OK - you just lost me here! Not that I don't agree with you, but that I don't have any interest in working these laces. But if that's the concensus, then so be it.
Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Original Message] > From: Panza, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 7/15/2004 2:59:36 PM > Subject: [lace] RE: Supreme Court lace (was: Judge Judy not alone!) > > >>>From: Joy Beeson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Being the United States, it would be better to make laces from nine > different traditions -- perhaps with British laces over-represented. And > one of the laces should be an absolute mongrel. <<< > > Torchon, despite it's name, seems to be a nearly-universal lace style. That > could be the "mongrel". Or some really modern freehand thing, not part of > any ethnic tradition. This would be for the Chief Justice, the > melting-pot-holder (that doesn't exactly come out right!). > > As for the others, the various point grounds are too similar to each other > to have more than one representing an ancestral group. In general, I'd vote > for peasant type laces over the ones used by nobility/royalty, in keeping > with the Statue of Liberty's promise ("Give me your....downtrodden..."). > Skansk knipling for the Scandinavian countries, Idrija, Slovak, Russian, and > what else? > > Robin P. > 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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
