My Handweavers and Spinners Guild lists bobbin lace specifically amongst it's 'recognized' techniques, and trust me, they are picky about what they define as weaving for the annual show. Someday I might even coax the one other bobbin lace lady into giving lessons, or even admitting that there's other lacers in the group. I think she's been the solo lacer for a very long time.
Anyhow, just my 2 cents from Canada. Heather -- self proclaimed Avital groupie in cool and wonderful SW Ontario. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Avital Pinnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:48 AM Subject: Re: [lace] publicity > Adele wrote: > >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.> > > Lacemaking is an off-loom weaving technique. When I tell weavers that, they > grasp the structure of lace immediately, that it uses a pair of "weft" > threads and that the weft is not restricted to horizontal, > selvedge-to-sevedge movements. Structurally, it's closer to complex (I mean > 'complex' in the sense of multilayer structures, not in the sense of 'not > simple') weaving. Why not just make that aspect more prominent if lacemaking > is demonstrated beside weaving? > > Avital > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
