Re: [lace] Separating embroidery floss

2008-02-24 Thread Chris Vail
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM, lace-digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miriam asked: > > I have read most of your letters on this subject. But what do you do > when > > you don't have a staircase, a balcony or a second floor. Do I have to go > > up on the roof? > > What I have done is wind the

Re: [lace] Lacemaking or Lace making-style manual needed

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Vail
The word 'lace' almost seems to equate more with 'pants' than 'fish'. I might have five fish, but I don't think I have five lace, or five pants. That just doesn't sound right. But 'laces' makes me think 'shoelaces', as opposed to what we're doing. so I think it's properly 'pieces of lace', like 'p

[lace] Lace teaching happened! and re: travel

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Vail
Thanks, Avital. I do enjoy reading the travel stories, but I confess I'd rather read the non-lace seperate from lace content. In future, would a brief note to this list saying that non-lace trip segments are on chat be acceptable? For my part, I just got home from a trip to western Pennsylvania

Re: [lace] Lace teaching happened!

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Vail
> > > Hi there > > For my part, I just got home from a trip to western Pennsylvania (the great > > Pennsic War, for those who know of it) where I taught a beginner 16th c. > > bobbin lace course. > > > > As someone who went to Pennsic once upon a time, I was perusing the class > list this year, and

[lace] Card Exchange

2010-12-17 Thread Chris Vail
I posted to the individuals, but wanted to let the list know (as requested) that I have received the cards from my exchange partners. Janet in the UK sent me a beautiful gold bobbin lace bauble with "Joy" on it, and Penelope in Estonia sent a gorgeous red bobbin lace bell, complete with jingle. My

[lace] Re: lace-digest V2010 #270

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Vail
I would recommend the HistoricKnit group on Yahoo ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricKnit ); this discussion comes up from time to time. Off the top of my head, eyelets were regularly showing up around the middle 1500s and more recognizable lace knitting in the 1700s, but I wouldn't state that

[lace] Re: lace-digest V2010 #365

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Vail
> -- > > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 07:45:28 -0400 > From: "Lyn Bailey" > Subject: [lace] Re: Doris Southard > > . How many of her > students are on Arachne? > > Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it's a beautiful summer day. Sunny, > high in the 80'sF. > > I'm rais

[lace] Lace Day on Artisan's Row at Pennsic

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Vail
will be more of the same this year too. As a note, if you have previously sent information this year to Arrienne of Ashford (lat year's coordinator), *please resend* to me if at all possible. I'm afraid I'm not in a position to get any pre-existing information from her. Kyrstyan Ma

Re: [lace] yardage - speed

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Vail
On the whole, I agree with you Jean; it's at least as much about the process as it is the progress. But in defense of speed - well, the current project is 9 yards of a fairly straightforward braid lace, so the sooner I can plow through it, the better!! :D Actually, I think Lyn said it well. I pref

[lace] windmill crossing /w 2 colors question

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Vail
What Bev said. I have heard (and call it myself) a ricochet crossing, as the pairs essentially hit and bounce off each other rather than pass through as in the windmill. I use the C-T-T-C *all* the time in plaited lace, as I tend to do the Renaissance age plaited laces. Chris, aka Kyrstyan - waiti

[lace] Re: Needlelace question

2011-12-29 Thread Chris Vail
I think I last got architect linen (or the equivelant marketed to lace makers) from Teh Lacemaker, so not much help there. I imagine Lacis might carry it, but I haven't looked. Personally, I just use a piece of file folder, either with the pattern drawn on or a paper copy laid on, under sticky cle

Re: [lace] Pronounciation of "lacis"

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Vail
> > > ... > In our basic rules, a vowel has a long sound if followed by one consonant > and another vowel. That other vowel does not have to be an E. The E is > most common at the end of a word but in the middle any vowel functions the > same. On the other hand, proper names of things can be sp

[lace] Re: Quintin Matsys painting of girl with lace pillow

2012-02-25 Thread Chris Vail
http://books.google.com/books?id=S4Vc12AZFD8C&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=quentin+massys+painting+lace&source=bl&ots=g59I5NCF6i&sig=b6HViZ2OCKeSyTHEVKj9jYyLPQs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BqZJT7roJ4SPsQLfwt3qCA&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA > Pat Earnshaw mentions in 'Histoury of Lace' that there was a portrait once attributed

[lace] Re:Does anyone understand this edging

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Vail
Sue, I believe I got it - gave me something to do over lunch :) I get Arachne on digest, however, so if you already have the answer I don't want to spam the list. I'll write up my take on it; just let me know if you still want it. I will say, the instructions for A are very middle-of-a-step, so ver

[lace] Re: lace-digest V2013 #345

2013-11-20 Thread Chris Vail
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:36:30 -0500 (EST) > From: dmt11h...@aol.com > Subject: [lace] Blue film > ... > > But, the question arises as to why it is still the norm in classes in the > US for the teacher to arrive with the patterns printed on white paper, > rather than on blue paper, since at ho

[lace] just cross and twist

2013-12-09 Thread Chris Vail
> And as for someone who has her twists and crosses mixed, she has just > learnt to undo before she learnt to do. I have never come across this one, > but as I try to teach people to undo as a strict reverse of doing, and for > most people I haven't taught previously (whether self taught or from a

[lace] Re: Lace with and without an end use

2014-05-06 Thread Chris Vail
I'm actually a fence straddler. I am such a non-lacy person, but I love making it in many forms (bobbin, tatted, knit, whatever). But even though I'm a process person, I try to be somewhat practical - I try to find projects that I *could* find a use for. I have a couple pieces that I created uses f

[lace] question on "Greek Lace" book

2014-05-09 Thread Chris Vail
I'm not in a good position to search the archives, has anyone done a review of this book: Lace: Greek Threadwork by Tatiana Ioannou-yannara http://books.google.com/books/about/Lace.html?id=4s8jqAAACAAJ I was paging through, and noticed several needle lace pieces made in the 17th century that I've

[lace] Re: lace-digest V2014 #70

2014-05-09 Thread Chris Vail
"First, using the Panix address to Arachne means your letter may get lost in ether instead of going to our archives, so someone looking for it in near future may not find it! However, this reply will make it through, so your request is covered because most of your words have been kept - below my

Re: [lace] Every week an edging or an insertion.

2015-06-03 Thread Chris Vail
Yay, Skåne lace! Once I'd heard about Skåne lace, or freehand lace I think, from this list a while back, I started working some of my 16th century lace in that same manner, on the theory that pins = time and money, so the fewer you use the better, and many of the laces with short repeats really

[lace] Re: lace-digest V2015 #104

2015-10-29 Thread Chris Vail
I had to laugh when I saw this update. I have just been working that very pattern, and wondered why the fans were so different in the pricking and the working diagram! Honestly, I just decided which fan style I liked better (the one that is in the actual picture won) and went on from there. It too

[lace] Re: lace-digest V2016 #92

2016-10-17 Thread Chris Vail
Adele: Your story of linen spinners sounds terribly familiar - I learned to spin because I wanted to create the devastatingly fine wool yarn for a "proper" wedding ring shawl, and it is equally difficult to get wool spun that finely. I haven't done it - yet - but at least I do keep spinning more u