[lace] Witch Stitch
Good Morning Carolina and All, I have just finished Carolina's Witch Stitch Spider which I started last weekend. It was really interesting to work and although I made a real mess of the first leg with the serpentina braid the final result is not too bad. I used the recommended Finca 80 thread and it is lovely. I know that Barbara Underwood is recommending it for Bedfordshire lace now. I found it very strong and smooth to work with. Well worth a try if you are having problems with weak threads. I know it comes in no.40 as well, and according to Brenda's book lots of other sizes. Roseground Lace supplies keep it in the UK. Now, what do I do with my large arachne spider? t-shirt? Bag? Hat? Watch out for her at Scarborogh and Prague. Thanks Carolina it's a lovely design. Jean in Cleveland U.K. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] passementerie
Hello all, The word passementerie in French possibly comes from the original: pasamanería that in Spanish refers to ribbons and trims prior to laces as we know today. The meaning of the word literally expresses to pass something between hands, so in this case the ribbons and trims made only with hands. Here in Spain were made from time immemorial. It is known that an edict of the King Alfonso IX, in 1212 ordered to put aside superfluities of gold and silver ornaments. But it is sure that the influence that Spain received from oriental cultures before this date , have contributed to development of this craft. In the splendid library that Tess and the Professor have provided us, you will find more information at this respect, as well as other laces that were made in Spain in very old times: Lace, Puntas and Passementerie by Bernhard and Ellen M. Whishaw. and...of course much better explained than I could do in English. Best regards. Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/ http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/encajebrujo.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Witch Stitch
Jean Barrett wrote: Now, what do I do with my large arachne spider? t-shirt? Bag? Hat? Watch out for her at Scarborogh and Prague. Thanks Carolina it's a lovely design. Jean in Cleveland U.K. Hello Jean and all, Congratulations!!! It is great. A weekend is a record time for a first time witch stitch lace. Jean, can I suggest a bag? Best regards. Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/ http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/encajebrujo.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] translation for Ebay bobbin description
The translation from the French description of the use of the bobbins is: 24 bobbins made of olive tree wood which were used to manufacture lace on a lace making loom Sylvie Nguyen Cherry Valley, IL, USA where it's cold, but sunny __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace in movies
Does anybody know the name of this movie. It sounds like a movie I would like to watch. I like Katheryn Hepburn and I like movies of history like the period of Mary Queen of Scots. If anybody knows could you please send me an email. Then I will be out hunting to rent the movie to watch it. Thanks in advance. Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] new website
I finally made my website and got it to the right place! It's mostly tatting, with a little bit of bobbin lace. hurrah! Sumac in southern Vermont http//:www.sumac.us - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace scissors
Guys, Somewhere in the move my lace scissors have gone west - they are the type with the bump on one end of one of the blades. Does anyone know where I can get a pair in the UK either by mail or from a shop? I think I bought the last pair in John Lewis in Oxford Street but I doubt they still do them. Regards Liz Beecher I'm blogging now - see what it's all about - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: floss - long (how-to)
In a message dated 08/04/2004 22:07:22 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just stand on the landing and let the skein dangle over the bannister. I use two pieces of card, on in each hand and wind one stand (or however many strands I want) onto one card and the rest onto the other card Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ You see, I was going to say I can't do that as I now live in a flat then I thought, but I live in a second floor flat that has 3 flights of stairs up to the door and I realised that I now have one heck of a way to dangle the skein over the banister but then I thought how I'll be doing this in public with the neighbours watching - now how do I explain that!! Well, if they think I'm completely bonkers they will at least keep away from me! Regards Liz Beecher I'm blogging now - see what it's all about - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] a good beginning Bobbin Lace Book
In a message dated 09/04/2004 19:02:33 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I bought a copy of this from SMP only about 12 months ago. It is a fasinating book whether or not you intend to make the lace and if you have the urge to try some then Gillian Dye gives both period and modern uses for the lace. I'd certainly recommend it as a book Liz Dear Janet as you are particularly interested in Elizabethan and Renaissance lace, I would recommend a little book called ELIZABETHAN LACE by Gillian Day. She concentrates on plaited bobbin lace, which is the basis of the Elizabethan style. She also gives basic instructions for simple needle-lace, reticella and lacis. There's a lot in a small space! I don't alas know whether it is still in print, but do get hold of it if you can. Published in 1995 by the Elviston Press, Boston Spa, England. ISBN 0 9522709 35 Good hunting! Bridget Marrow, in Watford, England. Regards Liz Beecher I'm blogging now - see what it's all about - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] passement...
