I haven't gone through the entire Ning discussion, ,so apologies if this is
not pertinent, but... in the early (16th C) lace, there are braids made
entirely of TC and you can make them as wide as you like depending on the
number of pairs. They can be made center-pointed by changing the order of
Just so you know, Jeri, I did (and generally do) appreciate your book
review. Since I do my own work reconstructing the Elizabethan English
laces, I don't generally bother looking for new resources - they are very
few, compared to the greater body of lace work, and don't usually say
anything I
I've been terribly remiss about this. I need to thank
Aurelia for the lovely green and gold bobbinlace
ornament she sent me. We didn't put up a tree this
year (hubby and I will be in Las Vegas for Christmas)
so the ornament has been gracing my cube at work.
It'll join my other lace ornaments at
No, Chris, don't take offense. That surely
doesn't represent the
feeling of most of us textile-lovers. A knitted
beauty, a tatted
beauty, a crocheted beauty -- who wouldn't be
happy to get one of
those? And Tamara's idea of a textile tree has
the typical
obviousness of a
I just had a thought that I don't want to spend a
lot of time making
a piece of BL if I only receive a card with a
tatted snowflake.
As a tatter I take a bit of offense at that - I can
only hope it wasn't intended as a slight of my first
and most often practiced lace. I rather get the
The tree guys were here yesterday to prune our
trees. One of them is a
lilac tree, ...I saved
the trunk. It's 6 to 6
1/2 inches in diameter and 15 feet in length. It's
thought to be 50 years
old and the tree guy said it's disease free. Bobbin
makers: do you think
bobbins can be
Hi All, Came across the following listing on ebay
today - anyone know
what sort of lace they were used to make.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=106159item=6189147708rd=1
Best wishes Andrea in Cambridge, UK, where the sun
is still shining.
Being no sort of expert ;D
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet - although I
admit, I've only skimmed the travel messages - are the
luggage locks that are keyed so that US airport
security can unlock it with one of several master
keys. The locks are specifically marked so that TSA
agents know they can be keyed open. My
Has anyone successfully managed to send an entry
to the Lace Guild
Advent
Calendar competition? I keep getting a form
submission error - and am
not
certain if the problem is at my end or the web
sites.
I submitted my entry on the 28th. Seemed to go
through okay, although I
Truthfully, my lace gift has been to take a break from
lace for a while :) Other than some quickie crochet
ornaments back in November I haven't done anything
lace related. I'm hoping the mental break will help
me find a focus - I've had so many 'If Only' ideas
running through my head that I
*snip snip* His reasoning, which I suppose is
the norm in magazine world,
is that the more people to whom the magazine is
passed, the more secure the
subscription. Mom, he claims, is not going to fail
to renew her subscription
if her daughter likes to read the magazine too.
Well, you
I'm really far from a lace expert but I must
question your search for
'cheap' linen. I sew, weave, do lace etc and would
never consider investing
my time in inferior materials. If you plan to spend
hours on a lace edge a
very small part of the investment is the fabric you
plan to trim. I'd
Yay!! SPIDERS! *starts bouncing in over-tired
joy (very long weekend)
... And I
have to say that God
must be listening even to atheists (amusement
value?); I'd hoped most
of the winners would come from the non-US area (ie,
non-WalMart area),
and they *did*... :)
Well, for what
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
Oh please, all I *do* is historical lace!! Usually
earlier than what gets mentioned on this list, but
still...
Either they use the same
machinery running in
reverse or he plain got it wrong!
Don't know that this is the answer, but once on a time
I got some wonderful large spools of cotton thread
that had come from some old industrial sewing place.
The place I bought from said (I'm paraphrasing)
Prompted by Tamara's announcement (You go, girl!) I'd
like to run a question past y'all. I have a magazine
subscription running out that I don't want to renew
(they went from fun crochet to fashion, and I just
don't do Fashion :P ) What would you recommend as the
one lace publication/group to
...
about that lovely linen collar, edged with
Bedfordshire lace? Most of
the laces I could not begin to put a name to and I
hadn't thought to
tape it. Finally was a scene where Richard is shown
with his hand in
the pockets of his breeches. I had a feeling that
pockets were not
fitted
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