[lace] Moving lace

[Beth Schoenberg]

Dear all,

Robin pointed out:

.... Many of the old patterns in museums are of a single repeat, and 
old lace workers made multiple pieces by pricking through several 
layers.

Robin P.

This is very true.   I have some old parchment prickings, with paper 
copies that were apparently meant for the actual use on the pillow.   
It's also true that the old lace workers had absolutely *minuscule* 
pins to work with, as I have tried to copy these same prickings, and 
even my finest/thinnest (and most expensive!) steel pins are still too 
fat to use without enlarging the original holes!

Beth
--- in sunny downtown Fisher, Australia, two blocks away from the first 
house in Chapman to be rebuilt after January's appalling bushfires.  
(The new house is GORGEOUS!)  And the urban parks folks have finally 
got around to getting the last of the 4x8-foot pieces of 
corrugated-steel roofing out of the tree-tops before cutting out the 
dead trees around the BMX park.  (The roofing is from the other side of 
the mountain -- blown there by the hot winds...)
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