[Nfb-krafters-korner] Welcome

Tue Jun 15 12:25:29 UTC 2010

Make sure you tell them you want raised lined paper.  Someone mentioned bold lined paper.  Bold lined paper is very dark lined writing or graph paper. When I went to our White Cane and More Store, in MD I asked about the paper.  He only had the bold lined paper in stock.  I want to use it so I and or my friends can draw paterns with markers and or highliters and like on xeroxed paterns, I will not have the conflict of the lines of the canvis also showing in the picture.  I have a very hard time telling them apart.  This way I will be able to feal the squares of what would be the canvis and see the stitches in one or more colors on the paper.  Your diagram will be a lot larger than your original work.  Hope they have some samples at convention, so I can deside what size I want.

Terry

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From: qubit [mailto:lauraeaves at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 10:07 PM
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Hi -- I have a raised line drawing kit, but I find the tactile images hard to detect -- with my fingers anyway, i'm not a proficient braille reader as I still am quite visual in my thinking even though I no longer see well enough to see anything but the color of the shirt I'm wearing.  The rl drawing kit produces lines that are not convex, but instead are kind of ripply.  Anyway, I'm going to call APH tomorrow and check out the graph paper.
--le

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From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 8:03 PM
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I have a rubber graph board.  I'm guessing that it is 18 inches by 24
inches.  The rubber board has the raised grid lines, and there is a wooden
frame around the outside.  You use push pins for your points, rubber bands
stretched between the points for straight lines, and thin metal strips to
make curved lines.  I've used different textures of paper or cloth cut into
various shapes to help me plan projects and other things.  I got this graph
board when I was in high school.  I am guessing it came from the American
Printing House or maybe the American Foundation for the Blind.

Another favorite graphics tool of mine is the Suel Line Drawing Kit.  I'm
not sure if I've spelled Suel correctly.  The American Printing House sold
it the last time I checked.  It is sort of like a clip board that is covered
with a rubber coding.  You secure a plastic film on the board, and use a
inkless pen to draw.  This produces raised lines.  You can also place a
sheet of paper with a drawing on it under the plastic.  This allows a
sighted person to trace the drawing and produce a raised image of the
drawing.  It is not good for tiny details.  By using solid lines, dashed
lines, dots, and other types of drawn textures, you can represent color or
shading differences in the drawing.

Annette

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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eileen Scrivani
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Cindy:

American Printing House for the Blind has raised line graph paper.  Last
time I bought it you could select I think 1 inch squares or 1/2 inch
squares.  APH is on the net at www.aph.org  and you can run a search on
their site for it although I don't think they call it raised line ... its
called something else but I can't remember right now.  It might be Bold line
graph paper, but its raised and you can feel it if you are totally blind.  I
wish one of these places would come up with a better system/design that
would let a totally blind person try to draw and map out designs.

Eileen

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> Terry,
>
> Where do you get raised-line graph paper?
>
> Cindy S.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:35 AM
>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Welcome
>>
>>
>> Beth;
>> How do you do latch hooking with a sight problem.  When I was
>> younger, I did a picture of a red bird on a branch.  My mom
>> outlined, with latch hook stitches, areas of different
>> colors, and I filled them in.  This was the only picture with
>> very few colors.  The big problem was it was mostly white and
>> got dirty quickly.
>>
>> If you have any questions or tips about plastic canvis, send
>> them my way.  That is my favorite craft.  A friend, who
>> worked in the xerox room, got me hooked on it, years ago.
>> She even made some samples and jumbo paterns for me.  The
>> only problem with the paterns, was they were so dark, I can
>> not tell the difference between the canvis and the stitches,
>> at least not very well.  I am hoping to get some raised lined
>> graph paper so another friend can draw some designs for me.
>> I am actually prety creative on my own in designing things.
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bethmoline [mailto:bethbumblebee at charter.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:18 PM
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Welcome
>>
>> Hi Joyce, I forgot about certain crafts I like. Latch hooking
>> is one of them and beadwork is another one. I have worked
>> with plastic canvas also a little bit and I really like that.
>>
>>
>>
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