[lace] Courseulles lace

First of all, hello to you all! I'm back from nearly 2.5 months in France, and I'm exhausted! DH says that we spent 73 days there and only had 3 days under 32 degrees centigrade, but most days over were in the high thirtuies! We also had water restrictions , just to make us feel at home, as we

[lace] subject lists to digests

Avital wrote: On the brighter side, I've been playing with one of the majordomo settings, so digest subscribers will have a list of subjects at the top. That should make perusing digests a lot easier. I've already made this change with the lace digest and will change the lace-chat digest when I

[lace] Tamara's lace

Tamara, Just went into your new website. YOur lac is gorgeous. Who cares too much about the fine points of technique when one can be as creative as that! Leave the technique to people liek me who can only copy, not invent!!! Keep putting those pictures in, will you? i.e. keep making new lace :-)

[lace] what to do with cross stitch

Hi, Chelle, did you enjoy your Australian visit? I suppose you went to the AGM, you lucky girl! One thing my mother gave me one year was a lovely box (made by my crafty cousin) covered with coloured hessian material(not too loose a texture) with a paper lined interior. The top cover was padded and

[lace] lace-chat

Hi, everyone, sorry to have a non-lace subject on lace, but I haven't received asingle lace-chat digest since the beginning of October! Is that right or is there something wrong with my own mail? Thanks = Helene, the froggy from Melbourne http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals

[lace] glass bobbins

A bit late, but I thought I'd write anyway. I have 3 pairs of beautiful glass bobbins which I use whenever I can. I found the best way to keep the thread on them was to first wind a fine thread all along the part where the thread is wound, starting with a double hitch, and tie it with at least a

[lace] machine-made lace and its pitfalls

Happy New Year to you all. I've been unable to look at my mail for the last month, as we had problems at work after a bad storm at the beginning of December, and my computer was one of the casualties.., then I went on leave for a week, and came back in time for Xmas to be told everything had to

[lace] German type bobbins wanted

Hi, everyone, I am doing a wide edging with cotton and a rough silk gimp. I use Midlands, but I used continentals for the gimp, because I needed a lot of thread on, and Midlands were too thin. It looks gorgeous, but I noticed that my gimp thread gets a bit funny, because the bobbins keep rolling

[lace] German bobbins thanks

Hi, everyone, Thanks to those lovely arachnes who'd like to swap hooded bobbins for Australian ones (or something else if you prefer) I think I've got enough offers now for what I wanted, but if you really want a swap, I'll be happy to oblige you. To Ilske, Roberta and Eva, I accept your offers,

[lace] beginner's pieces

The piece I just finished was given away as a gift, which I am profoundly thankful for. I can't imagine that in years to come I will want to look at it and go Oh my GOSH!!! Look at what i did! and cringe. Welcome to our wonderful world of lacemaking, Francesca, and good luck with the next

[lace] flaming time

...That has been my observation also, esp in December; every Christmas that we manage to squeak through without drawing blood on the list (and in private, but in response to list postings) I consider a minor miracle... :) In August, you have to add the fed-up factor to the heat -- the kids

[lace] flaming time

Oops, sorry, forgot to sign my previous message! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who's expecting 9 people for dinner on Sunday night, and real hot weather is expected! (no air-con)... Intersting remark, Tamara. Does that mean that us antipodes dwellers get mad for the opposite reasons to you

[lace] lace magazines

Ruth, I hope my copy is waiting for me to get back from work!! I receive several lace magazines, Lace, Lacemaker's circle, La Dentelle and of course Australian Lace journal. There is one really, really bad thing about themthey tend to all arrive together!!!then I have to wait another 3 months

[lace] unsubscribing for a while

Hi, everyone, just letting you know that I'm unsubscribing from lace and lace-chat for a month. I'm going on leave, then Easter..., and won't get many chances to read the digests for a long time. Have a wonderful time during the coming holidays. I'll be at the beach, or at least within 5kms, and

