[lace] Jeri Ames

[Janis Savage]

I have been trying to contact Jeri Ames for a month or more now with no
success.  I have used her aol address and her gmail address but no answer.
Does anyone know if she is ok?

Janis Savage in South Africa
where the whole country is on lockdown due to the corona virus.

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Re: [lace] Bedfordshire lace

[Janis Savage]

Dear Susan. The main difference between Tanne 30 and Cordonnet 70 is that the
Tanne is a 'sewing thread' and the Cordonnet is a 6 ply crochet thread which
is much harder and gives a textured effect.
I suggest that when you get back to your Bedfordshire lace, get some Tanne 30
(now called Madeira Cotona 30) or find another 'sewing cotton' of the same
thickness, possibly using Brenda Paternoster's charts in her book on Threads.

Janis Savage in South Africa,
where it has been almost too hot to make lace recently (up to 36 C), but today
seems to be a little cooler.


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Subject: [lace] Bedfordshire lace

Before I can start on my point ground samples, I needed to clear my pillow.
After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader, I
wasn't as thrilled as I had hoped to be. I've posted a pic to Arachne Flickr &
would appreciate some constructive comments. The pattern calls for Tanne 30--I
don't own any--so I substituted Cordonnet Special 70. The lace is very
textural with the cordonnet, not the smooth, crisp appearance that I was
anticipating. Did I use the wrong thread? Will mangling help? Am I misinformed
about how it should look when finished? I elected not to use tatting cotton
because I wanted traditional white. Many thanks for any suggestions.
Sincerely, Susan Hottle FL, USA

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[lace] Mid-year bookmark exchange

[Janis Savage]

Dear Lin
this has been a bad year for me as I had another burglary and my laptop was
stolen again, which means that i have lost so many email addresses.

i wanted to let Ruth Kurz know that after 5 months, I have finally received
the bookmark that she posted to me on 24th May but Ruth's was one of the
addresses that I lost. Please will you let her know that I picked it up from
the post office today. This was a great surprise as our postal workers were on
strike for 3 months (don't ask me what they were striking for!) and there is
still a mountain of mail waiting to be sent out.
The bookmark is superb. the photo on your file does not do it justice. I am
very pleased with it.

I did not join the christmas exchange this year due to the postal problems
and getting my lace act together again. I hope to participate next year
again.
Greetings from Janis Savage in Honeydew, South Africa where summer has arrived
but we have not yet had any summer rains so everything still looks rather
brown and dusty.

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[lace] Footside on left or right?

[Janis Savage]

The question of why the footside of yardage lace is either on the right
(mainly English laces) or on the left (mainly European continent laces) has
come up regularly over the years and no-one seems to have a definitive answer
other than the Brits do everything the other way around from their continental
cousins.

I have a personal theory, so I take full blame if I am proved wrong. When I
first learned to make bobbin lace in England in the late 1970's, photocopy
machines were still a rarity so we were taught to trace the pricking from a
book and then prick it through onto card and transfer the marking. However, at
various lace days it was acceptable to ask a lacemaker for a copy of her
pricking and the way to do it was to take a rubbing of the reverse side of the
pricking. I still have some rubbings from those days and my piece of heelbore
from the local cobbler.

For a torchon pricking you can usually use it either way up with the pricking
on left or right but with Bucks Point, or similar, with floral designs, it did
make a difference and the way to get the design the right way up was to put
the footside on the other side. For fairly simple designs, even a flower can
be made either way up but for more complex designs it can be quite difficult.

So my theory is that when the Mechlin and Lille lacemakers fled to England ,
they either took rubbings of their prickings or allowed rubbings to be taken
from their prickings in their new country and the quickest and easiest way to
make up these designs was to change the side of the footside.

I hope that this makes sense and if anyone has problems with my theory I am
willing to listen.

Lace greetings from

Janis in South Africa

where the sun is shining again today after some serious rain in the past
week.

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Re: [lace] Jeri's Narratives

[Janis Savage]

What is this all about? As a lacemaker who is not interested in other people's 
arguments I don't even want to read about it.

Please Avital, censor all this badmouthing so we can all get back to the 
friendly group that this has always been.

Janis in South Africa.



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Sent: 07 December 2017 12:54 AM
To: Daphne Martin
Subject: Re: [lace] Jeri's Narratives

Daphne Martin
2:14 PM (12 minutes ago)
to me
I nearly choked at this!!

is this bad?

Yes I think so. The way you have treated Janet is not a Christian way to be
and its upset me immensly

i am sorry that you feel that way.  Janet kicked Amber in the tush 4 years
ago and you didn't respond.  so your being hurt on her behalf is
admirable.  your loyalty is awesome.  i did not do anything to Janet.  she
disappointed the group when she took over.  she didn't honor requests for
the exchanges.  she paired up partners that were paired even at the last
exchange.  she ignored other exchanged partners.  she has not honored the
group's wishes individually.  she, nor you. have been involved in the group
with communication for at least the last year.  your kicking me in the tush
and hurting the group has a lot to be considered.  do you care about the
group in your isolated environment?  your animosity isn't geared to the
group's well being and growth. you have a personal grudge that caused a
riff in the group because you think you are above the members.  i feel very
sorry for you.  of course, i would appreciate your support as adamant as
you are.  but, Daphne, you are a riot creator and not a supporter of having
things work to the good of those who wish to share and care.  you are not a
participant gear to more other than to hurt others.

i do not wish you ill.  i think you are a lonely and lonesome person who
has nothing else to do but hurt others. i am sorry that you chose to kick
me in the teeth when i only wish to gift the group activity and growth for
those who participate in the open. you are a sneaky hurtful person and that
isn't in the best interest of the group as a trying to learn and share.  i
am so sorry for you and our hurtful efforts.  as you open the Christian
effort.  so you think hurting other hurting is Christian?  you have hurt
the group.  doing elisting others to do your dirty work was hurtful.  Jenny
denied her gifting to the group for your kicking me in the tight was a
major hurt to the group.

i hope you will rethink your animosity and will be blessed in the after
life because you denied and hurt others because you have instigated others
(Jenny) to do your dirty work.  i don't think you should be a part of this
group. you do not contribute, you just instigate unrest.




Hugs, Lin and the Mali



On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Daphne Martin  wrote:

> Yes I think so. The way you have treated Janet is not a Christian way to
> be and its upset me immensly.
>
> Regards
> Daphne xx🌹
>
> Sent from my IPad
>
> On 6 Dec 2017, at 21:58, Lin Hudren  wrote:
>
> is this bad?
>
>
> Hugs, Lin and the Mali
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Daphne Martin  wrote:
>
>> I nearly choked at this!!
>>
>> Love
>> Daphne xx🌹
>>
>> Sent from my IPad
>>
>> On 6 Dec 2017, at 21:19, Lin Hudren  wrote:
>>
>> We are in the throes of losing this most cherished gift.  Jeri has
>> dedicated herself to knowing historical, practical and knowledgeable lace
>> information.  i think as a group we need to encourage her to keep letting
>> us know that her knowledge shared with us is worthy.  i don't see much
>> feedback to her for her sharing with us.  if you are doing it off line as
>> i
>> do, that is good but i do not think sufficient.  please take the time to
>> gift her with appreciation.  i have gained much from her missives.  is
>> there anyone out there who does not learn something from her work?
>>
>> this is a group of sharing and caring.  please help me to encourage her to
>> continue sharing with us the knowledge she has gained for many years of
>> research and collection of information which she willingly gifts to us.
>> thank you.
>>
>> Hugs, Lin and the Mali
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[lace] Christmas exchange

[Janis Savage]

Dear Jacqui. I received your wonderful Christmas card with the lace nativity
scene on it. Thank you so much. It is beautiful.

I have already let you know that I will be late in sending mine this year due
to a previous lace commitment. I have just about finished that now and if I
get going on a Christmas card for you now, you may just about receive it in
time for the festive season.

Greetings from

Janis Savage in South Africa

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[lace] On the Banks of the Ouse

[Janis Savage]

I found a scanned version of 'On the Banks of the Ouse' from Princeton
University Library at

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073308502;view=1up;seq=5


I have not read it yet but have saved the link for when I have the time to
read.

I have an interest as I lived just outside Bedford for 8 years and used to
take my children to feed the swans on the River Ouse in Bedford

Janis in South Africa

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RE: [lace] Victoria

[Janis Savage]

Thanks Bev.
A nice article but no mention of the Honiton lace for her wedding dress, made 
by the villagers of Beer.

Hello Janis and everyone
Not sure if this will answer your question, but there is a nice write-up here 
about the TV Victoria's costumes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/the-real-stories-behind-jenna-colemans-resplendant-victoria-cost/

Queen Victoria I am wondering if the lace is antique or was
it especially made for the series?


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[lace] Victoria

[Janis Savage]

Here is South Africa I am enjoying watching the TV serial on the life of Queen
Victoria.  Probably a couple of years after you have seen it in the UK!
There are some lovely lace collars and bertha’s on the costumes. My TV is not
big enough to see the detail but I am wondering if the lace is antique or was
it especially made for the series?
Did any of our UK spiders take part?
Greetings from
Janis in South Africa

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RE: [lace] Twelve years is a long time

[Janis Savage]

So sad to see a much loved organization fall apart.
You will be very much missed.
Janis in South Africa

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Since then I have tried to 'pay it forward' as often as possible, in as many
ways as I can - but the time has come for me to remove myself from the
Arachne group. I will continue to make and promote lace through other
avenues such as lace guilds, groups, facebook and youtube and I will keep an
eye out for you too.

Hugs and goodbye
Jenny Brandis 



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[lace] Bookmark arrived

[Janis Savage]

A beautiful bookmark from Jenny Brandis has finally arrived along with the
pricking and instructions.

Thank you Jenny. It is lovely and I also love it's name of 'Star Light, Star
Bright bookmark.

I will think of you always when I use it.

Lace greetings from

Janis Savage

in South Africa

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[lace] Apologies

[Janis Savage]

So sorry to all. I forgot to crop my message.

Janis Savage

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Re: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998

[Janis Savage]

I so enjoyed reading that speech. The Hon. Richard Mcgarvie sounds like a very
human person with a great sense of humour as well as appreciation of the lace
exhibition.

I wish I had seen the exhibition. Are there any pictures on the net for us to
see? I only joined arachne in 1999 after my children clubbed together and got
me a start-up kit to get online.

Lace greetings from

Janis Savage in South Africa (where the postal system has still not delivered
my much anticipated bookmark)



Subject: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998

Dear Friends,

Today I was looking through some old files on Arachne and was reminded of
the Exhibition I organised back in 1998. It was held here in Montrose
Cottage, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia and I'm sure was the first such
exhibition organised solely through the internet. I thought you might be
interested to read the speech given by The Hon. Richard McGarvie when he
opened the exhibition, so I'll reproduce it here in full. He did this all
off the top of his head. In another email I shall post the details of the
lace work for your interest.

