Re: [lace] Another ?

2004-03-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lynn, The Continental bobbins aren't spangeled. Only the english and the danish ones. Ver old ones from Erzgebirge sometimes weren't spangeled too. I couldn't find out yet in which time and why. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscri

Re: [lace] digital cameras- against

2004-10-26 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriend, It is always difficult to say this or that camera is the right for you. First you must find out what you personally want, a very small one, or the best what belongs technical data-which of them are the most important for me, could it be expensive or better not and so on. I firs

Re: [lace] Currency symbols

2004-10-28 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Jean, Here we took Eu as dymbol for Euro - ? Also on the puter. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: look for somebody

2004-10-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Sorry, Kathy Hensel from Marcola, Oregon could you please write to me privately. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Digital cameras (again)

2004-11-02 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Today I added my lace-sleeve to our webshot album. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: webshots

2004-11-06 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello lacefriends, You can see my scarf on: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 Sorry, I always forgot to load it up, but here it is Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTE

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2004-11-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, It could happen that I am away some days our Panther is seriously ill. Sorry Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] web shots

2004-11-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Janice, First there was a picture from another lacefriend, she made this design before but with lots of gold and silver. At the same time she gave me a piece of priking not the hole rapport, and she couldn#t find therest. So I drawed it again and made it to a "whole" design. In the origin

Re: [lace] Is the list quiet

2004-11-16 Thread Ilske Thomsen
. Everyone must be making a lot of lace! Avital, I think they are making goodies for Christmas. I remember last year about the same time the list was quiet as well. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, w

[lace] Re: Being back

2004-11-16 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends. The Panther is back and so am I. For all who was woriieng about the cat, it isn't a real panther. It is our MAC OSX panther, sorry for confusing you but I am cat-fan. Jeri, if a have finished my book-design and my Christmas-card and answering my mails I will tell the list ab

Re: [lace] Re: reticent list members

2004-11-17 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Jennifer, Flax is a very difficult plant and to become thread is a very long working process so it is very expensive. And the consumption of such fine linnen thread is so few that nobody is interested to do this heavy work and it would cost much more than it actually do. And in former ti

Re: [lace] Swedish/Danish woven hearts

2004-11-22 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Arne. Do i understand you wrong? There are this double postcards with small christmas-motivs from Foreningen Knipling i Denmark, with a bell and other motivs. And If I remember tight there is this heart as well. I have one but where? Do you mean new idea of this or exactly this one? Ilske

Re: [lace] lace cylinder

2004-11-22 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Avril, In a lecture about washing laces I heard of such a tool and also somewhere in a book I read about. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Chantilly

2004-11-23 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Diane, I was lucky enough to learn Chantilly, all sorts of them , with Lia Baumeister-Jonker from NL. But I can recommend you her book "Chantilly Techniek en Patronen" . There you find the technique with lots of designs in netherland, english and german. I am not sure if this book is stil

[lace] Re: picture

2004-11-27 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, I added a lace picture on my webshot-album under http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 to start the time of Advent or what ever you want to celebrate til the next weeks. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe l

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Website Update

2004-11-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Jean, the Advent-calendar it is I guess. Greetings Ilske Am 30.11.2004 um 01:02 schrieb Jean Leader: We have just updated the Lace Guild website with extracts of Lace Magazine for October, and also the Young Lacemakers page. There is a bookmark pattern, some attractive lace from the Czech Re

Re: [lace] Re: Duchesse-Sluisse on eBay

2004-12-11 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, This is a nice piece, but not much vatieties in it. I have never seen such a long piece at our lace dealers in Germany but I know that the longer pieces are in proporsition to shorter ones often are more expensive. And if there are few pieces of one lace type on market they

Re: [lace] My Lappet

2004-12-16 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Barbara, Thank you for showing us your wonderful Brussels-Duchesse lappet. It is handmade with parts of needle-lace. Lucky you. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: X-mas-card-exchange

2004-12-17 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Sorry posting this over the list. Hello Trish Fischer, Your letter arrived. How nice the bell. i show it to everybody. Thank you Ilske An answer is on its way - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [lace] Royal Train (Gawthorpe Hall)

2004-12-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Dianne, The booklet is still available. I probably will not be able to find out all the information for you before the middle of January but I will let you know all the details as soon as I can. So we will patient and wait til you are ready. Thanks a lot. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe se

