Many of our older more set in their way teachers, say you have to learn
things in a set order. It is often the way they learnt or were taught.
Has anyone thought that this may be why young people are not taking up
lace? Our young people want to fly before they learn to walk but often
they do fly given enough encouragement and good foundations.
Recently I rethought the whole notion of why we learn lace the way we
do. In lacemaking towns children learnt honiton or bucks or beds and may
never have learnt torchon at all. They had to be productive early and
the sooner the better.
I think that once some one has mastered cloth stitch and half stitch
they should be able to do any lace at all. There are no concepts that
have to be learnt other than those 2 stitches and every lace goes from
there. So question why are we statring beginners on torchon and not say
Milanese or beds or honiton?
Anna in Sydney where the smoke from the bush fires is very evident. The
fires are more than 30km away but the smoke is covering Sydney
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