David in Ballarat, AUS



The speech made by The Hon. Richard McGarvie at the opening of the
International Lace show, January 14th, 1998. Richard was a former Governor
of Victoria and my mother's 2nd cousin.



"Thank you  Brian, thank you Tom. Lesley and I are always delighted to be in
Ballarat, we are particularly delighted today.   We think that this unique
International lace show could not have found a better home than Ballarat, in
all of Australia it is the obvious place to be held.



"Lacework is a craft of great beauty, we all come to have what today will be
for us a feast of beauty which has quite definite indications of pleasure.
Lace has been part of our culture for many, many years and that famous
supreme court judge in the United States,  poet and philosopher, Oliver
Wendell Holmes wished to illustrate discord he said "discord is like
hedgehogs dressed in lace, a great contrast".   When Samuel Johnson wanted
to emphasise Greek, he said: "the great value of Greek, sir, Greek is like
lace, a man gets as much as he can."



"This exhibition is symbolic of world cohesion. The fact that it is being
held here in Eureka Museum and Montrose Historic Cottage reminds us that
there is on exhibition today lacework which was made in Australia in the
1850s and modern lacework from all around the world, modern lace from
Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, from Israel
and Denmark.



"The Macquarie dictionary  tells us that lace is a net-like ornamental
fabric made of threads and that makes us reflect that we have had very great
advantage of a net like communication fabric made of electronics, because
without the internet and without Arachne, the internet association, it would
not have been possible to organise this.



"It's not only part of our culture, lacework  is part of world culture, and
when Lesley and I in October 1983 were in that beautiful city of Bruges in
Belgium during the Festival of the Canals, one of the things we delighted in
seeing was the laceworkers of Bruges doing their work out on the footpath;
men, women with centuries of experience behind them.



"When we read the programme we learn a bit about laceworkers. One can't but
read those biographical  details in the programme without realising that
laceworkers enjoy making lace. There's another feature; lace of course is
used in another way: to lace someone's coffee is to put spirits in it either
with their knowledge or without, and we find from those biographies that
there is a very real spirit that permeates laceworkers, and it's a humourous
self-mocking spirit. You can't help reading those biographies without
realising that those people are very  good people who enjoy laughing at
themselves, and I suppose there is  nothing more valuable for us all than to
realise how inherently ridiculous we are, and enjoin in the general laughter
about that.

It is I think very fortunate that people like that have been brought
together through the Arachne organisation that is involved and we all owe a
great debt, the whole community not only those of us who are here, to David
Collyer who has been the moving spirit in  getting this together and we owe
a great deal to co-operation which has come from well around the world.



"Now, it's always useful in opening an exhibition of some craft or some
particular skill if one can claim to have some connection.   I can claim to
have a connection to lace. I was a judge of the Supreme Court for 16 years
and on a formal occasion, the opening of the legal  year when the Supreme
Court judges went in their robes to St Pauls, in addition to our full bottom
wigs, and our Windsor breeches and our black stockings we had a lace jabot
(Brian has one got almost the same) and lace cuffs. So I have had the
benefit of lace workers over th

Re: [lace] Rauma lace,

[Janis Savage]

Hi Susan

If your lace with tallies has plaits as well, like Bedfordshire, I find that a
new thread can be hidden in a plait.

Just add the new thread to the plait along with the old one. Do 2 or 3 cross,
twists. depending on the length of the plait then throw out the old thread and
continue. Cut off the end of the old and beginning of the new threads later
when no tension will pull on it. If your plait is tensioned nice and tight,
the join will not show and it will be held very firmly.

I hope this helps
Janis in Honeydew, South Africa



Hello All!  For the past few weeks, I have been slowly working my way thru the
Kustaa Adolflai pattern for an exhibit of Finnish lace.  It has been quite a
challenge because I've never worked this type of lace AND it has an abundance
of leaf tallies.  At long last, I am getting the tallies under control thanks
to Jean Leader's video & Practical Skills! Today, one of my bobbins is running
out of thread.  What to do?  The lace is so skinny, there really isn't a good
spot to exchange a thread. I looked in my Bedfordshire books but did not see a
specific reference for this issue.  Do the experts have a "best case" solution
for this problem?  Many thanks for any suggestions.  Sincerely, Susan Hottle

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Re: [lace] Our local 15 minutes of fame

[Janis Savage]

What a lovely article. I do hope that you get some new members to join your
group of lovely ladies.

Janis in Honeydew, South Africa

Allow me to share the marvelous article that just came out in our local
newspaper about our Guild, the Oregon Trail Lacemakers.  We have been an IOLI
charter member since 2003, and are looking for more area people who are
interested in lacemaking.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35394225-81/oregon-trail-lacemakers-ke
eping-their-art-alive-one-stitch-at-a-time.html.csp

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Re: [lace] Lace in India - Sulachona

[Janis Savage]

I can almost remember seeing a picture of this fan on a facebook page some
years ago. It was absolutely stunning. I don't know if I could find this
picture again. Maybe someone else can find this picture. I did share it with
friends at the time on my facebook page.

Janis in South Africa



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[lace] Re Lace in India

[Janis Savage]

In 1999, one of our South African male lacemakers, Louis Booyens and his wife
Rhoda, visited India for a holiday and to search for lace and lacemakers. He
found a shop in Mumbai where handmade lace was sold and bought some lovely
pieces. It was run by a Mrs Mendez, who was 81 at the time, and her son.

No information about the makers was forthcoming. they then travelled to the
far south of India, visiting many places on the way. In Munnar, a hill station
where tea is grown, he found more hand made lace in a home industries shop.
The lacemaker apparently lived further up in the mountains. Eventually, they
arried at Cochin and visited Our Lady's Convent at Palluruthy where embroidery
is taught. Sister Elizabeth Rocky showed them the workroom where about 60
young women were embroidering on organza and at the back of the room were
about 20 lacemakers at their pillows. About 30 years previously, Belgian and
French nuns had introduced bobbin lace to the convent and the Indian nuns had
continued teaching it. I think it was subsidised by the government for the
tourist trade.

As their techniques and equipment were very limited and their prickings had
been used so much that they were in tatters, Louis decided to help as much as
he could. Back in South Africa he started a collection of pins and prickings
and bobbins and money, which we all contributed to and on his next visit to
India, unfortunately only in 2005, he took it all to the convent. Sister
Elizabeth (then 81 years old) told him that the school had been closed down by
the government but there were still lacemakers working from home and she would
distribute the gifts.

Back in Mumbai, Mrs Mendez shop was still there but the lace from the convent
had been ruined en route by the monsoon rains and had to be returned.

Louis and Rhoda have not been back since, but if anyone is planning a trip to
India thee may still be some lacemakers there in the southern tip and Mrs
Mendez shop might be run by her son now.

Good luck in your search


Janis Savage in South Africa

where autumn is approaching.

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[lace] The Young Englishwoman

[Janis Savage]

I have just received Lace No. 165 and on browsing through it, I read Gwynnedd
Roberts article on Lace in Fashion - 1874.

Quite by chance I have just finished reading The biography on Mrs Isabella
Beeton, of Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management fame.

Mrs Beeton and her husband Sam went on to produce the first women's magazines.
She was busy compiling nd editing The Young Englishwoman just before she died
in childbirth in

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Re: [lace] Finnish lace

[Janis Savage]

Dear Susan

I have not been to Finland but agree with Antjie's comment about traditional
Finnish Lace. I have a book called "Ristnippu, Vanhoja raumalaisia
tyllipitseja II"

The narratve inside is in Finnish, English and German and the English says
that it is the second in a series of books about traditional Finnish lace in
the from the Rauma museum.

There are 11 prickings inside, beautifully made for the pictures, and it
appears to be a tulle lace, like Bucks Point, but made on a 45 degree grid.

Maybe you should have 2 samples of lace for Finland, traditional and modern or
most well-known so that you can include Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti's lace as well.

Good luck with the project.

Janis in South Africa

where the summer weather is fabulous

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Hello All!  Today I'm seeking advice to find a small, reasonably simple
pattern that is representative of traditional Finnish lace.  I need to make a
sample of Finnish lace for one of our library exhibits.  Hopefully, it will
bring back fond memories for Finnish Americans who are patrons of the library
in this small Ohio town.  Many thanks.  Sincerely, Susan Hottle

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Re: [lace] Lace on my window

[Janis Savage]

How beautiful Antjie!

I have downloaded the file for future reference. I have seen some of the
prickings before but have not tried any. Now I feel inspired. One of my dreams
is to attend one of the big Spanish lace days with hundreds of lacemakers.

Janis in South Africa



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Sent: 23 January 2017 12:05 AM
To: Arachne
Subject: [lace] Lace on my window

I would like to share with you a picture I have just uploaded to my Flickr
account, and which has lace on it:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mi-pequeno-taller/31656378103/in/dateposted/.
[X]Through the
window
(Curtain made in Bobbin Lace)

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I am a fan of working lace for my windows, and this one is a typical Cluny
type design, popular from Camari??as (north east of Spain). I hope you like
it.

Yes, lots of leaves!!

Antje Gonz??lez, Spain

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[lace] Amsterdam Festival of Light

[Janis Savage]

Thanks to a link on Facebook I have just been looking at the winning entry in
the 2016/17 Festival of Light in Amsterdam.

It is a 12m x 6.8m piece of lace suspended over one of the canals in
Amsterdam. They had to make the design in crochet to give it strength but it
looks quite authentic in the pictures. Quite inspirational.

Have a look at http://www.choishine.com/Projects/TheLaceConcept.html

Choi+Shine Architects - The Lace
Concept
www.choishine.com
Choi+Shine's Lace proposal for the Amsterdam Light Festival

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[lace] Quiet list has woken up

[Janis Savage]

Thank you to everyone who put my mind at rest re the quiet time on the list. I
am so jealous of all the conventions and other lace-ins in USA, Australia and
UK. It must be wonderful to have all these top-notch teachers to choose from
and to keep up-to-date with everthing in the lace world. That is why I need my
daily arachne lace fix, and get worried if it is not there for a few days.

I have also been very busy for this past week or two. It was our bi-annual
exhibition in Johannesburg, combined with the Embroiderers Guild. Apart from
being chair of the Witwatersrand Lace Guild and editor of the quarterly
newsletter and webmaster and Facebook admin, I also run The Lace Place for all
their supplies, so I was involved everywhere.

Now that it is over I am looking forward to the holiday season when I hope to
get some peaceful lacemaking time in.

The exhibition was a great success over 2 days and the reporter from the local
newspaper came to take pics and interview the organisers, so we hope to be in
next week's edition.  When I get some pictures back from our photographer I
will put them on our website and tell you where to find them.

