[lace] ADMIN: Gentle Reminder
Dear spiders, I admit that the "Gentle Reminder" message is rather terse. That's my personal writing style (I'm a writer/engineer), but I know that it can rub some people the wrong way. It certainly was not my intent to make anyone feel unwelcome. I have a pretty good memory, but not good enough to track the names/emails of those who do and don't trim, unless someone is really oblivious. I occasionally threaten to put a 'repeat offender' on digest mode for a week, although I've never had to do so. Below is the new "Gentle Reminder." I hope people find it more accessible. Regards, Avital Arachne moderator >>> Dear spider, Please remember to trim your post when quoting previous messages. This makes things easier on the digest subscribers and reduces clutter in the archives. If you normally trim your posts and you forgot this time, have a nice day! Thanks, Avital Arachne moderator >>> - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Instagram versus Facebook
OK Devon, you have uncovered me. I confess that I am purplenana6. I started using Instagram a couple of years ago because that was the platform my children were using. I find it useful as a visual diary for myself and family especially when travelling. (I do have a catsitter in my house when travelling) . I am still learning how to use it and found the memo on how to use hashtags informative. Other Aussies that people could follow are Vicki Taylor larrikinlace and Lindy De Wijn lindydewijn . Dawn Howell Enjoying beautiful Autumn weather in Melbourne Australia -Original Message- From: DevonThein Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2018 2:07 AM To: Arachne Subject: [lace] Instagram versus Facebook Speaking as the editor of the facebook page of the International Organization of Lace, Inc., I can confirm that Facebook is being eclipsed by Instagram for younger lacemakers.. Also, there are some of my own generation on Instagram. You know who you are, purplenana6 ! . Devon Sent from Mail for Windows 10 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Binche book
I also have a copy of that book I'd be happy to sell. It's here in the USA, so if anyone would like it, please feel free to make me an offer directly. Thanks, Beth Harpell - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] raffle winners
Hello everyone especially the 43 entrants in my bobbin raffle :) It is Easter Sunday already for many of you; close enough to it in my time zone. Into the Easter bonnet went the names. DH was the person nearest the computer to do the draw The winners are Lily Douglass, the bobbin. Julie Todd - bookmark Laura De Bruyn - bookmark Heather in Ontario - bookmark Carol Clausen - bookmark Please send me your postal addresses. Thank you all who entered. Great fun! Let's do this again some time :) Bev in sunny Shirley BC, on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Binche book
Hi all, Someone was looking for Michael Guisiana's 2002 book Binche I, long out of print, but I can't remember who it was. I hope s/he is on Arachne: there's a copy available for sale on ebay--search on "binche lace". Be sure to click on worldwide in the options on the left, because the posting is from the UK. HTH Nancy Connecticut, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Colour in lace
Is coloured lace as non-traditional as most people seem to think it is, though? In the V collection there is (or at least, was) a Spanish altar frontal, worked in needlelace, in full colour. If memory serves me well, it dates back to the late 1600s. There is a black and bright, topaz/kingfisher blue collar, worked in bobbin lace in the 1800s. I have written before about the yellow starch that was fashionable for dying ruffs in the 1600s, until the woman who brought the fashion to England was hanged for murder. When, in 1996, I went to Lille with friends to see the exhibition L'Europe de la Dentelles, many of the old pieces from other countries that were displayed were made in coloured threads. Lace that survives is mostly in dealer's pattern books, where white thread would have been sensible - lace was made by the yard and then when someone asked for so many yards in such and such a colour it was most likely dyed to order, the composition of the dyes probably having a detrimental effect on the thread hence little has survived the passage of time. (I'v! e had poor quality black embroidery thread, used for a cross stitch design on a cushion cover, disappear totally in five years). My mother in law and I went to the Nottingham Museum of Costume and Lace before it closed as they had in their collection a wedding dress which belonged to one of her forebears. We know it to have been worn around 1860, and the lace triming the brown dress was also brown (colour, not age). Think also of the stumpwork boxes that are worked in coloured and metallic threads as well as white. We take most of our impression of what lace was available from portraiture - and most portraits show white collars and cuffs. It is known that a good number of artists used their own stock of costume, props and models to prepare portraits ready for the face to be added, to save on sitting time. I doubt many artists could afford coloured lace, and so the pieces they owned would most likely have been white, thus making us think that all lace was white. Like most textiles, lace changes according to fashion. We know that it was Queen Victoria who started the rage for white wedding dresses, and probably an upsurge in the production of white lace to go with it. It is likely that the change from lace being made in white and dyed to suit, to being made in coloured thread, came with changes in fashion and thread production that meant a larger range of thread was produced in colour - not just skeins of silk and cotton used for embroidery. Jane Partridge __ Devon said: But, it is an interesting question. From the need to qualify Needlelace with the term ???fine white traditional??? would I be correct in assuming that the use of color is no longer controversial and that colored pieces worked in buttonhole stitch are now considered lace? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] What do bobbin and needle lace have in common?/Needlelace revival