[lace] ultra-white lace

I saw the most amazing piece of tatting at the Colorado State Fair last year (or maybe the year before-can't remember). Anyway, it was snowy white - - pure white, *gleaming* white. More white than you could get with bleach. I swear she tatted it with gloves on! :- Then again, maybe she

[lace] historical lace

If this appeals, you might also do a search on the museum name to gather more information. My apologies to those of you who wrote to let me know you have no interest in history or historical laces Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center Hey, Jeri Ames, why bother

[lace] Lace magazine

Just received my Lace magazine (awairted with baited breath after all the talk on this list!!), and I spent last evening reading it. I would like to congratulate all the wonderful lacemakers who made those lace pieces, particularly the Australian ones, of course :-) Such fantastic imagination as

[lace] Lace in Belgium and Netherlands

Devon, If that rumour is true (perhaps our Belgian spiders could try to find out?), maybe we should find an email address for the Mayor and all email our dismay to him about there being no lace in Brugge...We did that once before for Nottingham, although I'm not sure it's had any effect so far?

Re: [lace] Lace magazine

One can only hope it will come back into fashion soon, like knitting has this year!! Suddenly, everyone wants to knit, although the same books have been sitting on the shelves for several years being ignored completely while everyone queued up for the mosaics books!! I suppose it's good that

[lace] Fantasy flowers

Thanks for posting this, Noelene, I wasn't aware of it, and will love to buy a copy too. I might have seen it at the AGM, but this way, I've saved a few months deprivement...:-)) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where it was 5 degrees Celcius when i went to work this morning, buit the sky is

[lace] Nancy Drew

Thanks for giving that website, JulieO, it confirmed my suspicions that the books I read as I was a child in France, which had Caroline Quine as the author, and a heroine named Alice (can't remember her surname) are in fact the French version of Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew!! I worked as a

[lace] Bjorne

What I'd like to know is how he manages to makes all that lace as well as the costumes!! I wish I could do a hundreth of what he does!! But then again, I get distracted by a lot of other things, like reading :-)) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, just about to start a new piece of torchon, but

[lace] lace bobbins

My question now is about bobbins. I know many of you use the spangled ones but I was wondering if anyone uses the square European ones I have seen on some websites. They look like the would resist the rolling problem that has been mentioned and I wonder if they would make a good starter bobbin

[lace] Tamara's signature and long quotes

...Where I have to disagree with Tamara is about the Bush/Cheney/Carbs thing. It is very cute, as Tamara herself often is, and it's very provocative too,but to my mind, utterly inappropriate to the Lace List. If lacemakers feel impelled to talk politics with other lacemakers, maybe Lace-chat is

[lace] V7A Museum book and others

Yes, Liz, Booksellers in Australia are bound by law to buy from England for some publishers, and from the US for others (haven't got the list of which is which) . This is an arrangement made by the publishers, mostly to ensure that no-one poaches on their preserves (shades of colonialism!!. Heavy

[lace] prize winning arachnes

Well done, too, Jacquie!! Gee, I'm dying to see those entries, I hope they publish some in the next Lace, they all sound fantastic! Just received one, so will have to wait a long time before the next one, alas. Maybe they will post on the website before that??? Congratulations to you all, Helene,

[lace] group entry

Incidentally, in the exhibition catalogue it states the theme for 2007 is SEVEN. There you are! The theme of the group entry has to be James Bond!! :-) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who'd be happy to participate as long as I get a small piece! I have no illusion about my available free

[lace] Lace website photos

Thanks so much, David, for the photos. I do wish I could see the originals, they all look great!! Are you going to put some of the lacemakers' census entries on the website as well? The ones that were in the journal were quite intriguing. Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie

[lace] seven competition

Malvary Cole wrote: I just remembered the Magpie Rhyme - last line: Seven for a secret never to be told. I think I c an do that one on my own!! All you need is a frame, with these words written at the bottom, or the top...There you are! Instant secret lace!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne

[lace] seven

Carolina wrote: We, here in Spain it is very common to hear that somebody has 7 lives as cats. It is said, referring to people who has survived to a dangerous situation. Carolina, the English must like cats more than the Spaniards, as they say that cats have 9 lives, not seven!! I can't remember

[lace] being there at the right time?

