[lace] wire bobbins like Lenka's
After I posted a plea on arachne to be connected with a source for more bobbins like those that Libor used to sell for working with wire, Jim Stavast of BeeUtahful bobbins answered my plea by duplicating the bobbin in question. I sent him a sample and he sent me a sample and now I am the proud possessor of a hundred bobbins for working with wire. The experience of dealing with Jim was pleasant and very professional. If anyone else is interested in these bobbins, you can see what a good job he has done in producing them by going to his website: _http://www.beeutahful.com/store/page7.html_ (http://www.beeutahful.com/store/page7.html) Sincerely, Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] wire lace bobbins
Thanks for pointing out Jim's pages. I just love the bat bobbin! and the thumpers made from Corian. I recently received the March catalogue from Trillium lace. Bobbins for wire lace are listed there too. http://www.trilliumlace.ca On 3/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I posted a plea on arachne to be connected with a source for more bobbins http://www.beeutahful.com/store/page7.html - Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Bucks Lace Postcard Inquiry from Nicky in Suffolk
Dear Lace Historians, Lacefairy is not on Arachne. Periodically, I forward correspondence to her that may be of interest in connection with her comprehensive website and her expertise in genealogy research. So, I'm coming out of lurkdom, at her request, to send Arachne the following genealogy research Lacefairy has done in connection with the original question from Nicky in Suffolk. This research took a bit of time, and it seemed yesterday and today that there were more than the original inquirer who might make use of it. Perhaps someone will share a picture of the Bucks postcard and also the Beds postcard (mentioned in a different memo) with Lori. That way, all who are interested could see them on Lacefairy, the website where so many learn so much about lace and lace history. Jeri Ames in Maine Lace Embroidery Resource Center - From Lori, the Lacefairy: I have tracked down a few of your ladies in the 1881 English census as follows: Isabella DOWDY was born 1851 North Crawley, Buckingham, England- Occupation Lace Maker Eliza Harper born 1846 Nottingham, Nottingham, England -Occupation Lace Clipper Ellen CLARE Born 1844, Olney, Buckingham, England , -Occupation Lace Maker Emma Richardson born 1848 Hardmead, Buckingham, England - Occupation Lace Maker Mercy Sanders born 1841 Cranfield, Bedford, England -Occupation Dress Maker Elizabeth Kingston born 1846 Paulerspury, Northampton, England -Occupation Lace Maker Harriet Ann Cooper born 1855 Emberton, Buckingham, England -Occupation Lace Maker Sarah Ann Warren born 1854 Stoke Goldington, Buckingham, England - Occupation Lace Maker Mary Percival born 1851 North Crawley, Buckingham, England - Occupation Lace Maker Martha Hinde born 1855 Clifton Reynes, Buckingham, England Occupation Lace Maker Tamar Linger born 1841 Kempston, Bedford, England - Occupation Lace Maker Elizabeth Brewster b. 1869 Ridgemont, Bedfordshire, England - Occupation Lace Maker I would love to see the postcard. Lori Howe Lacefairy - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bucks Lace Postcard Inquiry from Nicky in Suffolk
I'd love to see it, too! Is someone going to put it on a website? Assuming there's no copyright involved, if no one else is going to post it, I would be happy to put it on my web site for all to see. If you'd like me to do that, please email the scan to me! Barbara Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snoqualmie, WA USA Hello Jeri I've just scanned my postcard, will send it to to you and Lori privately. The Beds card can be seen at http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/lace/lacehtml/lacemakers.html Brenda Lacefairy is not on Arachne. Perhaps someone will share a picture of the Bucks postcard and also the Beds postcard (mentioned in a different memo) with Lori. Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lorelei Halley's website?
