So the safest thing to do is to measure after the enlargement and see if
you've got what you were expecting, rather than believing that just because you
asked for 200%, that's what you've got.
Jacquie
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As a matter of interest, is there any way to tell at a glance which sort of
enlargement any particular photocopier does?
Am I reading your post right to think that if I enlarge directly through the
photocopy facility of my scanner it will be linear, but if I scan it first
then use
In the 1980s one or more of the UK lace suppliers sold a blue sticker to fit
inside a car window, with the words Lacemakers do it on a pillow and a lacey
design behind the words. It was about 12 x 2 inches.
Mum had one on the back window of her 1980 Mini Clubman Estate, which I
inherited
Many thanks for all the suggestions - Shere'e's link to campusi found one of
them for me at $66, but that's in the States so I've got probably another $10
shipping on top. Thinking about that one.
The other book wasn't found and as soon as I go to the rare books search it
asks for the title
Does anyone know if there is a way to search for a book worldwide using just
its ISBN number?
The reason why I'm asking is that I have just borrowed a book from the Lace
Guild library which I would very much like a copy of, BUT it is a Russian one,
in Russian. I have previously tried to do an
So the reference to using Queen Anne's lace for cow parsley (in a book set in
the UK) in the 1500s was, as I suspected, incorrect. My instinct that is was
incorrect was because lace hadn't been around long enough, and called 'lace'
as a generic term, for the word and concept of it to have
Like Carol, I respangle mine using old beads but to my preferred spangle
size. When someone looked at me in horror for doing this I pointed out that it
is
highly unlikely that most of these bobbins have their original-from-new
spangle anyway.
Probably most of my modern bobbins have been
I don't understand what the problem is, Surely 'Chat' looks the same to
everyone that has it as a digest, as I do.
Pardon me Jean for choosing one of your posts to demonstrate, but this is the
format I see at the top of each entry:
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:27:33 +0100
From: Jean Nathan [EMAIL
In a private post from Malvary (my sister) she made the comment
Your question about Queen Ann Lace certainly generated a lot of messages
but didn't really answer your question
Yes, I noticed that! What I was more interested in is there any way to work
out when plant names first became lace
The observant among you may have wondered why the subject of jigsaws and
honey appeared. It was because I picked up the lace flowers element from a
three
part post from Malvary, but didn't change the subject line.
The jisaws bit was a comment about an on-line puzzle site and the honey bit
I am currently reading a book set in the reign of King James (of England and
Scotland), and in one of the descriptive passages some hedgerow flowers are
described as 'gypsy lace'. I assume that this might be referring to cow
parsley, also known as Queen Anne's lace, but that is actually
Another way to do this, as taught by Pat Read and it certainly works well in
the UK centrally heated homes climate, is to make a layer as follows.
Cover cloth over the lace, followed by a face flannel wet and then rung out
as dry as you possibly can. A top layer of a towel.
This can be
Feeling that this seller may as well live to regret being so unpleasant to
Clay, I sent the following to her about the collar. I look forward to her
response
As a responsible e-bay seller, interested in accuracy, I'm sure you would
appreciate me telling you that while this vintage
And not even original as she sent exactly the same response to me.
My reply was on similar lines, but I was very hurt by her aggressive reply
as most sellers thank me for helping them target the right buyers. I also
asked what she meant by bblace as it was obviously a typo :-)
Don't know
Malvary and I got ours from Roseground Lace Supplies, I think at the Bristol
Lace Guild AGM which is a couple of years ago. At that time she had maybe two
or three left, but I did tell some other members she had them so they may all
be gone. It would be worth a phone call or e-mail to find
Cut a longish piece of thread (12); white is best as it doesn't leave
coloured marks on the pin hole as you pull it out!
Tie the ends in an overhand knot.
Hang the pair(s) on at the pin hole as needed and pass the loop end of your
magic thread into the centre of the pair(s) and out under one
A short while ago someone, Jeri I think, posted a request that we add our
location to our posts. This will often make it easier to get a relevant answer
to a query.