Haddad wrote: The Little things After September 11, one company invited the remaining members of other companies, who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers, to share their available office space. At a morning meeting, the head of security told stories of why these people were

[lace] why?

How about the seven maids with seven mops from The Walrus and the Carpenter? - -Gabrielle, still bobbinless in sunny Puyallup Hi, Gabrielle, why bobbinless?? Are you on holidays, or were tehy all stolen Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who is trying to sort out all her pins by size again!

[lace] seven times seven

We could take that one step further and do a book with seven fairy tales or nursery rhymes containing seven things. I'm asure we can find them if we try. I can think of Snow White and her seven dwarves, The little tailor and his seven giants, Puss in boots (the boots go 7 leagues at a time), the

[lace] Kant Kwartaal

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] We took Kant Kwartaal for a while at the Victorian Branch of the ALG. I can look next time I go there, but it won't be for a month. Let me know. Do you have the page numbers on your copies? That would help when we look.

[lace] torchon star pattern

Hi, Karen, the pattern you want to redo is not the one by Bridget Cook which came out a few years ago in Needlecraft magazine, is it? Because if it is, watch out, one of the bits is wrong, there must have been a crease in the paper it was photographed on, there are a few holes missing. I found

[lace] p[ictures of lace

Devon wrote: ...I recently ran a search on the NY Public Library's online picture collection on lace and saw many fashion prints. The site is http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/searchresultsK.cfm?keyword=lace... Thanks so much for that website address, Devon! I love costume, but am hopeless at

[lace] RE: torchon star pattern

Dear Karen, what I did, after I found out the pattern I had was faulty, was to photocopy the piece twice, then carefully cut out the faulty point between dots, and replace it with a correct one, then rephotocopy the result. It worked perfectly. I also photocopied the (perfect) pattern at 125% in

[lace] Montupet's book

Clay wrote: There's a novel on ebay right now which lacemakers have enjoyed over the years, and I thought someone on the list might like to get this copy... It's Janine Montupet's The Lacemaker, and it is a romanticized story about a lacemaker - and lace. All good fun, but not to be taken too

[lace] lace work and broken wrists

YoAnneke wrote: I enjoy reading all your emails about all the laces in progress. Due to my fractured wrist I am not making any lace at all at the moment, but I am looking through all my lace books, something I normally never seem to have the time for, and making plans for what to work after my

[lace] longest UFO

Jenny Barron wrote: That could be our next question - what's your longest running UFO? what are the chances of it ever being finished? Mine is the huge Bruges flower mat I started on Jan 1st 2000 and haven't finished the central section yet as using the pillow gives me back ache if I use it for

[lace] UFOs

Christine J wrote: ...And, only last night, I tied off some samples I made for Pat Milne's invisible joins workshop in ?about 1992... Pity you weren't a bit closer to Melbourne, Christine, you could have joined our group yesterday and Saturday at the Ashburton Community Centre in Melbourne and

[lace] UFOs

Malvary wrote: I'm not doing too much lace at the moment as I'm working hard to finish an afghan for my cousin's wedding on the 24th July. Squares are all done, I'm sewing it up and then I have to crochet the border Malvary, what I want to know is: who is going to wear the Afghan? Is it for

[lace] miniature lace

Erika wrote: The competition for the AGM was 'miniature lace', and the entries may be seen on a website... http://www.color2dye4.com/lace/ How lovely, Erika! Did you take the photos? That's when I regret not having a digital camera!! The only thing that could make it better would be having

