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What do you think?
fantastic !! i had never seen pine needle baskets before and lace seems to
be just the thing to add to their beauty real eye candy !!!
dominique from rainy
Dianna wrote:
Well, someone did suggest combining my wire lace with the pine needle
baskets. I have done it. I created a basket that is embellished with the
wire.
Can you explain what you mean by pine needles. I know them as the short
(about half inch long) round green leaves which are each
While the list is quiet, I'd like to take the opportunity to put forward a
theory. It's been floating about at the back of my mind for quite a long
time, so I've no references to sources, only distant memories that recently
came together in a new pattern.
Probably since shortly after the time I
Can you explain what you mean by pine needles. I know them as the short
(about half inch long) round green leaves which are each side of the central
stem (rather like the hairs on a feather), and form a brown acidic carpet
when they fall from the trees. Your baskets are clearly not made from
those
When I was doing lace City and Guilds in 1987 (unfinished at that time as it
was interupted by a fairly major car accident) one of my fellow students did
some research on the use of fish bones and thorns as pin substitutes. I am
fairly sure that her conclusions were that mostly they were not
Lacers,
I will be in Stuttgart Germany this month. I was wondering if anyone
can tell me where to find lace or linens there. I read that the Zweigart
factory is in the area. Do they have an outlet store? Which brings to mind
that I need a metric conversion chart, I forgot last time.
I am wondering if anyone knows if there is a lace pattern of a
Kingfisher other than the one in New Braids and Designs in
Milanese Lace. The reason I am asking is one of my
grandsons who is now living in Australia has asked me to
make a Kingfisher in Lace for him, plus it must be in colour.
It
Oh Dianna,
They are just too beautiful ! How clever you are !
Best wishes
Sulochona
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Well, someone did suggest combining my
Dianna, they are all lovely, but the broken crown is a gem. You are too
clever.
BarbE
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Well, someone did suggest combining my
Your lateral thinking is quite original and worthy of serious consideration
until it is disproven. Like many things in lace history we are not really
sure about the truth of the matter.
At one time I had a pretty full paper on the history of pins but goodness
knows where it is now!
Suffice to
At 08:46 AM 10/9/04 +0100, Linda Walton wrote:
Probably since shortly after the time I started making lace, I have heard
that early lacemakers used fishbones for pins. But I can't imagine any of
those little rib-type bones being strong enough to be pushed into a straw
pillow, nor taking the
Diana, super design!
I love the asymmetrical 'surprise' where the lace crown breaks, to flow
down
the side of the basket.
Well done.
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bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)
cleaning the house for Thanksgiving Monday
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I'm also looking for Egyptian Cotton thread, as fine as possible. Any
ideas welcome.
Not Egyptian cotton I know, but Finca thread is nice. Makes a nice lace
especially for Bucks IMO. It is a spanish thread and is stocked in the
UK by Roseground Supplies. Another supplier has also started
Finca comes in many numers: 30, 40, 50, 60 and the finest is 100. I have
used it for Tonder, but the Danish thread is finer (120 I think). It is made
in white and ecru.
Have a nice weekend. Antje, from Spain.
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Dianna!
Your baskets are stunning!! Congratulations to you AND to
your brother-in-law (that scroll center is wonderful!)
Thanks for sharing your pictures!
Clay
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Subject: [lace] Wire bobbin lace and pine needles
Well, someone did suggest combining my wire lace with
Hello to you all
Well I must tell this, becourse I am so happy, I have now to get a move on
with my Cristning gown, in about7½ month I am going to get a new titel,
GRANNY, I just had the news at a dinner by my daughter this evening.
I am out of work for 5 month now until april 2005, so I have to
I was, in my undergraduate years, a student of Art History.
I still look at paintings, sculptures, and architecture as
lasting documentation of cultural norms that were sometimes
not documented otherwise. So I look at very old paintings
of lacemakers, and I've not come across any which depict
I am aware of a design by Grace Jones, but it is in Binche
lace, and the learning curve on Binche is even more
time-consuming than Milanese. But if you are already
familiar with continental laces, the design called, The
Riverside is a beautiful edging with Kingfisher.
Clay
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Hi Bev (fancy meetin' you here)
Re: random thoughts
Well, since the list is 'quiet' I thought I'd ask..
Pinchain plaits: CTTCTTCTT'
I haven't seen this term before - does it have a particular function in
lace (for a gathering edge perhaps?) and is it common to any particular
type of lace?
Hi everyone and Jacquie who wrote:
In the same article is a reference to American Ipswich lace bobbins
being made of bamboo. A quote from here says It's thought that the five
inch bobbins were brought into Ipswich Bay on trading ships, perhaps as
part of the packing used to transport Oriental
It was a surprise to find myself in the new IOLI Bulletin. It was also a
surprise to find that a colon had been left out of the name of my
exhibit. Please take your pen and add two dots after the word Lace in
the title.
Lace: Holes Surrounded by Fiber -- Past and Present
Thanks, Margaret,
Nice job Dianna. I know another lacemaker/basket maker that might take your idea and
run with it. She loves working in wire and she also makes beautiful baskets. I have
always enjoyed looking at the pine needle baskets when they are demonstrating how to
make them on tv but would have no idea
Hi Bev,
I have seen the name Valdani a few times now on Arachne but I don't think I have come
across it in our local shops. Is it only available at quilting shops or do you have
to get it off the web?
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
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I have never heard of pine needle baskets before. They are great! Very
well done.
And the wire lace is fabulous. You are one very clever lady.
Congratulations.
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, where it is a glorious spring day.
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Jean,
The (Oz) Kookaburra is a Kingfisher - the largest kingfisher in the world.
Maybe there is a Kookaburra pattern somewhere. Or maybe you could get a
picture of one, and work a tape/braid lace from the picture. They are a
greyish brown and white, with turquoise on the wings. They are a
Hello All
My microwave needs to be replaced as the enamel is peeling from the inside.
I was wondering if I should spend the extra money and get a combination oven
with a grill as well as microwaves. Have any of you got one of these and do
you use the grill part often? Are they easy to clean if
I recently replaced my microwave oven for the same reason - peeling enamel
inside. As they're now so cheap, I bought a combination stainless steel one
(why doesn't it spark inside?) with a grill. I've had it for about 8 months,
and I haven't used the grill once. As there was only about GBP10
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