Hi
Speaking to Bridget Cook at the weekend she said that Practical Skills was
going to be reprinted by Batsford but with a different cover. So look out for
it at your usual suppliers.
Who said no-one was talking I had 42 e-mails this morning!
Angela (from Autumnal Sussex)
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Hi Spiders,
Well, I usually have very little to add to the list because I am still fairly
new to lace, and don't have a lot of time
to make lace (yet). As lace-wise I know next-to-nothing and am capable of not
much more, I tend to just sit back and
read all the amazing expertise you all have.
My question Jen, is where can we buy 100 micron wire for Lenka's lace ideas.
Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia
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Having spent a great deal of time trying to find fine linen thread, I'll
pass on the reasons I was given for it no longer being available.
To get fine thread, flax has to be grown very close together, so that it
competes for light and nutrients, and becomes long and thin rather than a
The woven paper hearts are a Swedish traditional decoration, for
Christmas!'d suggest you make a few with colored construction paper and
you'll quickly understand what to do with the lace pieces once you've made
them.
To learn how to make them, look at this web site:
http://permo.homepage.dk/
Wow and that is for a paperbackThe hard cover must be platinum!! Now,
I *know* I am going to hug my pb.and it is now on my do- not- loan- out
list!!!
BarbE
There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it.
For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is
I had also heard that some of the varieties (for want of a more
accurate phrase) of truly fine linen plants went extinct around the time
of/during WWI.
--sue, another lurking list member who just really doesn't ever have
much to contribute
Edith Holmes wrote:
Having spent a great deal of
In a message dated 11/16/2004 2:48:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do think that traders and travellers could have introduced some European
needle work in that period.
I was thinking about Marco Polo, et al, too. But it really hadn't occurred
to me that the
Not only am *I* a dyed-in-the-wool atheist
Me too. Last year, while writing a Christmas card to my neighbours, I did
stop to wonder why an atheist was sending a Christmas card to a Muslim
family!
When I was a Catholic, a long, long time ago, I used to think that
non-Christians who celebrated
Hello Spiders
This weekend I started a Torchon sampler with the boring task of pricking
more than 4000 pinholes.
I vaguely remember a remark on a Spanish site (must be between
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/linkovz-EN.html but I don't remember
which one) about a device making prickings.
Annette wrote:
Then I realised that there's been a mid-winter festival here long
before the Christians co-opted it for Christmas, so I have a perfect right
to celebrate that :)
One year we decided to celebrate Roman Saturnalia instead of Christmas. I
did a lot of research on this but in
Hello Jen and all
there is no such thing as a dumb question! If you
don't ask, how are you going to learn!
Cannot help with the wire, and not much on the thread
one, but: at an OIDFA meeting in Sweden, we had, let's
call it a lively discussion, with a representative of
a linen thread
Hello Jennifer,
Flax is a very difficult plant and to become thread is a very long
working process so it is very expensive. And the consumption of such
fine linnen thread is so few that nobody is interested to do this heavy
work and it would cost much more than it actually do. And in former
Hello to all from Denmark - where we are waiting for the first snow.
Time for lacemaking and Christmas hearts.
The Permo website is one of the websites I give the adress to, if I am asked
how to make the Danish Christ Hearts. In Denmark, many believe that it is a
typical Danish tradition to
Dear gentle spiders,
Yesterday (Tuesday) we had several snow flurries a light dusting overnight.
Then mid-morning it started snowing for several hours now there is a good
couple of centimeters which has accumulated on all the trees the ground.
So winter is finally here in Tartu. And I've been
Jen,
I do wire bobbin lace and have gotten the gauges (US) from my local surplus
store or from a source online in NJ. Yes, you can use the wire from the shop,
but I make sure it is coated wire with an enamel coating. Usually the enamel
is colored, hence, red wire, green wire, copper wire,
The wire Lenka uses (and so do several others) is from/the type used in coils
for electric motors. Old rotary phones have lovely colors. Try shops that
repair electric motors or co. that make the coils. This is not an item found
at your typical craft or hardware store -you must 'think outside
$89??
I got my copy of Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace for $11, new. The original
price was around $17 (paperback) and there are several new copies available
at less than that from www.fetchbook.info They seem to come and go, but
this morning there are still some there.
Eileen in the San
There is a book of Danish lace hearts, which I saw only last week, but
didn't note the name of it or the author. I didn't even take in what
language it was written in, just looked at the pictures and prickings. All I
know is that there's a red and white heart/basket on the cover and they
seemed to
I looked at Fetchbooks, and there's plenty available, $11-17. Some of the
Amazon marketplace sellers just have no idea what they're doing.