Lace greetings from

Janis in South Africa

where we have just had a couple of showers of rain. The first in about 3
months and hope it will break the drought.

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[lace] List is quiet

[Janis Savage]

Is the list very quit or have I somehow removed myself from it by mistake?

The last message I had was on 8th October.

Janis in South Africa

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[lace] Re: restoring bobbins

[Janis Savage]

Well said Alex!
Hang the washing, let's make lace
 
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I consider my bobbins as tools of my trade, as they were originally meant to
be.  I have no interest in the resale value of my bobbins. Whatever is done to
a bobbin in it,s lifetime is it,s own story.

Blow the dust, let,s make lace

Alex

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[lace] Apologies

[Janis Savage]

So sorry to all, I was so eager to put my thoughts down that I forgot to trim
the post. I will try to remember next time.

Janis in South Africa

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Re: [lace] restoration of antique lace bobbins?

[Janis Savage]

Dear Brian

I am not a collector of antiques so I may not be in line with the value of
antiques, but I do not see the point in keeping something that is broken,
unless it is to prove some point about it's manufacture.

Lace bobbins should be used and loved, just as they were in their heyday. Just
by using an antique bobbin, I think that it brings it back to life and it is
usually very difficult to work with a broken bobbin.

Thanks for all the work you do on the history of our tools.

Janis in South Africa



From: owner-l...@arachne.com  on behalf of Brian Lemin

Sent: 02 October 2016 02:15 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] restoration of antique lace bobbins?

Hi Folks,



I am always peering at auctions and bobbins sales and sometimes I see a
bobbin or a group of bobbin in a terrible state, dirty, wire missing, beads
missing, but basically the bobbin is ok.



Every occasionally (very occasionally) I see a bobbin that to me has been
restored.  It looks good, its functional, sure it does not look 100 years
old, but who really knows, especially if the spangle looks pretty original.



What do you guys think about restoring bobbins?  We do not give a second
thought to restoring furniture, but  do we think a bobbin in poor condition
should stay that way?  Certainly some types of antiques lose some of their
value because of restoration, and perhaps bobbins should too.  I don't know.



What do you think?



I am writing this because I am about to submit an article on "repaired"
bobbins I found at an auction site, to web docs.  A bit different to what I
am talking about now, but similar enough for me to raise this with you.



Brian

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[lace] Re: 2016 Arachne Christmas Card Exchange.

[Janis Savage]

Dear janet

i am so sorry to read about Sallie's accident.

I do pray that she makes a good recovery even if it is taking a long time. The
thought of making lace again may be a good incentive.

I will certainly take part in the Christmas card exchange this year.

Just one exchange please but to anywhere in the world.

I am busy at the moment finishing off a few projects as it is exhibition year
this year, for the embroidery guild as well as the lace guild.

You already know my postal address and email.

Lace Greetings from
Janis Savage




From: owner-l...@arachne.com <owner-l...@arachne.com> on behalf of janet
theaker <janettheak...@hotmail.com>
Sent: 29 August 2016 12:39 PM
To: lace@arachne.com; lacedig...@archne.com
Subject: [lace] 2016 Arachne Christmas Card Exchange.

It is with a very heavy heart  I have to tell you in January  2016  My very
dear friend Sallie Owenby  had a  very tragic

accident  , This has been a very long and winding road  and ongoing recovery
,
Sallie needs lots of prayers now.

I am sure  Sallie will be in all our thoughts  as you read this.



Sallie and I  organised the  Arachne Christmas Card Exchange ,  Sallie loved
the Christmas Card Exchange , So I am going to continue to organise it in
Sallie's honour .


The children are back at school and hope you will be looking at your books to
find a piece of lace or ornament for the 2016  Christmas Card exchange
,Christmas seems to creep up upon us !!


If you would like to join this years Christmas Card Exchange for 2016


Please send your name and address,

The number of partners you would like ,  either home or worldwide   to me at
:-


janettheak...@hotmail.com



Time Line for this years exchange is


By 30th of September  Please send me your name ,address  and number
exchange's
you would like .  Home or worldwide


By 15th October I will send out your partner (s)


By 1st of December   Please  send out your cards .


Before you send your cards lace/Ornament to your partner please take a
picture
and send it to  Jenny Brandis who will upload them to her website  dedicated
to all our lace exchanges   to :-


je...@brandis.co.au  Does a great presentation  and is happy to do this for
us.


If you are new to Arachne Card Exchange  you  make a piece of lace or
Ornament
and put in or attach to a card ,

It is a lovely surprise to see  receive the card(s) , Also to see all the
exchanges on Jennys website , were you can see

all previous years  lace/Ornaments  , for idea's and inspiration


Take Care

Janet


Janet  in East Yorkshire  UK  janettheak...@hotmail.com   for sign ups


Jenny in Aus  je...@brandis.com.au  for sending pictures of
your cards etc.

 and jenny website   at
www.brandis.com.au/arachne<http://www.brandis.com.au/arachne<http://www.brand
is.com.au/arachne<http://www.brandis.com.au/arachne>>. for previous
Christmas Card Exchanges.




Arachne Card Exchange Index - Brandis<http://www.brandis.com.au/arachne>
www.brandis.com.au<http://www.brandis.com.au>
Books used in past Exchanges updated 24 June 2016 . 2016 Bookmark Exchange on
this site 2015 Arachne Card Exchange on this site 2015 Bookmark Exchange on
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Re: [lace] Survey Request

[Janis Savage]

Hi Helen
I am 1B and 2B

Janis in South Africa


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[lace] Buying Lace as Art

[Janis Savage]

Devon said

What would be our artistic criteria if we were considering buying lace art?
Personally, I like to see pieces which show mastery of technique, have
interesting uses of voided areas, and do things that can't be done as well
in any other technique.
What do we like? Whose work would we buy if we were buying it?


Well I agree with Devon's criteria re mastery of technique etc. and if I had
money to spare, I would definitely buy one of Pierre Fouche's creations.

As for the Creative studios and library creative rooms, why does not one of
the lace guild's donate a pillow and bobbins (plus a basic instruction book)
to one of these places for people to try it out?

We do not have such places in South Africa, as far as I know, but I think they
are a great idea.


Janis Savage in South Africa

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[lace] Bookmark received

[Janis Savage]

Hello Beth

I just had to write and tell you that your bookmark arrived today. I had just
about given up hope on it as our postal system is rather unreliable (although
getting better recently).

I looked at the bookmark site compiled by Jenny Brandis and see that you have
already sent a scan so I don't have to.

As I told you before, I will treasure this bookmark and use it to replace the
one I lost to the second-hand book shop.

Many thanks from

Janis in a chilly Honeydew, South Africa

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[lace] Re: Lacemakers in Oklahoma

[Janis Savage]

Hi Sally

Thank you so much for this information. This list is such a mine of
information with such helpful members.

I have forwarded this on to Roselyn and hope that she will be able to get in
touch with the lacemakers there and maybe even take part in the Idrija
course.

Many thanks from

Janis in South Africa

where it is freezing but the sun is shining.



From: Sally Jenkins 
Sent: 25 June 2016 06:43 PM
To: thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za; lace@arachne.com
Subject: Lacemakers in Oklahoma

Dear Janis,

I lived near Tulsa, Oklahoma myself for over a decade. There is a suburb of
Tulsa called Broken Arrow; perhaps that is where your friend is going, as
there is no place called Broken Hill. There is also a town called Broken Bow,
but that is very very far from any big cities.

The good news is, there is a lacemakers' group just a 1-hour drive away from
Tulsa/Broken Arrow, in a town called Bartlesville. They usually meet the first
Saturday of every month, but owing to the national holiday on July 4 this
year, they will instead meet this year on July 9-10. On that weekend there
will be a class in Idrija lace. If your friend has a travel pillow, she might
want to bring it; or at least to attend and enjoy the friendship of these
wonderful ladies. Both of you might want to visit the website,
http://lacemakersoklahoma.weebly.com to see what else she might want to know.
[http://lacemakersoklahoma.weebly.com/uploads/4/1/2/2/4122963/6875722.jpg]

Lacemakers Guild of Oklahoma - Home
lacemakersoklahoma.weebly.com
The purpose of Lacemakers Guild of Oklahoma (LGO) is to promote, study, and
foster a public interest and appreciation of all aspects of the art of lace
and lace making.



If the Bartlesville group won't work out for her, there is also a lace group
in Oklahoma City, about 2 hours away from Broken Arrow/Tulsa in a different
direction. Its website is  Lace Guild of Oklahoma,
https://sites.google.com/site/laceguildofoklahoma/

Best regards,
Sally Jenkins, now living in Oregon, on the west coast of the USA

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Re: [lace] Knipling's Festival in Tonder

[Janis Savage]

Thank you Carolina
I have just spent a very happy half hour looking at the fashion show in Tonder 
and then the Spanish Lace Day in Barcelona and then your creations in lace.
How I wish I could create so much. Congratulations on all your work.
Janis Savage
in South Africa


From: owner-l...@arachne.com <owner-l...@arachne.com> on behalf of Carolina de 
la Guardia <cade...@gmail.com>
Sent: 23 June 2016 08:24 PM
To: Lace Arachne
Subject: [lace] Knipling's Festival in Tonder

If you have any problem to watch the video on my web, there is also a You
Tube version at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8q2rME9NSQ=share


Carolina de la Guardia
http://www.carolgallego.com

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[lace] Tulsa Oklahoma

[Janis Savage]

Good Day all

A lacemaking friend of mine is visiting her family, next month, in Broken
Hill, Oklahoma and would like to know if there is any lace event or lacemaker
within striking distance of Tulsa (the nearest large town).

I will pass on any information to her for her to follow up and then she can
tell us all about it when she returns.

Many thanks from

Janis in South Africa

where winter is definitely here.

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[lace] Thank you

[Janis Savage]

Sorry to be slow in saying thank you to Yael, Jeanette, Anna and Brenda for
sending information on DMC 50, Cotona 50 and Aurifil threads.

I have a touch of early winter flu at the moment but, when I am feeling
brighter, I will investigate Mako Aurifil and possibly Cotona 50 from Israel.

Thanks also to Arachne. You are my "go to" place when I have questions that
need to be answered. There is always someone who has the answer I need and at
the tip of Africa here, we do not feel so far away.

Thanks all.

Janis Savage

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Re: [lace] just finished

[Janis Savage]

I did not receive your original message, Frauke, but picked it up on the 
responses.
That is very clever and shows that we can get inspiration from anywhere.
thanks for sharing it.

