Hi All, I wonder if the fact that it fascinates little (and large!) boys also has anything to do with the fact that Torchon lace is basically very geometric and boys (I am generalizing now, and don't intend to insult any of our ladies with similar tendencies) seem to like the orderliness of torchon - when I taught Textiles at a local public school (unlike America, a public school in the UK is a fee-paying, non-state school - not a school the general public attends!) and had a Lace Club after school, the members of said lace club were pretty evenly split between the boys and girls, but when the boys got a little older, and were able to make their own bobbins in wood-working lessons, they began to out-number the girls! So may be it is something to do with both reasons - tools are used, and it is geometric!
Just my four penn-north - I still teach children, but only have a couple of boys to teach nowadays! Carol - in Suffolk UK Subject: [lace] Re: snake pattern/young lacemakers - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
