Category: bobbin lace
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Bookmarks
Was reading Femina by Janina Ramirez and she talks about King Alfred (the Great) and how he encouraged literacy by sending out ‘pointers’ with manuscripts and it started me thinking about books, and reading, and thinking – my brain has been a bit of a ‘stew’ recently as I dig around in my brain…
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Bobbin Lace
bobbin lace supplies Someone moving contacted me about their bobbin lace supplies and asked if the guild would be interested. Doug went and picked it up and it now resides behind the Leclerc loom until I have the time and energy to go through it. There is a stack of books that might get…
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Learning Curve
For the 1995 ANWG conference here, one of the people on the conference committee had really wanted a workshop on bobbin lace. When it came time to confirm or cancel the lace workshop, we needed one more person to make it ‘go’, while the workshop I was supposed to be teaching was lacking 5 or…
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Lace Architecture
As I go through these books I am constantly amazed at how the threads can be made to move through the textile and the cleverness of our ancestors who figured this out. This is a small table runner and rather than work with a bazillion bobbins, the lace meanders back and forth to create a…
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Another Kind of Loom, Another Kind of Weaving
Well, I’m not sure I’ll have the mental wherewithal to actually work on this any time soon but here it is. I’m using a design from one of the books by Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti, a Finnish bobbin lace artist. While I have done very very simple designs of my own, I can’t come close to the…
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Prezzies
In the past few weeks I’ve received a couple of just-because presents. Today I had lunch with a friend I hadn’t, due to Life Happening, seen since before Christmas. At the end of lunch and an exchange of stuff – books we’d read and were passing on, etc., – she casually mentioned that she had…
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Prezzies
In the past few weeks I’ve received a couple of just-because presents. Today I had lunch with a friend I hadn’t, due to Life Happening, seen since before Christmas. At the end of lunch and an exchange of stuff – books we’d read and were passing on, etc., – she casually mentioned that she had…
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As I Mean To Go On
This morning I determined to get back to the loom pronto, so after a quick trip to the post office to pick up two bunny-eared-bags-of-goodness (about 80 pounds of yarn from Maurice Brassard), and a gift (see below) I fired up the loom and got started. I had intended to finish this warp with some…
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As I Mean To Go On
This morning I determined to get back to the loom pronto, so after a quick trip to the post office to pick up two bunny-eared-bags-of-goodness (about 80 pounds of yarn from Maurice Brassard), and a gift (see below) I fired up the loom and got started. I had intended to finish this warp with some…
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Sunny Day
What a difference a little sun can make! Not to mention that the slow recovery from my out-of-whack back has made significant progress. 🙂 I got started on the towels using the Fox Fibre colour grown organic cotton this morning. The colour difference at this point is minimal, but this is the 50% coloured cotton…