I don't know where they got the info for that picture and the one of the old
gent also making lace. I have a very large archive of photographs of
Midlands lacemakers recorded with any information.
The lady is Mrs Burton of Kempston in Bedfordshire, c1912. The male
lacemaker is from
Gentle Spiders,
Subject line pretty much says it all. I was not uttering nice polite words to
my kitties yesterday evening when I came home to find my lace pillow upside
down on the floor. I'd been working on a Beds piece, and fortunately many of
my bobbins (midlands) were pinned together and
Oh dear, Beth!! I can sympathize...
I learned that if the pillow isn't right in front of the chair, the cat
isn't much interested. I've also learned that I must cover the
pincushion as well as the pillow!! When my cat was first adopted, he
jumpted onto the pillow (covered, thank
I had a diagram on a spare piece of styrafoam that I followed with berry
pins when I first started to learn Bucks Point I remember several lacemakers
coming over to me at a lace day to see what I was doing with the berry pins.
It was a complete success and have taught a couple of others Buck Point
I was told when that happened to keep the pillow upside down and give it a
gentle shake before turning it up the right way as this releases a lot of the
threads that are tangled up among the pins. It really does work and saves a
lot of time.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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My old dog (long since gone, I'm sorry to say) used to enjoy flipping my
pillow over - till I fastened a length of ribbon from the pillow around
the stand and back to the pillow. He used to get so frustrated that he
could no longer do it!
Dee Palin
Warwickshire
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Can't you get a piece of tag or poster board (what we call it here) and make
light scores that will fold into an envelope style (in a triangle corners
folded toward the center style)? A slit cut with an x-acto type knife will
make a place to tuck the top corner/flap into the bottom triangle.
I
Hi Sue, Beth and everyone
This *does* work and your bobbin mess isn't so bad after all - even with
heaps of bobbins. When the pillow is upside down, swing it a bit to free all
the bobbins, then tilt in the direction of your work so that the bobbins are
facing in the usual direction. Depending on
I'm with you Devon. I use marker pins if necessary and I work with the diagram
pinned to a 1 inch thick flat piece of polystyrene that I kept from packing in
a box. I bound the edges that were rough with sticky backed tape so that the
diagram sheet would not shed little balls of plastic. I'm
Hi Janice and everyone
Duct tape?
At Sally's Binche workshop this summer (at IOLI) I learned to colour in
sections of my diagram-copy with the colours of the Belgian code, as
approriate. V. helpful as an aide memoire. At home now I colour in the
pricking as well (I need all the aide memoire I
Didn't know if any lacemakers would be interested in this. The clothing
designer selling them has been around for a while and is quite respected as well
The pictures arnt great, can anyone knowledgable about such things tell if the
lace is genuine?
http://www.kambriel.com/chantillyruff.html
Well, the pictures do not display the lace well, so I cranked up the
magnification on my computer to about 400% and decided that it may be silk, it
may be antique, and it may be handmade, but it isn't Chantilly. The holes in
the point ground should not be discernable from a photograph that is
Dear Bev and other interested readers.
Maybe David will remind us of his tale of woe and the Chantilly project?
I've been shuddering as I read these emails. The horror of that
moment of seeing the pillow upside down has never left me. Yes, that
was a Chantilly bow tie - long since often
The pictures arnt great, can anyone knowledgable about such things
tell if the lace is genuine?
http://www.kambriel.com/chantillyruff.html
Looks like it could be genuine to me.
Shame about the lipstick!!!
David in Ballarat
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Oh my goodness
That is the *major* reason that I never take the complex laces with lots
of bobbins to a demo... I like to use simple laces that are still
pretty enough to attract attention.
Sorry David, but I hope you've learned your lesson!! (vbg...)
Clay
David C COLLYER wrote:
Hi Everyone;
My son is studying the Sami, particularly the Sami of Sweden. He has to
do a report on the 17th of Dec.
Are there any of you who would have connections? In particular I am
looking for (possibly) the magazine that is published monthly, Sami Folker.
Thank you and sorry for the
Ketchup is a tomato based condiment
with vinegar in it, often kept on the table to be put on hamburgers,
hot dogs, French fries along with mustard.
Hm - I wonder then if it might be the same as what we call Tomato
Relish - much nicer than Tomato Sauce - perhaps a cross between that
and
Janice wrote:
Sounds like bureaucracy has gone mad in the UK. Maybe it is an effort to
raise more revenue for a strapped government. Hope it does not come to this
over here. What does CRB stand for? Are they checking you all for
crabs?
CRB checks were launched in 2002 because of public
Tomato relish and chutney to me are chopped up bits of
tomato/mango/whatever with spices and (in the case of chutney)
ginger, etc. That's not ketchup - at least not American ketchup
(known to some as catsup). That is a smooth, thickish tomato sauce
the consistency of thick yoghurt. I make
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