Don't ever forget - any one of you - that mistakes in lace are only proof
that it has been hand-made. Even if work is perfect, I usually put in a
mistake as my proof (not true - I'm joking about trying to make a mistake
purposely). But I am serious about the mistakes showing a piece of hand-made
Karen,
not only this
Don't ever forget - any one of you - that mistakes in lace are only
proof
that it has been hand-made.
It's a help not become a spider, a real one ;-))
Ilske
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Hello Alice and all Arachneans,
there are classes, here in Europe, where you can learn how to Lassen
fine laces together. I visited several of them.
And there is still another possibility to put them together. You can
start such laces with pairs as well and put in the beginning what we
call
The lace collar and close-up can be viewed at :
http://lace.lacefairy.com/International/Finlandmap.html
Lori the Lacefairy
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Are these the same magic threads that Christine Springett uses?
I keep looking at a piece of Bedforshire lace I started on her course
last June. It has some magic threads in, but for the life of me I cannot
remember how I did it! I still have two pairs to add, but cannot face
doing so, before
At 01:48 PM 13/01/2007, you wrote:
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Dear Barbara,
Many thanks for your great website. I've added it to my Favourites
and no doubt will be consulting it till I get this design in my head.
The bobbins are now wound and the pricking's on my lace desk.
Hello Agnes -
Christine has just published a new book about Magic Threads! So contact
one of your suppliers and get a copy. Her books are well-done, and will
probably be just what you need to remember the lessons she taught in
your workshop.
Clay
Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA USA
Agnes
Hello Agnes,
I don't if
Are these the same magic threads that Christine Springett uses?
this is the same methods, because I don't neither her nor her books.
But I thinks. there aren't, as far as I know, several such methods.
I try to explaine it to you but you know English Isn't my mother
Hello Jeri and Lori,
Thanks for sharing this collar-picture with us. I have exactly this
pattern in one of my Guipure books but haven't the time to look them
through.
Greetings
Ilske
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Cut a longish piece of thread (12); white is best as it doesn't leave
coloured marks on the pin hole as you pull it out!
Tie the ends in an overhand knot.
Hang the pair(s) on at the pin hole as needed and pass the loop end of your
magic thread into the centre of the pair(s) and out under one
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I bought a pattern of a lovely lace in Rauma 1996
but the corner is not
90 degrees. .. Or can you
fix a non-straight corner?
Don't get worried about the wide corner. The corner
will 'fix' itself when it is off the pins and sewn to
fabric
Kurella's Secrets of real lace is also a good book and quite readable,
to help with lace ID.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie in very cold Denver
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Lovely collar, Jeri. Your friend shopper chose well.
And for those who are puzzling over the non-90 degree corners in Rauma lace,
have a look at the lace coming off the roller pillow in the picture below
Jeri's collar. It looks like a corner which is much more than 90 degrees!
Sue
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Dear Lacemakers,
The magic thread technique Jacquie in Lincolnshire described is illustrated
on page 55 of Christine Springett's book: The Torchon Lace Book. I have a
friend who learned this technique from Christine and my friend uses magic
threads all the time, with beautiful results. She
The page with Jeri's collar had a link at the bottom
that led me eventually to a page where a lace edging
was being attached to fabric. I can't read the words,
but the pictures are still interesting. There's four
different projects being worked on. I think one was
finished by machine and others
Many thanks for all your help with the magic thread technique..
I will have another go at my piece of lace, ttrying the methods
described to put in the magic threads.
I will be going to the Harrogate lace fair in March, and Christine will
have a stall there, so I'll buy the book then.
Agnes
If it's the relative tension of the headside and footside of a point ground or
similar lace that makes a pricking with a corner at 90 degrees produce lace
where the corner isn't, then this may be the same factor that makes a straight
length of Bucks have a ruffled headside when the footside is
Hello, spiders
once someone talk me about a site where spiders put photos of laces. Something
like a photoblog ... Can anyone help me and ... play it again, Sam!
with due regard
elizabeth horta corrêa
Nhanduti de Atibaia
G.A.S Grupo dos Amigos da Serra
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Elizabeth, there's a webshots page at
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
This might be what you are looking for
Noelene in Cooma
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once someone talk me about a site where spiders put photos of laces.
Something
like
With a round of Arachne applause I would like to thank Ilske for the brave
effort to explain magic threads.
The explanation is correct. It is one of those things that takes a lot of
words whereas if someone shows you how, then it is quite simple really.
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mistake rarely shows.
Isn't this the proof that it is Hand made, not machine made?! :))
(All my lace has that proof in it!! :)) )
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz
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Forgive me for making a suggested refinement for a technique that I have not
yet tried myself!!! I have really appreciated the notes on Magic Threads as
this is something I do intend to try at some stage. I note that someone
suggested pinning the threads behind the work to keep them in order
Not necessarily so! I've seen machine laces with
mistakes in them. Machine laces are only as good as
their designers and programmers (whom I assume are
human like me). One way to identify some machine
laces is to find a small mistake, and then locate the
same mistake in each repeat of the
Sue wrote - I note that
someone
suggested pinning the threads behind the work to keep them in order
etc. I
wonder if it would help to pin them into a strip of Styrofoam. It
seems to
me that it would then be an easy matter to move them around the pillow
as
the work progressed!! Does this
The styrofoam would probably work, if the bulk and
weight of it is not in the way.
When I did a piece where the beginning was not kept
pinned to the pillow the whole time, I slipped a small
piece of fabric under the start of the lace. Then the
lace and the magic threads were pinned to the
I often use magic threads at the beginning of a piece, and at a place of
multiple crossings in Russian tape lace or Beds.
With the bunch at the beginning, I use (as has earlier been suggested) very
long threads, and twist them or plait them together, twist the end around a
glass headed pin, and,
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Use a pin to hold both the knotted and loop end to the back of the
work.
Make sure that you haven't pulled the pairs away from the pin as you
do this;
leave a little slack in the magic thread.
As you work around you will need to
Sue,
I have used magic threads. And I don't think I would like the 'excess' of a
piece of Styrofoam on my pillow.
What I did was use threads in the color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo, violet or
'Roy G Biv. By just remembering the 'Roy G Biv', you know the order
Thank you so much! What a relief. It has been an UFO now for almost 9
years and I thought of taking it away from the pillow. Now it will sit
for some more years I guess, for the patter is lovely, about 5 inches
wide though!
Hälsningar
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