>>>From: Bev Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] While colour coding might simplify matters for some, it complicates for others. And woe is the colour blind ;)<<<
That worried me, too. We'd be shutting a chunk of people out of lacemaking if all our patterns stuck to a color code. Add to that the printing expense (some books will *not* get printed, because the author can't find a publisher who will accept the added expense), and we're losing patterns as well as lacemakers. And I truly don't believe there will ever be a universal code. There will always be people who, for whatever reason, don't want to use the code as-is when they publish. Some have trouble seeing the yellow and believe that's true for most people. Some have trouble distinguishing between purple and blue, or purple and black and believe that applies to most. Some find all those hatch-marks confusing the pattern and add some colors. Some just don't like the "newfangled" code and want to be lace purists--"This is the way I was taught, this is the way lacemakers 500 years ago were taught, it should be the way people are still taught." call me a curmudgeon, Robin P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.pittsburghlace.8m.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
