Re: [lace] lace edges

2009-09-07 Thread Francis Busschaert
To all, please be awere of the fact that these days machine lace can overcome this problem of picots and edges there is the possibility to use watersolube thread on the parts where you normaly should do the cutting of the differend peaces of machiend laces and it is no longer valid that

Re: [lace] USA

2009-09-07 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 7 Sep 2009, at 06:05, Francis Busschaert wrote: I have an other question on this matter do sellers not have the OBLIGATION to tell the truth that it is not handmade, machinemade, etcetcet or is this obligation only a fague notion? I don't know about USA, but in UK (and probably all of EU)

RE: [!! SPAM] Re: [lace] USA

2009-09-07 Thread Karen Zammit Manduca
One must also keep in mind that there could be genuine cases of sellers not knowing what they are actually selling. What I mean is that a person could have been duped into purchasing for re-sale an item that he/she was told is handmade but doesn't understand enough to doubt, or having a family

[lace] Book List

2009-09-07 Thread Daphne Martin
Hello to you all I have been happily writing out the list of the books I have for sale. I hope you like them as well. I think the price per book will be around £3 to £5. I hope you all find what you are looking for. Daphne Overcast but dry Norfolk UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment

[lace] Book List

2009-09-07 Thread Daphne Martin
Hello to you all I have been happily writing out the list of the books I have for sale. I hope you like them as well. I think the price per book will be around £3 to £5. I hope you all find what you are looking for. Daphne Overcast but dry Norfolk UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment

[lace] Book List

2009-09-07 Thread Daphne Martin
Hello again I have sat quietly this morning writing the list for all the books I have for sale. Thankyou Frances for putting me right about the attachments. 1 Technique of Bobbinlace Pam Nottingham 2 Technique of Torchon Lace.. Pam Nottingham 3 Technique of Bucks Point Lace.. Pam

[lace] Review: Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

2009-09-07 Thread Jeriames
Dear Lace Lovers, A two-page article about this fictional memoir appeares this month in Embroidery the magazine of the Embroiderers' Guild in England. I printed out the autobiography, read it, put it in a binder for my library, and am sharing: Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, by

[lace] making a leaf tally

2009-09-07 Thread tess parrish
Last weekend a good lace friend came to visit, bringing her husband with her. Not content to sit around and mope, he busied himself repairing all sorts of little glitches around the house, and then he brought out his fancy movie camera and took pictures of me making a leaf tally the way I

Re: [lace] making a leaf tally

2009-09-07 Thread Diane Z
Tess -- Thank you so much. I've seen variations of this way of doing leaves -- but you have made the actions so very clear and understandable. Thank you, Diane Z Lubec, Maine - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For

Re: [lace] making a leaf tally

2009-09-07 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hi Tess!! I as so thrilled to see this video!! Several years ago, I had my first workshop with Anny Noben-Slegers, and she demonstrated the way to do a tally. In this case, she was doing the square tally used so much in Binche lace. But her technique was exactly the same. I watched and

[lace] Glutton for punishment!

2009-09-07 Thread Susie Rose
Hello to One All! Yesterday I finished my black fans gold hearts torchon hankercheif! HURRAH! Guess what...I don#39;t it. It#39;s a little too quot;airyquot;. I need to reduce the pricking by 15% for the threads used. And there#39;s a few boo boos I didn#39;t catch. I#39;ll use it until

[lace] Lace Guild website update

2009-09-07 Thread Jean Leader
Thought I'd let you all know that I recently updated the extracts from 'Lace' magazine on the Lace Guild website. We've also added some other things over the past few weeks - a new Lace Gallery, preliminary information about next year's Summer School, an exhibition of some of the Guild's

Re: [lace] making a leaf tally

2009-09-07 Thread Vicki Bradford
Hi Tess, Good job with the video...! As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. You might remember, Tess, that you sent me an explanation of this method before I was to go up to IOLI in Montreal for the Cluny de Brioude class with Nathalie Bailly. There are two things I

Re: [lace] making a leaf tally

2009-09-07 Thread David C COLLYER
Dear Tess, Anyway, what's done is done, and I hope that this will clear up some of the confusion which inevitably occurs when one is trying to explain a process without visual aids. The link to YouTube is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPezWMox5-M I hope you find it useful. Thanks for your