This is just to let everyone know that I've now mounted updated
versions of articles that were on the Lacenotes website on my own
website. They are about winding bobbins, making hitches, and working
continuous unbroken trails across a corner in Torchon lace - you'll
find them all in the
Life is a bit hectic at the moment as I'm in the midst of preparing
the catalogue for the Lace Guild's 'Seven' exhibition which opens in
Dudley, West Midlands on 14th July. The judging for the associated
John Bull Trophy competition takes place next week and we hope to get
the results up on
At 5:24 pm -0400 21/5/07, lace-digest wrote:
In the book Modern Lace, the author calls for Translucent Lurex
thread. Can anyone tell me where in the US this can be obtained or
what the equivalent would be? Thanks.
Who's the author of this book? What sort of lace is it?
The book will be
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Jean Leader (Treasurer) and David Leader (Webmaster)
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The cobbler's children are always the worst shod, but, earlier this
year we got round to setting up Jean's own website. The result has
been a delay in updating The Lace Guild site (now in its 10th year)
but we've now got round to mounting some extracts from the January
issue of Lace, and we've
hope (the problem was we'd done some
re-arranging yesterday morning and overlooked a few changes also
needed).
Jean
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One of my New Year resolutions was to make this the year when I got
my own website together - I've been thinking about one for over two
years but not getting down to it until now.
But it is now up and running at
http://www.jeanleader.co.uk
David designed it and did all the stuff 'under the
Everyone's different but from my experience...
When I had thumb tendonitis the physiotherapist suggested I wear a
thumb brace and rest my thumb (no lacemaking etc). The thumb got
worse and I ended up with a trigger thumb.
Only when I gave up wearing the brace did my thumb start to improve!
I've visited Hamilton Museum (it's not far from Glasgow). It has lace
pillows and bobbins (all of the typical English Midlands type) and
some lace but only one piece that is said to be Hamilton lace. I took
Jeri Ames there back in 2002 and we were both very unhappy with the
scrambled mess on
At 5:52 pm -0500 5/2/07, Rochelle wrote:
Interesting the continental influence in Pitsligo. Wasn't that bit
late for the migrations of lacemakers from Europe? I thought there
were a few 'waves' of migration of lacemakers but much earlier than
that. Does anyone know any more about that, or am I
The Lace Guild's exhibition 'Now and Then' opened at the Salisbury
and South Wiltshire Museum yesterday and will be there until the 24th
March.
I've just updated the Events page of the website with details of the
two workshops and gallery talks which will take place during the
exhibition.
To start the new year we did a January update on the Lace Guild
website, and finally got round to mounting some pieces from the
October Lace magazine (too busy before Christmas). Otherwise just an
events update, and a stop press notice about visiting The Hollies
during February (or not).
The answers to The Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition have now
been mounted on the website.
Congratulations to the winners:
Anja Guzzi (from Switzerland) and Antje Gonzalez (from Spain)
and to all who took part. Hope it was fun.
Jean and David
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Lace
We're all packed and hoping to catch a plane to spend Christmas with
our son in Turin (at the moment it's still on despite the fog at
Gatwick). Enjoy the rest of the Advent Calendar and do have a go at
the competition. (Get your children/grandchildren to surf the net for
the answers.) If
, there's little scope for Machiavellian
strategems.
That said, we're glad the pattern intrigues you, hope you have an
enjoyable Christmas and that 2007 will be kinder to you than 2006 has
been.
Jean and David in Glasgow
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We've just updated The Lace Guild website for December. Items of
interest include:
1. Updated Lace Days and other events.
2. Updated list of second-hand books from the Lace Guild.
3. Appeal for member to help complete Lace Guild Sampler Project -
see Stop Press.
That's about it we think.
Oh, almost forgot, there's one more thing on The Lace Guild website
for December. Try clicking on the sprig of holly.
J and D
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At 7:22 pm -0500 11/11/06, Bev wrote:
I made a leaf according to Jean's directions.
