[lace] Halas Lace

Hello Devon, my infos about Csipke lace aren’t the newest here what I have e-mail: halasicsi...@cmitelnet.hu www.csipke.halas.hu Tel: +36 30 9 358 499 +36 77 421 797 hope this helps. - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Question

Hello lacefriends, it’s so quiet on the list I am in danger to loose my English vocabulary. Did you all know that the congress from Deutscher Klöppelverband take place from 20. t0 24.04.2022 in Gunzenhausen. Therefore my question does any of you plan to go there. If so let me know that we could

[lace] photos

Hell everybody, there are a few new photos in my album. Have fun. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Wedding lace

Helen is right there was a time men also had lace-handkerchiefs. If they use them or if they were only to show their richness or perhaps to give it to a lady who is weeping I don’t know. In the second part of 19th century lots of handkerchief were often about 50x45cm. In my opinion those were

Re: [lace] 25 years on Arachne

I am sure it was before 2000. Was it 1997 or 98 or 99 I am unable to remember exactly and all those people who could give a clue aren’t any longer with me. Anyway I am a longstanding member too and I must add arachne helped me to practise my English. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Re: new photos

Hello Arachneans, in my album you find two photos about my stole. Sue Babbs was so friendly to upload them for me. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] New Web site devoted to Lace Bobbins.

Dear Lemin, congratulation. I am afraid I need 20 years to read and study your work. It’s incredible what you listened üp. Question - could you still see any bobbin? Thank you a lot. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Book recommended

Hello Adele and David, could it be as it was in Germany still 70 years ago. Works done in very fine threads, wool or cotton or silk, in what ever sort of handicraft, knitting or crochet, named lace more exact Strick-spitze, Häkel-spitze. And the author uses the word lace in such sense? Ilske

Re: [lace] Cameras [was World Lace Congress of 2018 in Brugge, Belgium]

Hello Shirley what you wrote about your mother is daily used in Old People Homes in Germany and acknowledged by doctors. For me taking photos is not only to take important moments for the future it is also a possibility to try to put my lace-works in picture, to catalogue the things I am

Re: [lace] Thresds

Black Chantilly laces from France and Belgium are made with black silk. The first one with silk which was dyed with something with a salt of iron (SO4) wich damage those laces after a while. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Guttermans Threads

> > Are Guttermans threads suitable for lacemaking? My local haberdashery has > started keeping them in a range of colours. Yes they are and it’s nice to work with. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help,

Re: [lace] Faery Lace?

Dear Lyn, again a bit late. In a certain time If I am right at the beginning of 20th century a sort of Binche (with lots of tallies) was named Feen-Spitze - fairy-lace. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help,

Re: [lace] Another puzzling Milanese, faux needle lace piece

Devon, I am sure I saw this „stitch“ who asked "What happened here“ somewhere in all those new books and patterns with „new“ stitches the problem is WHERE DID I. It’s another we proof we couldn’t create new stitches. Sorry not very helpful. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] list of lace books

Perhaps i am wrong I couldn't see the title Tina - The Little Lace-maker it’s a thick but wonderful book with wonderful illustration with laces and old photos. And one more in French Mick Fouriscot „Marie la Dentellière“ about a young lacemaker somewhere in the country in a time long before

Re: [lace] Help me remember a movie

Devon, there exist a film with the title Die Klöpplerin = the lacemaker. It was in 1980th here in Hamburg everybody spoke about but only in the way „interesting, remarkable“. Some times later it was on TV at midnight but I told my husband it is a must for me and watched it. The story I remember

Re: [lace] Making lace before diagrams

Elena, as far as I know it’s somewhere in 20th century that diagrams started perhaps at the time like color code. In some regions in former time the lacemaker had little pieces of the original lace they had to work. When you see old prickings thick paper or sometimes leather it’s not easy to

Re: [lace] Modern v. traditional

Hello Alex, why do you think so? I have the impression most of us prefer traditional lace. What ever one of us choose and like it is ok. Bobbin lace offers so multiple choices that everybody find something. And reading the answers it is like this. By the way I like Chantilly and Flanders laces

Re: [lace] Traditional and modern lace.

