Spud Islander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lacemakers!! Look what I found under tatting!!!
http://smartflix.com/store/video/5941/Milanese-Lace
Those tatting people are everywhere! ;o))
Interesting that Louise Colgan and Lia Baumeister are under tatting, but
Doris Southard is under weaving.
Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had sight of this lovely new book (Well I think it's new) by Yvonne
Scheele-Kerkhof but cannot find where to buy it in England, does anyone know
please.
Anyone wanting to see the cover of Floral Bedfordshire, it's on Barbara Fay's
website. It looks
micki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found these instructions (Posted by Jenny Brandis) on a French site with
pictures on how to make a travel lace pillow.
I believe there are a few travel pillows described/explained on the Lace Fairy
site. You might check it out and see what style you want
The 2007 Card Exchange patterns has been downloaded 2784 times since
it went up in mid Dec.
Not all accessing events were downloads. I've looked at the patterns from
curiosity but have not downloaded them. And every time you announced new
samples, I looked again at the patterns (after
Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Likewise, while I'm sure that the American Pilgrims -- in search of
purity once again -- would have rolled back the excesses quite a bit
(possibly even back to zero), the trend wouldn't have lasted for very
long.
One of the few things I can
Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with spangles, as others have mentioned, is that if you're
persnickety and like to match and/or contrast the bead colours with
your wood colours, you can spend a bomb on the beads alone, since
you'll need about 5 times as many beeds --
Hi, Miriam
If the lace bits are all accurately 4cm squares, I think I'd mark the back of
the felt into 4cm squares (at least some guidelines). Then I'd do a single
tacking stitch (back to front at a corner of the felt grid, through a corner of
a lace square, then return to the back of the felt
Now -- Your favorite spangling tips, please.
Personally, I dislike spangles that flop around. I load the beads onto brass
wire (the diameter of the loop will be about the size of a US nickel, don't
know what that is in inches or centimeters). I thread the two wire ends
through the bobbin's
Jane Viking Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any other lace gifts made? The Battenberg took me 2 or 3 hours each so it
was quite enjoyable. I know BL and NL take much more time! Actually I made
small NL flowers a few years ago for gifts. I forced everyone to be
appreciative then VBG.
I was taught that that was whole stitch ground.
Robin P.
Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So here goes a question: What do you call a ground which is constructed
as follows:
Whole Stitch (CTCT, or TCTC), Pin, Whole Stitch?
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How much
credit should be accorded on finishing? Even on a point system divided between
different aspects, a nicely hand finished piece picks up 10 points over one
that is not. But my emerging feeling is that, since judging impacts the
development of the
Once again, I think it's time to remember that there really aren't any lace
police who will confiscate our work
Maybe not confiscate, but I've known Lace Police who will tell someone to her
face that she's an inferior lacemaker because she mixed techniques, tell her
she's not good enough to
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=
1) Winding bobbins
2) Final sewing together
3) Tallies (leaves, squares, triangles, any other type)
I have a couple of friends that avoid half stitch at all costs. It can be
awkward, and easy to lose your place (and then difficult to find it again).
From: Agnes Boddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In UK Ethafoam is marketed as Memory foam. Just google it and
loads of companies come up.
Wow, that's wierd. In the US, memory foam is nothing at all like
ethafoam. Ethafoam is polyethylene foam and is rigid. Not brittle or
hard, but rigid. It
From: Barb ETx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Several years ago the THUMB PINCUSHIONS ( not the bottle cap
ones), the other
that resemble a heart were everywhere. I had a friend ask me
tonight if I had a pattern
It's just a square of fabric, about 4 on a side. The exact
measurement isn't critical.
