I unwind them for 6-8 inches,
pull them straight, dampen them, and pin them down firmly.
For a tassel on a book mark, I found that unwinding the bobbins for 6-8
and just leaving them hanging overnight (hanging off the edge of the
pillow) was sufficient to straighten the thread nicely. The
 I saw a beautiful Peacock pattern on facebook that I would love to know
where the pattern came from. It was for an edging and quite elaborate in
design. Beautiful. Some much lace so little time but the seeing of said lace
makes my eyes very happy.
Wind To Thy Wings,SherryNew York, US of
On 24/05/2011 06:57, Alex Stillwell wrote:
Hi Linda
This was sparked of by someone coming out with the old wives tale of
lacemaker using thorns and fishbones for pins and I was asking if there
was any evidence. Obviously thorns have been used in Brazil, but not for
the very very fine early lace.
Hi Linda
Just m
- Original Message -
From: Linda Walton linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com
To: Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net; Lace lace@arachne.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: pins and thorns
On 24/05/2011 06:57, Alex Stillwell wrote:
Hi Linda
This was
Alice wrote:
In 19th century USA, pins were used as an informal monetary unit. Remember
stories like Tom Sawyer... admission to the performance the kids gave was a
pin (or two).
I may sound like I'm very ancient, but I remember as a child that a paper of
pins was sometimes used in shops to
On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:54, laceandb...@aol.com (Jacquie) wrote:
First of all, a sidestep. Can anyone tell me the origin (and meaning)
of
the saying For two pins..
Don't know the origin but, the way I've always heard/seen ithe phrase
used, meant without much encouragement or for a small
That was what I thought, but I've been wondering about this for quite some
time (intermittently, you understand, not continuously) and in the process I
had got to the stage where instead of Oh, for two pins I'd just do it
myself I was wavering that it was more derogatory of what ever the task
Tamara P Duvall t...@rockbridge.net wrote:
Don't know the origin but, the way I've always heard/seen ithe phrase used,
meant without much encouragement or for a small price. It's always used in
the same way: for two pins, I'd... (do something or other). Must have been
invented once the
://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Straight-Pin.html
However, it does not tell about the use of the pin as currency.
Alice in Oregon -- expecting a very wet Easter
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Subject: [lace] Re: pins
On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:54, laceandb...@aol.com (Jacquie) wrote:
First of all
On Aug 13, 2004, at 16:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie in Baltimore) wrote:
I am working on a Chantilly fan and I am thinking about pins.[...]
I decided to use the long and thin pins for the figures and my usual
pins for the ground.
Not Chantilly, but... When I took a class (with Pompi Parry) in
From: Tamara P. Duvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
years ago, and ex-Arachnean (Penny Boston), who studied microbe life in
deep caves for NASA, took some pins with her and left them in one of
the caves, to see what effect constantly damp and chilly environment
would have on them. As I remember
On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 10:30 US/Eastern, Panza, Robin wrote:
The bottom line, IMO, is that all pins will corrode under the right
conditions. What pin works best for one person does poorly in
another's
house. Pollutants, humidity, temperature, and frequency and speed of
change
of them;
Methinks her bitchy mood *today* is due to the passing of
another of those annual downers... the birthday. Wish her a
happy one anyway!!
Clay
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From: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doubtless it the same element which due to my bitchy
nature makes my
blood too
On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 12:05 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Jacquie) wrote:
Stainless steel pins rust, brass ones tarnish. Not quite the same.
Not the same at all. But, *good* stainless steel pins don't rust and
they don't tarnish either.
I brought a big bunch of East-German sewing pins
In a message dated 6/29/2003 2:11:52 AM GMT Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From Lace and Bobbins, T.L.Huetson 1973
The making of pillow lace requires the use of pins, and when the art of
making lace was brought to England these were very expensive.
Consequently
the workers
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