Hello Kathleen and Arachneans, I agree with Majory Carter about trad. techniques and nowadays pattern. But on the other hand there must be lace which fits in our time and our life and that’s what I and a lot of other German lacemakers try to do. You can see a few of my ideas in my photo album.

[lace] Re: Photos

Hello everybody, with the help of Sue and Susan, thank you both once more, the new uploaded photos are in my album. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Re:uploaded photos

Hello everybody, my uploaded photos aren’t in my album who can help me to bring them in the album please. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] New Grounds

the reason the „new“ grounds we try to create, I am speaking of those lacemakers I am working together since several years in different seminaries, s because we use too big grids for to fine threads. Therefore you need starching otherwise there is no stability except we use wool or plastic

[lace] Re: Help needed

Hello Arachneans, could somebody please help or tell me how to load up photos. I forgot how it works. Thanks. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] Anniversary

If I am right it was 2002 that I joined arachne but I am not sure. And I still like it to be a member. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] Finger looping

Speaking about Finger looping don’t forget Margareten Spitze. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

after my memory it was 1987 the year I spent several months in NY. Ilske > Am 26.03.2018 um 20:16 schrieb Cynce Williams : > > There was also the US bobbin lace stamp (well 4 stamps) organized by Mary > McPeak. > > Bu I can’t remember what year—1980’s sometime. >

Re: [lace] Raffle

Hello Everybody, It’s Monday afternoon the Raffle closed some hours before. My friend who is also my neighbour took three little paper out of the hat. And the winner are…….. Carol Adkinson Jeanette Fischer Martha Osgood Congratulation! Please send your snail mail address to my private

[lace] Re: Raffle

Hello Everybody, what do you think about a raffle? Before me there are three very small heaps of stamps. All with lace- or lacemaker motives. Those if you interested in send a mail „Raffle“ to my personal mail till Sunday 21st of January midnight in Europe. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email

Re: [lace] Seasons Greetings

All the if’s Alice mentioned here > Where I live, the weather people say there is a 4 percent chance of snow -- > happened only 2 times in the past 80 years. However, they say it MIGHT be > possible this year -- IF the Christmas Eve clouds drip on us, and IF the temp > is low enough to freeze

Re: [lace] Magic threads

Hello Ann, do you have the book „Unsichtbar - Invisible“ from M. Wolter-Kampmann? There you’ll find on different pages everything you can do with magic threads. If you don’t have the book I’ll try to explain the special way you are looking for. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Re: Question

Hello Everybody, I lost the address of the lady in Brugge who organize the lace-meeting in 2018. Could anybody please send it to me privately? Thanks in advance Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Ghost Pillow

I agree with Lyn > Using a ghost pillow does slow you down, I do it in another way. I work along as usual but when I had to stop why ever I put one or more, it depends, glass head pins on the point I stop on the working scheme. So it’s easier for me to find later where I was. And I lay the

[lace] sorry only for Alice Howell

Alice my mail to you is coming back. Please send me privately a short note. Thank you. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Angels in Buckspoint

Dear Leonard, how nice to hear/ read from you. It’s ages we meet each other. My not perfect English had the result that you all must misunderstand me. The different angel in that pricking were in the ground net. I don’t mean the fillings. The fan pricking was two parts. In one the angels were 56

[lace] Re: [lace] Question about Tönder lace

thanks Brenda and all of you answering my question. I got the first answer privately and answered privately too. The question came thinking about reconstruct a Bucks Point pricking for a fan. Working on it I was wondering that on different points the angles were different. I knew that not all

[lace] Re: [lace] Question about Tönder lace

Sorry Bev that I give you a new name. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Re: question

a Big thank you to all who replied to my question. I decide to make a plait with my bobbins and braids with my hair if they ever will be again long enough for ;-) Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help,