Janis in Honeydew, South Africa 

> On 19 May 2016, at 08:23, Frauke Lorenz  wrote:
>
> Hallo
> I have just finished another ball. This is my own design which has been
> inspired by an origami ball.
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/105983456136816003798/albums/6283854337495304929

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Re: [lace] Re: Lori Howe

[Janis Savage]

Oh dear. Another special lacemaker lost to us all. I do hope that her Lace 
Fairy website will stay where it is. I often looked at it for information on 
different laces and alway told a new lacer to look on the Lace Fairy site for 
inspiration. My condolences to her family and friends
Janis in South Africa

From: owner-l...@arachne.com  on behalf of Karen ZM 

Sent: 30 April 2016 11:36 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Re: Lori Howe

This is sad news indeed. Lori's site was such a valuable reference tool
while I was at University doing my Diploma in Lace Studies.
She will not be forgotten.

Karen in Malta.

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Re: [lace] RIP Catherine Linda Walton

[Janis Savage]

So sorry to hear of your loss and the loss of another lacemaker with all 
her invaluable knowledge. She will be missed by all.
Condolences from
Janis in South Africa

On 4/13/2016 10:01 AM, Linda Walton wrote:
> This is to let you all know that Linda Walton, a member of this group 
> and my wife passed away on the 23rd March. The breast cancer which she 
> had about 30 years ago came back and spread.  By the time we realised 
> there was nothing that could be done.
Regards,
Chris Rowland

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Re: [lace] lace: Sara Hadley

[Janis Savage]

 From Eunice Sein's magazine 'Lace and Crafts' (summer 1991) it says that 
'Sarah Hadley won first prize for her Royal Battenberg lace tablecloth at the 
Chicago World Fair in 1893. Sarah is said to have named her version of a tape 
lace to commemmorate the wedding of Princess Beatrice of England to Prince 
Henry of Battenberg.'
It is not clear in this article whether it was called Battenberg before this 
time. Maybe her sister invented it but Sarah made it popular and gave it a name 
by winning the first prize.

Janis Savage in South Africa
where autumn is definitely here now.



On 4/11/2016 4:43 PM, jvik...@sover.net wrote:
> HI Karen and All,  I was so excited to see Sara Hadley's name that I
> didn't absorb your question.  I don't remember much about her patterns for
> bobbin lace.  She did branch out in 1903 when her magazine started.  I
> know I've seen an ad for her shop that mentions classes in many types of
> lace, I'll see if I can find that and let you know what it says.
>
> She may also have mentioned bobbin lace in her Ladies' Home Journal
> columns.  I'll look though my copies and notes.  I think the Home
> Needlework articles were all about Battenberg lace but I'm not positive.
> I can't remember if she was in Corticelli's Home Needlework or not.
>
> Here is the big scoop!!  I got a copy of Art of Modern Lace-Making from
> Amazon and it is the 1891 edition.  In The Story of Battenberg Lace by EA
> Eaton and EL Denton 1970 the authors mention uncertainty about who
> invented Battenberg Lace.  Sara does take credit for creating Battenberg
> Lace in her writings but here is what is in the 1891 edition says - I find
> it a little hard to figure out what the author is trying to say .
>
> "Strictly modern lace-making is a result of American ingenuity, and it has
> so simple a basis and is so easy to learn that any woman of average skill
> may, with little difficulty, produce by its different processes, laces
> that are really magnificent and quite as substantial and useful as they
> are exquisitely beautiful.  In America modern lace-making has been
> developed to a high degree of perfection by its pioneer, Mrs. Grace B.
> McCormick in whose designing rooms at No. 923 Broadway, New York, may be
> seen specimens of modern laces of every variety, from dainty needle-point
> to a very elaborate kind known as the Royal Battenburg (sic).  This
> English name for an American production was selected in honor of the
> Battenburg (sic) nuptials, which occurred about the time a patent for
> making the lace was applied for at Washington.  Only a few years have
> elapsed since this plucky little woman made a single piece of lace edging
> from common braid as an experiment, and sold it for a trifling sum.  Love
> for the work and perseverance have enabled her to overcome obstacles that
> would have discouraged a woman of ordinary energy, and she has gradually
> improved upon her earlier methods until modern lace occupies a front rank
> among the numerous dainty forms of needle-work of the day."
>
> Actually I see that Grace is credited with Modern (tape) Lace not just
> B'berg.  I have to check my notes but I'm almost positive Grace McCormick
> is Sara's sister's married name (she also had a Sara Hadley shop in
> Portland, OR!). Also I'm not sure what a pioneer is - creator or
> perfector?  There were articles on Featheredge Braid laces in earlier
> magazines and fagoting has been around a very, very long time.
>
> So those are my secret tidbits.  I don't see a reason to keep them secret.
>   Our lace history is for all of us!!
>
> Jane in Vermont, USA where lawns are greening up but the leaves are still
> waiting to show themselves.
> jvik...@sover.net
>
>
>
>
>> Does anyone know when Sara Hadley published her bobbin lace patterns?  I
> have spent a good many hours trying to find information with no luck. At
> the Smithsonian American History Museum we have some of her patterns. I
> am
>> guessing from the early 1900's as they are very similar to the ones
> copyrighted by the Torchon Lace Co (Princess Lace Loom or Machine), and
> in
>> fact were donated with a Princess lace pillow, patterns and books. I
> have
>> found when she lived (1860-1927). She had a lace shop in New York in the
> early 1900's and published books through Butterick, where she was an
> editor, and in Ladies' magazines. She claimed to have invented
> Battenberg
>> lace, which she called "Modern Lace". In 1901 she writes in "Modern Lace
> Making": â?oPillow lace, while exceedingly dainty and pretty, is not
> adaptable to the workers of todayâ?�, so I am guessing her bobbin lace
> patterns are later. She mostly published on tape lace (Modern Lace
> Making
>> or Battenbu

Re: [lace] RIP: Eeva Talts (1944 - 2016)

[Janis Savage]

It is always sad to lose a lacemaking friend, especially one as 
accomplished as Eeva.
May she always be remembered.

Janis Savage
in South Africa where the first hint of autumn is in the air.

On 3/29/2016 9:47 AM, pene piip wrote:
> Sad news: Estonian lacemaker Eeva Talts has died at the age of 72.
> As well as teaching bobbin lace she organized the annual Lace Festival 
> in Pärnu & was a founder of the Estonian Bobbin Lace Association 
> (Eesti Niplispitsi Selts) in 1995.
> She published "Eesti niplispitsi mustreid/Estonian bobbin lace 
> patterns" in 2003. In 2012 Eeva wrote a book about tatting in the 
> Estonian language, and in 2015 published a book about bobbin lace from 
> the Seto region, which is on the Estonian & Russian border.
>

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Re: [lace] Lace Article in New Mexico

[Janis Savage]

I have a similar problem with Hotmail.
After upgrading to Windows 10 and having so many compatibility problems, 
I found that it will not let me use my Hotmail address unless I am part 
of big business. So I keep my Thunderbird email just for my arachne fix 
on hotmail.
At some time when it is convenient for me I will change my subscribing 
address and dump Hotmail.
Janis in South Africa
where we had the hottest summer since records began. Fortunately autumn 
is on it's way now.

On 3/14/2016 4:57 AM, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
> That is almost certainly because the original email about lace in New
> Mexico was sent from a yahoo.com account, and you are reading from
> an aol.com account.  Yahoo.com broke their users' ability to use mailing
> lists in 2014 when they changed their DMARC configuration, announcing
> to all other mail servers in the world that no yahoo.com email was allowed
> to come from a non-yahoo.com server, not even via a mailing list server.
> Recipients whose providers pay attention to this announcement, like Gmail
> and AOL, can then no longer see emails that yahoo.com users send to mailing
> lists.
>
> Incidentally, AOL did the same thing!  Many mailing list users can likely
> no longer see your own messages, Jeri, for the same reason.
>
> Sadly, the arachne list runs on old software that apparently can not work
> around this issue.  Common workarounds basically obscure the origin of
> yahoo.com and gmail.com emails so that all mailing list recipients will
> still see them, but there is no update for our mailing list to do this.
>
> Amanda Furrow
> Philly, Pennsylvania, US
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:29:10PM -0400, jeria...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> To what is this memo referring?  There is no letter about  lace in New
>> Mexico in my Arachne in-box, and I do not find it in the  Arachne archives as
>> new correspondence.  This has happened several times  recently, and is cause
>> for concern.  Are others having the same  problem???
>>   
>> Jeri Ames in Maine USA
>> Lace and Embroidery Resource Center.
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>>   
>> In a message dated 3/13/2016 12:39:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> maur...@roger.karoo.co.uk writes:
>>
>> That is  very interesting, thank you.  Nice to read about lacemaking in
>> other  parts of the world.
>>
>> Regards
>> Maureen
>> E Yorkshire  UK
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Re: [lace] lace photo on Arachne photo album

[Janis Savage]

Great work and a very interesting puzzle. Did you make it in gold thread?

Janis in South Africa

On 2015/02/21 11:33 PM, Beth McCasland wrote:

Many thanks to Sue Babb's quick help!
I've up-load photo of the sample piece of 17th century bobbin lace that I
worked on - the lace is in an album under my name (Beth McCasland).  I
started the lace in a class with our own Jean Leader last summer, and have
worked on it off and on.  The lace is 4 cm footside to point, 2 cm repeat.
Early laces are an interesting puzzle!

Link to the Arachne Flickr account are in the bottom of Arachne emails.
or maybe this'll work
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/72157650541527109/

Beth McCasland
in sunny! Seattle, Washington

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Re: [lace] Weather and lace in Arad

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for the facebook link Bev. I tried googling arad library but 
all the responses were in Hebrew. I decided to give up but then your 
link came through and I agree, Miriam's lace display is stunning. Is the 
tulip doiley the same pattern as the ones that were on the tables at one 
of the stops on the PODFA lace tour in Holland? I fell in love with it then.
Janis in South Africa where the weather is glorious. 30 C most days and 
lots of sunshine.


On 2015/01/10 06:19 PM, Bev Walker wrote:

Hello Miriam and everyone

The lace display is absolutely stunning! The link to see it is
https://www.facebook.com/arad.lib







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Re: [lace] Inspiration

[Janis Savage]

Congratulations Janice on another award winning piece of lace. What a 
history of great ideas and excellent workmanship!

from Janis in South Africa

On 2014/11/20 07:03 PM, Janice Blair wrote:

This photo of a newly discovered mosaic reminded me of a beautiful piece of 
lace made by Alexander Stillwell.
http://i.imgur.com/rEVSKpO.jpg


Lace content:  If you go to my website you can see my entry that won first 
prize this summer at the IOLI original design contest.  It is at the bottom of 
the Award Winning Gallery and also the Milanese Gallery.  www.jblace.com


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Re: [lace] Retirement

[Janis Savage]

I agree Noelene 100%.
Another great poem.
Thanks from
Janis Savage
in Honeydew, South Africa

On 2014/11/08 05:22 AM, Noelene Lafferty wrote:

Retirement.