[lace] Danish lace

dear Ilske, thank you for writing about Danish lace, it was very interesting. I haven't read anything about lace in Scandinavia, so it was all new information for me. Thank you! helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -

[lace] genealogy research-slightly off topic

Hi, Karen, I'm answering on lace, as I don't know whether you belong to lace-chat. some of us Australian spiders could be of assistance for people who know the names and place and date of birth, marriage or death of relatives from Australia. Our public libraries hold CD-Roms of the Index to

[lace] UFOs

Liz Ligeti wrote: ...I have recently finished another other long-term UFO!! I brought a Penelope brand (I think) tablecloth, printed pattern on beaut. linen, and all the embroidery floss needed, when I left England to come to Oz - in 1960. I started working on it in 1964 - when having Helen (10

[lace] horn bobbins

Jean Nathan wrote: I'm still looking for a supplier of horn bobbins. The one supplier I contacted who advertise horn in the lace magazines, doesn't actually have horn listed in their catalogue Jean, there is a place in the south of France that makes horn bobbins. It's in a little town called

[lace] relations and their decisions

Sorry, I forget the most important thing. When I designed my first pattern, a Torchon-lace, I named it after her Hertha. To say her thank you for this wonderful craft she gave me. What a shame you couldn't rescue any of her lace stuff, Ilske. Aren't relations really annoying sometimes!! Like

[lace] iron-on patterns

Karisse wrote: The name of the magazine is Pizzo di Cantu Do you need to cover the pricking with something after you iron it on? Just wondering who has had experience with these and what it was? Hi, Karisse, I've never had anything to do with lace iron-on patterns, but I remember embroidery

[lace] pillows

Ok..that is the second person who mentioned horsehair pillows...will someone explain horse hair pillows to me?? Cearbhael Oh, Cearbhael, that sentence brought back regrets for me!!!We used to have an old single horsehair mattress which came from my grandmother's house when I was young. We took

[lace] pillows

Adele Ward wrote: Last time I counted, I had 20 or 21 pillows My favorite are the straw ones made by Robin Lewis-Wild. Wow, Adele, I didn't know she made pillows as well as write books. Is it the same person? Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo!

[lace] Le Puy pillows

Adele wrote: A couple of years ago I bought 3 'traditional' pillows from a fellow in LePuy. He has a web site. The pillows have rollers. The pillows are pretty but toxic to pins! The rollers are made with carpet scraps. Indoor-outdoor carpet with rubberized backing Please, Adele, can you post

[lace] Sally's lace

Beautiful lace, Sally! And i think your method of pinning the pricking down is pretty smart too. I'll have to try it next time. I've also had patterns moving up, so now I use a flat pillow when I do a wide pattern rather than a cookie, even if the slope is not too much. Or a roller pillow, of

[lace] lace mobiles

Rhiannon wrote: I recently made my friend a mobile for her son's birthday ( he was only 1 btw)using some xmas window decoration patterns. So that they would hang and not waft i used fabric stiffener that i got from a local haberdashery shop or there are a few lace/sewing shops online that also

[lace] laminating

Carol wrote: The mother of one of my child students took a mat the child had made to be laminated, and it wasn't too successful! There were bubbles all over the place, and it didn't do the mat justice at all. I wonder if that was due to the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot

[lace] laminating, self-correction

Carol wrote: The mothe rof one of my child students took a mat the child had made to be laminated, and it wasn't too successful! There were bubbles all over the place, and it didn't do the mat justice at all. I wonder if that was due to the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot

[lace] acetone

Adele wrote: A Czech lacemaker who had immigrated to Canada and was showing her stuff at our (now-defunct) Craft Museum used any old hard plastic (like empty Tic-Tac boxes) which she ***melted in acetone*** ... apparently in Czechoslovakia it was a lot easier for her to get hold of acetone and

