Hi All,
My mother has a new Comcast internet connection, so she'll be stopping her
Earthlink subscription soon. Her new email address is
aurelialoveman...@comcast.net. Please make the change in your address book and
keep writing to her!
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Hi All,
This is Jonathan, Aurelia's son. Just in case any of you don't know, Mother was
moved out of her home following her last hospitalization, and now lives in the
Heart Lands Senior Living Center, 3004 North Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD. You
can reach her via her cell phone, 443-388-1713,
Dear Spiders —— Have you seen the beautiful new green little disk 2011 IOLI
Charter Chapter Pattern CD? If not, then quick quick! I had only one little
tiny complaint: note the correct spelling for Ortolan. As ortolan means
nightingale, we can see how important it is to get it right.
Aurelia
I should think that it would have been the editor's job to disentangle this
puzzle. But
what a nice idea, stocking fronts. Still, in those days of floor-length
dresses, I would hope that ornamental stockings were at the bottom of every-
body's to-do list.
Aurelia
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are
considering.
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No, dear Devon, though your sentiments are admirable, your slogan is not. Of
the four words in
the slogan, tedious is by far the most immediately conspicuous, and that is
what would be remembered. Try again, and maybe we can all try with you.
Aurelia
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Yoga in thread! Now that's a big step forward. Until we think of something
that's
even better, Yoga in Thread sounds good. Let's try it and see what responses
we get.
Aurelia
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In a message dated 8/10/2010 3:02:17 P.M. Eastern
Dear spiders —— I believe there is no import duty on antiques.
Aurelia
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and its var-
ious relatives (all needle laces). The books themselves are delightful, partic-
ularly the Jourdain, full of beautiful plates. This is a book that one cannot
put down without first looking at every page, no matter how late the evening is
getting to be!
Aurelia Loveman
Catonsville
Dear spiders —— Help! I have been reading an ancient book, Tebbs' Art of
Bobbin Lace.
It's as different as can be from the contemporary publications that we use
nowadays.
Reading along in it, I came to a chapter on Venetian Lace. No explanation
given as to
what it is. I looked about in all my
Hello, Brenda! Here is a quote from a catalogue published in 1989 by the
Baltimore Museum of Art
in connection with an exhibition of the Museum's extensive lace collection:
Lace is a textile whose identity depends entirely on the arrangement and
proportion of the spaces
between the threads
Dear spiders —— I see that somebody used my email address to put an obscene
message out in my name. Please ignore it. Perhaps best not to open it, as it
may contain a virus.
Aurelia
Catonsville, Maryland
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Dear All: ...but if you can't get Irma Osterman's book, don't cry. Cathy
Barley's wonderful books are available. And for a lifelong inspiration, try
Venetian Gros Point by Lovesey Barley!
Aurelia Loveman
Catonsville, MD
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For textile lovers like me, there are now one knitted shawl, one lace fan, and
one tapestry to be seen in my album on the Arachne webshots community.
Aurelia
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Dear Clay -- Don't get bogged down in that who-did-what-first mud
puddle! A good idea remains a good idea -- consider Leibnitz and
Isaac Newton, both had the same brilliant idea at the same time. We
don't love you for your ingenuity, dear Clay, we love you for your
lovability.
Aurelia
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Hello, German-speaking spiders!
What is the right way to pronounce the word Grammatik? Is it
GRAM-ma-tik? Or is it Gram-MA-tik?
Thank you for your help!
Aurelia
Baltimore USA
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Dear Clay -- Thank you! Both pictures arrived, even clearer than in
the book itself. How did you manage that?? I can just see that jabot
on Justice Ginsburg, poor dear, she looks so tired and ill, a
beautiful jabot is just what she needs. And wearing his, Justice
Roberts will look, if
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Sent: Oct 5, 2009 5:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] US Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her Lace
Dear Lorri -- So far I have had four responses (that's including
you). When we have nine willing jabot
taking a rest.
Aurelia
On Oct 7, 2009, at 16:46, Aurelia Loveman wrote:
Two-Pair Inventions -- sounds like J.S. Bach to me.
