up into the
gallery.
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. Maybe they'll get hooked. If just one person starts to make lace
because of a book they found in a charity shop, that's one more person to keep
it alive.
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monetary
value) have been lost permanently in circumstances like this.
The owner is obviously being very wise now in intending to take it to a
cleaner who specialises in lace items.
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Subject: Re: [lace] 150-year old wedding dress
The thing about this story
the quality of what David and
Jean produced.
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they will do about it. Just have
to check the archives for Jeri's posts.
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ide on how to change default app settings in the
new OS.
I'm sticking with 8.1 - a coupe of friends have had disasters with 10 and 8.1
works fine for me and I know that even my old programs will work with it.
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not only
used a Yahoo address to send from, but also send t to the dontpanix address
instead of arachne, because they don't appear in the archive.
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if a book you are thinking about buying is included on one of
these sites and you can look before you buy, and also for a book which is
unobtainable/out of print, but obviously there are some who will abuse it.
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As well as fabric dye, I once read that you can convert washable ink into
permanent ink by adding vinegar. Haven't tried it, but the principle was
explained as the difference in the acidity of the two.
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Could it be from this Torchon Bead Bracelet Book:
http://harlequinlace.com/products/torchon-beaded-bracelets-book
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> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:50:37 -0500
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&
there
are two pages side-by-side.
Don't think I'll be bothering.
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David wrote:
I heard on the Antique Road Show this week that dust is merely face
powder for old furniture!!
Like it! That's going to be my reason from now on. Previously it was because
Quentin Crisp said that after the third year, dust doesn't get any worse.
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the Spinster, it's also a lot cheaper.
Amazon is selling the Spinster for GBP14.95, Maplins is selling the mini drill
for just GBP5.99
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I always thought that the reason for working some laces from the back was for
several reasons including:
Sewings joining end to start is on the wrong side and so is the sewing in of
ends.
The very short ends of threads thrown out and cut off weren't visible from the
right side.
if you need to
Either this driver is completely stupid or he's having a laugh. I expect the
latter because I'm sure he would have slammed the phone down at the help desk
reaction if he was being serious.
https://www.facebook.com/disturbreality/videos/1069814916395918/?pnref=story
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Looks like Ebay are true to their word. Just searched for items by this seller
and there are none.
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Correction.
Nothing came up when searching for items by the seller, but there are still a
lot listed when searching by other means. He's calling his items DAPHNE
Collection.
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I had some success with sealing a book in a ballooned plastic bag with a
fridge odour remover pack for a month.
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) on to paper
or card in the right place is hit and miss and very tiring.
I used to draw markings on pricking card or trace but now I can't, so it's
photocopy or scan and, if it's my own design use Lace XRP with snap-to-grid
switched on.
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than if written on white.
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And why not photocopy in colour, keeping the practical brown background?
Then you would not need to make all that extra work of eliminating it and
would not have to use the blue film. Well, I would do that.
Greetings from Spain
My OH has just said he would use the remove colour cast tool in a photo
editing program to change the grey to white. We both use Photo Shop Elements,
but different editions - they all have that tool.
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tool with
white or use the paint bucket to fill the grey area with white. It depends on
how the grey is made up as to whether the colour replacement tool will work or
not.
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I received the (Lace) Don't waste time message from Lun Hudrun and from Janet
Theaker and didn't click the link, but Malware Bytes has found malicious items
which obviously got through AVG so think I'll change my anti-virus program.
Been busy re-setting passwords.
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If you think you've trained your dog, think again:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/uqlGn-K42U8?rel=0
I had a Border Collie and it was as thick as a brick - frightened of sheep.
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Whoops - forgot the link.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/African-Head-Unique-Bobbin-Lace-One-of-a-Kind-Wall-
Art-original-piece-by-Mia-/291374054516?pt=UK_art_Paintings_GLhash=item43d73
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or tinied:
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/TARDIS
including photos. I find the programme quite scary, but them I'm a wimp.
A lot of the Doctor's adversaries would make good subjects for lace.
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Sorry for previous link didn't realise is was via Outlook. Try this one:
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10200387320826253
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Very touching, but I wouldn't trust it:
http://www.vitality101.com/Fun/lion-kisses-rescuer
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Looking at the salamander picture reminded me of this picture.
http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/switzerland-belgium/development-iii/
Joke Sinclair
All artists get their inspiration from somewhere.
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a hobby!
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and accept my limitations.
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For your blood stain, if you haven't already washed it, your own saliva will
dissolve the blood. Just suck it and see!
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Since then I had some dental work and have since found a small blood spot
on
the shoulder of a blue cotton blouse, so would things like
On second thoughts it might not be that simple because the blood has dried,
but worth a go. It definitely works for fresh blood, but must be the saliva of
the same person as the blood.
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Locating Everything
(GOOGLE).
That is how it all began. And that's
the truth.
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to ensure that it
opens to an approximate semi-circle and stops each stick flopping all over the
place.
