[lace-chat] Digital projectors

2009-08-04 Thread nicky.hoewener-townsend
Hi all, My thanks to all of you who sent solution suggestions regarding the problems I've been having with a new digital projecor - it seems that my lap top is not fully compatible with the projector, but a solution has been found, its not ideal but at least it works and I can deal with it and

[lace-chat] Fw: Teaching English to the natives

2009-08-04 Thread Janice Blair
  >From Australia M A Priest was about to finish his tour of duty, and was leaving his Mission in the jungle where he has spent years teaching the natives when he realizes that the one thing he never taught them was how to speak English. So he takes th

[lace-chat] Name of cotton fabric?

2009-08-04 Thread Jean Nathan
Brenda wrote: The effect was rather like you get with the little machines you can get for embossing paper for cardmaking etc, but on the industrial scale it's two rollers; a 'male' roller with a raised pattern and a 'female' roller with a matching indented pattern. > That sounds like it

Re: [lace-chat] Name of cotton fabric?

2009-08-04 Thread Brenda Paternoster
I too was thinking seersucker or piqué, but seersucker is lines of 'bubbles' achieved through tension variation in one direction (warp I think) and true piqué is a heavy ribbed effect fabric. I remember making a summer dress in the '60s from an embossed cotton. The effect was rather like y

[lace-chat] Name of cotton fabric

2009-08-04 Thread Jean Nathan
it definitely wasn't seersucker, and I don't think it was pique. It was smooth glazed cotton with round or oval "blisters" arranged in a pattern over the surface. I suppose embossed would be a better description - the "blisters" looked as if they were pressed into the fabric. I remember having