Re: [lace] eyesight
David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote: Having read that I am wondering whether you might find a Magvu easier. This is a magnifier which sits about 10cm out from your eyes and can go over glasses and you can still watch TV over the top of it. It comes with X2 and X4 lenses. These are a lot like Mag-Eyes, sold in the US. http://www.mageyes.com/Hobby.htm There's a strap around the head, and the lenses hang in front. The lenses can be tilted out of the way up or down. Since they magnify the view, it's like holding the object close to the face. You might find that you can see what's on the pillow while the pillow is far enough away to work on it. I've seen bobbin lacemakers using the Mag-Eyes, and my father used them for his jewelry-making, but I haven't used them myself. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com Parvum leve mentes capiunt (Little things amuse little minds) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Fw: [lace] eyesight
In the UK similar are sold by: http://www.ceramicsrestored.co.uk/headbands.htm? I have had mine for several years. It has 3 interchangeable lenses. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote: Having read that I am wondering whether you might find a Magvu easier. This is a magnifier which sits about 10cm out from your eyes and can go over glasses and you can still watch TV over the top of it. It comes with X2 and X4 lenses. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] information about Spanier Arbeit
Iâm not familiar with Spanier Arbeit but found this interesting article which makes reference to âSpanish workâ and lace pillows and a museum in Jerusalem. I wonder if Avital can enlighten us? http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=17496h Vicki in Maryland Sent from Windows Mail From: loren greenberg Sent: âMondayâ, âAprilâ â8â, â2013 â12â:â22â âAM To: lace@arachne.com Hello All, I am new to the community. 1) Does anyone know the technique for making Spanier Arbeit? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] information about Spanier Arbeit
Oops...sorry. I forgot that the tablet doesn't send in plain text...trying again via aol website  Iâm not familiar with Spanier Arbeit but found this interesting article which makes reference to âSpanish workâ and lace pillows and a museum in Jerusalem. I wonder if Avital can enlighten us?  http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=17496h  Vicki in Maryland  From: loren greenberg Sent: âMondayâ, âAprilâ â8â, â2013 â12â:â22â âAM To: lace@arachne.com  Hello All, I am new to the community. 1) Does anyone know the technique for making Spanier Arbeit? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] books
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:56:07 +0100 From: Agnes Boddington ag...@weatherwax.karoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [lace] Sympathy needed Hi Alex Just had a look at your books in the pipeline. I hope you will keep us all up-to-date when they will be published, Hi Agnes I'm nearly finished. Another week or so to finish the last Bucks piece, then a month for my proofreaders to catch up and then it goes to the printer. The paper on the techniques will be out shortly after. I'll update the website as soon as they are ready. I'll let you know when. Happy lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Sympathy needed
Ou r kitten likes to remove pins too - and lays them beside the pillow or pincushion in beautiful straight lines! We have to love our pets a lot to want to keep them!! Sue - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti lizl...@bigpond.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2013 10:09:52 PM Subject: [lace] Sympathy needed We had a budgie, in years gone by, that loved to play with the pins on the pillow and pull them out. unfortunately, he always went to the front pins, not the ones at the back, where removal would not have mattered much!! Grrr! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: Dogs Cats (Sympathy)
I assumed grapefruit was a similar repellent for dogs (as per my previous post for cats). I did a quick search and it appears to be consistent for both, though they reference 'citrus' as a dog repellent, so perhaps more of the range is helpful. Here is a link with other things (mostly used for the perimeter of a yard, but the same would work inside when/where applicable): http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Dogs-off-Lawn HTH, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
Just lovely! Thank you for sharing. Have any of you worked Reticella as a curved piece? More complicated math, no doubt... Best, Susan Reishus http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_a_Woman_by_Cornelius_Janss en_van_Ceulen,_1619_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC08862.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_a_Woman_by_Cornelius_Jans sen_van_Ceulen,_1619_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC08862.JPG - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] RE: What kind of lace is this?
