fibers, but I think that may not be the proper plant...
Sadly, the book doesn't mention whether the lace is bobbin lace, needle
lace, crochet or what.
On an interesting note, in the Philipines, lace was also made using
pineaple fibres...
Debora Lustgarten
At 01:53 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote
Greetings, arachnes,
I also do knitting, apart from learning my bobbin lace, and last year I
wanted a book on lace shawls because I got loads of alpaca wool to spin as
fine as I could (1/2 mm each ply) and wanted to make myself a shawl or a wrap.
Here's the book I got: Traditional Knitted Lace
Hello to the list,
Some of you may already know me, but here goes the intro for all the
buddies out there:
I'm Debora Lustgarten, a beginner-intermediate BLer in Toronto, Ontario. I
get together with the ladies of the Simcoe County Lacemakers group and the
Toronto ladies.
I came to bobbin lace
That is a very interesting ground!
I'd like to know more how to draft it or to make it, and if there are
rules on how to plan it, also.
Curious Debora
in Toronto, Canada
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Happy holidays to all!
I finished making my second ornament ever and want to make more. I have
some questions:
- How do you calculate how much thread to wind on the bobbins per pattern,
so you don't waste much?
- How do you prepare starch and apply it the old-fashioned way?
- Is there a way to
...I see thread people...
Sorry! :-) Couldn't resist the opportunity for a pun
Cheers, and thanks for the great info on using leftover thread or joining
thread to do other projects.
Debora L.
...still not snowing around here...
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Well greetings to you, from a fellow SCAdian! I made a bolster pillow just
like that, and I'd like more information on the pattern you were making,
which I assume comes from Le Pompe. What thread did you use, how many pairs
of bobbins, and what challenges did it involve?
Debora Lustgarten
±as, etc.
Debora Lustgarten
... finally getting some good snows in Toronto
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Hi Jenny,
I'm going to chime in and say that in my SCA Kingdom, an end of period
date of 1650 is acceptable, so this lace would qualify as period for
me. Regardless, I'm very grateful for the article and the working pattern!
Thank you!
Debora L.
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How did Claire Burkhard (and you) worked the horizontal bars? Could you
give us an explanation or point us to a diagram in her book?
Thanks!
Debora L.
Finishing the torchon bookmark that's between me and the Le Pompe...
The *real* trick-cycling in that paricular pattern is the *horizontal*
line
Oh, what a wonderful piece of synchronicity!
My maternal grandma was from Maracaibo, and used to make Soles when she
was a girl. My mum never learned, and when I discovered lacemaking,
grandma had died a couple of years ago... What a pity that she never
passed her skills on...
Thanks for sending
Hi Andy,
In the following link, of the Digital Archives for textile documents,
go to the Lace section and make a search for Teneriffe. I'm sure
you'll find some books. And they are free to download... can't beat that! :-)
Hope this helps,
Debora L.
Dear Lorraine and group, thanks!
Replied privately.
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
At 03:42 PM 11/5/2007, you wrote:
Hello all--
A conservator friend sent this to me from a conservation listserve, and I am
forwarding it here in case someone in or near Toronto can help the writer
Hello again,
Yes, there are several sizes, and the one that
fits our tablemates is the 25 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 25 1/2
It is waterproof-ish (being plastic but with seams) and translucent.
Earlier on, I made the mistake of buying the 100
cm size and it was enormous! It was relegated to
holding comforters
that does not involve
stretching the skein over the back of a chair and winding it by hand?
My last recourse would be to borrow the tools from my lace-making
fiends, but that's two months away and I want to play with my yarns now! ;-)
Thanks for any tips and suggestions,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
just cut the head of a couple of pins
and stuck one of them to the bottom of each set
of unsplit chopsticks, point outwards, and
Voilá! You just line up and pin a pair of these
gizmos on your pillow, feed the paper through the
opening and there you have it...
Hope you like my idea...
Debora
in
the thickness of the thread, but to learn the techniques and practise
using the threads I have, I'd like to be able to enlarge my patterns a
bit more...
