I think your "complex thread puzzle" is a very good way to describe lacemaking and its appeal.
I have been thinking a lot about terminology. One lacemaker I was talking to complained that she had entered a show where the weavers were given a good deal of respect but her lacemaking was scorned.
I suggested she call her work "experiments in multi-directional woven structures" I don't know if she has tried it yet, but I think lace might be more respected with some such less feminine name. It's stupid, but it's the way the world wags.
Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada)
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