[lace] Re: (lace) My Lappet

2004-12-18 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, It is hard to tell from the picture, but am I the only person who thinks this may not be a lappet? No, you are not. But I am not borne with an "english tongue" so I am the latest who will contradict. And I thought perhaps somebody has used a wrong word being in a hurry or so. Someti

Re: [lace] wearing art

2004-12-18 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Devon wrote: Perhaps we should all make it a point to never leave the house for a fancy occasion, gallery opening, night at the opera, etc. without some hand made lace or lace jewelry on. That's what I do very often. And still visiting my french and my literature classes. I make this things to

Re: [lace] tatting repair sought

2004-12-19 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, I am behind the discussion but I tried to follow with interest. Perhaps we should also point out that old laces 100, 200 or even 300 years old belong to what we call antiques. And they are, how Lorelei pointed out very clear, worth what the individual person mean. Here in Germ

Re: [lace] Merry Christmas

2004-12-24 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Tamara and Brenda and all others who send us good wishes, with and without pictures, for Christmas and the New Year a big thank you for them. And from my part also Happy Christmas and all the best for 2005 Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] Re: search

2004-12-24 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Ruth Budge from Australia, are you still on the list? Than please write to me privately. I have a surprise for you but it came back. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] What and When was Vieux Flandre

2004-12-25 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Patricia, In my lace-identification classes with several different teachers I learned that the so called Vieux Flandres is a 19. cent. produkt and has nothing to do with the Flandres lace from 16. and 17. cent. Its typical points are: combined needle- and bobbin-lace,

Re: [lace] Learning tallies

2005-01-04 Thread Ilske Thomsen
A happy New Year to all. Hello Myrriah, In the book from B. Cook "Practical Skills..." and by U. Löhr "Klöppeln - Handbuch..." and K. Trend Nissen "Knipling III" you could find a lot about tallies. Good luck. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: u

Re: [lace] Fwd: Identified child - Phuket, Thailand

2005-01-08 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Tamara, I know frm TV 5, a french TV-channel, that this boy is reuied with his grandmother and his father. But unhappily the mother died. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Floral torchon questions

2005-01-08 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Alice, What I know about floral Torchon I would say it isn't a extra sort of lace. But some floral Patterns aren't Torchon nor Guipure but something between. So I personally call them only "Floral Lace" without specific type mention. In a specific part of France the have a extra name for a

[lace] Re:Question for Dominique

2005-01-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Dominique, I sent you a mail but it came back. If you are still on the list could you please be so kind and answer me personally. Thank you Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Webshots

2005-01-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Diane, Go to http://www.webshots.com login in , click on link upper right corner fill in Username: Arachne2003, Password: honiton then create photo album and follow the instruction they give you. Good luck Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: lace-classes in Sweden

2005-01-11 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends in Sweden, Do you know if there are any lace-courses in june near Stockholm or in Vadstena. And do you have the exact adresses of some of the museums. If so please mail it to me personally. Thank you. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing t

Re: [lace] Wear More Lace!

2005-01-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, hello Lacefriends, about whether wire lace is more noticeable than fiber lace, Personally here in Germany I didn't make this experience when wearing lace in public but wearing it between lacemakers wir-lace things attract more interest , textiles seem to suffer from some massive an

Re: [lace] wearing lace

2005-01-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon and All others, I wear mine mostly only on my pull but I have a big russsiantapelce, which is ti broad for my shoulders. This I try to stitch on the underground but it never sits right. It is easy in warm summer but in winter time not so. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email

Re: [lace] Down with Trim! /Wear more Lace

2005-01-15 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Jane, If you are making a piece to wear, accept that it will need laundering - There was a time lace wasn't washed. they removed it before washing and saw it on again after washing. And here in Europe we have some proofs that some families send their underwear, only this was washed, far a

Re: [lace] Vienna

2005-01-15 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, No, there is and there wasn't any publication about this wonderful collection. When I was there about two years ago I asked and I told them that it is a pity that not. I had the opportunity to say this also to the lady who is responsible but they looked at me and that no. Greetings

Re: [lace] Re: curling pieces

2005-01-17 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Susie, When I knew that I will starch the lace piece I start to make, then I lay directly on my pillow two or three sheets of this kitchen-paper we use so often. Bigger than the pricking. And then I put the pricking there. Another idea is to lay a very "smooth" transparent paper over the p

Re: [lace] Re: curling pieces/starching

2005-01-19 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Tamara and all starching-interesting lacefriends, Sorry but don't use this products: (flour, sugar, etc) media, for starching. Otherwise it could be that your lace is interesting for insect and they lay perhaps their eggs into it. And when the new generation comes out your lace has a new de

Re: [lace] Hackle pliers???

