This subject has come up a couple of times recently.
One very useful exercise we did at college when I was doing my City & Guilds,
and which I repeated some years later with the ladies I was teaching, was to
make a sampler of various methods of stiffening. The one thing I did
differently with
I've used spray starch for stiffening small articles of lace. Just small fun
things, nothing precious. Does anyone know if starch adversely affects lace?
Ann
Yorkshire UK.
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Does anyone know if starch adversely affects lace?
We had to do an exercise for City Guilds, using various different
methods of stiffening on cotton and synthetic lace (we used machine made
lace
Dear Ann,
Did you check the Arachne archives to see what has been written on this
subject?
Most things you would spray starch (the modern starch products) are used
regularly, whereas a collection of fine laces is often put away for long
stretches of time.
If left in a textile, spray
After much fruitless internet searching I'm doing what I should have
done in the first place - ask the experts. So, does anyone in the UK
know where I can get Stiffy stiffener for lace? This has been
recommended to me for stiffening Christmas decorations using Gold Rush
and Special Dentelle
I'd check with Ian Bowers at George Weil
George Weil Craft Supplies - Home
http://www.georgeweil.com/
He's the dyers list go-to person for information like this in the UK
Cynthia
On Nov 11, 2011, at 5:36 AM, Lesley Blackshaw wrote:
After much fruitless internet searching I'm doing what I
Thank you, everyone, for your responses. I think I'll go with dilute
PVA glue (after a test on the thread) as it seems that's what Stiffy is,
and also as we have a huge container of PVA glue.BWs
BWs
Lesley
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Tamara wrote:
If she can't
get the right-sized, right-coloured wire (she works with that, also)
and has to use metallic thread, she uses clear polyurethane, same as
for furniture. I kid you not...
I read that and did a sharp intake of breath, then I read on and saw Bev's reply about
melting
Laminating lace sounds like a very interesting idea. I have done laminating
at work, and have found that if you are experiencing bubbles after
laminating, you need to turn the object around in the paper laminating
sleeve and put it through again. Some things I have put through the
laminating
Hi, first time here on the lace chat. I was wondering if any one could
please tell me how they stiffen the lace book marks they have made
I don't. It's been my experience that recipients of my bookmarks consider
them too precious to use for most things. They admire them, and some have
put
well, i put them in plastic sleeves ! VBG .. which is not really the
answer to your question i guess. ;-))
actually i never stiffen anything . i'm very careful about the tensionning
and up to now my lace hasn't been in need of starching .
margret holmes a décidé d' écrire à Ò[lace]
One of the things that I want in a book mark is to be stiff, real stiff. So
I take mine to a copy store like Kinko's or Office Max and have them
laminated in a pocket laminating plastic. These come in several different
weights and are like two sheets of plastic connected at one end. I place my
Hello - fellow newbie here!
I recently made my friend a mobile for her son's birthday ( he was only 1 btw)
using some xmas window decoration patterns. So that they would hang and not
waft i used fabric stiffener that i got from a local haberdashery shop or
there are a few lace/sewing shops online
been hot but humid - is another thunder
storm on the way?
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if that was due to
the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot smaller, wouldn't have
that problem.
Carol - in Suffolk UK - still with a trapped nerve in back and legs, and
chomping on pain-killers and anti-inflammatory drugs like Smarties
!
Subject: [lace] Stiffening lace bookmarkers
Tip for lacemakers - keep your Smarties in a plastic cup
so you can tip them straight into your mouth while lacemaking
and not get the colours on your fingers.
Noelene in Cooma
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Carol - in Suffolk UK - still with a trapped nerve in back
I have had lace bookmarks laminated without a lot of success, they tend to
leave bubbles as Carol said and it spoils the look of the bookmark, I prefer
to use sleeves.
Shirley in wet ( hooray ) Corio, Oz.
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:23:03 -0400, Robin P. wrote:
Hi, first time here on the lace chat. I was wondering if any one could
please tell me how they stiffen the lace book marks they have made
I don't. It's been my experience that recipients of my bookmarks consider
them too precious to use for
Hi, first time here on the lace chat. I was wondering if any one could
please tell me how they stiffen the lace book marks they have made Thank
you
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At 09:48 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
Hi, first time here on the lace chat. I was wondering if any one could
please tell me how they stiffen the lace book marks they have made Thank you
Since my bookmarks are not heirloom candidates, I just use spray starch. I
pin them out on cardboard covered
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