Well, Miss Aurelia, you may not have lifted a hand to textiles before BL, but you have certainly made up for lost time!! Your fans (featured on covers of IOLI!!) are stunning, and it is clear to me that you are not only a competent lacemaker, you're also a gifted artist!!
Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -------------- Original message -------------- From: Aurelia Loveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dear Clay, and all-- > > I might be sent out of Arachne altogether for owning up to this, but > what I did before I became a lacemaker was -- nothing to do with > textiles. I was a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst, and in > my spare time which I had very little of, I was a writer (numberless > short stories, and a novel [publ by Wm. Morrow, reprinted in England > bu H. Hamilton, and into paperback by Avon]. I did, though, sometimes > make my own clothes. > > What I really did a lot of was: hanker. I dreamed of some day > learning how to make lace. I had tried, at about age ten or twelve, > to follow the description in the Children's Encyclopedia, in which > they described how lace was made: threads wound around a design > outlined by pins. Of course that didn't work! > > When I came to live in Baltimore (age 50) I made friends with a > famous weaver (Sylvia Pocock, now long gone) who confessed that she > too had been wanting for years to make lace. We looked and inquired > and left no stone unturned, and lo! we came upon an ancient lady, > Elizabeth Kackenmeister (also a famous weaver) who knew how to make > lace, and gave us one lesson a month when she came into this area for > meetings of the organization "Twenty Weavers." > > Ah, but once into it! I wrote to Doreen Wright; went to England to > get lessons from her (the experience of a lifetime quite apart from > the lacemaking!); got sent to Pam Nottingham, who taught me Bucks and > changed my life; found Elsie Luxton and Cynthia Voysey... and all of > that brought me into my real world, which is where I am now and have > been since this story began. > > It may be of interest to know that my son, a practicing cardiologist, > ambled by my pillow one day; picked up a handful of bobbins as he > passed by; borrowed a copy of Stott's lacemaking for beginners; and > lo! again. A very presentable bookmark appeared. > > Fun! > > Aurelia > Catonsville, Maryland > > > >I'll be curious to hear what others do in addition to their lacemaking! > > > >Clay > >-- > >Clay Blackwell > >Lynchburg, VA USA > > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