Tamara question as well, but... *In Polish*, we have a word pasmanteria (which seems to have been stolen directly from French) and it covers Be carefull comparing (almost) identical words in different languages. Once I confirmed a Swiss gui not to be serious. He laid down his spoon: Do you mean the French or German serious? I answered to be honest: the Dutch. It appeared that the French interpretation resembles the Dutch: I meant he was a joker from time to time, but in German serious just means trustworthy. Jo Falkink http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/intro-EN.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Passementerie
According to Anna Crutchley, in The Tassels Book, passementerie is the making of tassels and trimmings. She says it is a hybrid craft. It employs the talents of the cordspinner, weaver and tassel maker, each of whom works to a high level of skill and expertise. They in turn are answerable to the interior decorator or upholsterer who is commissioned be the owner of the house to design schemes of great taste and imagination. Anna is one of the tutors that we have for or lace and textile weekends and she does a talk and slide show about some of the traditional methods and equipment used to make this high quality work - I believe I am right in saying some of hers was used in the restoration of Windsor Castle after the fire. Some of the narrow braids she shows could be replicated successfully with lace techniques but are much quicker on a purpose made loom and therefore more commercially viable. Even so, they are extremely expensive as they are mostly made to order. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Venetian Gros Point Lace
Yes, it's the same Barley. She's a lovely woman, too. I took her stumpwork class at Ithaca a few years ago and had a delightful time! She also has a book out just by her, on quite a variety of needlelaces. It's really nice if you're interested in the variety. Each chapter is about one style, with history, how to recognize it, and how to do it. It's my very-most-favorite needlelace text. The hard-cover version went out of print, but it's back in paper. I believe it's just called Needlelace. It has strawberries on the cover. Robin P. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA -Original Message- From: Jane Viking Swanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, I just got a copy of Venetian Gros Point Lace by Nenia Lovesey and Catherine Barley. What a lot of delicious lace inside! [snip] I'm not sure if the arachne Catherine Barley is the same as the author but if so I'd just like to say this is a wonderful book!! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Venetian Gros Pt. book
Yes, Jane, it is the same Catherine Barley - and I agree with you that it is a marvellous book. My DD bought it for me many years ago. There are so many great designs that trigger so many ideas! I love the Jacobean type flower spray on the waistcoat, and the sprays for the Cloche, and .!!! :)) from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Needlelace threads
Firstly, the needlelace book Needlelace: Designs Techniques by Cathering Barley is a fantastic book, but Not for a beginner. You would need to have a grounding in NL before you used the book. For a beginner try Val Grimwood's book Starting Needlelace. Work through that so you feel happy with working NL, and 'Then' treat yourself to the Barley book - It will be the best book you ever get!! - Well, for NL anyway! Finca Threads - Please be aware that Finca number their threads differently to DMC, Madeira Tanne, etc. - Just to confuse us all! Finca #80 is more like a thin #50 Tanne , and Finca #60 is more like a thin Tanne #30. As a guide, Barbara Underwood told us to add 20, to get a comparison. Their crochet cotton is also differently numbered. I purchased a ball of #100 - but it is much finer that DMC or Coats (Anchor) 100. It is more like a 120, I think. I must get a #80 in the Fincrochet and hope that will be more like the usual 100. I think their Perle 3,5,8,12 are the same thickness as the DMC Perle, though. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Venetian Gros Pt. book
On Apr 12, 2004, at 21:35, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: Yes, Jane, it is the same Catherine Barley - and I agree with you that it is a marvellous book. I don't do NL -- my hands perspire badly, and my sweat seems to be *corrosive* (all my pre-BL pettit-point pieces -- made in silk on silk canvas -- seem to be disintegrating in less than 20 yrs, and the bigger the piece, the faster it dissolves) but Catherine Barley's work has, for several years, been something that *almost* changed my mind... I first saw it at Ithaca, same year that Robin took the stump-work class, and have been hopelessly in love with it since. I keep thinking that, one day, I'll get Barley's re-issued book, just for the drool value (so it wouldn't matter a whit whether it was suitable for beginners or not g). I have two books on needle lacemaking -- both rescued as remainder books, at ridiculously low (irresistible g) prices -- Grimwood's New ideas in Needlepoint Lace, and Clark's Needle Lace; Techniques and Inspirations. They're both excellent and interesting books, but... It seems to me that, in every creative endavour (including lacemaking), there are (to use a comparison pulled from music) the Czernys and then there are the Mozarts... Both are valuable, both have a place in the larger scheme of things, but... some work closer to the ground, while some have soaring visions. People like Barley (for NL) and Suchanek (for wire BL) are the visionaries, who actually move the boundaries into new dimensions. Yours, a BL designer, but definitely a Czerny, - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace scissors
