiber arts? (and what other fiber arts are there?) Why is paint on canvas to be regarded with more respect, not to say awe and $$$, than linen or cotton or silk? It is not the medium

[lace] Valuing contemporary lace

2005-09-04 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I don't think it's appropriate to value a piece of recently-made handmade lace by x-dollars times the hours it took to make it. You wouldn't price a painting according to how long it took the painter to spread the paint over the canvas. Nor would you necessarily price a large painting as worth

Re: [lace] US postal insurance -- packing info

2005-09-03 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Devon -- Drop that miserable neighborhood and come live here in Baltimore, a warm and loving neighborhood, where we will happily accept all the cookies you offer us, and I will personally see to it that you get two letters a day. -- Aurelia Let me add my name to the list of people

[lace] re: Mullers for handmade lace?

2005-08-29 Thread Aurelia Loveman
No, I don't think it's a minor distinction. I remember myself as a young teenager, thrilled to read a description of lacemaking in the Children's Enclyclopedia as being thread twisted around pins. I made a beautiful design, did the whole thing in pins, then wrapped thread around the pins, and

[lace] That table ribbon

2005-08-28 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- Forgive me for being repetitious, but somebody please tell me again just what is meant by a table ribbon. I know there was a reply the other day, however tentative and doubtful (table ribbon = table runner), but really, the stated dimensions would be too small for a runner for even

Re: [lace] IOLI convention

2005-08-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
What a wonderful letter for those of us who couldn't go to convention! Thank you for taking all that trouble to write it. -- Aurelia Well, here's my adventures at the IOLI convention. Left San Diego on Sat. Aug.27th. Sure helped to have someone push me in a wheel chair through the

[lace] Calm (logarithmic) Sea and Prosperous (Dieppe?) Voyage

2005-06-29 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- With apologies to Felix Mendelssohn for the title of the above Subject, I need some help on that voyage! As everybody who has talked to me for the last month or two knows, I have been making a fan leaf for the wonderful set of fan-sticks made for me long ago by John Brooker. My

[lace] Newbies to Hoe-niton lace

2005-06-24 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- I think the following episode may gladden the hearts of proselytizing spiders, especially Devon: On Wednesday evening, five of us TerraPins (local Baltimore chapter of CRLG) were demonstrating lacemaking at the Baltimore Museum of Art (by invitation). The Museum was crowded with

[lace] Re: That lace fence!

2005-05-11 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Tamara -- In principle, of course I think that any fiber is fair game for lacemaking. And if somebody produced a chain-link fence in Chantilly or any other lace technique that dazzled my heart, I would indeed produce poems of praise. It's __this__ fence, and __this__technique that I

Re: [lace] Bookmarks at the Baltimore Museum of Art

2005-05-11 Thread Aurelia Loveman
The bookmarks are selling for $10 - $30 depending on the quality of the individual item. So you see, a certain amount of education is going to the bookmark-buyer along with the bookmark. That will make Devon, among others, so happy! -- Aurelia In a message dated 5/11/05 12:58:52 PM Eastern

[lace] That lace fence!

2005-05-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, now I've seen it, I think the whole thing rather resembles the wellknown situation with Dr. Johnson's talking dog; i.e., the wonder isn't that the fence is so beautiful (which I don't think it is), but merely the fact that it exists at all. To my mind the object (fence) and the

[lace] Chain-link fence in lace

2005-05-08 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Hunted all through the NY Times Magazine for today (May 8) but couldn't find the article about the lace fence (imagine how that hurts, as I have been making just that for some weeks now!). And worse, can't remember who wrote in about it on Arachne. Would the spider repeat her thread? (or

[lace] An adorable little frog

2005-05-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
He is really very sweet, and resides in Sebastiana van den Herik's Dieren en Kleur. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: Fwd: Discussion of IOLI name

2005-04-12 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Indeed, Avital is so right. Inevitably, there are topics that will engage some and bore others. (As, f.i., I thought the endless discussion about how many hitches might be put on to hold an intransigent thread was too boring for words, but my Delete button didn't break down; it worked). I

[lace] Our name

2005-04-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear everybody -- LACI, ALGA, ALMS, ALCA, ALO -- all those names are just terrible. I mean, they are awful. If we cannot just have LACE (yes, LACE, all by itself), let's stick to IOLI and get on with our lace lives. There are other and better ways to attract new members. Several of us will

[lace] International Old Lacers

2005-04-07 Thread Aurelia Loveman
It is a silly argument we are having about the word International in our name, when what touched off the subject was, first, an objection to being called old, and, second, although to a lesser extent, a dislike among some of us to the word lacers. We don't necessarily need to keep the word

