They are fascinating aren't they.
The problem with trying to make BL structure like these is getting a
shaped pricking - you'd need to make a crochet version first and use
that for the pricking!
The only piece of truly shaped BL (as opposed to flat lace that has
been distorted) that I've seen was a sea shell (a whelk I think) made
by Margaret Clark 20 or more years ago. She told me that she carved
the shell shape from balsa wood and worked the lace directly over it,
sticking the pins into the wood. When it was finished she carefully
chipped away at the wood to release the lace, but destroyed the
'pricking' in the process.
Brenda
On 30 Dec 2006, at 21:30, bevw wrote:
Thankyou for sharing this - a while back I heard about the crochet
Lorenz
manifold <but what do you do with it?> via my spinney-weavey network
- and
I'd forgotten about it.
Instructions for making one are found here:
http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/preprints/2004r03.html
Pretty, isn't it, really?
There are some nice photos of geometric creations in the Science News
article, and a link to some amusing (to me anyway) examples of
"mathematical
knitting."
I had briefly considered a BL structure like the Lorenz manifold - or a
torus perhaps - then discarded the idea as beyond my ken ;)
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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