Actually to raise a valid question - or at least to me it is valid.
Is there any chance that *some* select classes could be video taped for the OS lace makers who are not going to be attending -
I'm going to stick my neck out and answer on this. The answer is No. Clay had some very valid points. There is another side to it also. Taping lace making is very different from taping a wedding or a regular lecture.
Many of the threads we use would not even show up on a video, even close up.
It takes special preparation to make video lace visible, and to see each step in sequence. If one step doesn't film well, it has to be redone -- maybe several times. This would just not work in a workshop class. The teacher can not be the star of the video and teach the class at the same time. Both the class and the video would suffer.
I think there would also be headaches with the paperwork to copyright it and reproduce it.
I guess you'll just have to come to IOLI to experience a particular lace class. In the meantime, try to join a workshop or class put on by a lace guild, borrow or buy a video of the lace style you want to learn, or invest in a good book (or two) and work your way through it--with the help of Arachnians, of course.
Alice in Oregon -- where we are supposed to have up to 2 inches of rain today., but we had a full group of lacemakers at our meeting anyway, including a new lacemaker. Now I have to go wind about 100 pair of bobbins. Happy Easter!
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