That was intentional; my son was learning to play Two-*Part*
Inventions at the time. Seemed like a nice word-play (something I
always found hard to resist g). Cindy
Hello Pene -- Yes, I think you are right about directing the jabots
to the Court rather than to the nine individuals. With that in mind,
and thinking about it, I come to conclude with you that a variety of
designs would be more interesting than just the one design repeated
and repeated. And
Two-Pair Inventions -- sounds like J.S. Bach to me. Add a
Three-Pair Inventions to it and you no longer have just a booklet,
but a book. That would be a delight. Why don't you? -- Aurelia
On Oct 5, 2009, at 17:57, Noelene Lafferty wrote:
Thanks for that Tess. Wouldn't it be nice if
Dear Lorri -- So far I have had four responses (that's including
you). When we have nine willing jabot-makers, we will proceed with
the legalistics. Meanwhile, I suggest we take a look at the truly
gorgeous handkerchief-jabot that is Project 7 (Plate 6) in
Alexandra Stillwell's Geometrical
Hello everybody, and hello especially to Tony and Shirley for waking
up an idea that was floating about here, some years ago, and went
fast asleep for some reason. Some of us here are yearning after
Project 7 in Alex Stillwell's book on Geometric Bucks Point. It is
the world's most gorgeous
There is a picture of an aficot in the new Salex Dictionary of
Lacemaking, and also an explanation of what it does and how it is
used. Author: Alex Stillwell.
Aurelia
Catonsville (Baltimore) MD
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Dear Jeri -- So interesting even if it may be a bit of old hat to
embroiderers like us! The title of the old book does get to me
somewhat (WeibStickereien -- Weib means female; Stickereien
means embroideries). This particular female made a pulled-work
sampler some thirty years ago, which I
Dear Jeri -- Re-reading your interesting book review for the tenth
time: could the B in WeiBstickereien really be that funny double-S
that we used to see in Elizabethan times, and that I think probably
still appears in German? In which case, the WeiB would just mean
white.
Aurelia
Francis, try Hershey's Nuggets.
Aurelia
Catonsville MD USA
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The collection in the Braunschweig museum is
apparently available again. If I'm not mistaken,
Yvonne Scheele-Kerkhof was there last year and
saw it. If it really is open, it's worth going to
see, as it's a marvelous collection.
Aurelia
Baltimore, Maryland
Hello Jenny,
if you want to see
Sue -- I've rescued quite a number of antique fans, saving and
(gently) cleaning the sticks and (eventually) discarding the worn-out
fan-leaf. Malvary's advice to you is right on target. Also, you would
enjoy reading Christine Springett's little book Designing and
Mounting Lace Fans, written
...humor?...in my opinion David Collyer should stick to his
lacemaking, which is what he does well.
Aurelia
Catonsville MD
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Hello Devon -- Can't help you about Vatican laces, but if you are
still interested in what Marian Powys put together, there are a
couple of her notebooks residing in the library of the Walters Art
Museum here in Baltimore, containing samples of lots of different
laces, and carrying her
There isn't really a right and a wrong in these matters of usage.
Authoritative dictionaries are not much help. Long periods of time
and changes in taste are what ultimately settle such questions. Try
any of the following:
dress maker -- shoe maker -- book seller -- hair dresser --
I think this is one of those questions that eventually gets answered
by determined usage over a prolonged time period. Note that in the
IOLI Bulletin we always use lacemaking.
Aurelia
Baltimore, Maryland USA
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There is a page and a half of beautifully-illustrated instructions on
how to make oya, in Alexandra Stillwell's new book Salex Illustrated
Dictionary of Lacemaking.
Aurelia
Catonsville, Maryland
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Hello Janice and Arachnes -- Miss Channer's mat is a (beautiful)
oval, about 13-1/2 inches at its longest, from top to bottom; and
about 8 inches at its widest. It is entirely made up of small floral
Bucks motifs, leaves, flowers and so on, joined by smallish bits of
the usual fillings,
Would somebody please post again the URL for D Collyer's Toender
lace? In struggling to get it opened, I inadvertently sent it flying
off into space.
