As I am over 3 days behind on my emails this may have been covered - look for
paintings by Peter de Hooch, Vermeer and Netscher
As to Caspar Netscher's painting there is a fantastic version of it on line at the
Wallace Collections website:
Of course, there is the large number of paintings on Lori Howe's lace fairy
site of lacemakers, some of whom are 17th century. This site is
www.lacefairy.com, click on lacemaking, go to the column on the right hand side,
down at
the bottom under graphics and right under that click on
At 5:54 AM -0800 2/29/04, Valerie Stewart wrote:
Hi All
I'm coming out of lurkdom to ask for help finding
Romainain point patterns.
Valerie, have you seen this Web site? There are patterns available
for sale here.
http://www.members.tripod.com/victorianart/index.htm
I do know Doina, and she's
I'm having a careful look at the beautiful mat by Michel Jourde on Page 9
of Lace Express 4/03 before diving in. I've never done a large mat before,
only small mats and wide edgings.
The headside fans - there appears to be four outer threads.
If I number them from the headside 1, 2, 3 and 4:
Last night I went in search of Anders Zorn, a Swedish artist. I found a
wonderful painting of Swedish lacemakers in 1911.
For those interested visit the official museum site in Mora Sweden
Anne Drew
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Sorry, I gave the wrong info.
For 1911 read 1894 and for Swedish lacemakers ...Venice.
I should have known.
The pillows are nothing like the swedish pillows
Anne Drew
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Subject: [lace] Romainain Point
Romainain point patterns. I have made all of Sylvia's
patterns a couple of times over. I don't design as I
can't seem to see what anything would look like be
for doing it or after it is finished. I would much
rather just make lace. Is there a book that just
Tamara wrote:
you had a record of baptism and marriage and death, but, most
of the time, not the cause of death.
Even fairly recently the actual cause of death wasn't known. As recently as
the late 1800s, my great grandmother died of 'apoplexy', which I understand
is what we would now call a
We were taught atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down as sneezing was a symptom followed
by collapse.
The bodies weren't burnt - they were buried in the plague pits in lime.
What a happy topic!!
Liz
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Yes,
I was always taught that it came to England FROM Europe rather than the other way
round and this would make sense as we are an island so would be unlikely to have it
just occur naturally.
Anyone got any better knowledge of the 1400s as this is not my period - I'm better on
the reoccurance in
On Mar 1, 2004, at 4:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A scientist tracked down some people in the village who were the
descendents
of the survivors and examined them. It appeared that many of them had
a gene
or two genes with mutations (defects- mind you, not superiorities)
that somehow
made it
William Manchester, in his book 'A World Lit Only by Fire', discussed the
spread of disease by explorers. About the Black Plague, he dates it's
introduction to Europe as 1347, when a Genoese fleet returning from the
Orient staggered into Messina harbor, all members of its crews dead or
dying
Hello Secret Pal,
The package arrived the middle of last week and the timing couldn't have
been better. It was a real treat in a very busy time. My son is involved
in a ballet that is performing this week and on the weekend. I have been
sewing costumes constantly and driving him the 1-1/2
For those interested in this subject, might I suggest reading Plagues and
Peoples by William H. McNeill. It's a fascinating book on how various
infectious diseases have evolved and their effect on the economies and
politics of the time. The book gives a whole new slant on history in
general. It
Isn't Botox derived from the Bubonic Plague?
Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia
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On 1 Mar 2004, at 08:57, Jean Nathan wrote:
Even fairly recently the actual cause of death wasn't known. As
recently as
the late 1800s, my great grandmother died of 'apoplexy', which I
understand
is what we would now call a 'stroke' and even that's a layman's term
which
is subdivided by the
On 1 Mar 2004, at 02:38, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Genetically predisposed to withstand the onslaught of disease? Sounds
a bit fanciful to me. For one thing, record-keeping in 14th c Europe
was sporadic at best, when not dealing with the creme de la creme of
society; you had a record of baptism
Begin forwarded message:
From: T.H.
Two moose hunters from Texas are flown into a remote lake in Alaska.
They have a good hunt, and both manage to get a large moose. When the
plane returns to pick them up, the pilot looks at the animals and says,
This little plane wont lift all of us, the
I seem to remember having seen this one before, but not in a longish
while, so I hope it'll bring a chuckle at least to the newbies on the
list.
From: R.H.
Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six
days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the
From: B.B.
Jake was dying. His wife, Becky, was maintaining a vigil by his side.
She
held his fragile hand in the weak light, tears running down her face.
Her
praying woke him from his slumber. He looked up, pale lips moving
slightly.
Becky my darling, he whispered.
Hush my love, she said.
Botox is derived from the toxin secreted by the bacteria Clostridium
botulinium. This toxin causes paralysis of the nerves and causes food
poisoning, wound botulism and infant botulism. It is found worldwide.
Botulism is treated with an antitoxin.
Yersinia pestis is the cause of bubonic
Botullism I think. It temporarily paralyses the skin, and so takes away
the wrinkles I understand.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie living in Denver
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Just read an article in my local paper on gardening, and it had a picture
of a flower bush, wider tahn tall, with very pretty small blue flowers.
they said it is called St Catherine's lace, and comes from one of the
Southern States of the US, I can't remember which one.
Any of you lacemakers has
All you need to do is click on the Search the collection icon at the top
of the page, then scroll down the page you get and enter The lacemaker
under title of work, and you will get both works without having to worry
about a very long address in 2 parts!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who has
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