Sorry not to see you in Tonder, Tamara. We will be there, but not in Prag,
because my father has his 85th birthday that weekend. We are very sorry he
had'nt decided to choose a different day 85 years ago.
We are looking forward to see all Arachnians (or Arachnics?) there and provide a
sign for all
Hello Annette,
I think you are asking for the *german way* of lacemaking: hanging
bobbins and holding them in the palm of your hands. So I try to give an
answer from here. I am used to work on flat and on bolster pillows.
Annette Gill schrieb:
I'm thinking of trying to work hands-up, either by m
Generally there are two different kinds of hooded bobbins found in
Germany. The one type comes originally from the Erzgebirge (*iron
mountains*, the german and the czech part of it) and is meanwhile used
in many regions.
Bobbins from the Schwäbische Alp are different and rare. They look like
gi
There are more boys making lace at that age. We have just closed our
last years (no 8) children's lace making contest and had again some boys
taking part. They are about 7 to 14 years old. This year there was a
boy, 11 years old, who started in January, taught himself by a book of
Ulrike Lohr, bec
I use 'knipling' (the producer is nearly a neighbour) and I can add, that this
program is able do fill a ground with patterns. It offers a 'library' where you
may create and store your own ground.
Greetings from Chemnitz,
Gabriele
Jean Nathan schrieb:
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> I thought about 'Knipling' which, being c
As a german vendor let me add to this mail: there are some shops in Germany
better: in eastern Germany who are regular shops and not all of them have a mail
order service. Of course most of them are shops for lacemaking and ... other
handcrafts or souvenirs or something else. The cause is, that in
Hello Helene,
may be I did'nt say so clearly: I run a shop in a beautiful castle where
I sell lace and equipment. We offer these special german roller pillows
and hooded bobbins and also some sorts of block pillows, filled with
felt and continental (flemish, danish and swiss) bobbins.
In our castl
