Re: [lace] Learning Binche RE: Need some opinions

It is interesting to read the opinions regarding the learning of Binche lace. This Friday there is a 2-day workshop in Pärnu where Binche is being taught. I have decided to not do the course for a few different reasons. The main reason is that I've been commissioned by an American exchange

Re: [lace] Starting Binche

Sue said I have found having an enlarged copy of the working diagram alongside me and sticking a pin in the diagram when I put one in the the lace works for me. I also mark the diagram with a different pin when I finish for the day or I can have difficulty finding my place again. we call

Re: [lace] Starting Binche

Sue said I have found having an enlarged copy of the working diagram alongside me and sticking a pin in the diagram when I put one in the the lace works for me. I also mark the diagram with a different pin when I finish for the day or I can have difficulty finding my place again. we call

[lace] Slovakian Lace

Thanks to all of you who responded to my query about Jana's lace and those who correcte me about her origin. Tamara, I guessed that the mulinke could be mouline but I wasn't sure, smae about the Perle thread. I could see that most of the words are similar to those in other languages, but I

Re: [lace] Starting Binche

At 2:11 PM +1200 6/27/07, Sue Fink wrote: I have found having an enlarged copy of the working diagram alongside me and sticking a pin in the diagram when I put one in the the lace works for me. I also mark the diagram with a different pin when I finish for the day or I can have difficulty

[lace] Perils of Denim Dyes

In a message dated 6/27/07 2:55:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I should say Thank you to everyone who answered my questions that I had when I was making my travel pillow. It is now in use with the edging started it now has a bag to carry it in. I found among my

Re: [lace] Learning Binche RE: Need some opinions

--- pene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been commissioned by an American exchange teacher to make a metre long edging of lace for a blouse How interesting! I don't often hear reports of lace being commissioned or sold. It's nice that there's still a few people in the world who value our

Re: [lace] Perils of Denim Dyes, and others

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for others thinking of using denim - remember that it does have a habit of losing some of the blue dye on things. I covered a pillow with a red plush fabric, started a project, and then it sat for quite a while. When I went back to it, the pattern had

Re: [lace] Perils of Denim Dyes, and others

I covered a pillow with a red plush fabric, started a project, and then it sat for quite a while. When I went back to it, the pattern had started to turn red. In my early days of lacemaking, I had 4 red bone bobbins which bled into the white thread I was using, so I had some pink strands in

Re: [lace] Learning Binche RE: Need some opinions

Dear Pene -- Indeed you don't have to learn every type of lace! Lacemaking, for us, is supposed to be (our kind of) fun. We aren't standing in front of the bar of Heaven, begging to be let in and brandishing our (Binche/Flanders/Paris) ticket of admission. Binche just happens to be currently

[lace] Perils of Denim Dyes, and others

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alice Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for others thinking of using denim - remember that it does have a habit of losing some of the blue dye on things. I think I trashed the project, and also the red cover. I'm a little

[lace] re: Starting Binche

we call this a voodoo board, it's a useful tool for anyone staring any lace jenny barron Scotland When I was new to lace I fell in love with a Skansk knipling pattern. Unlike every Skan pattern I've found in books so far, it was a relatively wide piece (maybe 2 inches) with a cloth

[lace] Re: Perils of Denim Dyes, and others

From: Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mom taught me never to trust red, dark blue or black until they had been washed sufficiently for all traces of dye to stop running. These seem to be the most fugitive, but any fabric, where the dye for one reason or another isn't stable (it may even

[lace-chat] Language problem

Hi I've been listening to some American books on tape recently while making lace, and don't understand a frequently used phrase. The speaker is a lady from one of the southern states, and she uses the phrase she cut her eyes at ... to refer to some sort of way of looking at someone, and I

Re: [lace-chat] Language problem

That saying was a new one to me, but I found it on the urban dictionary site: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cut+eye To glare at someone with such angry ferocity that your eyes become little more than slits Avital - Original Message - From: Sue Babbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]