[lace] Re: question

Hello everybody especially English native lacemaker, I am always unsure which I should take braidorplate if I want say Flechter. In my dictionary for braid: they say: 1.) flechten (hair, tape) 2.) Zopf (plait) plait: 1.) Zopf

Re: [lace] Names

I agree with you Devon, in that > > In the case of Bedfordshire, > On a basic level it is a guipure bobbin lace, which was made in many places > and at many times. But, Bedfordshire, whether made in Bedfordshire or > elsewhere, tends to imply a stylistic aspect, sort of a mid 19th century lace >

Re: [lace] Bedfordshire lace

when I learned to make Beds. after the book from Barbara M. Underwood I read in her book: Bedfordshire Lace is an East Midlands guipure lace; i.e. it has no net ground, the design being supported and connected by plaits and brides. It was derived indirectly from Italian bobbin laces, but more

Re: [lace] Louise West Bedfordshire book

Yes, I got it. Ilske > Am 06.06.2017 um 00:36 schrieb Celtic Dream Weaver > : > > I also have her new book and I love it. The designs are so pretty. I think I > love the Paisleyone the best plus the Daisy Edging. There is so much eye candy > in this book. I also

Re: [lace] French lace term Aponce

Hello Noelene, first I was sure have heard the word aponce but I didn’t knew a German for it. Than I looked it up in my International Lace Dictionary - nothing in my electronic pocket dictionary - nothing and in my heavy PONS Großwörtebuch French-German - nothing. I found only appontage - auf

Re: [lace] Bruges World Lace Conference

on this site > https://www.facebook.com/WLCB2018/ under info is a picture, I guess the poster, wich announce this Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] Re: Catherine Channel

Dear Lacefriends, shortly there was a discussion about Miß Channer by Anne Buck. Privat things don’t let me follow it. But last week I started to rearrange my lace books guess what I found - Aa little book with the title „In the cause of English Lace“. On page 13 it tells us that C. Channer

[lace] Re: designing lace patterns

Good morning everybody, I too agree with Alex and others designing is (often) a lengthy and hard work but for me it is also fun and practising my skills. And if one have never tried oneself one could not know how much work it is. That’s the reason a lot of lacemakers didn’t think on this. On

Re: [lace] bowing off

Maureen, the teachers I know don’t say so but I know there are some strange ideas in the lacemaking world. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] What constitutes Gros Point?

Devon, after my knowledge what you describe is named Point de Venice à relief. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] bowing off

I had lessons in Honiton, Bruges flower work and Duchesse but i didn’t bow off thread. Did I do something wrong? Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Re: lace from Finland

one or two weeks again one of our arachne lace friends asked for an original pattern from Finland. If you are still interested send a mail to me privately. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Mechlin

Mechlin, Valenciennes and Binche laces looked at the beginning of 18th century very similar but than they became each their typical look. Mechlin get an outline for example.with In the first half of 18th cent. the motives of the Mechlin lace were named flowers and worked in linen stitch and

Re: [lace] Re: Arachne Handbook etc

Hello Sue, I am in Germany and can open the our flickr account without any problems. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Re: Pink house

Hello Everybody, have a look here http://instagrafite.com/our-pink-house-by-olek-in-avesta-sweden/ it’s not bobbin lace but crochet and, what’s more, a lovely story. Have fun. - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Lace eye candy, salt water, wet cleaning unique laces, conservation, long answer

In the interview I had with Mme Bonniol, via internet, about her salt.lace I don’t ask how to clean or if she make pieces to wear in such way. Why all works I saw were pieces for „decorate“ not to wear. And that one couldn’t clean such works it’s clear looking at them. In my opinion these are

Re: [lace] Lace eye candy

M. Th. Bonniol doesn’t „bath“ old lace in salt water. She creates laces, with „big holes“ and let it lay in the salt water on the place she lives a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The salt form crystals in the gaps of the lace. Astonishingly those crystals stay on the lace. These are really