It looks to me like some sort of grater. I'm assuming the white knob
sticks up through the hole in the big brown cylinder and the white,
holey disk goes underneath the big white assembly. Hard to tell how it
goes together.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh,
It looks too much like the Mexican chocolate stirrers, to me, to be a
spindle. The loose rings would get in the way of spinning but are
usual on the stirrers. Also, a spindle gets its spinning-capacity from
the wide disk that puts as much weight as possible away from the shaft,
while the
I just couldn't get my act together this fall. I never did send in pre-
registration for the Freeway Lace Guild's lace day (last weekend) so I
didn't get a goodie bag. At least I lucked out on getting a
comemmorative bobbin. They had a few extra and I got there early.
At the lace day, I
From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whilst we are on the subject of books, and before we put it on Ebay,
from Mom's things I have a hardback copy of Catherine Barley's
Needlelace Designs and Techniques Classic and Contemporary to re-
This is, IMO, the best needlelace book available. Clear
From: purple lacer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As others have stated, what if
current CD technology becomes outdated someday? What if your CD
becomes
corrupted? Or you drop it and it breaks? Books have survived for
a long, long time!
I, too, am a book-lover, but I'd like to point out that books
From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As others will probably mention, you can wind in either direction as
long as
you are consistent. i.e. all bobbins clockwise. or all bobbins
counterclockwise wound.
Personally, I only wind and hitch bobbins one way, because I have much
too much trouble
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with it. You could put a picture of you and DH (taken on the
anniversary date?) in the frame.
Or time to frame/reframe an old wedding photo with the lace on a mat
around the photo. A friend of mine has a number of pictures framed
with lace under the glass on a
If you have the USA tab selected instead of the world tab you should
be
able to do it. I have tried editing my profile to Jerusalem and it
worked, I've changed it back again. Even if you can't get Maale in,
at least Jerusalem would be in the right general area.
On 16 Sep 2007, at
From: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know you will all be rushing to help - I am wondering what the
'beginners'book on Needlelace is called!
another question. Is the
needlelacepillow absolutely necessary?
Needlelace can be done in the hand. When using a pillow (a bolster
From: Lorraine Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope to leave next Friday for a trip that will take me to Venice,
Dubrovnik, Kotor (Montenegro), Saradne (Albania), Crete (Aghios
Nikolaos), Kusadasi (Turkey), Mykonos, and Athens.
The island of Pag has a major needlelace school. Pag lace looks
It was several days before I returned to Arachne, so I thought people
had already said everything there was to say about the convention but
that's apparently not true. So this is my view of the event. Bottom
line, it was a great convention!
The Tatting Olympics were hilarious. I'm not much
Just the opposite. Every time I've heard it, the winkie pin edge is
the *other* edge, where the worker exits the edge passive(s), twists a
couple of times with a pin between the worker and the outermost passive
(pin after two), and then the worker returns through the passive(s)
to continue on
From: Jane O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whoaho!! This search for tussah silk 20/2 has been a delightful
time - after the weeks of pure frustration! Here is a list of
what I have found for all you who are anxious to know.
For any kind of yarn or crochet thread you can think of try
From: Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you can get at the wine
stain while it is still fresh, you pour table-salt thickly all
over the stain, and then get on with the party. When everybody is
gone,
a couple of hours later, you vacuum up the (wine-laden) salt and
rinse the fabric with
From: Jane O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whoaho!! This search for tussah silk 20/2 has been a delightful
time - after the weeks of pure frustration! Here is a list of
what I have found for all you who are anxious to know.
For any kind of yarn or crochet thread you can think of try
From: Tania Gruning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Almost done with a handkerchief in torchon, will post something on
it soon. Think I am improving, although I wish I could afford to
take a class to get some tricks on how to do spiders, mine tend to
go pear shaped, raindrop shaped or lopsided ;-p
Hi,
Oh, that's cool! It's a square spiral of Binche designs.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was curious and located the sampler that Ursula mentioned, at
the 'Mappen' link.
we call this a voodoo board, it's a useful tool for anyone staring
any lace
jenny barron
Scotland
When I was new to lace I fell in love with a Skansk knipling pattern.
