I believe I have a Christina. I got it in 1987. Where is the number
located? I don't think I've ever noticed a number.
In 1987 I was in a weaving supply store in Anchorage, Alaska, perusing a
bobbin lace book. The owner of the store, Kay, asked me if I wanted to learn
to make bobbin lace
on the Christina is very
visable. You can also see the stationery center of the pillow, around
which the outer apron rotates smoothly.
Clay
On 4/18/2010 1:00 PM, Sally Schoenberg wrote:
I believe I have a Christina. I got it in 1987. Where is the number
located? I don't think I've ever noticed
Whenever I make lace in a public place, someone is curious about when bobbin
lace was first made, and I trot out my story about King Henry VIII of England
- that lace does not appear on portraits painted during most of his lifetime.
His daughter, Elizabeth I, on the other hand, was painted many
What sad news! I have fond memories of my chats with Russ at IOLI
conventions. He always had a good selection of interesting books. A couple
of months ago I helped Sarah, a (famous!) Navajo rugweaver, start a card
weaving project. I had discovered that I had two of Russ's card weaving books
don't know about, please share
it with all of us. I would love to know more.
The rest of this message is for LACE magazine and The Lace Guild: Thank you
very, very much for publishing this article! And for all the articles you've
published throughout the years.
Sally Schoenberg
Four
but the rain didn't dampen my fun on the bike. Again, Francis is
right - go to Tonder, and don't miss the tours. The lace is fabulous and the
Danish people are so very nice.
Sally Schoenberg
Four Corners, New Mexico
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Hi Carolyn, and all my lacemaking friends on Arachne,
Carolyn asked if I took photos, and no, I didn't, but I googled and found
these great photos of the museum:
http://www.fragonard.com/parfums_grasse/gb/fragonard/events_fragonard.cfm has
a good photo of a few of the costumes I saw. I looked
Hi everyone,
I'm just back from Nice, where I did a French immersion course. In my first
French class, my teacher handed out free tourist maps of Nice with
advertisements for museums in nearby Grasse known for its production of
perfume. What caught my eye was a photo from the museum about
it, please let me know.
Sally Schoenberg
New Mexico
From: rhiannonm...@hotmail.co.uk
To: paternos...@appleshack.com; lace@arachne.com
Subject: RE: [lace] d shaped pillows
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:47:47 +0100
Dear Brenda et al,
I have seen a d-shaped pillow on ebay so there cannot
Many thanks to Bev for finding the address for the mooring threads message.
That's a technique for stablizing a pricking on your pillow without bumpy pins
that is well worth another discussion.
Here's how I move lace...there are a lot of words here, but it all goes much
faster than it might
Hi Francis,
If you would like a good description of the various terms used by knitters for
different kinds of thread, try the Halcyon website:
www.halcyonyarn.com
Look under Yarn by weight and you will see it described by yards/lb,
yards/unit, wpi, and laceweight, etc. Sorry, there aren't
Hi everyone,
Miriam has asked about sewing the zippers on my quick-and-easy bobbincases,
and it's a very good question. I thought you all might be interested. Please
note, I'm leaving out the details about turning the raw edge under and place
the zipper teeth along wherever, etc. If my
Hi everyone,
I have posted two photos of my easy-to-make bobbincase with the removable and
thus washable inside pouch on
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
My new camera thought it had things under control but I eventually triumphed.
Sally
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Hi Miriam,
I make bobbin cases for myself that lie flat like a wallet or purse, zip up the
center, and hold 18 to 22 pairs in a removeable pouch. It's hard to explain!
If my case sounds like what you want, send me your address and roughly the size
of your bobbins, spangled or no, and I will
Hi Alex,
I suggest you mangle your tablecloth. If this were 100 years ago, all linen
tablecloths, woven or lace, would be mangled as a matter of course. Linen
threads are supposed to be mangled - that's what gives linen its gloss, supple
hand, and smooth fine threads. Most weavers are
Hi Jude,
I don't have a camera at the moment, but I am expecting one any second now.
UPS says it's in the mail and has left California! Can you wait a day or two?
