Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/29/04 03:47AM
she uses clear polyurethane, same as for furniture. I kid you not...
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Historians and conservationists - weep g
Despite the title I think like everywhere in the world individual lacemakers have
their own preferred method of stiffening
Rhiannon wrote:
I recently made my friend a mobile for her son's birthday ( he was only 1
btw)using some xmas window decoration patterns. So that they would hang
and not waft i used fabric stiffener that i got from a local haberdashery
shop or there are a few lace/sewing shops online that also
Carol wrote:
The mother of one of my child students took a mat the child had made to
be laminated, and it wasn't too successful! There were bubbles all over
the place, and it didn't do the mat justice at all. I wonder if that was
due to the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot
Carol wrote:
The mothe rof one of my child students took a mat the child had made to
be laminated, and it wasn't too successful! There were bubbles all over
the place, and it didn't do the mat justice at all. I wonder if that was
due to the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot
Adele wrote:
A Czech lacemaker who had immigrated to Canada and was showing her
stuff at our (now-defunct) Craft Museum used any old hard plastic (like
empty Tic-Tac boxes) which she ***melted in acetone*** ... apparently
in Czechoslovakia it was a lot easier for her to get hold of acetone
and
Hello
Does anyone know the name of a book with a butterfly pattern by Louise
Colgan? I saw a picture of a beautiful butterfly made from a pattern by her.
Regards
Ann-Marie
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Just back after nearly three weeks away and I've not bothered to count up
the digests waiting to be read. Can anyone help me with a quick query?
I spent a couple of hours in Reykjavik, Iceland, during which time I
located some wool for a colour match I'd searched the UK for and failed to
I have just acquired some bobbins at what I think is a silly low price. I
suggested the seller put them on ebay, but he said he'd be quite satisfied
if I paid what he was asking. There are 56 Bucks thumpers, two oddities and
12 of what I think are Downton bobbins.
The ones I think are Downton are
Jane Read wrote:
manager offered me some
unbanded disks of wool. This is what we use she said. Now her english
was a million times better than my icelandic, but our conversation was
rather broken and Iapos;m not sure that I got the rest of what she said right.
The disks consist of a single ply
For me one of the highlights of the OIDFA congress was
the lace of the Jewish museum in Prague. We had a
lecture by Dana Veselska, who had been instrumental in
putting the exhibition together and producing the
superb catalogue, which gave some insight into how the
collection had arisen and the
Hello Janice,
When I was, together with Miriam and Pompi at Galerie Vlasta it was
still closed(saturday after 1.oo p.m.). So we could only look trough
the windows. But I can asume you that the czechs use things for
stiffening pur chemie.
And here in Germany I can buy metall-thread in very
When the lady who owns the Vlasta gallery smelled OIDFA people around she
closed down her store and disappeared.I tried several times to see the
gal;lery from inside but it was always closed so I had to satisfy myself
with what I have seen through the window. I also understood from some
people
I believe that the book you are looking for is Milanese Lace - Original
Patterns in Color by Louise Colgan. The book is self-published, but is
available from Lacy Susan (www.lacysusan.com) and from Holly VanSciver
(http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/).
I've made this butterfly - and several
Thank you so much. I will take a look at that home page and probably order
that book ! :-))
Regards
Ann-Marie
http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1
I believe that the book you are looking for is Milanese Lace - Original
Patterns in Color by Louise Colgan. The book is self-published, but
I took Milca Eremiasova's workshop and she has switched from a Czech
stiffener to a Dutch one called 'Feutrex'. It is brushed on the lace
while it is still pinned to the pillow and dries in about 30 minutes. I
don't know anything else about it. Maybe one of the Dutch Arachneans
can help
Dear David,
The passives that are between your coarse thread and the footside edge are
treated as a bundle with the coarse thread in chantilly. You go through the
coarse thread and passives together as if they were a gimp thread. You
don't do chantilly like bucks. I would like to see your work
Dear Friends,
Many thanks to all those who took the trouble to answer my question re
passing through large numbers of passives prior to a gimp and picot.
Isn't it amazing all the ideas one can get from just such a little
question? That's where Arachne is invaluable. It's answers such as these
Saw these 5 feet long blue, green, red or yellow cylinders obviously made of
foam in a shop in Poole, and thought how useful one would be for the centre
of a small roller. Then the penny dropped that they must be pool noodles.
Never seen one before. Only GBP2.00 each, and what a lot of rollers
I took Milca Eremiasova's workshop and she has switched from a Czech
stiffener to a Dutch one called 'Feutrex'. It is brushed on the lace
while it is still pinned to the pillow and dries in about 30 minutes.
I don't know anything else about it. Maybe one of the Dutch
Arachneans can help
Hello everyone!
I have a question which has been bugging me for a long time...
Whenever I do a lace project, I end up with lots of thread left on the
bobbins. I generally do small projects, so the bobbins with leftover thread
accumulate fast - right now pretty much all of them have some.
You can use it as a basting thread or hem things in those colors. I mostly
throw it away. I used to stash it in its own bag with thread nr but I never
used it. The thread is so cheap in view to all the work you put in a piece
of lace that I consider it a waste to keep it. But there are always
Yes, I always put too much thread on my bobbins too, mostly adding a bit
extra just to be sure and better safe than sorry :-) But when I keep to
the three times and a little bit extra it has always been enough but I am
still a bit unsure about it and I have been making lace for about 10 years
on
From: Weronika Patena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whenever I do a lace project, I end up with lots of thread left on the
bobbins. How do you deal with this? Is it possible to figure out how much
thread a project will take so that not much is left over?