Previously I have found Lorelei Halley's website very useful but had mislaid the url. A search on Google gave www.loreleihalley.com/ for the home page but This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources. Does anyone know if this is just temporary? Jay in Sydney, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Tatting Mascot voting update (long)
Dear Fellow Tatters, Time is fast approaching for us to do our primary voting for our Tatting Mascot. Please get the word out to every tatter and lace maker you know. This is the last week for submitting a nomination. I had requested you to send in drawings or pictures of your nominations to help others see what you had in mind. So far all I have received are a total of four pictures. A tatted Space Shuttle Mark's (TatMan) Squirrel Nuts About Tatting The three MuskaTATS (just received today, one you have not seen before) Puss N Boots,(Tatting on cloths and boots with needle and thread and shuttle.)(All for One - Tatting for All) If we don't get pictures of your nominations, believe me, it's going to be tough competition against the ones with pictures. You have one week. So please get busy. Here's the list so far: Spider and Web Hedgehog Frog (because he says Rep it, Rip it, Rip it.) Cat (loves to play with thread and tatting) Puss N Boots (Shuttle as Shield and Needle as Sword) Dolphin (shaped like shuttle, could have needle in mouth) Kangaroo (with ball of thread and needle in pouch and shuttle in hand tatting) Turtle (slow but steady like many of us) Dragonfly (body a needle and wings, shuttles) Woodpecker (sound of Rat a Tat, Tat, Tat) Cricket (sounds like clicking of shuttle) Mark's (Tat Man) 3 Muskatats Shuttle Bug Mark's (Tat Man) Squirrel (collecting nuts like all of us nuts, who love tatting) Fish (shaped like a shuttle) Space Shuttle (It goes around the world like all us tatters and the streams in the sky are like the thread; the straight streams like the needles.) Owl Box of Chocolates Butterfly And that's a whole lot of choices, so you see why a picture will help your nomination. My list of tatting guilds is slowly building up, but I'm sure there are others out there I've not gotten contact addresses for. I don't want anyone left out. Please help me get the word out. I need all of you to help me. Georgia Seitz is working on setting up the voting site for us, with automatic vote counting, so there's no cheating on counting the votes. : ) Here's to a happy outcome of voting and to OUR NEW TATTING MASCOT. Patsy A. Goodman Chula Vista, CA, USA TatPat1, NATA #333 aka Queen Tat Pat of the Red Hat Lacers - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: old? Bucks lace postcard
I looked in Thomas Wright's book, Romance of the Lace Pillow and noticed that he acknowledges help received from a Mrs. Dowdy of North Crawley...probably one of the lacemakers (Isabella Dowdy) in the photo? He doesn't specify how she helped him, but is listed in a long alphabetical list of people who helped in various ways. I first took lessons from a lacemaker who had learned from an older lacemaker. She had been a friend of the older lacemaker for many years and had inherited all of her supplies. The lacemaker was now very frail, and my teacher had taken her into her home to care for her. She was very sweet and very excited that I was going to learn how to make lace. My lessons were arranged to be about the time she went to bed, so I didn't get to talk much to her. I don't think I ever even wrote down her name, but now I must go through my things and see if perhaps I did. My teacher shared a pattern, a pin with a glass head, a bobbin, and a tea towel (covercloth) from this older lacemaker with me when I left England...sort of a gift from generation to generation. This older lacemaker was in her 90's in 1983. I hope we are keeping journals of what it is like to be a lacemaker in this age of lacemaking. What a pity if we don't. Debbie in Florida (where we did not see any snow yet) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lorelei Halley's website?
http://www.lacefairy.com/ hmm, I seemed to get on her website just fine. :-) Tonnie McB Phx, AZ Jay Ekers wrote: Previously I have found Lorelei Halley's website very useful but had mislaid the url. A search on Google gave www.loreleihalley.com/ for the home page but This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources. Does anyone know if this is just temporary? Jay in Sydney, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lorelei Halley's website?
Lorelei hasn't been answering emails to her address for a month or so at least Sue - Original Message - From: Patricia Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tonnie McBroom [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:56 PM Subject: RE: [lace] Lorelei Halley's website? Umm, lacefairy is not Lorelei Halley's website, it is Lori Howe's website. From the error messages on trying to reach Lorelei's site, it looks more like her service provider is having problems than her individual site. Patty === http://www.lacefairy.com/ hmm, I seemed to get on her website just fine. :-) Tonnie McB Phx, AZ Jay Ekers wrote: Previously I have found Lorelei Halley's website very useful but had mislaid the url. A search on Google gave www.loreleihalley.com/ for the home page but This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources. Does anyone know if this is just temporary? Jay in Sydney, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] A fabulous Australian website
Hi David, try it, it comes up with a really good site with plenty of lace. Happy lacing Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David in Ballarat Sent: 30 March 2006 02:34 To: lace-chat Subject: [lace-chat] A fabulous Australian website Dear Friends, whilst this has nothing whatsoever to do with lace, I have recently come across a wonderful website wherein you can search Australian archives for old photos. Here it is: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html I even found one of my very own house which was taken about 1900! Haven't thought to put lace in the search engine yet, but it would be worth a try. Love David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Why?
The Answer to Why.. We are all peace lovers, and deplore the deaths and injuries of our sons and daughters. However, that is the cost of freedom. Betty Ann Rice, Roanoke, Virginia USA - Proud Wife of a US Navy sailor who served for 23 years+ in Viet Nam and around the world, and who would sail again if permitted. ~ Cindy Sheehan asked President Bush, Why did my son have to die in Iraq? Another mother asked President Kennedy, Why did my son have to die in Viet Nam? Another mother asked President Truman, Why did my son have to die in Korea? Another mother asked President F.D. Roosevelt, Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima? Another mother asked President W. Wilson, Why did my son have to die on the battlefield of France? Yet another mother asked President Lincoln, Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg? And yet another mother asked President G. Washington, Why did my son have to die near Valley Forge? Then long, long ago, a mother asked, Heavenly Father, why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem? The answers to all these are similar -- that others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness and freedom. IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM... To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Ancient Embroidery?
Hi Ricki and All, I was tidying up today and came across some printouts from a website that might be of help. It may not but, for what it's worth, you might try http://www.emoreiro.com/GAFS/other.htm It's the site for the Greek American Folklore Society. Either somebody mentioned the site on chat once or I found it when looking up about the OIDFA Convention. Anyway, it's got a lot about costumes and may have information for the person looking into ancient Greek embroidery. Jane in Vermont, USA where the crocuses in the yard are too numerous to count!! I wasn't sure how they would do without their usual blanket of snow, they didn't all make it but a lot did! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