It looks good, Bev - nice to know my instructions made sense.
What I forgot to add was that I was working with 4 bobbins of Soie
d'Alger and up to 4 bobbins of Soie Ovale, one of which was used as
the
The Cluny de Brioude way of making leaf-shaped tallies doesn't come
in the book at all - it's difficult to describe and the best way to
get the hang of it is to see someone doing it.
However, as I started this thread I'll have a bash
You start with your hands palm down, bobbins (up to eight)
At 11:08 am -0500 8/11/06, Pauline wrote:
I have made leaves in the 'English' manner (on the
pillow rather than in the hand) all my lacemaking life, but am just starting
to experiment with other methods,
Be careful - I'm currently suffering from an inflamed tendon in my
right thumb and I'm
Well, the summer is over - hope you had a good one - and we finally
got round to updating the Lace Guild's website. Some of the events
have been updated, and there are extracts from the July (sic) issue
of Lace (if you want it sooner you have to become a member).
The url is in the signature.
At 8:37 am -0400 8/8/06, Vibeke wrote:
When you are in the Greenwich area do also try to see Ranger's House
in Blackheath, with the Suffolk Collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean
paintings with lots of lace.
This collection of paintings has been moved and is now in Kenwood
House, Hampstead,
At 6:38 am -0400 16/7/06, Jean Nathan wrote:
Jean, just been browsing Amazon and came across:
Thistle, Rose, Daffodil, Shamrock and a Fuchsia: Five Motifs Using
Bedfordshire Lace Techniques (Paperback) by you published June 2006.
I've got your bookmarks book and the Bucks point from the Lace
At 8:47 pm -0400 16/7/06, Janice Blair wrote:
No-one contacted me about an Arachne meeting so maybe we should
plan on eating lunch on Monday together in the hotel.
Haven't seen any more about this - is it going to happen? I'm in favour.
Jean
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We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's
website, specifically to the Young Lacemakers and Magazine sections.
The Young Lacemakers section has been completely refocussed, with a
primary aim to provide support to lacemaking in the British school
curriculum. However the
Having found out where to get the thread specified for the Cluny de
Brioude class (not that I've actually got around to ordering it yet)
I considered the other things on the requirements list
1. the pillow which it says should be 50 cm x 50 cm - that's about
20 inches square and I'm
Much impressed by Au Ver à Soie in Paris - there was an email waiting
for me with details of UK suppliers when I got up at 8am this
morning! Now I just have to decide which of the many colours I want
to use...
Jean
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Cluny de Brioude was my first choice for Montreal too and that's what
I got (-: I've also been wondering where to get the silk so if
anyone finds a good source please let me know. The website
http://www.auverasoie.com/html/gb/clients.htm has addresses for
distributors in the USA (Texas),
Oops! We got our wires crossed about who'd mounted what and the new
membership bobbins and the updated Second-Hand Books list have only
just been added.
Jean and David
At 9:15 am +0100 16/5/06, Jean Leader wrote:
We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's
website, adding
We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's
website, adding details of:
1. The 2007 Lace Guild Calendar
2. 30th Anniversary Pattern Book
3. Membership Bobbins for 2006-7
4. 30th Anniversary Commemorative Bobbin
5. New Notelets
6. Second Hand Books available from the Lace Guild
Sue wrote:
Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase the DVD of Louise Colgan's
Milanese Lace, in the UK, preferably?
You can get it from Suzanne Brackenbury in the UK and you can find
her address etc from Google (search for Suzanne Brackenbury).
Jean in wet, grey Glasgow
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Edith Holmes wrote:
Have any of you seen Jean's new book of motifs, using the thistle, rose,
daffodil and shamrock, with a fuschia as well?
and Daphne wrote:
Where can I buy a copy of Jean Leader's Motifs book please??