Yep, reticella! I love this kind of lace. Your picture is good enough that you could simply lift the pattern off. If you do I recommend sketching it out on a graph paper before putting it to something to work on. Good luck! And thanks for sharing Robin -- Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. *Your* sky. *Your *limit. Now, let's dance. *~Tom Hiddleston* - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
I have. On the flicker site, under Branwyn ni Druaidh, is a unicorn I did. It's a period piece, from the book SIngulier et nouveaux pourtraicts first published in 1587. It's supposed to be an edging, but I did it as a stand alone piece. I learned a lot on that lace -- such as the more detail, the finer the thread has to be. (So it lost a lot of detail work on the small archs because I used 35/2 linen thread, when it needed 90/2.) The book is in the digital archives at Arizona . edu. I would suggest anybody who doesn't know about this resource to check into it. It's a wonderful resource for a LOT of the older books and magazine articles, not just for lace making, but also for weaving! http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html Bronwen On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Susan Reishus elationrelat...@yahoo.comwrote: Just lovely! Thank you for sharing. Have any of you worked Reticella as a curved piece? More complicated math, no doubt... Best, Susan Reishus -- It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength. - May Sarton - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
Hmm. I wonder if Alex will weigh in on this, but I don't recall ever having seen curved reticella. After all, it works on a base of threads removed from woven cloth, so unless the cloth was woven in a curve (nope, never seen that either) how would you do it? You could step the squares around a corner, with each square being worked on a different base of threads, but I would think each square itself would have to be worked on with a straight top and bottom. I think with such a gentle curve as is in the photo, they would have made a straight piece and just shaped it to fit. If you just cut out a curved shape and then laid in foundation threads to use as a basis for the needle lace, would that still be considered Reticella or does it start to be Punto in Aria? Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2013-04-08, at 7:18 AM, Susan Reishus wrote: Have any of you worked Reticella as a curved piece? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] reticella punto in aria
Hello All! Would this be a good time to have a discussion of the differences between the techniques? When I think of reticella, I think of starting with linen, making the stitches, then cutting the voids. When I think of punto in aria, I think of starting with laid threads, then making the stitches. Will the experts please set me straight!?! g Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA, willing to bow to superior knowledge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
Have any of you worked Reticella as a curved piece? Susan Reishus I don't recall ever having seen curved reticella (as created) from woven cloth...You could (the stitches, or) would have made a straight piece and just shaped it to fit. (If you) laid in foundation threads (then it would) be Punto in Aria? Adele (comments added by Susan Reishus) Some of it could be done on an evenly woven cloth, but the math and accuracy of the tabbed points would be difficult to execute and maintain on the curve, then a certain percentage modified by wet shaping/dressing. My guess would be that it is Punto in Aria. This was obviously done on finely, so would be have to be worked finer wovens than contemporary pieces tend to be, which would add to the Reticella possibility, but I doubt it is. It would be so much easier to draw the design and then move and re-draft it, then execute in 'embroidery' in Punto in Aria. Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] reticella punto in aria
I took a class in Reticella once. We started with a pirce of linen. Then we did a satin stitch in a square and removed all the linen threads in that square. From there we ran the base threads for the lace and then did button hole stitches over those threads and did other fancy stitches in the opening. I have never done Punto in Aria before but I have always thought it would be done in the same manner as other needlelaces. There would be no linen as the basis. Liz R, Raleigh, NC hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote: Hello All! Would this be a good time to have a discussion of the differences between the techniques? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
I have (worked a curved piece in Reticella). On the flicker site, under Branwyn ni Druaidh, is a unicorn I did. It's a period piece, from the book Singulier et nouveaux pourtraicts first published in 1587 http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html I am happy to hear this! I just can't find the book on the link you provided, though. Going to the Arizona site always ends up in hours of fun (or wasted productive time), as does Antique Pattern Library. :) Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] what kind of lace is this
That certainly does look like reticella. The painter did an amazing job of depicting the lace. It almost looks photographic. One could actually copy the lace. But if you plan to make a ruff, plan on spending a lifetime to finish it!The central part could be either reticello worked as embroidery, with a cloth base, or it could be worked as punto in aria -- pure needlelace. The scallops are clearly pure needlelace. Thanks for finding that picture. Wow, what a treasure. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
