On Dec 23, 2005, at 2:31, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Hi there everyone
I have just updated the lace area on my site and included a Christmas
gift for you in the December page. Please feel free to download it and
let me know how it goes.
Thanks! Very nice, indeed. I wouldn't worry too much about the leaves--
they tend to look better in real life than viewed through a (picky,
picky <g>) camera's eye :)
Like Jo (Falkink), I don't quite see a spider in the crossing, though;
would love to have an even closer look at that book photo to see how
they did it in the first place... You're right, however, when you say
that there might be more than one way of interpreting the crossing, and
it's a hard one, with 6prs (from the leaves) at the start, then 6 prs
(from the plaits) traversing through those (in one direction only,
looks like), and the 6 leaf pairs finishing the job...
I like your experiment with Lace 2000; the isolated "leafy whatever"
is, to me, more interesting than the book version. And I'm glad the
program has worked for you; it doesn't always...
I just got (yesterday) my Canadian Lace Gazete (vol 20, #2), and in it
there's a "mystery pricking"... I looked at the pricking (dot-dot,
redrafted using Easy Lace) and was properly mystified :) Then I looked
at the original -- a pricked piece of card, photoed wrong side up,
Braille-way (to eliminate markings and to make it more mysterius, I
suppose) -- and all the mystery was blown off, like so many cobwebs :)
It's no stranger; it's an old friend, if in a version unfamiliar to me.
The note on the side, giving the source of the pattern ("from the
estate of a lacemaker from Denmark") seemed to confirm my initial
guess. But. I'd have never made that guess on the basis of the
dot-dot pricking alone; the regularity of the grid, generated by the
puter and un-tempered by the human hand "trued" the pattern along
straight lines. Might as well have put it in a straight jacket... :)
I've (hand) copied the original pricking, with all its -- intentional
-- deviations from the straight lines. Straight lines and puter
programs work exceedingly well; straight lines in a Toender pattern,
OTOH...
Bev, if I can grab a free moment over the holidays or immediately
after, you'll be getting an article and a sample (made on the original,
not the redraft <g>) for your next issue of the Canadian Lacemaking
Gazette. It'll be too late for Valentine's Day, but Spring is supposed
to be the season for love anyway :)
Jenny Brandis
Kununurra, Western Australia
Lace Making in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia
Index http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.html
Go to the December entry, and follow to the Season's Greetings for
Jenny's gift. And, while there, check out other months as well...
November has a puzzle to chew on (I think it's needle-made cutwork, but
I'm not an expert)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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