Hi Liz,
How will this affect the archiving of traffic, or will it? I'm not clear on
how the archives are created, managed, or stored.
Thanks for making us possible!
A happy Arachnid,
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, 08:47 Elizabeth Reynolds wrote:
> Greetings to all of you!
>
>
Sorry!
"Lorelei lynxlacelady"
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 19:54 DJ wrote:
> ...
> The âLorelei Lynxladyâ on Pinterest did not produce anything that
looked
> like lace related materials.
>
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Good news, for now. I found Lorelei's Pinterest boards. Search for "Lorelei
lynxlady". Now, how long do they stay there? There are no fees for
Pinterest so maybe those are good indefinitely.
Clare I like your idea.
Nancy
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 14:11 Clare Settle wrote:
> Just a thought -
Yes, I feel stupid. I realized immediately after sending that that the
domain name is irrelevant. The content can be hosted anywhere -- it's
retrieving the content and finding somewhere to host it that needs to be
done. The hosting company would be on a subscription basis, so we need to
move
Hi Sarah and Deborah,
Do you know how to rescue the content if I were to purchase the domain name
of lynxlady.com as an emergency step? Is anyone in touch with her brother?
Is anything being done to save her Pinterest boards?
In short, is there anything I can do to help?
Nancy
Ashford, CT
On
Thanks Devon. I will do so, and see if there's anything I can do to help
out.
Nancy
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:52 PM DevonThein wrote:
> ...
>
> I think that questions about it should be directed to Prabha Ramakrishnan
> the IOLI Vice President because she oversees media for the IOLI. Her email
Fellow Arachnids:
It was with some distress that I learned at Convention of the deaths of
several lacemakers, including Lorelei Halley in April. I had forgotten, if
I knew, that LaceIOLI had moved off ning to www.laceioli.org. I don't think
I ever got to laceioli.org to sign up, so I'm really out
Hi Arachnids,
A friend sent me this video -- lace burritos?
https://fb.watch/gQQL_x7n97/
Nancy
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Hi Vicki et al.,
The very fine thread in the late 17th and early 18th C was all handspun
linen, made from flax from cultivars that produced very fine and long
fibers. These cultivars were completely destroyed during the French
revolution, so very fine thread could not be produced again until fine
V Met? and maybe Cleveland???
My guesses...
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 15:45 Arlene Cohen wrote:
> ...
> In this review, it says "Today, there are four great lace collections in
> the
> world and the Textilmuseum's is one of them." My question is: what are the
> other
YES!!! I think that is a brilliant idea! Maybe just as simple as wearing
something "spidery" -- a pin or a scarf, maybe an embroidered ribbon.
I'm in!
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 18:38 Ruth Lyon wrote:
> It would be nice if all of us "Arachnes" would wear a ribbon or sign
Oh mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I'm on my phone and I forgot to
trim (and lordy it really needed it). My sincere apologies to the digest
subscribers -- I'm one and I hate it too. Please consider breast
energetically beaten.
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> know that OIDFA are having a lunch on Thursday with the same deal.
> Janice Blair Murrieta, CA,Ã jblace.com
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> On Thursday, June 23, 2022, 08:43:31 AM PDT, N.A. Neff
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> I would also like to get together. I do think there's a missing post
> problem
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I would also like to get together. I do think there's a missing post
problem because I never saw an initial post from Janice asking about
interest.
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Hi Devon,
I've had cataract surgery in both eyes. I chose to get implanted lenses
that corrected my distance vision so I could still drive (to the
optician's, for example) if I broke my glasses, so I wear glasses for close
work; this logic makes distance vision without glasses a no-brainer for
Dear Adele,
Check the thread with a high-powered loupe -- you should be able to
see 'nodes' in the fibers if it's linen (which would be very exciting
given how fine it is).
https://lenoklinen.com/blog/linen-fibers-miscroscoping
Also, the following blog post gives some other methods for
Kim and others:
I put a picture of the lace up on Flickr -- it's still at the top on the
photostream page. Gold braid with silver spangles.
Thanks everybody for your help!
