Jane Partridge wrote:
Check the way the pairs go in and out of the trails to do the plaits and
tallies - Beds
trails carry passive pairs that go in and out of the trail, keeping the
trail workers to work back and forth, but Cluny swaps the trail workers
into the plaits.
It's not as
Hi Jean:
Thanks for this. Interesting to finally have some hard data in the lacemaking
world!
I remember as a very new lacemaker, being haughtily told that a piece of
Honiton I had made was actually something else (Whithof? Brussels?) because of
the way I had done a join. I had taken the
Funny how a thoughtless word can hurt and influence us so much when we are
starting out. I saw a pattern in a book and went to my lace teacher with it.
I said that it would be perfect as a present for my mother as a piece for her
dolls house. It was pattern 106b from Pamela Nottingham's
Liz, you said it best. I was fortunate and had two of the best instructors
and the bestest mentor when i started out. my mentor taught herself
Milanese for me to learn from her. what better foundation could anyone
get? i will never forget either person and have remained in contact even
after
I didn't take a class until I'd been making lace, on and off, for 24 years.
My second class was Honiton, a weekend. That was almost 10 years ago. I
still remember the teacher looking at my work and saying, somewhat musingly,
You make nice lace. Those sorts of nice comments can make all the
Double amen to that! Those teachers who discourage also take joy from the
craft when they criticize this way!
Liz in cool and windy Missouri USA where the leaves are beginning to change
color. Unfortunately, I have way too many green tomatoes and it is supposed
to freeze Monday night.
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
I also started out with a person who enjoyed calling herself a teacher, but who
was actually a terrible teacher. She hated that I wanted to move on beyond her
boring exercises into real lace. So I just armed myself with recommended (by
Arachne) books and worked on my own with occasional trips
Dennis Hornsby once said to me that if I had been born in Buckinghamshire and
learnt lace during its heyday, I would have learnt bucks point and nothing
else. So why did i think I had to learn in an order?
I can see a progression from nice lace to another in the same way we can see
how one
Our lace group is small (about 20 members) but we currently have a couple of
really kind and generous members who are willing to baby sit those of us with
less confidence and knowledge. They lead without pushing and not only tell
us how to do it, but also show us how to determine where to go on
I made 3 Beds hankies from Springett patterns, - but I used a fine silk
thread not cotton, - and a couple of teachers went Yuk when they saw
them - as they were soft and 'floppy not stiff and crisp, laying over the
hand. Which is what Beds lace is supposed to do - according to them.
I was
I heard today that the IOLI Bulletin was mailed a couple of weeks late.
As far as teaching..I went to a demonstration and the woman doing bobbin
lace told me you can't learn on your own. I have been slowly working
through some of the books and I think I am doing pretty good. I run into
Hi All,
When I started making lace I already had a pretty good idea of the
direction I wanted to take, namely Beds and Maltese. I took a week long
course and one of the first things we did was a Russian flower that was big
enough to take us at least 2 days to finish - we certainly knew how to
Hi All,
The Australian Lace Guild runs Correspondence Courses in Bobbin Lace (my
introduction to lace 30 years ago), Needle Lace and others - it certainly can
be done.
I did not find it a problem then, but have been happy to take advantage of the
opportunities that have presented, mostly in
Jean,
Thanks for posting about your study on beds lace. I am presently
working on a design taken from a Thomas Lester lappet that has been adapted by
Holly Van Sciver and enjoying every minute of it. I started at convention
this summer and as the pattern had not been worked before I did not
I went to a demonstration and the lady giving the talk said you can't learn
lacemaking from a book, you need a teacher
I had 6 lessons and made two things. A strip of white cloth stitch 3mm wide
and 30cm long and a strip of half stitch the same length. It was a though she
didn't want us to
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