Thank you!
Aurelia
Catonsville, Maryland
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Dear Wendy -- Make her a lace rose. She can wear it on her
christening gown, she can put it into her hair when she is in her
teens, she can add it to her wedding veil, and when she is a grandma
she can teach it to her granddaughters.
Aurelia
Baltimore, Maryland
Hi All
Can anyone suggest
Those interested in needlelace might like to have a look at my blog:
http://aurelove.blogster.com
I was taught needlelace by my mother and grandmother, and began doing
it in earnest when I was about ten years old (which means I have been
making it for the last 82 years!! Good Lord, the time
Dear Jeri and Arachnes --
Note that the BMA (Baltimore Museum of Art), which is about as lofty
as you can get, short of the Metropolitan in New York, is having a
Textile Day on Sunday, May 17. The lacemakers will have a booth, the
embroiderers will have a booth... we will be displaying our
Hello Sue -- I have just finished one of Hanne Sonne's angels, I
left it on the pillow just as I worked it, with a plastic cover over
the pricking, and left all the pins in it, too. I didn't use starch
at all, but used what I have done many times before -- half-and-half
Elmer's starch and
Sorry, where was my head? What I used was half-and-half Elmer's GLUE and water.
Aurelia
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Dear Clay -- Now that is one of the most helpful messages we have
ever got on Arachne, and we all of us have to thank you for it. --
Aurelia
I needed a pillow for a large project. I ordered foam blocks from
Ken van Dieren (he's in the US, as I am, but I'm sure you can find a
source in
Well, here is a quote from a little booklet put out by the City of
Exeter Museums and Art Gallery: In the 17th and 18th centuries the
industry seems to
have been a prosperous one with lace worth L6 a yard in 1698. The
workers were craftswomen and able to maintain a decent standard of
living.
Christine Springett has a very nice one in Lace for Special
Occasions. I made it a couple of months ago and the bride was
ecstatic. It's quick and easy and has a very pretty hearts motif.
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Dear Lynn -- Schnidtene...Schniden, it's just that there are some
four centuries or so separating us and our up-to-date standardized
language from dear Johann S. If you say his words aloud, it becomes
obvious that they have to do with cutwork.
Aurelia
I love the internet!
I recently
Thought you all might like to know that if you wait long enough (in
my case 91-1/2 years) you can finally get your two minutes of fame
(mine having recently come in the newest Who's Who in America). My
lacemaking interests are noted there, which pleases me, although they
didn't include
Dear all -- My niece, who is a jeweler (polishedandputtogether.com)
tells me that there is a most exciting jewelry-making technique in
which gold or silver is broken down into minuscule bits and mixed
with a special clay, giving the mixture somewhat the texture and
flexibility of cord. This
Dear Alex -- As I am one of your many admirers, and am greatly
looking forward to the new dictionary, I am going to allow myself
(cheeky! permissible! Arachne) and please note the __correct__
spelling of permissible and of Arachne) to suggest that you use
the services of a proofreader as you
As soon as I recovered,last evening, from the shock and excitement of
Debbie's e-mail, I googled for Randy Anthony, but so far again
walking into a wall. Does anyone know a bobbin-maker living in
Georgia named Randy Anthony?
Aurelia
Catonsville, Maryland USA
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I have a couple of scrimshaw bobbins that I was given, decades and
decades ago, by a sailor (the new husband, or about-to-be-husband of
a lacemaker), bobbins that he made while he was on a long voyage.
They could be made of bone; and they could be made of ivory. I know
nothing about scrimshaw,
Dear Clay, and all--
I might be sent out of Arachne altogether for owning up to this, but
what I did before I became a lacemaker was -- nothing to do with
textiles. I was a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst, and in
my spare time which I had very little of, I was a writer (numberless
The new IOLI Bulletin came in this morning. What a wonderful job it
is! Debra, you have outdone yourself! This issue will be referenced
100 years from now, it is so filled with good, with wonderful
articles. I couldn't put it down, once I started reading it. Thank
you!
