Was it the same class I was in? I also took Nancy's class one year and she
did not require or work with a pillow. However, I had a decorative sofa pillow
about 5 x 10 and about 4 inches thick, very firmly stuffed. Because arthritis
in my fingers makes it difficult some days to hold
Delores asked me for the dimensions of the pillow I made:
The pillow I made was as close to the ones I saw in Venice as I could
get after coming home and scrounging what I could find.
The diameter of the pillow needs to raise the work to convenient hand
level when it is placed on the lap.
Hello Everybody,
the describtion you have given are like the ndl.lace pillows look
like. If somebody has the book needlelace from Pat Earnshaw you can
see on page 6 an engraving from a lady with such a pillow. And on page
13 a drawing from another type used in Burano.
Ilske
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SMP lace sells needlelace pillows for £4 uncovered (£8 covered)
See
http://www.smplace.co.uk/sfr_cat.htm
Sue (in snowy Illinois)
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While I covet a needlelace pillow with beautiful wood and turnings and
perhaps a little drawer like the ones seen in books, I took a class with Irma
Osterman and she had us use a tailor's ham. It worked fine, was inexpensive and
did not eat up valuable lacemaking time in having to construct
I can't resist: go to
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/illustrations/pt_nlp.pdf
and you will see the needle lace pillow I made after visiting the
lacemaking group in Venice a few years ago. This should give you an
idea of what it looks like and from that how to put it all
Tess, could you give us dimensions of the pillow and the dowel? Is the
dowel what we use for closet poles in the USA? TIA
Delores Miller, Sedo-Woolley, WA, USA
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In message f5f027df281a4fdeae3d325541857...@winxp, Delores Miller
deemill...@verizon.net writes
Tess, could you give us dimensions of the pillow and the dowel? Is the
dowel what we use for closet poles in the USA? TIA
The purpose of the dowel is simply to put a curved surface under the bit
You can see a picture of my needlelace pillow at
_http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/_ (http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/)
Choose the Gallery option, and you'll be able to select a variety of
pictures of lace pillows. Needlelace is 3rd from bottom of list. My
needlelace
pillow has a
-A friend who is a superb needlelacer but is not on the Lace list send me
the following -e-mail .
I obtained a used copy of a book on needle lace, a great book by Nenia
Livesay. Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use
both hands and the author recommends
A needlelace pillow is smaller than a bolster pillow, but larger than the
roller from a roller pillow. A padded cylinder on the order of 4-6 (10-15 cm)
in diameter and 8-10 (20-30 cm) long. The actual size is not important. What
is important is to have some curvature, to get the ends of the
Hello,
In France, we have a specialist of Burano and Venice needlelace. Her
name is Brigitte Lenormand and she learned with her great mother.
She made a book last years only in french :
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2283585678/qid%3D1109930923/171-2539165-5014655
She took her great
Hello,
I Just find on Rosanna web site :
http://www.dentellieres.com/Collection/Lidia/index.htm
Dentellez bien
Sof from France
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I have just taken a picture of a lace pillow I made after my trip to Venice
and Burano some years ago. We see pictures of bobbin lace
Hi again,
And Burano museum : http://www.dentellieres.com/Musee/Burano/index.htm
Sof from France
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I have just taken a picture of a lace pillow I made after my trip to Venice
and Burano some years ago. We see pictures of bobbin lace pillows everywhere,
but I've only found one other needle lace pillow pictured (on Lori's
site--where else!).
This one is an accurate reproduction of the
I've never seen a needle lace pillow like this before
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=19158item=8171844426rd=1
Are they commonly used?
jenny barron
Scotland
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