2005-01-19 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacemakers, What is a hackle pliers please? Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Hackle pliers???

2005-01-19 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Thank you Margot. The seller is of no importance and the pictures have something of torture cellar. Not ba for the fantasy. hihihi Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] lacemaking and motorcycle riding

2005-01-19 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, Here I knew also two female lacemakers who like motorcycle and two others who are sitting behind their husband. Why not we aren't make from sugar and most of us has still other interests. I am also a photographer not only for laces for insects and flowers as well and so I am often

Re: [lace] Rib'n'roll

2005-01-22 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello janice, hello Tamara and all Interested in Honiton, I learned Honiton with Lia Baumeister and after the books and Elsie Luxton, so I work after this methods. And I can't remember that I sew in any fillings into a roll. Or perhaps I didn't understand it well enough. There are differences wo

Re: [lace] old book

2005-01-25 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Tess, They aren't only wonderful things! They are friends. greetings from the book-lover Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] help on English terminology

2005-01-25 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, Mostly english vocabulary is very precise what make it coming in in german but today it is german who make life easier. We have Halbschlag (halfstitch), Leinenschlag (linen stitch, cloth stitch, whole stitch) and Ganzschlag (whole stitch again after some books, double half st

[lace] Re: winter (not lace)

2005-01-27 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, I saw some pictures from the US where whole houses are totally covered with ice, awful. Hope nobody from the list is involved. I didn't hear anything from Lorelei or Jeri. Hope everybody is ok. Here in Europe winter plays crazy too. On Mallorca where people like to fly for the

[lace] Re: Belgian Colour Code

2005-01-27 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Lacefriends, After the Belgian Colour Code half stitchgreen linene stichviolett double stitch red only one thread as in thread diagramms yellow picot if they are only one thread yellow picot with two threadsblue gimp very thic

Re: [lace] Re: Belgian Colour Code

2005-01-28 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Mary, But with Honeycomb ground we have six needle points and all this different Torchon grounds are on the same grid. You can imagine how the picture change you get than. The "brown" one gives a very dense structure. In german wie say gezwirnt after my dictionary it is in english to twi

Re: [lace] Re: CT/KD

2005-01-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, I myself was confused too, when I started lacemaking and find this colour- differcies in english books. So I am allways sceptic with this diagramms in an english book. Perhaps we can get an explanation from our english specialists. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Lace 117

2005-02-01 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, We in Germany knew this problem too when it belongs Volkhochschule (Evening classes for adult). There we must be 12 persons other wise it becomes difficult. And fact is making jewellery, literature, music,dancing and other things find more friends then lacemaking. Also higher l

Re: [lace] Visit to Amsterdam

2005-02-02 Thread Ilske Thomsen
They do have a lace collection so admirably illustrated in 75 x Lace, but I think special arrangements would have to be made to see any of it. Yes, that's true. And because of the renovation it's not easy. There is also the Rembrandt house for which Lia Baumeister reconstructed and worked toge

Re: [lace] Re: collection of lacemakers

2005-02-06 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Everybody, We here in Germany speak of lace.sisters (klöppel-Schwester/n). And for some the first (good) teacher becomes lace-mother (Klöppel-Mutter). And lace-teachers often speak from their students as from their lace-children (Klöppel-Kinder). I used here the word lace because Klöppe

Re: [lace] Re: bundle/plait start

2005-02-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:23:19 -0500, Tamara wrote: I do have Loehr's "Beginning of the end", but was never able to make either head or tail of it, never having taken the class; in general, it's way above the capacity of my 2 struggling brain cells. So, if Loehr has come up with a g

Re: [lace] Lace Shops

2005-02-24 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Very short my comentaire to this theme. Here in Germany we had once a lot of shops who sold all for handicraft in the german Handarbeiten. Handmade lace didn't belong to this. They diapeared, no have shops who sell wool. And we have the departement stores which sell Kurzwaren,