Sally
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:44:17 -0700
To: sally13n...@q.com
From:
First, wet the piece of linen (lace or handwoven fabric), damp out most
of the water by rolling the item loosely in a cotton towel. Lay the lace flat
on a hard surface, roll it hard with a rolling pin, let it dry where it is. The
idea is to flatten while applying pressure. When it is dry,
Hi Susie, I've drawn some pictures. You're going to laugh at them, but yes, I
can post them and a photo when the camera arrives, if someone would please send
me instructions for posting? Thanks! Sally
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I've uploaded two drawings showing how I make my cases, but the Webshot images
are very small. They don't print out, and saving the image to my image
software program doesn't work either. I don't know what to do now! When I
lived in Alaska my internet provider provided me with a website
I certainly would wash and mangle old lace, and have done it. Wash gently in
warm water, mild soap. Lift out without wringing, and set the lace on a
cotton towel. Fold the towel over the lace. Leave it for awhile, then turn
the whole bundle over to get as much water out as possible. Then I
That's great to hear. Then I'll take a photo when the camera arrives and put
that on webshots too.
Two more notes about the bobbin cases: sometimes I have so many bobbin pairs
to transport that I don't bother with the outside pouch. I have a small box
that I can fill with the inside pouches
in their newsletters so
all the members would benefit.
I do the L.A.C.E. guild newsletter and I am sure the members would be
interested.
We would be happy to share an issue that we print your pattern in
Thanks for your consideration.
Susie Johnson
From: Sally Schoenberg [mailto:sally13n...@q.com] Sent
I will post photos as soon as my camera arrives. I dropped the old one just
one too many times. The camera should be delivered this afternoon or tomorrow
afternoon. Sally
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Hi everyone,
I was poking idly perusing ebay France and found something you might enjoy
looking at, Le Numéro de l'objet : 310073134237 (that's the number of the
object). Please let me know if you would prefer the entire address.
Sally Schoenberg
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Hi Agnes,
The tallies aren't different. The techniques are different but the end result
is always the same - the threads follow the same path. I suppose some
lacemakers find the continental technique easier because you shouldn't need to
shorten any of the bobbins. I can make good tallies
some experiments. Like
Barbara, I want stiff Bedfordshire.
Sally Schoenberg
Farmington
New Mexico
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with a fringe of
hair along one of the long sides. It's flexible and strong at the same time.
I've seen ivory carvings decorated with small inset pieces of baleen, and
there is an Inupiat family who make tiny baskets of woven baleen. I've only
seen black ones.
Sally Schoenberg
Farmington New Mexico
There's an article about Ernst in the OIDFA Bulletin #1 (Jan, Feb, Mar) 2008.
Have you seen it? He says in the article that his hometown is Arendal, but I
don't see any mention of an email address or home address. Surely the editor
of the OIDFA Bulletin can pass an email on to him.
Sally
It looked familiar to me too, so I got out my copy of Anne Marie Verbeke's
Binche Syllabus III. The Ebay edging has the hart from 't Herte, pattern 7,
and the center dogs and corners of De Beeste of pattern 6. I've never seen
the Ebay edging before. The lacemaking was well done.
Sally
, with pitfalls
hidden around every corner!
Sally Schoenberg
Farmington New Mexico
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a Folk
Museum in Stockholm that has, or had in 1999 I should say, a display of folk
costumes with quite a bit of lace on them. My husband and I had an excellent
dinner at Tre Fem Hus in the oldest part of town. Wish I was going!
Sally Schoenberg
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Hi everyone, Helen didn't say this, but her message told me there are more
people who would like to have my new email address, as well as my street
address. Moving IS a lot of work, and I'm only into my fourth month. My new
email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My new home is at 4919 Kingsway
The Folk Museum in Oslo has a fine collection of the gold and silver lace on
Norwegian Folk costumes. I thought the lighting was good enough and the
costumes close enough that I was able to copy the patterns in a notebook.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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techniques. Thanks very much!
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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When I read Christine's email, I knew I had seen this filling somewhere in
my Tonder books. A perhaps more accessable photo of it can be found in
Karen Trend Nissen's Knipling 3 on the cover, as well as on pages70
through 79.
Sally
Anchorage Alaska
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that mangling is a finishing process that linen
needs to look and feel silky, smooth, and shiny, please let me know and I
will ask my witnesses to tell you I'm not making this up! All of that
handling, by the way, did no harm at all to the appearance of the lace.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
Sue asked
Silly question time, I am at present making a linen tablecloth edging with
a
very expensive piece of Irish linen centre piece, before mangling the lace
do I still have to wash it in the normal way or is it mangled straight off
the pillow I would hate to get any distortion on the
Bonjour mes amis!
The mangling demonstration is on. Malvary has volunteered her rolling pin.
She says her car will be full but she thinks she can squeeze a rolling pin
in somewhere.
