[lace] Tambour lace

2006-03-03 Thread Margot Walker
On Thursday, March 2, 2006, at 08:44 PM, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: Margot saidInstead of a stand to hold the frame, I take a leaf out of my dining room table and lay the frame over the opening. Works like a charm! What a clever idea! - but doesn't it bother your back as you lean over it?

[lace] Tambour Lace

2006-03-02 Thread Miriam
Hi Liz, I have the good intention of trying tambour lace but didn't get to it yet. Anyway, I have seen the book by Foukoyama and I have the book written by Greet. I wasn't impressed by the Fukoyama book, there is very little you can use in it, on the other hand I love the book by Greet

[lace] Tambour Lace

2006-03-02 Thread Margot Walker
On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, at 09:39 PM, Miriam wrote: I'm still trying to figure out how to handle the tulle in a frame . I use an embroidery frame which has rollers. I sew the net to the tape on the 'rolling ends' and use a cloth tape/grosgrain ribbon or the like, which gets pinned to

[lace] Tambour Lace

2006-03-02 Thread Jane Partridge
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm still trying to figure out how to handle the tulle in a frame . I don't feel like buying the whole big frames My claim to fame as being the only UK member of the Canadian Lacemaker Gazette's 5m Club (so what are the rest of you

[lace] Tambour lace

2006-03-02 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Margot saidInstead of a stand to hold the frame, I take a leaf out of my dining room table and lay the frame over the opening. Works like a charm! What a clever idea! - but doesn't it bother your back as you lean over it? I have a 14 inch quilting hoop on a U frame which sits on my lap, and

[lace] Tambour Lace Interview.

2006-03-02 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Jo Ann said I am just finishing up an interview with Greet Rome-Verbeylen for the summer issue of the IOLI Bulletin which will feature tambour lace Ooooh! Can't wait to read that article! Thank you for letting us know what to look out for.(Only trouble with that is that the 'Summer

[lace] Tambour Lace

2006-03-01 Thread Margot Walker
I believe there are 2 books available - one by Fukuyama, and the other the Liers lace by Greet Rome-Verbeylen. There is a third, well it's really a 26 page booklet: Jean Dudding. Creating Coggeshall Lace. I think it's out of print, but if you put the title in Google, you'll find lots of

Re: [lace] Tambour Lace

2006-03-01 Thread robinlace
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

[lace] Tambour Lace

2006-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
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. I am told Liers Lace and Tambour lace are the same thing. Please can anyone give me book reviews, and/or advice on which would be the

[lace] Tambour lace

2005-09-11 Thread Margot Walker
All the talk about Liers lace, after the Denver convention, made me dig out all my 'stuff' on Coggeshall lace. I've just finished my first original design and, if I do say so myself, it's great. I made an iris. I'll baste it on a jacket which I'll be wearing to the American Needlepoint