Hi Dear Spiders
I found a couple of old craft books on line courtesy of Project Gutenberg :
The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/12642
And Godfrey's books shelf:
The Needles Excellency: A New Booke wherin are diuers Armirable Workes
wrought with the Needle.
http
Lovely to hear about all the different work going on - gives me lots of
ideas for what next!
I'm mainly working on my large straw domed pillow - through Margaret
Turner's Bedfordshire Lace Patterns Butterflies. Fresia no 100 linen. 1 and
a half down (on second wing) - 3 more to go.
I have a l
Has anyone used this lovely spaced-dyed silk? I got some at the Stevenage
lace day last weekend. It comes as a 12-ply silk and is described as being
similar to other embroidery silks in thickness.
I've worked a few Russian tape patterns scaled down to fit ordinary Silko
50 - where they ask for
Seems to be my day for posting - just found this text
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (Paris and New York: Goupil and Co., Boussod,
Valadon and Co., Successors, 1893), ed. by Maud Howe Elliott (page images
at Harvard)
Clicking on the
Gentle Lacemakers,
as the list is quiet I thought I'd let you know about an interesting
history site - the Proceedings of the Old Bailey
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
The Old Bailey Proceedings contain accounts of over 100,000 criminal
trials, as well as the text from the front and back cover
Gentle Spiders,
Happy New Year.
I come late to this thread having left my computer at work for the
holidays. But I thought I'd contribute a mite. I use a free sql dbase
called PORTABASE available from sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/
. It works on Windows PC and linux based pdas such as t
Hi Maria,
The authoritative work is "Lace a history " by Santina Levey,
textile curator at the V&A museum in the UK. It is a very hefty
(large, heavy, thorough) and expensive book, but if you can get it
through interlibrary loan it would be worth it.
"Lace an identification guide" by Heath
From the BBC News site enjoy!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6312429.stm
Renowned lace makers in the Polish village of Koniakow have found a new
way of boosting sales - sexy underwear.
Louise
in grey Cambridge where the light is fading.
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Dear Arachnes,
as Amazon stopped their "search by publication date", you may have missed
as I did, that a 2nd edition of Lace Villages by Liz Bartlett was
published in November.
Synopsis
A book that will appeal to lacemakers and local historians alike. It
explores, through public records and per
DearArachnes,
I found the Publisher's Site here
http://www.arimapublishing.co.uk/arima100.php
It has a flash preview of the first chapter as a taster. Also buried
amongst the info for authors - it's "self-publishing" house the
Royalties are 20% if sold through another retailer like Amazon, bu
Dear All,
Just to let you know that it appears the regular fair at the NEC at
the beginning of December has shifted venue
to CRANMORE PARK SOLIHULL BIRMINGHAM which is a bit further round the M42
details on the Ford's website http://www.lace-making.com
Some of our group attended a recent lac
Joeanna
Which book is it? I have a translation of Dieren in Kleur which
sounds very similar: Russian coloured lace. If so I can look the
pattern up for you. The directions are fairly brief though. Mine was
sold by Makit Direct in Little Paxton, St Neots. I picked it up in an
Oxfam shop.
re
Dear Arachnes
does anyone know the UK bobbin painter who does the fine insect
designs including bumble bees? She was at St Ives last Nov and I have
lost her leaflet. I know she has a very simple web page but I forgot
to bookmark it.
Thanks
Louise
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Dear Arachnes,
Fenland Lacemakers are holding their annual lace
day on Saturday 10th March (10:00 -15:30) at
Burgess Hall, St Ivo Centre, Westwood Road, St
Ives. Speaker Martin Tufnell "A World of Glass" .
Tickets £4 either in advance from Gillian
Johnston (see Lace guild listing), or pay
Dear Steph,
I too have some old Sylko 40 (Dewhurst's Three Shells Machine Twist
mercised cotton) which is on wooden 100 yd (91m) spools probably from
the 70's it was part of grandmother-in-law's horde (school books to
sugar, haberdashery) Brenda measured it at 28 w/cm. I used it
once t
Dear Angela,
I have been looking out for it also, SMP Lace and Roseground have it in their
catalogues.
Louise
In Springlike Cambridge - why do I have to be stuck inside?