Re: [lace] Re: Royal Canberra Show Winners

2005-02-26 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Noelene, Liz and Jenny, Congratulation to you winners. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Fwd: Barbara Fay's Booklist B23

2005-03-03 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Tamara and all of you, I've been buying lace books from Fay for some years now (8? 10?) I do since 1987 and, for books in print, she's still the best deal around, I agree with you 100% especially if you have patience. As far as i know they have representatives in your country doesn't this w

Re: [lace] Hairwork

2005-03-06 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, In Ausgabe 1/2005 of Die Spitze, the magazin from Dtsch. Klöppelverband you find an article about this subject but in german. In the time we name Gründerzeit after the prussen/French war 1870/1871 pictures made from hair were very popular in Germany. I lots of Art- and Craft M

Re: [lace] Re: Bobbins for Milanese

2005-03-08 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Adding my two pence I personaly have any spangled bobbins. i choose the bobbins after the thickness of thread and not necessairely after the lace-type. My 500 Binche bobbins I use for all the Flemish types and Chantilly. Beside I have, my most expensive ones made from Pal

Re: [lace] New OIDFA Bulletin

2005-03-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Helen, OIDFA is the Organisation internationale de la Dentelle au Fuseau et á la l'Aiguille or in eglish International Bobbin and Needle Lace Organisation It is in english and french, french because the organisation was once built in Le Puy en France. There you coul

Re: [lace] Age of Conventioneers

2005-03-19 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, It's perhaps a bit late but at the moment I am engaged with other things. We, that means Deutscher Klöppelverband, started a few ears ago with haveing at each Kongreß one lace-class for children. One reason was to help mothers who didn't know what to do with the child but anothe

[lace] Re: webshots

2005-03-20 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hallo Everybody, Does our password has changed. If I write Arachne 2003 and honiton I doesn't come further rhen the normal homepage and not to our fotos. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [

[lace] Re: webshots

2005-03-20 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, On the webshots in my album you find another two easter eggs. And, at least, my "lace-brooches collection" with them I try to interest people for bobbin-lace making. The other items come end of april. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

Re: [lace] cataloguing at Panhandle-Plains Museum

2005-03-26 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Sue, Am 26.03.2005 um 18:20 schrieb Sue Babbs: If the curator could scan the pieces to the internet (assuming that is a safe thing to do with old pieces, and perhaps some knowledgeable person could advise on that aspect) would there be anyone on arachne who could help her with tentative id

[lace] Re: Burano-lace - ebay

2005-04-28 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, hello Lacefriends, Sorry I am behind with my mails. _http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=2219&item=7317073933&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW_ (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=2219&item=7317073933&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW) What belonged this piece I am wo

[lace] Re: flour sacks

2005-04-28 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, The discussion about flour sacks museums reminds me that during World War Two in the Harz-mountain the women trying to do their living by lacemaking made laces with the "threads" of sugar-sacks because the didn't have linen- or cotton-thread neither silk. Greetings Ilske - To

[lace] Re: question no lace

2005-05-08 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Sory for posting this over the list but it is a US-american Question. I am reading Goodbye, Columbus from Philip Roth, in chapter 6 (in my book page 106) he describes children: playing at Willie Mays with a broom handle and half a rubber ball. Are I am right thinking they are p

Re: [lace] Browsers -was roseground

2005-05-22 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Sorry, but for MAC user the newest version is 5.2.3 and I can't see your site. Ilske Am 22. Mai 2005 um 15:53 schrieb C. Johnson: The technology world is every changing. The Internet has changed remarkably since the invention of Internet Explorer 3.1 and unfortunately, many things now availa

Re: [lace] Pattern for bobbin lace classes

2005-05-24 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Robin and all other lacefriends, It's my understanding that copying pages for use in a class was covered under the "fair use" clause of copyright. In other words, it would not be a violation of copyright to use patterns from published books. Of course, that may vary in other countries. It

Re: [lace] lace course

2005-05-24 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Magda, I which country? Ilske Am 24. Mai 2005 um 17:12 schrieb Bobbinlacemaker: Any ideas where one can take a bobbinlace course in july (any course), just to fill in my holidays ? Magda from cloudy Brugge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscrib

Re: [lace] What happens to the lace teacher's work?