My plan is to do the mangling at my table at the Teachers Showcase on
Tuesday evening. I will pass this all
, that is. The rolling pin probably
could be made out of anything. I normally use a wooden one but I've used
marble with success, and I imagine a metal one would work too. It would
have to be a straight cylindrical one that rolls around stationary handles
on the end.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
.
As soon as I walked back in my dooor, I got that lace out, and mangled it.
That finishing step was exactly what my lace was missing. I'm really very
pleased now with my linen lace and I'm using linen thread again.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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and immediately mangle them on the kitchen counter. I have
mangled bobbin lace made from cotton and have gotten the same good results.
No ironing is necessary.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
Outside means outside of Alaska. It's a term that was more commonly used
back when the world was a bigger place. I've been here 23 years so I
remember when the rest of the world seemed much farther away.
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that,
in the cutting edge fashion section, had a wonderful short jacket with a
lace ruffle hanging down below the hem in back. It was very attractive.
Can't remember how much it cost. There should be a photo of it on the
Nordstrom website.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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. Too bad it's horrible machine lace.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
I also went to the Nordstrom site and saw the black taffeta dress, but I
thought that the item being described corresponded more to the Robert
Rodriguez
Flounce Jacket which comes in below $400.
Devon
, they always say, that lilac tree, when they come
to my house.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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be
waking up in the morning to the calls of loons. And the lake is such a
beautiful turquoise color.
Any more ideas for new kinds of classes at conventions?
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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it was half-way
done. It is not possible to even see where the lace paused for so long,
tossed carelessly into a corner of my sewing room.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
where it's spring and the daffodils are blooming!
From: Barbara Joyce
baggage. The block with the bobbins also has many *SHARP* pins
for
the laundry by the time I'm headed home and the thieves are welcome to it.
And if they empty it on the way to a class? No problem, I need new clothes
anyway.
Sally Schoenberg
and pins on my pillow. I bundle up the bobbins as if I were moving my
lace up the pillow, take all the pins out, take
literally toss them well back onto the pile of other bobbins waiting to be
used. That gives me a lot more room to see what I'm currently working on,
and that saves really a lot of time.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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. They are
unique. So I gave them with some incomplete spools of thread, an OIDFA and
a Bulletin that both have lots of websites in them, to Salvation Army. It's
just enough for an enterprising beginnner. I wonder if I'll ever see them
again!
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
There are lots of people
to have more breaks the more tallies I do.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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Subject: [lace] Re: fine linen thread -- history
The history of linen thread
made and taken off the pillow. That's for beginners who think they can't
learn to make lace around a gimp.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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is, when working a cloth
stitch, hold two passive threads in one hand, work a cloth stitch with the
workers and use the two passive threads as if they were one thread.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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easier as each corner is tied down to
the edge of the pillow (keep trying!). If this makes absolutely no sense, I
can draw a picture and post it on my website. Let me know! I really do
want to get this idea across because I think it's just the neatest way to
keep a pricking in its place.
Sally
!
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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a little, and
the rest is history. My mother used to complain about the tatted
pillowcases when she opened her Christmas presents from Grandma. Oh no, she
would say, not another one. Now she gets them from me! Life is tough all
over.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
It's very dry, hot for us
is certain, lacemakers are
such nice people all over the world.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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Hi everyone,
I've always been intrigued by the crescent and circular shaped tallies on
page 105 of Bridget Cook's Practical Skills. Have any of you tried these?
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
After 14 years of careful, strictly according to the book maintenance, our
furnace suddenly
I also learned from books, and the one that clicked with me was Bridget
Cook's Torchon Lace Workbook. There are several on ebay right now,
buy-it-now for $9.99 plus shipping. Search on torchon lace.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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in the description, I was thinking that the
box might be missed by lacemakers. I have no connection with the seller,
etc, etc
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
More snow! As soon as I finish this, I'm off to Hilltop for some skiing.
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is not the culprit. Put a layer or two of padding
between your cover cloth and pillow to soften the surface of your pillow
just a bit. That dampens the rolling quite a lot. Then put more effort
into fastening your idle bobbins, and don't worry about a little rolling!
Sally Schoenberg
It's winter now
thread. Maybe I really need to use a drop spindle.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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and
then I slip the bead on. It works for me.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
It's the end of summer. Bolete and Shaggy Mane mushrooms are growing
everywhere, berries are begging to be picked, and the bears are plump and
glossy. I know the bears are plump because one crossed the Gull Rock trail
and someone in the past has leapt to the conclusion that they were used as
pins.
Sally Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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