They all promised me
when retirement was due,
I'd be doing so much with my lace.
I'd have oodles of time
To plan and create,
And have projects all over the place.

But then the day came,
And I planned to sit down
With all of that thread that I'd bought.
With pins and my pillows
And bobbins galore
And great piles of books just to sort.

But where does the time go?
I really can't say
The days seem to disappear fast.
As the days now fly by
I seem to do LESS
Just where did I find time in the past!

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Re: [lace] Christmas Card Exchange

[Janis Savage]

Hello Janet and Sallie
I intended to join the Christmas Card exchange this year but life has 
thrown rather a lot of curved balls at me this year.
My DH suddenly passed away at the beginning of July and I did not 
realise what a lot of legal problems I would have to deal with and they 
are still going on.
As if this were not enough, our postal workers have been on strike for 
10 weeks now and it does not look as though any settlement will be 
reached soon. I dont think there will be any Christmas post in South 
Africa this year.
I don;t actually remember if I put my name on the list but if I did I 
think you had better remove it. I hope that by next Christmas my life 
will have settled down again. I am so grateful for my lacemaking friends 
who are helping me to get through this difficult time.

Seasons Greetings to all Arachneans.
From Janis Savage
in Honeydew South Africa where we are desperately waiting for the first 
rain of the season.


On 2014/10/13 06:00 PM, Bertrans1 wrote:

We are getting ready to send out the pairings and thought we should send out a last 
minute reminder to those who forgot to send us your name, address  number of 
ornaments you want to makeup.  So if you forgot or misplaced the details, please 
send your name and address. If you need the details again, please e-mail us and we 
will send them to you offline.
Thanks to all who have already sent your info. We hope those who have joined 
will enjoy their surprise ornaments as much as we have enjoyed making this 
happen.
Janet in UK  Sallie in WY USA

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Re: [lace] Oldest dated bobbins

[Janis Savage]

Dear Brian
I just want to say congratulations on your continuing obsession with the 
history of lace bobbins.

We need more mad people like you in this world!
I look forward to hearing more about your investigations.
Janis in South Africa

On 2014/05/14 12:27 PM, Brian Lemin wrote:

As a preliminary communication I need to tell you have pictures of two Downton
gimp bobbins, both of which are older than the Salisbury museum dated bobbin
(1693) ( see my article on webdocs  Arizona.  England's Oldest Bobbin.




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Re: [lace] Lace App questions on Bruges Duchesse or Bruges Flower lace

[Janis Savage]

I think that Bruges lace is a very suitable lace for a beginner.
A simple tape lace pattern is much ore interesting than a 'bandage' to 
learn cloth stitch and half stitch. A slightly more complex pattern can 
bring in a double stitch edge and sewings. Depending on how the student 
copes with that a simple Bruges flower can be introduced and hey presto, 
she (or he) can have a pretty doiley or even tablecloth with limited 
skills.
I usually find that when the student finds out that it is not a 
difficult as she thought and sees what other people are doing she is 
then willing to learn more skills such as in Torchon lace.


I say let her start with Bruges lace and be happy with her efforts. The 
rest will come later.

Janis Savage in South Africa.

On 2014/04/24 05:29 PM, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:

Since my friend is just starting out  was drawn to the Bruges laces, must she 
start with Torchon?  Should I encourage exploration?  Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Palm 
Beach Gardens, FL, USA


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Re: [lace] Long Live Lace!

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for another so appropriate poem, Noelene.
We are all so lucky to have a wonderful craft to, not only, bring us 
pleasure but keeps us in contact with so many like-minded friends.

from
Janis Savage
on a lovely sunny morning in South Africa

As old age encroaches things start going wrong
That medical treatment can't help.
There are twitches and spams, and all sorts of aches
And just to bend down brings a yelp.

But if one has an addiction to something as nice
As lacemaking and all of its treasure
There's no time for self pity or to fret about pain
There's too much to do that is pleasure.


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

[Janis Savage]

This is quite beautiful Vila.
While on Flickr, I took the opportunity to look at your other photos of 
your lace and weaving too. It is all quite inspiring.

Janis in South Africa

On 2014/01/14 04:37 PM, Vila Cox wrote:

This is my most challenging lace project so far.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/warpedandwonderful/8310332097/
overall it is 20 x 33
there are 8 strips sewn together to fill the center
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Re: [lace] Torn veil - help needed

[Janis Savage]

I looked at the photos of the veil and in the picture with the coin it 
is possible to see that the lace is Princess Lace. This should make it 
easier to find a redundant piece of princess lace to be able to mend the 
net or make a new flower sprig to cover the tear. Princess lace often 
seems to turn up in charity shops or suchlike. It is made from fancy 
tapes. No bobbin lace required.

Best wishes for finding a way to repair it.

Janis Savage in South Africa

On 2014/01/06 01:38 AM, Sue Babbs wrote:
A friend's granddaughter is getting married in September, and thinking 
of wearing the Brussels Lace veil, which has been worn by 50 or so 
brides in the family. So it has been brought out for inspection, and a 
jagged edge tear discovered in it.


I was sent photos today to see what I thought could be done with it, 
and don't really know what to suggest. I have uploaded these photos to 
Flickr, and am hoping that someone can give me advice on what to tell 
them.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/72157639451992576/


This looks like it's outside my needlework skills.  Making new bobbin 
lace is so much easier than repairing tears!!


They put a coin on it to give an idea of scale of the hole.  I think 
it is a U.S. dime and so is about 3/4 inch or 2cm in diameter







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Re: [lace] FW: Channer's Mat

[Janis Savage]

Just for the record, neither of the 2 pictures of Miss Channer's Mats is 
mine, even though I did send a picture of it.
The top one is from the Poole Bobbin Lace circle and the lower one is 
made by Diana Smith.


Janis Savage

On 2014/01/05 06:19 PM, Rosemary Horr wrote:

Lace Fairy has two mats for view. One is Miss Channer's original and the 
other done by Janice Savage. 
http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/Gallery/Channersmat.htm



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Re: [lace] UFOs

[Janis Savage]

After spending most of last year on such a big project, I am now going 
to make butterfly mobiles for each of my 3 granddaughters. I am now 
halfway through the first - a Brigitte Bellon one.
I also have to brush up on my Flanders course for when my lace group 
come back at the end of next week. they requested it and it is a while 
since I did Flanders. The theory comes back easy but I have to get my 
hand in again.

New Year greetings from
Janis in Honeydew, South Africa
where after a very wet Christmas, the sun is shining again and I hope to 
do my lace in a nice shady spot in the garden.


On 2014/01/02 12:37 AM, Sue Harvey wrote:

Happy New Year to all fellow spiders, have you made any resolutions? Mine is to 
finish all UFOs before I start any further new ones, to date it is:- 1 almost 
finished Honiton tortoise sampler,  1 very large tablecloth edging ( just 10 
repeats to do) 1 Multicoloured dragon (very large) 1 Bucks Point snowman 
(started for Christmas but not completed in time ) 1 braid glove in black , oh 
and 1 cross stitch of 2 Chinese children started about 3years ago I'm ashamed 
to say but put away and forgotten.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk
U.K.

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[lace] This year's project

[Janis Savage]

Hi all
Sue Babbs has very kindly uploaded 3 photos on to my Flickr set.
This is the project I have been busy with for the whole year.

Following the Witwatersrand Lace Guild's convention in Bloemfontein in 
November 2012. They were asked to submit an entry for the exhibition 
this year commemorating the centenary of the Women's Monument at the War 
Museum of the Boer Republics in Bloemfontein. Well, somehow I got 
delegated to make the actual lace!

The monument is 37 metres high and is made in the local sandstone. The 
bronze figures of the women and the dead child was from a design by 
Emily Hobhouse and constructed by Anton van Wouw.
My lace monument is 53cms high and 59cms wide. It took 2 reels of Filato 
per Tombolo di Cantu cotton thread No. 50 and Egyptian cotton 180/2 for 
the figures. It was made in sections, rolling the edges as with Withof 
Lace and took approximately 430 hours from September 2012 to September 
2013. This included a lot of practice pieces and undoing and redoing, 
especially in the figures. When doing the actual monument, every evening 
when I sat down with my pillow and 100 or more bobbins on it, my husband 
would say I was putting another brick in the wall or laying another row 
of bricks.
To keep the figures of the women and child to the correct scale of the 
monument, they are only 7cms tall, so an enlargement is provided for you 
to see the actual hand-made lace. The wreath is composed of white 
flowers made by members of the Witwatersrand Lace Guild. The Women's 
monument was erected tin memory of the 4177 women and 22074 children who 
died in the concentration camps during the second Anglo-Boer war, 11 
October 1899 until 31 May 1902, and was unveiled on 16th December 1913. 
A repeat of the unveiling ceremony was enacted on Dec 16 2013. It was 
rather overshadowed though, by the passing of Nelson Mandela and the 10 
days of National mourning.

We drove the 4 hours to Bloemfontein to deliver it to the museum when it 
was all framed, and spent some time with the new lace group in Bloem - 
Rosestad Kant (Rose City Lace).  The exhibition will be open until the 
end of February 2013 and I hope that the museum will keep the lace 
monument on show.
It was a mammoth task and took up most of my lacemaking time this year. 
I hope that I can get back to doing some more conventional lace this year.

Season's greetings and best wishes for 2014, with lots of time to 
practice and perfect our lacemaking skills.
from
Janis Savage
in midsummer in Honeydew near Johannesburg.

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[lace] uploading photos

[Janis Savage]

I am really impressed with the Christmas cards on Jenny Brandis's site 
and wish I could have taken part this year.


I want to upload some photos onto the flickr site showing what I have 
been up to lacewise but, having only done it once before, I have 
forgotten how to do it.
I have printed out Lorelei's instructions from 1/11/2012 but it keeps on 
asking for a Yahoo ID and password and I cannot get past this stage.

Please will someone send me instructions for dummies.

Season's greetings to everyone and may you have plenty of time for 
important things, like making lace, in 2014

from
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Re: [lace] Bobbin Lace Animation

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for Christmas concert Jean Mary.
I really enjoyed it and it started my day with a smile on my face.
Season's greetings to everyone.

Janis Savage
in a sunny South Africa

On 2013/12/05 09:38 AM, Jean Mary Eke wrote:

Dear Fellow Spiders
We have animated my bobbin lace rabbits and you can see the result  best on my
Website.
http://jeanmaryeke.co.uk/Christmas_Concert.php

http://jeanmaryeke.co.uk/Movie.html


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Re: [lace] Bull Brand Irish Linen

[Janis Savage]

Treasure it Noelene.
Today's linen thread will never be as smooth and strong as this.
I do not know the Bull Brand linen but I recently acquired some 'Square
Sail' linen 60/2 and am using it at the moment for a torchon runner. I
wound it from the wooden reel into a hank and washed it first and it did
not shrink one iota.
I don't know when they stopped harvesting and processing flax into linen
by hand and started using machines but the old linen is spun with
lo-o-ong fibres which makes it so smooth and strong, whereas todays flax
is chopped up by the machines so can never be as smoothly spun.