2005-05-24 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lind, - did you make more lace than before? Yes, but not always my own projects because I redo every pattern I have in my course-map even I have done it before. - did the quality of your work improve? Sure it does. - did you try new kinds of lace to accommodate students? Mostly the

Re: [lace] Help with square Valenciennes ground, please

2005-05-30 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Jean, 1. Angle of the ground - 45 degrees? 50 degrees? or something else? I didn't find anything about it but I will mesure it. 2. What is the best way of working the plait crossing? There seem to be several variations. I remember that when I learned it we did the the "round" ground in

Re: [lace] BLacing with hair

2005-05-31 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Here another idea. it's a picture from the "Bad Hair hall Of Fame". http://community.webshots Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Glass Bobbins

2005-06-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, I too have some glass bibbins, i got them as presents from friends or after taking a lace class. And i don't use them for lacemaking they are nice rememberings to some people for me. greetings from Hamburg in Germany where summer has arrived but still with a cold wind Ilske

Re: [lace] membership

2005-06-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
But then a couple of years ago we agreed that if someone couldn't write in English, they could write in their own language and an attempt would be made to find someone on the list to translate it - the idea was not to put people off joining just because of language difficulties. -- Jane Partridge

Re: [lace] Calm (logarithmic) Sea and Prosperous ("Dieppe?") Voyage

2005-06-30 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Aurelia, First sugestion you made Aurelia-Torchon -ground. Second Mendelssohn-Torchon-ground or third and that's what you did is head over heals Dieppe-ground. But why not working like this. On one side are the correct lace rules on the other free interpretation. If it works and if you li

[lace] Re: Exhibition

2005-06-30 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear All, Last sunday I went to the west of Hamburg to the so called Jenisch Haus. It was the country residence of the Hamburg Senator Martin Johann von Jenisch. This villa set in a huge parc was built after the designs of Franz Gustav Forsmann and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1831 til 1834. You

Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin problem

2005-07-06 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Poor Jean, There is only one solution sening back and waiting for one who is ok. Sometimes it happenes that the wrong pages were bound together. Greetings Ilske I've just received my Summer IOLI bulletin, but there's a problem with it - I've got pages 1 - 8 twice and pages 25-32 twice, with

Re: [lace] London Bombings

2005-07-07 Thread Ilske Thomsen
From Hamburg I too add my thoughts and prayers Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: exhibition in Dortmund, Germany

2005-07-09 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends, Perhaps you would like to read something nice after all this bad happenings. So I'll tell you about the modern lace exhibition in the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschiche in Dortmund. This is in the western part of Germany. There you see laces for wearing from 1925 till today

Re: [lace] Re: exhibition in Dortmund, Germany

2005-07-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Tamara, Thank you for clearyfing the name of this beautiful stone. I like its colour very much. Yes it is easy to copy it but in the case of these dresses Ithink they are genuine. It's not a fault writing of dresses, there are four of them. The one in Vamberk what was I think this one of

Re: [lace] Re: exhibition in Dortmund, Germany

2005-07-11 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Perhaps one made in Tenerife lace? The technique is also known as "sol (sun) lace" in some parts of the world. No, not Tenerife- or Sol-lace. The doily I mentioned is bobbin-lace, around a sun figers, houses and so on are done, I think admireing the sun, and therefore the name. Ilske - To u

Re: [lace] popular uses for lace

2005-07-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, First there are all the little "tests" when I am learning a new technique or preparing things for a class and so on. Second little presents, that could be eveything. Third and important for me lace to wear, collar, sleeves, applications on dresses or shirts or handbags or.

[lace] Re: New pictures

2005-07-12 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Under /community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=viewall&a you find some new pictures. Not lace but a little sculpture about 15 cm high, from a lacemaker from anbrasilian island. You find the "model" on the postcard I added too. Hope you have fun. Greetings Ils

Re: [lace] antique lace vestments for sale

2005-07-17 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Caroly, It was Panchet called Bellerose who lived from 1812 til 1895. The picture belonges or belonged to the Musée Baron Gérard in Bayeux. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [lace] Antique vestment artist

2005-07-18 Thread Ilske Thomsen
_http://membres.lycos.fr/sitelle/lace/peintre.htm_ (http://membres.lycos.fr/sitelle/lace/peintre.htm) , On this website there is the "lacemaker" from Johann Anton de Peters. this aquarell belongs to the Wallraf-Richartz- Museum in Cologne. And it seems sure that the painter is born in Cologne in

Re: [lace] Snowflake Mesh?

