on 7/14/04 7:53 PM, Janice Blair at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think Torchon would be more masculine and Bucks more feminine, if you go > with Ipswich you might have to send us all directions for making the lace > pieces. I am sure a lot of us don't have the Ipswich book yet so we would > need more than a pricking and sample photo of the lace. How do we find out > the neck sizes of the judges? Or, do we make a "one size" fits all? I vote > not to do any sewing but I would make a length of lace. > Janice > >Dear Janice -- We seem to have got at least seven interested jabotmakers,so it looks as if we might really take off! My thought has gone something like this: forget Ipswich, we are trying to make something beautiful for the Court. To my mind, Bucks is the type of lace most beautiful and suitable for the purpose. If we succeed, those jabots will be worn by dozens of justices over the next century or two, masculine as well as feminine (and lace is about the one thing, so far, uncontaminated by arguments about sex, don't you think?). As regards structure, I think Pam Nottingham's jabot in "Bucks Point Lacemaking" on p. 115 is just perfect: a long, narrow central strip, which any of us could make with her eyes shut tight; and then a surrounding strip, gathered and sewn to the central one (what! you can't sew? I'll sew yours for you, and feel flattered to have sewn something made by Janice Blair). I thought that giving people their choice of what edging to make would be more interesting to the makers, give a certain liveliness and variety to the product, and still allow the nine jabots to be clearly part of a set.
The jabot could attach to an insignificant ribbon or tape, like a bow-tie. Tell me what you think. Aurelia > > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