Re: [lace] Sternchen-Ei

making a little star - Sternchen or a spider or snowflakes you always need a grid around them. It could be two pairs or as in the egg only one. Those could be worked in half-, linen- or cloth stitch. Through this grid the pairs, two or three from each side, for the star come in are worked ih

Re: [lace] OIDFA - 2018 Congress Cancellation

Laurie Waters send us a link http://lacenews.net in which we find a lot of the details why the OIDFA meeting in Bruges is cancelled. I won’t discus this because I am not familiar with the law in Belgium about such events and I wasn’t personally involved in the

Re: [lace] Lace as Art

Devon, that’s difficult to answer. What is it keeping our eyes and being overwhelm from what we see? In my opinion it’s something perfectly personal. Therefor I can’t say what I would advise to work. To make lace works acceptable for public is to try again and again and to explain why you did

Re: [lace] Buying lace as art

I could not follow this file from the beginning on I am too busy at the moment. The last mail Devon sent us says exactly what I wanted to remark. When is a work an art work, who determine this? There is a saying in Germany "art comes into being in ones head“. Buy we things because they are

Re: [lace] OIDFA Congress

Dear Jeri, me too doesn’t know any Slovenian lacemaker personally but why could we fix a time to meet each other on a certain point at the OIDFA-place and found a corner we could chat to each other. Or why not ask the ladies organizing the congress for a place. Years ago the congress took place

[lace] Queras lace

Hello Sylvie, there exist a wonderful book in French „Dentelles du Queyras et des vallées voisines“ in which you find everything about those free hand laces. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Lace Event in Austria, April 10, 2016 Needs Translation

Dagobert Peche was THE lace-designer in his time. His designs are so beautiful but not all of them have been worked. The best part of Hartmut Langer’s book are the numerous pictures (very small) of laces from Wiener Werkstätten. Text is not so much and not so informative as we all expected, why

Re: [lace] thread question

Häkelgarn is German. And Taschentücher is the plural of Taschentuch and this is in English a handkerchief. And here it means thread for lace around a handkerchief. The mention brand is DMC but if Cordonnet or spez. dentelles isn’t clear if not mentioned on the label. And this isn’t always so.

Re: [lace] thread question

Hello Judith, häkeln is crochet Häkelgarn thread for crochet. No 80 is fine it’s for crochet lace. It’s very strong twisted so it’s not fitting for every sort of bobbin lace. Ilske > Am 04.01.2016 um 18:54 schrieb Judith Bongiovanni : > > Happy New Projects fellow lace

Re: [lace] German Lace Museums

Hello Dawn, lace is in German’s museums mostly not on display. The Museum für Kunst und Gwerbe In Hamburg for example give you the possibility to see them when you make an appointment weeks before you arrive. In Abenberg in the south is a museum mostly for lace google it to see when it’s open.

Re: [lace] tape lace

Hello Lorelei, there is another one Luxeuil lace, As far as I was told were the tapes of this lace at the beginning made by hand. Today it’s machine lace like the others of this sort. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Re: postcard raffle

Good morning Everybody, in my opinion it’s the first of September now. Five minutes before DP pulled out three little papers - the moment of truth is coming: The winners are: Carol Adkinson Debora Lustgarten Ingrid Seadler Congratulations! Please send me your snail mail address. Ilske -

[lace] Re: postcard raffle

Dear All, this morning I got a mail from Janice telling me that there are problems with the digest. I don’t what what or how nevertheless I’ll wait till tomorrow, 31 of August, at midnight to end it. There are still lots of names in the hat but take your chance. Good luck Ilske - To

[lace] Re: Raffle

Dear All, looking through my collection of postcards i found several doubled or this or that. What gave me th idea to offer a raffle I think I could make two or perhaps three parts of those cards. All names arriving on my private e-mail address come into the hat and DP pull out the winner at

[lace] Re: pattern qustion

Dear All, I got the missing parts very quick thank Clay. Thank you all others who tried to help me. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

[lace] Re: question

Dear All, years ago somewhere in Europe I bought a booklet with a Binche pattern „The Riverside“ a lovely border with ice birds, irises and spikes of reed designed and worked by Grace Jones. As I looked at it recently because i would like to work it I sit and thought I am unable to see right,

Re: [lace] OIDFA Bulletin/magazine?

