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Dear Jean,
This sounds fascinating. I would love to know how she worked with one
hand for bobbins and one for pins. I wonder if it depends on the shape
of the pillow. As someone commented, she is just rolling them around
as they are suspended in air. I learned on a roller pillow with a flat
apron,
Devon,
The UK Lace Guild has a draft of a book on lacemaking by Ethel Nettleship in
which the instructions tell you to work with one hand for the bobbins and the
other for placing pins. I can’t remember the details and I’m away from home
right now but have them somewhere at home. I can look the
never acquire so much
fine control of my left hand. Mostly I use both hands equally. But my more
precise hand sets the pins.
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From: owner-l...@arachne.com On Behalf Of Devon Thein
Subject: [lace] early lace video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcSaAXtZsc is may favori
We used to have an English woman in our lace club, who made her tallies by
holding the 3 passive bobbins stationary with one hand, and just working the
weaving bobbin over, under, over, under, and so on. It was very quick. Pity
the film doesnât show the womanâs technique.
Adele
> On Jul 17,
One person has suggested off list that the woman is a lefty, or
injured her hand in an accident. But I think that a lefty would put
the pins in with the left hand, because that is arguably the thing
that requires the most precision. When I was trying to make lace as
fast as possible, and it was Buc
I think if you made lace for a living, you went as fast as you could, and
certainly making lace with one hand and putting in pins with the other is a
big step up in speed. Probably different lacemakers had different solutions to
the problem of âhow can I make this fasterâ.
I know when I was ma
Hello Devon and everyone
The method shown looks like the way to do it for speed in production. In a
way reminds me of the efficiency of movement when touch-typing (now there's
a dying art, ha ha).
I've accidentally made lace the way she is doing - except really *slow* -
when I was holding the lace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcSaAXtZsc is may favorite to date,
although at 1931, I wish it was a little bit earlier.
For Saint Catherine's Day, I tried to explore the lace tells, and to
that end, and with the help of arachne, located a Bucks Point pattern
that is simple and intuitive, then tr
Tamara,
It is going to work; I have great confidence!
Kimâ
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
> Dear Spiders,
>
> Thank you so much for the warm "welcome back" I received from many of you,
> both in public and in private. This is my third attempt at clawing my way
>
Dear Spiders,
Thank you so much for the warm "welcome back" I received from many of you, both
in public and in private. This is my third attempt at clawing my way back to
sanity and lacemaking (one and the same?) and, hopefully, this time it'll work.
And please forgive this wholesale thanks, in
After a 4 year hiatus, I'm trying to get back to lacemaking, and have a lot of
catching up to do. Can someone tell me how to obtain Gilian Dye's books on the
Early Laces (I have the Elizabethan Lace but nothing published since then -- 3?
4? new books, I hear)? I do not have her e-address to ask
Hello All! Today's post by Trish Nguyen includes a reference to Gillian Dye.
One of the winners of her Basket Contest used an early lace for her version of
Queen Elizabeth I. http://thistle-threads.blogspot.com/ Baskets on previous
posts are worth a look as well if you like beaded baskets,
Hello All! Serendipity is wonderful--while looking for one thing, I stumbled
across another! A friend has informed me that the Cleveland Museum of Art has
Italian Renaissance textiles on disply in Gallery 118 (others in
117)--including lace. If you are unable to attend but would like the acce
To clarify, I used drill cotton (present-day fabric) for my version of a
Midlands bolster, and I referred to twill (the weave technique) for the
period fabric of whatever fibre content, wool, linen, silk, horsehair even
(and stuffed with that, too, as someone mentioned). Probably not cotton as
that
Hello Jen
Horse hair is a possibility for stuffing a pillow.
Did anyone see the Antiques Road Show on UK TV yesterday - the pair of ladies
'pockets' as in the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket lost her pocket! Apparently it
is very rare to find a pair.
The Queens Gallery has an expo this summer 10th
Dear Bev et al,
I agree with what you say, but point out that cotton drill was either
nonexistent or too expensive for a poor lacemaker to use on a pillow, and
therefore vote for a similar twill fabric, but linen. Might be hard to find,
or expensive. I highly doubt that there would be much cha
Lace is often very faithfully depicted on portraits from that era, so
the National Portrait Gallery would be worth a visit if images of lace
are of interest to eke out the surviving real pieces
(It's years since I've been there, but I seem to remember some
spectacularly detailed lace on po
Knitting together
http://www.knittingtogether.org.uk/cat.asp?cat=599
The East Midlands, UK, knitting industry is the subject of the
fantastic virtual and physical museum called Knitting Together. The
knitting industry has been in the East Midlands since the 16th
century, and visitors interested
Hello,
after my experience people working in the textile department of museum haven't
any idea about lace or lacemaking. And how could they in their professional
education lace doesn't exist. Therefore it is difficult first to discuss the
subject with them and second they will not loose their im
Claire wrote:
Maplins have a 10x to 200x USB microscope of this type, which captures vido
and stills, currently priced at GBP29.99 until 23rd March, when it reverts
to full price of GBP49.99.
I have a 'proper' USB microscope, which I find very useful for all sorts of
things including sorti
Just googled this magnifier and found that QVC have this in stock in
the UK for £51.36 inc P&P.
Claire
Kent, UK
Claire Allen
www.bonitocrafts.co.uk
Crafty stuff I want to show off.
On 17 Feb 2010, at 07:11, Alex Stillwell wrote
>
> I recommend the Veho x400 magnifier that connects to a computer
Hi All
Glad to see you are getting good use of your Veho Magnifier. I also have
this magnifier and agree with Alex that it shows every fibre.Very good
for research. I look forward to seeing Alex's findings.
Maureen
East Yorkshire UK
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