Thanks in advance for your considerate answers,
Debora Lustgarten
...Finally feeling a tad like Spring in Toronto
.
It is well worth the effort to see it.
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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Thanks for the kind replies to my post,
I got a 9-block pillow and put a layer of craftstore felt on top and
bottom of each block, before covering it with plain cotton fabric. I
mentioned quilting because it is the printed cotton fabric typically
found in quilting stores.
I've tried wrapping
Dear Clay and all,
I just received my block pillow from Mr. Ken van Dieren, and overall,
I'm happy with it. It is the most economic model (others have a base
and sides made of solid wood) that I could afford.
Having read the posts that followed this, I do like the idea of using
a firm elastic
Dear Arachnes,
I hope those of you north of the Equator are having a great summer,
and those south of the line, a good winter...
My question is this: I'd love to find either books or magazines with
reconstructed or newer patterns of old Flanders lace.
Could those of you living in Europe and UK
Oops, forwarded this to Chris and not to the list...Sorry!
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:07:07 -0400
To: Chris Vail gypsy.v...@gmail.com
From: Debora Lustgarten drac...@primus.ca
Subject: Period lace enthusiasts
Howdy all!
I'm also a period lace enthusiast and send my congratulations and
cheers
in the central areas of Paris.
Since her computer connection is not that good, I offered to ask on
her behalf. I know basic French, so if you have website links, those
are also good.
Many thanks in advance for your replies!
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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wow, that sparked my curiosity!
Ae there pictures of a humped tally anywhere on the web? How do you make them?
...and, of course, my nasty and very earthy nature started going on
all sorts of off-colour tangents... ;-)
Debora L.
At 05:08 PM 10/09/2009, you wrote:
Don't forget humped tallies
Many thanks, Helen!
I noticed that the humped tallies leave an opening in the back,
whereas the rolled tallies do not create one; that is, the
cloth-stitch background remains even.
I wonder if anyone has a graphic or line drawing of each type of
tally? It would help me learn how to make them
to send cutesy stuff to our friends,
please do it out of the list!!!
...Annoyed after cleaning 20 garbage messages and finding out the latest.
Debora Lustgarten
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apologize for my misdirected anger. Now, back to lace! :-)
Debora L.
At 07:07 PM 28/09/2009, Debora Lustgarten wrote:
Dear Arachnes,
I would like to call your attention to chain letters and messages
not related to lace.
It is a royal pain to clean your daily inbox during the regular
course
Hello all,
I was reading some books about Bucks point lace and found the
expression setting a pattern in.
What does that mean?
Currently, I'm practising gimp-work, learning to work with passive
pairs on headside scallops and valleys, and square tallies in tulle
ground... Fun!
Cheers,
Debora
Dear Clay, Ruth, Bev and Joan,
You are right. I got that term from Mrs. Channer's book. I thought it
meant establishing the way the pattern works or something like that...
Thank you for your ideas and suggestions!
Debora L.
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on a bobbin lace website is to put
animated renditions of stitches, like the basic cross - twist, cloth
stitch, rose ground, guipure leaf, etc.
Keep on the good work and let us know as the site evolves!
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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Dear Arachnes and Marilyn,
This is the winder sold by John Beswick of Torchon House in
Australia. It is made of three pocket-size plexiglass pieces that get
assembled together and is clamped to a surface. I couldn't find any
picture of it on the web and I haven't seen it in Holly Van Sciver's
a question regarding technique or any
other aspect of Spanish bobbin lace, we also have a couple of great
Spanish lace designers among us, namely Carolina Guerrero and Antje Gonzalez.
Well, I'm off to have hot chocolate and churros this gray and rainy
day in Toronto,
Debora Lustgarten
At 04:30 PM
Hi all,
That' s the Spanish translation of Therese De Dillmont's encyclopaedia of
Needlework
Debora Lustgarten
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De Dillmont's but that
happens when you don't engage the brain before opening your mouth ;-)
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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-fortaleza/
Debora Lustgarten
...hoping to hear more theories and info (or debunking thereof) on
fish spines used for bobbin lace...
