OK, so now I've tied off all the ends and and taken all the pins out of my
edging, time to think about mounting the lace...
Les Lauriers is a heavy, furnishing lace made in thick linen thread (Moravia
40 in a lovely creamy ecru - it has a gorgeous sheen), no way is it going to
gather daintily
Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
However, at the moment, I cannot get their website up - maybe it has
changed
since I bookmarked it a couple of years ago.
Micki and Liz
The Needlelace Guild website is:
http://www.guildofneedlelaces.org
I had a quick look but didn't find a list of the items that
Tamara, I know about Lacis from my miniature knitting forays, never thought
they supplies lace items too, so thanks for mentioning them.
I had half decided to ago ahead with the mangling until I read your words
about silk being at its weakest when wet - of course, duh! don't know why
that
I have a few Brigitte Bellon lacing books. In one of the books in the back she
shows how to do some techniques. Even though I can look at the diagrams...I
would like to know what it says below the diagrams. The diagrams show different
ways to go around a tight curve. If can help me please send
I just received my Nordic Needle catalog. (This is a needle workers supply
company that ships world wide-for those not in the USA). And it seems to have
a tatting shuttle that appears to be what Tamara was talking about. It is
item #7292A in the catalog -I haven't checked the web site,
The shuttle under that catalogue number is like you describe it, in lovely
metallic colour. Yummy
thanks
Micki
It is
item #7292A in the catalog -I haven't checked the web site,
www.nordicneedle.comhttp://www.nordicneedle.com/
There is a fine point on one end and a more oval one on the
Hello everybody,
Reading about your search for a aficot or an instrument for smoothing
needle lace, the pottery people, like me, have different instruments
for smoothing f. e. a face or little somethings on a sculpture. You get
them in wood or very nice but more expensive in a sort of precious
I always thought that mangling laundry was to squeeze it!
Karen in Malta
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Tamara P Duvall
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:58 AM
To: Lace Arachne
Subject: [lace] Re: aficot
On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:52,
I'm glad to see Tamara's response to Micki about not mangling silk lace because
the silk thread is weakest when wet. I've got about three yards of my Ipswich
edging that I was thinking about mangling when I take it off the pillow. I
guess I won't do that now.
Thank heavens for the
I wonder if someone could give me the contact details again for Leif and Bodil
please. I have taken out my second last reel of their ultra thin silk and
would like to re-order more to replenish stocks.
thank you
Micki
from the north of scotland where we saw the first snows of the winter - far
On 1/17/07, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always thought that mangling laundry was to squeeze it!
Karen in Malta
Yes, that is what the process became - the wringer-washers for instance. The
industrial mangle was invented (17th C. or so?) to launder linen textiles -
it pressed excess water
Same regret (not making a photograph) by us when our tent was torn apart by
the wind. Even after having heard just a few days before the same regret by
another couple when their tent (with inflatable tubes in stead of poles)
collapsed under heavy loads of snow. Our excuse: it was raining so we
On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:56, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
I just received my Nordic Needle catalog. (This is a needle workers
supply
company that ships world wide-for those not in the USA). And it seems
to have
a tatting shuttle that appears to be what Tamara was talking about.
It is
item #7292A in
On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:56, beth wrote:
Les Lauriers is a heavy, furnishing lace made in thick linen thread
[...]
I want it to lie flat, not least so that vases and so forth placed on
the mat [...]
So the lace and the fabric need to fit each other perfectly and stay
that way
- no shrinkage of
On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:56, beth wrote:
Les Lauriers is a heavy, furnishing lace made in thick linen thread
[...]
I want it to lie flat, .
I had the good fortune to hear Kaethe Kliot talk about laundering linens with
lace. As an example she had an enormous banquet cloth with a wide lace
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