Hi Tess!!
I as so thrilled to see this video!! Several years ago, I had my first
workshop with Anny Noben-Slegers, and she demonstrated the way to do a
tally. In this case, she was doing the square tally used so much in
Binche lace. But her technique was exactly the same. I watched and
watched. Then, when she did it again, I took a video of it through my
digital camera which has a video mode (meant for short clips, of
course.) The sound was not very good, and I was not the best
photographer in the world, and so I was never able to quite understand
how she did this!! I finally decided she was double-jointed!! ; )
Now, your video makes me want to pull out the bobbins and try again. In
slow-motion, it doesn't seem very fast, but once you're used to the
movements, I suspect that this would be the most efficient way to do a
tally! (I think that this was Anny's opinion, at any rate.)
Thank you so much for sharing this video. Now to figure out how to save
it, and beyond that, how to put it on my iPod for future reference!!
Clay
tess parrish wrote:
Last weekend a good lace friend came to visit, bringing her husband
with her. Not content to sit around and mope, he busied himself
repairing all sorts of little glitches around the house, and then he
brought out his fancy movie camera and took pictures of me making a
leaf tally the way I learned to do it in Brioude. After they left
they posted the movie on YouTube, so it is now available to all who
might like to take a look.
I'm not all that good at impromptu lecturing, and you will find
errors, for which I crave your indulgence. I notice that I have said
twist when I meant cross and that a thread goes under when I should
have said over. But you are all very kind and patient and I am sure
that you will forgive my mistakes. I also notice that I made much of
the difference in ease of working tallies this way with continental
bobbins as opposed to midlands bobbins. This was because my friend,
something of a beginner at lacemaking, had been having trouble making
tallies with her midlands bobbins, which are all she has. It is not
meant to be a slur on one kind of bobbin over the other (I started out
with midlands myself), but to suggest that she might find it easier to
try bobbins without spangles.
Anyway, what's done is done, and I hope that this will clear up some
of the confusion which inevitably occurs when one is trying to explain
a process without visual aids. The link to YouTube is:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPezWMox5-M> I hope you find it useful.
Tess ([email protected]) in Maine USA on a lovely day.
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