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I agree completely!
Debora in Toronto
At 05:02 PM 25/05/2011, Vicki Bradford wrote:
Thanks, David Pene. This is a lovely postcard but I'm surprised
it is from France. Her pillow looks like a typical Spanish pillow
and so do her bobbins. What does anyone else think?
Vicki in Maryland
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Greetings all,
A few years ago I bought a wreath storage holder at my hardware shop
(Home Depot) when it went on sale after the holidays, and it's
fantastic for cookie pillows up to 22 diameter.
I store it hanging behind the door of my storage closet and it takes
almost three pillows!
Debora
.
Hope this helps,
Debora Lustgarten
At 05:18 PM 18/08/2011, J D Hammett wrote:
Hi Mary and other Arachnids,
Has anybody else downloaded this program? I tried three times and
had to un-install it three times as neither Adobe 10, Windows office
nor any other program on my computer could open
ABC ABC.
Any ideas how to translate this term in English or if there is an
existing term?
Many thanks in advance,
Debora Lustgarten
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Dear Carolina, Bev and all,
Thanks for your answers! It is good to know not only the term but the
application of hanging in bundles or managing the thread bundles in lace.
Now, part of my original question was the different bobbin sequence
of this type of hanging: ABC ABC
Is there a
details, the motif would go under the acetate, and on top of
either velvet or ultra-suede, a piece of cardboard and thin leather
backing. All this would have the edges sewn together with nylon
thread and then trimmed with beads.
I will welcome all your comments and observations!
Thanks,
Debora
that celebrate it, and happy
lace-making!
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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Dear Arachnes,
I have that tool, by Mr. Pikul (mine has a lovely
cocobolo wood handle), and he sells them with a
bit of clear tube cap over the hook end. No stabbing!
I also have a sewing hook bought in Spain, made
by an English vendor (the name escapes me), which
has a bent tip, and is
are used, and how lace-makers deal with
different types of lace using the same equipment.
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
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!
Debora Lustgarten
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Hello all,
As someone who uses divider pins a lot, I don't want to have anything
to do with anything containing lead.
If it's a question of the pin part containing lead and not the top,
it doesn't matter. You still grab those pins by the wire every now
and then, so the less exposure to toxins
Hello all,
I'll venture the suggestion that these are forms
to do a different sort of Teneriffe or Sun laces,
and that type of lace is still done today in some South American countries.
Debora Lustgarten
At 08:09 PM 04/07/2012, you wrote:
Does anyone know what this is?
http
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Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
At 07:40 AM 19/07/2012, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Hi there
Can anyone tell me where I can buy a pattern that is used on the top of a
childs dress - see http://www.brandis.com.au/arachne/7.jpg for an example of
what I mean.
Jenny Brandis
Kununurra, Western
.
Debora Lustgarten
...Finally some respite from the heat and humidity in Toronto, Canada.
At 11:44 AM 19/07/2012, Sue wrote:
Wonderful patterns and inspiration, and gave me lots of ideas of
what you could make with some of the straight edges but can anyone
tell me where I might find good circular
Hello Arachnes,
A lady contacted our Toronto Lace -makers Group page to enquire about
the Vancouver group.
Since I only have access to the old Arachne list, could any
Vancouverites reply with contact details for their group?
Many thanks on this lady's and my behalf,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto
Dear Arachnes,
I bought Ulrike Voelcker's new Discover, Explore, Master Torchon
book and she mentions using the Brildor 30/2 cotton thread. I haven't
been able to find an equivalence for it.
If any of you have used this thread and are familiar with the wraps
per centimeter concept, could you
to consult it rather than trust to the
mechanic mercies of machine translators...
Just my two cents (granito de arena),
Debora Lustgarten
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forward to seeing them!
Debora Lustgarten
...Still snowing in Toronto. Planning on making a small needlelace motif.