>From: Angela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [lace] Floral Bedfordshire
>Hi
> I had sight of this lovely new book (Well I th
Dear all
Apologies for the badly parsed email - ruddy outlook 2007 . If anyone can tell
me how to make it word wrap 76 character lines in plain text emails I'd be
grateful. Also I have no idea where the yahoo shopping signature came from -
I'm using a work email address.
Louise
Who has been c
Thanks everyone - mystery solved by Avital, although the root problem - having
to use Outlook 2007 remains!
Louise
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Dear Clay,
it's not just you, I couldn't see them either, until I switched browser from
firefox to internet explorer. I think there is something funny about the html
coding, they should appear after the box about store rewards.
For those of you who like using Firefox, there is a nice little
For those of you who don't want to mess with IE , here are the links to
the actual pictures from the html source file for the Binche kerchief ...
http://thmb.inkfrog.com/thumbn/kmbrlyan/Picture_099_006.jpg=600
http://thmb.inkfrog.com/thumbn/kmbrlyan/Picture_100_006.jpg=600
http://thmb.inkfrog.co
Dear Arachnes,
I thought these might be of interest: The digitisation unit at Southampton
University has quietly started digitising some 19 th C knitting and netting
books. They are popping up in the listing of new online books that U Penn
produces but are near impossible to find by browsing fro
Dear Arachnes,
I am enjoying this thread, and think I have now have a good Autumn project to
catalogue my bobbins now the wet weather is setting in!
I'm not sure I have seen mention of another Cambridgeshire Bobbin Maker, my
closest: Margaret & David Davies, in March: nice delicate bobbins in w
Brian these are great!
Diana, I think you're spot on with the two Pearce ones. There is a tiny image
on the old website
The tail on 'Rosette' and 'Coloured spiral' reminds me of Stuart Johnson's
bobbins. I have a similar one to Rosette of his with a large bone bead in the
shank. Great for gim
In case anyone was thinking of visiting soon,
http://www.wardownparkmuseum.com/cinehubEast/wardownpark-exhibition.nsf/Looku
pAreas/5CC3CB9FF0AAFAB2802574A4005177E6?OpenDocument
The Lace Gallery is closed until early 2011 We are busy creating a new gallery
which will feature exciting contemporary
Dear Arachnes,
I thought it worth posting this as I don't think anyone has and it may avoid
disappointment to intending visitors. I have to say last time I visited I
found the Lace room and the textile study room very sad & tired-looking.
"The V&A are making some important changes to their tex
Dear Arachnes,
I was surprised to find a section on pillow lace in an old detective story I
read this weekend 'For the Defence, Dr Thorndyke'. Dr Thorndyke is an
invention of R Austin Freeman mostly in the 20's and 30's. He is a
Medico-Legal practitioner and an early forensic scientist, and in
Dear Arachnes,
This looks a very interesting book - tidy finishes are one of the reasons I
avoid mats & handkerchiefs! Has anyone had a chance to see how it compares to
Ulrike Lohr's 'beginning of the end'?
Looking back at my email archive (I do clean it out regularly but keep most
arachne st
On 18 May 2011, at 20:53, Linda Walton wrote:
>
>
> Mine just have pieces of cork, and it's real cork from a real
> champagne bottle; I can't remember how many years I've had it, but I
> suspect it may be about as long as Helen's had hers too.
>
> Do you suppose there's something special about th
What can one add to Gil's authoritative accounts? Gil, I have loved your
articles on early lace for the Lace Guild. I hope there will be more.
I have been reading some of the old lace books from the digital archive -
including the Romance of the Lace Pillow - I can't remember whether it is in
Dear Arachnes,
With all the interest in the display of the dress, you might like this little
piece from the BBC, which I heard on saturday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9551571.stm
French lace-makers proud to be part of Kate's dress.