Arizona lace books are listed in alphabetical order of author. A Google search reveals Singulier et nouveaux pourtraicts to be written by Vinciolo, Frederico, the search will also give you a direct link to the actual book on the Arizona site. Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au I am happy to hear this! I just can't find the book on the link you provided, though. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] what kind of lace is this
One more thing I could say. At that time period Genoa was making bobbin lace, similar in style to reticello. And some of those leaf shapes and triangles in the painting seem to have 3 raised ridges in them, not 2. For needlelace you would expect 2 ridges. But for bobbin lace one would expect 3 ridges. So I looked and looked. It might be possible to figure out a way of making something similar in bobbin lace. But it would be easier to make that design in pure needlelace or reticello embroidery (the central part of the lace). So I still think it needlelace, but I did consider the other possibility. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] spanier arbeit
Loren Can you give us a link where we can find a picture of spanier arbeit? I haven't heard that name before. There are many styles of lace and many kinds of lace making practiced in Spain. Although I do recall some discussion with Avital about a kind of metallic lace. I found it! Go to the arachne archive. Do a search on Spanier arbeit It will give you links to the discussion. 33 comments. Lorelei http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/info.html - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] reticello
Sue Hottel's question about terminology is interesting. We have had discussions about this on NEEDLELACETALK. There are 2 parts to the problem, I think. First part is what names does the general public use when referring to the work. Remembering that the general public doesn't understand anything about lace or embroidery. If you do a google image search on reticella or reticello you get a huge bunch of images. Some are embroidery (very fancy drawn thread work, where very little woven fabric remains), and some are clearly pure needle lace (punto in aria). So if you want the general public to look at images you have posted, you have to think of what people without detailed knowledge are likely to call something. If you give it a pure and correct name that the world at large has never heard, your picture will get no viewers. The second part, obviously, is about choosing terms for us experts to use when talking to each other. For myself, I recognize that there is a style of drawn thread embroidery which has a style very similar to pure needlelaces. This style is called reticello or reticella (the latter seems to be an English language habit). The embroidered version came first, then pure needlelace based on a corded outline copied those geometric designs. So I've taken to using a qualifier: reticella needlelace, or reticella embroidery. As far as I know punto in aria always means pure needle lace. But it doesn't always mean needle lace in the geometric style of reticella. The piece that Witchy Woman gave us a link for has a lace strip hanging down the woman's chest. It consists of a wide central area with a purely geometric design. Then on each side of that central strip are deeply scalloped edgings on the left and the right. These latter I would call punto in aria. Although they are regular and consistent, they don't have the rectangular geometric design of reticello. I have also seen some narrow needle lace edgings on other pieces, with tiny figures and geometric forms, and these were also called punto in aria. Bellon has also published a book of her own bobbin lace designs which she calls Gekloepplete reticello. So from all this, reticello seems to refer to a style which can be worked in completely different techniques. So I think of it this way: Embroidered reticello: drawn thread embroidery with very little woven fabric remaining Needle lace reticello: pure needle lace with a severely geometric design stylistically similar to embroidered reticello. Punto in aria: pure needlelace in its earliest stages, with designs which are often geometric, but may include figural bits, usually fairly narrow edgings. Once the needle lace becomes complex and wide it acquires the name of a historic style such as Point de France, Coralline, Venetian gros point, etc. There actually is a 3rd part. From what I've seen people who enjoy reticello embroidery also often develop an interest in reticello needle lace, and vice versa. In the two forms the skeleton which supports the design is quite different. But once the skeleton exists the actual decorative stitches worked are the same. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vinciolo/ This is it in a different site. Bronwen, who wishes the weather change would just finally happen so the stupid headache would go away! On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Susan Reishus elationrelat...@yahoo.comwrote: I just can't find the book on the link you provided, though. Going to the Arizona site always ends up in hours of fun (or wasted productive time), as does Antique Pattern Library. :) Best, Susan Reishus -- It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength. - May Sarton - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Spanier Arbeit
There was quite an interesting and very useful discussion on Spanier Arbeit about two years ago on Arachne. See, for example, http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg35495.html Laurie http://lacenews.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
Arizona lace books are listed in alphabetical order of author. I realize that, as I have ventured into that venue for at least 16 years. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it after a couple of runs of the whole list of offerings when the alphabet failed. Perhaps vision issues. I went quickly through the forwarded link, http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vinciolo/ and didn't find the curved piece. May have gone too fast. Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: What Kind of Lace Is This?