Aurelia
Baltimore,
Paludan's
Crochet: History and Technique -- of special interest to anyone
thinking about crochet lace, as it's a very good book indeed.
Aurelia Loveman
Baltimore, Maryland USA
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I'm with you, Clay. After reading everybody's thoughts and climbing
in and out of everybody's shoes, and sympathizing absolutely with
everybody's opinion in turn, I think you've got it, Clay! --
Aurelia
I've judged at our State Fair, and in that venue there is no
requirement for things
Lesson 5, Cutting from the Working Base, the fifth and last entry
of my Needle Lace in Five Easy Lessons, is now available on my blog
http://aurelove.blogster.com. I have really enjoyed doing this bit
of online teaching, and am grateful to those of you who have written
back about your
Lesson 4 (Buttonholing over the Cordonnet) is now available on my
blog http://aurelove.blogster.com
Aurelia
Maryland USA
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Lesson 3d (Point de Rose) is now available on my blog
(http://aurelove.blogster.com).
Aurelia
Maryland USA
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I do agree with you, dear Clay. I could hardly see any details of the
Nanduti lace pendant (though I am an enthusiastic maker of Nanduti
and have been for at least 25 years). But the pretty little girl with
her pants falling down couldn't have been clearer! I hope our
Brazilian colleague will
Lesson 3b (Double Brussels Stitch) is now available on my blog. And
after much communing with my computer maven, who periodically talks
turkey to my pitiful few computer skills, I have now got Lessons 3c
and 3c-2 (The Side Stitch) out on my blog too
(http://aurelove.blogster.com). I love the
Just to remind various spiders among us that this is a list devoted
to lace topics, not politics. Let us please maintain it that way.
Aurelia Loveman
Catonsville, MD
T, who -- just yesterday -- discovered that Dick (Deadeye) Cheney
(US VP) is family; a (rich) relation. Thankfully, 350yrs
Lesson 3b (the Double Brussels stitch) is now available on my blog
http://aurelove.blogster.com. The diagram is dreadful, but the
stitch is fun and easy.
Aurelia
Maryland USA
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Lessons 3 and 3a (The Lace Fillings and Cloth Stitch) are now
available on my blog http://aurelove.blogster.com. Lesson 3b
(Double Brussels Stitch) will be out next week.
Aurelia
Maryland USA
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What, what, WHAT is ceramic lace?
Aurelia
Maryland USA
I've just checked out Cherry's website, and it's BEAUTIFUL! I have
a piece of her ceramic lace which I got at our Fall Lace Day in
September. It is framed in a simple shadow-box frame, and is
elegant - just above my computer on the
Lessons 2a and 2b (Couching the Cordonnet) are now available on my
blog. Lesson 3 will be out next week.
Aurelia
Maryland USA
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As every now and then one of us spiders writes something wistful
about wanting to make needle lace, I thought it might be nice
actually to do something about it. I have posted the first
installment of Needle Lace in Five Easy Lessons on my blog, which
you can access at:
Dear Sue -- Luckily, we spider- and rose-ground lovers don't have to
choose. Christine Springett shows a delightful wedding-handkerchief
on pages 76-78 of her Lace for Special Occasions. It is a-crawl
with spiders, happily living on a ground of roses. I am having a most
agreeable time making
Tess, no doubt you are referring to Janya Sugasunnil in Thailand. -- Aurelia
We need the English translation of the following Thai title on the
Archives web site:
Barnette, J. C. Ru'ang tham rai fai, Phranakhon :
Krasuang Kasettrathikan, 1912, 68 pages. Posted
November 25, 2004. CD
Devon -- How do they define guipure nowadays? As a kind of tape? Or what?
Aurelia
I have checked my books about Aemilia Ars, and although there are many
peacocks, the work seems mostly to be of a guipure type, and absent
these large
areas of painstaking needle made mesh.