It's available from me in the UK (please email me off list for
details)
With the film star back from her North American expedition (and her
laundry dealt with, Janice) we've just made a somewhat overdue update
to the Lace Guild's website. Included are:
1. Extracts from the January issue of Lace.
2. A couple of items on the Young Lacemakers' page
3. Updated events
This was started in 1991 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of The
Lace Guild and it's usually the second Saturday of September. (I
think the timing was to get people interested before evening class
sessions started.)
Glasgow Lace Group made lace in in Princes Square (an up-market
shopping
Lee (from the USA) and
Ilske Thomsen (from Germany)
and to all who took part. Hope it was fun.
Jean and David
PS
Could Linda Lee please contact us. Mail to the email address she
supplied on the web form bounces.
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On returning to work after New Year the staff at The Hollies had
computer problems. Unfortunately, it appears that
any competition entries sent between 22nd and 27th December
have been lost. (Those before and after these dates have been received.)
If you sent your entry in then please
We're off tomorrow to visit our daughter and family (were going to go
today but thought it better to avoid the snow). We've sent pdf files
of the patterns to Pene - if anyone else has problems printing let us
know and we can send them to you too.
Jean and David in Glasgow where the snow is
, and an enjoyable Christmas and peaceful New Year.
Jean and David (in Glasgow)
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and email address to obtain them just for this project.
David and Jean in Glasgow
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Apparently there is a bug in Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 2 that
has prevented some people accessing the Competition and Credits
sections associated with the Lace Guild web Advent Calendar. I have
now recoded the pages in a way that appears to have got round this.
If anyone still has
Today I had a query about whether the pricking for the pattern on the
Lace Guild Advent Calendar for 7th December had printed out at the
correct size. It hadn't and was smaller than it should have been -
this is something that can happen when the browser has 'Shrink pages
to fit' (or something
We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace
Magazine for October, a festive Christmas tassel on the Young
Lacemakers page, and the usual events and suppliers updates and ...
... the Lace Guild Advent Calendar for 2005.
Some of you will be familiar with this, but for
to translate one of the patterns that comes later.
If you are a native French speaker and have the time to translate a
lace pattern from English into French we'd like to hear from you.
Jean and David (in Glasgow)
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My knitting bag was made for me by a friend of my mother's back in
the 1950s. I don't do a lot of knitting (probably why it's lasted so
well) but have been using it recently so got round to taking some
measurements. It's a sort of combined bag and apron, and it's not
that easy to explain what
The email problems at The Lace Guild have now all been fixed. British
Telecom restored the broadband yesterday, and I managed to
reestablish email forwarding from specific .org addresses last night.
Any email to the latter which was sent within about the last four
days should now have been
It never rains but it pours. Following the email problem at The Lace
Guild with the laceguild.org addresses, their broadband has gone down
so they can't pick up any email at all, even that to the
laceguild.demon.co.uk address or sent from the website. The staff may
be able to use webmail
I wrote:
...However the e-mail forwarding is more problematical*. Anyone
communicating with the Hollies and finding email bouncing later this
month should try using a laceguild.demon.co.uk address instead of a
laceguild.org address. If there is a problem I'll post details in the
'Stop Press'
I wrote:
In exploring a necessary change of administration of the
www.laceguild.org address I've managed to temporarily muck things up.
Please use http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk for the moment.
It'll be fixed within a few days I hope.
Fixed. Now the compact website domain name
In exploring a necessary change of administration of the
www.laceguild.org address I've managed to temporarily muck things up.
Please use http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk for the moment.
It'll be fixed within a few days I hope.
David
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Along with the extremely minor November update to the Lace Guild
website (just a few events added), we've made a couple of changes in
overall site format. One aims to increase text legibility with the
trend to larger displays over the last few years, and the other to
give a somewhat cleaner
the capability of compensating
for this but its current implementation in Internet Explorer does not
take advantage of this. (I don't understand this well enough to
explain further, but there are some articles on the web.)