Arlene, I am German living in Hamburg, today my OIDFA copy 2/2015 was in my post box. There is still hope for yours, good luck. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.

Re: [lace] Question about beads

I used several times beads in my laces. In no case happened anything like cutting the thread or the finished lace. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] Mystery object

Jacquie, on the first link I see the reverse side of a painting and on the other a wonderful Gros Point de Venice and some different smaller picture, but nothing mystery. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For

Re: [lace] Identification of a type of lace

I wouldn’t say this is a specific lace type. On the picture I see half stitch and a ground cross twist twist pin cross twist twist. It is a straight piece of lace looks as if the thread is very thick could be the enlarging. On my picture there is no gimp and no raised tallies. On the second

Re: [lace] Anna Burda magazine

Ann-Marie, Anna magazine doesn't exist any longer. There is a new one since several year but not in a German publishing house. Perhaps you write to Burda Verlag in Offenburg and ask them. I don't have their address Try at google to find it. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Re: X-mas card idea

Dear lacefriends, after finishing my card for one of my favorite lace-friends suddenly I had the idea to give it to you all next christmas comes for sure. You find the instructions and a drawing with the picture. Lorelei would be so kind and host it on her site. She will announce when it is

Re: [lace] Rembrandt's mother-lacemaker?

Dear Devon, this is a story being in the world but difficult to find out the truth. Also the claim that in the museum in Frankfurt a/Main a lace pillow would be on display.Visiting this museum some years ago I was eager to see this but there wasn't one. Than I asked the people working there

Re: [lace] Au ver a Soie silk 100/3

Catherine, the silk Au Ver a Soie is indeed very close to Gütermann 110/3, when I remember right a little bit thicker. I used up all mine therefore I can't take both in my hand and compare. It depend on your way of working, if you work not to dense it's ok. It is a wonderful thread to make

Re: [lace] Project complete - Wedding penny

Yes, I knew this Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, too. But not the last line. As old I had a handkerchief with lace around not bobbin neither needle lace it was only crochet but it was done from myself when I was a child. For new I took my dress and the

Re: [lace] Project complete

Jeannette, in Germany existe an old tradition that a girl collect coins, today cents what's the double is from a Pfennig during DM-time, to pay with them the shoes for her marriage. Ilske from again sunny Hamburg, Germany. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

Re: [lace] lace style sheet, was lace proof readers

Devon, in German we are lucky to have the hyphen. We can write Klöppel-Spitzen and so on. In English I wrote till today lace maker/s, lace making, needle lace, bobbin lace, crochet lace, knitted lace, lace is in my opinion singular and plural but if I am speaking of different techniques of

Re: [lace] lace style sheet, was lace proof readers

Devon, I think it's logical to say the laces of... but I bought a box of lace. The box indicates several pieces of lace. Ilske . But noting that the book Antique Laces of the American Collectors, written in the 1920s, which I used in the research seemed to think that the plural of lace was

Re: [lace] lace photos

Lorelei, there ia a new book from Yvonne Scheele.Kerkhof coming soon. Ilske Am 06.04.2014 um 23:45 schrieb Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com: I just discovered Yvonne Scheele-Kerkhof's website. Fantastic duchesse, floral Beds and more. http://www.lacestudio-paragon.com/gallery.html

Re: [lace] tape lace photos

thanks, Lorelei, for the link. On my screen it doesn't work properly so I couldn't see them all but those i saw look like bobbin lace and not as tatting. But the picture haven't a big resolution. If I look at them in full screen they are totally blurred. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Thread raffle

