Hi Spiders, Here is a charming little video about Alencon lace.
Beautiful! However, the reason I'm sending this is that around 2:42 they
show someone burnishing the lace with a real lobster claw!! At first I
just thought they would be using a man-made tool and then I saw it was a
real claw. I
As far as I know, using a lobster claw is traditional. I've used one
a lot and it works beautifully.
On 17 May 2012, at 10:04, jvik...@sover.net wrote:
Hi Spiders, Here is a charming little video about Alencon lace.
Beautiful! However, the reason I'm sending this is that around
2:42
It is my understanding that an afficot is used in needle lace to polish the
stitches after the whole thing is completed, specifically the buttonholing on
the cordonnet. You use the rounded knobby end for this. You want a tool with
no points or edges which could catch the threads and snag them.
Dear Susan,
You must have noticed that the spelling of many words in Europe change
depending on language translations.
I use the spelling of S.F.A. Caulfeild and B.C. Saward (notice the ei are
reversed in the name!) in The Dictionary of Needlework, published first
in 1882 in London.
Does this mean that we have two highly similar French words that refer to 2
completely different tools used in the field of threads/fibers/textiles!?! Who
knew? Susan, in Erie, thinking about serving tomayto aspic with a tomahto
aspic server ;-)
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I am not sure but my granny used to have a similar item for turning out
pointed corners when sewing.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Subject: [lace] Aficot? on ebay
Could this be an aficot on ebay?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-DARNING-TOOL-THIMBLE-BOBBIN-LACE-MAKING_W0QQitemZ150083098371QQihZ005QQcategoryZ605QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
tinied:
http://tinyurl.com/2l8eap
or search for item number 150083098371
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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, but suggested that,
if the claw was the only part of the creature I wanted, why didn't I ask a
local restaurant!
Maybe this is the way to go if one wants an afficot!I haven't yet tried,
but may well .
Carol - in Suffolk UK.
Subject: Re: [lace] aficot
I just received my Nordic Needle
Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
However, at the moment, I cannot get their website up - maybe it has
changed
since I bookmarked it a couple of years ago.
Micki and Liz
The Needlelace Guild website is:
http://www.guildofneedlelaces.org
I had a quick look but didn't find a list of the items that
Tamara, I know about Lacis from my miniature knitting forays, never thought
they supplies lace items too, so thanks for mentioning them.
I had half decided to ago ahead with the mangling until I read your words
about silk being at its weakest when wet - of course, duh! don't know why
that
I just received my Nordic Needle catalog. (This is a needle workers supply
company that ships world wide-for those not in the USA). And it seems to have
a tatting shuttle that appears to be what Tamara was talking about. It is
item #7292A in the catalog -I haven't checked the web site,
The shuttle under that catalogue number is like you describe it, in lovely
metallic colour. Yummy
thanks
Micki
It is
item #7292A in the catalog -I haven't checked the web site,
www.nordicneedle.comhttp://www.nordicneedle.com/
There is a fine point on one end and a more oval one on the
Hello everybody,
Reading about your search for a aficot or an instrument for smoothing
needle lace, the pottery people, like me, have different instruments
for smoothing f. e. a face or little somethings on a sculpture. You get
them in wood or very nice but more expensive in a sort of precious
I have been trawling the internet for a lace supplier who sells aficots. And
trawling I still am, have been reading interesting bits and pieces about other
items used to polish needlelace 'rolls', like a cow's tooth or a lobster's
claw, but since I suspect the first will not surrender a tooth
Micki - what do you mean by 'mangling'?
Karen in Malta
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Subject: [lace] aficot
I have been trawling the internet for a lace
Micki,
Have you tried the Needlelace Guild? I seem to remember seeing one on their
web site in the Supplies section.
However, at the moment, I cannot get their website up - maybe it has changed
since I bookmarked it a couple of years ago.
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz
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On Monday, February 13, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Malvary J Cole wrote:
I think I read somewhere that you could use a lobster claw, so that
might give you an idea of size if no-one else has any better
suggestions.
A friend of mine got a cow's tooth from a butcher. A bit smaller,
smoother and
Dear Liz
My aficot is three and a half inches long (9 cm) and the bulbous end is one
inch ( 2.5cm) wide. So it fits neatly into the palm of the hand.
Hope this helps!
Rosemary (in Sussex, UK)
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what is an aficot?
Dorte
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what is an aficot?
Dorte
Hi Dorte,
In needle lace, the finishing step is to use a smooth implement to make
the surface of the stitches smooth and uniform. Traditionally, this was
a lobster claw, but often was a tool made by a wood worker. It is
Thanks, I couldn't figure out what an Aficot was either.
Now I understand.
Susie Johnson, Morris, IL
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what is an aficot?
Dorte
Hi Dorte,
In needle lace, the finishing step is to
A friend has asked a bobbin maker to make her an aficot, and we have found
some pictures of them - but nowhere does it give the size of them.
Please could someone who has one, measure it for us! (I am hoping he will
make 2 so I can have one as well!!! )
My suggestion that it was a bit
Subject: [lace] Aficot - help please
A friend has asked a bobbin maker to make her an aficot, and we have found
some pictures of them - but nowhere does it give the size of them.
Please could someone who has one, measure it for us! (I am hoping he
will make 2 so I can have one as well
Good morning Jo, Clay, Tamara and All,
Lenka advised us at the workshop I took with her to flatten the
finished wire piece using a rolling pin as you mentioned Tamara. The
lace and the pin are protected with a piece of kitchen paper. However
these pieces of lace had the beads added afterwards.
Jean Barrett
What is a horn aficot? I didn't find it in the dictionary.
Jo Faklink
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devise my own tool to use for the
purpose! (a pencil eraser perhaps?)
Clay
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What is a horn aficot? I didn't find
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