Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-29 Thread colonialartist
Hegener going back and forth from Facebook, countrylife and farmville,,, - Original Message - From: "Susie Rose" To: joybee...@comcast.net, jeria...@aol.com Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:53:44 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft Hello to

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-26 Thread lbuyred
Or, as one weaver told me "You have to be warped to weave!" Liz Raleigh, NC, USA Regina Haring wrote: > Warping the loom comes first, and the word "warp" is alphabetically before > "weft". - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@a

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-24 Thread Regina Haring
Warping the loom comes first, and the word "warp" is alphabetically before "weft". Regina - Original Message - From: "Joy Beeson" To: Or to reflect that a loom must be warped before weaving can commence. (I have read that warping is more than half the job, so weavers try to p

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-24 Thread Susie Rose
Hello to One & All! Im also a weaver. IMHO woof meaning weft came into being through a misunderstanding by 2 people where one's native tongue was different than the other. My Mom was Danish & could mangle english quite well. I would piggyback many projects off of 1 warping of my loom. Warpin

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-24 Thread Joy Beeson
On 6/14/10 10:44 AM, jeria...@aol.com wrote: David: All you have to remember is that (in English) weft rhymes with left, and that left and right are horizontal. Another way is to remember that weft is that which is woven. Dunno how "woof" fits in, but "warp and woof" is obsolete anyway.

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2010-06-15 Thread Barbara Ballantyne
: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft Shirley, Very interesting. I had to go check on my oven bags and mine are made by the Reynolds Co. I'll have to check the store and see if they have the ones by Glad. Wonder if ours would be acid free? Patsy A. Goodman Chula Vista, CA, USA Treg

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2010-06-15 Thread karpap
Shirley, Very interesting. I had to go check on my oven bags and mine are made by the Reynolds Co. I'll have to check the store and see if they have the ones by Glad. Wonder if ours would be acid free? Patsy A. Goodman Chula Vista, CA, USA Tregellas Family wrote: > > > It's a

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2010-06-15 Thread Tregellas Family
jeria...@aol.com wrote: David: All you have to remember is that (in English) weft rhymes with left, and that left and right are horizontal. It's all these little hints which make life so much easier. Thank you Jeri for my new piece of knowledge today. A comment was made today our Gu

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-14 Thread robinlace
In my experience, the sillier the memory aid, the easier it is to remember. Weft sounds like the past tense of weave to me; the weaver has weft. Or it goes weft to wight. For warp, I think of "Star Trek". Warp speed is obviously going forward, not sideways. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, U

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

2010-06-14 Thread bev walker
I remember it as the weft does the weaving. Similarly in lacemaking, our worker pairs are also known as weaver pairs. aka the weft pairs! Subject to change to become warp or passives as the pattern requires ;) On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:44 AM, wrote: > David wrote: "Now while I can never > remem