Congratulations Magda, What an accomplishment. Can we see any pictures anywhere? I adore Mechlin lace, although my own efforts are very elementary - I am working on Rita's Mechlin II at present.
Debra (in Mozambique) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbinlacemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: [lace] graduate > hello lacemakers, > > Just to tell you I have finished the lace teachers course at the Kantcentrum > in Brugge and......... I was the laureate of my class together with Hilde > (ex-aequo). We started in september 2000 with 18 students,(one lady from > Japan and 1 from Holland included ), 3 of them gave up in the first year, > and another 3 didn't complete their thesis, so we were 12 to graduate. > Perhaps some of you remember the theme of my thesis : lappets in Mechlin > lace from the 18th century. My most breathtaking moment of these 3 years was > when I found in a museum the designs of lappets from the 18th century (for > mechlin lace of course). I was allowed to copy them and to put some of them > in my thesis, they have never been published before........also the photos > of the lappets I discuss have never been published because they belong to a > private collection, so it is a quite unique thesis, and I am very pleased > with the result. > Now I can go one with my passion : designing and making mechlin and binche > and of course the other flemisch laces. > > Magda from very sunny Belgium > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