This request from Lynn is an excellent example of why this is helpful.
What I would like to know is, are there any places on
After all the chat about this subject I finally got up off my backside and
retrieved the one that I made. As I thought, I didn't knot the ends at all,
except where I joined the workers. As I picked up the threads I ran them along
behind the string for a very short distance (maybe two there
I just phoned the hospital (7.45 UK time) to see how Malvary is and she had
been 'bumped' again last night, so still hasn't had surgery. She is top of the
list for today, but if a trauma case comes in then she is lower priority. I
bet she doesn't think so! She is on a drip with painkillers
I have I just had a phone call Malvary's partner David to tell me that she
was thrown off her walking machine on Tuesday, and has broken her left arm high
up to the shoulder, and that the shoulder is dislocated as well. They have
been unable so far to reposition the joint as there is no stable
I have had a conversation with a (hopefully) future student who is shortly
off to Catalonia for three months. She will be about 45 minutes drive from
Gerona. Can any Arachnean suggest a lace contact for her.
She has made lace in the past but not for some little while. She is hoping
to brush
In a message dated 29/08/2006 23:00:59 GMT Standard Time,
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If you wind correctly by rolling the bobbin into the thread it
shouldn't make any difference whether it's a Z twist or an S twist
thread.
It's late at night and I am too tired to look up the link to Jean's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However the content may be of interest to those teaching lacemaking to young
people elsewhere.
And not only to young people. The pattern given is perfect for adults as
well, and has all sorts of different uses for the lace shown. Plus it makes an
Hurrah, at last I can make a definite diagnosis of an unusual 'thing' on
ebay.
It is a 'set-up' for a circular sock knitting machine.
When opened out wide it sits inside the cylinder and the bends at the ends of
each wire face inwards. The wool is threaded into the machine and a long end
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Buttonholes were made by hand too. - No Buttonhole attachments in them
thare days! :)) - and the hand made buttonholes are STILL better than
the machine made ones!!! :))
This one I would
Among my collection of Singer sewing machine instruction books is one called
Singer Machine Embroidery. In the foreward is says It will be noted also
that in this treatise we are writing only of the ordinary Singer family sewing
machines, and do not deal with trade embroidery machines
A couple of thoughts on this thread.
First, regarding removing pins, please may I buck the trend and make a plea
that when you are working Honiton, Milanese, Duchesse and other laces of this
type and scale, you don't take out alternate pins. My reasoning for this is as
it is quite possible
Don't worry Jean, one of my students spotted that at the first showing and
wrote an indignant post, covering both the ivory/bone issue and this very false
idea that a profeesional lacemaker would have either the need or the time to
be looking at the spangles.
She got a slightly less
My letter from Quebec still hasn't arrived, my first email fell upon stony
ground, and the reply to yesterday's is still in cyber space so Malvary phoned
for me and I am in the Cluny de Brioude class.
A replacement pack is being sent to Malvary (and mine will now probably
arrive tomorrow)
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This tasted
wonderful but the portions were huge and in the slowly coming darkness
you couldn't see clearly and at the end I had eaten too much.
That is absolutely the best excuse I have ever heard for
According to the International Lace Dictionary, aantal is number and speld is
pin. Obviously the ...en ending will alter the meaning somewhat.
As Sue says, the number given definitely equals the count of the footside
pinholes of one complete pattern repeat. What I'm trying to work out why
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The same can be said of the hedgehog, the mascot of bobbin lacemakers.
There are BL people who have no interest in hedgehogs. There are no curators
who
pay attention to the BL mascot.
I didn't know that the hedgehog is meant to be the mascot for bobbin
lacemakers.