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no good if you want to go with deeply
coloured ones as some are now choosing to do.
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to traditional
hand-made laces of the same names.
It appears to be that Guipure means robust motifs joined together with
brides rather than a net ground, Chantilly fairly fine with mesh ground and
often with a border, Alencon a fine(ish) lace with all-over repeated outlined
motifs.
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There's a Crafts badge which includes lace-making at least for the UK:
http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/guides/gfibadge/badges/craft.html
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Dear Amber, et al,
I found the Textile Artist badge, but there is no online information as
to the requirements. Ah well
version rather than the author's.
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http://tinyurl.com/ndexmf5
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to have it printed on paper and not necessarily on buff
card as the original was and prick it themselves. This would make it very
cheap for them to produce.
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I'm going by the American editions of the Antiques Road Show that have been
shown in the UK, which of course is the only way we can judge what's
considered an antique in the US. Obviously the experts on that programme
have been lax in their definition of an antique.
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are if you use the US version)!
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This second one didn't sell - even at only £10.00
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the totally different result.
Ebay is behaving strangely lately.
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collection is Wow!
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tinied:
http://tinyurl.com/nntydkv
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.
Looks too new for animal ivory, but could be vegetable ivory. or as has been
suggest some sort of plastic.
Used as a knife rest, it would roll.
My favourite suggest is a bead for a door curtain, but I'm not convinced about
that.
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was correct his
eyesight.
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I shouldn't have said I found nothing - I did find tables, but no lace foyer
table.
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lace?? Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
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Looks like Stuart Johnson's web site is in the process of being built - all I
got was details of just four of his bobbins.
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when learning about the different laces we make.
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In Issue 56, February of 2014 of Sew - Home and Style theres a 3-page
article about
lace (starts on page 28) entitled Laced in History. Its a UK
publication and
therefore only deals with the UK.
The first page is about
Honiton lace by Margaret Lewis of
Allhallows Museum, who finishes by
for instructions books.
I wasnt
impressed, but I think Id probably be wasting my time pointing out to
them what theyve omitted in their suggestions on how to get started,
and especially telling them how awful the House of Crafts kit is.
Jean Nathan in Poole, Dorset, UK
to the base of the pillow, never on the side where the lace in progress,
bobbins and pins are. So that problem never arises. I'd assume that everyone
does the same.
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that edition is lost forever, but at least
we'll know that that avenue can't be pursued further.
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looking is unclear.
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In the UK Staples carries both two- and four-ring A4 plain cover binders in
two, possibly three thicknesses. Rymans might also carry them.
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Lace.)
It also states what is and is not permitted - it's an offence to copy work
without the consent of the owner. Use for educational purposes is allowed (but
I don't think saying you are using it to learn Floral Bucks would count as
educational!)
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which have no designer noted on them, it would
really need to be established when it was first made available to establish
when copyright runs out - good luck with that.
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regarding another Ruth Bean publication?
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- Anne Buck, C.C. Channer - Ruth Bean, 1 Dec 1991 ISBN-10:
090358526X ISBN-13: 978-0903585262The supplement is titled:
Miss Channer's Lace Mat
Supplement to In the Cause of English Lace
by Anne
Buck
published 1991 by Ruth Bean Publishers
Carlton, Bedford MK34 7LP,
England
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and those two have to be
mirrored for the other half.
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a lot to have the machinery set up to do that, and
that could be part of the reason why Ruth Bean was unwilling to produce more.
But I suspect that most people would be willing to prick it themselves if they
could just get their hands on a legal print of the pricking.
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Adele wrote:
Hmmm. Not to start an international copyright war, or anything, but - suppose
somebody did make that mat from the photo, without using the pricking that
Ruth Bean published. Would they be able to, say, make a hi-resolution scan of
the mat that they made, and then either sell it or
who
knows the business has been sold and whether or not any books are in print?
There doesn't appear to be any information on the web - I suppose it's on
Facebook. Don't these people realise they're missing out on a lot of people if
they don't also have a web page?
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the author's death.
But does anyone know where it is?
The pricking published by Ruth Bean was reconstructed for them by Patricia
Bury, and Ruth Bean owns the copyright to this version of the pricking.
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print them on one page for reference while working.
If you're used to the toolbar selection of functions it takes a while to get
used to the right-click on the page way of doing it. Although most other
programs used this method, the way RXP does it gets ingrained into your
brain.
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and the download is on:
http://crafts.ilsoft.co.uk/pages/Downloads.aspx
I have no connection with Ilsoft, but really like their lace design program
and have upgraded as each new edition came out. I'm currently using Lace8 on
Windows 8.1 - a big jump from my almost-dead Windows XP system.
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This is another case of We don't know what they are but why let the truth get
in the way of a sale? Most of the world don't know what lace bobbins look
like, so we'll call them lace bobbins so a non-lacemaker will buy them, and
we'll get rid of them.
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it for a stupidly large amount on ebay.
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putting
in the effort every year to bring us the calendar.
Thanks again.
