Sue, Most likely torchon or geometric design would work best. Maybe even a Russian Tape Lace style. Simple but not too frilly. If color is a factor, blue is usually a safe color along with neutrals. I have seen varigated colored thread that looks like camouflage(green, brown, black) and the varigated camouflage can create a neat design in itself. I am not a good bobbin lace designer, but you could incorporate a spider and half a spider at the tip(for the fin) to make a fish motif inside the torchon bookmark. Any kind of sporting animal motifs would be nice. On visits to the scrapbook store with my wife there are cool gadgets and items geared to the man in your life to decorate photo pages. Often I look at these items in the lace point of view and how they can be worked in. There are neat flat tags that have holes so that you can join as you work. Hard to describe, but a good browse through these shops will get the ideas going.
Hope this helps, -- Mark, aka Tatman website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats On 10/6/10 11:48 AM, "Sue" <[email protected]> wrote: > While we were away visiting my Mum in her sheltered housing complex they had a > function with a raffle and other prize things happening and were talking about > holding another one in the spring. I offered to make a couple of lace > bookmarks for them as a couple of prizes and although I am not ready to begin > working on them yet I thought I would take this opportunity to ask for ideas. > Anything lace and nice looking is great for the ladies, but if a man were to > win one and want to use himself to keep the place in his book, what style > might they prefer. We have some gentlemen lacemakers and also lots of ladies > who may have made something with the gents in mind. I have several of the > luton lace dealer patterns (and she lives in Luton), plus bucks types and the > english lace guild book of bookmarks as well as several simple ones with a > train engine worked as part of the pattern which have been available over the > internet which might be novel. > Comments and ideas very welcome. > Sue T > Dorset UK in the sunshine after a very wet week away from home. > Just about to start a large star pattern which might work as part of our local > christmas decorations. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