If you scroll down to the
I haven't tried with the Antique pattern library but I have done this for some
of Tess's & the Professor's texts on the weaving archive. It will depend on
your book reader. With the Kindle and my reader, which is the Cybook from
Bookeen (go the French! I find it much nicer than the Kindle), the
I think this has come up before but The Guardian website has one of its photo
stories on a new exhibition at the V&A:
"The Power of Making
'No one can say that craft is just about furry scarves anymore,' executive
director Rosy Greenlees told a packed hall at the launch of The Power of
Making
Dear Arachnes,
I managed to get into Cambridge this weekend, and visited the Vermeer
exhibition. I'm not a great visitor of Art museums, but I thought this was
fantastic, the Dutch masters were certainly masters. Reproductions don't give
you any sense of the quality and finish on these painting
One of my friends pointed me in the direction of BBC radio's Woman's hour this
morning as there was an item on the new exhibition "Lost in Lace" in the UK.
Those of you in the Lace Guild may have seen something in the last couple of
lace magazines on this.
Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and in
... well almost.
I was just flicking through our local paper, the Cambridge Evening News and
came across this full page story
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Stitch-in-time-back-to-17th-century-10112011.htm
'Stitch in time - back to 17th century
Shoppers in a Cambridge store might t
Dear Arachnes,
I don't think I've see this site posted - I stumbled across it while searching
for something else. It has a wonderful set of good quality images of a wide
range of lace. I particularly like the most recent Bedfordshire collars (nos
667 and 670) I don't know who is behind it - i
Many Thanks for posting this, Sue,
I found a link (eventually) to it on ITV, silly me assuming it would be on BBC.
I don't know if it will work for everyone, but here it is.
http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2012-07-11/lost-industries-honiton-lace/
Louise
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:21
Dear Arachnes,
A friend just let me know that the new edition is finally available from Luton
Museums, I am told the DVD is a great addition. And in the postcard section
I found a set of Thomas Lester pattern designs,
http://www.lutonculture.com/shop/shop/books-and-media/the-lace-dealers-patter
are white. The book was used to show what lace was
available for private order.
Louise
From: Karen M. Zammit Manduca [mailto:kazama...@gmail.com]
Sent: 22 November 2012 13:48
To: Louise Bailey
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Luton Lace Dealer's Pattern Book
A friend just let me know
I apologise first to all the non Uk Arachnes - as unless this is syndicated it
won't be accessible to you, (actually it might be through BBC worldwide /
itunes, but I don't know).
BBC 4 has just finished had a short run series "Fabric of Britan" .The first
one was on knitting and a bit soft, mainl
> We have had several people right here on Arachne who had pursued the
>skills on their own.
I'll chime up as another, from about the same time as David. No evening classes
I could find - Bridget Cook was still offering a day class, but no good to me
as I worked, and Batsford about to go unde
Hello Miriam,
I am not near my magazines at the moment so will have to check later, but if
they are the Bedfordshire ones, I think there are a couple more in a near by
issue which might have a thread recommended. There is also an edging and a
sixth in Barbara Underwood's Bedfordshire Lace Co
Dear Arachnes,
I've just finished a marathon effort to catalogue my bobbins, I realised that
I probably had more than I thought, and I was right. 20 years of lacemaking
will do that to a collection (and I'm not going to admit how many!). I've had
a lot of success identifying makers and painters p
Dear Jeri,
I'd just like to say a big thank you for your efforts on this, and the
volunteer's. It is good to hear that Lori's marvellous site is going to have
a future, not just via the wayback machine.
Louise
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Hello Brian,
I'd found the "wayback machine" http://archive.org/web/ as well, I was going
to post about it and give an update on my bobbin search as it's been
invaluable trying to track down recent retired bobbin makers. I've noticed
that if you are lucky there are often a lot of different "snaps
Susan
The second one is not a Stephen Pearce the tail shape is quite different -
here a link to a picture of one of his:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030804042826/http://homepages.tesco.net/~stephen.pearce/
I can't quite tell from the picture - is there a little groove round the top of
the h
Jeri,
The original archives were saved on an FTP server run by Liz at Arachne.com.
Avital set up a backup archive with maillists.org in mid 2003 when, I think,
she took over as main administrator for the lists ( hurray for Avital!). I
don't know when the FTP server was turned off - the landing pag
more in Jean Leaderâs introductory beds booklet for the
Lace Guild.