I still have a Lacemakers do it on a Pillow sticker in the back window of
my 26 year old Mini Clubman Estate that I 'inherited' from Mum when she died 18
months ago. It's looking a little frayed at the corners (but then so's the
car, which I take to rallies in the summer!) so if anyone knows
The ones we are talking about aren't bumper stickers, they go inside a window
(which is why it has lasted about 20 years), so the sticky side is the right
side. The UK doesn't seem to do much in the way of bumper stickers. I could
do a photo of it for you so you have an idea of what it looks
Answers to two threads.
First bugs: I would also query the parental example theory of terror of bugs
(and other creepy crawlies) as I am fairly immune to most and can quite
happily pick up in my hands (bearing in mind that none of the UK ones are
poisonous) spiders, beetles, worms, frogs and
anyone know an easy way of removing the labels from the back
WD40?!?!?
Seriously though, I think you may need a solvent of some sort to remove the
glue as it's likely to be the sort that can be put on by machine - and not
water soluble if the material is really dry clean only or the wetness of
The outer threads need to be *much* wider apart than the finished width of
the leaf (or square tally for that matter) - about two or three inches at the
bobbin. The resulting angle from bobbin head to lace is what forces the
weaving
up into the leaf.
To be able to do this you need a space
As Sue hasn't answered yet, it's a bit like a detective story so here's my
guess at the solution.
When I read her post, after the initial Huh? I assumed that she meant that
she'd worked the *filling* Beds style rather than Russian. In other words
she'd used more than 2 pairs and done windmill
I have got a boxed set of prickings and book entitled 33 Tonder Laces by
Meta Tonder, but with two copies of the book.
It was printed in 1954 and as with most books back then covers all the
basics, and the first patterns are Torchon. The Tonder patterns don't go to a
very
complicated level
The most important line to correct is the footside (and maybe the catch pin
row); draw a straight line along and prick your hole next to the dots but on
the line. If you do the same to the head side curves, it might be all you need
to do.
As someone else said, the Bucks ground is supported by
Can someone in America tell me what Tiger Tape is, please.
I found a web page showing how to use it to hold gathered fabric/lace in
place while sewing it to straight fabric or entredeux for heirloom sewing. It
must peel off again without leaving any sticky residue behind.
Many thanks, Jacquie
A few days ago someone was asking about heirloom sewing and what we thought
might be meant by an insertion lace (at least, I think that's what was asked).
Looking for something else, I just came across this web site:
http://www.lydias.com/qheirbasics.html which may answer your question.
I'd seen some of these before, but thought they are a good selection.
Believe it or not, they were sent to us by the biggest Male Chauvanist Pig of
our
aquaintance; I wonder if he actually read them.
One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt.
Seconds after he stepped
Having been an Enid Blyton's Famous Five addict (Julian, Dick, George, Ann
and Timmy the dog) as a child, I offered them to my children in the 1970s.
The only change in the books that I could see was that as England was now using
decimal currency, any time money was mentioned it had been
I have had an SOS from one of my students who is making a garter for her
daughter's fast approaching marriage. She is using Madeira rayon 30, colour
number 2001. I didn't realise when she started that a) it wasn't a new reel
and b)
she has had it for ages!!
She has a long way to go as she
The power of Arachne strikes again.
Before you all rummage to the bottom of your thread stash, Jacqui Southworth
has contacted me to say she still has three reels in stock.
Jacquie
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This is really a great idea! I'd even host a special guild meeting at my
house to do this. Sounds wonderful!
Laura Sandison
Lace! in New Mexico, USA
I think this should have come to the list, but you all
I have been amazed (and flattered) at the interest my idea has produced! I
spoke to the Lace Guild this morning about the convention and mentioned the
relay while I was on the phone.
If it looks as if the event is a possibility, and if it looks as if National
Lace Day is a potential date,
Sheila's post gave me the idea that perhaps sometime we coild have a lace-in
relay - perhaps on the UK National Lacemaking Day in September. With several
organisers around the world we could keep it going for the full 24 hours until
it comes back home.
