Susan Reishus wrote:
I would say:
Holes with textile surround, typically placed strategically for esthetics.
That sounds like a concise precis of the definition sent in by Aurelia. I
like it. The space/holes are so important.
Lesley
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Not my job to say this, but I'm getting cross. Will posters please cut and
paste into their post just the section of the one they are replying to and
not just hit reply which results in whole emails which include the senders
email address and multiple copies of the unsubscribe message at the
Is it really ANTIQUE BINCHE BOBBIN LACE SILK HANDKERCHIEF SMALL VEIL
From the not very clear photo to me it looks like Swiss embroidery.
Brenda
On 30 Jun 2010, at 00:23, Nancy Neff wrote:
Here's a handkerchief/veil with a lace edging, with the most interesting
crenellation on the interior
If holes are the important part of defining lace what about a (well made)
beginner's practice strip of cloth stitch or Christine Springett's snake?
Brenda
On 30 Jun 2010, at 07:59, Lesley Blackshaw wrote:
Susan Reishus wrote:
I would say:
Holes with textile surround, typically placed
Hi I agree totally.I got a very gentle ticking off when I first joined
Arachne and no always trim
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Achim wrote:
What I do now to not have to download all that spam: I let my provider
forward all mail to a free google mail account I have.
I go into the server which I've set to filter spam into a separate folder
and to block some totally, and the I delete them in one go before
downloading
How nice to know I am not Spam, but feel sorry for Jeri Ames.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
I've managed to persuade it that Agnes Boddington isn't spam,
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Le 30/06/10 10:26, Jean Nathan a écrit :
But I have to check that it's got it right - I've managed to
persuade it that Agnes Boddington isn't spam, but no matter what I do
(even marked her as approved) it insists on treating Jeri Ames posts,
not only as spam, but as the next level - to be
In message 8b2a0740-9357-4190-aaf4-0f8d3130b...@appleshack.com, Brenda
Paternoster paternos...@appleshack.com writes
If holes are the important part of defining lace what about a (well
made) beginner's practice strip of cloth stitch or Christine
Springett's snake?
Brenda
I've always
Oh yes - I only tried enlarging the top image!
But I agree with Jane, it'd bobbin lace but looks to be in pristine condition,
so perhaps not antique. Still very nice.
Brenda
On 30 Jun 2010, at 10:52, Jane Partridge wrote:
In message 9295e8f2-a41e-4236-9a59-763f370d1...@appleshack.com,
Brenda, scroll right down past the description - there are some clear
close-ups. I won't attempt an identification, but it doesn't lookl like
embroidery to me.
Margery.
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margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Hertfordshire, UK
Susan Reishus wrote: I would say:Holes with textile surround, typically
placed strategically for esthetics.
That sounds like a concise precis of the definition sent in by Aurelia. I
like it. The space/holes are so important. Lesley
Thank you. I hadn't read Aurelia's post as I found it and
That's according the Encyclopädia Britanica lace is an ornamental openwork
fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads. what I
found and I agree with it Ilske
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The only challenge is, it leaves out cutting/making holes in textiles such as
hardanger, or chemical, and so
Fellow lacemakers,
Kant in Vlaanderen magazine arrived in the mail yesterday, it looks like a
really nice publication.
I wish I could read the contents as the pictures have me intriqued.
I do remember requesting a free trail issue, and as I haven't subscribed to
anything from Belgium, this
Dear Arachne members,
Just a short introduction, since this is my first
contribution to Arachne.
My name is Joke Sinclair. The strange, funny, first
name is the result of my Dutch parents and upbringing. They never anticipated
me marrying a Scot and moving to Britain.
About the lace on Ebay.
Just chiming in
I wanted to mention that I found bangle bracelets in the jewelry section
of our local Wal Mart. Some were marked down to $3.00 for a pack of 12
and some were $5.00 for a pack of 18.
I did enlarge the pattern for the pricking by 15%.
Lonnie Foley
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I don't seem to be able to see the close-up pictures that some of the
rest of you can see... very strange, but then nothing about the
internet surprises me any more.
Clay
Joke Sinclair wrote...
I don't have the expertise to tell its age, although if you look at
the enlargement of
My request, Please share your ideas about definitions for bobbin lace and
needle lace. has grown into a lively discussion about definitions of lace.
How do you clearly and distinctly define bobbin lace and needle lace?
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In a message dated 30/06/2010 19:33:11 GMT Daylight Time,
jokep...@btinternet.com writes:
you can see that the lace was worked as a straight piece and then
expertly sewn together at the corner
Unless the final join was at the corner, and the other three are join free.
I did look at it, and
In a message dated 30/06/2010 22:49:18 GMT Daylight Time,
laceandb...@aol.com writes:
I didn't look at other photos to see if there were signs of joins there
too.
I meant to say, I didn't look at other *corners* to see if there were signs
of joins there too.
Oooops.
Jacquie, still in
I have now gone back to the listing, copied the ebay ID #, and then gone
directly to ebay to see the handkerchief. And yes, then I got the
close-ups, which really stunned me!! It is a beautiful piece of
Flanders (I concur with whoever said that...), and I suspect it is late
19th century at
Going back to my original definition:
A textile fabric constructed from one or more threads which are interwoven or
looped together to form a decorative pattern of open and close areas within
that fabric.
Bobbin lace is a textile fabric with a decorative pattern of open and close
ares,
Margaret
Defining the difference between bobbin lace and needle lace is probably the
easiest part of the question.
Bobbin lace is a weaving technique in which the warps are not permanently
fixed to a beam but are weighted by bobbins (which also serve to store the
thread and serve as a handle for
Is there anyone among us who could give us some 'bits of translation' to go
with the pictures?
I would be interested in subscribing if they included an English translation.
Lorri
Kant in Vlaanderen magazine arrived in the mail yesterday, it looks like a
really nice publication.
For
Clay, I'm glad to hear your comments about the age of the lace. (With regard
to type, yes--Flanders to lacemakers, Mechlin to historians, per Lorelei's
explanation. Not Binche in any case.)
Because the crenullated footside seemed
rather Art Deco to me, I wondered if it might have been made right
Happened to notice in the current IOLI Bulletin that the Powerhouse Museum
in Australia is sponsoring an International Lace Award. Their goal is to
redefine traditional expressions of lace and its design applications.
They say -
For the purposes of this award we define lace as: an openwork
Dear spiders,
I've fallen behind in my Arachne list reading because of some nonsense
at work. I've started sending out off-list reminders to trim postings
on the list.
And to everyone else Please try to trim your post so that when
you send it to the list, the footer and irrelevant bits
David Collyer,Your addy that I have doesn't work and I need to contact
you privately. Please contact me privately. Thanks. Apologies for
posting to the list. Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia usadol...@verizon.net
Jun 30, 2010 08:27:24 PM, nnef...@yahoo.com wrote:
Clay, I'm glad to hear your
Forty lashes with a wet noodle for not deleting the message I used just for the
arachne address to look for David Colyer. So Sorry...
Betty Ann
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I don't want the number to grow as I don't want to have to change providers.
I get hundreds of spam mails every day since my mail address is really old -
from times when nobody cared about having his address in all the newsgroups.
What I do now to not have to download all that spam: I let my
Been going through my lace postcards collected many years ago when doing
my CG, and I came acros this one:
http://www.annmcclean.co.uk/Portrait_of_an_Elizabethan_Girl.jpg
The postcard is from Rockingham Castle, but gives no details as to the
painter,
the subject or the date - just the title
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