On Mar 9, 2008, at 19:56, Carolyn Hastings wrote:
Funny thing about this kind of pattern -- years ago when I was in
Nottingham
for the Arachne get-together, I asked about gimp loops as shown in the
Australian point ground/Bucks pattern books. I was told that anything
using
gimp loops is not a traditional Bucks technique, and that Bucks never
had
gimp loops.
Several years later ('99?) Pam Nottingham was saying the same thing: no
gimp loops in Bucks.
A few days later at the Luton museum we were shown some old prickings
-- one
of which I recognized as a pattern that I'd worked previously. I'd
have bet
money that there wasn't any way that pattern could be worked without
gimp
loops.
It's always (I think <g>) possible to work the gimp w/o the gimp loop;
you just have to hang in and cut off a new gimp several more times.
Since hanging in and cutting of is *definitely* not my cup o'T, I
latched onto the gimp loop with the zeal of a convert, even though
executing the maneouvre properly is extremely challenging for me (due
to my very tenuous grasp of "things geometrical"). About that time
also, I began to call all lace (that I made and which had a net ground)
"Point Ground", rather than the more specific "Bucks"; I had been
scolded once for "importing impurities" into Flanders and wasn't about
to be caught again... :)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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