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I got it OK by clicking on the first part of the link - the second part is the
same but has the last few characters missing.
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To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] FW: Your Christmas Card
From: scotl...@aol.com
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:43:00
Patricia wrote:
I can knit and have done so since my teen years but I find crochet
difficult.
It isn't that I don't understand as I do and it is simple. The problem
lies
in how I have to hold my hands to crochet; it causes problems for them and
did
so long before I developed arthritis in my
I've got a stick of heelball from when I did my teacher training many, many
years ago. We had it for taking rubbings of tree bark, stone walls and other
textured surfaces. Could be useful in getting natural patterns as
inspiration for designing lace.
As for my pen thickening, I've concluded that
According to the on-line dictionary:
A wax colored with lampblack that is used to stain and polish the edges
of
the soles and heels of shoes or to take rubbings of brass or stone
inscriptions.
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Is anyone else as ham-fisted as me? I can turn a 0.1mm drawing pen into at
least a 0.3mm one in the time it takes to put the markings on one pricking?
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Adele wrote:
I guess you must be using a soft-tipped pen? There are some that are
hard-tipped - I think the one I found was from Staedtler (pigment liner). It
made very fine line (.05) and the ink was permanent. I think it was pricey,
though - maybe $10.
I use rOtring technical pens, around
In the UK readily available means you go to a specialist supplier for what
you want. Outlets like Asda (Walmart) only carry goods that will sell quickly,
and blue film isn't one of them. They might sell self-adhesive shelf covering,
but what I've seen in my local Wilko is opaque and patterned, so
Would Cindy Comeyne pleae contact me privately on jean...@hotmail.co.uk.
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Those of us who have sewing machines which can embroider in hoops can produce
this kind of lace. Lots of designs available on the web, some free and some
very intricate. Instead of fabric, water soluble stabilizer is used, load the
design into the machine, press 'go' and disappear to do something
And forgot to add that you also hand finish by snipping off any stray threads
from your finished machine embroidery.
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I don't use my machine to replace bobbin lacemaking - it's nothing like it.
But it is useful if you just want a quick bit of decoration on something. I
put quick in inverted commas because it isn't in sewing machine terms -
probably 30 minutes up to an hour to complete a design. But if it's one
Now here's dedication for you. I lent my micrometer to Eve Morton, who measured
the diameters of all her mixed up pins to get them sorted in sizes again.
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Jeanette wrote:
I wish I had you for a friend then I could also sort my pins How long
did it take her to sort the pins?
Don't know. She'd have to tell you that, but I think she gave me the micrometer
back at the following week's lacemaking group.
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Where I am on the south coast, we had quite a bit of wind and a lot of rain.
Several trees were brought down in the area, some blocking roads, other
narrowly avoiding houses. We have a huge oak tree in the garden and there's a
lot more light coming through it now, as it lost about half its leaves
Should have added that four people were killed in the storms in the UK- a
couple when there was an explosion at their house which was though to have
been cause by a gas main fracturing when a tree fell on it, one person when a
tree fell on their car and another when a tree fell on the mobile home
And Lancashire hot-pot is usually lamb or mutton with carrots, onions and
gravy, topped with sliced potatoes, covered and cooked slowly in the oven. The
lid is removed near the end ofcooking to brown the potatoes
Because of the slow cooking, cheap cuts of meat were used. Nowadays, almost
any
One reason for starting with Torchon is that is geometric on 45 degrees and if
you make a mistake such as not closing the pin or forgetting a twist it is
soo obvious and it might not be so obvious in other laces. So it's great
if you're the type of person who wants to know that their work is
An alternative to hackle pliers are surgical forceps (hemostat in the US) or a
mini test clip adapter availble in packs of two from electrical shops such as
Radio Shack or Maplins. The mini test clips don't hold the thread as tightly
as hackle pliers, but are easier to use if you have difficulty
Just had another thought - if forceps cut thread, then they'd cut the tissue
if they were being used in surgery to clamp off blood vessels. So we must be
talking about different things. The ones I use have ridges which interlock,
but the ridges aren't sharp.
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Perhaps forceps in the UK are slightly different to hemostats in the US - I've
never had any trouble with them cutting threads.
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For anyone in the UK who missed this programme last night, it's repeated on
Suday BBC4 at 8.00 pm.
Thought Dan Jones was trying to flirt (unsuccessfully) with the lady from the
RSN.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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The BBC has subtitles along the bottom of the screen for the hard of hearing
for many programmes. Mostly they're produced by voice recognition software and
some people switch them on just for the amusement they sometimes bring.
The birth was announced in subtitles as The Duchess of Cambridge
Yesterday
I was at my local Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal
pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me
asked if I had a dog.
What did she think I had an elephant?
So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her
Well Joy's message came through complete so I don't know why none of the three
I sent included the punch line. Very strange.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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TWO
PRAWNS
Far away in the tropical waters of the
Caribbean , two prawns were swimming around in the sea
One called Justin and the other called Christian.
The prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that
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