Six people doing four hour stints, or
A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of lager and a ham sandwich. The
landlord looks at him and says, But you're a duck.
I see your eyes are working, replies the duck.
And you talk! exclaims the landlord.
I see your ears are working, says the duck, Now can I have my beer and my
sandwich
I think that Brenda has been talking about gathering round the corners all
along, not mitreing, as it's easier and quicker to do neatly.
Rochelle, if you think about it, the bit extra to make sure the lace will go
around the corners sitting flat. has to be enough so the lace goes past the
end
Before we advertise elsewhere, I would like to let the Arachneans know that
we have a couple of vacancies in each of two courses at the end of this year.
These full board, residential courses are held in a 3 star, Best Western
hotel in Dover (England).
The first is the weekend of 6th, 7th and
The crux of the matter here is that the bobbins in question are Victorian
Midlands bobbins, made by probably low-income, village bobbin makers. It is
known that quite a few of these people probably made the bulk of their income
from
their bobbin and their skill is absolutely undeniable. If they
One possibility that has not yet been mentioned is that England had a
number of its men in the Indian subcontinent at some point (the Raj). It
is not inconcevable that some of these men had ivory and exotic wood
bobbins made for gifts to sweethearts and family back in England.
Certainly, a lot of
I was always taught, by our dressmaker-teacher mother, my school dressmaking
teacher, and by my college teachers when I was doing a fashion course that all
buttonholes are done with buttonhole stitch.
This is a knotted stitch, worked by putting the needle into place and then
taking the
Have a look at the silk yarns sold by Texere, some of these described as
tussah silk, there are several pages of assorted silks and silk mixes. Not so
many in colour, but it is easy to dye, either as yarn or finished lace. I use
their Regency silk for fine-ish lace, and this does come in
Suzi,
I would like to back up everything Tamara said.
A definition of what makes lace weight wool depends entirely on what scale
lace you are making. If you want a Torchon scarf made in wool, you'd probably
use an ordinary medium-weight knitting yarn and have the pricking adjusted to
suit
My heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of you who have taken the time and
trouble to send me forwards over the past 12 months. Thank you for making
me feel safe, secure, blessed and healthy.
* Extra thanks to whoever sent me the email about rat cr*p used in the glue
on envelopes - cause I
I have found the is it, isn't it discussion about the (possible) Haskins
bobbin very interesting but would like to add my tuppence worth about the
spangles.
Perhaps the first lesson to bobbin 'forgers' should be - make a completely
random spangle with thick wire, using beads, buttons and
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Try sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a line reading subscribe
lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that doesn't work come back to me and I'll try
to find out another route. You should get a
I am so sorry to send a private message to chat!!!
As you may be able to deduce, I got the arachne address from my address book
to copy and paste into the body of the letter, and then forgot to change it at
the top. Good job I didn't say anything rude.
Jacquie, red-faced in Lincolnshire
To
We don't get many telesales calls now, registering for telepreferencing does
cut it down, but as soon as a call sounds suspicious (ie they can't pronounce
the surname)
I ask what are you selling? the answer is almost always that they are not
selling anything, so I let them prattle on until
A friend of mine has sent me an SOS for some computer help. Why she thinks
I'll know the answer I don't know, but I'm sure one of you will.
She is trying to print a page from a web site with no printer-friendly page
option. She has found it is cutting off the last word and a bit from the RH
Many thanks to Candida for suggesting printing on landscape format; my
friend's comment was Not economic with paper but great on my nerves.
She has yet to try print to fit page (thank you Margaret) but now it has
been pointed out, we realise the problem may be that in the UK we are all set
up
From David the commentAnd I never have figured out the whole Venus and
Mars thing.I have never figured out why men think with their head and women
with their heart.
