[lace] handmade shoes LOKK free content

2012-03-03 Thread hottleco
Hello All! Thank you Brenda for posting about the shoe making classes. What a great idea AND theoretically you would get a pair that fit! My size (6.5 slim) is practically non-existant any more as all the companies rush to make wide sizes. None of the hand made shoe sites offered widths, so

[lace] handmade

2011-05-03 Thread Lorelei Halley
Nancy and all These definitions are always a problem. I have trouble understanding why someone using a knitting machine would join a contest for hand knitting. The only reason that makes sense is when the machines first came out and were still very rare. A woman has one, uses it, and wants to

RE: [lace] handmade

2011-05-03 Thread Patty Dowden
Nancy and all These definitions are always a problem.. Lorelei === My personal definition of lace is string and a hole! No hole, no lace. No string, no lace. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

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2011-05-03 Thread J-D Hammett
@arachne.com Subject: RE: [lace] handmade Nancy and all These definitions are always a problem.. Lorelei === My personal definition of lace is string and a hole! No hole, no lace. No string, no lace. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to majord

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2011-05-03 Thread Nancy Neff
Hey!  Wotcher sayin' ?  You no lika my lacy string vest?? From: J-D Hammett jdhamm...@msn.com To: Patty Dowden pa...@clowder.com; Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 5:18:18 PM Subject: Re: [lace] handmade Hi all, According to the definitions given so

Re: [lace] handmade

2011-05-03 Thread Clay Blackwell
Joepie, I have to agree with you completely! However, (gloom and despair!), what pleases one does not please the other,and so... you have a very broad definition which includes the string vest and the sock with a hole in it. I, for one, have long since stopped putting my work in

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2011-05-03 Thread Dmt11home
The annual lace contest at the International Old Lacers Convention has been garnering some pretty impressive entries lately. Also the judges are knowledgeable. Devon In a message dated 5/3/2011 6:23:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, clayblackw...@comcast.net writes: Joepie, I have to

Re: [lace] handmade

2011-05-03 Thread Clay Blackwell
Just as I hit the send button on that email, I realized that the IOLI competitions were always impressive *and* had knowledgeable judges. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Clay On 5/3/2011 6:37 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: The annual lace contest at the International Old Lacers

Re: [lace] Handmade Lace: From Fine Art to Folk Art, exhibition in Los Alamos, New Mexico

2007-10-09 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Congratulations Laurie, I only wish I could attend. I am sure the lace is lovely and interesting and I would love to hear your lecture. Also it is 20 yrs. since I have been to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Lorri F Subject: [lace] Handmade Lace: From Fine Art to Folk Art, exhibition in Los

[lace] Handmade or machinemade?

2006-01-02 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Well, I can't claim to be an expert on anybody's needlelace but my own, and even then it's a stretch. Still...as I've been making NL for at least half a century (and even won prizes for some of it, imagine that!), I am moved to express an opinion and even describe how I got to it: Yes, I do

Re: [lace] Handmade Antique Pins

2003-08-20 Thread Jean Barrett
Hi Jeri and All, Sorry to be so late following this up, could not find the info. Carole Morris of Spangles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has had made a reproduction of a lace bobbin found in the excavation of a town house in Gloucester. The original was in bone and the objects found with it suggest a date

[lace] Handmade Antique Pins

2003-08-15 Thread Jeriames
Dear Lacemakers interested in early pins, This is a continuation of a discussion we had about a month ago. At IOLI, I was given the gift of a 1990 Lace Guild calendar from the U.K. The month of May had text about the Gloucester Folk Museum at 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester: Fine medieval

[lace] Handmade????

2003-08-14 Thread Jean Nathan
Not being anything like an expert in telling hand-made from machine-made lace. These two pieces just don't have the feel, if you know what I mean, of hand made. The yardages being sold also make me suspicious. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

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2003-08-10 Thread alice howell
At 11:00 PM 8/7/2003 +0200, you wrote: I joined some time ago and have been lurking, reading the digest. . Within the past year I decided that I'd like to learn tatting. . How can you tell, by looking at photos such as the ones in these auction, if a lace is handmade or machine made?