[lace] Missing magazines.

2016-05-15 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I have not received either the IOLI Bulletin, or the UK Lace magazines yet. I look, - hopefully - for them every day, - but so far without success. How confusing to have 2 Blair Castles!! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] RE: lace-digest V2016 #39

2016-05-15 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I have not received either the IOLI Bulletin, or the UK Lace magazines yet. I look, - hopefully - for them every day, - but so far without success. How confusing to have 2 Blair Castles!! Regards from Liz in Melbourne lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

Re: [lace] Lace grounds with symmetry

2016-05-15 Thread Beth Marshall
Hi Veronika I think most rosegrounds are a good examples of an object with rotational symmetry as well as mirror symmetry - you can rotate the the lace a quarter or a half turn & the ground still looks exactly the same Beth In a sunny but quite cold Cheshire, England Veronika wrote: I

Re: [lace] Lace grounds with symmetry

2016-05-15 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Veronika In bobbin lace, cloth stitch (CTC) has 90 degree rotational symmetry, but not mirror symmetry. Additional twists added to each of the pairs, in the same numbers, both before and after the cloth stitch will retain the rotational symmetry. A single half stitch (CT) does not have

Re: [lace] Lace grounds with symmetry

2016-05-15 Thread Veronika Irvine
Thank you Brenda for your detailed and comprehensive reply. It is very much appreciated. In my description of what I am looking for, I left out an important detail. I am ignoring the over and under crossing of the threads when looking for symmetry. You can think of it as looking for symmetry

Re: [lace] Lace grounds with symmetry

2016-05-15 Thread Veronika Irvine
Hi Beth, You raise a very good point. Any pattern that can be reflected in two mirrors at right angles can also be rotated 180 degrees and still look the same. The type of patterns that I am looking for can be rotated and look the same but do not have any mirror reflections - like a

[lace] replies, IOLI and bookmarks

2016-05-15 Thread Elizabeth H Correa
Hello Arachnes I received some replies and it's true that people pay attention to Arachne. I'm happy because I took back some contacts and make new. Lin, I will post the bookmark tomorrow! Thank you for all. I will be at IOLI 2016 and before, a week at Berkeley to see Lacis Museum and