What a beautiful collection! For some snow-related fun, go to this website! I may have sent this out to you last year, but it's still there, and it's still fun!!
http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/ Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Viking Swanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 5:03 PM Subject: [lace] Lace inspiration > Hi All, Here's some inspiration for you all! "Snowflake" Bentley is a > Vermonter who photographed snowflakes around 1900. According to the website > he's the one who said no two snowflakes are alike. Anyway, these have been > out in book form for a long time but there was an article in the paper today > saying some of them are on the web! I've used his photos to design cutwork > snowflakes. I usually start drawing the basic shape and then the lace > techniques take over. The images are copyrighted but not the inspiration. > > Here's the "Snowflake" Bentley page: > http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/abbas/bms/ > > This goes directly to the snowflakes: > http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/abbas/bms/collection.asp > > He's a fascinating guy. And I guess if the photographs can't be in a > Vermont museum then Buffalo is an appropriate place - the average snowfall > (1884-2004) is 97" (242.5 cm if I got that right). That's 8'1" - Whew! > That Lake Effect is pretty powerful! > > Happy Inspiration! Jane in Vermont, USA happy to look in a book of > snowflakes and have none outside right now <G>. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > 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]
