[lace] roseground

2005-05-22 Thread J.Falkink-Pol
A french site has very good pictures. Some pages I had to try a few times until they worked. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/aplimouzin/frame.html select cours from the menu under etudes des fond press the button lancer le cours or try directly http://perso.wanadoo.fr/aplimouzin/fonds/ select: fonds de

[lace] lace in fashion

2005-05-22 Thread Carolina de la Guardia
Hello all, As the list is very quiet, I take the opportunity to comment that some days ago, a Galician fashion designer, contact me asking me for people which can produce laces. It seems that next autum-winter fashion 2006, laces will be the most on complements, collars and insertions.

[lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Brenda Paternoster
A strange website! I clicked on cours and then etudes des fond and then lancer le cours and got an error page telling me that the browser I'm using is too old and that I should update to IE 5.5 (for Windows) That happened with Safari 1.3, Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac, Netscape7 - all

Re: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Brenda Paternoster
What's more the page http://perso.wanadoo.fr/aplimouzin/frame.html; won't validate with W3C. it gives the message Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 5 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid

[lace] Re: Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread J.Falkink-Pol
... but in general it's not good practice to make a site inaccesible to a lot of potential visitors. It's a choice of the webmaster whether he/she considers something like 1-5% as a lot. What is it that IE 5.5 for Windows can do that 5.2 for Mac can't? ... Brenda Andre-Piere Limouzin is

Re: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Helen
Ooh, I really don't like it when people do this - it also doesn't work with Mozilla 1.7.7 which was only released a couple of months ago! :-o Helen in a very damp Somerset, UK At 11:08 22/05/2005, Brenda Paternoster wrote: A strange website! I clicked on cours and then etudes des fond and

RE: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread C. Johnson
The technology world is every changing. The Internet has changed remarkably since the invention of Internet Explorer 3.1 and unfortunately, many things now available NEEDS Internet Explorer 5.5 or better. Internet Explorer Version 6 is on my machine now. That is just the way it is... I hate

Re: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Sorry, but for MAC user the newest version is 5.2.3 and I can't see your site. Ilske Am 22. Mai 2005 um 15:53 schrieb C. Johnson: The technology world is every changing. The Internet has changed remarkably since the invention of Internet Explorer 3.1 and unfortunately, many things now

[lace] Browsers - was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Jean Nathan
Susie wrote: That is just the way it is... I hate to say it, -- get on board the new one or be left behind -- but that is the way of it. New techniques and advantages are in 5.5 that are not in 3.1 and those new things are great additions. They also speed up your access a wee bit. I say

RE: [lace] Browsers - was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread liz thackray
Susie wrote: That is just the way it is... I hate to say it, -- get on board the new one or be left behind -- but that is the way of it. New techniques and advantages are in 5.5 that are not in 3.1 and those new things are great additions. They also speed up your access a wee bit. Jean

re: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Jean Leader
Brenda Paternoster wrote: A strange website! I clicked on cours and then etudes des fond and then lancer le cours and got an error page telling me that the browser I'm using is too old and that I should update to IE 5.5 (for Windows) That happened with Safari 1.3, Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for

[lace] Pattern for bobbin lace classes

2005-05-22 Thread eberhard . dewille
Dear Arachneans, finally I decided to advertise a beginners course in bobbin lace in autumn. I would like to know, which patterns/prickings you use in the courses you teach? Do you draw your own prickings and your own course? (Copyright reasons) or what could I use? I don't think it is

Re: [lace] Pattern for bobbin lace classes

2005-05-22 Thread Sue Clemenger
I'm emerging from serious lurkdom, hereg I took an online bobbin lace class a couple of years ago from Bjarne, who, I think, also lurks on this list. If I recall correctly, he used some of his own designs, as well as some historical ones. I also had access to some books on bobbin lace

[lace] Pattern for bobbin lace classes

2005-05-22 Thread Jane Partridge
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes finally I decided to advertise a beginners course in bobbin lace in autumn. I would like to know, which patterns/prickings you use in the courses you teach? I use my own patterns, or those for which I have obtained permission to use (in

[lace] roseground

2005-05-22 Thread rick sharon
A very good sight for beginners (which hasn't been mentioned) is http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/othergr.htm Lots of good lessons there with animation showing where bobbins move.Sharon on rainy (like a monsoon) Vancouver Island -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked

[lace] Re: Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 22, 2005, at 9:16, J.Falkink-Pol wrote: It's a choice of the webmaster whether he/she considers something like 1-5% as a lot. Brenda wrote: got an error page telling me that the browser I'm using is too old and that I should update to IE 5.5 (for Windows) That happened with Safari

[lace] Another Ebay Bobbin lace bobbin...

2005-05-22 Thread Laurie Hughes
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60201item=7324835059 rd=1 -- Laurie J Hughes Metro Boston, Massachusetts Bobbin lace, social history, gardening When I grow up I want to be a housewife. -- - To

[lace] Re: Another Ebay lace bobbin...

2005-05-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 22, 2005, at 21:18, Laurie Hughes wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemcategory=60201item=7324835059 rd=1 Extremely rare is right :) And, I always thought that a Stanhope was some kind of a horse-pulled vehicle, but it seems to mean a spangle here? -- Tamara P

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Nag, nag, nag

2005-05-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
New (to me anyway), and superb; I laughed so hard I cried... From: S.M. An attorney got home late one evening, after a very taxing day spent trying to get a stay of execution for a client, named Wright, who was due to be hanged for murder at midnight. His last-minute plea for clemency to the