It's the same Ilske Am 27.03.2014 um 21:01 schrieb Janice Blair jbl...@sbcglobal.net: Yes, I think it is the same silk. The canister says Bodil Leif Christensen and the slip of paper inside says 3 ply unboiled nature silk no.250. It is very fine even for a 3 ply. Janice Janice Blair

Re: [lace] Thread raffle

What you describe seems to be the Chantilly silk from a Danish seller. I use/used this in all my classes with Lia Baumeister. It's not boiled silk like it was used in former time. It's fantastic to work. Have fun with it. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

Re: [lace] pins

With my Chantilly as well as Binche laces with the Danish silk I used those insect pins too. But they weren't easy to find and expensive too. At the beginning they aren't easy to handle. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] pin use question

Debbie, what about Free Hand lace. At the beginning it could be a bit frustrating but there are few pins. And some Torchon patterns could be possible for you. Good luck Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help,

Re: [lace] Lace Scrapbooks

Dear Jeri, dear All, years ago I saw a book similar the scrapbook Jeri described. It was the summary of handicraft patterns from a lady giving classes in knitting, crochet and embroidery. The last two or three pages were filled with bobbin lace pieces. Some looked like old lace pieces others

Re: [lace] Brugge Kant

Dear Jeri, I don't think that Why do European lace experts assume that people who speak and read English are not interested in the lace history of the countries where lace originated? one could say this. Even though this The reality is that in terms of population, there are more people

Re: [lace] Books in 'foreign' languages.

By the way we are discussing translation, those with English but no German knowledge and interested in Margareten Lace, can look forward for the translation of Lotte Heinemann's book into English. Perhaps you can still find an announcement somewhere. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Another lace bobbin on Ebay - any ideas on what it is?

In my opinion it isn't a bobbin. I saw once a similar thing which was a needle case. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] What is the biggest and the hardest piece of lace you have ever done?

Hello Sof, when I saw the topic above in the discussion I thought immediately on you and your doll as you introduced it to me before the OIDFA congress in Caen. And when we meet there I told you that I don't think the tour Eiffel is a doll, do you remember ;-))) But it's a big and lovely work.

[lace] Re: Chemical lace

Sue, I can't tell you how those Irish Lace you asked is done but I can explane how the Atzspitze as a similar lace from Germany (Erzgebirge) is made. There are big machines in a technique like our sawing machines wich embroider. In former time they were able to imitate nearly every fine lace

Re: [lace] [lace] Re: Chemical lace

Adele, how true, your remark is And suddenly I thought - there could be a whole dictionary with nothing in it but different meanings for the word guipure. Ilske And I must add something to my mail, to get the ready embroidery/lace the fabric is corroded with bicarbonate of soda. - To

Re: [lace] lace identification please

This is a sort of chemical lace - embroidery as they made in Vogtland, Erzgebirge and in Switzerland. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:

Re: [lace] Storms in UK and Europe!

Clay, thanks for thinking about us. Here in Hamburg we are used to those winter-thunderstorms. Yesterday it was awful but there are places were it was worse. In the afternoon they had to stop the underground, it comes on certain places on the surface and because of falling trees and such

[lace] Re: Starting learning lace

I agree with Jean about the reasons to start with Torchon, which is a lovely and many-sided lace technique. But in my opinion one can start with nearly every technique. I wouldn't say with Binche. When my the group i belonged to at that time decided to do some Beds, at that time all of us had

Re: [lace] Blue Bajou thread? Barbara Diesing?

Devon, isn't there a email address of Barbara Diesing? If so write to her, she is selling her threads. If not write to me and I look through all my addresses. I'll see Barbara not before our congress next year. Ilske Am 11.10.2013 um 16:06 schrieb dmt11h...@aol.com: I have a folder of

Re: [lace] Blue Bajou

Devon, Lollypop would be lovely ;-) Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] question for metallic thread jewellery

Bev, all those metallic jewellery I worked didn't scratch the skin. Important is to work properly the endings and try to make them smooth with sandpaper or put a bit of uncolored varnish on them. Good luck Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

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