I think this is reading in all directions at once, kind of a gestalt, taking in the whole as an ensemble, you just see it as one continuous thing, reading it as an imago, a whole, rather than disassembling it. Your eyes then follow first one line than another.
It seems to me that reading doesn't have to be from left to right, right to left, or top to bottom. I think it is acceptable to think of what some of you call reading a lace pricking as being able to read it "intuitively" isn't that reading? reading in all directions at once? This, in a way, is what the musician playing Bach's counterpoint does, remembering forward and backwards so to speak. ... Since I am not literate in lace, I am using the experience of reading music... but I'm guess the equivalent of "remembering forward and backwards" musically speaking, would find its equivalence in lace as: looking at different lines radiating hither and yon from tight clusters of pins I'm groping here... - 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/
