On Jan 9, 2006, at 19:58, Donna Hrynkiw wrote:
But first a comment on Tamera's comment -- if you're more comfortable
working with the headside on the left, why not simply turn the pattern
around and work it with the headside on the left? [...]
Virtually every edging pattern I've ever worked could be turned
around and worked from the other end.
That's true, up to a point...
If it's a Torchon pattren -- no problem. It looks the same if you work
it with the pricking upside down. It is also no problem with a Point
Ground... Provided you understand the pattern and do not need a
diagram. Alternatively, it is also no problem, if you're a whiz at
geometry and can -- mentally -- flip the diagram upside down.
But I'm one of those unfortunates who, while having two legs like any
other human being, seem to be "blessed" with more than two Achilles'
heels :) And one of them is "severe lack of geometrical imagination"
(my highschool math teacher's diagnosis <g>). If I flip the pricking
upside down and leave the diagram as is, I have problems -- I can't
imagine how to deal with mirror reversal of foot- and head-sides. If I
flip both -- the pricking and the diagram -- upside down, I'm left with
the image (in the diagram) of threads travelling _below_ the pins, not
above them...
It may seem a minor problem to most of you, but I was -- almost --
famous in my highschool as the person to whom the same triangle was a
totally different entity depending on whether its corners were named
A-B-C or 1-2-3. And when, instead of corners, we started naming angles
(alpha-beta-gamma), it was a totally new puzzle, as far as I was
concerned... :)
So, for me, the only viable solution is to copy the diagram onto
tracing paper (my copier won't handle the tracing paper, so it's by
hand), then look at it from the wrong side. I have to do the same
thing, BTW, even with the Read/Kincaid Milanese paterns (no discernible
head-foot), if they give directions on how to move from right to left
and I need to move from left to right... To each her own fallibilities
and the ways to cope with them :)
My question: am I correct in my assumption that typically edgings
worked
with Midlands-style (ie spangled) bobbins have the footside on the
right,
and edgings worked with unspangled/European-style bobbins have the
footside on the left?
It's a peculiar way to put it, IMO... I don't think it's the type of
bobbin that "rules" where right and left is though, in general, what
you say might be true. I can't say "is" because I don't know anything
about Honiton -- English, but made with unspangled bobbins. Can people
who'd learnt Honiton from traditional teachers chime in?
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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