[lace] Re: International Old Lacers

2005-04-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, I do agree completely with Tamara, both as to lacers vs. lacemakers; and also that maybe it's time to think again about changing the name (IOLI vs ??). Perhaps if we took a vote now, opinions on the subject might fall differently than how they did 25 years ago. -- Aurelia That might

Re: [lace] Re: International Old Lacers

2005-04-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Let's be grandiose, while we're at it! How about Lacemakers of the World? (i.e., neither old nor new but lacemakers with all sorts of lace tastes) -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Re: International Old Lacers

2005-04-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
No, Jeri. Though you and I rarely disagree, this time we do! I don't want a name that suits the stationery. If anything, I want stationery to suit the name. And the name should have pizzazz, gallop, life. International Organization of Lacers is awful. And while we're getting rid of old

[lace] International Old Lacers

2005-04-05 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dears... it's not the lacers that are old, it's the lace. You know: old lace. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Flying in to Baltimore

2005-03-30 Thread Aurelia Loveman
And to add to Tamara's list of who's flying in from where, there's Nancy Pye who's coming in on Saturday from Canada! -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] The spelling of such a name WAS Re: Mechlin, where did the pins go?

2005-03-26 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Laurie, you might try saying Furlker a couple of times, with as little emphasis as possible on the r -- also, just for the gorgeousness of it, those of us using Macs can produce the name with ease as Völker. Press Option and u together, then let go and press o. -- Aurelia Dear T, I wrote: *

[lace] Right side? Wrong side?

2005-03-06 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I am making a piece of appliqué lace (motifs in needlelace; background net in bobbin lace), and am wondering why one so often hears that this lace should be done wrong side up (f.i., Ann Collier's beautiful, wonderful book Colour in Lace,: p. 34). Working wrong side up, one would baste the

RE: [lace] Winder adaptor

2005-03-03 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I hope you all know that Richard Worthen is going to be one of our vendors at the CRLG Lace Day on April 2 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. -- Aurelia There is a very talented wood turner in our area (meaning in the next state!) who makes perfectly beautiful bobbins and has taken on two tasks

[lace] Whither etc.(long, long, very long)

2005-02-09 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Whither Lace? asks Ann Collier. A provocative question that obviously evoked Tamara's interesting response. I too found it intriguing, particularly compared with the viewpoint expressed in an article I wrote a quarter of a century ago. That article was also entitled Whither Lace? and was

Re: [lace] Lace 117 - Or a small group of friends?

2005-01-31 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, dear Devon, let me disagree with you a little bit. We have three different lace groups that have been meeting here for some years now, and seem very stable and permanent. Nobody has died, nobody has moved, and I can't imagine that anything else could take the place of lace and lacemaking

Re: [lace] Down with Trim! /Wear more Lace

2005-01-13 Thread Aurelia Loveman
But it isn't true that silk or cotton lace isn't seen! Depends on the beauty of the lace, and how it is presented. The gold collar that I mentioned recently (made by Brigita Fuhrman, that modest, vanished, but inspired artist) is frequently the first thing people mention when they see me

[lace] Weather Underground Lace

2005-01-13 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Before you aim that machine-gun (pardon the pun) at me, could we stop to consider for a minute what is contemporary? Do we absolutely have to break windows, shatter glass and scream, in order to produce contemporary art? Consider a similar situation in music: half a century ago, lovers of

Re: [lace] wearing lace

2005-01-11 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, dear Arachnids, I think -- I hope -- that Lorelei's rather dispiriting experience is perhaps not general. I have a gorgeous gold-metallic collar that Brigita Fuhrman made for me (about 20 years ago), and I wear it fairly often for dress-up occasions. It never fails to draw admiring

[lace] Feather Fan

2004-12-27 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Yes, Old Shale and Feather and Fan are indeed the same lace pattern, and very old they are, too. It is an exquisitely beautiful pattern, and not all that difficult to make. Knitting-Arachnes may be interested to know that even if you are making yards and yards of it, it never gets boring and

Re: [lace] Wearing art-the campaign

2004-12-19 Thread Aurelia Loveman
How funny you are, Devon! Of course I will add your ribbon to my ever-growing list of projects. We have a group here in Ellicott City (next town over from me, and an early Maryland settlement) that does early-19th century reenactments in authentic costumes, and I have just undertaken to make a