Louise
From: Cindy Rusak [mailto:cru...@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 December 2014 14:35
To: Louise Bailey
Subject: Butterflies
Hi Louise,
I was looking at the Arachne Flickr photos and came across some Beds?
butterflies that were
Gentle Spiders
Do go and have a look at today's (17 Oct) Astronomy picture of the day - an
astronomical quilt.
"Demonstrating her mastery of a traditional astronomical imaging technique
quilter and astronomy enthusiast Judy Ross has produced this spectacular
compostion of "Astronomy Quilt Piec
Dear Arachnes,
A (almost) Lenten treat: For those of you in or reasonably close to East
Anglia, Ely Cathedral is hosting a RSN Exhibition during February...
04 Feb 2015 - 28 Feb 2015
Ely Cathedral will be hosting a unique exhibition of Ecclesiastical Embroidery
in partnership with the Royal Schoo
Dear Arachnes,
I am glad Maureen & Corrine had a good visit to Ely. I managed to get over
myself last week, and found other friends there as well. It is a lovely
exhibition, and ends at the end of this week (28th) - so if you can I do
recommend you visit.
The Lady Chapel is a great exhibition sp
Dear Arachnes,
Just to add to the discussion. The amount of lace on display in the Cecil
Higgins at Bedford, now rebranded "the Higgins bedford" has been drastically
reduced since the remodelling (and I gather the same is true of Luton).
Although the collection *is* still there and they do have
Last week I finally got around to visiting the Treasured Possessions
Exhibition on at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge.
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/treasuredpossessions/index.html
"A dazzling journey through the decorative arts: from the hand-crafted
luxuries of the Renaissance to t
Dear Arachnes,
I thought I'd post details of an upcoming exhibition at the V&A: Undressed: A
Brief History of Underwear, which will be on display at the V&A from 16th
April 2016 to 12th March 2017.
"Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear will display more than 200 examples
of men's and women's u
Dear Arachnes,
As the list is quiet I thought I'd post an advance notice of an exhibition
coming up from October at the V&A, some of you may have seen it in the UK
papers.
(http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/26/v-and-a-relics-england-f
inest-embroidery-opus-anglicanum
http://www.ind
It seems to be my luck to be posting embroidery stories. Splashed over the
papers is the identification of an alar cloth in a small church in
Herefordshire as a piece of a dress from Elizabeth 1st.It is being
conserved by BRP: and there is a lovely short film on youtube.
https://www.youtube.c
Dear Arachnes,
Can you help me with a name / supplier of a "thingummy" to help anchor
threads when starting a piece with a trail working away in both directions. I
have seen some somewhere - a piece of wood (flat underneath) that you can pin
over the threads in order and trap the bobbins on one
Thank you all of you for the suggestions, they are all very helpful. Mention
of tongue depressors and popsicle sticks reminded me of a gift of two home-made
bobbin tamers I had from a dear lady called Lorna, which have been snuggled
away in my travel pillow. Made from tongue depressors they eve
Dear Diana and Vicky,,
That is a good suggestion. I've noticed another on eBay this week. With the
Hugenot connection to lace I tend to forget about the minority Catholics in
the area.
With best wishes
Louise
> On 1 Jul 2016, at 15:09, Diana Smith wrote:
>
> I wonder if the porthole beads
Dear Sharon,
I have a serious numismatic for a colleague! Here is his opinion
"As a rule, don’t clean coins. If it is genuine dirt, warms soapy water and
fine toothbrush, then wash with clean water and dry carefully.
"If it is encrusted with corrosion products, there are ways, but they can be
v
Hello Helen,
Yes the Cecil Higgins reopened in 2013. Here's the website
http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/default.aspx?page=0.
There is one small display in the upper gallery. The middle picture on their
"about us - redevelopment" page gives you an idea of the display pods. Gone
are the old s
Hi Arlene,
I don't know teachers in Lincs as such, but depending where they are, there is
an active Lace group in Lincoln, (I see them out and about at lace days)
https://www.facebook.com/LincolnLacemakers/
Louise
In gloriously hot sunny Cambridge
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Dear Arachnes,
I have been catching up on my listening while doing chores. BBC Radio 3 has a
series called the Essay, which is usually 5x 15 minute themed talks by
various writers. In May Polly Coles did a week on True Venetians. The last of
the week was entitled Woman's Work and from the blurb.
