Hacked, working on sorting it. Meanwhile having just turned on after
teaching all day I have 90+ emails, at least 3 times what I'd expect, so no
doubt everyone's emailing me to let me know.
Never click on the links in this type of email. If I ever send things
people aren't expecting it
Hacked, working on sorting it. Meanwhile having just turned on after
teaching all day I have 90+ emails, at least 3 times what I'd expect, so no
doubt everyone's emailing me to let me know.
Never click on the links in this type of email. If I ever send things
people aren't expecting it
If this is a new event/idea someone's come up with, why not have it the
same day as the already long established UK National Lacemaking Day, 2nd
Saturday in September (this year the 12th) and make it International Lacemaking
Day instead?
June 21st is already taken for Father's Day.
At 1.50mins quite clearly Beds, and unspangled Midlands style bobbins too.
Did you notice how much she was doing one handed at 37/38 seconds, more
than just twisting, she was doing the tiny bit of plait between picots with
her left hand so the other hand was free to get the pin for the
Mariña's book published a few years ago was on Hinojosa lace, which is
related to but not exactly the same as Candida's lace. It was distributed by
Holly in the US but whether there are any copies left anywhere is another
matter, certainly all the UK ones were sold.
As far as I have heard, the
Recently a photo of a mystery object has been posted on The Lace Guild's
Facebook page. It was suggested to the buyer that it might be a place pillow, Â
and could we confirm it. Â I don't have a clue what it is, apart from not a
lace pillow, but in the past when weird 'lace' items appear on
Thank you Sue, Â I am very appreciative of your help.
Any ideas?
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
Original message
From Sue Babbs suebabbs...@gmail.com
Date: 04/02/2015 14:20 (GMT+00:00)
To The Lace Bee thelace...@btinternet.com,laceandbits laceandb...@aol.com
Cc Arachne lace
Just to remind everyone on Arachne that Bridget Cook has had her comprehensive
Idrija book reprinted. Â Another author who was shocked by the high amounts
second hand copies of the out of print books were being offered and sold for. Â
It includes instruction and patterns for both narrow tape
Devon said ...Then you work the next row of stitches in the sameÂ
direction as the previous one, often enclosing the return thread. So when youÂ
look at a piece of needle lace all the stitches may appear identical becauseÂ
they have all been worked in the same direction.Â
But don't
From Jeri
Remember what I always recommend - carry a small purse-size torch (BritishÂ
term) or flashlight (American term) when traveling and visiting museumsÂ
and historic buildings.
Highly recommended if you visit Imagine at Waddesdon. Â A friend also took
binoculars. She said the
The Milanese, pattern A, one is made in two parts; long piece that cuves
round and joins to itself, the short piece joins to the other side of the same
bit of braid.
The cloth stitch one divides at the start of the line (get the second
worker using a turning stitch as you would for many
Well done Sue, but unfortunately not everyone is as positive and determined
as you.
I know that not all the people who were in my classes and who dropped out
one or two at a time, over several price raises, are still making lace. I am
still seeing many of the ones who were able to hang in
These patterns on the whole are very easy to draft from the photographs. I
remember they were on sale when OIDFA were in Brighton, many years ago, and
one look at the price very quickly convinced me that I would just carry on
drafting any that I wanted to work.
This also has the advantage
When I get similar questions sent to me via The Lace Guild, after I have
explained about the level of skill needed therefore the cost per hour, and the
number of hours it would take to make even a small piece of lace, I usually
give them a link to the Cluny Lace Company in Derbyshire
From my student:
Many thanks for all your help; I will follow up the leads. What a kindly lot
lacemakers are!
Original message
From Maureen maur...@roger.karoo.co.uk
Date: 20/03/2014 10:24 (GMT+00:00)
To 'J D Hammett' jdhamm...@msn.com,'laceandbits'
laceandb...@aol.com
I have had this request from a student:
Have you ever heard of a fan stick supplier Baraudâs? I think itâs from
Barry and Audrey. I canât find them on the internet and wondered whether
Iâve got the name right?