Unlike every Skan pattern I've found in books so far, it was a
relatively wide piece (maybe 2 inches) with a cloth
From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mom taught me never to trust red, dark blue or black until they had
been
washed sufficiently for all traces of dye to stop running. These seem
to
be the most fugitive, but any fabric, where the dye for one reason or
another isn't stable (it may even
From: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pricking.The scanning and copying was easy, but the fitting
together was
most definitely not, as I think the copying distorted the pricking
- only
very slightly, but enough to be a nuisance when putting the three
peices
together!
For
From: Bridget Marrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
confirms that in America, the plant so named is DAUCUS CAROTA, the
Wild Carrot; whereas in England it usually refers to ANTHRISCUS
SYLVESTRIS, aka Cow Parsley.
And this is why it will be very difficult to document when the common
name changed. Common
From: Janice Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I signed up for Binche with Diana Glasspool at the IOLI convention
and have the opportunity to buy my supplies on Saturday at our
Lace Day, but I don't know what I need. Does anyone know what
thread Diana will have us use? Also does she prefer a
I had one person tell me that because my favorite type of
lace is torchon (I really
like the geometric shapes and angles of it) that I was not a real
lacemaker
I'm so glad you saw the comment for what it was--nonsense! There were
two lace groups where I used to live. One was a
I belong to three groups. Pittsburgh Lace Group meets weekly in a
church basement. It's free, but we donate at the end of the year.
Workshops are at a small-town City Hall type building (called the
Borough Building). One of our members is a citizen of that town, which
entitles us to use
From: David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And then there is one that some take as Queen Anne's lace which is
really Hemlock, a poisonous plant. Ingestion of even a small
fragment can be fatal. But that one is native to the US.
Whilst I have heard of hemlock, I don't know the plant.
I'm
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have found that the very best solution for metallic gimp threads
which tend to be unruly is to invest in some bobbins made for the
purpose. There are hookies out there, but I don't much care for
them - they're really more ideal for wire. But my favorite looks
From: Malvary J Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beeswax is great if you pre-do your pricking - stick your pricker
into the
beeswax and then prick 3 or 4 holes, and repeat. You will find it is
much
easier to do the pricking.
I know the purpose of this thread was more or less about uses for
From: Donna Hrynkiw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've found an archive of about a hundred old photos (and a few
paintings and sculptures as well) of lacemakers. Primarily bobbin
lace, although there are a few images of tambour-hook laceworkers as
well.
I really like this one (#35 on the list). She's
Excellent point, Bev. And the information would also be important if
ever you decide to exhibit your work or enter it into a contest, like a
county fair. For example, IOLI has two contests at the annual
convetion, one of which is technical proficiency, for a piece made
from someone else's
From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just uploaded a couple of pics from the weekend; the beaded
tassels I made with Sue Dane and some Arachne lace aka Pannomia
lace from Hungary.
Thanks for posting the pictures, Brenda. That pannomia lace is neat.
When you say crocheted
I've seen posts expressing satisfaction with spun silk for
making bobbin lace. Has anyone compared spun to reeled for
this purpose?
From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spun silk is easier to work with - reeled silk being very smooth and
shiny is slippery and doesn't stay on the
Mmm... It wouldn't have to be a lamp-shade to show off the
moire effect of two layers made on different angles; any
light source would do.
Single-panel window decorations would do very nicely, without
giving you a 4-yr disgust of any particular ground :)
Seems to me, you don't even need
LEARNING ABOUT LACE, a hands on experience
provided by The Pittsburgh Lace Group
International Old Lacers Incorporated
Admission $5.00
At the Churchill Boro building, Churchill (near Pittsburgh),
Pennsylvania.
Saturday, April 14th Noon to 8:00p.m.
Sunday, April 15th 10:00a.m. to
I have to agree. If you can buy rug padding (the fiberous kind, not
the squished bits of foam), it's usually pretty cheap. Not easy to cut
up, but worth it. You can cut stips and roll them around a dowel. A
single layer of wool blanket makes a very good roller or mini-bolster.