David
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We've been updating the Lace Guild Website over the past week, and it
now has quite a few new items:
* The Young Lacemakers' page has a new item
* There are a couple of new publications and a new set of lace notelets
* The Christmas bobbin is now on sale
* The events pages are now up-to-date
*
for aesthetic purity.
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We've just updated The Lace Guild's website, the main item being
extracts from the July Issue of 'Lace'. (The Young Lacemaker page
will come later.)
In addition the following have been updated:
1. The Events pages (especially lace days)
2. The Suppliers ads
3. The list of second-hand books
We've just got the following from our DS - he's moved to Italy and is
working hard at his Italian.
Can you recomend a technical book on English grammar? Modern, logical,
with examples. As they never taught it to us at school, I am going to
have to learn now, as it is too hard trying to talk
Despite the appalling events of the week, life must go on.
We have updated The Lace Guild website with a new selection of
'census labels'. There is also a revised list of second-hand books on
the Sales page.
David (webmaster) and Jean (Glasgow)
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At 9:30 pm -0400 1/6/05, Jeri Ames wrote:
Some of my guests from overseas will remember that I always recommend this
museum to them, if they are visiting New England. And, if they are
visiting me, I take them to this museum (a 3-hour drive from my home
- and 3 hours to
return). It is a
We've just updated the Lace Guild's website for June, and also mounted:
1. Extracts from the April issue of Lace.
2. A Pattern on the Young Lacemakers' page
3. Updated list of second-hand books for sale from The Lace Guild,
which includes some new additions.
The url is in the signature.
A friend and I are trying to puzzle out how best to work square
Valenciennes ground (the one in 19th century Valenciennes). There
seem to be plenty of variations for Valenciennes ground in Cook
Stott's Bobbin Lace Stitches and Michael Guisiana's Binche Lace but
none of them give us quite what
Brenda Paternoster wrote:
A strange website!
I clicked on cours and then etudes des fond and then lancer le
cours
and got an error page telling me that the browser I'm using is too old
and that I should update to IE 5.5 (for Windows)
That happened with Safari 1.3, Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for
Angela wrote:
Once you have the Lace Guild home page, click on Lace Suppiers, then
Books then Secondhand Books. You should then get up an Excel page
giving you the postage rates. At the bottom of this page you should
see tabs labelled Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet 3. Just click on Sheet 2
and the
The Lace Guild often receives gifts and bequests of books on
lacemaking. Usually these duplicate the Guild's own library holdings,
so they are put up for sale to provide funds for new library
purchases. Currently these books are on view at the Guild's HQ, The
Hollies, so only visitors tend to
On the NKO page with the fence
http://www.kantopleiding-nko.nl/Aktiviteiten/Aktiviteiten.html
I clicked on Studio DEMAKERSVAN and got
http://www.demakersvan.com/
From this it appears that the fence is by Joep Verhoeven and that
Jeroen Verhoeven is a different designer.
Jean
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Anyone on the list subscribe to RSS feeds? I was vaguely wondering
whether I should learn how to set this up, and thought about using
The Lace Guild website as a testbed. I'd need at least one user to
make it worthwhile, so if that is you, please reply to me directly.
David (webmaster)
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Helen wrote:
Ooh, I like that bracelet!
Before I really get started, the cane ground crossing is much like a
windmill crossing but with twists everywehre?
Cane ground has more stitches!
In a windmill crossing the pairs are used as if they were single
threads and you work a cloth stitch with a pin
We have just done a minor update of The Lace Guild website - some
Spring cleaning of the events pages - but we've also put something
new on the Young Lacemakers' page. This is a bracelet pattern Gilian
Dye used teaching children at the 2004 IOLI Convention (which both
Jean and Gilian enjoyed
At 7:06 pm -0500 14/3/05, Helen wrote:
I know I picked up a flier at the Weston-super-Mare fair about the Bristol
thing, but I never actually got any further with it, despite it being in my
Easter holiday. Let me know when you meet up. I'm only in Bath, so it's
not far to travel to meet other
We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace
Magazine for January which include a cryptic lace crossword. As
promised, we have also added a page for Seven, the 2007 Lace Guild
exhibition and competition, where you can download details of the
classes and rules.