Nancy,
Connecticut, USA
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 8:26 PM Kim Davis wrote:
Please send a photo of your picture, it
access). Here's a link:
>
> https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/356989?searchField=AllsortBy=Relevanceft=le+pompeoffset=0rpp=20pos=2
> Best,
> Elena
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 5:34 PM N.A. Neff wrote:
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>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have a PDF o
Hi everybody,
I have a PDF of the second book of Le Pompe, but I haven't been able to
find a scan of the entire first book, only what is in Levey and Payne. I'm
looking for the pattern for the lace I bought at auction. It looks like it
should be out of Le Pompe but it's not in the "libro
Hello everybody,
A number of years ago, there was an exhibit at the Met of English
Embroidery 1580 to 1700 " 'Twixt Art and Nature". The accompanying book is
now out of print...and available as a free download PDF!!
Go here:
, Connecticut, USA
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:56 PM N.A. Neff wrote:
> Okay, I've put up on Flickr a close-up of the spangled lace I am convinced
> is 16th or 17th C. What do you think??
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Okay, I've put up on Flickr a close-up of the spangled lace I am convinced
is 16th or 17th C. What do you think??
Nancy
Ashford, Connecticut USA
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A Google search didn't come up with a website for Gillian Dye. Does anybody
have an email address for her? I have recently acquired a piece of
16th/17th C metal lace with spangles, and I'm hoping she can date it more
precisely for me. Please email me privately at nancy.a.n...@gmail.com with
any
Hi Shelagh,
I had carpal tunnel problems in both hands, and had surgery on both. The
first surgery was the standard ligament release with a long incision -- it
healed up tight and I occasionally have problems still in that hand, plus
it was a long and painful recovery. The other wrist was done
Hi Jane,
I thought I remembered them saying the stockinette machines at Hurt's were
from the 16th C (I still find it amazing they are still working after four
centuries) -- they were definitely English. I know that the
machine-knitting industry started under Queen Elizabeth because she was the
Hi Rochelle,
Yes, a number of Arachne members saw the Nottingham stockinette machines
from the 17th or 18th C (I'm not sure if the ones we saw went back to the
1600's -- I find that hard to believe in hindsight), including ones still
working. I have a really lovely shawl knit on one of those
Athena is goddess of weaving, but Arachne in Greek mythology was a mortal
weaver who got so good she challenged Athena, with the usual repercussions.
Bobbin lace is a form of weaving without a fixed warp, so lacemakers in
modern times have adopted Arachne (we're mortals), hence the name of our
Hi Gon,
Would you be so kind as to define explicitly what you mean by methods vs
techniques in bobbin lace? Not only with examples, although some will help.
I'm getting confused.
Thanks.
Nancy
Ashford, Connecticut, USA
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 05:00 Gon Homburg wrote:
> ...
I think you missed
Hi all,
I'm with Alex -- I most enjoy puzzling out a new pattern or reconstruction
of 17th -- 18th C Binche/Valenciennes. I gain most pleasure from getting it
right with the best technique I'm capable of, and speed is only an issue in
relatively boring spots such as cloth stitch -- hence my
Hi Elena and fellow Arachnids:
I have found that, when doing an area of cloth stitch, I can go twice as
fast if I "overlap" stitches. Do the cross in the next stitch as you do it
in the current stitch, and move across, doing two crosses at the same time
just like you do a twist with each hand. I
That does clarify! Thanks Elena. I think I got muddled between the
historical points and the structural points. I hope I didn't sound grumpy
-- I'm just rather fascinated by the equivalence of the structure and I get
overly enthusiastic... :-)
Nancy
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:03 AM Elena
Yes, you are absolutely right, the evidence is good that bobbin lace
developed from braiding -- but braiding is also weaving in which a warp
thread becomes a weft thread at the edge at each pass. See the very first
illustration in the Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_group.