Weronika
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:30:36AM -0800, Eileen Lee wrote:
$89??
I got my copy of Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace for $11, new. The
Lorri wrote:
This is not an item found
at your typical craft or hardware store -you must 'think outside the box'.
This is where I must mention that dreaded H word again - Hobbycraft in the
UK. They sell 28 gauge coloured enamelled copper wire in copper, purple,
red, green, blue and black
Dear Arachnes,
If someone is looking for a copy of this book, I have a duplicate that I
got in a lot of lace books I purchased. I was going to put it on eBay, but
would be happy to see it go to someone who would really use it. Contact me
off-list.
Regards--Madelin
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Hi everyone, and the reticent lace-list member who asked vbg
Here goes. Why isn't thread manufactured today that is as fine as those
available in the early lace-making days.
Supply and demand ;)
As someone pointed out, growing flax for fineness isn't viable any more
(not sure about the
I vaguely remember a remark on a Spanish site (must be between
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/linkovz-EN.html but I don't remember
which one) about a device making prickings.
Well. I have never come across that site you mention. Are you sure it is
a device that makes the prickings? I
Michaels in the US has colored 28 gauge wires too, but I thought they were too
thick for lacemaking... They don't have anything finer than 28.
Weronika
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Lorri wrote:
This is not an item found
at your typical craft or hardware
This is very interesting information. Do you have a book that you got this
information from that one could cite if one were trying to footnote it.
(Although I enjoy the challenge of footnoting in the new era, a citation to an
internet list and Alice in Oregon might draw raised eyebrows in
Actually I would think 28 gauge copper might be quite good for coarse torchon-
style lace patterns--something one might work in a cordonnet 40 or cordonnet 30
if using DMC thread. This would be a nice way to get started in wire lace, for
the same reasons torchon is a good introduction to thread
Yesterday (Tuesday) we had several snow flurries a light dusting overnight.
Then mid-morning it started snowing for several hours now there is a good
couple of centimeters which has accumulated on all the trees the ground.
So winter is finally here in Tartu. And I've been tatting some
Antje, Jo,
Itsa Bobbins in Devon England sell pre-pricked grids (on acetate) for
Honiton and Bucks point fillings. According to their web site the
company which manufactures the grids for them is FosterFinch Ltd, who
have a purpose built computer controlled punching machine that is
fully
On Nov 17, 2004, at 6:41 pm, Bev Walker wrote:
Mettler makes a synthetic fine thread, a 100/2 size, which I've seen
in a
needleworks suppy shop, and have been tempted to buy, to try for
Honiton -
it comes in colours, but is pricey if I would want a lot of colours - I
should really try it, even
Annette wrote
Me too. Last year, while writing a Christmas card to my neighbours, I
did
stop to wonder why an atheist was sending a Christmas card to a Muslim
family!
When I was a Catholic, a long, long time ago, I used to think that
non-Christians who celebrated Christmas were trying to have
Margot Walker wrote:
We saw something similar last summer on the lace tour after the OIDFA
Congress. Lace made by Gabriele Grohmann was displayed in Klatovy and
she had made a Christening dress similar to Helene's description, except
that there was an inner dress of
On Wednesday, November 17, 2004, at 06:56 PM, Steph Peters wrote:
Margot Walker wrote:
We saw something similar last summer on the lace tour after the
OIDFA
Congress. Lace made by Gabriele Grohmann was displayed in Klatovy
and
she had made a Christening dress similar to Helene's
Jean Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just been sent from The Embroiderers Guild their
catalogue of the books that they sell. In the Stumpwork
section there are two new books
Stumpwork Beetles by Jane Nicholas
Tuesday I got my Edward R. Hamilton book catalog, a big newsprint catalog,
over
Thanks for all the replies! I'm not sure if the 100micron wire my dh has is
enamelled or not - I'll ask him tonight.
Also check where he purchased it, but as it's for electronic engineering I
would guess it came from an elecrtonics
supplier type place.
What I am really asking in a round about
Ah Jennifer!
Now we come to your true question! I have tatted with wire, which is quite
analogous to the button hole stitch, so (in spite of not having tried needle
lace in wire) my first guess is that you can successfully do so.