2005-07-23 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Devon, Sorry I am behind a bit with my mail. I personaly use, when I need the words in English, those which Annemarie Verbeke uses in her books. And in these Flandres laces are two important thigs the peas and the snowflakes which are different but logical in my opinion. Ilske - To uns

Re: [lace] Re: IOLI convention (and competitions)

2005-08-08 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear lacefriends, Just back from a wonderful lace class full of new ideas but missing the time to realize them I had a very short look over my 125 mails and will answer this one. The congresses of Deutscher Klöppel Verband are a bit in another way as those from IOLI. We search our hotels or hol

Re: [lace] Re: IOLI convention (and competitions)

2005-08-08 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Oh, sorry Lacefriends, I was too quick. I still found some other dates. In 2003 the theme was "Spiegelungen"/ reflections, can I say so?In that year were only 53 but 4 not for competition s o only 49 from 7 countries. You see it is different from year to year. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscrib

Re: [lace] can anyone tell me what lace this is?

2005-08-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
For sure it isn't Cluny or any other bobbin lace. In my opinion it is Ätzspitze - chemical lace what is embroidery lace made by a machine on a ground which will burn down after wards by chemical, caustic soda. In Europe are two famous places Plauen in Germany and St. Gallen in Switzerland. I gu

[lace] Re: (lace) is this lace?

2005-08-17 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Bridget and all others, When youtake the word lace for everything which is light, fluffy and so on than it is. If you use the word vor bobbin and needle lace it isn't. You can tell crochet-lace, knitted-lace and so on. But in my opinio these pictures are spider webs in different material

Re: [lace] Lace Consultants

2005-08-17 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Jeri, Since I started with lacemaking nearly 18 years ago I also a lace consultant everywhere and everytime I meet other people. But I often must hear that even other lacemaking people use the term lace for lots of other things and still say Handarbeit insted of Handwerk, we discussed thi

Re: [lace] Re: IOLI competition rules revisited

2005-08-28 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Tamara, Haven't you read this: Beads, wire and raised tallies are permitted, Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Mullers for handmade lace?

2005-08-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Jenny, I haven't any idea how these could be useful for lacemaking. I used such glass-things working in my profession as Chemotechnikerin, to stir into glasses for christals or mixing or works like that. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the li

Re: [lace] Glass Mullers

2005-08-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, These glas- things are used to make pigment befor painting (art) with them very fine and than mixing with oil or acryl or what ever. The whole offer is for artists. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [lace] That table ribbon

2005-08-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Aurelia, These table-runners are a favourite thing here in Germany. And what astonished me always that some of them are so small. They must not fill the whole length of the table. They shall be only a decoration for the table. Therefore the rules for the competition are ok. If you allow me

Re: [lace] That table ribbon

2005-08-31 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Anne, I try to answer your questions but I myself haven't one. So I tell you what I saw by other lace friends. Mostly this runner is placed lengthwise in the middle of the table. Some let it lay during the meals others take it away and let it there only for decoration of the table. If the

Re: [lace] post Katrina - waiting for news

2005-08-31 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Beth, I am happy that you are safe and I hope you will find your house undamaged. All my best wishes for all who are concerned in this catastrophe. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [

Re: [lace] Fwd: Re: That table ribbon

2005-09-01 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Dear Lacefriends, Under/www.internationaloldlacers.org/index.html#Lace%20Contest you find all you must know for that contest. In my opion everything is clear. And that a table runner made with very fine thread, Le 100/2 or finer, not will be practical and sturdy is in my opinion also clear.

[lace] Re: a nice expression

2005-09-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Lacefriends, Sorry, i am very busy at the moment, a new lecture. But just to let you know I read a nice expression about lace in a book I work with: lace, the crown of all material, or is tissue or fabric better? Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containi

Re: [lace] That Tonder book on ebay

2005-09-29 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, I actually sold DM 65 in january 1993. But it is sold out now and such things are seldom. greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re: a nice expression

2005-10-01 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, I actually sold DM 65 in january 1993. But it is sold out now and such things are seldom. greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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