Passing the Fitz yesterday amongst all the banner for the new Degas exhibition
I noticed one for an exhibition "Sampled lives".
Sampled Lives: samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum
Saturday 6 May 2017 to Sunday 8 April 2018
Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum's excellent but often unsee
Oops! my mistake its Carol's earlier book that is for sale on Amazon.
Catalogue is from the Fitzwilliam shop (and online
http://www.fitzwilliammuseumshop.co.uk/product/sampled-lives-samplers-fitzwil
liam-museum/)
Louise
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Dear Arachnes,
I posted on the exhibition last year but in response to Jeri's prompting I
wanted to let you know that the exhibition of samplers at the Fitzwilliam
Museum in Cambridge has been extended until October 2018.
I spent a short time in it over the holidays, and got the exhibition catalog
Like other I am enjoying the discussions on needle lace. Coincidently there
is an article about the Blythe House "decant" on the V&A blog which discusses
their ongoing work digitising & rehousing the lace collection and shows
amongst others two pieces of needle lace, one in green silk and one in h
Dear Jeri,
I am no expert, but looking at the pictures and text suggests that the Melinex
film is spot welded rather than completely sealed round so it may be air can
penetrate between the sheets so to speak. It appears to be common use now. All
the Thomas Lester lace I saw at the Cecil Higgins
>>
I wonder if it is simply that bobbin lace appeals particularly to scientists
and especially mathematicians. Moving on from this, is it the more 'regular'
laces which appeal, I.e. Torchon, Bucks and Flanders, rather than Bedfordshire
for instance?
<<
As others have said, the links with STEM edu
Hi Lyn,
You're not that far, perhaps an hour down the A1/A421 from the Cecil Higgins
now known as the Higgins
http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/
they have a lovely reserve collection of lace, including the Lester
collection: not much on show but if you contact Curator Lydia Saul there
(details
Dear Arachnes,
Here's something to brighten these gloomy winter days. The Embroiderers
Guild is holding an exhibition at Ely Cathedral during February.
THE BEAUTIFUL STITCH - AN EXHIBITION FROM THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD
06 Feb 2019 - 28 Feb 2019
This exhibition is the first travelling exhibitio
Hi Alison,
Most of the UK suppliers seem to stock the Newnham one others have mentioned.
They are popular and will take most bobbin styles. Its about £25 from
memory.
I have two wooden ones. One is a manual version of the old electric one where
the bobbin is held at either end in a soft springl
Brian,
Pat Brunsden wrote an article for Lace - the Lace Guild magazine - a few years
ago detailing a survey of census data for the lace villages of Cambridgeshire
/Huntingdonshire. I can dig it out for you over the weekend if no one else has
done so. Nicky Howener-Townsend has done something
Brian asks
Does anyone collect "Lace Tokens?" Real or virtual.
They certainly do. And not just lacemakers. I have a friend who is a serious
Numismaticist, and collects lots of trade tokens. They also write about them
in journals and books.
https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BN
Brian,
I took me a while to dig out the article as it was written by Scilla Stephenson
not Pat Brunsden, my mistake as Pat is looking into the poor house records. It
is in lace 117, p15, and is in response to an article in Lace 114 p12 which
had a more general analysis of occupations in the 1
Liz and all
Maids Moreton is Just North of Buckingham, so right in the heart of the
county's lace tradition. On the village website
https://www.maids-moreton.co.uk/heritagewalk/ it says
Maids Moreton became the centre of the Bucks Lace industry during the late
19th century under the direction
Dear all,
Brian posted the link to the 'short version' for use while walking around the
exhibition. As Diana says there were five volumes of the 'Official descriptive
and illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of
All Nations, 1851.'
https://catalog.hathitrust.o
Oops can't see for looking. 'Lace pillow with lace in progress employing
upwards of 600 bobbins each having a separate thread' right there on the first
page.
The rain must have addled my eyes
Louise in soggy Cambridge
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Dear Louise
Thank you very much for that.
I must confess a little disappointment that there wasn’t more info but I guess
Pr
Diana actually George was still alive in 1901 - 20 years younger than
Elizabeth! So that must be the link
Louise
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