I've never heard of them, can anyone else help?
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Due to a technical glitch, two paragraphs were concealed by one of the
photographs in Jean Leader's article 'Gretchen and Two Relatives', on pages 26
and 27 of the latest edition of Lace, meaning that it is confusing to read (not
surprisingly). Â The old fashioned paper cut-and-paste has some
The Guild has been asked why, going back to before anyone was aware of
acid-free issues, was lace traditionally stored in blue tissue paper? Â This is
in the UK, Â was it a common practice worldwide? Â
Our curator (who probably knows the answer) is on holiday, so I thought I would
ask
Mouline is stranded cotton so they are possibly suggesting you use one strand,
or more for gimps. Â Quite a few of my Russian lace books have stranded thread
pictured and it's what we were given to work with in Moscow.
The easiest way is just to see which thread is the right size to fit x pairs
Lots of Torchon with a few Beds and Bucks patterns in 'Lace for Church Use' by
Marie-Clare Downham, published by Batsford in 1989.
BUT, I have to say I don't see why most of these patterns are in the book (or
conversely why the book has this title) as only one of the Torchon pieces has a
Sue said The only other 'binding' that I would 'enjoy' is the idea of Ulrike
Voelker where she produced the torchon books in ringbinders. This is also
extremely useful to the lacemaker as it also lays flat!
The main problem with this style for me is that it takes up more room on the
shelf.
Susan said For Alex other lace authors, may I cast my vote for spiral bound
editions? . Books lie flat do not need to be propped open--very
handy when one is trying to follow the instructions!
But I understand that suppliers and librarians aren't so keen on then as they
get bent out
The net isn't torn, it looks as if its been chewed. Â How on earth did it
happen. Â Or was it speared by a stiletto heel.
I agree with Joan that appliquéd sprigs (plural) are one way to go.  As the
damage is in from the edge a way they'd need to use more than one, balanced
either side of
'Is it possible to see pictures on Facebook without being a member?'
Yes it must be, DH can see The Lace Guild's Facebook page and he doesn't have a
Facebook account. Â He just Googles The Lace Guild and Facebook and there it is.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire.Â
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Or sell it! Â At one point they were fetching really silly money on ebay.
There are other large Bucks Point mats out there, Miss Channers is not the only
one.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
 this time I have remembered to trim my post.  Sorry for the previous
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While Lace 8 is being talked about, can I just say that one of my students
bought it during the summer and asked me to show her a few tricks. Â Being now
quite au fait with RXP I thought I can cope with that. Â
I was able to show her all the basics she needed to get her confidence but I
tried
Lace is 'just' cross twist, in exactly the same way as knitting is 'just' knit
and purl. Â Why make things more complicated than you need to?
When you teach someone to knit you don't go sideways and immediately start
tellling them that although knitting is 'just' knit and purl, of course it's
Jane said
Go back beyond that, though, and even at four or five years of age you would
have been learning the lace of the town/region in which you lived
No need to go back in time, just visit Camariñas in Spain, (and very probably
other towns on the continent as well,) where lace is valued
This is not something I have ever come across, to this extent.Â
I have 'acquired' over the years several people who were originally self taught
(as I was myself), and have found they fall into two main categories. Â One
(into which I complacently put myself) are those who have read carefully,
Organised yes but oh, so slow. Â I wonder if this lacemaker uses all those
divider pins when she's not doing a video for the benefit of an audience.  If
you watch people working on a bolster pillow, Â either held horizontally or
vertically, Â they don't fuss with a pin for every pair. Â If
A large fully-dressed pillow with many bobbins and dense pattern is
discouraging and elicits the usual I don't have the patience!.