Devon, I propose that they are the two major forms of handmade, historically important lace, forms with which the general public is not familiar and doesn't know how to make, even in very general terms. Other than that, I agree with the implication of your question -- they don't share anything except what they share by virtue of being forms of lace. But needle lace and bobbin lace deserve to be treated together, in a show such as yours for example, because of the first point above, and because they are functionally similar enough (in spite of fundamental structural differences) that they can be combined harmoniously (Duchesse with Point de Gaze inserts, for a historical example). Nancy Connecticut, USA On Mar 31, 2018 13:43, "DevonThein" wrote: ... Now I have the intellectual problem that the only thing that bobbin and needle lace had in common were that they were once made in white and looked very similar at that time, converging ... Now that they are not made in white, what do they have in common? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] What do bobbin and needle lace have in common?/Needlelace revival
Catherine asks< Is there anyone out there who makes/teaches fine white traditional needlelace?> Carolyn Wetzel and Laurie Waters are both traditionalists. Although I do not teach, I have spent an inordinate amount of time looking at old laces and admiring them. I love Catherineâs books and have recommended them widely. But, it is an interesting question. From the need to qualify Needlelace with the term âfine white traditionalâ would I be correct in assuming that the use of color is no longer controversial and that colored pieces worked in buttonhole stitch are now considered lace? I think that in the 1960s and 1970s the use of color was revolutionary and shocking, often calling for condemnation from the âlace policeâ. I sense it is no longer the case. Color is really mainstream. But, this is part of the problem that I am encountering when I try to explain what lace is to the public. I present all these works such as Ros Hills and Wako Ono, and there is nothing in them to signal âlaceâ to the public. One is a form of weaving, and one is marginally an embroidery technique. I have tried to concentrate the show on bobbin and needle lace because I think that these techniques are not well-known, and need to be introduced to the public. Crochet, tatting, macramé, lace knitting, etc. are better known and need no introduction. Now I have the intellectual problem that the only thing that bobbin and needle lace had in common were that they were once made in white and looked very similar at that time, converging in appearance due to the demand for white luxury neckwear that existed in the 17th and 18th century. Now that they are not made in white, what do they have in common? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Instagram versus Facebook
Speaking as the editor of the facebook page of the International Organization of Lace, Inc., I can confirm that Facebook is being eclipsed by Instagram for younger lacemakers. I joined Instagram at the first meeting of the Brooklyn Lace Guild when I realized I would be totally out of the loop if I wasnât on it. Fortunately the other members were there to help me join and teach me how to tag. A video of me making lace at the Bust Craftacular event at the Brooklyn Expo Center which appeared on the Brooklynlaceguild Instagram account has now been viewed 45,305 times. I follow the lace artist Penny Nickels known as hagknight, and Manca Ahlin, known as mantzalin, Also in the Lace, not Lace show are alexgoldberg maggiehenselbrown, e.j.parkes Members of the Brooklyn Lace Guild include kathco_, redhandledscissors, erenanaomi , therapeuticlace. Also, there are some of my own generation on Instagram. You know who you are, purplenana6 ! When one posts on Instagram one posts a single photo. Frequently these photos are very cleverly posed and arranged so that they tell an entire story in one picture. With these well posed, and very compelling photos, it is possible to convey messages to people regardless of what language they speak. âVisual literacyâ is a term that IOLI social media guru Julie Envoldson used to describe this. Anecdotally, when my daughterâs cat set up its social media presence, it did not bother with facebook choosing only Instagram to detail its activities such as eating, and sleeping. Devon Sent from Mail for Windows 10 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Again, Please Change Arachne Subject Titles when You Change Subjects