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Dear Jeri -- I don't know how the question of pricing exactly got
into the e-Gallery of Contemporary Lace discussion, although I
guess sooner or later it would have, reality dictating that value is
ultimately linked with saleability.
Look: value is in the mind of the beholder. Your friend
We need a gallery, dear Ilske, to show contemporary, original art
work done in lace techniques, and possibly for sale, just like other
art. You see how this differs from our webshots site. More about this
later. -- Aurelia
Hello Aurelia and everybody,
It seems as if I missed something or I
Dear Lucy --- How talented you are! I love your lace examples, and am
especially crazy about that blue and green fish. Yes indeed, we must
have your entries in our e-gallery. Just in passing -- one of our
earliest teachers here was Brigita Fuhrmann, gifted and lovable! So
many of us are
Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA USA
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Dear Clay -- Just got your e-mail. I like as little structure as one
can possibly get by with. But a little bit is needed. I propose that
we plan on an e-gallery that will open
Dear Devon -- I would not get waylaid by the word judge. A lot
depends on who the gallery owner would be. If it were a subsidiary
forum of Arachne, I should think space would be open to any spider
who had original work and wanted to show it, much as is done at
present by IOLI and CRLG (we
Dear Devon -- No doubt this will run to several e-mails. I hadn't
realized that my own modern pot was boiling over.
Yes, of course, a traditional Bucks pattern made now wouldn't be
the modern that we are reaching for, no matter how beautiful it
might be, black silk, beads, etc. But
What fun! What a wonderful idea! A virtual gallery all our own! Yes, yes, yes!
Aurelia
Let us not forget that there is some very interesting work being done by
Japanese designers. I believe Wako Ono has had an exhibit. Also
Junko Samejima
was due to have one. Many of these designers are
My phrase a rage for Binche was not meant as a putdown. Not at all.
My prequel to Devon said Technique and Design, not Technique OR
Design. In fact I think (not an original thought) that it is
constant refining and pushing of orthodox techniques that ultimately
produces breakthroughs in ideas
Dear Annette and spiders -- I have an edition of the Anchor Manual
that was published in 1974 by Charles Branford Co. of Massachusetts
and is of course in English. Its chapter XXI is devoted to puncetto
and it is drop-dead gorgeous! I should think Amazon or BN or one of
those online
Dear Devon -- Evidently my yesterday's e-mail to you never got out
of the barn. So I'm trying again.
Yes, of course, as you say, a traditional Bucks pattern made now
wouldn't be the modern that we are reaching for, no matter how
beautiful it might be (made of black silk; decorated with
I don't know whether port wine stains differently from other red
wines. What I do know, though, is that if you can get at the wine
stain while it is still fresh, you pour table-salt thickly all over
the stain, and then get on with the party. When everybody is gone, a
couple of hours later, you
Yes, my experience with it too. -- Aurelia
Tamara forwarded an email with a link to:
http://www.forum-alte-spitze.de/
None of the links work for me (Internet Explorer 7). Anyone else had
this problem?
Outlook/News orAusblick/Aktuelles (depending on whether I'm on the
American or German
Dear Pene -- Indeed you don't have to learn every type of lace!
Lacemaking, for us, is supposed to be (our kind of) fun. We aren't
standing in front of the bar of Heaven, begging to be let in and
brandishing our (Binche/Flanders/Paris) ticket of admission. Binche
just happens to be currently
that I did not have a
passport. So, I'm about to bite the bullet and get it.
My fondest dream is to spend a week or two in Bruges at the
Kantcentrum... this will be step one!!
Clay
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Dear Barbara
Dear Barbara -- You have had so many replies to your question about
replacing the spangles on your old bobbins, that one more reply isn't
going make a difference, but here goes: when I started lacemaking in
the very early seventies (oh how long ago that seems!), I used to hop
over to England
Barbara! Horrors! The group that was _your_ group before you moved to
the Pacific Northwest was _our_ group. Surely you couldn't have meant
the TerraPins (Baltimore area) or the CRLG (regional), all of whom
are the most hospitable people on earth (and P.S., the TerraPins meet
on the first
Dear Brenda -- No, I'm not going to be there, alas, as my traveling
days are over (90th birthday last October!). But if you think of it,
give dear Gwynedd a grateful hug for me, Gwynedd who held my
beginner's hand some 35 years ago in workshops up on the top floor
(children's nursery?) at
Not a book, and not about lace. But the current (March 5) issue of
the New Yorker magazine has got a marvelous article about SPIDERS! A
really fun read!