If your
I'm finally out from under a big pile of emails and other things, and I
want to report on the Winter Lace Conference that was put on by
Hedgehog Lacers (with help from a few other guilds in the southern
California area). I was quite surprised to find out it was the *first*
annual, since it
From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
latestpiece in a thickish silk, in a 's Gravenmoer lace, the 'pin
repeat' was
ridiculously short. I made it in fine cotton and had to leave in
more pins,
else the 'new lace' would lose its integrity.
Ah, yes, that brings up the *other* issue re: pins. Threads
From: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd use paillettes for the large plastic sequins, particular the
very
big ones with the holes off-centre, and I'd use spangles only for
metal-based sequins. (True spangles are made by flattening a small
circle of wire).
The only thing I've seen called
From: Beth Stoll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.Working out a scheme for a portable block pillow to take there,
involving
fabric sides and a foam core base, that will fold down to fit in the
suitcase.
When I needed a folding pillow, I started with one of Snowgoose's One
and Only pillows. These come as a
From: Barbara Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David emailed a scan of the portion of his pricking that he is
asking about.
As shown in Barbara's website, it does look like pinchain. However,
from David's description, I wonder if the picture isn't rotated 90
degrees. It sounded to me like the lines
That was an amazing article! I've already told everyone I saw today
about it. I'm considering trying to crochet the Lorenz manifold--it
was such a pretty sculpture. I also followed some of the links, and
found a Klein bottle hat, which is really cool.
Years ago (early 90s) I saw an article
for the purposes of categorizing a book according to main subject
matter mixed would probably suffice - with a note in the
miscellaneous field to say BL and tatting or whatever.
The problem with this system is the difficulty in retrieving by lace
type. If you want to find a book in your
First off, you do NOT want to fill up a comments or other field
with all sorts of info. (1) You can't sort by any of that info. (2)
You often can't retrieve by any of that info. (3) It's difficult to
find a particular item when it's mixed in with all sorts of other
things, in that record or
You *can* buy single issues at the website. I've done it. But the
price is such that a year (4 issues) is about the same price as three
separate issues.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: Andrea
From: Sue Babbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I solve this by knitting or crocheting when travelling (obviously not
while
driving myself!), and also while taking part in various board
meetings of a
voluntary nature. It helps to keep me calm if the issue at hand is
inflammatory - and awake if it is
From: Jenny De Angelis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One thing I have against using a photo copy over pricking card is
that the
paper used for the copy would be white or at least a pale colour
and therefore would be hard on the eyes.
While I do understand the value of hand copying the pattern, I'd
Lace prickings given to the workers by the commercial lace dealers
during
the Middle Ages were pieces of parchment dipped in saffron dye to
make the
white threads more visible (or so I read in the Spanish lace list).
That
is the reason why even now, magazine or commercial prickings are
From: Janice Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gosh, I can't imagine putting a
piece of lace between a dinner plate and a soup bowl, not with my
messy guys!!
Bad enough to make a placemat with lace on it as that might get
messed up, but
I did make a set of 6 for my sister a few years ago. They only
From: Jean Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Cluny de Brioude way of making leaf-shaped tallies doesn't come
in the book at all - it's difficult to describe and the best way
to get the hang of it is to see someone doing it.
Wow, Jean! Great explanation. I understood it completely, although it
From: Jenny Brandis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My question however is as a left hander, I want the worker bobbin to
be in the left hand and that affects how I tension. I have used the
#3 bobbin as the weaver instead of the #2 bobbin - is this ok? Should
I try to turn right handed at this stage in my
From: Patricia Ann Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's a good thing that my swearing has lessened as I am now in the
processof making lace butterflies for a eucharist stole for my
priest at church.
I'm afraid that God might not like it if I swear over it!