On 2013/11/26 12:33 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote:

I have just acquired from a deceased estate a quantity of reels of Bull
brand Irish Linen, 100/2 - Brenda's book says it is 33 WPC.  I gather it is
no longer available, a Google search did not turn up any hits.

It is a very smooth thread, no slubs, compared to the 100/2 Fresia I have
been using for Christmas decorations.

Warm greetings from

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[lace] The Lace Place

[Janis Savage]

When I moved to South Africa in 1979, it was almost impossible to obtain 
anything for bobbin lace. The number of lacemakers was steadily 
increasing though, so only in 1988 did I decide that if no-one else was 
going to import lacemaking things then I would have a go. I knew nothing 
about business but I wrote to all the overseas suppliers and they were 
all very helpful and I had many an argument with customs officials 
trying to explain what bobbins etc. were used for and that linen thread 
was not the same as bed linen.  It was only when the local agent for 
Batsford Books said that I had to have a proper business name for them 
to supply me, that I thought I was being incredibly original in choosing 
The Lace Place as my business name.
It was a few years later that my friend Mary Hughes visited her family 
in Perth and from there visited The Lace Place in Hyden, that I realised 
that I was not original at all. She brought me back a souvenir leaflet 
and a pair of bobbins. I would love to visit myself.
My own Lace Place though continued to take over my life and at one time 
was the only supplier in Southern Africa.
I don't know what I would do without it now.  I think they will have to 
carry me out feet first clutching my lace pillow.


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[lace] heelball

[Janis Savage]

I had never heard of heelball until I needed some to copy lace prickings 
by taking rubbings on the back of the pricking.

I got ine from my next-door-neighbour, who was a cobbler.

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[lace] Prickings

[Janis Savage]

When I first learned to make lace at Kempston School's evening classes, 
near Bedford, UK We had to first trace the pricking from the original, 
then prick through onto brown pricking card, mark in the relevant lines 
with pencil(which could be rubbed out in case of a mistake) and then go 
over it with ink and rub out the pencil lines.
I also still have my piece of heelball for taking a rubbing of a 
pricking too.


When I first started to teach in the early 1990's, I taught the same 
method, until I realised the benefit of the photocopy machine. Blue 
contact was cheap then so we used it to cover the white photocopy but 
still used pricking card underneath.
Now I still recommend using glazed pricking card for a pattern that is 
going to be used more than once, otherwise I have learned to print onto 
regular coloured project card and only use clear contact if the lace is 
going to be starched. I still preprick a pattern to save on eye strain 
trying to get pins in accurately and to prevent backache trying to see 
where the pin-holes are.


When in Malta I learned to use the blue contact with the pricking 
sandwiched between the blue front and the backing paper. No cardboard 
needed. Mind you the Maltese pillows are so hard that I never want to 
use one again.


I still cannot bear to see lace being made on a single sheet of 
photocopy paper.


--
Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place
www.thelaceplace.co.za

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[lace] William Hall Co

[Janis Savage]

I just thought I would let you know that I have managed to contact 
William Hall  Co via telephone and after a nice gentleman named Philip 
sent me an email, whatever blockage there was in the airwaves seems to 
have disappeared so all is well. I can get my Bockens linen lace thread 
from him.
Thanks to everyone who sent addresses for other lace suppliers. I will 
look at them all in due course.

Lace greetings from
Janis Savage on the outskirts of Johannesburg

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Re: [lace] William Hall Yarns

[Janis Savage]

Thank you one and all for the responses to my question about William 
Hall Yarns. I had already tried the email address on the website and the 
one that I have had for a long time. Neither get a response. The Holma 
Helsingsland email address does not get a response either so, I will try 
the telephone number on Monday. I prefer email addresses as it is quite 
expensive to phone from this side of the world, but needs must!

I will let you know if I am successful.
Thanks from Janis in South Africa where another thunder storm is just 
starting.


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Re: [lace] suppliers

[Janis Savage]

Thanks Lorelei but I am the South African lace supplier. I need to 
replenish Bockens stock from either UK or Sweden


Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place
South Africa
www.thelaceplace.co.za

On 2013/11/14 11:54 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote:

If you look about 3/4 down this page, she has a board with South African
suppliers. Don't know if they will help.
Lorelei
http://www.pinterest.com/LaceNews/



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[lace] William Hall Yarns

[Janis Savage]

Hello all. I have been very quiet for a while as I have been very busy 
with a lace project, but now it is coming to an end and I have a query 
that I hope someone can answer.

What has happened to William Hall Yarns?
I have been buying Bockens linen thread from him for about 20 years and 
now both email addresses do not work. Is he still in business.
I have also emailed to Holma in Sweden, home of Bockens linen, and had 
no reply from them either.
It is difficult to keep up with happenings being so far away from the 
centres of lace civilisation, but I am hoping that a helpful spider will 
come up with the answer.

I need to replenish my stock for the lacemakers of South Africa

--
Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place
Honeydew, South Africa, where summer has arrived with temperatures of over 30 
degrees and thunder storms to go with it.

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[lace] Bookmark

[Janis Savage]

Dear Amber
Thank you so much for the lovely bookmark which arrived today.
Thank you also for the pricking. I shall enjoy making a bookmark from it one 
day.


Greetings from Janis in Honeydew, South Africa, where we have only had a 
couple of days of winter so far this year.
With temperatures up to 24C in the middle of the day, spring flowers are 
blooming already. 


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Re: [lace] Where can I buy this pattern?

[Janis Savage]

Thanks for the tiny URL Sue.
I don't know where that pattern comes from although it looks familiar, but I 
took the opportunity of looking at the whole gallery of pictures.

What inspiring laces there are! Wish I could go to a Spanish Lace Day.
I will keep the URL so that I can drool again another day.

Janis in South Africa

Subject: Re: [lace] Where can I buy this pattern?

Here's a tiny url for it:



Sue

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Re: [lace] New poem

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for another inspiring poem Noelene.
You seem to put into verse, just what we are all thinking.
Congratulations.
If I manage to get to Adelaide for OIDFA I will look forward to getting a 
copy of your proposed book.
I will also look through my few original designs to see if thee is anything 
suitable for you to include.

Janis in South Africa
where we are having some very welcome rain before the dry winter starts.

...Noelene in Cooma
nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au

Lacemaking is such an adaptable skill
It can suit many levels and ages.
And with internet access to help show the way Just tackle each problem in
stages. 


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[lace] How many types od lace?

[Janis Savage]

I have been reading about all the different types of lace that you all do 
and am amazed how you all find the time.
I must say that my first passion is bobbin lace. I don't mind what type of 
bobbin lace it is, I just love it.
I have done a bit of most types and find that after 35 years, I can teach 
most types without actually having to make it myself. Then I feel jealous of 
my pupils because they do such wonderful work.
At the moment I have on my pillows a torchon runner and a withof picture, 
apart from a string of bookmarks on my travel pillow.
I am also helping an artist to make lace installations using 8mm thick 
plastic coated wire. It is a series of circles in different stitches, each 
one 2,5m in diameter.
The pricking is on supawood on the floor and we have to crawl about the 
floor to do it but I have just taught my gardener to make lace so that  I 
only have to set each new one up and then sit beside him and supervise. He 
is getting very good at it.
As for other types of lace, I have dabbled in needlelace, tatting, 
carrickmacross, greek fingerlace (macrame), Battenberg, but I keep on going 
back to my lace pillow.

Janis Savage
in Honeydew South Africa, where the Easter weekend promises lovely warm 
weather.


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Re: [lace] anniversary logo

[Janis Savage]

I think that is a lovely design Carolina.
It is maybe a bit big to go onto a bobbin, pin, flash drive etc., but I like 
it.


Janis in South Africa
Where the leaves are starting to fall from the trees but this autumn is just 
as hot as the summer has been.


--
This put my mind to think about designing something in Witchstitch  lace (
also  called Hinojosa lace) I shared it with the list and this was the 
result:

http://carolgallego.com/arachne.html

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[lace] Jean-Marie Leclair

[Janis Savage]

Yesterday, DH was listening to Classic FM on the radio and heard a piece of 
music whose composer was a lacemaker.
Being a good sort, he emailed to the presenter to ask for more information 
and got a reply today.
It seems that the composer Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764) came from a 
family of lacemakers. His father was a lacemaker and his mother a cellist 
and he was considered a master of both the violin and his father's 
lacemaking trade by the time he reached adulthood. He was born in Lyons, 
France, and h is 3 younger brothers were also musicians.


I expect that David Collyer would be able to give more information on the 
musical side and I don't know what lace would have been made in Lyons around 
1700 but I thought that it would be of interest to the list.

Greetings from
Janis in South AFrica 


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Re: [lace] Jenny Koops books - Distribution suggestion

[Janis Savage]

Thanks for all the suggestions for distributing Jenny Koops books. There are 
one or two other small South African Books too including Jean Horne's.
It is a difficult time to speak to Jenny at the moment as her husband has 
just had a stroke and is still in hospital but I will follow up on your 
suggestions.

Janis Savage
www.thelaceplace.co.za


-Original Message- 
From: jeria...@aol.com

Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 4:16 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Jenny Koops books - Distribution suggestion

Barbara Ballantyne, Australian expert on historic crochet, has her books
distributed by Lacis in the U.S.  She has at least one distributor in
Europe, I think in the U.K.

You might ask her how this works and find out if it is feasible for the
Koops book.

Jeri Ames in  Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource  Center

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Re: [lace] exchange/friendship

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for the mention Mary.
I am one of the guilty lurkers who do not post to Arachne very often but I 
have just spent a very pleasant hour reading about 50 Arachne emails on the 
importance of internet lace friendships amongst other things.
I agree but, all the regular contributors seem to be so quick off the mark 
in replying to a query that I usually think that my two-pennorth is not 
needed.
Being suitably chastened after Jeri's original post on lurkers versus 
volunteers, I will try to send my opinion a little more often now.
By the way, Jenny Koops has now published a book on 25 Bookmarks. Maybe I 
will put some in my suitcase when I (hopefully) come to Adelaide in 2014. I 
will need to make some extra money to buy dinkum Aussie lace goods like your 
cover cloths and aluminium bobbins from Shirley's DH (as if I needed any 
more bobbins).
Unfortunately, Mary Hughes who painted those lovely bobbins is not able to 
do it any more due to advanced age and macular degeneration of her eyes. She 
still manages to make lace though in an enlarged version using Perle No. 12 
and her memory of many years of making lace.


