I would like to offer profuse thanks to Jean Leader for posting a video to
YouTube showing how to make tallies. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a
video is worth ten thousand. It was a tremendous help to me. I have now made a
number of them resembling smooth boxwood leaves more than the
I am so sorry, spiders. Two weeks ago I posted and said I was just about to
wash and block my newly completed Torchon silk scarf. This turned out to be
lies. I did finish my scarf but it has not been washed or blocked. After I
took it off of the pins, I looked at it and it looked ok and all my
Very recently, Gil Dye sent me a pdf of a talk she presented at The School
of Historical Dress in London. She was in the company of a number of very
well-known museum textile scholars (also speakers), which is delightful to
know. I must add that having one of the members of our lace
It is ok to change your mind about waiting to do the blocking. Are
you going to post a picture to Arachne's flicker account.
Helene Ulrich
Loris, South Carolina
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