Hi Everybody: A little confusion is that the title Bronwen quotes (SIngulier et nouveaux pourtraicts ...) is not the title the book was published under when the facsimile copy that is on the Arizona website was made. You can find it under Vinciolo in the alphabetic author's listing, and the title is given as I Singolari e Nuovi Disegni This book is also produced in English as Designs for Renaissance Lace and Embroidery. I found Bronwen's unicorn (at least, I think it's the same pattern) in the Vinciolo book on the Arizona webpage. The URL for the PDF of the book is http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/vfv_lace.pdf and the pattern is one of the last of the point couppe patterns - it is taken from the right-hand scallop of the two shown on the page confusingly denoted as page K3 (page 48 of the 98 pages in the PDF file). These scallops are certainly curved. I may have misunderstood the original posting - I was thinking about reticella where the entire piece is curved (such as the piece gently curving down the length of the bodice in the original painting that started all of this) rather than the individual curved scallops, which are achieved with laid threads as in the unicorn pattern. In Section H in the book (pages 38 - 41 of the PDF file), you will see patterns for a series of tapered stomachers. Here the shaping is achieved, I think, by just outlining the desired shape on the original woven fabric, and then removing the appropriate threads inside the outlining and continuing as if the squares were not cut through (hope you can understand what I'm trying to say here, but I know I'm not expressing it well). So what I was getting at is that the squares aren't tapered, just cut off. Well, that was a whole lot of writing for a simple statement. I'll stop now. Hope this helps. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2013-04-08, at 4:10 PM, Susan Reishus wrote: Arizona lace books are listed in alphabetical order of author. I realize that, as I have ventured into that venue for at least 16 years. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it after a couple of runs of the whole list of offerings when the alphabet failed. Perhaps vision issues. I went quickly through the forwarded link, http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vinciolo/ and didn't find the curved piece. May have gone too fast. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Spanier Arbeit
By accessing the second page from the URL below I found these wonderful bonnets/hats - such wonderful workmanship. As the language is foreign to me maybe someone else can elaborate? Cheers, Shirley T. - 28C is not typical for our autumn weather. we need rain. There was quite an interesting and very useful discussion on Spanier Arbeit about two years ago on Arachne. See, for example, http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg35495.html Laurie - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Sympathy needed
my kitten always goes straight for the pins too. Luckily for me he likes the big ones with the shiny beads on top so damage to the lace isn't usually too bad, I just worry about him swallowing them!! On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:00 PM, sueba...@comcast.net wrote: Ou r kitten likes to remove pins too - and lays them beside the pillow or pincushion in beautiful straight lines! We have to love our pets a lot to want to keep them!! Sue - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti lizl...@bigpond.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2013 10:09:52 PM Subject: [lace] Sympathy needed We had a budgie, in years gone by, that loved to play with the pins on the pillow and pull them out. unfortunately, he always went to the front pins, not the ones at the back, where removal would not have mattered much!! Grrr! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] What kind of lace..?
I, too, would call that gorgeous lace Reticella. On first inspection - as the size it came up first , I thought the central panel on the Ruff was the same as on the dress, but when enlarged I could see that the central panels are different, but the edges appear to be the same. It is SO clear that it could be copied. Wonderful. I understand that as their lace was so expensive, and so prized, often the painter had a lacemaker sitting beside him while he painted the lace, to make sure he got it right! One of the books, (I forget which one, sorry.) mentions that one painter - Peter Paul Rubens, I think, - painted the holes in the lace, not the lace itself! That sounds, to me, like doing it the hard way!!! I must look up more of C.J van Ceulen's work. Not a name I know, but a great painter of lace! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Reticella lace
You explain things SO well, Lorelei. I think we usually use Reticella as a generic term meaning lace in that geometric style. I know I do, anyway. This may be a bit sloppy, but most people are not bothered with the finer points of whether it is the Embroidery Reticella, or the Punto in Aria Reticella. I have laid the foundation for a slightly curved piece - a neck band or high collar, and when drawing up the pattern I drew the line between the squares - over lapping at the inner curve, and splayed out fractionally at the outer curve. It does not seem to notice, but it is enough to curve the pattern to the correct shape. The overlapping and splaying was only about as thick as the pen line, so minimal. Hmmm! That is a UFO I need to get back to. Thanks for reminding me!!! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] What kind of lace..?