[lace] Slovak lace site question

Tamara wrote: ...click on Vzorniky, and you'll see a booklet for sale, with a selection of lace patterns from Bobova (no thongs, though g)... http://www.cipka.sk/ Nice site, Tamara. I was interested by the Cipka section. Is that a magazine? Have they got lots of patterns in them? Easy to do for

[lace] using thread bits to wind thick threads

When I use fine thread in a light colour, if there is just a bit left, I leave it on and do a half-hitch to prevent it from getting loose. Then, when I want to wind thicker thread, or metallic thread, I tie the end of the new thread to the one already on, and start winding my new thread on on top

[lace] Greek lace book details, please

Can I ask for your help, please? I know there's been a big book published a little while ago called Greek lace from XX Museum, or similar. I thought it was from the British Museum or the VA, but I can't find it anywhere in my booksellers' catalogues. Has anyone got the proper co-ordinates for it,

[lace] your lace

Welcome to the list, Dorte, and thank you for posting the address of your photo site. They're great. I hope you'll enjoy lace, and will take more photos..:-) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea with Erica of NZ on Saturday afternoon...after going to the wrong

[lace] punctuation book

Carol wrote: I recently bought my copy at work - there are several booksellers that come round leaving remaindered copies of various books/items in offices, for the staff to look over and order, and my copy was half-price when I bought it about six weeks ago. Lucky you, Carol!! I'm waiting for

[lace] Cipka magazine

Carolina wrote: I subscribed Cipka magazine some months ago, including past issues. The 7 pages magazine displays 5 or 6 little patterns some ones with diagrams. Thanks for the info, Carolina. 10 euros is not bad, I'll think about it. As you said, they have very modern lace, which you don't

[lace] Azaria

From: Helen Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] RE: lost items Mother, dear, you forget about the body of Azaria Chamberlain which was never found in the Ayers Rock vicinity Oh, but she has been, apparently! There's been big stories about a Victorian hunter and his mates who claims he

[lace] RSI and holding bobbins

Thanks very much for all the notes and suggestions about working hands-up. I've had a go (I had already looked at the picture on Jo Annette wrote: ...I tried tilting up my cookie pillow as in the picture), and it's not as good as I thought it might be. I have what is called diffuse RSI,

[lace] Withof display

dear Barbara, just catching up with my digests, and I just wanted to say thank you for posting those beautiful pictures of Withof lace! How I wish my sight was good enough (and my patience :-)) to make such fine lace!!! Isn't Yvonne lovely? She gave some classes here some years ago, and was just

[lace] zingers are dangersou

Noelene in Cooma wrote: And for us tatters, the zingers - the little gadget you can pin like a brooch which has a retractable cord, to which can be attached your cut-down crochet hook (I have an old Milwards one about 2 inches long with a tiny plastic handle and hanging loop - now if I could only

[lace] attendance at general meetings

Nicky wrote: ...My husband and I were both delegates at the Scarborough Convention this year, I am a member he isn't. When it came to the AGM he was officiously refused entry by the woman on the door, I queried it but she was adamant that he was not allowed in - as was another mouthy person

[lace] Sulochona's lace

The original design is on Tamara's website. I have changed quite a lot of it. I tried out Tamara's neckpiece, then undid it. I tried out my own version and undid that too. In the end, I left it out altogether. Solochona, your lace is exquisite! You make me ashamed of myself at doing so little,

[lace] Battenberg/Mountbatten

There is no reason why they can't both have been Lord Battenberg. the grandfather was Lord Battenberg, then when he died, his eldest son became Lord Battenberg, so Prince Philip must have been the son of the younger son, and his father did not get the title. Simple. The name was changed during the

[lace] gimp and gimpless machine lace

Patty wrote: This weekend, I tried a little experiment. I had acquired a piece of very old machine lace with handrun gimp. It is a very beautiful pattern, tending toward the Baroque. Anyway, I got the idea of removing the gimp from a single repeat to see what the lace runners had to deal