One of our valued members has told me that searches can turn up more than I think, and that changing the subject line is not really necessary.  That may be so.  However, I still see the problem because of the way new mail is listed in my inbox when I sign on.  Subject lines sometimes clue me what to read right away and what to leave for a more convenient time.   I am very busy every day with large collections of laces and the library here, plus a large property to maintain.  I do all the manual work, except mowing and plowing snow.  Otherwise, as you've read before, I do far more than others at 80, and am busy from morning to midnight with much time needed for re-reading, privately answering your questions, etc.  I offered to retire from Arachne quite some time ago, and that was met with a chorus against.  We need others to step up to the plate.  Please indulge me with changed message subjects whenever possible, just as I still provide you with information you might not be able to easily find anywhere else.  And know that you can always arrange to come here to do research in a facility unlike others - anywhere.  I indulge gmail users who do not receive my AOL mail via Arachne - by sending a long list of members bccs.  That takes far more typing time than changing a subject to more correctly reflect what is being shared.  If my young computer guru had not died, I'd have him here to make a one-word address for these gmail users.  The Senior Center is having great difficulty replacing him, because he was a volunteer.  Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center  - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] ADMIN: Trimming posts
The gentle reminder was sent to Arachne so everyone got it and no-one was being singled out. Everyone is welcome, it's just that if messages aren't trimmed then those on the digest can get something that is almost unreadable - especially if someone replies to a digest and doesn't trim, Digest within a digest!AmandaNottingham Sent from Samsung tablet. Original message I apologise to all for not trimming my posts and yes I got a gentle reminder too. I don't mind the reminder, I just didn't think, sorry. I didn't take it as not being welcome. For those people on the digest it can be a bit of a nightmare scrolling through the same message time and time again and also if ever you have need to consult the archive it helps if messages aren't repeated. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Needle Lace Revival
Subject : Re: [lace] Needle Lace Revival Margaret Stephens, here in Australia, is very much an expert and teacher in needle lcae. her classes at both the Embroiders' Guild and the Lace guild are booked out. Thank you Lorelie for sending me the link so see Margaret Stephens work, which I have finally found time to look browse leisurely through this morning. Her work is indeed very beautiful, colourful and certainly eye catching! I love her choice of colours too and read all the wonderful comments from admirers and her own helpful hints. However she did write on 30th March 2014 and I quote 'Keep doing that white, Traditional work . . . . . . . . . . because I can't (and have no desire to do so)' I have not criticised anyone for working coloured contemporary work but simply asked was there anyone out there who makes/teaches fine white traditional needlelace? In answer to that question, I was told about Margaret Stephens. Thanks to Lorelie I have now seen some wonderful examples of her work. Catherine Barley Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Handcraft movement in England
My husbands ancester born in the early 1800s in Devon was listed as a lacemaker as a young woman before marriage, also her sister and her mother, not far from Honiton so after her marriage she worked on the land and her daughters were lacemakers. My own Mother learned practical skills, cooking, knitting and dressmaking in my lifetime to care for her own family in a time of rationing etc and low wages and taught me both knitting and dressmaking, which I also put to good use for my family and to help when wages were low. My 3 sisters all say I have all the genes for that and rarely get knitting needles out and dont do any other craft at all. I used to do some embroider in the 70s and a friend and I taught ourselves crochet in the 70s and I went to classes in 2001 to begin learning about lace, these I did for pleasure and also now with the aid of the websites and you tube and the amount of books available to us due to all the work and skills put in my so many of you and others have made learning other crafts, like tatting a possibility after 40 years of wanting to try. My aunt who spent many months at a time in Stoke Manderville for surgery (we as kids used to call her the bionic woman) also was taught crafts for occupational therapy making pom pom owls and things like that, but I didn't come across lace making until the 80s when I had no time or cash for such luxuries and no idea how you did it. Around the area where I live now there seems to be a lot of interest in the craft circles in spinning yarn and weaving. Dressmaking seems to have popped up in my family, my great grandmother and my great aunt made gowns for Selfridges (I think in the late 1890s and into the 1900's and in 1968 I asked my great aunt to make my wedding dress which she did. At the age of 73 her hand stitches was tiny and very neat still.I made my younger sisters wedding dress in the 70s. Sue T UK I think that after WWII people had few resources and had to be highly taxed so war debts could be repaid and their nations rebuilt. Â What is being written makes a lot of sense to me. Â Women who could marry and raise a family after 1945 probably had too much to do as home makers.1940. Â Kay-Shuttleworth, 1949 MBE, lived from 1886-1967. Â She was the last family member to live at Gawthorpe; she never married. Â War losses are very apparent in the family tree published in a book about Shuttleworth's sister, Angela James. Â The family tree is a form of validation of the problem of more women than men in some countries that were at war in the 20th C. Â Today, Gawthorpe is a National Trust property, used for the study of material arts - lace, embroidery, ceramics, etc. Â Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
