Apart from the rough edges on the plastic bobbins, and the (too light)
plastic beads, as you say the pillow needed a cover. The main problem
was with the instructions - I understand The Lace Guild were in contact
with Dryad for years asking for these to be improved, but the response
was always "if we can sell more than [a number in the thousands] kits a
year they must be OK" or something like that. Hence the Guild produced a
leaflet to explain how to get started, and a series of basic, cheap,
beginner books.
Some, like you, coped with the instructions and managed to produce a
piece of lace. Many didn't, ended up totally frustrated and the kits
ended up in lofts, garages, and eventually car boot sales. The shop
owner had so many complaints she found she had to take care who she was
selling the kit to, and ask who they were buying it for. I know my
elder sister couldn't understand the instructions (not for lack of
intelligence!) as that was why she asked me to show her when we were on
a holiday visit in 1993 (she lives on the south coast).
The kits now, occasionally found at car boot sales for a few pounds, are
worth buying for the fairly decent pillow, good pricking card, pins and
wire - certainly cheaper than buying a pillow these days!
In message
<[email protected]>, "Gray,
Alison J" <[email protected]> writes
I am curious about what you see as the problems with the Dryad
lacemaking kit, assuming it's the same one as I got in 1985.
--
Jane Partridge
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