Good Liz! That bothered me too. Bobbin lace IS weaving in which the warp is
free at one end and threads can change function from warp to weft or
reverse. But it is topologically exactly weaving -- no knots. And even the
most complicated stitches boil down to the over/under relationship of the
Useful info. Maybe recommend strongly that everyone use plain bobbins, and
even bring an extra as a test bobbin. I think mild bleach solutions or
other disinfectants are likely to be as rough as alcohol, don't you? What
would be a good alternative?
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 17:35 Adele Shaak wrote:
Hi Rosemary,
I am not a teacher but I've kept up on some of the relative risks, and the
effectiveness of some mitigation steps, and perhaps can offer a few
suggestions.
Transmission via touching surfaces appears to be very rare for this virus.
If two things were done, everybody could handle
I agree with Maria. As I said initially, this is machine-made needlerun on
machine-made net. This indeed a form of embroidery on net, which is not
usually included in what people mean by "needle-lace". I didn't want to get
into an argument about how narrowly or how broadly one defined
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Hi Sue,
How pretty! And what a good photo -- the details are quite clear when
enlarged.
It is needle-run lace, embroidery on net. The net is machine-made, and the
embroidery is also almost certainly done by machine although I wouldn't
claim to be 100% sure unless I could see the back. It is a
Hi Elena,
I know only one thing relevant to your questions but I'll offer it in case
it helps: the shuttles used in the 18th century for knotting were much
larger than tatting shuttles, several times larger than the largest tatting
shuttle I know of. I have one and embarrassingly cannot find it
Hi Elena,
Are you planning geometric or floral? If geometric, can use Lace8.
Otherwise probably easier to draft by hand unless you have a high-powered
drafting/drawing program, per Holly van Sciver.
Good luck.
Nancy
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Hi everyone!
All is well. I accidentally posted on Facebook a weird video that did
rather look like I had fallen. I've deleted it and posted that I'm fine.
Thank you so much, Anna, for your concern. It's particularly reassuring
that people are looking out for each other in the current situation.
Brilliant!!
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
> ...
> I`m sitting on a stool and have mirror in my lap, size about 20 x 30 cm
> (8 x 12 inch).
> I work in front of the mirror, so I look at my work from the right side,
> as I would normally work.
>
> My student is sitting vice versa of me, looking *in the
April 2022 I trust. :-)
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 10:47 wrote:
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> through 15 April 2020.
>
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I'll be glad to chip in $5. May I send it via PayPal friends & family so
there are no fees?
Nancy
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 4:15 PM wrote:
> As you all know, we now subscribe to Flickr Pro for the storage of our
> photos. Flickr's prices are going up to $59.99 + tax for the annual
> plan or
Hi everybody,
I hope this isn't a duplicate post, but there's a great article in
mymodernmet.com showing lots of Agnes Herzog's pieces -- gorgeous.
https://mymodernmet.com/lace-art-agnes-herczeg/
Enjoy!
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
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19 at 5:39 PM N.A. Neff wrote:
> Hi Elena,
>
> I don't know which of these is what Jourdain is referring to, but both the
> first looks like it's actually a published book, and is available in NYC in
> Columbia Univ. library, NY Public Library, and Brooklyn Public Library:
>
>
Our very own world-renowned lace historian! Congratulations Brian!
https://eastdevonnews.co.uk/2019/09/19/englands-oldest-lace-bobbin-discovered-in-budleigh-salterton/
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I got my first choice too! (Continuing Binche) Wouldn't it be nice if the
numbers all came out perfectly and everyone got their first choice? That's
my prayer to Arachne -- may everyone get their first choice.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
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"For 'lassen' of lace the following are required:
-- ...
-- Cotton thread in the same colour used to make the lace, but much
thinner. In the more substantial laces made of flax, a thin flax thread can
be used.
-- Thin smooth basting/tacking thread.
-- ..."
That's all that is said about the
Yikes! What I have is a translation of Het Lassen -- it was in some binders
I inherited from another lacemaker!! So anyway, all that info in my email
is from Het Lassen en Aannaaien van Kant, by Louise Allis-Viddeleer.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 18:02 N.A. Neff wrote:
>
I have come across some excerpts from a 1993 handout for the Lace Teacher
Training Program at Kantcentrum, on joining and attaching lace. There is a
section on lassen. The author (Louise Allis-Viddeleer) says what I've been
arguing for, that lassen developed when handkerchiefs developed
Hi Alice,
Do you have a reference for all that historical info about lassen? Het
Lassen?
