Dear Carol,
Small scale Brugges.... coool. Check out Duchesse which has a lot of nearly
the same motifs, but smaller scale than usual Brugges. Duchesse has more and
finer threads, and more careful drafting, so it might be just what you are
looking for. Withoff Duchesse is even more close and precise...stunning in
execution.
There is nothing wrong with a tag that says: "Brugges, small scale, 21st C".
If you are making an absolute replica use the same scale, same thread, and
same colors as the original. If you are making lace because you love it,
enjoy playing with all of it. Adjust what you wish to please yourself. Take
some serious notes from your buddy's color work and enjoy. There are no
official lace police anymore :)) We make lace because we love all aspects
of it.
:)Kate Henry
Indiana USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Adkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lace Arachne" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: no more dreams-just plans
Hi All,
I find this a very interesting discussion - especially the 'if it's not
Ugly, it's not art' bit! I am quite conservative in my lace - but I am
beginning to enjoy including colour in items. After choosing a pink gimp
in one Flanders weekend class, which was shouted down by the tutor, and
which I not-so-bravely changed to a white gimp, I had become very wary of
inserting colour. But - I have a friend who is an absolute whizz at
choosing colours which, at first sight, would appear completely incompatible
but, when actually used, look fantastic. So - I do get better ....
But - I am also one who, although liking the Brugges Bloemwerk patterns,
feel that the lace looks much more to my taste - and I emphasise MY taste -
if it is greatly reduced, and uses much, much finer threads. Now - am I
making Brugges Bloemwerk lace - which I suspect I am not! - can it be called
contemporary, or is it just a bastardised lace? I do mainly use the
Brugges techniques - but sometimes even there I may think some other
technique fits better, and looks better - so when I display my work when
demonstrating, what do I call it?
Over to you, friends!
Carol - in Suffolk UK - where we had our summer yesterday and Saturday, but
today is very overcast and not nearly as bright.
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