On my dentist's ceiling, amongst other entertaining, amusing and/or thought
provoking things is
Men are from Earth. Women
Suzi,
The more I read of your shall I/shan't I buy this thread or that, the more
convinced I am that what your *need to buy first* is Brenda's book Threads for
Lace 3. This would answer all your questions and solve all your problems
and dilemmas as to which thread to buy and which one is a
Apart from pointing you to the materials made for scrapbooking where 12x12
is a common size and everything is archival quality, one suggestion I would
make is to stop thinking that you have to display your lace on dark blue.
I think this came into being when tissue paper was either white or
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http://www.tsgny.org
So... Why isn't there a link to IOLI on this site?
Thanks for sharing it with us, lots of interesting sites to explore.
Jacquie
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After his exam the doctor said to the elderly man, You appear to be in good
health. Do you have any medical concerns you would like to ask me about?
In fact, I do, said the old man. After I have sex with my wife, I get hot
and sweaty, and then after I have sex with her the second time, I feel
The frontispiece and first chapter of Margaret Maidment's Manual of
Hand-Made Bobbin Lace Work is all about sprang/Egyptian twisted lace. She
says there
are two types of Egyptian lace found in the tombs. The first is knotted from
which the filet lace is developed (and I would have thought
Kathy told us how upsetting it was when she took her first piece of lace off
the pillow and it twisted.
Well, Kathy, I don't know how long you've been subscribed to Arachne but not
so very long ago Brenda Paternoster was trying to do a 'research project' to
establish which combination of
Not a specific yarn for argyle as far as I know, but there are several makes
of wool dyed specifically for socks that give an imitation fairisle or
stripes. Sirdar Town and Country (not sure if you can get this in the States),
Regia
(German I think, but available in the US), and Opal (also
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Now I have a question about this design. Do the two flaps that fold
over the pillow truly keep it from sliding out the end of this
carrier? I'd worry about that.
A length of velcro or a button or two
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IOLI Officers aren't paid for their time, that's why they call us
volunteers. *big grin*
I think I am right in saying that the officers for the UK lace societies
aren't paid for their *time*, that's the
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We set a date of entries being in my hands by July 1st, so that all
paperwork could be checked (don't ask, you'd be surprised what can be
missed from forms), and also so that labels and judging sheets could be
At the Burgley Horse Trials a couple of weeks ago, although even the *very*
expensive designer dressmakers weren't using much lace, a lot was being worn,
especially fine netty, neatly-fitted overblouses with peplums. Particularly
noticable was a cream over navy - very fine lace so the navy was
Does anyone on Arachne have access to the American academic journal 'Textile
History'? The article I am interested in is in the spring 1998 issue (vol 29
#1) and is entitled Domestic Industry in the Factory Age: Anglo-American
Development of the ÅFamily Knitting Machine. I am particularly
They ask at the doctor's office why you are there and you have to say in
front of others what's wrong and sometimes it's embarrassing. There's
nothing
worse than a Doctor's Receptionist who insists you tell her what is wrong with
you in a room full of other patients. I know most of us have
Before you all write and tell me - Malvary already has - I now know this is
actually as English journal; my defence is that in the context in which I was
told about it, I was led to believe (by default) that it was an American
publication. So I didn't do the obvious and Google for it. I will
Bev said I don't see a problem here, except that the entrants have to allow
for mailing time.
Apart from the risk of it getting lost in the post, this to me is the biggest
problem at all!
Jacquie
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So far no-one has mentioned none US/Canadian entries. I am occilating
between I really want to have a go and push the boundaries on this one and
Be
realistic, you haven't got enough hours in the day for this big piece of lace
on
top of the rest that *has to* be made for various reasons.
I
I would never have the patience to do something like that.
This is one of the most common comments, in response to which I usually
either ask what their hobbies are (if they have any at all) or ask them if
they
knit. I then say I don't have the patience to do plain knitting (that's what
my
Now that (hopefully) the symetrical red herring has been put to bed I would
like to say I wrote to Debra to ask how strictly the 2D aspect of it will be
enforced as I was thinking of some of the Jana Novak type designs where a
section in the centre is rolled or folded and then tucked under
I know that for those of you who were able to go to Denver it will still be
fresh in your minds, but the post from Janice yesterday about the 2008
convention has made me stop and think that everything is very quiet about
Montreal.