The flounces and edgings I've seen with joins all have overcast seams,
which could be hidden in the ruffling of the flounce, but perhaps I've not
been looking hard enough -- if the lassen were well done, I
Hi Devon et al.,
Yes, it's a straight lace so not Honiton. I think it's late 19th C and
probably German because it looks like the bobbin lace I've seen in several
reprints of late 19th / early 20th C German pattern books.
I've blathered on on the ning site some more about it, and also why it's
It's called point de racroc, and is quite a different technique--it doesn't
overlap the two pieces at all but sews in a thread between the two pieces
of net that follows a path that connects the two pieces as if they were one
piece of net. In lassen, the sewing thread whips around the bars of the
When I blow up the photos to be able to see the path of the thread as it
whipped around bars in the net, it looks to me like the thread used for the
join is the same thread that was used to make the lace. It's certainly not
significantly finer.
Nancy
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:05 PM Devon Thein
Adele,
I'm thinking that a lassen technique might have developed when flat corners
meant one no longer had the gathers at the corners in which to hide the
seam. That's why I've asked in my last post if the seam is indeed in a
gathered part in handerkerchiefs with gathered corners. In
Devon,
Quite a few of the handkerchiefs that were donated by the Duchesse de
Richelieu, in memory of the Princess Alice of Monaco, in 1963, were of
interest, largely because I couldn't see an obvious join in most of them.
Several had flat corners: e.g., 63.196.17. In the ones with gathered
on to look at all the bobbin lace ones in the
Met and tell us how the joins are made.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 2:49 PM N.A. Neff wrote:
> I have few older handkerchiefs so I'm like Devon -- I can't say for sure,
> but I think in the ones I have that have gathered
I have few older handkerchiefs so I'm like Devon -- I can't say for sure,
but I think in the ones I have that have gathered corners, there's a quite
visible join. (They are in storage but I will try to dig them out soon.) I
do know that the flat corners are a recent development (i.e., starting in
(I hope your friend can read Italian! A search of JSTOR produced an even
100 pubs that mention sfilato but most are in Italian...)
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 15:41 N.A. Neff wrote:
> ...
> Another source for scholarly papers would be to put sfilato into the
> search engines of publication
Check with Angharad Rixon at textilesupport.net: email
i...@textilesupport.net. She is an expert on Italian lace and will be able
to tell you what's out there.
Another source for scholarly papers would be to put sfilato into the search
engines of publication databases such as ProQuest or JSTOR,
Devon,
Could it have been a typo? I find myself saying "eighteenth century" if I'm
thinking hard about dates that begin with "eighteen" -- i.e. the nineteenth
century. Simple mistake?
Or is it written in multiple places?
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
Devon Thein wrote:
... The previous catalogers
I think I must have joined in 1996 because I'd already been on the list
quite a while when we had our get-together in Nottingham. I was still a
relatively new lacemaker when I joined so you all were a godsend. I can
check how early, actually, because I even printed out some of the early
posts, not
Good news! Angharad Rixon is going to lead another of her lace tours of
northern Italy.
https://www.textilesupport.net/product-page/lace-in-italy-tour-2021
I went on this tour in 2017, which she planned at the time to be the last
one, and it was wonderful. I would like to go on it again except
Message from Jeri Ames. Her email is behaving oddly.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
-- Forwarded message -
From: Jeri Ames
Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 15:06
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace coasters - Made in China?
To:
Cc: ,
Do you remember that we had a discussion about 20 years ago about
Veronika,
Excellent analysis, pictures, and discussion! (What are you using for your
diagrams? Inkscape?) At the end of the discussion on your website, you
commented about whether the pattern will show up in bobbin lace, and it
occurred to me that perhaps adding some extra twists and crosses
My pleasure!
