In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Mouzons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >The first time came after reading an article in the May/June 1986 issue >of the IOLI bulletin about Robin Lewis and a piece of lace she was >commisioned to make for the Tennesee Valley Authority. It is a torchon >design, but fine it is not!!
But, if you look at Insertion 27 in 101 Torchon Patterns (page 64 in my 1988 copy) you will see exactly the same pattern, but at a scale suitable for thread rather than cable - which I would call a "traditional" style design (having had a chance some years ago to look at the lace in a couple of the Nottingham Trent University collection's dealers' pattern books), and in that context, it is reasonably fine. The question there would be that if we took a traditional design, and enlarged it way beyond the original design purpose, would it be considered contemporary? Even the use of colour isn't new, as the old pattern books show.... -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