Oh how I agree with Jeri on this one. Â And it can be a real act of diplomacy
to try to tell potential volunteers that their 'boasting' pillow with 200+
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Hackle pliers? Fly fishing shops. Look for the long narrow bobbin size
ones not the short, fat and wide ones. Maybe not quite as elegant as your
rosewood one but easy to find and probably less expensive.
Useful for all sorts of short thread situations.
Mine originally was a gift from
Der kloppelbrief wurde auf 71% verkleinert.
No I can't translate it but from experience working with Gutterman's silk
for Milanese, I would think this means the pattern is at 71% of what it
should be. The braids aren't wide enough on the pattern sheet as they are for
that thread; they need to
Dear all,
while I take on board Kim's frustration about the lace patterns, or lack
of, don't forget these books are entitled *dress* patterns not lace patterns.
Presumably the writers are pattern cutting experts and they are aimed at
people interested in reconstructing the clothes not the
Although it would still involve posting, it might be easier to download the
PDFs onto a CD/DVD or even a memory stick of some sort because as was
mentioned, the complete books are large files to send and download.
There is always the risk of people sharing them whether in book or
electronic
Lovely work, but it's a triangle so probably a shawl not a tablecloth.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Maureen said
This might be the time to remind people that if they have designed a
pattern of any kind, that they make sure that their copyright is on the pattern
and in such a place that it cannot be taken off.
Unfortunately even in the old days carefully applied whiteout paint
followed by a
If any of the UK Arachne's know any fashion or textiles students, you might
like to steer them towards the Lace Guild website where Jean has posted the
entry form for Fit for a Princess. Tell them to spread the word to their
friends and colleges.
This is a competition being run to stimulate the
Dear overseas Lace Guild members!
As you know we had some issues with the mailings for the last membership
year (now hopefully resolved) and we are pursuing this with the mailing house.
I know this is a long shot, but if any of you still have the packaging
from any of the last year's issues
Has the re-do button been re-instated? I understand this was in the first
version but is missing from R-XP.
Annoying when you have drawn in a long trail and the lose the rhythm and go
wrong. Hit undo instead of item select, delete. Those of you that use the
programme will know that undo
Robin says
but because the techniques are her invention, that's getting into
infringeing on Cathy's intellectual property (morally, if not legally). I am
not
comfortable with that.
No matter how much a few of us enjoy it, I'm afraid Cathy's revolution
may be a quirky lace that fewer and fewer
And a link back to the original pattern would be helpful too if you want
advice, for those of us who didn't bookmark it.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Having traced the pattern through google and the archives, I would think
that you just didn't tension tightly enough as you pin, to wrap the previous
left-to-right row of work over the shoe lace. Basically you are making the
bobbinlace equivalent of knitted i-cord (like frrench knitting) and
I guess that Linda doesn't belong to either The Lace Guild or IOLI as the
magazines produced by both these organisations have regular items about the
early English laces and how to make them, and very interesting reading they
are too.
She is quite right that there is a similarity between
If you are making these in any cotton/rayon ie non-stretchy yarn, make a
short bit and try it out first.
I have always found that although you need to avoid fluffy yarns, holder
strips made from wool, wool-blends or acrylic yarns which have a bit more
stretch-and-shrink-again ability
For those of you who haven't seen the photos in 'Lace', who might be a
little confused as to how a stir stick can be used to make a fan stick, these
are mini-fans, with a radius the size of the stick.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Liz said: Here was the girl on the checkout - not your normal girl on the
checkout, but an Oxford University student paying their way through uni by
slumming it in Sainsburys as she looked down her nose at me and
said; 'Why haven't you got recyclable bags to save the environment'.
My answer
You might be able to buy it to make your own , but I said there aren't any
(commercially made) pillows made of it that I know of. And Sue was looking
for a pillow she could buy.
I am assuming the polyethylene is the self healing, white bubbly looking
stuff, (a bit like the inside of
It's not the hook itself that determines the size (hence the problem
you've recently had with SMP hooks).