Hello Liz and everyone Excellent to bring this up. This is a painterly trick, 'painting negative space' - one way to deal with the illusion, to show a three-dimensional object on a flat piece of paper! For the painter who doesn't make lace, it is probably easier to paint the holes, than to try to copy the lace. I do not know the artist of our example but some would have technicians who would paint details, facial features, clothing, shading, and background, all under the supervision of the master-artist who would sign the work when finished. Perhaps this artist had an expert lace-painting technician :) On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Elizabeth Ligeti lizl...@bigpond.comwrote: One of the books, (I forget which one, sorry.) mentions that one painter - Peter Paul Rubens, I think, - painted the holes in the lace, not the lace itself! -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Spanier Arbeit
I've never come across this before, but I'm entranced by this delightful headgear! I can't decide if I prefer this type: http://members.aon.at/rosamichl/page_5_2.html or this: http://members.aon.at/rosamichl/page_5_9.html and I'm not sure how they keep them on (I think I read something about how you have your long hair in a knot or bun and it sits on that, but my German isn't that great) but I certainly think I'd love to have one! If only I had someplace to wear it. Adele North Vancouver, BC - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] broiler
So another example of where we don't speak the same language. A new TV programme started last week The Great British Sewing Bee and on the forums discussing some have asked what a bee is. Someone pointed out that it's a competiton and that in the USA you have spelling bees. One response was Why? They can't spell! just look at the way they spell colour and catalogue! :-D Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Corned Beef Water recipe
Hi, Might the US corned beef be the same as salt beef here in the UK? I haven't cooked it myself but have eaten some cooked by a neighbour and the taste was similar to corned beef. Eve Poole, Dorset, UK On 2013-04-07, at 8:09 AM, Sue Harvey wrote: I am very puzzled re corned beef water in the UK corned beef comes in tins from Brazil mostly, To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Corned Beef Water recipe
Having checked a recipe for the preparation for salt beef, it is exactly the way you would prepare corned beef from scratch in the US. You brine a brisket for approximately 7 days and then poach until fork tender. Delicious! And totally different from the corned beef you get in a can (although that is good too!) Jill Newport Pagnell, Bucks, UK On 08 April 2013 at 08:17 Eve Morton e...@chez-morton.com wrote: Hi, Might the US corned beef be the same as salt beef here in the UK? I haven't cooked it myself but have eaten some cooked by a neighbour and the taste was similar to corned beef. Eve Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Sympathy needed
Any update on how the ferret lace is doing? it is a very pretty piece of lace. I put my pillow onto a table top once without checking it was far enough on and it toppled to the floor. I didn't know about the turn upside down trick then so spent about 2 hours gently untangling them. One thread broken which was the first time I learned to add a new thread. My cat however, (no longer in this world) used to lay on the arm of my chair and watch me make lace and sometimes just lay his paw over the top of the bobbins as if to hold them for me. He never ever harmed anything and his photo is still visible on my site :-) He did enjoy laying and sleeping on it so I made sure it was only possible when well covered, padded and secure. I loved him to bits but we are not going to replace them with more now:-) Sue T Dorset UK -Original Message- From: suebabbs Ou r kitten likes to remove pins too - and lays them beside the pillow or pincushion in beautiful straight lines! We have to love our pets a lot to want to keep them!! Sue To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Sympathy needed
Hi. I think we'd all like to know how that lace is progressing, and how the ferrets are doing being kept away from the pillow!!! I remember a similar accident at a lace meeting when my pillow ended up upside down on the floor. It was a 2 legged 'accident' not a 4 legged one though! Broke a few threads and one bobbin, but I was shown how to 'mend' the threads and all ended up OK. Sue in East Yorkshire where it's flipping freezing again!! On 8 Apr 2013, at 12:36, Sue wrote: Any update on how the ferret lace is doing? it is a very pretty piece of lace. I put my pillow onto a table top once without checking it was far enough on and it toppled to the floor. I didn't know about the turn upside down trick then so spent about 2 hours gently untangling them. One thread broken which was the first time I learned to add a new thread. My Tatty Blog http://pigminitatty.blogspot.co.uk/ To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Corned beef
Found this: In the United States and Canada, corned beef typically comes in two forms, a cut of beef (usually brisket, but sometimes round or silverside) cured or pickled in a seasoned brine, and canned (cooked). In the United Kingdom, corned beef refers to the variety made from finely minced corned beef in a small amount of gelatin (bully beef; from the French bouilli boiled), and is sold in distinctive, oblong cans or in slices from supermarkets. Salt beef in the UK and Commonwealth as a cured and boiled foodstuff is sometimes known as corned beef elsewhere. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
