Hello Tamara My mistake it was also for the group to read, don't know why I didn't.
True, richt people also did a lot of embroidery, tatting, bobbin lace painting etc. but just for fun but with a lot of interest put into it. Our roalty are very creativ, Queen Alexandra was marrid to Christian the 10, Our queen Margrethes grandmother, was making bobbin Lace, and her pillow in now in Tonder, Droesens Hus, On Rosenborg, ther is a cabinet, and when it is opend there is a lath, in it, the person was turning in bone, I can't remember who, ore wether it was a he ore a she. Our queens mother made a lot of embroidery, so did Magrethe, and she is also painting, and developed patterns for embroidery, made kostumes to fairy tails of H.C. Andersen to the ballet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lace Arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:08 AM Subject: [lace] Fwd: (Ne)Tina, ah, (Ne)Tina... > The following - from Dorte - came to my personal inbox... But I think > it's of intrest to everyone on Arachne-tech, so am forwarding. My > comment (of course! <g>) at the end. > > > From: "Dorte Zielke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: August 21, 2004 4:03:05 EDT > > >> It hadn't even occured to me - when reading Dorte's message - to > >> wonder > >> what would happen, if the teacher made a mistake in that first > >> repeat... :) > >> > > If you get to see old lace, and use a strong magnifying glass, you will > > discover many mistakes, When the lacer hat to live by doing lace, it > > had to > > be laced quickly, to earn, not to mucht time to undo, the tallies are > > not > > perfect, I was recontructing a pattern, photo copy from Tonder museum, > > there was a row off holes, and I couldn't understand why the pairs > > wouldn't > > match above and beneath that row, I keept having either a hole to > > mutch ore > > not enough pairs, until it was discovert, the prick distance was smaler > > beneath that row, that is becourse they were not so lucky to have this > > graph > > paper as we have now, there for it was so difficult to find out that > > problem. There is many mistakes in the old lace but no one that didn't > > have > > anything to do with lace would notice. And we usualy say as long you > > do the > > same mistake in all of your sections it becomes the pattern, it is no > > more a > > mistake, but one section with the right stich is then a mistake. > > Dorte > > Dorte's "When the lacer had to live by doing lace, it had to be laced > quickly" [...] reminded me of my class (workshop) on Flanders, with > Michael Giusiana (Ithaca, '97?)... Throughout the class, Michael kept > trying to stop us from retro-lacing and correcting mistakes; "You do > not have the time to go back and correct", he'd say. "Your children are > at home, crying hungry", he'd say. "Every minute you make lace counts, > as does every minute you spend undoing it", he'd say. > > Finally, I had enough of the image of the empty throats waiting to be > stuffed... When he caught me at my 2nd or 3rd retro-effort and repeated > all th reasons against such, I looked up from my pillow and - bold as > brass - said: "I married *rich*; I do this for pleasure"... > > Even in the "old days" there were people who made lace because they > enjoyed it, not because they had to. In the (many <g>) Danish and > Swedish museums that Vibeke took me to in '01, I saw a lot of paintings > with textiles (not always lace) in them. Mostly, it was the rich who > *wore* the fancy stuff, true... But, the *only* couple where both the > man *and* the woman looked contented instead of sour-faced...? The > woman had a needle in her hand, and was crafting a piece of lace... <g> > Since a postcard of the painting was available, I couldn't resist > sending it to DH - what *better* excuse do I need for being "always at > your knitting"? > --- > Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd > Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) > Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: > no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. > > - > 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]
