On Oct 7, 2009, at 16:46, Aurelia Loveman wrote:
"Two-Pair Inventions" -- sounds like J.S. Bach to me.
That was intentional; my son was learning to play Two-*Part* Inventions
at the time. Seemed like a nice word-play (something I always found
hard to resist <g>). Cindy Hutton (of the Norfolk/VA Beach lace group)
designed the first cover, with the clef, when I donated the first
version to their Lace Day's goodie bags.
Add a Three-Pair Inventions to it and you no longer have just a
booklet, but a book. That would be a delight. Why don't you?
Because my Inventive juices aren't flowing as freely now as they used
to :)
I started with an experiment, on a small scale, exploring the
possibilities of how far one could push just two pairs. The thing grew
and the booklet/monograph that's now at the Arizona U site is almost
double the original size (including an experiment/reworking of one of
the small centres in wire, by Paula Harten, then of California). Good
times... :)
Three pairs don't sing the same siren song of discovery. On the one
hand, there already exists the distinct lace technique -- 3-Pair
Fiandra -- the pattern body of which keeps growing, even though the
number of its teachers is limited. On the other hand...
I suppose I could apply what I've learnt, over the past couple of
years, about mid-16th c laces (a 3-pr tape or a 3-strand plait, using a
pair as a "strand, each branching off, in distinct ways and in various
directions) to a Three-Pair Fantasia and it *would* be richer than a
2-pair experiment. But... not *sufficiently* richer, to merit the
effort :)
The thing will have to stay as it is. And, all things considered, it's
not a bad effort, even if I say so myself. If you don't mind oodles of
sewings... if you need practice at leaf tallies... if you want a
Christmas ornament which won't take weeks to make... You might want to
give it a try :)
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs.html#D
scroll down to "Duvall"
For colour pictures of the snowflakes go to my "website" (URL in the
signature)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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