On Apr 12, 2004, at 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz Beecher) wrote: Somewhere in the move my lace scissors have gone west - they are the type with the bump on one end of one of the blades. Does anyone know where I can get a pair in the UK either by mail or from a shop? No, not really, but... I've seen similiar scissors before -- some had a bump on one blade, some on both -- but I never thought of them as lace scissors. Here, they're peddled as as a *masculine* item -- either to trim one's mustache, or to trim one's nose hair (can't remember which)... Often, they appear, in catalogues, around Father's Day and such, and are puffed up as something for the guy who has everything g This tid-bit ought to broaden your base of search and, since you're puter-literate (where I am not), might produce something available in UK. Yours, buying her lace scissors from the local fishing and camping store -- both blades are sharp, but both *curve up* for safety in cutting the threads close. - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Language usage -- again
Somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory, there's a half-buried idea that each other and one another are *not* the same thing, and are used differently. I seem to remember being taught that one's used when the interraction is limited to two only, and the other's used when there's a bigger group. I have never seen it written (but am plenty old). Nevertheless, in my mind, each other (when used as a compound word) implies two people. When used otherwise, it is more specific that one another. At http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/each.html I found... ... 'Each other' is always two distinct words separated by a space although it functions grammatically as a sort of compound word. The students graded one another's performances. Said that way, it is only clear that each student's performance was graded by at least one other student. Each student graded the performance of each other student--each other is not used as a compound word but is very specific. The students graded each other's performances is IMHO sloppy/incorrect (unless you know there are only two) and grammer would be better served with one another. When George and Sally met 12 years later, they stared into one another's eyes -- doesn't sound right -- we need the compound term each other here. Susan Webster Canton, Ohio To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Ballarat Choral Society
Dear Friends, If anyone is interested in receiving an email copy of our Ballarat Choral Society's Newsletter feel free to ask. The current one details our next concert (which I am conducting on July 25th). There might just be the odd original arrangement of which some of you may like a copy. :) David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] books
For the bibliophiles among us, here is an ineresting site http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk Edith North Nottinghamshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Language usage -- again
Tamara asked:- Somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory, there's a half-buried idea that each other and one another are *not* the same thing, and are used differently. I seem to remember being taught that one's used when the interraction is limited to two only, and the other's used when there's a bigger group. The problem is, I can't, for the life of me, remember *which is which*... Here's an extract from my 1944 copy of H.W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Oxford University Press), page 125. . . . 'Each other' is by some writers used only when no more than two things are referred to, 'one another' being similarly appropriated to larger numbers; the differentiation is neither of present utility nor based on historical usage; the old distributive of two as opposed to several was not 'each', but 'either; and 'either other', which formerly existed beside 'each other' and 'one another', would doubtless have survived if its special meaning had been required. Of course, American English may work differently . . . Linda Walton, (enjoying a warm Spring evening in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Language usage -- again
On Apr 12, 2004, at 13:56, Linda Walton wrote: Here's an extract from my 1944 copy of H.W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Oxford University Press), page 125. . . . 'Each other' is by some writers used only when no more than two things are referred to, 'one another' being similarly appropriated to larger numbers; the differentiation is neither of present utility nor based on historical usage [...] Thanks; it's good to know I don't *have to* remember the difference... And that, whoever it was who'd put that particular bee in my bonnet was just another over-zealous, officious *nothing* g Of course, American English may work differently . . . Most of the English I know is *Brit* English; that's what I was taught in Poland from the time I was 8, to the time I left at 23. Those were the formative years for me, as far as English is concerned; all I've learnt in the US in the 30+ yrs since is but an icing on the cake (and unevenly applied, at that)... g - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA (pissin' down all day, but I'm told we needed the rain) Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
