Well, I just had a look at the Two-Pair Inventions, and got carried
away with admiration and delight. I do not believe that the lace
artist who designed those adorable little items can possibly have
lost her "inventive juices." I think that she must be doing what most
artists do, namely, just taking a rest.
Aurelia
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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