Wire teaches you that tensioning is about removing all the
Hello Devon -
In 1999, I attended my first (and, to date, only...) IOLI
Convention, where one of the highlights was a presentation
by The Lares - a husband and wife team who presented The
Story of Flax. Unfortunately, the program for the
Convention does not provide any more information about
I've just been given four antique prickings of four different types of
lace..lucky, lucky me :) What I would like to do is make copies of them in
black and white so I can study them. Right now a couple of them look like
nothing more than a mass of pin holes extremely close together. At a later
Dear Brian,
My DH is digging up yard at Rose St., Chippendale for building on, he
has found bits of pottery, glass tiles etc.. shall I get him to dig
deeper to find some bobbins??
Barbara, Parkes, Australia.. where the current dust storms and locust
plague are preventing one uncovering the lace
On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:36, Patty Dowden wrote:
This rang bells in my head. I had some mango tapioca at a Chinese
restaurant and while it was appealing, it seemed to lack body or to be
watery. I added salt and the flavor rounded out and was simply
smashing. American sweets have a good deal of
Allan+Yvonne Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes the 70's have returned. In Victoria fondue sets are all the rage again.
Just shows you, everything old is new again!
not just in Australia - I bought my son a fondue set for his 18th birthday as a
bit of a joke but he was delighted - he'd
When my mother made tapioca pudding, we used to tell my sister it was worm
egg pudding so she would go away and we could have her share.
Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia
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Thanks Lousie for quoting the Flanders Field poem, as a Canadian Air Force
brat I knew it off by heart at one time, its good to see it in the whole
once more.
Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia
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I think lots of people are running around trying to get ready for Christmas.
Also some of the lace group ladies tell me they are busy trying to sort next
years programs. I am trying to get ready for Havant and the NEC. Free gifts at
our stall for both fairs and even more at the NEC!
Dear gentle spiders,
Yesterday (Tuesday) we had several snow flurries a light dusting overnight.
Then mid-morning it started snowing for several hours now there is a good
couple of centimeters which has accumulated on all the trees the ground.
So winter is finally here in Tartu. And I've been
Jane wrote:
If only the powers that be in 'charge' would actually see what is
happening across this great country, if only they themselves would
experience a bit of these circumstances, perhaps we really would be a
great country.
Don't think so. It's the same here. A couple of times politicians
It's not so silly to send christmas cards to Muslims as I received many from
over the years. I've worked in university libraries all my working life and
Muslim students like to send Christmas cards to the library staff and to their
tutors. One of my part-timers, married to a lecturer, used to
Hi all
almonds and sweetness its only flavours. I was told, since, that it's
made of soy milk and set with agar-agar
The lunch-time buffets at Chinese restaurants around here offer few
desserts, most often jello cubes and ice cream, or an
uninteresting milk pudding, usually chocolate. My
I found that most of the foods in the United States were SO sweet - loaded
with sugar, - even Allbran, plain cornflakes, - and bread. - Try having a
vegemite sandwich on sweet bread Yuk!
I have a sweet-tooth but the food, generally, was too sweet for my
aste. - well the
The Parrot
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot
had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the
bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious, and laced with profanity. John tried
and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only
polite words,
I too have a Salton yoghurt maker and it's wonderful. I wonder about the
directions for yours Tamara. Mine says to process it for only 10hrs. The
longer you leave it in the heating thingy, the more sour it gets. could
that be the problem with your yoghurt? I also had another kind of yoghurt
Hey Ruth,
Can you give us your method and quantities for making yogurt in your thermos
flask? I left my yogurt maker with my sister when I emigrated to the States
and I spend a fortune on yogurt over here.
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
To
The bean sweets I've had (Japanese, Chinese, Thai) have never been
salty, whether the beans were red, white, or black. On the other
hand, I hate to admit I don't much care for them either. Perhaps a
good thing - I'm not at all tempted to overindulge in them as I am in
some Western sweets.
I do
On November 2nd, my daughter Katy went to vote... and the election
worker with complete justification said We have a woman in labor
here! Does anyone mind if she goes to the head of the line? By
11:37 pm, we had a Robbie. Good thing - I think she had appendicitis
at the time, which she
On Nov 17, 2004, at 7:39, Sylvie Nguyen wrote:
Having had a fantastic Vietnamese chef as my personal
teacher for over 25 years, I've learned to make a
great variety of flans and sweet dessert soups.
Please snd the ones which *worked*? Skip the sweet soups - we have them
in Poland also, I've
Dear Spiders,
At long last I'm back on-line. My home computer was gone for nearly a month,
supposedly having its hard drive replaced. When the technician finally
showed up, he brought me a new computer and confessed that the old one had
been stolen from his car the night after he picked it up.
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