[lace] Hungarian visit

Dear Dora, thank you for the report on your visit. I have printed it out (in BW,only, unfortunately, those costumes are magnificent!) to give to my lacemaker friend who is Hungarian and came to the AGM to learn how to make Halas lace. She will love it. Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find

[lace] lace ring

2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does anyone know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find them, please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name! Maybe somebody who

[lace] Xmas mail

Tamara wrote: (or seems to; the older generation tends to put the return address at the back of the envelope, rather than in the upper left corner of the front, and the PO doesn't seem to bother to check for that)... I think putting the return address on the front is an American habit, I've

[lace] digital cameras, general thanks and answer

Hello, hello, I seem to have raised a storm with my Digital cameras-against posting!! Thanks to all who wrote back to me, I can't answer all of you individually, you are too many. Because it isn't directly lace related (although it is indirectly, since we are talking about photographing lace,

[lace] digital cameras

Bev wrote: ...For a *lace* tool, the decision to buy a digital camera was a good one. I use it more than I would have thought, the main factor being the immediate results. I use it to examine a piece of antique lace, where the screen resolution is easier for me to see than a magnifying glass. I

[lace] placing sender's address on envelopes

Tamara wrote: ...I have lots of issues with the US's do it my way or take the highway attitude, but the placing of the address label isn't one of them :) it does make sense, if you're trying to have millions of pieces of mail processed, efficiently, by a dumb machine... I'm a great proponent of

[lace] burning CD -problems

Tamara wrote: So I got a big stack of cheap-ish CDs in preparation. They were *supposed* to be the kind one can *add* data to. Supposed is the key word... :) There's a disagreement betwen my puter and my discs; I can read someone else's disc, I can burn my own... But I *cannot* add to a

Re: [lace] burning CD -problems

Thanks, Dorte, I know you can do that, when you have a burner, which I don't, except at work, where it's inconvenient, since it's in a branch library 6 kms away from where I work... I just wondered if anyone gets their pictures done on CD at a shop and has actually managed to get the shop to put

[lace] Inge Skovgaard

Dear Ewa, It is always sad to lose someone who was a Master of their craft, or art, and who also worked so much for the lace community. I have 2 of Inge's books, and admire her work very much. please convey all my sympathy to her family and friends. Helene, the froggy from Melbourne. It is

[lace] burning pictures

thanks to you all who sent me emails with instructions on how to burn in multiple sessions.I don't have a burner, actually, I an burn occasionally at work, when I can get hold of the work burner, but I just want the photo shops to do what they advertise they can do!! Yours in lace! Helene the

[lace] busy lists?

Linda wrote: However, all my husband's astronomy lists are just as busy as ever. Probably mostly men in those, Linda :-)! They've got nothing to do before Xmas! You wouldn't catch my DH making Xmas presents, cooking Xmas food or writing Xmas cards, exept maybe 1-2 for his work (He is president of

[lace] christening gown pattern (lace)

Anita wrote: BTW, has anyone got a nice pattern for said christening gown that I might borrow? I've looked in Vogue, Butterick, Simplicity, etc. etc. but not been 100% pleased with the patterns there. I can't remember exactly where, but I saw a round christening robe somewhere (could it have

[lace] what price the dollar?(lace)

Tamara wrote: Out of sheer cussedness, I checked the currency converter on the day of delivery (Oct 19) and it would have cost me U$ 31.30, had she not been honest. I checked again today, and the same GBP 17.99 translates to U$ 33.32. That means, that the buying power of the (once almighty)

lace as an art [lace]

Your volunteering is noted, Devon! I'll use you as a model as soon as I have made something wearable..:-) That's my problem! I don't really dress the proper way for emphasizing beautiful lace, and I don't make lace to wear (except fo a 3D orchid brooch for my mother)! Knitted fabrics are not

[lace] community shots

Happy New Year to you and all Arachnes! I haven't been able to look at my mail because of the public holidays (4 days off each time as Friday 31st Dec was my rostered day off, what bliss this year!!) so I'm just catching up and specially admired your work, Sue. Please keep lacing, and posting