A friend of mine had a nun in one of
I had heard that the name came from using fish bones as pins.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and I have a theory that the term 'bone' is a spelling of bow'n
where it relates
From: Noelene Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been having a discussion with some Australian lacemaking
friends about
whether photocopied prickings should be supplied to participants
before a
workshop, so that they can prepare their prickings properly before the
workshop begins.
In my
Hi, Vera,
I've never heard of peat lace. I do *not* know, but don't think decent
thread would be made from peat. Peat is a small, primitive plant.
It's got flimsy, thin stems with lots of branching--not a good anatomy
for getting long and/or strong fibers for spinning into thread. I
don't
From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have never yet used silk, never found any, seen any to buy, so I
better look harder, I guess it is about time I did.
Some of the pieces worked certainly deserve that type of thread.
I *love* working in silk, much preferring it over cotton and linen. I
like the
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From: Alice Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I suggest you go to Lacefairy on the web. She has
four sources listed with the one in the USA being John
Aebi of Indiana. He does not have a webpage that I
can find, but there is an email address listed.
He makes lovely
From: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It looks like I'll have to re-cover most of my blocks, sewing the
hems down.
When I wanted a packable pillow, I bought Snowgoose's All in One
(which I cut in half and made into a folding cookie). I bought fabric,
but I hate to sew and didn't have a
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Do you add the beads to the thread as you are winding or do
you add as you need, if so how would you do that in half stitch?
There are several ways to put beads into bobbin lace.
A number of Christine Springett patterns have beads scattered
throughout. THese are put
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One more thought on traveling to any foreign country, or even
across the USA. If you are using any credit or debit cards, be
sure to contact the customer support people at your financial
institution and tell them when and where you are traveling. If
you don't,
Just a warning--some banks charge a hefty fee. Make sure you check the
exchange rate before going to the bank, so you can compare their rate
to the internet one.
Another place to exchange is at the Auto Club (AAA). They don't do all
countries, but I got British pounds there, so they probably
--- Viv Dewar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The pattern is torchon was drafted to have 2 pairs of passives in
a
contrast colour on each side. I tend to use Number 13 of Starts
Edges in Bridget Cook's Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace (PSBL).
It's
Perhaps this method will be an alternative to
Sewing machines that can do embroidery stitches are relatively new,
although my mother's old (early 1950's) Necchi can do a whole lot of
neat designs. But the Singer manual for treadle machines included
instruction for making lace and embroidering with the straight stitch-
only machines.
From: Helen Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think I wonder, along with Tamara. I think the embroidery stitches -
even the simple zig zag stitch is a more modern development.
The old machines only did straight stitch, but they had instructions
for doing embroidery and chemical lace with straight
I can cope with the Colcoton. But what is Gold Rush.
It's a thick glitter thread (67% viscose, 33% metalised polyester)
of chain construction - same as crochet chain. 12 wraps/cm. Nearest
equivalents are Twilleys Gold Dust 20 or Anchor Arista,
Since it's for gimp and therefore there's
From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The largest pillow I can fit in my suitcase is 15 and that's not
really big enough for all those bobbins.
Last year I made a folding pillow from a Snowgoose One-and-only. I
sawed the foam ring in half through the hole where the blocks would go,
and
From: Diane Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm taking the tambour lace course. Is anyone else taking this
class and have the acceptance and the materials list??
This nOS is listed after the strong cotton fabric. I would
email Greet, but I fear something may again be lost in the
translation.
I
I'm going to a workshop that takes Bockens 35/2. I was wondering if
there are any silk equivalents, but my thread books (all my lace
books!) are packed away and I can't check. Is Soie Gobelins about the
same? It looks a bit thicker, but I'm not sure.
THanks in advance to anyone who can
From: Lynn Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might consider keeping your thread stash out of artificial light
as well
as sunlight. Please remember that museums use filters on lights and
reduce
the lighting in galleries - to protect textiles from UV emitted by
From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But, and I have said this before, there is a reason for the confusion
in
the UK at least. One of the books on the history of the Nottingham
Laceindustry refers to tattings - being odd lengths of *machine-
made* lace
- edgings and insertions. So, to many
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not a primary tatting expert, but offer my opinion as a
collector of
lace and lace books, a lace history student, and a member of
various lace
organizations in the U.S. and Europe: **The submitted logo
designs do not reflect
the progress that tatters have
From: Jenny Brandis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, no wonder people have trouble with the English language!
