Re: [lace] Looking for reproduction 1630 lace

2004-01-25 Thread Jeriames
In a message dated 1/25/04 6:33:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A friend asked me to help her find lace for reasonable lace for a > 1630 dress. Lace of that time had deep scallops about 3 inches > across. Any ideas for some sources? > > Sharon Palmer > Dear Lacema

[lace] Lace Day

2004-01-25 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Firstly - Happy Australia Day to all Aussies world wide. On Saturday, the Victorian Branch of the Aust. Lace Guild held its first Lace Day for the year, and I thought you might like to know that "Debbie of Mozambique" was there. She arrived safely in Oz, and had put her lacemaking gear in her sui

Re: [lace] Looking for reproduction 1630 lace

2004-01-25 Thread Liz Beecher
Sharon, I do 17 Century re-enactment - I usually encourage people not to put lace on dresses of the period unless they are exceptionaly high class (we are talking aristocracy and royalty only). If your friend is desperate that it must have lace then you are looking at milanese style with very

[lace] lace crafts quarterly - free draw

2004-01-25 Thread Julie Ourom
I have an extra copy of Vol 2 No 3 of Lace Crafts Quarterly (articles by Pat Earnshaw, Marni Harang, Nancy Evans and others) that I'd be pleased to give away to a lacemaker. Send me your name (off list only) and I'll figure out a way to have the cats choose one on Valentine's Day. It's taking me

[lace] Arachne webshots details

2004-01-25 Thread Jennifer Nielsen
Hi all, Could I please have some help, I bookmarked the Webshots page and put the username and password somewhere altogether too safe as I can't find it . Could the details be posted to the List again. This time I promise I will look after them a bit better :) This is a wonderful forum. The dis

[lace] Looking for reproduction 1630 lace

2004-01-25 Thread ranvaig
A friend asked me to help her find lace for reasonable lace for a 1630 dress. Lace of that time had deep scallops about 3 inches across. Any ideas for some sources? Sharon Palmer - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help,

[lace] Re: A Manual of Lace... ebay

2004-01-25 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Jan 25, 2004, at 18:06, Clay Blackwell wrote: I've just come across a book on ebay that I haven't seen before. It is "A Manual of Lace" by Jeanette E. Petherbridge, Cassell,1947, 71 pages. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2591603122 I've never hear Ms. Petherbridge mention

[lace] A Manual of Lace... ebay

2004-01-25 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hello Spiders - and especially Jeri ! I've just come across a book on ebay that I haven't seen before. It is "A Manual of Lace" by Jeanette E. Petherbridge, Cassell,1947, 71 pages. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2591603122 I've never hear Ms. Petherbridge mentioned before.

Re: [lace] RE:patterns?

2004-01-25 Thread Linda
- Original Message - From: "Helen Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I personally prefer my patterns in one piece - partly because it's > difficult to get a perfect match on the 2 halves, when you're putting > them together (I'm one of those sticky tape challenged people that just > as you get the

Re: [lace] Movie - girl in pearl earring

2004-01-25 Thread RICHARD TAYLOR
Thanks Antje I have managed to find the book at our local library, reading the first few pages it looks as if it is my kind of book. Sue Taylor - Original Message - From: "Antje González" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:54 PM Su

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2004-01-25 Thread Jay Ekers
The pattern, reached from the Keystone Lacers home page is at http://www.keystonelaceguild.org/WoodsPattern.htm Jay, Sydney , Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- > > Ooops! > > Sorry - I'm not the greatest typist, as is illustrated by the typo > > in my freebie pattern found

Fw: [lace] Fw: IOLI Pattern typo!

2004-01-25 Thread Sue Babbs
> > Ooops! > > Sorry - I'm not the greatest typist, as is illustrated by the typo in my > > freebie pattern found on the IOLI Convention 2004 website > > I couldn't find this free pattern of Sandi Woods. Can anyone enlighten me as to where it is? Sue Babbs - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL P

Re: [lace] Extra work for Tutors

2004-01-25 Thread Jean Barrett
Dear Peggy, This appears to be an escalating problem for teachers of adult education classes across the UK. I do not teach a class now but have close friends who do and attend one FE class myself and that tutor has her own ways of dealing with the problem, most not to be recommended. I am not s

[lace] Extra work for tutors

2004-01-25 Thread Jean Nathan
One of the reasons which made me decide to retire from full-time teaching in a secondary school was the amount of paperwork which was being piled on us - and that was in 1995. I also did adult education tutoring, but there was little paperwork involved in that then. Apart from becoming out of touch