On Mar 24, 2005, at 15:38, Laurie Hughes wrote:
I took Ulrike Voelker's (nee Loehr) (NOTE: The new name has NO UMLAUT, YAY!)
To date, I've seen about 5 different spellings of the new name; can't wait to see her (in Denver) and ask what the correct one is and how it's pronounced <g> It's like (years ago) Solidarity in Poland becoming suddenly prominent in US news, and everyone was talking about this "wolesa/wolisa" guy, and I couldn't - for the life of me - figure out how it might have been spelt... Luckily, a visitor from Poland satisfied my curiosity <g>
An interesting note about Mechlin, Pam Nottingham who is on the Point Ground
Committee in OIDFA, told a class I was in once that although Mechlin was
supposed to have "died out" early in the 1800's, she found lace pieces in
England that were worked in Mechlin ground up til almost 1900.
The ground itself is fascinating enough to have become - almost - a focal point. In Prague, in one of the exhibits, I saw a totally modern piece - huge, in comparison to "old Mechlin" - where the ice ground was used to delineate "glass panes" in a picture of a (cathedral?) window. The "downstrokes" might have been elongated a bit (an extra TC?), but the visual effect was totally satisfying and precisely right. I've been carrying that image in my (admittedly leaking <g>) mind ever since, for possible future use...
-- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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