Janis Savage
in Honeydew South Africa
where I have just come back from a birthday lunch with the family and sent 
the grandchildren away with excess birthday cake to take to school tomorrow.

--

Must be 15 years ago that a self-published booklet 15 Lace Patterns of
Crosses by Jenny Koops of South Africa was mentioned on the list.  Janis
Savage arranged for friends of hers to carry a copy to Sydney and sent two
very nicely painted bobbins for me.

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Re: [lace] exchange/friendship

[Janis Savage]

Wish I could Sue. I don't think the sale of a few books would pay for the 
airfare though.
I did go to the lace Guild AGM weekend a few years ago and enjoyed it very 
much.

If you are going, have a great time.
Janis Savage

Now Janis never mind going to Oz and taking those books with you 
come to the UK and bring them here!!! LOL


We like books over here as well

Sue in a rather damp East Yorkshire

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Re: [lace] Christmas Greetings

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for you Christmas greetings Noelene.
Somehow the rhyme gives it a special meaning.
May you also have lots of good things ahead in 2013 and
Season's Greetings to one and all.
Janis in South Africa

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[lace] Jean Horne's Nativity scene

[Janis Savage]

Hello all
I have had several requests for the pricking for Jean Horne's Nativity scene 
and have sent a copy.

If anyone else wants it, just ask and I can send it all in one go.
Season's greetings from
Janis in South Africa 


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Re: [lace] Jean Horne nativity help

[Janis Savage]

I  have loaded the pricking of Jean Horne's nativity pricking to Flickr 
under my name.
I have not had an arachne photo site before so it was a new thing for me to 
do but it was fairly easy.
I asked Jean last year if she was willing to share her prickings and she 
said they were for everyone to use.
The patch under the nativity scene is made just as Sue Babbs described 
except that the cloth stitch is worked there and back before doing the CTCT 
with pairs between. so as to continue the diagonal lines of the ground.
I don't have my lace made from the pricking as I sent it last year in the 
Christmas Card exchange. You can see it on the 2011 Christmas card website.

Seasonn's greetings to all from
Janis Savage
in South Africa

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Re: [lace] Quiet?/what lace

[Janis Savage]

I am working on a picture of the National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein 
for it's centenary next year.
Part of the actual monument is done but the figures of the women on it have 
to be done in No. 180 thread in Withof techniques.
Well, after at least 6 attempts to get started and taken off again, I think 
I am at last making some progress. It has to be finished by March.
I have a torchon runner and a coloured bookmark on other pillows for when I 
need some light relief but Christmas lace is taking a back seat this year.


Janis in South Africa
where we had a very hot spring but summer is struggling to get started at 
the moment


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Re: [lace] lace page with patterns

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for posting this site Liz. Claudine must be a very generous person 
to share all her patterns and other lace info.


Janis in South Africa

http://dentelle-fuseau.pagesperso-orange.fr/carton.htm

Liz in chilly Missouri, USA 


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Re: [lace] Arachne Christmas Card Exchange

[Janis Savage]

Sorry not to be taking part in the Christmas card exchange this year. I have 
much on my plate that I would not have time to make lace for a card.

I will take part next year.
Greetings to all anyway.
from
Janis Savage  in South Africa
where we are in the final countdown to the lace convention in Bloemfontein 
next weekend.


-Original Message- 
From: lac...@aol.com

Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:37 PM
To: lace@arachne.com ; lace-c...@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Arachne Christmas Card Exchange

?
Good morning everyone,
?
Pairing are taking a little longer than planned. I unexpectedly was called
into work last night. I will send them out later today, as soon as I have 
had

some sleep. Sorry for the delay.
?
Amber
Forest, Va

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Re: [lace] Doreen Wright

[Janis Savage]

Yes, Diana
This book is about Doreen Wright who started the Lace Guild. Her son, Bill, 
contacted me a year or more ago to ask for information about her visit to 
South Africa in the early 1980's. I don't know if the book goes as far as 
her lacemaking activities.

Janis Savage in Honeydew, South Africa

Can anyone confirm that this is the Doreen Wright who was a lacemaker and 
author, and was the chairman at the time when the English Lace Guild was 
formed?
There was an article in today's Daily Mail newspaper which got me thinking. 
After a search I found the link below.


http://www.doreensdiary.org.uk/

Diana Smith in Northamptonshire

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Re: [lace] lace photos

[Janis Savage]

Wow, her lace is amazing, and I love her use of stitches in the swan and the 
ferns. Does Pene Piip, perhaps, know who Helene Kuma is and something about 
the Museum of Amandus Adamson, Paldiski, Estonia

Janis in Honeydew South Africa
where we are promised the first rain of the season today.

-Original Message- 
From: Lorelei Halley

If you love ferns, you will love this lace:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bobbinlace/pool/with/7886470258/#photo_7886470258

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Re: [lace] RE: lace-digest V2012 #112

[Janis Savage]

Thank you Jane for the link to www.loop.ph Being far away from the centre of 
design we miss out on these innovations. The images of their Luminous Lace 
are so inspiring.
I have forwarded it on to Kim as, luckily, I do not have to think of a 
design. That is her job. I just advise on how to do the lace. i.e. what is 
possible and what is not!

I know what I will be going to look at if I ever get another trip to the UK.
Many thanks from
Janis in springlike Johannesburg (Honeydew)
---
Dear All,
I've just seen the thread on light-emitting lace.
Its best exponents are www.loop.ph, whose amazing creation at Kensington
Palace can be googled by putting in 'Kensington Palace lace'.  It's not just
a question of making it (although that is staggering) but you also have to
know about the electronics that light it up.
Cheers,
Jane Atkinson

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[lace] Fibre Optic cable

[Janis Savage]

Thank you Sue for this extra information. I am sending it all on to Kim to
mull over. She has a contact who supplies Fibre Optic cable and is willing
to sponsor the work, and may have more info about the properties of it.
I am busy at the moment getting ready for 2 more conventional lace
exhibitions. One this week in Johannesburg and one at the end of October in
Bloemfontein, so I hope that Kim will do the research and designing so that
I do not have to start until the new year.
These weaving sites will be very useful. I do seem to remember that the 98
group did something in F/O a while ago.
I will post to arachne when there is something worthwhile to report.
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Re: [lace] Fibre Optic cable

[Janis Savage]

Thank you Jennifer.
Every bit of info will be useful. Kim has someone here who supplies F/O 
cable and is willing to sponsor her work, so we will see what happens.

Greetings from Janis

-Original Message- 
From: Jennifer Audsley

Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 12:48 PM
To: Sue Babbs
Cc: Arachne ; Janis Savage
Subject: Re: [lace] Fibre Optic cable

I purchased small quantities on Ebay from a seller The FiberOpticStore.
That was end emitting, but he may be able to help with side emitting. Side
emitting is much more expensive, and bear in mind that end-emitting does
leak some light along its length. Worth having a play. All fibre optic
cable is cheaper the more you buy (a full reel is always cheaper), but the
Ebay guy is reasonable for shorter lengths. No affils etc, just a satisfied
customer. Do upload progress pics. You will need an LED  power supply to
light it up. My ex-husband is an electronic engineer  has lent me a little
test rig. I suggest you keep the individual  fibre lengths long to make it
easier to connect to the power supply. Have fun!!
Jen in Melbourne, Australia.

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[lace] Fibre Optic cable

[Janis Savage]

I would just like to say Thanks to Claire, Sue, Kate, Cherry and Jennifer 
for their response to my query on using Fibre Optic cable for bobbin lace. 
All your snippets of information will be very useful but I think we will 
have to do some experimenting of our own. I will let you know if anything 
comes of it (probably next year).

Greetings from
Janis in springtime in sunny South Africa. 


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[lace] Fibre Optic cable

[Janis Savage]

My lace life is very busy at the moment with several projects on the go at
the same time and here comes another one.
I have been making lace for a conceptual artist, and teaching her to make
lace as well, for several years now.
Neither of us make a lot of money at it but it is getting lace out there
into the main stream of the art world.

After I told her that lace has been made with fibre optic cable, she now has
an idea of doing a project with it.
The trouble is that I have never used it. Is there someone amongst you
clever spiders who can give me some information on the properties of fibre
optic cable and how it can be used for a bobbin lace project.
Are there different thicknesses and if so what is the easiest one to work
with?
I cannot imagine winding it onto bobbins, so how does one handle it while
working?
Does the pricking have to be a rather large scale?
Any information will be a great help to me. I am quite excited about trying
it out.

Janis Savage in sunny South Africa

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Re: [lace] newest lace

[Janis Savage]

Congratulations Lorelei. I love your idea of making, and publishing, your
examples of so many different types of lace, Non lacemakers have no idea of
just how many interesting types of lace there are.
Janis in South Africa.
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I just finished another lace from Barbara Underwood's book, #9.
http://lynxlace.com/bobbinlacenewrevival.html  It is the first one on that
page.

Lorelei 


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[lace] Re: Margaretenspitzen is in South Africa! - 2

[Janis Savage]

Dear Jeri
I am sending this to Arachne as well as personally as it has quite a bit of
lace content. (I hope it will be OK Avital, to keep the previous posts in).
My friend Luise has worked the samples in the magazine but  it has only
whetted her appetite to know more. She is like that!
Feel free to send the museum info to Devon Thien. She may be able to apply
some pressure through the connection of museums to at least preserve correctly
all the ‘colonial’ artefacts.
We do have some very good new museums like the Apartheid museum and many
apartheid era sites like the Mandela House and Lilliesleaf farm are being
turned into museums. It is the older history that is at risk.
The War Museum in Bloemfontein commemorates the Anglo/Boer War and the
concentration camps. It has been closed this year for a major refurbishment
and is due to re-open next March, for the centenary of the Women’s monument
which is in the grounds of the museum. We can only wait and see if it has been
changed at all when it reopens.
I must tell you though that 2013 has been designated ‘The year of Lace’ by
the museum in honour of the Koppies Lace School and Emily Hobhouse. Thanks to
the tremendous amount of work in organising it by our chairman Louis
Oosthuizen, our guild, The Witwatersrand Lace Guild, is now making a large
lace banner to be presented next March at the centenary celebrations. As
nobody else volunteered, I have been delegated to make the monument itself in
lace. It is a tall obelisk with 2 women and a dead child at the base and lower
levels at each side depicting war scenes. It is quite a challenge. I have done
the obelisk and plinth and am now taking a few deep breaths before tackling
the female figures in Withof techniques. Other members are making individual
flowers of the veld to surround it.
I will send more information as it unfolds nearer to the time.
Greetings from Janis
Subject: Re: Margaretenspitzen is in South Africa! - 2

Dear Janis,

Marji is a close friend of Tess Parrish here in Maine.  Therefore, we have had
information about Margaretenspitzen for quite some time.  One member of the
Lacemakers of Maine has been experimenting with it since early this year.  She
is not very experienced in the needlearts, but has had success.  So, your
friend should be able to work from the magazine.  Yes, a book is in the works,
but I do not want to add pressure to the matter of Marji's publishing that, so
did not mention it.