I *know* the words are in English it is the content I am having a
chuckleover.
A Model to me is a tall, slender person who walks on the platform
showingoff clothes - not a pattern or
perhaps you and others might be willing to explore
lacemaking on bolster pillows a bit further?
I'm about to begin a project on one. I've never
seen anyone else make lace on a bolster, and it
**is** a challenge. Can you or anyone else describe
more about the palms up method (I
From: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_Any_ image can serve as a spring-board for a lacemaking pattern
(personally, I like silhouette cut-outs; they make me think in lacy
terms g), especially for people like myself, who can't draw from
life. And it's true that stain glass patterns reduce
There are still spaces available for a lecture and workshop later this
month with Debbie Beever. Debbie is a very well-informed and
fascinating lecturer and great teacher, so I recommend this highly!
(Wish I could go!) Cantu is an Italian bobbin lace, making cloth-
stitch braids/tapes in
I'm reading Eldest, the sequel to Eragonby Christopher Paolini.
It's the story of a boy who finds a special blue rock that turns out to
be a dragon's egg. It hatches and starts his adventures--boy and
dragon are the people's only hope for defeating the evil emperor/black
magician Galbatorix.
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you are right! It is a stylistic error, usually it is rather
funny. There are collections of
Stilblüten eg. taken from pupils essays.
I am not sure, what it has to do with lace.
The lace part would be that it's stylised (stil) flowers (blute) in
point ground. The
I learned the terms cross and twist when I first learned BL in the late
70s or early 80s.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: The Browns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexandra Stillwell in Illustrated Dictionary
From: David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know if this is relevent to your needs Clay, but Z S twists
can be
really important when you are doing a fine Petit Point, Cross Stitch
or
Tapestry. If the thread starts to unply, or become frizzy when it
shouldn't,then the twist is
From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Likewise we have got a reporter hooked, but why sort out special
equipment - I gave up having a separate pillow long ago, and now when
demonstrating those (of any age) who want to have a go do so on the
piece I am working at the time -
The reason I use
Okay, here's a brief summary:
CT is half stitch. I've never heard another term for it.
CTC makes woven fabric, so one of its names is cloth stitch. Those
places where BL is done with linen thread call it linen stitch. The
English call it whole stitch.
CTCT is a different stitch. Since it
How about Fran at Knotwork Lace Tools
http://www.lacebobbins.com/
I have several of her Danish bobbins, and love them. She also makes
other styles of bobbin.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: Alice Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While it's quiet, I'd like to ask, What bobbin makers
do you know who are actively taking orders and making
bobbins?
I believe Tom Clark is a US bobbin maker. He sells glass bobbins, each
one different (not mass-produced uniformity).
John Aebi
I have a pair of reverse tweezers, but I didn't get them from Holly.
They're a little longer than a bobbin, which I prefer to the very short
hackle pliers. And, since they're made from ribbon-shaped metal
instead of the round (wire-shaped) metal of hackle pliers, I find it
easier to pinch
And I've known people to use mug trees to drape wound bobbin pairs
until needed in the pattern.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: Barb ETx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When winding bobbins, I hang the pairs over
From: Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am thinking of trying my hand at Tambour lace.
I believe there are 2 books available - one by Fukuyama, and the
other the Liers lace by Greet Rome-Verbeylen.
Lierse Kant (Lier Lace) is a kind of tambour. Tambour appears to refer
to all kinds of
I've seen two demos of lacemaker's lamps. In both, I was quite
impressed by the amount of light concentrated onto the work area by a
very-low-wattage bulb (no brighter than a real candle). Certainly not
like an Ott light, but for the time
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly
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