Robin, it's not a *problem*! The tinier the better. I appreciate that
it's the shaft that's the bit that's measured, but it's the hook itself that
has to get through the
I was having a very senior moment this morning but fortunately Jane P
pointed out to me that my decimal point is in the wrong place!
I did of course mean 0.45mm and 0.5mm hooks. The last ones from SMP have
had such tiny hooks that on some of them it has needed careful examination to
decide
I have said on arachne several times over the years that theres no point
in doing twists after the picot; this is what I was taught by Pat Read in
the mid 1980s and I how I have done them and taught them ever since.
If you analyse where the twists go, the ones before the pin form the cord
The instructions for keeping the threads slack until the the pin is in
place are excellent; the problem with the Nottingham instructions is the three
twists before, three after the pin. The three before form the picot
itself, the three after have nowhere to go. If you look at the picots in
The other thing to consider when working on a roller is the length of the
pattern repeat. Because of the curve of the roller, the optimum sweet spot
to work on is usually only about 2 inches maximum. If you are doing a
wider edging with a longer repeat you will find you have to keep
When in doubt, ask the lace fairy!
_http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/BeverenID.html_
(http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/BeverenID.html) for pictures, description
and a link to the
Beveren lace school.
Jacquie in a very chilly Lincolnshire, where they are replacing all our gas
pipes
As a member of The Lace Guild Executive Committee I would like to say that
we discussed this problem at the meeting which was taking place this last
weekend. We all immediately agreed that the rate charged in this instance
was not acceptable, or what was intended or normal, and that the excess
As a member of The Lace Guild Executive Committee I would like to say that
we discussed this problem at the meeting which was taking place this last
weekend. We all immediately agreed that the rate charged in this instance
was not acceptable, or what was intended or normal, and that the excess
If a sample is a *sample*, rather than a
sample-which-I-can-also-use-as-a-bookmark, then mistakes and changes of mind
left in are more useful than
mistakes corrected. So unless there is a mistake which is stopping you going
forward, leave them in place. Even errors such as leaving two
Guttermans fabric glue is available from Hobbycraft in the UK, at the
branch near Gatwick airport at least. That's where I buy it, but for some
weird reason the staff all say they don't stock it and it's kept with the
patchwork rulers and rotary cutters, not with the other glue. Pure
Ilse said A very small knot is hardly noticed in larger pieces.
And therein lies the difference between the common practice on the
continent and the UK.
We tend to double up the thread for a SHORT distance, rather than
knotting. I say short because some people forget they are working
I have great hopes that arachne will live up to its usual high standard as
the world beater help line regarding lace issues.
I am shortly to teach for a week, and one of the students from the Bristol
area has to collect her pillow and bobbins from a teacher in Clevedon.
Unfortunately she
Clay said - It seemed to take forever, and I vowed I would never again
work a project in which I could not enjoy the process from start to finish.
and I do not have a burning desire to finish, just a compulsion
to make the lace as beautiful as I possibly can. So... speed is never an
There are Thomas Lester's Bedfordshire samples, samples from Luton museum
which are point ground, and so forth.
But those don't have pages of directions.
The formula of pages of directions and a *picture* of a sample is fairly
standard to this day so we'd need a lot more information to
Before I open this, is it another spam post from a hacked computer? It's
unlike an arachne post to be so enigmatic. If it is genuine, could I ask
that posters of whatever should be a little more informative (ie it's a link
to .. which you may like to look at)
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
NO, tension by the same hand can vary quite significantly!