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 20:52 DORIS O'NEILL wrote:
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>
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Dear Arachnids,
I can't find anywhere in the archives a post from Angharad Rixon giving the
link to my review of "Lace, not Lace" on her blog, only a mention earlier
that she was waiting for it. So here's the link, in case anyone would like
to read another review:
Okay, I just created album "Carrickmacross guipure" with an example. It's
been badly washed so the loops at the edge are collapsed, but those loops
identify it as Carrickmacross.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:13 PM N.A. Neff wrote:
> Actually there's a guipure form of Carrickmacross
Actually there's a guipure form of Carrickmacross that is lace without
question. It's much less common than the applique form. I'll try to find a
good picture to put up on Arachne2003; my specimens are too hard to dig out
right now or I'd photograph those...
With regard to whether applique is
Found a couple of more details: the company is Lace Feminique, and a couple
of patents are assigned to him.
https://patents.justia.com/assignee/morton-jablin
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 11:28 N.A. Neff wrote:
> Some of you may find interesting the brief snippet of background on the
> m
Some of you may find interesting the brief snippet of background on the man
who is the subject of this article: it says the company he founded still
owns 45 of the 70 lacemaking machines in the US. (Otherwise the article is
fluff, sorry.)
Hello,
Many of the photos in the "Lace, not Lace" album on our Flickr site,
Arachne 2003, are really good shots, much better than those I took. I have
permission from Sue Babbs to include several of her photos with my review
of the exhibition for Angharad Rixon.
I'd like to use three of the
I doubt that you can order it from the museum. However Amazon has it.
https://smile.amazon.com/Lace-not-Contemporary-Lacemaking-Techniques/dp/173262240X
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 15:13 Amanda Babcock Furrow
wrote:
> I would like to order the exhibit catalog but I do not see
I second Lorraine! I talked at length with several non-lacemakers also, who
were particularly fascinated by bobbin lace and how it's made. AND one of
the museum people said with wonder and delight that the reception drew a
far bigger crowd than any other they had held! So double congratulations to
Sorry, just searching for that issue doesn't work. Here's the URL for the
article:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minding-the-body/201709/using-your-smartphone-camera-mindfulness-tool
There are also lots of articles claiming that taking photos ruins one's
memory, mostly from 2013. The
Forgot to include the date of the Psychology Today article. It was in the
September 2017 issue.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 6:03 PM, N.A. Neff wrote:
> There is a recent article in Psychology Today () that summarizes some
> recent findings...
>
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I used to travel without camera, computer, or phone, thinking I was seeing
more that way. However, there have been studies showing that people
perceive more about what they are seeing when they look with a goal of
capturing and documenting what they are seeing.
There is a recent article in
Hi Jane, I really don't think so. The best old Binche / Val have very few
holes at the corners and curves of the cloth-stitch areas. Might you be
thinking of Flanders and modern Val? They have holes between the outer ring
and the inner ring pair.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 15:31
Hi Susan,
Ulrike's rule is to use a support pin where it helps! If you use very fine
insect pins, and remove them after a few rows, they won't leave a hole.
"Fine" means size 00 or 000. Van Sciver Bobbin Lace carries them, or it may
be faster and less expensive shipping from Amazon, unless you
Alright! NOW I'm happy. :-) Thanks Cindy!
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Cindy Rusak wrote:
> ...I have a cone of thread that still has the original plastic cover and
> labels on it (including the 9052), and it is the exact same as Lorri's
> except it is 70/2. The
There's also a test to distinguish cotton from linen done by pulling the
thread apart and testing the strength of the fibers. Bottom of right-hand
column on first page:
http://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/hr1_fibr.pdf
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I'm sorry to be a stickler, but it is actually not conclusive that what
Lorri has is linen on the basis of Jane's evidence. Jane's second cone,
which is labeled linen, has a different stock number (9051 instead of
9052). We still don't have a 9052 with an outer label on it. Neither of the
two
Lorri,
I'm surprised that the linen threads are fuzzy under magnification. I would
have thought fuzzy would mean cotton. Too late at night now but I will
examine some thread tomorrow. What say the experts? Is my ignorance showing
again?
