The Lacemaker's Mailing List FAQ - Main Page

This site is always under construction; our list members are way too creative to stop adding items...

lace@arachne.com began on April 12th 1995. We are a lively group of lacemakers and lace-lovers, and we love to chat and exchange information. (In fact, we chatted so much a separate list was made for the chat, lace-chat@arachne.com!) Quite a lot has been discussed in the last year, but we've only just begun to put it all into some semblance of a FAQ. Below is an outline of what is planned, and any parts finished will be linked to here in the future. Enjoy!

• Member's Handbook by Mimi Dillman
  This document contains information not only about who we are and what we discuss, but also has instructions for subscribing to and unsubscribing from the reflected and digested versions. Expanded directions for retrieving back digests are contained here.

• General Lace FAQ, or Frequently Incomprehensible Terms by Mimi Dillman
• Lacemaking Suppliers, Magazines, and Newsletters by LaRae Mikuleky
• Locate a Lacemaker by LaRae Mikuleky
• Locate a Guild by LaRae Mikuleky
• Lacemaking Organizations and Publications by Adrienne Kattke.

• We had a Lace Conference in Nottingham in September, 1998, organized by Pat Hallam and Margaret Allen. Here's a picture of the students who attended. Save your money for Arachne 2001!

• Books FAQs
  • Books on Lacemaking by Arlene Essex
  • Books on Bucks Point, including reviews, compiled by Stephanie Peters

• How to make a weaver's knot by Joan Posener, with graphics enhanced by Gary Peach.
• Patterns for Posterity Patterns posted to the list. Compiled by Janet Charlton
• Lacemaking on the Internet (includes links to members and suppliers pages) by Mimi Dillman
• Picture Gallery of Laces, Tools, and Terms or "But what does it look like?" by Mimi Dillman
• Collected Hints about Demonstrating compiled from the lace-list June 1997
• Calculating Length of Lace Needed for Handkerchiefs with Gathered Corners compiled from the lace-list June 1997
• Vickers Lace Company of Nottingham a World War I-era booklet retyped by David Collyer and posted to the list.
• Learning 'Puter by Joan Posener. A tutorial in using some simple Windows commands and your email program to help manage all those tidbits you want to save from the list!

• Bobbin Lace FAQs
  • Basic Bobbin Lace Stitches © 1997 Elaine Merritt Lace for Fun The Lace Museum Sunnyvale, California
  • Collected Pricking Knowledge as collected by David Collyer from the list (April/May 1997)
  • How Long Should My Bobbins Be? by Kenn Van-Dieren as posted to the list (June 1997)
  • How to tell Cluny from Bedfordshire by Jean Leader as posted to the list (June 1997)
  • How to Make a Block Pillow by Laurie Hughes (November 1997).

• Tatting FAQ (under construction)
• Knitted Lace FAQ (under construction)
• Needlelace FAQ (under construction)
• Other Laces (under construction)

• Tools
  What's It Made Of? A compilation of correspondence and research by Brian Lemin for clues and tests to distinguish materials commonly used for lacemakers tools such as ivory, bone, bakelite and so on.
  • Using Found Woods for Bobbins a collection of messages from the list (March 1997)

Articles about the lace exhibition in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia:

• Exhibition of Lace in Ballarat at Montrose Cottage.
• World Class Lace Exhibition, a news article.
• Opening of the Lace Exhibition another news article.

Lacemaker's Mailing List FAQ Committee: Janet Charlton, Mimi Dillman, Joan Posener, Helen Bell, Arlene Essex, Emma Dyer, LaRae Mikuleky, Jane Swanson

This site is maintained by Mimi Dillman - send comments to me at ntrop@ix.netcom.com

visits since 25 October 1998.