David
Patricia, the secretary of Glasgow Lace Group has asked me if I know
anything about a lacemaker from Brussels called Myllan - she had a
phone call from her in which she asked if she could come and sell her
silver lace jewellery at our lace day next month. She has apparently
been at the
At 8:21 pm -0500 16/2/05, lace-digest wrote:
There must be some restrictions on what a group can enter, even if the
rules/classes for individual entries don't apply. I suppose we'll have
to inquire of the Lace Guild...any volunteers to do so from interested
Arachneans in England?
It has to fit the
We finally got round to a January tidy of the Lace Guild website.
We've mounted a new set of census 'luggage labels' - very
international this time - added info on a couple of CDs (no, you
can't download tracks from iTunes, they are not that sort of CD), and
mounted details of programme for the
Well, the staff at the Hollies are back after the Christmas and New
Year break, so Maggie forwarded the advent calendar entries to us -
110 in all (beating the 77 entries of last year). We've just put them
into an electronic hat and picked out the three winners, who are:
Carla Guzzi (from
We're back from a week with our son, Ian, in Torino (Turin to us
Anglo-Saxons) having had a very enjoyable (and white) Christmas
there. David and Ian managed to get in a day's skiing in Sestriere
after the weather had cleared, which was a source of great
satisfaction as it had been some years
At 11:58 am -0500 10/12/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Elaine Merritt, Devon Thein, Jean Leader, Angela Thompson,
Collectors: What do you think of this item and the pricing?
I've had a look at eBay (not something I do very often) and I'd agree
with Barbara Joyce
$350 sounds unreasonably high
Apologies for cross-posting, but a couple of people have been having
trouble seeing the advent calendar. They have the December 1st date,
but still see the Myth and Mystery logo instead of the holly. I would
say:
1. It's not my fault
2. They could try the French page (a good excuse to learn
, but, then, it's just an Advent Calendar
not a guided missile system :-) )
David
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In reply to our query:
The usual diary info update will follow at the end of month. I have
this nagging feeling there's something else we should have been
preparing. Let us know if any of you can think of it.
Several people wrote:
Advent-calendar
That's what it was. Thanks for reminding us, but
OK, we managed to get something together in the St Nick of time (ho!
ho! ho!). A different type of competition this year - doesn't require
vast (any?) knowledge of lace, so we look forward to lots of entries.
For those who have joined the list in the last year and wonder what
on earth we're
We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace
Magazine for October, and also the Young Lacemakers page. There is a
bookmark pattern, some attractive lace from the Czech Republic, and
an article by the Chairman of The Guild about a lacemaker she
encountered in Sri Lanka.
Thought you'd be interested in this from an article by Jan Dalley in
this weekend's Financial Times
...somewhere, in almost any church in the land, you can see that
impish grinning ancient face with leaves and branches spewing and
flowing out of his mouth and whirling round his head, or
Summer's almost gone, and we've now updated The Lace Guild website
(address in the signature). As well as the usual new event listings,
we've made revisions to the suppliers pages and updated our own
prices following changes in postal rates.
Of more general interest is the featuring of
Here in the UK visitors are allowed to come to the annual general
meeting of The Lace Guild so I was surprised that visitors were not
allowed at the IOLI meeting (my friend was turned away too). Perhaps
it's a country difference in the rules governing such organizations?