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mount the project so it doesn't come off when you
pull the needle?
Many thanks in advance,
Debora Lustgarten
In Toronto, with too many projects on the go at the same time, it seems!
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is presentable enough to show all of you a picture
once it's done!
Thanks again for your kind replies,
Debora Lustgarten
In a slowly warmer Toronto
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very helpful as a point of contact for local people that
want to learn about lace / bobbin lace, since it is also a search
result in Google. Also, given that some posts are bilingual
(Spanish), we have some overseas followers!
Debora Lustgarten
Having a gorgeous Spring day in Toronto.
At 02:35
Shantung Yaspé Nm 30/2
Silk Pagoda Nm 24/2
Tussah silk Nm 20/2
Debora Lustgarten
...If it was winter, I've had it!
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using awls is gaining enough popularity to merit turning
them in numbers...
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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for their
interactive days and we find it one of our best opportunities to
engage with and show the public that bobbin lace is still going strong!
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
In a beautiful, sunny and cool Toronto
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Hello Heather and all Arachnes,
Yes, please check the listing of the Canadian Lace Gazette to locate
the group closest to you, and if we can ever be of any help here in
Toronto, please don't hesitate to give us a shout.
Happy lacemaking and have a safe summer,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto
piece, you can always do so!
Best success in your project,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Ontario, Canada / Ard Chreag, Septentria
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Hello all,
Does anyone on the list know the equivalence or wraps per cm of
Superior Threads' "Kimono Silk" #100/2?
Many thanks in advance,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
...having heavy rains and wind, good for staying indoors, with a big
teapot at arms reach!
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formation to include!
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
At 08:27 PM 10/28/2015, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
>Does 100/2 mean cotton count 100/2 ? or is it
>the metric 100/2 ? or is it Denier?
>
>If itâs cotton count 100/2 , yes you will get 42,000 yards per pound.
>If itâ
nce doesn't allow me to figure the thread movement for
the second and third pearl on the arched part.
Has anyone on the list worked a line drawing for a full repeat of
this edging, or would be willing to do it?
Many, many thanks in advance...
Debora Lustgarten
In Toronto, where the weather is be
Hello all,
Thank you to Lorelei and to María for their great
replies. Using the IOLI lists and María's
opinion, I can now decide on my next steps.
The Arachne list and its members are such great resources!
Thanks again,
Debora Lustgarten
... Expecting windchills of -30 in Toronto. What
and tips,
Debora Lustgarten
...Preparing for a very cold Valentine's Day.
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Well, I've seen pictures of beautiful traditional lace coifs in
Brittany, and with Galicia alone, you have an enormous bobbin lace
industry. And, yes, it has very strong Celtic roots!
Best of luck,
Debora Lustgarten
At 04:29 PM 3/11/2016, you wrote:
Hello all,
In 2 months I
s.
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
...Having the last snow of Spring, fingers crossed!
At 12:01 PM 4/11/2016, Sally Jenkins wrote:
Hello Arachne and Susan,
Susan said, " Unfortunately, I failed to install lazy loops on the octagon
& the sewings/finishing went badly"
I
make a Google search for images of vintage postcards of bobbin
lacemakers you may see them in use.
Hope this helps,
Debora Lustgarten
In cloudy and windy Toronto, Canada.
At 06:04 PM 9/29/2016, Liz Roberts wrote:
I am curious of why there are two poles in the long pillows. I ran
across
,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
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of the bolster and the
thread thickness they prefer.
Something I love is their bold use of eye-popping colours!
Enjoy,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Ontario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjBmM7QEKlU
At 02:25 PM 2/25/2020, Devon Thein wrote:
Many thanks to Jo for that fantastic picture of a lacemaker
identifiable, so that's why the long horizontal pillow.
In any case, the original illustration and the following discussions
have been interesting.
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
Toronto, Canada
At 04:47 AM 2/24/2020, jo wrote:
I see, doe this work better?
https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/56576539054505458
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