But surely not as much as us each doing our own. So long as the winder is
aware of the amount of tension they are putting on the thread, and with
practise, there will be some consistency. Also I think I am right in saying
that
The Lace Guild are trying to update their list of lace tutors. If you
teach lacemaking of any sort in the UK (any size, type or frequency of class)
please log onto the Lace Guild website (_http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/_
(http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/) ) and follow the link on the
There was also a pattern of a sailboat under a rainbow with was given as a
free internet pattern, via arachne, many years ago now. It was in the
days before we had broadband access and it was big files and took agaes to
download. I was able to use the pattern itself, but a lot of the
Contact The Lace Guild to ask. If you're not a member (yet) their contact
details are on their website _http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/_
(http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/)
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Jean,
a couple of queries about the book. One of my students wants to get back
into Bucks so this is timely, but I'd like to be sure I can answer her
questions.
There are (..) prickings for mats, a handkerchief corner and a small
motif.
How many mats? Or how many prickings in total?
Thank you all for the many suggestions. Let me elucidate a little about
Malvary's request for a cover for my pricker needle.
As she said, the dense styrofoam doesn't stay on reliably, the cork (which
was from a pressurised Cava bottle) also slips off when you're not expecting
it to; ouch.
My students were talking about this in class last night, so thanks for the
link to the picture. Someone thought it might be Irish crochet.
Then as I was driving home, listening to the news, the BBC described it as
hand embroidered.
From what I can see it's not either, or needlelace. Looking
Not sure if this should really be on chat but it is lace related...
Today's All-Star puzzle is a picture of a lacemaker. Fame at last. Here's
the link for it, and these puzzles are available forever.
http://www.allstarpuzzles.com/picture/02988H.html
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Clay said Still, back when the machines were something of a novelty, there
was a basic machine (made by Bond as I recall), that simply knitted. Any
color work, cables, increases or decreases, etc., all had to be made by
hand. So, people who made a garment on the Bond knitting machine were
Seen in Sainsbury's yesterday. T-shirt labelled as having hand crocheted
lace. It was chemical lace and didn't even look like crochet, but at not a
lot of money what would one expect.
Now, do I report them or leave people thinking they are wearing a little
bit of hand made lace?
Jacquie
Hi Sue,
the very best thing I have found is Granny Almans Old Fashioned Furniture
Polish Reviver. It is a mix of linseed oil, distilled white vinegar and
sugar! I don't know what the proportions are and have never bothered to try
to work it out as it's not expensive. Phone 0116 255 8854 to
Looks like Andrea's computer has been invaded.
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I have written to Roseground to find out if they are going to stock it in
the UK. They seem to have the best selection of European books.
I use Ulrike's book a lot, but find that most people who have it expect it
to work by osmosis from the book shelf. Once you work through some of her
I'm not sure if it's allowed either, but no-one complained when I posted
about Mariña Regueiro's new Hinojosa book last week, so tell us a bit more,
please. I am sure that information about new books is as essential as
knowing about new threads or new lace days.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Compared side by side on the same pattern lace made from silk is in my
opinion far superior to cotton as I'm not a fan of the slubbish/fluffiness of
cotton threads.
But this surely depends what you are using your lace for, and what cotton
you use. As you are looking for fine silk equivalents,
I should have gone to look at the pictures when you posted your first post,
because now I see what you made is a SEA Urchin.
All this time I was imagining it being a hedgehog, the Middle English name
for this being Urchin, and this term is still quite well widely used in the
UK.
Now I also
That' s the Spanish translation of Therese De Dillmont's encyclopaedia of
Needlework
I don't think so at all...
My Spanish isn't at all comprehensive but some of the text in the first
section (where the are no pictures and that in itself is very different to
Dillmont) seems to be food
My contribution to this discussion is that personally I prefer to work on
card rather than paper, so if only paper is available I use two or three
thicknesses. This is because I like the feel of the support that the pricking
gives to the pins.
I don't always prick in advance - Withof and
Yesterday the new Exhibition Room at the Lace Guild headquarters, The
Hollies, was officially opened. It is now in a downstairs room, and very light
and airy. Several of the display cabinets have glass backs allowing a good,
all round view of the lace displayed.
It was actually opened by the
I have written to Sr Claire privately regarding her particular queries, but
if anyone ever has any questions regarding the Lace Guild Assessments I can
probably answer them, or very shortly find the answer.