1. Thread is not all that expensive.
Aside from Bobbin Lace, I am also a tatter. I run across this same
dilemma and I just wind it up on empty spools or floss cards and save
them. Like to be frugal ;) I use the little bits of thread to load on a
shuttle or finger tat a small butterfly and then use that to paste on a
card or give
Saw these 5 feet long blue, green, red or yellow cylinders obviously made of
foam in a shop in Poole, and thought how useful one would be for the centre
of a small roller. Then the penny dropped that they must be pool noodles.
Never seen one before.
Jean in Poole
Do you mind me asking which shop
Tamara wrote:
If she can't
get the right-sized, right-coloured wire (she works with that, also)
and has to use metallic thread, she uses clear polyurethane, same as
for furniture. I kid you not...
I read that and did a sharp intake of breath, then I read on and saw Bev's reply about
melting
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Hurray, David!!
Don't forget the traditional photo of David making lace au naturel!! It
always help me set the seasonal clock... hmmm, David's peeled out of his
clothes, must be getting warmer down under!
Clay
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From: David Collyer
Jean - knowing the area, I'd agree in principle.however, you might be
surprised to know that one length of pool noodle will support the weight of two
adults.
We had a couple which we used in our swimming pool in our previous
houseideal for just hanging onto and floating in the water on an
I have a travel pillow made by Inez in Queensland. At the moment I am doing
a piece of silk lace consisting of 21 pairs of midlands. I am using plastic
bobbins that I got from Noelene. At first my theory was if someone steals
it or I lose it the bobbins aren't too expensive, but given that it
Well, for sure, my mind is really going. Just finished packing and moving
and unpacking (partly) my mother. Moved from one apartment to another. She
never was any good at it so it comes to me to do everything. I am sort of
glad though. My sister-in-law kind of bull dozes her into doing
At 09:12 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
Whenever I do a lace project, I end up with lots of thread left on the
bobbins. There's
quite a lot of thread on some of them, so I don't really feel like just
throwing it away, but it's hard to come up with a project to use it up,
since it's all
On Jul 29, 2004, at 15:05, Panza, Robin wrote:
3. The embroiderers have these little plastic or cardboard bobbins
(flat
cards) that they wind their floss onto. These floss bobbins are
designed
for winding thread onto, with slits for the thread ends and space to
write
identity on the bobbin
Depending on the project you can always use some of the thread for
mounting or for other finishing, such as a tassel.
I know I'll probably be scolded by the purists, but you can also use it
for NL projects (depending on the thread you're using) - couching
outline threads, adding thickness to
On Jul 29, 2004, at 13:48, Ilske Thomsen wrote:
[...] Dutch one called 'Feutrex'.
As I was told this stiffener comes from the people who make
straw-hats. We use this in Germany since years, it is relly good for
natural material like linen, cotton and wool. it does not work with
synthetic
Alices suggestions are all excellent... May I add another?
As Alice said, it's possible to simply bundle all the loose ends and tie a
loop or a knot, and then work your leftover bobbins in this manner. And
while there may not be enough to complete a project, consider using the
leftover threads
And even if there are a lot of thread on one bobbin you
have to roll it on to two if you don?t make lace where you start with a
knot, and then the thread is sooo much shorter (found out the hard way
with
a lot of work winding new bobbins!) on two bobbins.
I must admit that when I make
Jane Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Instead the shop manager offered me some
unbanded disks of wool. This is what we use she said. Now her english
was a million times better than my icelandic, but our conversation was
rather broken and I'm not sure that I got the rest of what she said right.
The
Thanks! That's a lot of information!
1. Thread is not all that expensive. Even though a spool might cost
USD8.00, there's enough to do a lot of projects from that spool. Much of
my
thread is not worth (to me) the time and effort to store for re-use.
Probably true...
I save
up the
The butterflies sound like a good idea - maybe I should try to learn tatting
g... It's hard to make really small bobbin lace pieces out of thread
scraps. Or maybe I just can't come up with anything sufficiently small.
Weronika
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:50:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jul 29, 2004, at 15:15, Weronika Patena wrote:
Each time you do a project, keep track of how much you wound on and
how
much is left.
How exactly do I tell how much I wound, if I wind it directly from a
spool?
When using a (hand) winder, you measure out, say, one yard of a
particular thread,
At 11:32 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
I must admit that when I make bookmarks or other things that don't require
joining, I just start with knots...
I was going to suggest this. Pin the loose ends 5-6 inches above the start
of the bookmark. Just start and work the pattern. Finish the bottom with
At 01:15 PM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
.. It's hard to make really small bobbin lace pieces out of thread
scraps. Or maybe I just can't come up with anything sufficiently small.
Just start with the threads long for a fringe at the top, work only 2-3-4
repeats of a bookmark, and plait a long tail with
hi
was just wondering if there was any place online to get lace prickings from
marg from echuca
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This one came from one of our managers :-))I haven't seen it here,so i
hope it is new for you too.
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
The Monkey Paradox
Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder,
leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.
This guy was lonely and so he decided life would be more fun if he had a pet. So he
went to the pet
store and told the owner that he wanted to buy an unusual pet. After some
discussion, he finally
bought a centipede, which came in a little white box to use for his house.
He took the box back
Hi Spiders,
This one gave me a good laugh!
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