[lace] husband and wife presents(lace)

Other than that, my hubby and I swore off gift giving this year. As hideously corny as it sounds, we're happy enough with each other that we didn't feel the need for anything more, and not stressing out over gifts was a gift itself (we tend to get what we need/want as it comes up, not wait for

[lace] curling pieces (lace)

Brenda wrote (a few days ago...) I've just added the stuff about BL occasionally curling to my website, with a link to a snakes gallery. Additional pics for the gallery would be welcome. I just finished a Christmas torchon bookmark (for next year, of course!) made with green DMC cotton 30

Re: [lace] curling pieces

Hello, Brenda, I didn't know DMC 50 was a Z ply. I've used it for years, and never had any problem until I used it with this particular metallic thread which I have never used before. I'm going to make the smae bookmzrk with a linen thread and the same metallic silver, just to see what happens!

[lace] conversion charts fro threads

Thanks, Jo, a great thing to keep in favourites!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Jo wrote: I just found site with many links to many color and conversion charts! http://users.rcn.com/kdyer.dnai/conversion.html Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.

[lace] promoting lace on your clothes

Devon, I'm just catching up with my digests and read you account of the Living Billboard Campaign for Modern Lace. Thank you! I loved it!! And of course, went to see the photos... However, how on earth can you expect to compete favourably with 8 big black breasts? :-) lace cannot possibly

[lace] Cluny lace (lace)

Dera Martina, Cluny lace is also called LePuy lace, as it is the main lace they make there. It's similar to torchon and Beds, with lots of tallies and plaits. A good series of books to get hold of is the series written or edited by Mick Fouriscot, on various subjects, including Cluny, and

[lace] Tistou pillow import into Australia

Malvary wrote: The other question I would raise - are you allowed to import them into Australia, they are filled with sawdust and wood shavings. Probably ok, but better to make sure before you buy one. Definitely not without having to pay for fumigation, which will add to the cost! You could

[lace] embroidered stamp

I was just reading old emails and found this one of tamara, and that reminded me of something else. Do all the stamp collectors know that Italy has just put out an embroidered stamp on fabric similar to the Swiss one (but with a different embroidery on it :-), of course? Our stamp dealer in the

[lace] pillow

I have put up on my website the improvised version of a block pillow - it will do until I get an 'official' one. Take a look and let me know what you think of it. http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/block.html That looks great, Jenny!! Just watch out when you pin in the holes between the squares!

[lace] spider jewellery

Beth wrote: Gentle Spiders, I'm looking for a room-mate for the IOLI convention in Denver this summer. Only rule is non-smoker. Please contact me off list. Oh, I found a cute spider pin at a jewelery shop in the French Quarter that I'm going to be wearing at the convention. Beth McCasland

[lace] LACME site (lace)

Devon, thank you so much for posting that letter. I had a look and there is quite a bit of lace, on its own and on costume. Lovely! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where the weather is so nice I've been spending an hour lacing on the back terrace after work everyday!. Pity the mozzies chase

[lace] paper longevity

Sorry, Robyn, I would say papyrus still has the edge on it if you go by age...:-) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Autumn is here and the oaks are turning. Gum trees, of course, completely ignore the seasons and shed all the time! Robyn wrote: For information, nothing has beaten the track

[lace] AFL or something else?

Please avoid AFL at all costs!! In Australia, it means Australian Football League, and you wouldn't want to be mistaken for *that* lot, would you? Just imagine the kind of people you could get if they surfed the Internet for AFL and came up with your site as an answer Helene, the froggy

[lace] miniature lace shop

Shirley T. wrote: For those interested in miniature lacemaking, you might like to take a look at our Guild home page at http://www.austlaceguild.org/pages/branches/sa/salaceshop.htm I saw that gorgeous miniature lace shop at the Adelaide AGM last year. It looked absolutely divine. What a shame

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