what a great poem
Faye of Drumore, PA USA
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From: "Noelene Lafferty"
To: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:17:16 PM
Subject: RE: [lace] definitions
Carol, as you said you're fairly new to Arachne, you probably haven't seen
this
I really like your definitions... sounds logical...
Faye
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From: "Susan Reishus"
To: "post to Arachne"
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 4:43:04 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] definitions
I must question the use of scaffolding, as it implies it as an part
Oh love this... Your Hubby must have been quite a character.. LOL his
definition gave me a much needed laugh... LOL
Faye , Drumore, PA USA
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From: "Carol"
To: "post to Arachne"
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 5:03:07 AM
Subject: Re: [lac
;-D) I have been reading these very clever and scholarly definitions
of lace. The other day I was cleaning out something-or-other and a slip of
paper fell to the floor. You must remember that I am an incurable keeper
of bits of paperwith little thoughts of mine or others!
This one
Noelene I LOVE it
Sue in EY
On 1 Jul 2010, at 23:17, Noelene Lafferty wrote:
> Carol, as you said you're fairly new to Arachne, you probably
> haven't seen
> this poem of mine before - apologies to those who already have:
>
> What is lace?
>
> Lace is just air
> Surrounded by thread
> W
Carol, as you said you're fairly new to Arachne, you probably haven't seen
this poem of mine before - apologies to those who already have:
What is lace?
Lace is just air
Surrounded by thread
Without us lacemakers
The skill would be dead.
Lace can be bobbins
Flung about with great speed
Weaving p
I must question the use of scaffolding, as it implies it as an part of an
infrastructure, when scaffolding is essentially a structure with scaffolds
(akin to sophisticated ladder) to provide access by a worker, that never
supports the structure itself, but rather access to be able to execute the
ta
Try researching needlelace to it's beginning, where a lot of times, in
books, it was called all sorts of things, including by the embroidery terms.
It gets very confusing. I'll think I'm reading about needlelace, then
suddenly realize I've been reading about embroidery of some sort all along!
Br
nwork sections,
i.e.holes, are necessary to the design.
Regina Haring
New York
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From: "Brenda Paternoster"
To: "Regina Haring"
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] definitions
That would include the wire fences made with
Thie 'thread' makes me smile!My late husband, if anyone asked him what
on earth I was doing with my pillows and bobbins (seemingly, neither of
which had some of them ever seen before) always used to tell people that I
was 'joining holes together with bits of yarn'. It did make some people
That would include the wire fences made with BL techniques and die-cut paper
doilies.
It is very difficult to write a definitive definition of lace which includes
everything which is lace but excludes what some people might say is not lace!
Personally I would include almost everything that's m
Happened to notice in the current IOLI Bulletin that the Powerhouse Museum
in Australia is sponsoring an International Lace Award. Their goal is to
"redefine traditional expressions of lace and its design applications."
They say -
"For the purposes of this award we define lace as: an openwork
Going back to my original definition:
> A textile fabric constructed from one or more threads which are interwoven or
> looped together to form a decorative pattern of open and close areas within
> that fabric.
Bobbin lace is a textile fabric with a decorative pattern of open and close
ares, co
"That's according the Encyclopädia Britanica lace is an ornamental openwork
fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads. what I
found and I agree with it" Ilske
***
The only challenge is, it leaves out cutting/making holes in textiles such as
hardanger, or chemical, and so
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From: "Brenda Paternoster"
To: colonialart...@frontier.com
Cc: lace@arachne.com, "margaret palen"
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:50:37 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Definitions
In the 19th century "real lace" was bobbin lace or needle lace. Tatti
That's
according the Encyclopädia Britanica lace is an ornamental openwork fabric
formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads.
what I found and I agree with it
Ilske
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Here in Germany, we still think like this:
> In the 19th century "real lace" was bobbin lace or needle lace. Tatting,
> crochet and all the other techniques including machine made lace was not real
> lace!
And in my opinion it would be better to add to crochet, knitting and others
knitted-lac
In the 19th century "real lace" was bobbin lace or needle lace. Tatting,
crochet and all the other techniques including machine made lace was not real
lace!
On 29 Jun 2010, at 00:21, colonialart...@frontier.com wrote:
> There are so many types they call lace... and some say there are only 2 t
Hand made lace techniques include: knitting, crochet, tatting, embroidered and
tamboured nets, sprang, needle laces made with buttonhole stitches.
Machine made lace includes: warp knitting, weft knitting, chemical lace.
Brenda
On 29 Jun 2010, at 01:07, margaret palen wrote:
> Brenda, please giv
;margaret palen"
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 5:24:57 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Definitions
Some hand made lace is weaving - some is not.
Some machine made lace is woven, some isn not
Some weaving is lace, some is not.
As a starting definition I would describe lace a
Some hand made lace is weaving - some is not.
Some machine made lace is woven, some isn not
Some weaving is lace, some is not.
As a starting definition I would describe lace as:
A textile fabric constructed from one or more threads which are interwoven or
looped together to form a decorative pa
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