I have been an assessor and moderator on this scheme and would always be
interested in
Brenda said I've always understood that the wheatears (pointed tallies) in
Bedfordshire lace is the fertility symbol
That seems most probable as the corn dollies, made (traditionally) from the
last
sheaf of corn to be cut, were a fertility symbol to ensure a good harvest
the following year.
just checking that my email is working
A good idea to see if things are working is to post a question.
Or just go the Arachne archives and see what the last post is. Currently
it's Celia's post and Bev's reply to her. Soon to be mine.
One good place to start would be the Lace News Blog http://lacenews.net/ .
Lots of UK lace days on that.
Also a good place to send any Lace News to, to make it an even more
comprehensive resource.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire.
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What an appropriate discussion to be having on St David's day.
Has anyone ever seen a recognizable leek rendered in lace?
No, and not in many other fibre arts endeavors either. Perhaps that's why
they have the daffodil as well.
But seriously, the leek with all its leaves uncut is a stunning
Susan said, There can be much ado about royalty carrying on the symbolism
Using that argument the Welsh symbols should be more
dominant than the Irish shamrock, as we have the Prince of Wales, but (as
far as I know) no member of the Royals connected with Northern Ireland.
The shamrock motif is
Find a copy of Mounting and Using Lace, by Jean Withers. IOLI library
perhaps?
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Hi David
Try the Unclutterer website, specifically the cable clutter links
http://unclutterer.com/category/cable-clutter/
but also you could look at some of the workspace of the week ideas
http://unclutterer.com/category/workspace-of-the-week
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Does anyone know - did the lacemakers expertly use one hand to move
bobbins, the other to place pins?
Not so easy to do with spangled bobbins, except I always do the twists at
the end of the row and lift the pair back a bit with hte hand at that end,
while the other hand fetches the pin to
On my first piece of lace the teacher told me to cut the bobbins off after
I sewed and knotted each pair about 3 inches from the knots. Then to roll
the dangly bits of thread together and over sew them. I'd spent months
making a beautiful piece of extremely fine torchon only to completely
In all the years I have demonstrated, I have never before had such an
experience!
Carol, I think the answer lies in that sentence.
If you add to that all the years all the rest of us have demonstrated
without having met such vile people, then you were extremely unlucky, and
lightning rarely
Just cut it. If it is cotton or linen it won't unravel any more than
bought cotton lace. I assume if you are cutting it you are putting it into
seams. If you are really worried, machine across the lace just inside the
seam
allowance where the stitches will be hidden.
Don't forget that lace
I have consulted the oracle as suggested, and it is even known which year I
was at the Swanley lace day (I only went once in the 80s) as I was 'caught
on camera'.
The glass bead maker was D Ledger (Dennis? or maybe Derek?), but I had
remembered correctly that he was elderly then so 25 years on
I suspect it is the St Peterburgh equivalent of the Institute of Fine Arts
where we studied in Moscow. The pieces shown look as if they might be the
Graduate Show. In Moscow, the graduation pieces (in all the specialities)
are *donated* to the institute's collection; I'm not quite sure how far
They are relatively easy to make; I have an article out of a woodworking
magazine somewhere from many years ago - how to turn bobbins and make the
beads to go on them. From what I remember the glass used is recycled from old
wine bottles, cut into approximate squares with a standard glass
Having read all the comments about square cuts etc, I must add that apart
from the ones I have on antique bobbins, I don't use them.
I don't like them for spangles as they don't sit together as well as round
beads do, and they leave a gap of wire between them (do I fill it with a
tiny bead?
Just to point out that Hide isn't really a mis-spelling of Hyde, it's a
phonetic spelling.
When it is possible that neither the bobbin maker or lacemaker would have
reached 21st century requirements for literacy (and let's face it, that level
isn't very high) then Hide is perfectly
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