[lace-chat] :-) Final Exam

2010-04-15 Thread jeanette
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[lace-chat] Shorthand

2010-04-15 Thread Janice Blair
Lesley wrote: I also did Pitman at High School and college. I remember reading short stories written in shorthand for practice. I wonder if they are still available, or like the skills have got left behind. I still use it when taking notes and I sometimes think in shorthand shapes. Was Pit

Re: [lace-chat] shorthand

2010-04-15 Thread Lesley Blackshaw
Ruth Rocker wrote: I took shorthand in high school and then again in business college. But, unfortunately, by the time I sent to college to pursue my degree, I had lost those skills. I was truly bewailing the loss as it would have made lecture classes much easier to remember. Like most things i

Re: [lace-chat] shorthand

2010-04-15 Thread Lesley Blackshaw
Agnes Boddington wrote: I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use it for general notes and lists and such like. And, of course, I do it in Dutch. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK I still us

Re: [lace-chat] shorthand

2010-04-15 Thread Ruth Rocker
I took shorthand in high school and then again in business college. But, unfortunately, by the time I sent to college to pursue my degree, I had lost those skills. I was truly bewailing the loss as it would have made lecture classes much easier to remember. Like most things in life, it's use it

Re: [lace-chat] Ebay oddity

2010-04-15 Thread Ruth Rocker
Thanks to all who answered my question. I guess I didn't stop to think that it could be a part of a machine. Clay Blackwell wrote: On page 118 of my copy of "Lace Machines and Machine Laces" by Pat Earnshaw (1986), there is a picture of this object, and it is identified as "A twentieth-centur

[lace-chat] shorthand

2010-04-15 Thread Agnes Boddington
I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use it for general notes and lists and such like. And, of course, I do it in Dutch. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to majord..

Re: [lace-chat] Ebay oddity

2010-04-15 Thread Clay Blackwell
On page 118 of my copy of "Lace Machines and Machine Laces" by Pat Earnshaw (1986), there is a picture of this object, and it is identified as "A twentieth-century Leavers machine carriage." Clay On 4/15/2010 1:04 PM, Jane Partridge wrote: In message <4bc74434.1000...@krafters.net>, Ruth Rocke

[lace-chat] Ebay oddity

2010-04-15 Thread Jane Partridge
In message <4bc74434.1000...@krafters.net>, Ruth Rocker writes This item is listed as lacemaking equipment, but how?? http://tinyurl.com/y5dwym5 They are the "bobbins" used in lace machines - can't remember which of the machines uses them, but not the Barmen machine, might be the Raschelle

Re: [lace-chat] Ebay oddity

2010-04-15 Thread Clay Blackwell
It is part of an old machine which makes lace. Clay On 4/15/2010 12:52 PM, Ruth Rocker wrote: This item is listed as lacemaking equipment, but how?? http://tinyurl.com/y5dwym5 To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. Fo

[lace-chat] Ebay oddity

2010-04-15 Thread Ruth Rocker
This item is listed as lacemaking equipment, but how?? http://tinyurl.com/y5dwym5 -- Ruth R. in Ohio roxw...@krafters.net To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.

Re: [lace-chat] Snapshot of my life

2010-04-15 Thread Agnes Boddington
We called it a telex machine. I worked on these for about two years in my army days, in the seventies. We would type on a kind of type writer, which produced the tape. Then it went to the "secret office" next door to be encrypted and sent. During an incident in Eastern Europe we were locked up in