In any case, what I really wanted to post is not to be shy
I have found black thread hard to work with if the pricking is made of a
card too light in color. If the contrast is too great, then the eye has
trouble seeing the details of the black threads. (Same with photographing
or photocopying black lace.) So it might seem contrary, but using a medium
to
That would make sense of the thread being larger than the 80/2 Brok
cotton! Lorri, when you looked at it under magnification, is the FFR
thread fuzzy or smooth? and is the twist the same direction as the Brok
cotton? S or Z? Is the cone cool to the touch when you pick it up?
To the experts out
The postal codes for Aalst, in the SE of the Netherlands, are 5308 XX,
where XX are two varying uppercase letters, and nearby is 5305 XX and 5307
XX. The postcode 9052 XX (with two letters again) is in the Grouw region,
up in the NW. Also, postcodes were introduced into the Netherlands in 1976
--
And do a burn test. FFR started manufacturing synthetics and blends between
the world wars.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 3:05 PM, N.A. Neff wrote:
> PS: I don't see anything that says "cotton" ("katoen" in Dutch). You'll
> have to look at it under magnification.
>
&
PS: I don't see anything that says "cotton" ("katoen" in Dutch). You'll
have to look at it under magnification.
Test strength before using: if it's yellowed, I'll bet that it's "rotten".
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
> ...Am I correct that it is
See http://www.ethesis.net/aalst_textiel/deel_I/aalst_textiel_deel_I_2_g.htm
.
FFR is an acronym for the company ( Filature et Filteries Réunies), and I
think "Aalst" is the name of the town. "9052" is probably their stock or
product number.
80/2 is surely the weight, "Wit" and "Blanc" = white
AMEN. As a published author, I can attest that it was very frustrating to
see a couple of errors after publication in one of my books. But errata are
a fact of life -- we're none of us perfect, and it's important that
corrections be shared so others don't waste time and energy struggling with
the
I think a light-ish yellow or light-ish green, a somewhat lighter version
of crocus leaves. Not too intense yellow or green, so the background
doesn't overwhelm the lace, but not so light either that it blends with the
paler part of the periwinkle.
I think either yellow or green would make it
SORRY! forgot to trim.
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> Sue,
>
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Sue,
What kind of texture do you want the finished item to have? Soft and a
little fuzzy perhaps, or with crisp distinct stitches? I ask because if you
want the latter, you might be happier with a harder yarn such as one used
for weaving. Search on something like "cotton yarn weaving UK". For
Hi Devon,
Well, this may be hubris on my part, but I partially disagree with your
ophthalmologist. He says "You cannot damage your eyes by using your eyes."
Actually, one gradually looses one's ability to focus at distance if one
primarily uses one's eyes for close work. In modern times this has
Sorry, not Tafel 29 (Plate 29), but Figure 29 (Abb. 29), item b -- p. 119
of the PDF. And Levey's quote below refers to bobbin lace, which I've not
found an example of. The items I'm identifying as lace are needlelace.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:27 PM, N.A. Neff wrote:
> I think Levey might h
I think Levey might have overlooked something. The German text specifically
says that Tafel 29, item b, was done without a ground fabric.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Devon Thein wrote:
> ..."but for the remains of some fragments of the ground material, could be
>
Oh Elise! This is wonderful!!! Please post updates to Arachne as things
progress!
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Elise Waber Hays
wrote:
> I posted about my interest in experimenting with different cultivars of
> flax to produce a fine linen thread in 2016. I guess it
Hi Jane,
Some of the pieces I have are made with linen thread as fine or finer than
180 cotton. The thread in one lappet is so fine that it is hard to see in
the cloth-stitch areas that it's made of thread at all.
I will try to upload a photo to Arachne on Flickr when I get home.
Nancy
It has taken a concerted effort, in modern times, to set up seed banks, in
which seeds of strains no longer being grown or of species threatened with
extinction, are saved and protected. Seed isn't viable forever: these seed
banks have to maintain special conditions to store the seed. If I were an
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