Re: [lace] Re: BLacing with hair

2005-05-29 Thread Maureen Harvey
PROTECTED] To: lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:41 AM Subject: [lace] Re: BLacing with hair On May 26, 2005, at 9:47, Mark, aka Tatman wrote: You don't need a pillow and bobbins to do bobbinlace LOL! No, you don't :) I used a halfstitch ground to weave the back of my

Fw: [lace] Re: BLacing with hair

2005-05-28 Thread Antje González
there was one girl in my class who knwe how to plait in 4... She was the most popular girl, showered with gifts and friendship :) If you were in her good graces, she'd take apart your schoolgirl two that Clay mentions, and re-do them her style... 30 yrs later, when I started making lace, I

[lace] Re: BLacing with hair

2005-05-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 28, 2005, at 11:06, Antje González wrote: Very interesting your story. This reminds me of a girl in my daughters class, exactly 13 years ago. She was a portuguese gipsy. And so, her mother used to take her to school with a very long thick and black braid (much longer than her waist!).

[lace] Re: BLacing with hair

2005-05-26 Thread Mark, aka Tatman
Actually my wife went to beautician school and one of her achievements was to weave a hat made directly from the hair on the mannequin's head. Altho it wasn't done in the BL technique G But probably similar half stitch ground if I remember the way she described it. Was a popular 70s/80s hair

[lace] Re: BLacing with hair

2005-05-26 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 26, 2005, at 9:47, Mark, aka Tatman wrote: You don't need a pillow and bobbins to do bobbinlace LOL! No, you don't :) I used a halfstitch ground to weave the back of my niece's hair for prom this year. Kind of tiring on her part to lay there as we separated the strands, gelled

[lace] Re: BLacing with hair

2005-05-26 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 26, 2005, at 19:00, Clay Blackwell wrote: Since I had a hard time doing the schoolgirl two braids on my own daughter's head when she was young, I am more than impressed with the skill required for these hairstyles! When I was in primary school, most of us had long hair (or, as long