Aurelia Loveman in Baltimore, where the witch-hazel is now in golden
bloom, and spring is timidly coming in.
Hi Janice -
Yes, the list
Ah, but where to find the nice man, let alone his hanky! -- Aurelia
I simply take nice men's hankies and cut them to fit the edgings. I do a
tiny rolled hem on the edges before I attach the lace to give myself a firm
stitching surface that will not unravel.
Shere'e
Seattle, WA USA
On
To begin with, I don't pretend to be an expert on fans. However, some
of my fans have been published in both British and American lace
journals, and a couple of them were on display in the Baltimore
Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum (also in Baltimore); so I
have gathered my courage to
Absolutely unbelievable! As she says, it takes Geduld, Geduld and
then some more Geduld (and to my mind, takes a lot more than just
Geduld! takes imagination!) P.S. I have been making a tablecloth too,
for the past year or so -- as a change of pace between projects
(fans, etc.), but mine
Dear all -- I am trying to locate a picture that appeared in one of
our lace publications not too many years ago. It is a photo of a
handicapped lacemaker. She is sitting on the floor, making lace with
one arm and one leg.
If anybody has seen this photo and remembers where I might find it
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Dear all -- I am trying to locate a picture that appeared in one of
our lace publications not too many years ago
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Dear all -- I am trying to locate a picture that appeared in one of
our lace publications not too many years ago
Well, I know that I am going to get plenty of flak for this opinion,
but here goes anyway:
There comes a point where neatness and carefulness become
obsessiveness, and we surely are fluttering about that point now.
Yes, the ending threads have to be sewn into the beginning, trimmed
off,
Hi Lorraine! Nice to hear from you again -- it's been a while,
hasn't it! Re the knotted chair: it's a sort of hammock that's been
made to straighten up and fly right, by means of a frame; don't you
think?... happy New Year! -- Aurelia
Hello all-
I spotted this in the Met Home magazine
Hello Sue -- I have never tried plotting out grounds in groups. My
most recent fan has a wild variation on point ground and is plotted
on a logarithmic grid, which gives an effect of a lot of movement
(and I loved doing it!), but I did not alter the angle as I went
round the fan.
You
Thank you, Sue, for the kind words! Your tale of
a broken fan covered in torn silk is my story
exactly, for the first fan I ever made
(Espalier, which also appeared on the IOLI
Bulletin cover a couple of years ago) was for a
black Spanish fan that I picked up for $6 in an
antique shop in St.
I should think 70 degrees was a bit much. I usually do 52 degrees and
like it a lot. I have seen Bucks done at 60 degrees, strikes me as a
bit tame, however. -- Aurelia
I have spent an exciting 16 days opening the doors to the advent calender and
finding the lovely lace designs and pictures
Dear Jennifer -- Well, for starters, there is the Metropolitan
Museum of Art's Ratti Collection, with our very own Devon Thein right
in the midst of it. There is also the Cooper-Hewitt museum, devoted
to textiles. Four days -- that's wonderful, but these two places
alone could easily occupy
Dear Elizabeth -- Some 25 years ago, when I went
down to Florida to take care of my ailing mother,
I spent the long lonely evenings making a
Teneriffe mat ( I will tell you about the
spelling in a minute). The mat is too big for my
scanner but I have scanned it anyway, and you can
see bits of it
Dear Elizabeth -- Interesting that you signed
off with Tchau. Is it taken from the Italian
ciao? -- Aurelia
Tess and spiders
I think your question can make richer our list.
And add to Jenny's fabulous list of lace's sites.
The lace you send the foto is called renascença (Renaissance
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