http://www.jeanleader.co.uk Jean Leader's personal website devoted to lacemaking and other textile crafts Feeder 1.5.10(880) http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en Jean Leader Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:52:11 +0100 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:52:11 +0100 http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/mylace/nuts.html I've added an article to my website called 'Nuts', about a piece of lace I made with nuts, wire and pieces of electronic equipment. Try it yourselves by all means, but don't connect it to the mains!]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:51:31 +0100 lace-and-nuts http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/publications/buckspoint.html The DVD, 'Intermediate Skills in Bucks Point Lace', that I made with Kathy and John Hensel has now been released. You can find a description and ordering details on the linked page of my website.]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:57:25 +0100 wibble-wobble http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/articles/fhlseaming.html I have just mounted a set of three articles about Freehand Lace, in which I describe my attempts to reproduce three pieces of old lace that had probably been worked using the freehand technique.]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:44:04 +0100 freehand-lace http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/mylace/wallhanging.html This addition to my website goes back to 1997, when I was doing the City & Guilds Creative Studies Lacemaking Part 2 course. It describes the design and construction of a wall hanging in lace.]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:06:53 +0100 back-to-the-wall http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/mylace/dragon.html This new addition to my website describes how and why I made a Chinese dragon in lace. In doing so, it includes a visit to the Glasgow School of Art Degree Show.]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:55:47 +0100 enter-the-dragon http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/publications/index.html Mon, 25 May 2009 13:02:53 +0100 online-credit-card-payment http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/articles/italytrip.html Mon, 25 May 2009 13:01:16 +0100 visit-to-val-varaita http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/collection/floralbeds.html The article about a Floral Bedfordshire piece in my collection posted in October mentioned that bundled threads had been used instead of plaits. Jenny Davies wrote that she had also seen this in a piece of lace in the Cecil Higgins collection, and the article has been updated to include this information.]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:11:43 +0000 update-to-floral-beds-article http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/mylace/bucksflowerspray.html This article is about my first Bucks Point design, its inspiration and evolution. Pricking and instructions are also available as a pdf download.]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:32:24 +0000 bucks-point-flower-spray http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/othercrafts/peruvianbraid.html In this article I describe how to make a 16-strand spiral braid from Peru. Step-by-step instructions are provided with 24 illustrative photographs.]]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:18:07 +0100 a-peruvian-braid http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/collection/floralbeds.html I have added an article to my website about a piece of floral Bedfordshire lace in my collection. I describe some interesting techniques that were used for this, with close-up illustrations.]]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:10:16 +0100 floral-bedfordshire http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/articles/index.html Updated versions of two articles from the Lacenotes site have been mounted in the Articles section of my website. The first has been split into to two: one on winding bobins in a thread-friendly manner, and a second on making the hitch to prevent bobbins unwinding. The other describes how to make torchon corners with continuous trails.]]> Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:32:00 +0100 lace-movie-trailer-mounted http://www.jeanleader.co.uk/publications/colortorchon.html I now have a short trailer on my website giving a taste of the DVD/video, Color in Torchon, that I made with Kathy and John Hensel.]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:57:25 +0100 lace-movie-trailer-mounted-1 http://www.jeanleader.co.uk Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:12:22 +0000 jean-leaders-website-launched