It seems that you are going through what Eastern Europe experienced in the
20th C.  It is most unfortunate.  I hope that your lace organization can
request special access to the lace collection, or maybe even have some say in
where it is housed in the future so that it can be accessed and studied.  I am
familiar with the history of South Africa.  Mary Gostelow of England wrote a
very informative book, published in 1976, Embroidery South Africa which
included the history of the Boers.  My library also has 2 books on whitework
embroidery by Hetsie vanWyk of South Africa, from the 1970's.  Very difficult
to obtain at the time, but even back then I was a persistent book collector.

Would you mind if I sent the museum information to Devon Thein?  She works as
a volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  I think they would
be interested in what is happening in South African museums.

Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

In a message dated 8/22/2012 4:28:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za writes:
  Hello Jeri
  Thank you for taking the trouble to write to me about the Piecework
magazine.
  Actually, my friend Luise who is wanting to learn more about
Margaretenspetzen was sent a copy of the article by a friend of hers and gave
a copy to me. She has emailed to Maji Suhm and I believe that there will
shortly be a book about it. I then remembered that Dora was trying to promote
it some years back and sent me a knotted Fox in our bookmark exchange. I had
it for quite a time but then gave it to my grandson as he took a fancy to it.
  I stick mainly to bobbin lace but Luise is crazy about all the more obscure
types of lace and other crafts. Wish I could have gone to Caen too but I am
saving hard to go to the next congress in Adelaide as I can visit my son and
grandchildren in Melbourne on the same trip.
  In South Africa, we lacemakers are quite a close knit ‘family’ as we
have a government that is not interested in anything that is
‘Eurocentric’. Our president even gave a speech very recently, saying that
we should ‘decolonialise our museums’! I was at the Johannesburg Art
Gallery recently and all the Dutch old masters have disappeared (hopefully in
correct storage) as well as the lace collection. All have been replaced by
African art.
  We are having a lace convention in Bloemfontein in October though, in honour
of Emily Hobhouse. She started the first lace school in South Africa and did a
lot of good works to help the destitute Boer 

Re: [lace] Dora Northern

[Janis Savage]

Thank you for the information Agnes. The email address is not the one I had 
so will give it a try. I did have her postal address and telephone number a 
long time ago as she was my bookmark exchange partner one year. I had not 
realised she was missing from the list until I wanted to get in touch with 
her again. Of course, she could be on one of her long holidays to far flung 
places! It is your summer holiday time after all.

Thanks anyway.
Janis Savage


-Original Message- 
From: Agnes Boddington

Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:56 PM
To: Janis Savage
Subject: Re: [lace] Dora Northern

Hello Janis
I have sent several emails to Dora, but no reply.
A couple of weeks ago, I did get read-receipts, but no further response.
This is the email address I have for her: doranorth...@tiscali.co.uk
Also have her address and tel nummer, if you'd like to email me
privately, I can give you these.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK


Being so far away from the centre of lace civilisation, I may have missed
some important news but I am sure that there is someone on this list who 
can

help.
I have not seen any post from Dora Northern for a very long time and her
email address does not work any more. Can anyone tell me if she is OK or
perhaps has a new email address.


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[lace] Re Honiton in ITV

[Janis Savage]

I have been trying to send this email for about 3 days now but have finally 
managed to change Arachne to my new email address.


Thanks for the link Louise and Sue. I enjoyed watching Pat Perryman
demonstrating her Honiton Lace and telling the story of it. It was also
interesting how they linked it to the modern textile factory using old
machines. I also enjoyed watching Betty Boothroyd wearing her Honiton
jabot and walking hand in hand with Nelson Mandela. It is his 94th
birthday on July 18th. Has anyone made him a piece of lace yet?

Greetings from Janis in Honeydew, South Africa.
Where we are having a really cold snap with some areas under snow. Luckily 
not here. 


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Re: [lace] A New Princess and Bobbin lace!

[Janis Savage]

Dear Ewa
Thanks for the news of the birth of your new princess. When the news is 
always full of doom and gloom all over the world, it is so nice to hear some 
good news for a change. I can sense how excited you are about it and I am 
sure all other Swedes are too.
I hope that Princess Estelle will take an interest in the lace of her very 
own county.

Greetings from
Janis Savage
in South Africa where it is still sunny and warm but there is a hint of 
autumn in the evening air.


-Original Message- 
From: Ewa Eskilsson


Sewden has got a New Princess! Our Crown princess Viktoria and her husband
Prins Daniel were blessed with a little and very pretty Princess last 
Thursday

23 Febr.!


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Re: [lace] making lace with my granddaughter

[Janis Savage]

Hi Rosemarie, I just realised that I forgot to send congratulations to you 
and your granddaughter for getting a new generation of lacemakers started. 
It was late at night when I posted and my manners were already asleep.  I 
think little girls often overlook what their mothers do and want to copy 
their grandmothers. Let's hope that the enthusiasm continues.


Greetings from
Janis in Honeydew, South Africa where it is a lovely sunny (30C) day and I 
am just about to get my lace pillow out and sit in the shade.




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Re: [lace] making lace with my granddaughter

[Janis Savage]

Dear Rose and spiders
I just have to join in and tell you that I also have a 7 year old 
granddaughter (she will be 8 in February) who has just become a lacemaker.
She and her little sister came to stay in early December and I took them to 
a lace day with me. I did not get any of my own lace done that day as we 
started a multicoloured snake and everyone made her feel very special and 
admired it.
It was not finished that day but next morning when I got up at about 6.30am, 
I found her already up and sitting at the lace pillow determined to finish 
her snake before leaving, which she did. I promised to make up her own 
lacemaking kit for Christmas and on Christmas day her face lit up on 
receiving it.
Today, New Year's Eve I have the girls to stay again and we made a fish 
(from the Lace Guild website) in 1 hour. Maybe we will make anther one 
tomorrow so that she will remember how to start the next one herself.

I am as pleased as punch.
It is now just 2012 and I have just finished watching the Royal Variety 
Show. It is time I went to bed so that I can be a wide awake granny 
tomorrow.

Happy New Year to one and all.
Janis in Honeydew South Africa

Dear Spiders
I very rarely post but I had to tell you...

I've had my 7 year old granddaughter to stay and I was delighted to get her
making bobbin lace.
We made a highly prized silver snake with a purple strip down its back and
golden bead eyes.
Rosemarie Peel
Nuneaton UK


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[lace] Fw: Nativity Pricking

[Janis Savage]

From: Janis Savage
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 10:42 AM
To: Lyn Bailey
Subject: Re: Nativity Pricking

Hi Lyn
I don’t understand why you have not received my email. I sent it to this
address but I keep on receiving messages from mailer-daemon to say that it is
still in the queue.
I have sent the attachment to Sue Babbs and to Sallie in Wyoming and they seem
to have received it OK. So I have asked Sue Babbs to forward it on to you.
The emails re David’s hankie, I sent to david’s email address and to
arachne. I did not sent the pricking scan to arachne as it is unable to
receive attachments.
I hope you will receive it via Sue.

Christmas greetings from Janis

From: Lyn Bailey
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 1:15 AM
To: Janis Savage
Subject: Nativity Pricking

I have not received anything yet.  I have made sure I added you to my
contacts, but have not seen any email from you with an attachment.  Just the
ones re David’s hankie.  I will certainly let you know when I receive it.
lrb


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[lace] linen hankie

[Janis Savage]

Hello David
DH went to the post box today and came back with  a small box which he could 
not figure out what was inside. As soon as I saw it I knew that it was the 
linen hankie from you. I did not believe that it would arrive before 
Christmas but, thanks to a lot of posties working overtime, it did.
It is a beautiful hankie in fine linen and I will make sure that I make an 
edging worthy.

Many thanks from
Janis in Honeydew, South Africa
where it has been 29C all week but rain is forecast for Christmas day. 



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[lace] David

[Janis Savage]

Hello again David
I forgot to add that it was lovely to meet you this year and I hope you have 
a sumptuous Christmas in your cosy home.
from Janis 



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[lace] Nativity scene

[Janis Savage]

To Lyn Bailey
Hi Lyn,
I have sent a scan of Jean Horne's pricking to your private email address 
but my server says that it has not been able to deliver it for over 24 hours 
now. Please can you let me know if I should try sending it again or, have 
you switched your computer off due to the pressure of the Festive season?

Janis Savage in South Africa


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Re: [lace] Shawl finished

[Janis Savage]

What a beautiful shawl Agnes. It is amazing how exciting torchon can be when 
itis enlarged and made with colours and texture.

Have a happy and restful Christmas. You deserve it.
Janis in Honeydew, South Africa, where the weather is beautiful.

Subject: [lace] Shawl finished

Last night I finished a Torchon shawl for my daughter for Christmas. When I
started it 2 moths ago, I was not sure whether it would be for Christmas
2011 or 2012, but I did it, and am quite pleased with the result.
The material was a mixture of alpaca wool, silk and rayon in lace weight.
Not the easiest to work with at it is very slippy and I used standard
English bobbins with spangles.


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Re: [lace] Linen centres Raffle Restuls

[Janis Savage]

What a lovely surprise for Christmas, David and thanks to your partner 
Lindsay for doing the draw.
I can't wait for the New Year now to choose a very special edging for the 
linen hankie.
I am busy being grandmother at the moment so my lace pillow does not get 
much of a look in, but I can dream of what to do in 2012.
Maybe you should hold off on the posting until the Christmas postal rush is 
over. I would not like it to get lost in the post.


Best wishes for the Festive Season
from Janis in Honeydew South Africa
where we are having some much needed rain today.

Subject: [lace] Linen centres Raffle Restuls
today during my lunch time assignation, I got my partner Lindsay to
draw the 9 names of those who are to receive an Irish linen
spoke-stitched handkerchief. 



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[lace] Christmas card recieved

[Janis Savage]

Hello Janet
I received your Christmas card today with the beautifully made Gold Lace 
Bell on it.
It is only the 3rd card I have received so far this year so it has centre 
stage on my chimney breast.

Thank you very much.
I only posted one to you on Monday this week so I hope that it arrives in 
time for Christmas.

Lace greetings from
Janis Savage
in sunny Honeydew, South Africa, although rain is forecast for next weekend.


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[lace] UK Lace Magazine

[Janis Savage]

Hi Pene
I have just received my Lace magazine today and on a quick perusal it looks 
like a good read. I must find a nice quiet time with no chance of 
interuptions to sit in a deckchair in the garden and enjoy it. Hope you have 
received yours too.


Janis in Honeydew, South Africa 



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