I think it is actually more difficult to make Binche (and other laces) following a thread diagram than it would be if you made the lace yourself from nothing more than a cartoon. It might actually be more fun, too.
When you follow the diagram of what somebody else did, you arenât working intuitively. It is like when you take a dance class, and your teacher tries to teach you a set dance routine that she created. It is so, so hard to remember all the steps and where each one comes and what beat of the music it starts on. Whereas if they played the music and you got up and boogied away on your own, the steps you make up and the way you do it might be very complex but completing a five-minute dance would be easy. For lacemaking, probably your first few efforts at this might not look very nice, and you might run into a lot of technical troubles. But in the old days, you would start small and simple and work your way up to the big and complicated. Probably at a certain point you would learn a lot more about thread paths than most of us will ever learn by doggedly following diagrams. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > I still reflect on that, with no conclusion, but getting back to making > lace in the present, I like the new floral designs by Fumi Kanai and her > students, and all I do is follow the lace's diagram using lots of movable > sticky arrows to help keep track. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