There haven't beem any
I think the annual Royal Highland Show is probably the nearest
Scottish equivalent to state fairs.This usually has three lace
classes in the Handcrafts section - two for bobbin lace and one for
tatting (needle lace often fits in one of the embroidery classes). In
most cases a particular item
On 17 Aug 2004 Leonard Bazar wrote:
Some of us have mentioned the UK Lace Guild's/Pat Rowley's Art
Trade or Mystery - Lace and Lacemaking in Northamptonshire ... For
those not familiar with it and interested in East Midlands lace, it
could be worth considering, as it's got a lot more than that
Jane Partridge wrote:
Myth or Mystery at The Hollies. The Hollies will be open on the
following Saturdays: 24 July, 31 July, 7 August, 14 August, 21 August
and 28 August from 10am to 5pm. Visitors can vote for a Visitors' Trophy
to be awarded to those exhibits on display at The Hollies.
I'd just
We have just mounted an update to The Lace Guild's web page with
extracts and a pattern from the April issue of 'Lace'.
The three extracts include pieces by two Arachne list members. First,
you have a chance to read about and see Miriam Gidron's fan. Then you
can read an extract of the article
Only the 10th of the month (by the time this reaches you) but another
quite extensive update to the Lace Guild's website:
1. More stuff relating to the Myth or Mystery Exhibition - The
Catalogue and The Commemorative Bobbins are now mounted (you can buy
them too) and details of the overflow
number (see About).
David
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Regarding the winning entries to The Lace Guild's Myth and Mystery
Competition and Exhibition, Jane Partridge wrote:
The list is to go on the Guild website - I'm sure many
are eagerly waiting for Jean and David to do the update this time!
It's live, complete with pictures.
Had to compromise
Elaine wrote:
The Lace Museum here in Sunnyvale, CA has had an urgent request for a lace
pattern of a penguin. I think the English Lace Guild published a Penguin
Pattern Book a couple of years ago. If anyone has a copy they would
like to sell,
please contact me privately. Or if someone has a
Thought you might like to know how I happen to have a pre-publication
copy of the new lace book from the VA to review for 'Lace' - it just
shows what this list can do.
Back in December Jeri Ames, a good friend who I got to know through
this list, passed on to me information about a new VA lace
We have just mounted an update to The Lace Guild's web page with
extracts and a pattern from the January issue of 'Lace'.
One of the reasons for posting mag extracts on the web is that one
can use more colour than the magazine can, and this update takes full
advantage of that with colour
This is David writing, as Jean is at the Glasgow Lace Day, where An
Introduction to Bedfordshire Lace, which she wrote for The Lace
Guild, is being launched. ('Launch' sounds very grand - actually
she's sitting at a table selling copies and signing them.) So if you
are within striking distance
We've just posted a new set of Lacemakers' Census 'luggage tags',
including some international ones.
Also, we forgot to mention that at the end of last month we did an
extensive update of lace events organized by The Lace Guild.
David and Jean in Glasgow
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Julie wrote:
This is a staggeringly technical question, but I would like to
know the answer and can't think of who else to ask.
I am working through Chapter 3 Bucks Point of Pamela Nottingham's The
Technique of Bobbin Lace Completely Revised New Edition.
Neither is wrong (or they're both right -
Well, the staff at the Hollies are back after the Christmas and New
Year break, so Maggie forwarded the advent calendar entries to us -
77 in all, a record high. Last night we put them into an electronic
hat and picked out the two winners, who are:
Susan Lambiris, from the US, and Rosemary
This is for all of you hoping to go to the OIDFA Congress in Prague
next July (and even if you're not there are some interesting
pictures).
The web site for the OIDFA Prague Congress is at
http://unicoagric.czu.cz/oidfa2004
David has also put information downloadable in Word format (text
I've re-coded the Lace Guild Advent Calendar page (for next
Christmas) so that the cursor should behave correctly in all modern
browsers and the page still work in Netscape 4. I've tested it with
Mac browsers and Windows IE 6. If you are using any esoteric
browsers, especially on Windows or
quotes in javascript, for those who know about
these things. I'll have another go at it again this week, perhaps.
Any suggestions for next year's competition will be gratefully
received - after you've sent off your entry for this year's.)
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Jean Leader
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Lace Guild web site
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