[lace] Re: historical lace postings

[Tamara P. Duvall]

I'm one of those people whose interest in the history of lace *per se* 
is tangential at best... I'm the "rude mechanical", who's endlessly 
fascinated with the *process* of transforming the boring piece of 
thread into something worth looking at... with the puzzles which need 
solving, with the tricks used to solve them... IOW, I'm at the 
"practical" end of the lacemaking spectrum, rather than the scholarly 
one. The "how" rather than the "why".

But. Even if I don't save all of Jeri's postings, I do read them all 
with interest -- they provide a *context* for "my end" of things. 
Nobody and nothing functions in a vacuum and, if one is really 
interested in a subject, one wants to have it illuminated from as many 
angles as possible.

As far as I'm concerned, Jeri gifts me with *time* to do "my thing", by 
doing "her thing". I don't have to spend that time poring over tons of 
books, because she does it for me, "digests it" as it were, and "flags" 
the areas which I might (or might not) want to explore for myself in 
greater depth at some point. I can concentrate on what *I* do best, 
because she provides me with -- needful (besides being interesting) -- 
info in the area that *she* knows best. I may not remember all of it, 
but some *does* stick... :)

I really can't imagine any "true" lacemaker actually *objecting* to 
postings on aspects of lace other than strictly technical; that would 
be like cutting off the tap-root of a fruit tree; a folly... And we're 
supposed to be the Mensa of the crafts, not the fools :)

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Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia,  USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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