[lace] Re: tatting repair/costs

2004-12-17 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Tamara writes: I think, in the future, if anyone asks me about repairing lace, I'll just recommend that they get Elizabeth Kurella's Anybody Can Mend Lace and Linens. Dear Tamara: I suggest that in Kurella's next edition of her work, she adjust the title a bit so it reads Anybody Can Mend Lace

Re: [lace] tatting repair/costs

2004-12-17 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I don't know about ethical repairs, or what demand there might be for that. The lace repairs that I have actually seen were done for people (who admittedly had $$) wanting their repaired item to look as nearly as possible the way it did when it was new. Certainly the thread _had_ to match (a

Re: [lace] tatting repair sought

2004-12-15 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Devon -- I think that long before we can find buyers for recently-made (contemporary?) lace, we have got to educate our public about the artistic value of lace; and that thread is just as interesting and beautiful as paint or marble. When the public has got that idea into its head, it

[lace] Of signatures and lace

2004-10-19 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Avital -- Allow me to disagree with you. Are you telling us that if somebody wanted to put obscenities out on Arachne, all she (he?) would have to do is put them into the signature, not in the body of the e-mail, and that would be OK with you? Hardly. I think the same thing holds true

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2004-10-18 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Avital - The objection to the signature in question has nothing to do with its length (as you suggest), but has everything to do with its combative and provocative content, so inappropriate to a list like ours. I completely agree with Sylvia Andrews. Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email

Re: [lace] pronounciation of lace names

2004-09-03 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Devon ‹‹ I love your quandary. Shrug off all the nailbiters and the obsessives, and all the experts too (!) and listen to Aurelia who has actually stood up on museum stages and spoken as follows: Rose Point: Rohz Poynt Point d'Angleterre: Poynt dahng-let-terr (yes, Poynt, that's

[lace] Re: lace makers revival

2004-08-31 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Tamara ‹‹ No indeed, you are not _totally_ off base (whatever that means), but what is being talked about is not a design project at all. It's as I wrote, a possible new avenue to publicity and contemporary interest in the craft of lacemaking. I think you were in Prague when the ins and

[lace] Lace, lacemaking and the front page

2004-08-21 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Tamara ‹‹  As, only three weeks out of brutal surgery, I am still listless, dull of mind, slow to move, deadly boring, and torpid amd sluggish altogether, this might not be the ideal time to reply to your letter and set forth my pre-surgery ambitions for an imaginative revival of lacemakers'

Re: [lace] Random lace babble (Chantilly)

2004-08-18 Thread aurelia loveman
on 8/17/04 10:18 PM, Tamara P. Duvall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 17, 2004, at 14:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julie in Baltimore) wrote: That's the important point of the post. Now here's just some random lace babble: Since I don't have the box/book I can't help there. So I'll address

Re: [lace] Back from Prague, part II - my workshop

2004-07-26 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/25/04 9:29 PM, Tamara P. Duvall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentle Spiders, On Monday, 11 July, on the stroke of 9, I appeared at my workshop. That was Freehand Lace (lace made with pins on the sides only, but other than Milanese) I have also, somewhere along the line, developed a

Re: [lace] Judge Judy not alone!

2004-07-18 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/14/04 7:53 PM, Janice Blair at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Torchon would be more masculine and Bucks more feminine, if you go with Ipswich you might have to send us all directions for making the lace pieces. I am sure a lot of us don't have the Ipswich book yet so we would

Re: [lace] Salute to the Judicial System

2004-07-17 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/15/04 5:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In designing the jabots, perhaps it would be wise to take into account the individual tastes of the justices, since compliance with jabot wearing will be proportional to the amount that the judges likes his or her jabot. I

Re: [lace] Legal attire

2004-07-15 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/15/04 5:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems clear to me that it would be advantageous to contact this company, or better yet the one that supplies attire to our Supreme Court and to buy a sample jabot to use as a pattern. No doubt the name of the judicial

Re: [lace] IOLI Salute to the Judiciary

2004-07-15 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/15/04 5:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What? A co-sponsor? Never! Remember our lacemaking motto (created especially for our Great Supreme Court Venture) ‹‹ Forever Free! Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Judge Judy not alone!

2004-07-14 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/13/04 6:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Supreme Court portrait contained at http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0203/June16_03/02_portrait.shtml shows both female justices in jabots. Eureka! Have you worked out the design yet Aurelia? Devon Two jabots are

Re: [lace] Re: OIDFA conference

2004-07-13 Thread aurelia loveman
on 7/13/04 1:24 PM, Leonard Bazar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So grateful to you, Leonard, for your delightful little note from Prague. Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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