I'm sure that they were being diplomatic and waiting for this
I use an ordinary round embroidery frame, with a bound inner hoop, for
Coggeshall and haven't had any trouble with the net slipping. Use a
screwdriver to
tighten the screw. It's obvious once it's been pointed out, and all but the
cheapest frames have a screwdriver slot cut in the turney
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So don't worry - there were no free-loaders!!
My worries as far as IOLI conventions go have been more than soothed, but I
would like to say just once more that the observers in the class set up I was
It could also be that those threads were broken in the fall. Before I learnt
of this trick, my grandson (then about 15 months old, now 18yrs!) 'played'
with my lace pillow when his mum was house sitting for us. It was a piece of
Bucks with about 40 or so pairs. She had shown it to a lace
In her excellent report on the convention, JoAnne made the following comment
.and got to sit in on the Lier Lace Class with Greet Rome-Verbeylen in
the afternoon.
Does this mean that she was not actually taking part in the class, but was
there as an observer?
I have heard of this practise
Phew, that's a whole different thing. A few people wandering in and out,
respecting the rest of the class, is a normal situation practically anywhere
there is more than one class in progress at a time.
In the embroidery classes I was saying about the observers payed a reduced
fee as they are
Suzy is half right here. The queen can sting and sting and sting.
BUT, apart from her one and only mating flight, the queen (honey bee) doesn't
leave the hive by herself. The only other time she leaves is if the hive
gets overcrowded in which case she will take about half of the bees with
If you see a swarm of bees then you are highly unlikely to be stung by them.
When bees swarm, they gorge themselves on honey first to take with them from
old home to new, and this makes them very docile.
It is this habit that is used when a beekeepers smokes their bees when they
open the
I confess there isn't any lace content in this at all, except it may help
clarify the discussion that has been ongoing on the Lace board.
The different colours of beeswax are dependant on how long it's been in the
hive. The freshly built comb and the cappings (the wax the bees use to seal
the
I am currently trawling through the TEN arachne chat digests that came in the
week I was away.
Why so many - because several of you and one person in particular (Yes, you
know who you are :-) ) have left all the messages you are answering/
commenting on, copied at the bottom of your post.
A snippet I gleaned from in the middle of all the digests I had left to read
after I dealt with the non-digest lace posts. Sorry, I don't remember who
posted it now, and it's not important. It reads:
Next year the IOLI will be 3000 miles from here. There will not be many
from here traveling
I'm sure most of the experienced lacemakers on Arachne know this trick, but
we have lots of newer lacemakers now and I don't remember seeing this here
before.
If you have a major spill with your pillow, to the extent that bobbins are
caught up on the pins as distinct from *just* severely
Waxing thread for sewing goes back a good many years - probably hundreds -and
was a standard *must do* for buttonholes, especially heavy 'tailored'
garments. They were done with linen, cotton or silk thread depending on
fashion and
fabric. I'm sure that if it caused the thread to rot away after
Hi Suzy
Try twisting the thread 5 times - the number of twists depends on the
thickness of the thread and the size of the pin. You need just enough for the
little
twisted cord to fit round the pin and 5 is usually about right for medium
weight thread.
I guess you are doing picots on the
A friend who will be visiting from the States has asked me:
a) are train passes and car hire cheaper to sort out and pay for from the US?
b) if they reserve an automatic, how likely are they to actually get one?
Because of the wisdom of arachne, I was able to confidently say that rail
passes
After mentioning that I had some books for sale, I have had several requests
for a list. First of all, let me remind you that I am in England, so if
you're not the shipping will increase the price considerably!
I don't have time to post the list this week as I am away on Friday to teach
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