Hi Trish ! You have prompted me to dig out the newsletter article I did for the NCRL in June of last year! The article was "A Systematic Approach to Binch Lace: Michael Giusiana". Michael actually studied at Geneseo State College in New York. (He didn't mention toxic dumps when he wrote me his biographical blurb!!) Can't imagine why!! ;))) While searching for off-loom weaving techniques during his final year of college, he discovered Kathe Kliot's book, "Bobbin Lace", which had just been published. He taught himself to make lace from that book. In fairly short order, he had studied with Brigitta Furhman, Pamela Nottingham and Anna Blanco, and then attended an IOLI convention in Michigan where he met Susanne Van Ruymbeke of Belgium who was teaching at the convention. He went to Belgium to study with her the following year, and while there learned that he had been accepted for a post teaching at the American School in Germany, where he has been ever since.
And BTW - the "systematic approach" refers to his Binche (and now Flanders) study guides which help the student of these laces stay focused on a course of study even if they jump around from one kind of lace to another (as many American lacemakers are fond of doing.) Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Patricia Ann Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dear fellow spiders, > > I was a member of Michael Guisana's first lace class at Cedar Lakes Craft > Center in Ripley, WV, lo these many years ago (24 I think!). He was > teaching in one of the schools in the area. I seem to remember that he grew > up in the upper state New York area (Erie?), somewhere around the Love Canal > area. I think his father had something to do with the homes that were built > over the toxic dump site there. This was all before he headed out to Europe > and gained his fame! > > Trish in Greater Downtown Scott Depot, WV > > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
